skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but in a shell syntax <= my performance. If I'm typing something 5 times a day, I'd rather type "ls dir|grep README" than some extremely long string of JS. I'm talking about usability, not raw performance.
You know what.. the kid went into the ocean, and wrestled a friggin' octopus out of it. By hand. As far as hunting goes, that's pretty much the most fair way to do it.

Save your lamenting for the industrial-scale mechanized harvest of creatures. His grilled octopus (or whatever he did with it) was orders of magnitude more ethical than that burger you're about to eat.
I like how most of the /real/ problems with sexism boil down to nasty people ignoring social correctness while being nasty. I'm sure they just need a reminder that being nasty is socially unacceptable.

It's entertaining watching this vacuum effect in the tech community as we take on nastiness.

Next up, mandatory 9-5 drugs that suppress our evolutionary desires! Finally, real equality in the workplace!
You may not want to type, and that's fine, but, in the same amount of time, I can do a lot more work typing than you can by clicking around various windows and lists. Want to open a file? Win+e, alt+d, start typing the path, let auto-complete do it's thing, tab, repeat, type file name to filter, enter. I'm done and you're still scanning lists to see which directory to double click next.

Want to get things done fast? Use the keyboard. Take away my ability to get things done fast? I'll move on to something else.
Some of my best personal & business relationships started with a cold email and a random coffee meeting.
Building your own furniture is the best! The only thing that you can't do (easily) are chairs and couches.

Also, is that polyurethane varnish for the second coat?
The same problem persisted after I did a fresh install, so in this case there is something that it doesn't like about my computer, a Lenovo G780.
Eyetracking and the neuroscience of web design
In fact, she is completely misrepresenting the study, it's easy to check the link for yourself. The traits studied were "neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness", the differences were quite small, and the differences between cultures were primarily due to differences between men, not women.
@jcromartie — Put it this way: my ten year old would laugh at anyone who thought the universe was only a few thousand years old as would his 8-year-old brother.
> Torrents are tiny files

ThePirateBay, for one, no longer even stores torrents--only magnet links. I wonder what kind of profit margin their ads pull in...
Yes, if you are on the younger end of the spectrum, your premiums are likely to go up. If you are on the older end of the spectrum your premiums are likely to go down, or at least, you're now able to afford insurance. If you own a company in an industry that employs people on the younger end of the spectrum, yes, you might be paying a bit more so that your employees can afford healthcare in their later years. Previously your costs were artificially low.
That's a good point; this wasn't exactly dynamite fishing.
The MOC isn't scary, it's a simple first compiler pass that makes Qt's meta object system a lot lot lot easier to use.

But it does rather limit you to either qmake or cmake, afaik.
Yes, same experience. Unfortunately, for the peace of mind, you should always rebuild - in-place upgrades for Desktop never work smoothly.
This has actually been pretty standard thinking in addiction medicine for a long time. 12 step programs were developed by thinking as addiction as a 'spiritual' affection. Many AA'isms reflect this: "I don't have a alcohol problem. I have a spiritual problem and drugs and alcohol were the solution." etc.
I've seen it suggested, by paleontologists, that some people just like to put their stamp on things. It makes for a bigger story when you discover a new species, vs. just finding more bones that look more-or-less like other things in the same geo/temporal region.
Serious question. Take a contentious branch like the "tea party": much of the political spectrum view them as marginal nutcases with no chance of winning and a dangerous threat if they do ... but win they do, and those "deciding who's competitive" may be motivated to see to it they can't.
Nope, it's all Waterlox. 4 coats of it. I want to use poly for the next project just for experience. Waterlox does have a nice finish, but it takes forever to dry and takes several coats.
one cool freebie imho is "PTVS-Integrated". it's VisualStudio 2013 + Python Tools bundled together. It's perpetually free.
link: http://pytools.codeplex.com
video overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNNAOypc6Ek

(disclaimer, etc).
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn has some interesting commentary on how invalid scientific models of our world are eventually (and painfully) discharged. It's the book that coined the term "paradigm shift". This article tends to focus more on bad science, but I think the book is still at least partially relevant.
That's too simple of a statement, though. This finding doesn't actually exclude creationism - the common view among creationists has always been that all these "species", including Homo Erectus, are simply humans.

*edit: clarity, grammar.
Mike Hearn on autonomous agents
Here's Bezos at one of his famous door-desks (joined with flat corner braces) in 1999:

http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2013-10-09/feat_Bezo42__08__630.jp...
I hate to disappoint but women's studies classes don't spend their time discussing men. The clue is in the name.
At first, I thought that this was a viable explanation as well, however there are many low-status office occupations that are majority female (e.g. call centres).

Perhaps its a combination of CS being predominantly male-oriented with all the trouble that brings for a woman trying to 'break in', and low-status as well.

