skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the basic assumption that women get less respect and generally receive the shorter end of the stick in society

That's not really an assumption, that's just a cold, hard, documented fact. And, for most women, first-hand experience. Just one example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male–female_income_disparity_in...
How do you get just the good parts of X (for any X), without the bad parts? In most cases, you just get X as a package.
Individuals can only last so long before they join collectives.
As the CEO of my own one-man company, I've decided to go with a fairly lenient policy on employee devices...
its 1999
Singular 'they' has been a thing for centuries.
This whole schpiel just made me keep thinking: "I wonder how these people will feel when robots replace them in these kinds of jobs"...
Except it did, he just didn't know, and this whole thing could have been avoided if he had signed it off himself in the first place instead of calling it trivial.
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Ah, an SRS poster.
Mistrust or suspicion of different-looking people and/or foreigners is most likely an evolutionary survival instinct: trust the tribe, fear invaders.
I know this thread is a day old, which in Internet time is ancient history, but in case you see this:

You seem to be making the basic assumption that "self-actualizing" should be the goal of all human beings, rather than something more general like "being satisfied with one's life." It's possible that you believe the former is a prerequisite for the latter, and I can't refute or confirm that hypothesis.

Personally, my goal for the lives of citizens living in a work-optional utopia would be something along the lines of Sen's capability approach to welfare economics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach). As long as everyone has the opportunity to be the kind of person they want to be, and as long as they don't negatively affect the freedom and welfare of others (e.g. you can't aspire to be a car thief or serial killer), then however they choose to live is fine with me, self-actualized or not.
He initially rejected it on the basis of its content, and then reverted it on a basis that didn't hold up to scrutiny, as one the first comments on the revert commit demonstrates. Seems like that meets both your criteria?
I don't know man; those snowflakes seem gpu accelerated to me.
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Thanks for the info and I do look forward to the new API!

However my question still remains with regards to historic posts/comments. The historic aspect is really the import element here. Generally speaking, building an ngram viewer requires a collection of texts over time, with each text having some kind of metadata that is categorical, boolean, datetime, or numeric. Categorical data can always be made of numeric data by creating bins -- i.e. posts by people with karma or a ranking of 1-50, 51-150, 151-300, etc at the time the comment/post was created. Datetimes can also be made into useful categorical variables for an ngram viewer such as day of the week (to spot weekly seasonality trends) or day of the year (annual seasonality trends).

If I was allowed, I would be willing to write a scraper/crawler to discover as many historic threads (since: threads -> comments) as possible using HNSearch, but this could take a long time depending on rate limits and/or be subject to unknown biases within my discovery method. I'm sure you can understand why a "top-down" approach like a database dump would make for a much higher quality corpus than attempting the "bottom-up" approach of a crawler. I have no idea if a "database dump of everything" is even feasible as I don't know anything about the HN's backend infrastructure. However, if it is feasible, then I'm certain that I can work with whatever would be available. Adding structure to unstructured data is my bread and butter.

I really think this would be a very cool tool that a lot of people would enjoy, so I'm willing to do what is needed on my end to help make it work. After all, I'd be on the clock while working on this rather than just a hobby project, so the incentives are definitely aligned on my end.

If you want to discuss anything in private, I can be reached at the following reversed address: moc{dot}liamg{at}yalkcin{dot}wehttam
current state of understanding of the world most people have

Your problem is you believe you understand the world better than others. You want to educate others, but even here on this forum, where people generally listen to reason, and are disillusioned with the government, you haven't persuaded anyone with your arguments.

For me, a state is not a religion. For me government is a service, and I'm fine paying for that service. I'm fine trading some of my freedom for security, stability, and comfort. I still have plenty of freedom left.

I honestly don't understand what are you complaining about. If you're living in Russia, and your life there sucks, just move to a country with a better government, with better laws, or with better whatever it is you're not happy about.
I'm not talking about wage-slave conditions here. This isn't something that needs to be protected by a minimum wage or a government entity.

This needs to be protected by applicants valuing their time. I guess I read the current guy's description differently than you did; to me, it seemed his multiple-job job required significantly more time than the norm.

I think I distinguish between forms of non-monetary compensation as being good and bad (or healthy and unhealthy, if you prefer). Again, this is all relative, but I think at least on a base level we can probably find common ground here. Accepting lower pay because a place to work is "cool" falls squarely into the unhealthy pile for me. Perhaps it temporarily raises your happiness level (which is of value!), but it's fleeting, and, well, temporary. Accepting lower pay because you're underqualified and the job will be a bit learning experience for you seems reasonable, as would accepting equity in lieu of pay (e.g. a recently-started company) if you think it might be worth something later to compensate. These sorts of things can have lasting impact on your life and are actually useful.

