skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe there would have been more testing on female voices if there were more female engineers, but that is sort of ancillary solution to a problem of poor product design and testing.

It also fails to address the underlying problem that there are simply nowhere near an equal number of available female engineers as male engineers. Shooting for a goal of 50:50 ratio when that is not anywhere close to the ratio of the available candidates makes it mathematically impossible to not make other sacrifices...for what objective?

Your claim is that there are things that female engineers bring to the table that male engineers do not. My claim is that there is nothing a male engineer can do on the basis of their gender that a female cannot, and the inverse is equally true. In fact, I can't imagine a more offensive argument than saying "we need more female engineers so that our app is better at handling women's periods."
This actually increased my Pixel 2's battery life from 1.5 days to a solid 2. Did you actually try it?
Ruby on Rails Scalability Issues
I have used emacs for the past ~12 years, before that I used vim for a couple of years. IMHO, both editors have their strong points.

Vi has the advantage that you can learn the basics in an hour or so, and from there on out it's mostly about training your muscle memory. You do a lot of stuff with very few keystrokes.

Emacs, of course, is mostly about extending and customizing. Therefore, emacs requires a larger up-front investment of time, before you get to the point where that pays off. Once it does, it is awesome, but I can understand that people tend to choose an editor that lets them be productive faster.

There might be more to it - I never did much customizing when using any variant of vi, for example. But that was my experience when using vi and later emacs.
Throw on developer mode and you can change these to anything you want, it's built into the launcher.
This is the single greatest argument against getting a Pi-hole.
Renewable Energy Saves Water and Creates Jobs
Hacker Sells Zuckerberg's Personal Data [Source: NFN (Nice Fake News)]
a) I don't apply this philosophy to my entire life.

b) It was mostly a joke - but I do happen to be exceptionally bad at this. I get frustrated about half an hour in and panic. I do other chores instead.
"Because red, green and blue LEDs are required to make white LED light"

Just to nitpick a bit: you only need blue LEDs to make white LED lights. Most modern white LEDs use a phosphor coating (the yellow you see in the LED chip) to get white light out of the blue LED.
> It would have to be a modal editor to use vim commands.

Or it would have to emulate them. Which is what VSCode, Atom, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Intellij, Netbeans, Kate all do. Those are just the ones I have used, I'm sure there are plenty of others.
Hash-Based Signatures [pdf]
Had there not been reckless finance coowboys running about 2008 would never have happened. Somehow Europe Survived. No thanks to American Cowboy capitalism (Who triggered the worst recession in earths morderin history) and its main group of outlaws, Goldman sachs who basically lied and said Greek Finances were Fiiiiiiine! (Probably knowing that a crash was coming)

"The main problem" with Europe eh?
Top 8 Reasons to Invest in Mobile App Development for Business
It's like an extra word...

It sounds like you just don't like voice assistants, which is fine but don't pretend that the words "shopping cart" are insurmountably larger than "buy".
10 Mistakes to Avoid While Hiring Mobile App Developers
Extra hot clip pack – Channel FunnYCubemix №33 (2018)
Actually, that's highly doubtful. A backup solution will have to be able to actually restore a meaningful fraction of the stored data to be useful. Worse yet, if seeking is expensive, even smallish but scattered amounts of data can be problematic.

Tapes suffer from that big time. They've grown in storage space, comparable to hard drives, but since it's normal to have libraries with many tapes per drive, there's severe practical utility limits even for backups.
I really like this description of entanglement:

"To understand the concept of
entanglement, imagine a system with many parts, for example a book which is 100 pages
long. For an ordinary classical 100-page book, every time you read another page you learn
another 1% of the content of the book, and after you have read all of the pages one by
one you know everything that’s in the book. But now suppose instead that it’s a quantum
book, where the pages are very highly entangled with one another. Then when you look
at the pages one at a time you see only random gibberish, and after you have read all the
pages one by one you know very little about the content of the book. That’s because the
information in the quantum book is not imprinted on the individual pages; it is encoded
almost entirely in how the pages are correlated with one another. If you want to read the
book you have to make a collective observation on many pages at once. That’s quantum
entanglement, the essential feature making information carried by quantum systems very
different from information processed by ordinary digital computers."
Well done to the authors! This is a really compelling analysis, fun to "read". It's a great use of the medium, pretty much the picture my imagination painted when (one of the whens) "multimedia books" were a thing of the future.

