skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Take a look at companies whose target customers are all women. Are you surprised to see a man on their board?

I actually agree with your point. I would mostly be surprised to see a man on their board. I also wouldnt expect legislation to require a man on their board.

However, the discussion also brings up the idea that a woman (and any other gender of person) could have expertise of value to that board despite their differing genderedness . The idea is like "You dont have to have cancer to be an oncologist" .

Still the idea of requiring it bothers me. I would have expected other forces to handle this situation instead of men w/ guns.
NASA makes astronauts posters for everything from Star Wars to the Matrix (2017)
Google Maps - Commuter tab
Restore from where?

Are you giving all your data to the evil likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft?
Ehhh, if there's a group of people who shouldn't decide how a show ends... it would definitely be fans of that show.
Only Microsoft employees are permitted that.

* http://jdebp.eu./Humour/microsoft-monopoly.html
Validaton of hypotheses by data should consider the explanatory power of variables and possible presence of confounders. Does the distribution of inSPIRE citations reflect the lack of women in HEP, or does the lack of women in HEP result in the distribution of inSPIRE citations due to other confounders? What is the R^2 of the gender-equality-paradox line? Given that citations accumulate over 20-30 years, and the prevalence of men in HEP in the past, is it statistically significant to use gender citation ratios? Experimental research is often authored by the entire lab team, and a gender imbalance in the lab could account for greater gender disparity w.r.t. individuals with significant citation counts. Just saying, proper (data) science should validate a hypothesis and include a discussion of potential confounders and limitations in the data.
> I'm unaware of any country where you're entitled to require a court order before they can inspect your belongings when passing through a customs inspection

I agree, but I think historical precedent with books and papers is different from our phones. Note that my process still defaults to allowing the agent a casual search. The traveller simply has the right to call foul and require the agent to produce their reasons in front of a judge.
The problem with this approach is that just like a cover used by a spy, you'd have to memorize all the details. One slip would blow this phony profile, then you'd be in jail for making false statements to a govt. agent...
I'm not so sure it's that clear. (I'm not a lawyer)

If you can lawfully download a phone image over the internet while in the country and you can lawfully enter the country with no or limited digital information on your person then I don't see how backing up your phone in a different country (where New Zealand has no jurisdiction) and legally downloading the backup in New Zealand is evading customs.

Another (presumably) legal scenarios would include backing up all of your data, carrying no phone into the country, and then purchasing one while there. Is that "evading customs"?
In California audits are required by law but in the 2016 primary a number of municipalities (San Diego and Los Angeles and others) said, "Well the audits cost too much so we just won't do them" and nothing happened.
For what it's worth, iCloud provides this for Apple devices.
Apple? Upload to iCloud (it's supposed to be encrypted!), wipe, restore.
A little further along, but the BBC R&D have been working on something in a similar vein for a few years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/visual-perceptive-media
I'm just guessing, and I get the sense that you're open to that, so bear with me. I think the fields have sorted out by gender because of intrinsic interests/tendencies, cultural expectations (to your point about self-image), pay (women often can afford to make less while their spouses make more), and finally the systems that naturally come about which enforce those things.

I do think men bear most of the responsibility, and that's largely historical (men controlled the money) and partly because of the sex dynamic.

For my part, I think men, including myself, just have a long way to go to treat women fairly in the workplace. After that, my #2 focus is why "women's work" pays less. Elevating the economic worth of care jobs and such is another great societal discussion that needs a lot of attention.
I don't think you need a special provider... at least on an iPhone, it only takes a few taps to wipe it, and then when you restart it, it immediately gives you the option of logging in with your Apple ID and restoring from your last backup (which is automatically made nightly, and reportedly encrypted).
Use any programming language on AWS lambda
I don't think those sayings are really about blame as much as just tendencies by the buyer to do what they think of as playing it safe.
There’s a border patrol show on Netflix and they show a few phones being searched. It’s pretty clear it’s not about terrorists and bad people having bad files in the cloud. It’s about people coming on a tourists visa and working. They’d find all sorts of emails talking a out a job.

I don’t think that’s a valid excuse to search devices though. If anything I think it proves work visas need to be more accessible so people don’t have to lie their way in for a job.
Samsung Galaxy A9s to Be the First Samsung's Four Camera Phone
Show HN: An opinionated, scrmum focused product management tool
FTA: illustrations by Tim McDonagh
In my view, a significant factor in people feeling lonely is due to the unwillingness of most to reach out to others. Many people, and in my experience younger ones more than older, are waiting to be approached, queried, interviewed, prompted. I think there's a failure to realize that most people have good intent, and would be willing to help out with advice and opinion, but this opportunity is rarely exploited.
I've noticed a significant dropoff in activity on Facebook. Not that I use it much either, but I might check it once every day or every other day, and I keep seeing lots of old stuff in my feed. Now it's gotten to the point where I keep seeing "There are no more posts to show" or some such message when I get to the bottom of the page, which is sight to see for sure. That site is truly dying, at least in my realm of it.

