skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have never seen any evidence that women were discriminated against in 1930s mathematics other than specific stories about women being treated coldly by the establishment.

So you've seen no evidence of discrimination... other than specific stories of discrimination? What do you think discrimination in academia looks like? A giant sign on the front door of the university that says "NO GIRLS ALLOWED"?

Geiringer was the first woman professor of Mathematics in Germany but she probably wasn't the first woman in Germany who was qualified to hold that position.
git is actually pretty easy to drop into a terrible methodology without too much disruption.

git works by creating its own .git directory wherever you create a new git repository, but doesn't touch the files and directories outside of it until you tell it to.

So you can have a directory of old code and you just cd to it and run 'git init', and now you have a git repository in the same directory. It won't be managing any of the files yet, but it will technically be there.

Because git is just a bunch of extra data in a .git directory, and because git is also built as a distributed VCS, the "make a copy of a directory to back it up" methodology actually works pretty OK with git. Ideally you should be using 'git clone' to copy your directories and 'git pull' to keep them in sync, but if you just Control-C Control-V your source code directory, git will actually be just fine with that, and you can still later use git to sync the changes between those two directories.

I'm not going to put a full git tutorial into this post, about how you add files to the repository and make commits, but I just want to convey that while git has a justifiable reputation for sometimes devolving into arcane incantations -- it's actually low effort to get started and you only need to learn three or five commands to get like 95% of the value from it.

Once you learn those three or five commands, you'll find yourself running 'git init' in nearly every directory you make -- for your random scripts, for your free time coding projects, for your free time creative writing projects -- and you'll even find it easy to use on horrible "27 directory copies of the source code with 14 file renames" projects where none of your teammates use git; you can use git yourself in such cases without adding any real friction, and it still helps you even if your teammates just copy your code directory or send you copies of their code directories.

EDIT: One other note: git can also go away easily if you decide you don't like it. You don't need to run git commands to create, edit, copy or otherwise modify the files in your code base, like you do with some other source control systems, so if you can just forget it is there if you are busy and don't want to worry about it, and then later go ahead and add or commit all of your work. If you really don't like it, you just stop running git commands and you're no longer using it: you don't need to 'export' or 'ungitify' your code base. So it's pretty low-risk in that way as well.
Do you consider Uber “successful” even if their not profitable?
Part of the issue is the vagueness is likely appropriate to both as we don't know the depth. It is linked to Alzheimer's and its presence causes a negative effect so it is contextually a toxin at least until narrowed down to a more precise mechanism like say prions, inappropriate cell reactions, and/or inappropriate oxidation levels.

Anyway that amateur explanation aside - the woo community is inherently appropriative of things they don't understand - witness "quantum" anything buzzwords outside of the physics or numerical context.
I don’t like being accused of mental gymnastics by a gold medalist.
True, and to the extent they would exploit it, this basically amounts to providing a good customer experience (b/c Health information is useful) so that you continue to buy into the ecosystem.

Sounds like a solid sales pitch to me.
It's funny to me to see "was cool" and "amazing this is still alive", because I absolutely love Asterisk. I cut my teeth building Freepbx boxes at a small/mid business voip provider in college before moving on to a different field.

To give an idea why I think it is so cool, my podcast offers neat things to folks who call in to leave a voicemail. You can listen to entire podcast episodes, explore a crude phone sound "museum", and if you're a subscriber to the podcast you are given the password to our party line, where you can talk to our hosts and other subscribers. I'm also building a choose your own adventure type game on our phone system using IVRs and things for our top tier subscribers to play.

We're not a phone-centric podcast, but it's super easy supplemental content to provide folks for cheap. It's also currently running in the raspberrypi specific release http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/

There are other folks who absolutely rely on Asterisk for their shows, some that have been around forever, like the Phone Losers of America Snow Plow Show.
I'm very pessimistic about all this. It seems to me that the horse has already
bolted: we are all under constant surveilance and there is not much we can do
about it at all. Many of us don't even think it's a problem and even many who
do think it is don't want to lose the benefits that are attached to the
constant automated surveilance.

As citizens of democratic countries we have uttely failed to protect our
rights against private and public intrusions. We have failed to vote
against politicians who introduce legislation to legalise pervasive automated
surveilance. In the UK, Theresa May, who brought the Snooper Charter into law
became Prime Minister instead of being kicked out of her political career in
disgrace.* A majority of citizens of Western democracies continue to use
social media and online services like Amazon and Netflix etc.