On stand-up comedy... I've heard more about the "making of" in recent years too, as comedians invaded podcasting. It's very interesting, how a joke or set evolves in the telling. I guess certain jokes and bits don't make the cut, but moreso, they are refined for timing, cadence and the stuff this article points out (kreshendo?).

A curious paralel is (perhaps) speech-making. There is someone on stage, live audience. They do the same talk/set over and over, to different crowds. Each time, the punches are fuunnier. The misdirections get more subtle. The impacts are better. The crowd cohesion grows.

Orration is ancient, and I suspect that stand up comedians have a lot in common with orators of the past, before mass media existed.

If you listen to (for example) a recorded malcolm X speech (I think he was exceptionally talented), you are probably listening to the 100th delivery of the speech. It didn't just pop out of his mouth with that much impact on day 1.
The carbon being released now used to be stored underground in oil and coal, or in trees and soil. We're not creating any more carbon. We're just releasing what was stored, and the solution is to put it back in storage.
Why aren't they comparable? They are two amounts of money. I can compare my mortgage payment to the cost of Apples, or how much my monthly phone bill is in oranges.
Also relevant: Feeding dairy cows seaweed mitigates the amount of methane they pass. Irish famers are beginning to do this because seaweed is easy to come by in Ireland.

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-seaweed-relieve-gassy-cows-dai...
Peter Norvig: Confidence, Trust and Certainty Between Humans and AI
Thank you for writing this. I'll stay on 14.1 till it's fixed.
Female-only business club AllBright raises €10M to expand globally
15 sorting algorithms in 6 minutes
In many airports they’ve started using contract workers for line management, machine support, etc.

Those contract workers come from giant firms like Aramark.
Does Google’s Puppeteer help the dev community or not?
> use the direction keys, it's not the 70s anymore.

In my experience, the fact that I can navigate a file without taking my hands off the home row far outweighs any disadvantages hjkl might have.

With emacs, the big point is that you can do so many things in it that you never have to leave it; that also means once you have the keyboard shortcuts memorized, you can use them everywhere - besides editing text, emacs can serve as a mail client, a web browser, an IRC client, a music player, telnet/ssh client / terminal emulator (kind of), you can even play Nethack in emacs.

You can't expect to become fluent in emacs within a couple of minutes, but if you are willing to stick around, the time spent learning emacs pays off big time.
Ad hominem?
Did I say 50-50. I’m saying we should care about having any. Maybe male engineers and product owners could pay attention to female voices and menstrual science. But they didn’t. It’s much less likely that a woman working on these products would miss those issues.
3 Finnish cities engaging the community in creative ways
the prediction is often useless, the predicted causes can be intersting (quite often they are just memetic parroting of other still...)
Heat Map Visualization with Pivot Table. How To
Microsoft Graph Engine
There is no democracy, just the appearance of one. As an adult, I think it's everyone's responsibility to start and understand this sooner or later.
I do not expect that we will be able to move past fossil fuels in the next 100 years.

There is simply no other source of energy with as much density and as convenient as oil. The only think we know that can rival oil is nuclear energy but it has problems of its own.
Males 18-25 still have to register for the draft, there are just enough voulenteers currently
> I was allergic to everything, but it went away after 1-2 years

Would you say they went away because you regained some of the lost weight/fat?
Yep, it happened to me during a Lufthansa strike a couple of years ago.

They distributed us and our luggage across a couple of planes flying out to Vienna.

