skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although two weeks notice is standard, give more notice
if you're willing to. Give four or even six weeks

I question why this should be asymmetrical.

If it were the other way round, and it was to the company's advantage for you to leave as soon as possible, how many CEOs would give three times as much notice as they were contractually obliged to?
Hello, President Rousseff...I told you so.
It is not my intention to misread. I'm not sure I understand how your interpretation differs from mine. Your interpretation seems to be saying "if you want a culture with a more inclusive atmosphere, start one yourself." How does this contradict my interpretation? Does this interpretation deny the female-unfriendly atmosphere of the existing culture? Does it show any more initiative/interest on his part to change this?
Looks great! The design is super clean. Are you worried about using google's trademark in your name at all?
Jesus, seriously? Rubygems has 64,000 gems and as far as I know, there's no policy to give gems prior review. So the fact that a few people over the years have decided to troll Rubygems lack of Apple-like barrier means that the Ruby community has a sexism problem? That, and something that happened in 2008?

Yes, and of course the horrible incident that was blogged about this weekend. But that was not a Ruby thing...that was an alcohol-fueled bar scene with a supervisor who egregiously abused his power. But what about that situation makes it specifically a Ruby thing? That it doesn't happen at any other kind of conference? Talk about being isolated in your own world...

This is not to say that sexism and sexual harassment isn't a problem. No, in fact, I believe they continue to be a much more massive problem than the oP's incidents can begin to describe. But it's not about Ruby or the Ruby community in particular, and by viewing it as such, you narrow the range of social action and awareness needed to combat the problem.
This entire post is absurd.

It's almost entirely analogous in my mind to the idea that because there are books that perhaps feature words like "sex" and "miniskirts" that this is offensive, the entire author community is broken, and this is why women don't read books! GUYS GUYS, we absolutely need to start censoring what people can write about! FYI, I think we should all base our moral code on the American christian values...just sayin'!

Here's an idea - women aren't all delicate flowers you need to white-knight on the internet. They can handle seeing words like "bj" and "shag".
Oh hai Peter Thiel  16 & 19 year old win global hackathon event
See my comment above. I've actually been an entrepreneur, teacher, trainer and comptetitor in the health and fitness field for the better part of the last 15 years. But the last few have seen a lot more screen time, so I'm doing what I can to change that.
I have a basic dashboard of personal performance metrics (e.g. miles walked yesterday via Moves, site pageviews, weather, etc). I have a Raspberry Pi hooked up to the TV in my apartment, and it draws power from the TV's USB. Whenever the TV turns on, the Raspberry Pi boots, and I have it set to boot to the dashboard:

http://www.niteoweb.com/blog/raspberry-pi-boot-to-browser

It's pretty nifty.
I don't think you can control for genetics, at least not directly. There is no intelligence genetic marker as far as I know which only leaves testing the IQ/intelligence of the whole family tree as the only option. However getting access to ancestors might not be feasible. On the other hand having a large pool of people is good enough since the distribution of intelligence is usually uniform and not restricted to things like class or parental income.
This kind of made me think about something I've wanted to ask for a long time but could never really crystallize until now.

I'm probably kicking a hornet's nest here, probably because I'm going to word this in a way that gives an impression I do not actually have, so, fair warning. I ask you to give me the benefit of the doubt here that I'm not, in fact, a bigoted sociopath.

<post type="devils-advocate" flame-retardant=105%/>

This guy, on the other hand, says "software engineering is hostile to women and I like it that way."

That's not what I gathered from that post.

I read it as an understandable (note: understandable means comprehend-able, not acceptable or appropriate) overreaction to a certain faction of extremists who want the focus to become about feelings and PC rather than doing cool things and getting shit done. To an extent, I sympathize with those who are scandalized when they hear the whinging about a Torvalds rant on the kernel lists, or the extended brouhaha from the "donglegate" thing from earlier in the year. Such things come off very much as an attempt to hijack or attack the culture.

Two questions.

At what point is it socially acceptable to express exasperation with a group of people who ostensibly have noble goals, but then cause damage while they're at it? (Note: same answer has to apply to pretty much any '$minority rights' group behaving badly)

At what point is "this is not a 'safe' space, (not in that people are going to go out of their way to offend you, but in that people have better things to spend their time on than measuring their every word for the slightest hint of '$ism'), so you may hear things that offend you, and how you choose to interpret and deal with that is entirely on you" ...an acceptable response?

