skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great point, but it's hard to be confrontational in a place where you're already worried about your social standing. I agree that things would change faster if people were more confrontational but it's kind of a lot to ask. Posting a blog post about it (and one that's well-written, with good examples and explanation) is also a great step forward, and requires substantial courage on its own.
Here's my problem with the "the science is settled" argument:

Every time I go to investigate specific issues, it appears that there are credible people that disagree with the "settled science".

Let me be clear, I'm not arguing the actual point, I'm just trying to explain to you how hard it is for somebody who really does want to know the truth to actually find it. For every person that says one thing, I find another one that makes an equally compelling argument that it is the opposite. I just don't know who to believe.

Take the "global warming pause" problem. I did a Google search and started reading some of the results, and on the first page I came across this apparently well respected scientist who doesn't agree with the consensus. What criteria am I to use to disregard his opinion in favor of someone else's who appears to me to be equally qualified?

Here's the relevant parts:

The claim that the pause has been caused by heat is going into the deep ocean below 700 m is speculative and relies on models undergoing many data adjustments. That speculation is contradicted by two major issues.

First the Argo data has definitively shown the upper 300 meters have cooled slightly since 2003 (Read Xue 2011) and the consensus among oceanographers is that it is in the upper 100 meters that most of the heat is exchanged with the atmosphere.

Second is it defies known physics. IPCC expert Dr. Hans von Storch said in a recent interview "there is evidence that the oceans have absorbed more heat than we initially calculated. Temperatures at depths greater than 700 meters (2,300 feet) appear to have increased more than ever before. The only unfortunate thing is that our simulations failed to predict this effect." He went on to lament “If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models. A 20-year pause in global warming does not occur in a single modeled scenario. But even today, we are finding it very difficult to reconcile actual temperature trends with our expectations.”

“There are two conceivable explanations — and neither is very pleasant for us. The first possibility is that less global warming is occurring than expected because greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have less of an effect than we have assumed. This wouldn’t mean that there is no man-made greenhouse effect, but simply that our effect on climate events is not as great as we have believed. The other possibility is that, in our simulations, we have underestimated how much the climate fluctuates owing to natural causes.”

The Dr. von Storch interview can be seen in its entirety at Stampf, O. and Traufetter , G. (2013) Spiegel International, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-hans-von...
Yeah, don't get me wrong, I think Docker is great. I remember when I first heard about it thinking "Finally, something approaching jails functionality in Linux." Of course, I know it's a different level of abstraction and all that. My comments were more directed at the underlying Linux infrastructure Docker uses. Granted, I may well be wrong, it's been a long time since I was seriously in Linux land (i.e. not just a mindless day-to-day user), I'm not current with hard technicalities so it's totally possible that I'm being unjust to LXC.

I'm happy to hear about plans for different backends, the jails one would be awesome if it comes to fruition.
I'm really turned off by these posts, too. I roll my eyes and mutter "Christ, not another one". But I'm a male who doesn't have to worry about being groped and I keep my hands to myself.

But let me guess how the reality turns out for her:

- She says something about it.

- The guy who is misbehaving is probably physically bigger than her. She may feel fearful of speaking up.

or

- She speaks up and gets called a "prude" or, ironically, a "slut". Maybe they'll blame it on her sweater being a little too form-fitting, or a little too low-cut.

Then, she follows your advice and posts what happened and the resulting action which results in even more criticism, death and rape threats than the course she actually took here.

If you have a young daughter, these are the kinds of issues she'll have to deal with some day. Might as well think about this now.
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> The classic example is Bush v. Gore where the court openly admitted that they were voting for a president instead of applying the law.

Well, except that they never said that.
No. The guys she's writing about need to not:

* Hug people they've never met.

* Put their hands on people's legs seconds after meeting them.

* Put everything a particular woman says into the frame of "Women don't do X."

* Assume that women who attend tech meetups are exclusively there as the girlfriends of the men present.
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The story is pretty sad and not reflective of the tech community in my opinion. It sounds like a group of either a) nerdy guys with severely lacking social skills or b) just garden-variety douchebags.
It's an interesting thought experiment, and I think ultimately the legacy of this film will be mainly the same as Minority Report - it'll inspire an entire generation of voice tech that's far, far superior to what we've got today.

Minority Report sort of blew the lid off of touch and gesture controls and made a lot of tech demos into viable commercial products. It took vague excitement around gesture and touch and turned it into a concrete, specific vision.

Her demonstrates voice tech in our lives in a way that isn't horrifyingly stilted, awkward, intrusive, and dumb. Everything we've got - including Siri - is child's play in comparison. We've been saying that voice technology needs to be smarter and better, but this is a concrete vision of just how it can do that.
Erik recently announced that he will re-do this course in one of the online course websites. (no twitter from work so don't have details)
Yes if someone tries to recruit from Apple.
might be a west coast thing.

http://www.bitcoinnotbombs.com/bitcoin-doesnt-need-women/
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There is time leakage all over this itinerary you have listed.