The EU has introduced some legislation of course, but even in the EU state
institutions are free to spy on citizens and non-citizens alike. Everytime I
take the Eurostar for the continent I'm offered a "fast track" through a set
of automated gates that use facial recognition. I keep declining, but my
partner who also normally declines was coerced to go through by a border
guard. Pseudo-scientific deep-learning lie-detectors are deployed at the
borders of my own country, Greece, as well as Hungary and Latvia.

But all this started long ago. When surveilance cameras were first put up on
every shop and every street corner in every major EU city, only hippies and
weirdoes opposed them. And now we're all watched by them and there's no
changing that.

Who is going to stand up against the new threat to our rights? A few dispersed
academics that nobody listens to? Anonymous?

___________

* She was, but only later, because of Brexit.
> making a stronger push into the wearables market

I can't see an advertising company ever being trusted enough for people to feel comfortable sharing their health data. They can push all they want, but maybe their slice of that market is about as big as it's going to be.
With base jumping, you really need to separate out general base jumping from proximity flying.

For anyone unfamiliar with the sport, base jumping implies jumping off of something and then deploying a chute. This may or may not involve a wingsuit. Proximity flying involves jumping off of something in a wingsuit, and then flying closely along a mountain or other terrain for a while before deploying a chute.

Proximity flying has an insanely high fatality rate, because people tend to push their limits and at some point there is just no room for a mistake.
80% to 90% of Google’s revenue derives from collecting your personal information, and you think that buying a wristband that tracks the biometrics of 25 million people is “just for the sake of it”?
I sometimes like to explain things the other way around in terms of functional programming immutability being like version control for program state.

I rarely use functional programming but I certainly see its appeal for certain things.

I think the concept of immutability in functional programming confuses people. It really clicked for me when I stopped thinking of it in terms of things not being able to change and started instead to think of it in terms of each version of things having different names, somewhat like commits in version control.

Functional programming makes explicit, not only which variables you are accessing, but which version of it.

It may seem like you are copying variables every time you want to modify them but really you are just giving different mutations, different names. This doesn't mean things are actually copied in memory. Like git, the compiler doesn't need to make full copies for every versions. If it sees that you are not going to reference a particular mutation, it might just physically overwrite it with the next mutation. In the background "var a=i, var b=a+j", might compile as something like "var b = i; b+=j";
“Two cripples do not an athlete make”

— folklore
Oops, turns out Lyons was just quoting Steve Ballmer:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080206081701/https://fakesteve....
It seemed to to me to be an obvious foreshadow to a punchline.
Git being distributed means you can use it without any centralized "master"--your local repository contains the entire history.

And if git seems too difficult to start with, Subversion can also "host" a repository on the file system, in a directory separate from your working directory.
Being as generous as possible to the claim (although I agree it’s probably bollocks) — being near a turbine turning means you’re also in a windy environment, which would drown out lower power sounds while you’re outside. Inside, that masking sound is absent, and a lower-power sound might be perceptible. Maybe.
Is this based on any specific research?
> if my phone goes off in my pocket, I want to make sure I'm pulling it out for, at least what could be, a justifiable reason

There's an intermediate stage between "no notification" and "urgent notification" -- you can configure notifications from different apps to play different sounds.
If you have an Android, or even want the option of an Android in the future.

I wish Apple would want some of their stuff cross-platform - I don't like the all or nothing nature of the Apple ecosystem (I consider 'exclusives' to be anti-consumer in general).
Sorry, checking, FF and Chrome don't do it yet, but they will soon: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5730772021411840 , https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536058
The problem of this way of thinking is that it makes “okay” to collect data that is not necessary for the app in order to work.

It's not feasible because there's a huge economic logic behind that data collection. While the truth is that most services (even innovation) would still work with a few data points.

I mean, Google Maps doesn’t need to collect all the data it collects, but it sells us the benefit with an imminent long-tail of problems.
Fitbits are a quarter of the price; same reason you see way more Androids than iPhones.
Possibly a mix between use cases, maintainability and economics. We used to scrape economic indicators data at a fintech startup and monetized it - every slight change to the website created an issue to the data feeds. It was a huge nightmare to maintain. Scraping any website is quite generic and doesn't really speak to a specific audience on a specific need. But more importantly, having been in the data and analytics industry for years, data has far lower margins than insights and recommendations. The market is willing to pay a crazy premium (look at how much all the consultants are being billed out for) to get insights and recommendations. Data itself isn't inherently valuable to most companies.
I use git with no aliases and have forever. I came from SVN, and myself and the entire team I worked with at the time enjoyed the transition and had very few issues.

So much of this drama seems propped up on things that just aren't that difficult.
>Okay, the internet was created for military communications. So, with your logic, you should have a problem with it being used to power eCommerce, pornography, YouTube, Facebook and hacker news.