High-status occupations are sought after and reach gender equity even when there's a high barrier to entry. Examples would be law, and medicine (doctors).
One one hand you've got a person who's had their arm chopped off and is squirting blood from a gruesome stump.

On the other hand, you've got someone complaining about their hang nail and saying it's just as big of a deal.
and the fact that you've had to do that since I was using VC6 in 1995 is the indictment.
Big data startups have a new place to go for guidance and cash: Data Elite
I actually don't have armrests. I don't know why, I just never used them so I took them off. You could have armrests if they are 3" lower than the desk top, but that doesn't seem very comfortable either.

You'll have this problem with any solid desk with aprons or a drawer. If you like it that way, you'll need something like a metal base so that you don't need aprons.
Technology development is going through a revolution over the last decade or two. The process of teams creating things that have a high degree of precision and detail has been found to overwhelmingly social in nature. That is, while technical skills are irreplaceable, it's the social aspects of developing new things that are much more critical to success than the technical aspects.

Many technologists do not get this. To them, anything important must by definition involve some kind of new tech. They fail to see that even in breakout technology development, the social way we construct teams and interact with each other (and our market) is critical.

Turns out humans are social animals. And this nature has impacts on all kinds of things, even things that are completely analytic.

Science has yet to make this leap. We're still at the stage where the details of the science are published and gushed over. We focus on the science itself instead of the much more interesting and powerful thing: the social structure of how we are conducting our scientific research.

There is a slight bit of light on the horizon. People from technical backgrounds are taking a hard look at how we organize our information and work. There are calls for more open science, there are calls to rethink our how we make funding decisions. There are calls for scientists to stop trying to be priests of knowledge -- arbiters of all that is true -- and work more as servants. These are all taken from mistakes the tech community has made and suffered from (and still suffers, in many cases). Let's hope this trend continues.
Recently I picked up a video game called El-Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. The game itself is good, and a little weird, but not terribly remarkable; picture playing Devil May Cry while on acid. Its most striking feature, to me, was the disclaimer at the beginning: something like "This game was based on ancient religious texts and was developed by a multicultural, multiethnic team."

I found it a bit of a queer commentary on our culture that video games marketed in North America needed a disclaimer that they weren't preaching or taking a religious stance.
You say that as though there is some kind of settled scientific understanding of the "fundamental differences" between male and female personalities, or a certainty about whether such differences even exist outside the context of culture.

Of course one has to ignore the folk beliefs one's culture holds about gender if one is going to have any sort of a productive, scientific conversation - otherwise you are just rephrasing the same crap your parents learned from their grandparents, which is about as scientific as bloodletting or astrology.
That's their choice, obviously. I hate being forced to watch a video, and when I land on a page that only has video content I leave.
Is this anything other than the species problem [0]? Based on this quote:

> "If you found the Dmanisi skulls at isolated sites in Africa, some people would give them different species names. But one population can have all this variation. We are using five or six names, but they could all be from one lineage."

it sounds like it's just a semantic question of how exactly the "species" are divided up logically.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem
I think you mean this:

http://www.doublerobotics.com/
Pi NoIR : Raspberry Pi camera for low-light use
Like democracy, science is the worst way to discover truth… apart from all the others.
Markets are hugely important. The problem is the size of the investment banks who neither supply the capital nor the equities, but due to proximity of the transaction are able to skim more and more cream out of the transactions and devote more and more brainpower to increasing that arbitrage. They have become so instrumental to the lives of the rich and powerful that they can completely destroy economies and be bailed out by tax payers the majority of whom have absolutely no interest in the solvency of said banks other than some extremely urgent, hand-wavy and fundamentally interest-conflicted warning of economic cataclysm.

Obviously regulation doesn't seem to do much good because it just changes the rules which sends the investments games scrambling for new arbitrage opportunities which no regulatory agency has the resources to keep up with until its too late. Given the lack of political fortitude to combat moral hazard by forcing financial institutions to take their own losses on the chin, I think perhaps widespread and rabid investment banker hate could be the best societal medicine we have against the brain-drain to finance.
One can try to visit feminists blogs and web-communities. I am a man, and I'm often left with a feeling of being 'the other', sometimes unfavourably so. The most obvious cause is that it is often a community of mostly women discussing both male and female characteristics. A more subtle clue is that it seems that they refer to men as "males", but women as simply "women". Some communities are even hostile to the idea of male feminists - in turn some male feminists call themselves feminist allies, instead.

Those are my limited experiences, anyway. I'm sure some one will say that I've only encountered the most bigoted communities for me to have this impression.
What innovation crisis?
The Woodwright's Shop is one of my favorite shows for learning techniques like this. He uses all hand tools, so you get a better understanding of the theory without getting too wrapped up in what tool to use. This project has a lot of breadboard ends: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365004559/
So your contention is that compared to 1789, we've moved more than halfway (1->6->10) to where North Korea is?