My luggage arrived on an earlier flight and had to hear from the Austrian police, while I explained that it was Lufthansa's own doing.
Show HN: Graphqurl: curl for GraphQL with autocomplete, subscriptions, GraphiQL
All the Ways to Backup Your Bitcoin Wallet
Nah, they're stopping that now.
If you block Windows telemetry domains and run Windows, naturally those domains will be at the top... I have a lot of blocklists, but I think one of the default ones includes Windows telemetry.

watson.telemetry.microsoft.com	15110

v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com	11338

fls-na.amazon.com	4397

nexus.officeapps.live.com	3547

settings-win.data.microsoft.com	3463

collector.githubapp.com	3396

www.google-analytics.com	3379

www.googletagmanager.com	2246

www.googletagservices.com	2204

clc.stackoverflow.com	2173
Building a Matrix with reinforcement learning and artificial imagination
Yes?? This happens literally all the time. What's to be surprised about?
On macOS, the standard widget for text input supports emacs-style shortcuts, too, which means you can use them pretty much everywhere. One of the few things I miss about macOS.
Snapchat's source code was posted on GitHub
Looks interesting anyone using this in prod?
Duo Security created open tools and techniques to identify large #Twitter botnet
Advantages of Bitcoin Integration in MLM Software
You can run it on whatever hardware you like.
most of the time I had to gdb something that was broken (apache on all my last times) I was looking for IO instruction at the wrong time instead of bugs in pointers usage, but yeah, I do see your point (no pun intended). I can clearly see eioio causing some of the performance/race conditions I was hunting down recently (which thankfully was NOT on ppc :)
> Basically, locking people up prevents them from committing crimes for that duration. [...] that's going to reduce crime by removing whatever crimes they'd commit.

You're making a lot of assumptions here. 1) There is no crime in prison. 2) The imprisoned would have kept on committing crime for their total sentence if they were not in jail. 3) Prisoners 'return' to the world committing the same type/volume of crimes that they were committing when they went in.

For #1: There is crime in prison, a whole lot of it, and (even if you don't have sympathy for criminals) it's bad for society; people may come out worse off than they went in, driving crime up further. Jail is an intense experience, and it seems like the skills that you develop while 'surviving' in jail may not be so constructive for society when you're released.

For #2: As a kid my friends and I made a lot of stupid mistakes and some pretty bad decisions. Purely arbitrary factors (race, affluence, geography, etc) meant that none of us were ever locked up for them. We had the opportunity to correct our behavior, grow out of it. Had we have been punished harshly, it's likely that that our bad behavior would have continued. This is due to #1 (exposure to crime/criminals in prison, and contact with the justice system), but also loss of opportunities, and probably a different exposure or experience with drugs.

For #3: The above two points lead to the possibility that people who come out of jail are more likely to engage in more or worse criminal activity when they're released than when they went in.

So while there need to be consequences for crime, it's not at all evident that increased incarceration, certainly the way we are doing it, would lead to reduced criminal activity.
Yes. "If it ain't tested, it is broken" applies just as much to documentation.

This is why everything should have CI, and one should ask at least one person to set up the system from scratch using just the documentation.
Only barf and slurp are paredit commands, the others you mentioned (the sexp motion and killing commands) are stock Emacs!

(Well, by default C-M-u is bound to backward-up-list, either that's what you meant or paredit really defines a slightly different up-sexp commands. I don't remember right now.)

The worst command I regularly use, in terms of number of modifiers, is definitely C-M-% for query-replace-regexp.
OTOH, emacs has TRAMP which allows you to edit files remotely, using ftp or ssh as the transport layer. (Okay, I do not use that feature often, and I do still use vi sometimes for quickly editing a config file or something).
If Chinese people are fine with their government and great firewall, why should we or Google care.
>"In fact, many of the initial 50 papers have been confirmed by other groups, as some of the RP:CB’s critics have pointed out."