In the meantime, I've made it my job to gradually unlike and unfriend nearly everything, which has been made much easier and apparent by the fact that Facebook now shows what other things people have in common with you. (too little too late, mark)
I thought there were signs of gamma radiation surrounding galaxies. Perhaps the gas filled void between galaxies is antimatter while the galaxies are matter. Perhaps antimatter is repelled by both types and regular matter is attracted to both types. This might lead to a gaseous cloud pushing things apart and clumps of regular matter. It would also allow some configurations to accelerate and violate conservation of momentum, so it doesn't seem likely.

To me there are more questions than "does antimatter fall up?" There are 4 interactions to test.
So taking a knife out of my pocket and leaving it at home before boarding a plane is a serious crime?
It's fun to see these people having fun and making nerdy posters, makes them a bit more relatable than 'some people working at NASA'
this already happens.

one case I know about: tatoo artists travel the world for work as guests in different studios. most do so under tourism visa sice its only a couple months each place. their managers (and online forums) already have a list of things that can be in the luggage and in their phones and instagram feeds so that they really do look like tourists.

security theaters is security theater.
>there exist straightforward workarounds
Exactly and that’s why this a problem. This law will never catch anyone that actually is troubling for NZ because anyone who is shady, already uses some workaround.

Now it will only bother and waste time of people who are serious about their privacy to apply this workaround as well.
It’s also in the process of starting to hit indie development in general and startups. It’s an interesting process but life for your typical indie or startup SaaS is going to get as tough as life for the typical “App Developer” got a few years ago.
I really want phone makers to allow me to unlock into separate enclaves on my phone. I.e. If I use 1234 as my unlock pin, it goes to my normal phone. If I use 5678 instead, it unlocks to a separate user account with its own notifications, pictures, apps, etc., similar to a truecrypt hidden partition.
Is this what "science" has become?
Having a way to express Bayesian models is a requirement for probabilistic programming but that’s not the “point”.

Representing a Bayesian model in some language is not useful by itself. Being able to do efficient inference without requiring the programmer to implement an inference algorithm for each model they want to specify is the point of probabilistic programming.
Something I ran across in a newsletter about medical research recently was that a doctor examining patients with treatment-resistant depression determined that there were (treatable) metabolic abnormalities apparent in cerebrospinal fluid. Normally, blood tests are all that is done to rule out such things, but that may not show the problem.
'Physics was built by men': Cern scientist's remark sparks fury
> Isn't that one and the same?

What if they are the same. Is that really an issue? Poor children get a "Free Pass" or (preferential treatment) by going to school for free. Seems like the right thing to do to me because their experience should not be decided by factors they can't control (in this case the financial situation they were born in). Same with gender "Free Passes" if one accepts the premise that it is a disadvantage to be born a woman and want to make it in STEM. If one does not believe that (meaning they were not convinced by the evidence), then that's another discussion and the debate is open.
That could only apply to founders who can sell parts of their company, surely. Employee number 1 would still face the same tax ceiling, and you need employees to build a company. The ratio of founders:employees will still be tiny even in Sweden.
I don't think the number of tutorials matters, otherwise Haskell monads would be super easy to learn. ;-)

Python circa 2000 was a language that was easy to learn. [1] What you saw was basically what you got. Python in 2018... well... it has grown lots more features, which might not show up in tutorials but a beginner will see them as soon as they look at actual code. List comprehensions, generators, context managers, metaclasses, async/await, decorators, 2/3 split, ABCs, etc. Useful? Yes. Easy to learn or understand for a newbie? Maybe not so much.

Never mind that setting up an environment is no longer as easy as creating a 'lib' directory somewhere in $PYTHONPATH and unzipping files in there. Now we have many package managers, virtual environments, competing Python versions, you name it. Back in the day I started a Python "project" with a single file and worked from there, growing as necessary. Nowadays I see new projects with a dozen files and directories. Again, there are (presumably) reasons for all this, but easier it certainly is not.

[1] Although even then the "Programming Python" book was like 900 pages... http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565921979.do
"A lot of the organised crime groups are becoming a lot more sophisticated in the ways they're trying to get things across the border.

So they've realised they can bring data into a country on a smart phone with a password. Law enforcement will really be screwed once organised crime figures out the other options.
There are anti-vaxxers on both sides, but since Trump's rise, I've noticed a big upswing in right wing anti-vaxxers.