Up at 4:30am, leave for work at 5:30

It takes me 15 minutes to get up, shower and prepare breakfast which I then eat in my car on the way to work (2 pieces of wheat toast). What do you do in this hour?

Also you realize that most people don't have things like occupational therapy for Carpal Tunnel taking up time in their day? (Incidentally, I "had" carpal tunnel for 2 years until someone on Slashdot told me about http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/mb_what_is.html and I haven't had CT problems in 8 years, so just passing it along).

so when I get home and work out, I have a few hours I could blow. We usually watch our weekly movie here if the toddler "allows it"

Again, major time leakage. First, with three kids under 10, a full time job and a 15-20 hour per week side job I don't look at any time as "time I could blow". The concept of a "weekly movie" is completely foreign to me.

I'm not saying you shouldn't enjoy wasting time on things like movies, but you shouldn't correct someone when they say that most people are capable of making the time if they shift their priorities around.
One of the famous HN users patio11 runs a similar company. Check it out

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Is it really a 'weird machine' in the pejorative sense when the weird machine is the entire point of the altcoin?
Good thing that, unlike meetups, the bitcoin protocol doesn't care if a bitcoin address is controlled by a man or a woman.

I mean, that's the whole point of having a collective ledger where every agent is untrusted. There is no one saying, "Your money is no good here," based on your gender, race, creed, or political leanings.
disclaimer: I'm on her side.

I've never really understood the potential-physical-confrontation argument. It must be a very, very small minority of men who's first reaction to being embarrassed and shamed by a woman is to physically assault her in public?
Of course the asshole wouldn't have a positive reaction. That's precisely the point: Make it known how inappropriate and unacceptable their actions were. Make them uncomfortable.

Victim blaming? Dare I even respond to that? That would imply I'm somehow suggesting the author was at fault or responsible for the action occurring, or that it was somehow acceptable because she didn't react then on the spot. Not in the slightest.
Perhaps this is where self-defense comes into play?

If your options are 1) say something and make the aggressor more aggressive, or 2) distance yourself and hope they don't press the situation further, at some point you should have a backup plan.
What is the fewest number of moves than one can lose a game of chess assuming the losing side is trying to the worst possible.
What? Wolfram is saying it wouldn't be that hard to build something like Samantha. Did he see the movie? Samantha is like a AI with human level intelligence, only much faster, able to talk to thousands of people simultaneously. That's not easy to build - Kurzweil is talking about this stuff, and it might become reality someday, but probably not before several decades have passed.
Magnus had a 30 second clock, so he basically had to trounce him.
My problem is that by time I get to that point, my brain is done for the day. After 8 hours of work, an hour of commute, dinner, kids, etc I don't have enough energy to do side projects.
"Gould's railroads began to cut down Western Union connections and replace them with American Union's. (This was pure vandalism, and directly violated the 'no exclusivity' court decision Gould had celebrated.)"

- p. 146, The Tycoons, Charles R. Morris, ISBN:1429935022
That's my favorite part.

"Girls can like computer stuff?" is just sad to see. It's as face-palm-y as "Gay guys can like football?". I have to do a double-take to see if people are still making those sorts of statements with a straight face in 2014.
In Sydney, our largest cinema chain isn't even showing it!
I don't understand how women can continue to attribute a bad experience with one particular person as indicative of the whole tech community. I know some slutty women, but do I treat every woman like that? Of course not. Personality and the interaction that stems from it fall on a continuum, and these omg! Tech is so sexist! Read this anecdote! Is getting fucking old imo.
couldn't resist though, it certainly made me "WOW!" when it appeared in the local arcade, might not have had R2D2 projecting it, but it looked like a hologram to me. Reading more, seems a better effect than the POV thing in the video
It is finally established that being very good at chess is not a prerequisite for being a successful start-up founder!
Unfortunately, we have not understood each other. You are saying things like

> Should this content be illegal?

Meanwhile I'm saying things like

> it's important not just that you have bad effects, but that you have a bad intent

and

> we are not prosecuting packets, but prosecuting people

Let me try and use your terminology. There is no such thing as illegal content. There is content that is produced in the course of a criminal act. But it isn't the content that is illegal, it's the act.