</post>

I don't know, am I the only person that enjoys the somewhat acerbic nature of software engineering on the internet and doesn't want it to change all that much?
Im curious if watching a function is conventional as in

scope.$watch(function() {
scope.bulb = controller.getState();
});

as opposed to watching a data-bound variable and what how that(watching a func) affects performance

Note: from this example: http://jsfiddle.net/codef0rmer/2ZrX3/
The US isn't preparing for war with China, except in the most general sense of "preparing". The Pentagon does see China as a military threat, and has prepared plans for war (I'm sure someone will point out that the Pentagon has plans for war with Canada, too).

The phrase the US seems to be preparing for war against China implies that there is political will behind the idea of actually putting plans into practice and going to war.

That isn't the case, and I find it extremely unlikely that will change in current environment.
It turns out he might be a bit of a jerk after all. Nonetheless that is not the post the GGP was responding to. And your tactic of discrediting the guy rather than looking at what he actually said in the current thread is reactive behavior.
Live Coding event: Episode 0x3
As others have said, painting an entire city with a single brush is doing nothing but tormenting you with a false sense of fear of Oakland and tricking you with a false sense of security in San Francisco.

It's far wiser I think to use sites like http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Oakland-California/crime/ to evaluate on a more granular level.

As you can see, there are areas of high crime density on both sides of the bay.
Yes. My bias is that when people say something horrifically bigoted, I believe that they mean it. If they didn't, then it's on them to prove that if they need to, I see no need to give the benefit of the doubt. I suspect that our different approaches here reflect a different base level of belief in the existence of real bigotry, and hence the likelihood of such statements reflecting real bigotry rather than being the ironic/trolling type.
I buy a new Mac every year so I'm up to date. I'm about deprecating old stuff, you can't carry legacy software/hardware/products over forever.
You can argue that you don't want software engineering to be a 'safe space' without arguing that it should remain a 'male space'. (People might respond that this isn't possible, and that your desire for the acerbic community is outweighed by the desire for women to get into engineering, but that's a different conversation to what you'll get by saying 'I don't think women should be in engineering').
As a practical matter, very few over 30s can keep up a regular sprinting habit without injuring themselves. HIIT running may be better in theory, but it doesn't work out that way in real life.
If 2 weeks isn't enough time, then why does the contract say 2 weeks? Instead of expecting one side to go above and beyond what's laid out in the contract (as many have said, the 2 weeks notice is a very asymmetrical part of the contract already), why not write it into the contract instead? Have incentives for employees to give 4 or 6 weeks notice, and maybe offer something back on the other side, like an employer-guaranteed severance of 4 weeks pay for any reason of termination that's not something like stealing from the company, etc.

When you start making blanket statements about "you should always give [something]," then maybe it should be contractual rather than an "unwritten rule."
What's interesting to me in that study summary is this:

"...between 65 and 80 years old who had normal thinking and memory at the start of the study... The women took tests on thinking and memory each year for an average of six years. Blood levels of omega-3s were taken at the start of the study.

Overall, the researchers found no changes in mental function based on the levels of omega-3s in the blood. "

Given that age range, isn't maintaining baseline a net positive effect?
Yes, I could.

I don't like the word "hypocritical" though, because it implies that contradicting oneself like that is the moral failing of an individual. But really, we all contradict ourselves all the time, and we don't even realise it. These types of contradictions are interesting not because they show that the person who makes them is bad or stupid, but because they reveal the ideologies that structure their thoughts, behaviours and actions, and the contradictions embedded therein. In fact "ideology" itself can be thought of as a kind of blindness to contradictions.

In this particular case, the admin guy is probably not stupid. I'm sure he sees the contradiction in (p ^ ¬p). But he also is a man, and obviously feels threatened by feminism because it seeks to take away his male privilege (in this case, the right to be misogynist without anybody else complaining^), and thus is motivated by ideology to defend his male privilege. This ideology is powerful enough that he can blatantly contradict himself and not even see that he's done so.

^ I know the admin guy wasn't misogynist himself, or at least the original article wasn't about his misogyny, I am just saying that male privilege generally grants men the right to be misogynist without anybody else complaining (certainly in the "male spaces" that the admin guy is talking about), and feminism threatens to take that right away from him.
Would it be better to describe it as "150 different Station Wagons filled with tapes"? :)
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At some point, trolls have to crawl out from underneath their pre-pubecant rock and realize that "trolling" and "being an asshole" are the same thing. If trolling is the sort of thing you enjoy doing, fine, but don't expect to get along much with anyone but other assholes.
I completely agree that it's the combination of social conditioning, selection bias, etc that contribute to gender bias. But you can't just throw up your hands and accept the status quo because it's ingrained in our society.

