skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A slippery slope argument seems really justified here as this legislation applies to boards that are quite small in size. If women need this special advantage, we only have to find a few other deserving minorities (race, religion and age seem like reasonable choices) before it is illegal to use merit as the first criteria for making up a corporate board.

There is also a real concern with regulation like this is that the current climate of discussion is such that the negative effects are difficult to discuss in civil society. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the people who object to this are sexists.

EDITED because I'd interpreted the article wrong
> It is practically always the smallest part of the final product.

What do you base this statement on? There are several classes of games where this is definitely not true.
Besides Tiddlywiki, does anyone have recommendations for personal wiki software?
Niche markets may be the way to go. For instance, I would gladly spend $250 for a deep economic simulator game. I haven’t seen one of those in years.
Like when individual military units start abandoning their posts. Or start selling military equipment out the backdoor.
Most of the modern games I have played have no replayibility, very limited in scope and on top of that archaic buisness models.

I understand that it is very hard to make games and 100 times harder to make good games. There must be a sane method for decent compensation waiting to be thought out I hope
Deming’s work is another good source along with Goldratt.
Everything lives on top of win32. Even UWP is a wrapper around win32, if you look at the modules list you'll see gdi.dll in the list.

In a sense the rest of these frameworks are all just libraries. You can choose the one that makes your life easier but win32 will do the heavy lifting. Because of this its relatively easy for them to add support for new features to the various frameworks. They just wire up the win32 calls as necessary.
It's not optimal for the states to handle this rather than the feds, but it's better than having Ajit Pai pick winners.
The main problem of Visual Studio is that it doesn't work on free operating systems.
Yes, marketing is very important!
Robot Tour Guide Will Take You Around Kyoto
Honestly surprised at how many people are posting comments about this. You know you'll end up on some list, right? Maybe you think it's ok to debate this kind of measure now, but the line will keep moving. In three years you may have people scouring your internet history for past wrongthink to deny you that promotion, or to get rid of you. In five years, machine learning algorithms may take your comments as input for your Ethical Credit Score. Hacker News is not going to delete your comments if you come to regret them.

It's best not to think about these things at all. What can you do, anyway? Suppress your mind's wandering. Focus on that algorithm on that refactoring, someone needs to get that work done, and it's you. You need that promotion. You need to make a lot of money for the federal government, for the state of California, and for your landlord, and you better make enough that there is something left to save. You don't want to look back in ten years and realize your youth disappeared while you were sitting in front of a monitor, you're still unmarried, you don't own a house, and you haven't had an independent thought in a decade, right? At least you've got to have some money saved up, that's going to make it worth it. So put your head down and get back to coding.
>> This change takes a concise and clear functional-style implementation and updates it to a long, complex, and apparently buggy imperative-style.

>True, but the numbers in the PR indicate that the new version was faster as n grew. I don’t know how often > str::repeat is used, but — and this ties with the point you make about values — when I use standard library functions in Rust, I expect that they be as performant as is possible

You'd think that the same algorithm as in the pull request could be written in a functional style too?
Six person board? “At least” three women. Says it all.
Buy NIOSH-approved N95 particulate respirator masks. They're like $2/per on Amazon.

Make sure they fit you, and your family. Get different types / sizes.

You won't be able to buy them -- anywhere -- once media organizations start reporting on an outbreak.

Don't tell anyone you have them.

Ignore people who don't think this is worth worrying about. People are stupid.
Mirror: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WNHDj6...
We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918, a documentary from the Health Department

https://archive.org/details/gov.hhs.cms.006719
I've been following this project since 2012. For some reason the kickstarter caught my eye and I've been periodically checking the development forums at least monthly.

This was an absolute journey. He was attempting to make a game engine completely from scratch, including procedurally generated everything, NPC AI's somehow running in this infinite universe all in real time. The demos/screenshots were really beautiful throughout development.

A couple of years ago he had some kind of mental breakdown and stopped updating the forums. When he came back he joined some kind of accelerator and hired a couple of developers.

The project never seemed to evolve beyond engine work. The only "gameplay" was some kind of mini game written for E3 multiple years ago. The most recent updates are months and months of rewriting things back and fourth from lua to C++, infinitely tweaking to make the framerate perfect (at least this is my impression).