As I said, I just worry that things like this can inspire other companies to do similar things. Right now it's fairly easy to get a job at a good company if you're a developer with some chops. Demand is high and supply is still not quite meeting that demand. But what happens if that changes? If there's a strong culture of paying people market rates and avoiding my-company-is-cool type compensation in lieu of cash, perhaps people can expect a reasonable wage standard when the market is more competitive. But every company that tries to feed applicants some feel-good bullshit about how it's ok that they pay people less because they're just so cool... well, that jeopardizes that.

Or perhaps I'm just worrying about nothing.
That's well put, and I'm with you, but let's also note that the language norm is in the process of shifting, so it isn't necessarily obvious.
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Dear everyone,

Get back to making world changing products that serve your customers and stop spending time arguing about this stupid shit.

Sincerely,

lolwutf
Here is one. Not very long ago did our definition changed the way we interpret male rape. Of course how we rule male rape in court is a different story.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/justice-dept-expands-...
That might be penny-wise and pound foolish. Pipelines cost billions to build and they manifest our reliance on oil, which in turn costs much more lifes simply through pollution than any number of railway accidents.
This is not a witch hunt.

This is a blog post. Taking away a man's livelihood by firing them is widely accepted as perfectly normal and reasonable, and hn posters regularly talk about how they wouldn't want certain people working for them.

You're making a tone argument about calling someone a vulgar name, as if that is somehow worse or more important than them insisting on contributing to the pervasive exclusionary effect of gendered language.
Ask HN: Help with spam "originating" from my website
Several spammers are sending email from fake email addresses from my domain (e.g. bob@mydomain.com, where bob is not a valid email address).

Not sure if they are
1) Sending them from other computers and just spoofing the headers to make it appear that it's from bob@mydomain.com

or

2) Somehow hacked into my VPS and sending them from my actual server.

Below are some emails I get from websites that bounce the spam that is being sent:
http://pastebin.com/Tb4Th8kM

The two problems that arise from this are that my mail folder gets full from all the bounced email, and also that my domain is now on several spam lists and I can't send email from any legitimate address on my domain.

Can you guys help with suggestions on how I can go about:
a) Determining whether (1) or (2) above is happening
b) Stopping it if possible
c) If not possible to do (b), at least minimize the damage

Thanks
Man, i didn't want to trot this out at the start, but well, it turned out my initial hunch was entirely correct. You took software that was made by flailing at it like a monkey, then flailed at it some more. No wonder it turned out as an unpleasant experience.

Also, as to your question about the SO post. You claim:

"The fix for them was always one of those things from the stackoverflow list."

I find myself thoroughly baffled by that, since over half that post busies itself with promoting warnings into fatal errors that end the program with stacktraces.

Honestly, i'd love to see your warnings-spitting tool, just so i could straighten it out some.
> I just thought this is a legitimate question to ask: any difference between an anti-sexist and a feminist? Do feminists prefer gender neutral or do they prefer to have "she" instead?

Feminism is about equal rights, don't worry.
It's because it actually has enough entropy to be completely improbable guessing.
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(I and many others really prefer kde3/4, gnome 2 (and even 3) as well as mate and cinnamon and some light weight wms over Unity)
Why not? I find it to be fairly pleasant, albeit unnecessary.
Just awesome !!!
And it's sucked for centuries. If it were clearly better, the gender-specific pronouns would be gone, right?
Next: rooftop auto-targeting anti-drone lasers.
What happened to your MacGyver skills? He looks clueless as his car breaks down
I really liked const-ness as well; in functional languages const-ness comes for free as all state is by default immutable -- one the reasons I jumped to Scala.
> world changing

You fail to spot the irony? Asking people to consider 50% of the population isn't world changing, but more fucking cat picture is?
Collectives can only divide so long before they become indivisibles.
Heh, well that's the point of the LTS release. It gets security updates and patches, but those releases are not designed to stay current.

If you want current software, don't run old releases.
I fail! Thanks for pointing it out.
I don't see anything in that Github thread to warrant summary dismissal of an employee.

A good CEO would ask the relevant manager to sit the two parties down and resolve the situation. If it were not possible, human resources could be brought in to assess the situation and perhaps administer training and/or disciplinary action. A sign of a bad CEO is knee-jerk firing and to write a blog post, boasting about such a hypothetical firing, shows incredibly poor judgement.

Let us imagine though that Bryan was right. So why doesn't Bryan fire Isaacs too? Isaacs broke commit rules by not getting his patch signed... what if this was some other commit which made it into deployment and brought down services for paying customers? Shouldn't Bryan view Isaacs as a bad employee who disregards rules and is thus a dangerous liability to the company?