The sad thing is women have been talking about this for decades, and no one wants to listen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy#Biological_vs._socia...).
"... the Hadza, a population of traditional hunter-gatherers living in the open savannah of northern Tanzania. Despite spending their days trekking long distances to forage for wild plants and game, the Hadza burned no more calories each day than adults in the U.S. and Europe. The team ran several analyses accounting for the effects of body weight, body fat percentage, age, and gender. In all analyses, daily energy expenditure among the Hadza hunter-gatherers was indistinguishable from that of Westerners."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120725200304.ht...
Misogyny is not necessarily hating women, but can also mean fearing, disliking, distrusting, and otherwise treating women as fundamentally different and inferior to men.

Claiming that a man asking that people not be immature assholes means that "a progressive movement is being coopted by women who want to make it about their vagina" is pretty much a textbook example of misogyny.

Claiming that software engineering is a "male space" (so, what, do that make the female software engineers I work with some kind of intruders on my "male space"?) is also a textbook example of misogyny.

What is it going to take for you to accept that this guy is a misogynist? Actually physically harming women? There are a lot more ways to spread fear, distrust, and hatred than just physical harm.
I thought being ridiculously over-the-top was the whole point of Saints Row. If that's not the kind of game you enjoy, fine. But that doesn't mean that Saints Row doesn't work.
I trust you that he said this, but that doesn't mean he represents the whole industry or even a significant part; that's a ridiculous conclusion for you to draw. I've never heard anything like this.
Pointing out his misogyny is not "ad hominem" as you seem to think and provides further context for understanding the other comment. Not that it's needed, he is pretty clear, I don't think anyone here is misunderstanding it.
I can totally see what you are saying.

I think the part of this post that really jumped out at me was "male space." Maybe I misinterpreted, but when I read that it came off to me as a club where there are insiders and outsiders.

If he had left out the "male space" part, I would have probably assumed he meant something more like what you were saying.
Ask the man who wrote it.
Sigh...

OK... let's walk your suggestion through.

The President resigns.

The Vice-President succeeds.

The Vice-President is now the President.

Now the NEW President is obliged by US Law...

to violate US Law.

So we enact your solution again...

The NEW President resigns...

This time the Speaker succeeds...

The Speaker is now the President.

Now THAT new President is obliged by US Law...

to violate US Law.

So we enact your solution again...

Do you see the problem yet?
Its a tradeoff, but you can decide how far along the scale to go. Maybe 1 random story isn't really going to ruin everything, and maybe the value of a good algorithm that tested new submissions this way would be worth it overall. Maybe we are letting alot of good stories slip through the cracks because new doesn't get enough visits- so you might want to add more than 1 on the front page. You can hide point counts too- why do we even need to see the number?
Not a particularly interesting article, but I rescued the bullet points from archive.org:

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the it.

2. I wish I didn’t work so hard.

3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
The large companies I've worked for have done layoffs like "Surprise, we're laying you off in 6 weeks..." which is better than not telling you.
Well, since you are now no longer talking about "hostility" or even absolute inclusion (but rather the much less definite "more inclusive"), then I assume you retract your assertion that the post condones "hostility" toward women. Yes/no?

The poster may well be hostile toward women. But his post here contains a valid point about activism in the computing field.
I'm not sure what a "male space" is, but it isn't software engineering. It is not a gender specific role, both men and women can do it, men and women excel at it, and men and women should be encouraged to do it. When we think of programming as a "male space" or a "male activity" we are not moving the profession forward.

Now what is a "male space"? The military? No, women are on the front lines. Finance? No, a woman is about to become the first Chairman of the Fed. Politics? No, we have 20 female US Senators and a viable Presidential candidate. Professional sports? No, women have their own leagues, and several men's teams have female execs. Software Engineering???
that's still not profit. That's breaking even.

You failed to quote the next two sentences: "The likelihood that, averaged over time, the amount they take in is exactly the amount they spend is miniscule. So practically speaking, they must be making a profit, in the sense of taking in more money than they spend, in order to continue functioning."

A for-profit corporation. a privatised fire service.

Reference, please? The article you linked to doesn't say this, and as I noted, it implies the opposite, since the city mayor defended the fire service. Also see below.

supposedly, in this rural town, paying the fire fee is a voluntary choice

"Supposedly"? Did you actually read the article you linked to? It says: "Residents in the city of South Fulton receive the service automatically, but it is not extended to those living in the greater county-wide area." In other words, the city (not town) only charges the fee to people living outside the city limits, who don't have the same expectation of receiving city services anyway.

I'll put what you actually wrote, here again, for your own benefit.

Sure, I'll even quote it again: "In a sane world the Red Cross would be a normal corporation that was selling the service of helping people."

Does that say "selling helping services to people"? No, it doesn't. It says "selling the service of helping people". By which I meant, as I clarified in subsequent posts, that people can pay the Red Cross to help other people, instead of helping those other people directly.