Not with "my logic", but with the logic of some strawman, who claimed something really unrelated to my point.

I didn't say that "nothing can't be used outside of its original stated purpose".

I said that a specific quote about how anybody can find some damning thing in what others have wrote/said to attack them with, is not the same as a quote about privacy.

That is, it's intented message not:

"It's good to keep your writings/letters/etc private because else someone might find stuff in them to use against you"

but:

"I -as a skilled manipulator- can take any random stuff wrote/said by even the most innocent man and it against them to make them appear guilty".
> I'm not sure I believe in completely open data because entire populations with access to it are not completely rational.

certainly not. but we are at the beginning of a cultural shift in line with the renaissance and the age of enlightnement which vastly changed the cultural mindset quite a bit. before these previous 'cultural revolutions' what people considered rational was different.
What Is Lisk Cryptocurrency? How to Buy Lisk Coin?
- * - = + ... I don't know dude. The math checks out.
if you're happy with their terms&conditions and privacy policy, and you don't need to print badges on-site, then there's no reason to change.
Otherwise, we offer you an alternative :)
Wow, 1979. And patented.
This drop is largely caused by deaths of despair [1], partly related to a lack of affordable health care in the US. The fact that (at least [2]) 78% of Americans live from paycheck to paycheck [3] underscores the relative poverty many people experience in daily life. I think it is fair to say that a majority of Americans live with a scarcity mindset, likely affecting mental health negatively.

EDIT: As a Norwegian following American politics, I am surprised that this topic is so rarely talked about by the democratic nominees. The only candidate I have seen talking about the causes of the drop in life expectancy is Andrew Yang. Not even Pete has worked this into his talking points as far as I have seen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_despair

[2] The number is increasing fast; it was 75% in 2016 and rose to 78% in 2017.

[3] http://press.careerbuilder.com/2017-08-24-Living-Paycheck-to...
I'd argue that naming and usability of git is actually very-very up to the point. Naming reflects not the what you want to do on high level, but what you want to do with underlying data structure and checked out files. This could be seen as weakness or unnecessary problem for newbies, but if you work with branches or in multiuser environment, you inevitably would run in some complex and problematic conflict, and then "magical tools" would leave you with a mess, while I've yet to see problem with git repository I couldn't solve.

I've actually taught how to use git to many teams, and I always start with merkle trees. They are actually easy to grasp even for designers and other nontechnical people, and could be explained in 10 minutes with a whiteboard. And then suddenly git starts to totally make sense, and I'd dare to say, become intuitive.
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This is old and very embarrassing situation for any individual while physical relation. It causes inability to maintain solid reaction of the which we call as lose weakness. Your problem makes your physical ability very weak and you get mentally provoked by your own Survival of being. Male dysfunction is the powerlessness to get and keep an sufficiently firm for increase. Having inconvenience every once in a while isn't essentially a foundation for concern. On the off chance that brokenness is a progressing issue, notwithstanding, it can bring about anxiety, influence you're fearlessness and add to relationship issues.
IPFS could provide peer-to-peer CDNs, I'd love to see it, but it needs massive improvement in latency to be a viable competitor.
There would still be a need for it, you can't be dependent on others for critical infrastructure.

Especially nowadays. I think it's fair to say that right now the world is going through a "realignment". That generates the proper ratio of insecurities and pragmatic realities necessary for the people of the world to reassess the methods by which they've traditionally solved their problems.
I’ve had an idea for a project but I suspect it’s either done already in whole or in part: a multi-editor, offline-capable, cross-platform blog composer/editor app. Think Live Writer but for macOS and Linux too, and one where the master state of the whole site lives locally. Sounds like something that could be done by combining Ghost, Electron, SQLite and a few other bits.... but this also seems so obvious that someone had to have done it already, but I can’t see that it’s been done.

THAT is my challenge of the week in contributing to open source: not wanting to reinvent a wheel that seems so obvious it has to have been done, right?
I encountered a large company where they had a private git server for their engineering teams.

Over time someone discovered that the number of repositories and usage was much greater than they expected. What they found was that non engineering folks who had contact with engineering had asked questions about how they manage their code, what branches were, and etc. Some friendly engineering teams had explained, then some capable non engineering employees discovered that the server was open to anyone with a login (as far as creating and managing your own repositories) and capable employees had started using it to manage their own files.

The unexpected users mostly used it on a per user basis (not as a team) as the terminology tripped up / slowed down a lot of non engineering folks, but individuals really liked it.