For having no stake in this at all - I'm really unreasonably sad about this announcement.
Regulations have worked too well that people have forgotten just how bad the US was. The GOP’s anti-regulation campaign has been successful in getting the public to go against their own self-interest.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

> 301.3. (a) No later than the close of the 2019 calendar year, a publicly held domestic or foreign corporation whose principal executive offices, according to the corporation’s SEC 10-K form, are located in California shall have a minimum of one female director on its board. A corporation may increase the number of directors on its board to comply with this section.
I (a man) for one am happy about this decision. Not because this, the intermediate state, is one I'm happy with, but because it creates female role models that girls can look up to. This in turn will show girls that it's something they can achieve and aspire to, and ideally, soon, this legislation won't be required anymore. It's a bootstrapping tool.

We're talking about a single board member. This isn't going to destroy companies. It's not going to force companies to do without the best and brightest, that's incredibly hyperbolic. If you really want to add a specific man, add a seat, or drop someone.

Especially since as the article points out, companies with female board members tend to be more profitable [1]. Correlation is not causation. On the other hand, there's no apocalyptic collapse coming because they let a lady into the boardroom, my lord, what's becoming of California?! I do believe I've got a case of the vapors.

It's really amazing how little empathy is being displayed here. I'm sure each of you would feel differently if 90% of board members were women. Maybe it's just the demographics on here? Maybe it's because as engineers we live in a world we can control by simply moving a letters around on a computer screen. The real world, society, is messy. It's not as simple as declaring meritocracy and suddenly equality arrives. Change requires making uncomfortable decisions, making compromises and taking real steps. And yes, rolling them back if they don't work out as planned.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/41365364
No. I mean, this might be a problem for some people, that it doesn’t work on OS X (not free) is a problem for me. But a bigger problem is that even on Windows its more advanced features are often too hard to be usable except for very special situations.
Nice try, Stephen Wolfram...
There is an autoimmune theory of schizophrenia. Excess histamine can also cause OCD-like symptoms.

Look into megadose vitamin D3 (+ K2 MK-4 + magnesium). Memantine + selank. Lowering inflammation.
You could do that or a frramework like Unity takes care of lot of stuff for you.. weekend maybe a bit extreme, but you can get something running and functional in very short time
I think we need to think more along these lines in general; it's going to be needed a lot.

This is the ongoing march towards post-scarcity. We now have enough people with skills, experience and tools necessary to produce a quality indie game and a desire to make one, that the market price is far below the cost of production, and rapidly approaching zero. Essentially, these developers are spending (resources: time etc; although sometimes money as well) to scratch an itch.

And trying to recoup at least a part of those losses by selling the result is not unreasonable, but it should be considered a best-effort optimization. In the end, you still end up paying for the privilege of, essentially, having other people admire your work. It reminds me of some sci-fi story I vaguely remember from a long time ago, about a true post-scarcity society where everything is free, except for other people's attention, which therefore becomes currency. There's nothing else to do for humans other than arts, so everyone is doing that - and now you're paying someone to e.g. read your book, and then they can use that money to pay someone else to look at their painting etc.
An anecdote:

In a previous job as a presales engineer, I kept notes of prospects and customers in a TiddlyWiki. When I left, I handed the file over to my replacement. He told me after a few years that the "wiki" was of great help to him.
I have not read through the entire article, so don't know if what I'll state is covered, however, I have experienced something similar with Kaiser, though not with ER, but with regular Doctor's visits. They just send me a surprise from time to time, and the latest one is $175.00 for a visit. This is, literally, something that just keeps happening. Somebody on their end messes up, or somebody does some sort of funny business, and patients get unforeseen bills. I wish somebody would investigate them and force them to get their act together. I mean it's convenient that they have all facilities in one place, but they are really expensive and their billing practices are inconsistent.
Please don't take offense: Just FYI, 'wanna' is a contraction of 'want to,' so writing 'wanna to' is redundant.
Of these companies how many are competitive with American business?
This outlaws freedom of association. If I am a woman creating a company for women’s products and want an all woman board, why should that be a problem or any business of the government? If the shareholders don’t like it, they can vote in/out whomever they want.

And if an all woman board is okay, then what hypocrisy is this new law?
Americans prefer the convenience of owning cars and driving, at least they have for the past several generations though this may be changing.

If you go to cities like Chicago or New York City, many people do use public transport. I did when I lived in Chicago, generally hated it, but it was cheaper and faster than driving downtown for work in that situation. To get anywhere else in the city or suburbs it would be faster and more convenient to drive.
In what class of game?
My understanding is that this idea would imply paid mandatory leave. It would be bad for the individuals if it was mandatory unpaid leave.

>From this we can gleam two things. 1: Women are not being "treated differently based on the circumstances of their birth" (at least in a way that disadvantages them in terms of salary). 2: Mothers are being treated differently based on their behaviors.

I hope the first statement is self-explanatory but the second might need additional context.