And that ~45% of the country wants to be more like North Korea?

At 8/10, does that still leave room for private toilet paper manufacture, or are we drawing the line at private lemonade stands? Where do the slave labor camps come in, is that at 7.5 or closer to 9?
FWIW It's not very streamlined in the states. I once needed to accept a wire transfer, and it was rather difficult. I ended up needing to open a new one-off account at an entirely different financial institution to do it.
"Would you pay $2,000 for a GIF?"
What about this?

List.map : ('a -> 'b) -> 'a list -> 'b list

In languages like OCaml, or Haskell the signature provides a lot. In this particular case, if you think about it, you conclude that it's almost impossible to build any other implementation: You get a function from 'a to 'b and a list of 'a thingies. Now how on earth do I use these to get to a list of 'b thingies? No documentation needed IMNSHO ;)
I am in the same boat, although I don't know if in the future someone can explain consciousness in a better way.
The truth machine is broken. How do we fix it?

And why is it that whenever I see a list of the "top 10 most important problems" to solve, this isn't on it? Most educated people take the veracity of published science as given, and we clearly know that's a false assumption.

I know we need more transparency in science - sharing of data and code, and negative results. But institutionally, I don't know how we get there with the tools we have.

Part of the reason the current system stays in place, despite failing at its charter mission, is billions of dollars of annual subsidies. Changing the way research dollars are allocated would change the structure of the academic enterprise, but that is incredibly hard to do. Few systems have as much momentum.
see sibling comment
I play buzzword bingo at my boring board meetings: http://www.buzzbuzzbingo.com/Business/Buzzword/
Heh, here's a quick overview: Macbook Pro 15", Dell monitor (not sure what model, got it through work), old Microsoft mouse, Apple keyboard for hardware. Software: Mostly just Firefox and Emacs.
I'm really curious how his re-settlement back in Calgary will go. The Travelers Curse is that one can't feel at home anywhere after a long period of traveling. You're never quite at home in the foreign culture but you also feel alienated from your hometown too.
Hi, I'm the author! Yep, you're correct - I ended up cutting some explanation at the beginning, and that means it makes less sense if you don't already know how appropriations work. (I have a poli sci degree, so I'm not that lucky.)

This is part of the reason why 'what to shut down' is a complicated question. For example, some sites remained up even though the main portal linking to them went down, so you could only access them if you knew about it already. Other sites were able to stay up in entirety, but froze support/updates for everything but a few critical portions.
Elon Musk revealed to be buyer of $866k submarine-car from James Bond film
Especially since the upstream distro (Debian) is absolutely phenomenal when it comes to in-place major upgrades.
China Banking Regulatory Commission: "No plans to regulate Bitcoin."
12 Steps to being a Better Programmer
I agree with you that Kuhn is still worth reading, but perhaps a better intro to Philosophy of Science can be found in Laudan's "Science and Relativism". He is not dismissive of Kuhnian-style relativism, but he is critical of it and helps you see how it fits into the larger debate.

At least that's what I remember. It's been a while since college :/

http://www.amazon.com/Science-Relativism-Controversies-Philo...
If you have to introduce a build sequence to move to coffeescript then moving to coffeescript is definitely a net negative.

I work on a >300k line JS codebase, and our tooling means you can make a change and hit f5 and you always get the latest version of the code. No file watching latency, no run-an-external-tool latency. We /could/ do the auto-reload thing, except that I think that for large applications with lots of state, that's probably the wrong choice.

As far as I'm concerned visible 'builds' are the enemy to development. They take you out of your mental context, and in the worst case make even the tiniest changes painful. I've got nothing against pipelines of tasks, so long as the whole thing runs in milliseconds and is transparent to the developer.

Obviously, you can do more on an occasional basis, perhaps before check in, and certainly in CI, but we need to reduce friction, and unnecessary build steps in environments that don't need them is a whole heap of friction.
From the FAQ:

> We are excited about Oculus Rift (we have a dev kit) and VR in general, and we'd love to have a stretch goal that heads that direction.
One thing I'll probably cover in the future is one of the things that have made these cold emails and random meetings successful is simply being clear about what I want.

I've made the mistake many times of simply saying "I'd love to chat for 15 minutes". Even "I'd love to get your feedback" isn't enough usually.

Specific questions like "I'd love to hear how you'd design this" or "What would you do next here to get more traffic" or "Would you try this with a collaborator and see if it makes your life easier" generates better hits and more useful conversations.
I wasn't trying to say that people over 30 can't work overtime, I'm saying that their lives are less tolerant to consistent over working.

I tend to agree with your assertion of better stability.
> That is, publicly decry one group for doing something, but have zero problem with another group doing nearly (or exactly) the same thing.