It shouldn't be surprising. He's been pushing the vaccine autism link since 2012:

"Massive combined inoculations to small children is the cause for big increase in autism...."

"Autism rates through the roof--why doesn't the Obama administration do something about doctor-inflicted autism. We lose nothing to try."

"Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!"

"I am being proven right about massive vaccinations—the doctors lied. Save our children & their future."
I had the same experience after moving to the US for the first time. I'd never had a personal interaction with somebody of color, and all my views had been shaped by what I'd seen on American TV (typically not flattering, in the 80s/90s).
I would love to know how the revenues/profits are shared among the employees. Is there an equity plan or profit sharing plan with the non-founding employees?
Stage0,low-level DOM tools for building high performant web interfaces
Smart banknotes will be the cash of the future
Has “set time automatically” ever worked in Windows?
Neither am I a lawyer, but the key part is if you're (a) doing this as a regular security precaution or (b) doing it specifically to evade customs. If it's the latter, it's probably illegal. If it's being done for legal reasons, it's legal.

Something I've noticed those of us who work with computers having difficult with when it comes to the law is the way intent changes the legality of an action. Wiring money to person X is generally legal, unless done so for the purpose of acquiring illegal contraband. At that point, both the illegal acquisition and the wire become illegal.
I totally made it up, but it's not far. For example, here in MO they put a ballot initiative titled "Right to Farm" on the ballot and advertised it as "we're protecting your right to farm! Standing up for the small family farmers!" when in reality it keeps people from having standing to sue a factory farm when runoff from a pig farm pollutes their land.
Tesla produced a record ~80,000 vehicles in Q3
I found them prescient

> In this case, there are 86 lead authors from 39 countries, of which 39% are female.

speaks to diversity, e.g. it's not just a bunch of white men from a thinktank in south Florida (born there, nothing against it)

> These researchers, who are unpaid, have reviewed the available scientific literature on the feasibility, impacts and costs of staying under 1.5C.

unpaid suggest impartiality and dedication, the rest specifies the scope of their work nicely, as opposed to very unspecificed term "climate change"

> "If one can imagine the governments holding the hands of the scientists, this means you don't know how science works!"

this is over the top but the point would be it's not a bunch of lobbyists writing the report on the behalf of politicians
I think people instinctively refuse to parse analogies because it's too much work for too little reward. Practically every time somebody starts to use an anology it becomes an anology battle because of course it wasn't perfect. Secondly it's like trying to prove a point by introducing a bunch of weird mental tricks. Yeah you might have a point there but it's rude to expect me to parse all this extra made up stuff you just throw at me. If you have a point, you can make it without an anology.

I have the same opinion on fallacies, practically every single time somebody says "wait, you just used a fallacy" it's wrong, it doesn't matter or he himself just used five fallacies by pointing that out. It's an endless battle over magic words that have so much social weight behind them that using them should be forbidden in any serious debate. That's my personal, very unpopular opinion.
well, it's a time-honored tradition of we geeks on the internet. it helps us feel clever. :)
The most rollicking fun song about the Flupandemic ever made was by the Flying Fish Sailors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV938U4Y96w Not to be missed, if you're interested in the topic and don't mind lighthearted songs about widespread death.
I've been using Anki for a number of years now, and I think it's a fantastic tool for retention. However, I have never had any success with learning concepts that were new or foreign to me. I use it for testing powers of 2, port numbers, and cli flags, niche python syntax. For learning "new" skills, I would say reading books and watching lectures is the best way for me.
Male nurses are stronger and sometimes perceived as lower drama. Male teachers bring balance to classrooms; lots of kids respond better to one gender or another, so it helps a school to have some male teachers on staff, and yet they're harder to find.
Both medical schools and law schools made affirmative efforts to get enrollment to be near 50-50, then the new ratio ended up being self-sustaining.
Ask HN: How to commit comments to different repo?
Does anyone know of a way, via software or some other means, to be able to leave yourself comments that can be saved without getting overwritten by pulling a git repo?

I want to be able to go through an open source codebase and leave myself comments so I can understand it. But obviously, I don't own that repo and can't commit my comments to be saved. And in addition, any time I updated the code by pulling, I'd overwrite my comments or have a bunch of conflicts (assuming git doesn't throw a fit with unsaved changes in the first place).

So if there was a way to commit all my comments to one repo, then I could update the code and comment separately and have it all work out. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Even if it's a PHPStorm plugin or something IDE based, that would be fine.
In most cases the problem with link bombs is that the stated conclusions don't fit the linked facts, and people can't separate the verifiable fact from their conclusion.
Too many of the people trying to solve the gender imbalance in STEM are ignoring the fact that girls and women just don't pick STEM (biology/maths excluded) at A-level or degree level and want to fix it by tipping the scales when it comes to hiring in the hope that will encourage more girls to follow STEM career and "fix" the problem instantly.