Something is wrong about this. How did these "other groups" get the protocols while this reproducibility project couldn't? Are they being stonewalled? Did the other groups not actually get the real protocol but instead fiddled around until they got the same result? Unfortunately that claim doesnt have any citations.
API Gateways and Key Benefits to Consider
>>Well presumably we could still collect, dry and burn what accumulates on the shore, and the rest would fall to the seabed.

Immortal plastic organism will eventually evolve to a lot more that 'trap carbon' work. Human's barely live for 60 years, and yet we can transfer all our knowledge generations one after the other. Imagine what an organism that can never die could do.
When it comes to my health, fuck your privacy.

When it comes to your health, fuck my privacy.
There are already 195 answers :) you can see the results file here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1feDCU-yvdbhRCgMqren2...
Happens pretty often - by accident, that is. My luggage went on a trip all of its own (someone loaded it into a plane bound elsewhere than I was going), so I was peppered by e-mails where it's now for the next few days, while it was misrouted to all sorts of weird places "oops, lost it again! no wait, there it is! no wait, lost it again!". Got it back at last, no damage.
Does this mean that, like barbecue, it should be eaten in moderation because of cancer risks?
How to Integrate Google Charts with Pivot Table Easily
I'd love to see a full API behind Project Gutenberg, and ideally one that allows full querying of metadata and book text.
WikiLeaks are Trump supporters and they're at least partially responsible for getting him elected.

I wouldn't trust a word this guy is saying.
ICANN loses a third time in Whois GDPR legal war
Is there any institute which provides GST training?
>"If it makes you feel better, you can look around, realize that we're no starving from famine, or dying from minor cuts, or poisoning ourselves with lead, or dying of Polio or Smallpox, and you can try to convince yourself that in the long run, the method works."

Don't you have any more recent examples? Perhaps people used to be doing reproducible science but this got lost somewhere along the way, that's why all your examples are decades old.
Maybe we have?

The article says "the other differences were not significant", but that does not mean there was no difference. It means "there was not enough evidence to reject the assumption that there were no other differences". That's one problem with this kind of statistics: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but people (including head line writers) act as if it was.
> every time I've tried to spend serious time in Emacs over the past 30 years on a PC or Mac keyboard, I've ended up with stabbing pains in my wrists within a week

I used to think "emacs pinky" was a joke, but it is real. Eventually I learned how to re-map Caps Lock to be a Ctrl-key (I never used Caps Lock anyway), and Caps Lock is far more comfortable to reach with my pinky than either of the regular Ctrl-keys.
the context makes it ironic even, considering they benefit from that exact sentiment to be elected.
> This micro aggression can't stand the article should be rewritten immediately.

You do know that when you argue in bad faith it's immediately obvious, don't you?
How to edit a human
My only fault with it was that a certain segment of the page when clicked goes back through the slideshow - that was quite confusing, I thought they were getting a bit excessive with using the same slides... nope, going backwards through the presentation
vim is a text-mode program. Emacs is not. Exiting is easy for anyone, just click the x in the window and poof! It's gone.
Same thing as the straws basically: paint glitter over screws and such, take a picture.
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Also see northseafarm.org
Users assume that intelligent assistants have a low competence for complex tasks
Wow. What a huge difference the GitHub could use some visuals that entice you to wanting to try it, a README on GitHub is as much a marketing page as the official site itself. If you can wow me from a GitHub readme you have me sold. Usually some videos / screenshots help in this regard. I'm definitely going to download this when I get home to experiment with it, seems quite interesting.
> Nothing too hard, and yes, do use the direction keys, it's not the 70s anymore.

Yet another thing 70s got better than today's software. The defaults you're used to are a historical accident, and are also crap - that is, an impediment to productivity.

> I tried opening the help of both programs (...)

> Emacs? I'll copy-paste here (key bindings help)

How on Earth did you get there? The very first thing in the Help menu (also conveniently bound under C-h t, and also conveniently listed in help-for-help view that shows if you press C-h C-h) is the Emacs Tutorial. The thing that's designed to teach you the basics quickly. Just read and follow the instructions, and it will all make sense.