Was what I originally said ambiguous? Yes. But that means you ask for clarification; it does not mean you assume that I meant whatever is most convenient for you.
Meta:

I love this style of presenting journalism content and hope to see more of it. Finally seeing the web being used to do things that print cannot.

Great job to the NY Times team.
Chinese got the balls. I hope the rest of the world will join the effort.
Can we please go at least one week without being hypersensitive postmodernists about everything?

It seems that men complain about the lack of women in computing more than women do.

When did trolling become a social justice issue suddenly?
What he said about women trying to make a progressive movement all about their vagina? What is that even supposed to mean? How is the ruby community a "progressive movement" (yes, he was just quoting someone, but it doesn't even make sense in that context).

This was in response to a man asking that people not act like assholes and name things immature sexual names.

There was no point here. He was just lashing out at something he's afraid of and frustrated by. Asking that people act nicer does not make something a "politically correct thought police 'safe space'". And claiming that asking that people act nicer is "co-opting of male spaces" is a pretty pathetic attempt to play the victim card while simultaneously trying to exclude and marginalize women who have contributed tons to the tech industry.
No, I understand. That works for some people. I was merely looking at it from the other side. That dose of reality is what makes GTA work for me.
The distinction between "female unfriendly" and "hostile to women" seems subtle to me, but sure, I'm fine changing that. Maybe "hostile" was a bit too strong.

I'm not sure I see the valid point though.
Removing homoiconicity means you no longer have a lisp.
Sorry, misogyny means hating women. Perversion of language won't help you. Also, I don't care if the guy is a misogynist or not. There are plenty of hateful people in the world. I hate lots of people (women are nice though). What I do care about is the fact that his _post_ has had a label thrown on it to neutralise it when it contains a valid point. You've imbibed too much Kool-Aid, my friend.
I never claimed that he wasn't being an asshole. I just don't think he actually believes what people are debating in this (thankfully now deleted) thread. If I'm right, and I'm 98% sure I am, this thread where people are arguing every word of what he said is a demonstration of a pretty damned good troll at work.

The definition of trolling is pretty nebulous, by the way; one could make that case that you attempted to troll me by calling me pre-pubescent, and hoped for me to lower myself to your level.
The debt ceiling has everything to do with meeting obligations to creditors, and that is why it should be raised. Start with false premises, end up with false conclusions.
"Why do we dream?" doesn't seem like it ranks in the top 10.
It's not about "placating" anybody, it's about standing up and walking away from the table instead of playing Russian roulette with your crazy, drunk, suicidal uncle.
What is so ironic is that time and time again when spies are caught they specifically make sure that they don't have address books neither on them or stored somewhere. So this is essentially nothing more than all the innocent people in the world. The only way I can see this technical solution producing results is if all the people in the world were cataloged and then the remaining ones were spied upon using field operatives.
How much time does it take for NYT to make these interactive stories? (pure technology not data collection or field journalism)

If it's not significant then this is certainly future of journalism.

[EDIT]: Looking at couple of interactive stories in recent past (Snow Fall and New Silk Road) looks like this is something they want to repeat again and again. Do you think they've developed some sort of framework (like Django/Rails) ?
> misinterpret ambiguous language

If only a lawyer could clear that up for him. ...oh wait.
I think you need a often option. I read it more than rarely and less than most of the time.
Are Bitcoin services becoming centralized?
I like how you casually ignore the whole 14th amendment thingy.
Gold has physical value, yes, because it is relatively rare on Earth and has interesting chemical and physical properties that can be used in several ways. And on top of that, it's dense, can be melted, and does not corrode over time. Therefore making is a good tool to represent "money".

> why do you think bullion currencies are more common during times of warfare?
Because inflation runs crazy during warfare and therefore people trying to save their earnings go for gold, silver and others in order to avoid losing the face value of their fiat currencies. And by the way, the Gold standard was abandoned in History mainly to fund the war in Europe during the 1st world war, and then later in the 20th century because of the expenses of the US military policy during the Cold war.

> when are countries incentivized to "expand their credit line to the infinite"?
Look at the current situation in the US. Everyone knows they will never pay their debt, yet it keeps growing. You can expect things to crash hard down the road.

> would you rather have a currency that can modify its inflation/deflation rate based on any number of relevant factors, or a currency whose inflation/deflation rate is tied to the rate of mining of some rocks in the ground?

The later, obviously, because Gold is neutral and does not belong to any government. The US Dollar, the Euro and other fiat currencies are all controlled by different central banks with different agendas. I have no control over what they can do in the future. But Gold is tangible, and there's not much Gold being extracted nowadays to change the face value of it.

Why do you think China is building a huge Gold reserve currently, and buying Gold as much as they can from all over the world? Do you think they are just plain stupid ?