Women are being treated differently here because when a man and woman decide to have a child, the woman is guaranteed to have to take leave and that is known and accounted for before hand. Mandatory parental leave makes that cost be the same regardless of gender. It is disingenuous to say women aren't being treated differently and only mothers are, when men don't get the same treatment despite being fathers

>If you compel men to take paternal leave, you open them up to all the detriments that mothers face

I view this more as spreading the burden of child rearing across society which I agree would increase the burden on men and companies. It is a completely necessary part of being biological life and continuing our society, but as we currently stand we just demand that a subset of society takes care of it on their own dime. If paternal leave was mandatory for children we would be treating men and women equally, because women have no choice but taking leave when they have a child, and we would be promotion better care for the children which is in our own best interests. We are k type breeders, not r type, and we have shown a better return on investment by giving better care to less children.

>The gender wage gap (as it exists in the United States in 2018) is not a concern.

That is an opinion, not a fact.
Requiring a private entity to spend resources in favor of one class of citizens is almost certainly unconstitutional. There are many actionable avenues available to California to promote equality in workplaces, by signing this soon to be struck down law, California’s leaders are exploiting politica division for political gain. Politicians going to politician.
Nothing of what I said implied that the boundaries should always be expected to remain permanent for any typical pair of disciplines (although there will be disciplines where that holds). There are instances where boundaries have been productively crossed and fields merged. And it's certainly more productive to try to get simpler explanations using past hypotheses between disparate phenomena – as long as no information is lost. But that doesn't remove the limitations, and the only desire here is to understand and know these limitations. That's as scientific an endeavour as any.

If it's a matter of the framing that makes you sombre, consider the alternative where being a finite observer with the capacity for self-reflection such as ourselves is put in a situation where we can navigate alternative descriptions of reality, never having to terminate with a final explanation, yet always growing in personal understanding... this is what your Demon would actually be doing, for if it were as powerful as you imply, it would not be a scientist at all. It would simply be reality, with these observers the lesser of it.
For regression I really like Frank Harrell's Regression Modeling Strategies. http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/RmS
A lot of tech companies are Delaware C Corps, but they are still headquartered in other states.
I think Google has pretty good deep learning-based word prediction for their Swype-style Android keyboard.

There was a period, maybe 1.5 years ago, during which text input prediction got substantially worse, then gradually improved. Along with the change came the ability for text input to change the estimated word after you entered the next word, using the combination of your entries to both words to estimate both simultaneously.

If they have language models which perform that task at a level worth pushing out to consumers they can do some smoothing of entries in a list.
Belgium, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Norway and Spain have quotas according to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_representation_on_corpo...
That's why I avoid any kind of Windows desktop development. They release a new framework every 2-3 years and developers are expected to adopt it. But then they drop support for that framework quickly and release a new incompatible one.

I agree with you. I would never take a job doing Windows desktop development and I am a big fan of .Net and Microsoft’s development tools.

But web development is far worse.
That's great news. I hope other states, and federal law unifying everything will follow.
> I would not attempt to drive into the centre of a city in the UK for any reason at any time of day ever.

So are there any cars in the city and where do they park? Or is it mostly taxi cabs and city buses?
> Why only women?

Women are the largest "protected" class and the most visible, so a good start on getting "protected" classes on more equal footing.
Critical Path Method + Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT). Figure out the shortest path to the goal (critical path) then figure out the most likely timeline, by applying a probability distribution to the weights of each connection.
This highlights the truth that reducing variance is a huge factor in improving the quality of forecasts.
ShadowStats inflation is literally the CPI minus a constant. The guy making is completely laughing at you -- he doesn't have a methodology to calculate the inflation, he's just publishing numbers people want to hear.
U.S. And Canada Reach Deal to Salvage Nafta
So how about we change it then instead of giving up an not tying because something might happen?
I’m curious to know why you think it’s so good. I’ve studied marketing in the early 2000’s and Kotler’s Marketing Management was pretty much the only book we’ve read, but after college I didn’t feel I could apply much of its lessons to the companies I’ve built myself or the companies I’ve worked for. Most of Kotler’s material is based on how big traditional brands have done marketing, but that wasn’t helpful to me when I was working on early-stage tech startups.