"@isaacs may have his commit bit but that does not mean he is at liberty
to land patches at will. All patches have to be signed off by either
me or Bert. Isaac, consider yourself chided." https://github.com/joyent/libuv/commit/804d40ee14dc0f82c482d...
Isn't the better option to just not install crap on your computer? This sounds like complaining that you don't like television shows on a certain channel when you have a thousand to choose from...
I'm far from a fan of any sport. I absolutely abhor the disparity between professional athletes earnings and the "working" class' earnings. And abhor even more the money spent on college football (e.g., the budget for our university library was being slashed so much that frequently used journals were having their subscriptions cut, while at the same time the football team got a new stadium and dorm). So I say this as a non-fan of sports - sports can definitely have entertainment value. Just like I'm a fan predominantly of sci-fi and comedy, but I really don't enjoy a lot of horror, people have different tastes in entertainmetn. Just because you and I may not have a taste for sports entertainment, that doesn't mean it isn't entertainment.
It's not quite that simple. The truth is that we just don't know how to move oil safely. The sane thing to do would be to phase it out.

"The IEA (International Energy Agency) found the risk of a rail spill is six times as high as the risk of a pipeline spill, but pipelines simply spill more when they rupture."

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/05/14/pipeline-oil-spills-...
I notice that your argument can be used to dismiss any criticism of any action taken to fight sexism - it does not rely on the action actually being proportionate, reasonable or productive. Just the fact that some sexists have called other, reasonable, reactions unreasonable is justification enough to dismiss it out ouf hand. It essentially makes self-proclaimed anti-sexist actions immune from criticism.
Our reliance on oil is already there, whether you're building pipelines or additional oil carrying railroad cars and running extra trains.
What's in the Bottle?
Just-world fallacy much?

Gender-specific pronouns are fine for gender-specific use cases. They're not fine if they serve to exclude people using other pronouns for no reason.
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True for some projects, not true at all for many others. If you build e-commerce online stores, or other standard sorts of offerings, you may very well be able to "lay the bricks" in a very predictable amount of time after you've done a few.
An ode to movement
The holy inquisiton, noted gender equality fanatics.
Keep in mind, a negative income tax/minimum basic income plan only has problems passing until a majority of the population can't find work. History has taught us the results of "Let them eat cake".
I would guess that the wrinkle is that one's mouth would still be chock-full of bacteria, lending the breath a fœtid odour.
your perceptions of how Othering should feel don't fucking matter if you aren't the party being Othered in that specific circumstance.

This is the exact same attitude that leads to such things as affirmative action and pampering.

You also make the fallacious assumption that all "nerds" (what a vapid and pointless label) have been socially ostracized during their lives, thus begging the question.

Your entire argument basically revolves around accommodating to the feelings of others, consistently. There are cases where this should be taken into account, but it is not a rule of thumb. Sometimes a triviality is a triviality, a ridiculous expectation is a ridiculous expectation.

I think this is the main reason of our present misfortune: we just can't handle getting offended. If we stopped being so emotional about the most minor of annoyances, we'd be much happier. In some ways, technology has contributed to this. We now have too much convenience, and not enough annoyance. It has made us brittle, weak and sensitive.
I have no reason to suspect that he wouldn't treat your hypothetical patch any differently than he did this one. I think this has very little to do with his opinion of women, and it seems a bit of a stretch to assume he hates women based on this.
The point here is not absolute, it's a relative one. Of course we already rely on oil. But if a 7 billion pipeline makes us rely on oil for an extra year (simple economics since its cheaper to transport through a pipeline than on rail), the negative externalities caused by that extra year of fossil fuel would dwarf the fatalities of railway accidents any time.
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I'm confused as to what exactly you are saying, but I wasn't assigning fault to my parent.
EDIT: Stories about sexism & racism, minor or major, in the tech-scene almost always disappear off HN's front page in like 2 minutes. That's another symptom of a problem as far as I'm concerned.

Oh no, quite the contrary, I'm afraid. They constantly attract large discussions and pointless drama that always gets nowhere. As we are observing right now.
How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang
Something along the lines of, "Who do we lynch first? The robotics? Or the owner?"
I'm not sure being ignorant of things running inconspicuously in the background is much better than having an icon there.
As a Canadian I wonder, with all the American technology giants, why was this project outsourced to Canada? If the idea was that outsourcing would lower cost, why were the contracts no-bid?
Heap Overflow
Just got a MacBook Pro and the Dropbox icon has been bothering me. Sure enough there was a setting for this! Thanks :D
I take issue with this benchmark since comparing it to Haskell is not illuminating since the Cython cdef function is straight C and being called as a foreign function. If you do the same in Haskell via the Haskell C FFI it ends up being roughly the same as the C code ( not surprisingly ).