This is a description of everywhere. The only thing Seattle has a monopoly on, is talking shit about Seattle (sorry Portland, we're stealing that one too).
Status quo apologetics. Ewww.
That's right. You shouldn't leave California just because there's no way to make a living anymore! Verily, if you just stay put, a way to pay taxes again shall be revealed!
I presume he's already been to the U.S. by now. There are a number of people I know who have kept a new passport just to travel to places like Israel because of the restriction on allowing travelers from many Arab countries.

Of course, if he wanted to start all over again, he can simply get a new passport now that he'll be home soon.
Wow, it's like the anti-acquisition.
How innovation is shaping our future
Greene and Greene?

My favorite style, bar none!

You'll find these two books quite useful.

http://www.amazon.com/Darrell-Peart/e/B001JS36Q2/ref=ntt_ath...

> Do you have more information on techniques to avoid cracks?

1) alternate the growth rings of the flat table pieces: one cupping up, next down, next up, etc.

2) keep breadboard ends in line with the plane of the tabletop by using splines

3) pin or glue the breadboard ends only in the center.

4) start reading Fine Woodworking magazine.
>I'm tired of the narrative about how everyone over 30 can't work overtime because of their half-dozen special-needs children and their demanding spouse and their massive underwater mortgage and whatever else.

How about those with wives and children would rather spend time with them than at work?

Is a work-life balance to be looked down upon?

Why should the endless march of capital win at all costs vs human labor?
This would only be interesting if it were (true) that all truths are scientific ones. Of course, this is an absurd proposition. Logical abstraction is not per-se science, but rather art itself. Cue Irony...another counter-example. &tc.
What’s Your Excuse?
It could have been done with plywood, but then he would have had to learn veneer edge banding to hide the end grain. Both approaches work fine.
BitTorrent site IsoHunt will shut down, pay MPAA $110 million
This is a good article. I'll take a dig at Chamath Palihapitiya, because of the irony of his comments. He knows as well as anyone that the LP money VC's play with comes from government regulated banks, mutual funds, retirement plans, etc. Without the Fed's "easy money" credit policy, the VC industry as we know it today, flush with cash despite exhibiting poor historical returns, would simply not exist and neither would Silicon Valley as we know it today.

I'll also address one of Lee's comments: "Now, maybe you'd like the government to have a smaller role in these issues to start with." In some cases, it wasn't an option for government to have a smaller role to begin with. Consider spectrum allocation. Today, we're getting to the point where radios can mediate spectrum usage issues amongst themselves. We aren't there yet, but we're getting there. I think long-term we need to modernize our regulations to accommodate these advances. But for the vast majority of the wireless age, this technology did not exist. There simply was no practical alternative to government regulation, in one form or another.
First, nice story!

Question for the author (or anyone else really)... What about what Amazon is doing at studios.amazon.com? That seems like a new way to build programming.
It doesn't dictate your build system. A few lines of GNU make can support it.
I've only ever had one hose my system but that's because I locked the screen while the upgrade was in progress. The upgrade never finished because I couldn't unlock and answer any of its conflict resolution questions.

Today's upgrade was pretty smooth and uneventful.
Post coming up very soon about that affect :)
As a side dish, also perhaps enlightening

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untimely_Meditations#On_the_Us...
That's great! But it's not a function of age.

I had more work/life balance in my 20s than I do now. Some people are the opposite.

But it's an individual's choice to make, not some sort of natural law as it's often presented.
Yes but as someone said above, pigs are also particularly intelligent animals, and we eat the hell out of them.

So how can you reconcile those two things?
“Find and Replace” Across An Entire Genome
The main feature I'm looking forward to is zswap in kernel 3.11 [1]. Basically instead of swapping, the kernel will first compress infrequently used pages in RAM, which is orders of magnitude faster than swapping to disk.

The practical effect of this is basically the same as a free RAM upgrade!

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/537422/
Alessandro Acquisti: Why privacy matters
Normally you'd either just use UTF-8 in a std::string or use std::wstring
Darrell has classes:
http://furnituremaker.com/Greene_and_Greene_class.htm
Seeing success in the family certainly helps. You are right that not every woman (or man) has had that opportunity; however what Sandberg tries to do is to exactly help them by providing an example that they were lacking when growing up.

I'd say more from my (very anecdotal) experience: I'm in a male-dominated and technical field, but among (very competent) women that we do have, it seems that growing up in a family where mother is decidedly more successful than the father is quite a common trait. Good role models to follow -- and not just abstractly good, but examples that suggest that women can compete as equals and win on merits in real life -- do matter for confidence, and confidence matters for everything else.
So what do you use to dual screen with your Macbook Pro?
The problem is as always money. Finding new species gives better chances to start new excavation at some forgotten place.
Nice looking pieces! Totally agree about creative outlet. I think it would be cool to have a place where all of us engineers could talk about woodworking, interested in joining an freenode IRC channel about it? #woodworking