IT panicked and wanted to lock it down but because engineering owned it ... they just didn't care / nothing was done. They were a cool team.
On the other hand their are millions of “Android” phones being sold each year in China with no Google Services. Not to mention the low end Amazon Fire tablets based on Android.

I think by working with a cell phone carrier in the US and bundling enough must have apps a manufacturer could get away with having a non Google certified Android phone. Especially if they could use Nokia’s Here for maps.
https://twitter.com/minoru_osuka/status/1190236816277790720?...
> If you mean switch from FPTP

Yup don't really care what the new vote is. I live in Northern Ireland where we have single transferable vote I think its great.

It hasn't fixed our two party system but I have noticed a dramatic change in the way people think about voting.

For the most part people no longer feel the need to vote against some one and now vote for who they want, I have also noticed people seem to feel their vote is worth more as a result.
As a Fitbit user I'm relieved. Fitbit was starting the death spiral and now they are purchased by a company with tons of money and a real interest in making Fitbit more successful.

I think this is a save for fitbit employees and users.
Everyone here is talking about the fitness market or the lack of direction at Google. This move is about the Healthcare market.

At least where I work, researchers have been eager to partner with Fitbit and other companies to capture more reliable data in their longitudinal studies.

Fitbit devices are cheap but provide a wealth of information that's far more reliable than participant surveys. Companies are more than willing to purchase and distribute these devices for free to participants in their studies.
Or Amazfit
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As long as economically prosperous countries and taking the best and brightest from overseas, those countries will never get better. We're simply functioning as a social-relief valve.

> As long as the working class is dis-organized

I think we'll see a resurgence of organization sometime soon.
Exactly. If you have Bluetooth and wifi turned on, you're sharing your location. So the OS makers decided to make that obvious by requiring you to have location turned on.
Sure. But you know what is more complex than git? Git + <anything else>.

If you use git at all, you may as well use it for everything. If you have control over which version control system to use, there's no good reason to actively use multiple ones at the same time.
Resource constraints being a common precursor to suicide it's a bit strange to argue that a more redistributionist system wouldn't lower the suicide rate. I mentioned Yang specifically because that brand of redistributionism at least doesn't punish anyone who does get (or make) a job.
Well, if there's no technical way to enforce the agreement, then the agreement doesn't really exist. But if there's a way to enforce it, another part of sovereignty is that you can complain only to who wants to hear.
After you become a wonder, everything you do is brilliant)
Alright, that I can do. I meant more, that there is a big difference between knowing everything by heart and comprehend everything easily and having to look it up and stare at some formula a bit. Math is a rabbit hole, like, you can do integrals, then line integrals, triple integrals and it goes on.

For me it isn't also very clear until where it is useful to learn math.

I'm also more on the practical/software engineering side, so I don't even have intentions of doing research. I just want to follow the most up to date methods.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Indeed.
Right, but the ACLU article nor the Register summary do not indicate the FBI is using public video sources for this. The possibility is certainly there for abuse, but we'll have to wait for the lawsuit results to see if it is different from fingerprints.
I have eaten fruits and nuts, and pissed and defecated in nature, so I have also communicated with plants both ways...
Many people have pointed to privacy and data issues, but there's also the plain reality that the US has been shown to be willing to use its economic leverage for political ends over the recent few years, so having key data stored in the US becomes an increasingly geopolitical risk even for European allies.

I think these mercantilist plays we're seeing from the US are going to cause a lot of long term harm to the tech companies. For national security reasons alone you cannot rely on US cloud infrastructure if the man or woman in the white house is likely to pull the plug at any moment.
What makes it nearly impossible to fork Firefox? Mozilla already distributes an unbranded "fork" that allows unigned extensions. It's just a build flag away. What potentially shady tactics am I missing?
Noah Smith is a columnist. He was a business school professor, but is not now.

"Fondly remembered" means you are deliberately choosing a lens of nostalgia.

Also, Korea War and the Cold War's threat of nuclear war. The second Red Scare and the McCarthy trials. Segregation. Red-lining. Sundown towns.

Eg, "Suburbia was born" in part due to white flight from the cities, and subsidized by government policies which supported white people over black. Levittown, "widely regarded as the archetype for postwar suburbs throughout the country" (quoting Wikipedia) only sold homes to white families.

As a reminder, the Soviets got to space first. At the beginning of the century they were one of the poorest countries in Europe.
Saying they rent it is almost as misleading as all the people that say they sell it. It implies that the renter gets the data and they don't and that distinction is key.

But I too am not sure what the right way to describe it is. I guess you could say they use your data in the product that they sell.
> anything Elon Musk does.

Might add zombie Steve Jobs stories.