The problem isn't that women are overall disadvantaged when it comes to getting hired in STEM, it's that women are not choosing STEM careers.

You could argue that too many men in the workplace will put women off following that career, but I really doubt that is the only significant factor at play here.
> The sentence structure suggests it's the countries rather than the authors who are female.

aggressive ungracious reading is borderline trolling
"If you want Calculon to race to the laser gun battle in his hover-Ferarri, press 1. If you want Calculon to double-check his paperwork, press 2. Enter now."

[1]: Violent Lasergun Battle

[2]: Tedious Paperwork

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1F4OduqrtQ
>$1 million by itself isn’t a big thing.

Don't be so humble. $1 million ARR is f hard. Take credit where credit is due.
> The problem with science is that it cannot change

Maybe science can't change, but our collective understanding of it changes (hopefully gets better) almost all the time.
HPE is like that too. I see lots of their servers show up on Craigslist, but hell if I would buy one when I can't get BIOS updates, especially in the post-Meltdown/Spectre world.
Despite this, I think they still deserve some credit for actually releasing something. I was on the Magic Leap hate train, but now that they actually released their gimpy headset I'm actually kinda rooting for them.
Nothing shocking there, Facebook doesn't want you to give ideas about leaving it to others
I believe when Charlie Brooker first got on board with Netflix to produce the third season of Black Mirror, he made a suggestion to introduce some kind of interactive element to the show but Netflix decided it wasn't technically possible to do what he wanted at the time. I can't remember where I read or heard this but it got me thinking about what kind of innovation you could bring to a traditional TV series when it is distributed via the internet.

For example you could show slightly different versions of the show to different viewers, of you could subtly alter the show when viewed on second or third viewing. Or the show could change depending on the time of year that you watch it. This kind of breaking of the fourth wall and breaking of fiction from reality could fit extremely well into a Black Mirror type of story. I'd love to hear what others suggest.

As far as interactivity, and 'choose-your-own-adventure' style of story telling I think that will probably get boring pretty quick. We already have this kind of story telling with games such as Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls and while many people view those games as innovative forms of cinematic games, I would say they are pretty tedious and non-immersive forms of cinema.
> If 95% of climate scientists agree that something is a fact, that is not "at best a rumor" about climate change.

True, but if you're a big enough pedant and chase down what is actually behind the "95% of climate scientists agree" claim, you'll discover it's not actually what it's sold as, which is a shame because I believe there's probably more than enough genuine evidence that resorting to this sort of thing is unnecessary to change people's minds. To be fair, it's worked very well on most people, but there are still plenty of others on (or on the wrong side of) the fence that I suspect could have their minds changed if the ~facts were presented in the right way.
I believe this is the law: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
But then you'll find yourself in a situation where you could possibly be lying to the customs officers.
As unobtrusive as the ads on a Kindle are, there is not really any good reason to pay the extra to avoid them. At least the e-ink ones. If I was going to ever buy another Kindle Fire, I would definitely get an ad-free version though.
Show HN: A.I. that automates data science analyses
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>Consciousness is utterly arbitrary now you put in complex thought, doubt, inner monolog and many other things into the mix which again just show how utterly arbitrary the definition of consciousness is as you conjured one yourself.

There's nothing arbitrary about it. All of those ("thought", "doubt", "inner monolog") go hand in hand with consciousness in the common sense, and at worst case, they are phenomena that presuppose it (secondary effects).

It's also quite common in discussions regarding qualia for consciousness to include "self consciousness", not some low level awareness of surroundings that it's not aware of itself.

Else a Rumba is also conscious.

>And even the clinical definition is arguably not very useful in the grand scheme of things because it does not deal with inanimate objects and the definition of life is murky at best.

Well, everything's murky if you try hard enough. Still, aside from some corner cases (e.g. are viruses living, are robots?) life is as clear cut as things come.

>So the best the best definition we have for consciousness is a clinical definition which is only applicable to life as we know it which has nothing to do with what ever you were talking about

It makes sense it has "nothing to do" with what I was talking about, since that's a definition you brought forward here and put up as the "best" and single useful one.

It might be the simpler to test for, or the most useful for medical use. But it's even murkier than mine (since "awareness" itself reintroduces the issue). If we were to be content with low-level awareness then a Roomba is conscious, as it is in a way aware of its surroundings too.

When we discuss consciousness, qualia, etc, we go beyond this basic definition. That doesn't make it "utterly arbitrary" -- if that was the case any random definition would do.