Having written quite a bit of Cython, I refuse to touch it anymore given how wildly undefined it's behavior can be with intermingling Python and C semantics.
Since he's just a contributor, and has not been fired (nor could he be), in this case OP is describing a hypothetical situation in which someone in his office might exhibit similar behaviour and how that would be handled.

The situations are different enough that I consider his post one which uses the opportunity to make a hypothetical point rather than one which describes a real situation. (For instance, in an office setting a first step would be to talk to the person in question. The second step would be to consider their holistic reputation in the office. Etc.)
Why are we randomly switching to latin characters?
Had no idea this was even underway.
probably done with css. you can have gpu accelerated marquee & blink too if you miss 1999.
Does this allow the host key to be stored in the TPM?
In modern language, "witch hunt" does not literally mean "burn them alive because you believe that they have communed with Lucifer". The Crucible set the tone when it used literal witch hunts in an allegory about the House Un-American Activities Committee which, among other things, had it's hands in blacklisting people accused of being communists.
Upgrading from 2.3 to 3.0 isn't so hellish :D, come on!
13.8% of the population are unemployed or underemployed. They must just not be trying.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

"U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force"
In general I think you're right but I'm not sure why you would have 5,000 connections to each node. There isn't any reason I can think of to maintain more than 1 connection per client (application process) to each node. You don't gain anything by 'connection pooling' with Redis so it's not like each app server would want to keep a 100 connection pool around. I guess you could have an issue if you have 5000 application processes all wanting to connect to a single redis cluster, but I'd argue that you'd be well past the point of needing to break your system into services by then anyway.
If I had a factory job, the last thing I'd ever want is for my picture to be put on display, telling the whole world that my lot in life was that of an indentured servant, making $9 an hour to pack your iPad, for a glimmering tip of $5.

I wouldn't be interested in sitting for a professional user profile photo, or a standardized mandatory snapshot. I wouldn't smile for the photo on my ID badge. I wouldn't be interested in having candid photos of me snapped on the factory floor, while my manager, zippy the pinhead, brow-beats me, because I express obvious disinterest in a mundane, repetitive, soul crushing job.

I wouldn't put up a Facebook profile proclaiming that I work at McDonald's. Similarly, if McDonald's had it's own corporate social network at mcdonalds.com, where all the pages are themed in red and yellow, with your choice of one of three background images (french fries, a Big Mac or Ronald himself), and everyone wear's a visor or a hair net in their profile picture, it wouldn't be a social network I'd be interested in participating in. Not even for tips. It would feel a little bit like pan handling for spare change. There's a line of dignity I'm not interested in crossing, when it come to social websites.

When I drop change in the tip cup, as I pick up my morning coffee, it's a token of appreciation that goes untaxed, and unrecorded on a server. That's the way tips are supposed to work. A surreptitious reward as acknowlegement for the indignity of servitude.
Is this the most value-dense information on Earth?
Adobe CS and testflight are two pretty key tools that were camping in my menu bar, and both are tools that have been necessary for my job at some point. Not just crap I can do without
It's undefined. That means the compiler and runtime can choose to segfault, do something that looks right, silently corrupt your program, launch the nuclear missiles, whatever. And there's no requirement that this behavior be repeatable, so the code can work with debug flags turned on but fail in a release build.

You can never rely on your compiler's implementation of undefined behavior.
Here's a summary of Mars missions and their success/failure: http://mars.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/log/

Lots can go wrong on the Mars side. E.g. Mars Polar Lander - smashed into Mars. Beagle 2 - last heard from just before landing. Mars Climate Orbiter - failed to land because of confusion between pounds and Newtons. Deep Space 2 - no communication after landing. Mars Observer - communication lost 3 days from Mars, probably due to fuel leak.

See "Mars Curse": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars#Probing_dif....
Learning Motor Skills - Jan Peters ICRA2012
Probiotics will form the future of medical and dental preventative care. That and Epigenetics.
Is JavaScript slowing the Internet down?
When apps install in the menubar, my biggest concern isn't their visual presence, but the resources they are taking up by being one of those apps. The Adobe updater app for example doesn't need to be anything more than a cron job.

I only tolerate the Adobe app because I use Illustrator and Photoshop, but I certainly don't need the other crap like Behance and Typekit. the the Google+ification of services everything. If you want to add a cloud component to things, fine, just make sure it's 100% optional and that I only need to be aware of that option at install time and never see it again if I choose not to install it.

I really wish all things like these were first written at terminal CLI apps first and that the GUIs were optional defaults that you could forego entirely.
Thoughtcrime is a great way to describe this.

Thoughtcrime is an absolutely incorrect way to describe this; check your dictionary.