Granted, I wasn’t the most dedicated student at the time, so maybe I just should read it again, but it would be helpful to know what you got out of it.
Options, Futures and Other Derivatives is basically a Bible.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/013447208X/ref=dp_ob_neva_mob...
I've had something like this happen to a customer of mine. Some of his content posts were being copied by random sketchy sites, then backdated by a couple hours. Google would show the copied content as the main link in Google news, and his actual article would be buried somewhere under "more like this" link (or whatever it was called in news).
Assembly Language and Computer Architecture Using C++ and Java , Course Technology, 2004

I can't say which is better. Nand2tetris has different approach.
He's got Gwynne Shotwell running SpaceX he needs a Gwynne of Tesla.
Nothing beats a plain text file for me.
Just as a point of contention if I hypothetically identify as a trans women can I count as a women in the opinion of california
> BitTorrent peers can offer tokens to incentivize other users to run clients on fast networks and to seed torrents for longer periods, leading to better swarm longevity and faster download speeds for all swarm participants.

Is this a solution out in search of a problem?
So was this lawsuit prepared by a lobbyist’s law firm? How on earth would DoJ be ready this quickly?
No, it's completely different.
You need to find a doctor like late Oliver Sacks and Ramachandran. Basically, a research oriented doctor.
Theranos also talked a lot about military contracts.
Hey let's cross that bridge when we get there maybe?
>Only a handful of cities have remotely passable public transit systems. Everyone else needs parking.

They don't need parking. They need a solution to enable access to the downtown core. The solution you want is parking, because that's the status quo. Improving public transit is also a solution - It's not actually impossible to build.
Convert Equation XML to Office Math and Animated GIF Bookmarks inside Java Apps
Self censorship is a feature not a bug.
I forgot how America's man-only board driven companies are the only competitive ones in the world :P Thanks for reminding me?
I received a bill 9 months after a procedure. After I had already received a dozen other bills for various other services pretty much immediately and paid immediately. My nuanced argument was "you waited 9 months, fuck off". I never heard anything more about that one.
Being provided healthcare is a “human right”? Sounds more like forced labor to me.
I wouldn’t trust my life to a respirator mask I bought from Amazon. How would I know I didn’t get a fake?
Please do don't take offense: Just FYI, calling out random strangers on the internet for improper or redundant grammar is a waste of your time and theirs.
> Will end-user applications ever be truly programmable? If so, how? Emacs, Smalltalk, Genera, and VBA embody a vision of malleable end-user computing: if the application doesn't do what you want, it's easy to tweak or augment it to suit your purposes... With Visual Basic, you can readily write...

Lisp was great and VBA was fun back in the days and I love it nostalgically but today VBA looks ridiculous because it actually is neither functional nor an object-oriented but a toy language and the fossil VBA IDE kept integrated in all the modern MS Office apps without an improvement for decades feels like a disaster. It ought to be replaced by either a modern dialect of Lisp (which is improbable as Lisp looks ugly and feels unintuitive to non-geeks and geeks are not the relevant target audience of Excel macros functionality) or something like Python (the best candidate that can probably satisfy everybody).

> Today, however, end-user software increasingly operates behind bulletproof glass. This is especially true in the growth areas: mobile

I believe the main reason here is the cost of supporting (and developing too) the apps and forcing users to do what you want. It's easier when you know all the possible use cases in detail and you are who designs them.

> and web apps.

Web apps don't operate behind bulletproof glass. Thanks g-d we still can view source, inspect, change and script almost everything in the web with the developer tools integrated in every major browser.
If you want to be sure the mask fits correctly you can simulate the procedure here which is basically wearing the mask with a larger plastic bag/enclosure over you and having some spray a aerosolized bitter compound in the air around your head [pdf]: http://www.kdheks.gov/cphp/download/Fit_Test_Pro_for_N95_R.p...

This is how you get fit tested in hospitals. I'll also add that n95 masks are considered overkill for influenza (but not SARS, TB, measles, varicella aka chickenpox).

Also, get your flu shot every year! Even if it isn't optimized against the antigens on this years virus it is like a brick in a wall your immune system builds up over time against a variety of influenza variations.
neither pro or against but just googled it and this came up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_representation_on_corpo...
Hasn't happened so far but I'm sure they're taking suggestions. Feel free to raise some, and take it up with your legislature. But at least they're trying something.
The thought of just spraying junk like that in space today is harrowing. The Iridium-Cosmos collision in 2009 still has left some 75% of its debris field in orbit.
Grandparents concern about async is documented here:

http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2015/02/15/asynchronous-python-an...
This makes sense for Cincinnati's urban core, since it once had a population density similar to New York. The neighborhoods referenced in the article are incredibly walkable and the city has already invested in a streetcar system to move between neighborhoods. Overall, Cincinnati's neighborhoods within 10 miles of downtown are filled with dense, pre-war construction centered around public squares connected by public transit. The city is already laid out to function without cars (streetcars were abundant here in the 1800s).
Glad Brown signed this. It might've been more controversial, but I wish the new rules for zero-rating were also applied against cell companies