As for whatever you just pasted here (looks a bit like output of C-x ?), it's probably part of the self-documenting aspect of Emacs, which you're yet to discover. That is, you can get help and documentation on absolutely everything - including runtime values of key bindings, variables and functions (both C and elisp) used by Emacs.

> Everything seems like it's actively fighting the user, and making it more difficult or convoluted than it should.

It's not. It's just:

- following a (somewhat) consistent set of UX principles that are older than IBM CUA (which gave you CTRL+C / CTRL+V, etc.). Older does not mean worse.

- a tool for serious users, who are not afraid of spending 5-15 minutes reading the tutorial.

To be clear, I'm not arguing here for Emacs over Vim. I'm arguing here against the stupid - and stupidly common - approach that proper UX means a newcomer must be able to use the software productively after 30 seconds of exposure to it. It's a stupid approach, because the only way to do this is to dumb down the program to the point it does so little that it can be mastered in 30 seconds. Emacs, like Vim, and Blender, are tools for people who want to be productive. A prerequisite here is the willingness to learn something.
The tiny French village that saved 3,000 Jews
Intro to Luna @ Lambda Days 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xUOuzafmO0
How is stating a possible bias an ad hominem? :)
I bet it’s the chlorophyll
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The editing brought out the best for the home viewer, the people at the show were probably still laughing however, which naturally does not have the editing

As a side note when you're calling something stupid you come off as not thinking it through https://sivers.org/ss
Before you start studying them, you should probably find a specific subject to study about hurricanes, because there are A LOT.

To figure that out you could answer some of these questions:

Why do you want to study the hurricane?

What's the size of the hurricane and what are the expected results of it? (Catastrophic, minor damage etc.)

Do you want to study the aftermath or not?

After answering those questions then you should have an idea yourself of what exactly you're interested in about the hurricane and from that point on you can probably think of what you need to do in order to study the hurricane.
Any recent flight I’ve taken they delayed the plane while they offloaded the bags. I am genuinely surprised they they flew them anyway these days.
Actually Sean Tejaratchi. Banky used it with attribution, though that's frequently lost / misstated (as here).

https://web.archive.org/web/20120321232424/http://readingfre...
You can also use a remote service like outline.com, paste the url there, and still read the content without the ads and without being blocked by an ad-blocker-blocker, and often even without being blocked by view-limiting paywalls.
> Presumably they would have a chance to be exposed to it by family/friends/relationships, but isn't that the same for the men?

Well, how long is the longest period that your female family members have had? Is this a thing you discuss with them?

> The implication that the lack of employed female engineers has more to do with anything other than...the lack of female engineers.

You're bothered by the implication that thing have consequences?

> The fact that statistical outliers need to be represented in every application for the general public.

You mean the fact that period trackers need to be able to track periods?
There is much less swearing going on than in the last few rants. Usually that means Linus is extra serious.

edit:

More interestingly, he later explains his behaviour (and sort of apologizes for exploding): https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/3/727
Definitely. I can't see a reason not to if it works for you.

The few times I've tried IDE plugins they get the Vi/Vim basics right but usually fall down later.

The terminal means that I can almost always have consistent keyboard based workflow across platforms.

I like being close to the OS and use external tools for things like git, debugging, profiling, etc.

I'll supplement that with GUI tools when it suits me. E.g. for web work I'd use Chrome for it's debugger and profiler.

I really like that things like Language Server Protocol are offering IDE like features without being tied down to a particular GUI IDE.

There' more than one way to do it though so if GUI IDEs are what you prefer more power to you. GUI IDEs haven't been new technology since the 80/90s. They're just different.
> None of them are identical to a government so none of them have imperatives identical to a government.

I didnt claim they were identical and I have in fact already given an example elsewhere in this thread for where they are different. If you want to argue for a particular difference in this case, do so. But just pointing out that I haven't fully anticipated and defeated to all possible counterarguments in a single 100-word HN comment is not constructive.