I think the rest of your comment follows from that misunderstanding of my premise, but if not, let me know, and I can respond to the actual merits.
@Norvig, HAL was mobile ... it was a big frickin' space ship.
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We cannot have an honest conversation since whatever I say is pigeon-holed to a stereotype. You might as well live in the mid west for a while and find out for yourself vs SV.
In life, no one hands you a bunch of money for nothing. No startup guarantees anything, I assume most people are fully grown adults who are able to make rational choices fit for them. You can make your own choices in life and live with it and take responsibility.
Only if they can break the sandboxing. (Which is unpleasantly probable, given how many sandboxes like Java applets have been broken in the past...)
Ha, copy + paste fail caused no doubt at least in part by my (self)righteous indignation!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2610240
Carlsen had a 30 second clock. Even an average player should've been able to put Carlsen into time pressure at that point, assuming you didn't fall into any silly traps like Gates did.
I think it's actually disturbingly telling that women's (or at least this particular woman's) expectations for how they'll be treated at tech meetups are so low that the described behavior isn't considered mistreatment.
The game can be over after each player makes two moves. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool's_mate
I've watched people go to the firefox homepage (which is Google) and google google, then click on a sponsored ad. I've also seen people go to bing and bing google go to google then google hotmail and then go to hotmail.

I'm a bit at a lose for words...
What you're missing is that when people say an area is "becoming increasingly Black" they usually are talking about it going from 0% to 5%, or from 5% to 10%. Parts of San Francisco (at least certain businesses) are moving towards 100% white. It's a fundamentally different phenomenon.
Gate's first mistake wasn't castling, but taking Carlsen's pawn without having a sufficient a sufficient buildup for the exchange. He lost the center of the board as a result.

That's just my two cents as I haven't played competitively since middle school.
I'll stick to my hobby project, thanks.
It would be great if there was some PaaS-type mail service provider. I'd like to get away from hosting it with a single VPS, and running multiple VPSes for redundancy seems frustratingly expensive for such low-intensity load like a personal email server.

Ideally, I'd sign up with one or two services and have each listed as an MX for my domain so there's always some service online to take the email. I can write my own app to hit both services and unify the two streams.
This is sort of what I was thinking. Bitcoin's involvement here seems merely incidental.
I've got a daughters aged 7 and 5. They've had unfettered connectivity all their lives. I'm far more concerned about them finding crap material that "suitable" for kids, such as most of Netflix's kids category. I'm much more worried that they're drawn into watching crappy cartoons or playing dumb Flash games. Companies invading their privacy is far more a threat than some random porn site injecting an ad somewhere.

My 5-yr-old says she's looking forward to playing Go online with her own account. I'm not in the slightest bit worried that she's at risk by being in the chatrooms on KGS. Both girls like Reddit (/r/roomporn and /r/aww and stuff like that).

My kids don't need the government protecting their innocent eyes. They need intelligence on how to understand what they're doing, and the drive to inquire and be open about things bothering them.

It's like parents that worry about their kids going somewhere because of "pedophiles", yet have no problems driving them many miles each day, which is absolutely a higher risk to their safety. These parents are not acting rationally, they are not improving safety, they just feel like they're doing something.

What's the real threat model that I'm trying to prevent as a parent? Kids viewing porn? Really? As my kids age, if they decide they want to start watching porn, I hope we're able to speak intelligently about it. Sexual maturity can be difficult for people, and porn is only one small aspect of the whole thing.

So what's the real threat? People attacking them? But retarded URL filters won't help. And teaching them general savvy and critical thinking will help more against that threat, and in life in general.

I'm not sure what threat a stupid filter is supposed to address. In 3 decades, I haven't accidentally run into any life-scaring materials on the Internet (or BBSes), and if I actively wanted to find something, I'd find it regardless of restrictions.

The only filters I've wished for is to remove "dumb" content, but that's just my failing as a parent to get my children engaged with more intelligent stuff.
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I'm actually from Scunthorpe. Being quite young and innocent, we never actually knew the particular offensive word contained within until we had to work out why the school computers were changing our town name to SXXXXhorpe.
I don't get it. Why do you think clang was created, and what does that have to do wwith the GP?
When I search it tries to link me directly to an attachment from an email, but tells me my account is suspended. I am already logged into Gmail though, so it might be different.
Quick background - The rebuttal is written by William O'Brien, CEO of DirectEdge (a major stock exchange that has been accused of favoring HFT in the past)

This is a good example of how frustrating some of these debates can be. Some of the arguments are valid on both sides, but they are almost couched in inflammatory language.
Odd, I find that watching TV or movies does have that effect - I get bored of just consuming, and I want to produce.
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Your office janitors, cafeteria workers, street cleaners, waste disposal workers, coffeeshop baristas, taxicab drivers, bus drivers, teachers, day care workers, post office workers, food servers, chefs, etc. can't afford to live there. The reason you want to live there is because they made it desirable for you.
Thinking about non-ponty masses on General Relativity makes me dizzy (no kidding, I'm quite sure I know the difference between being in a cenrifuge or on the surface of a planet), but you can take for granted that you'll be dead way before reaching the event horizon of a macroscopic black hole.
How many moves did it take for Magnus to beat Anand ?
I am also curious about personal property tax issues. In my county, the rate differs based on % of reimbursed business use. If reimbursed business use is over 50%, the tax is 2.7x higher.
It's sometimes great pleasure to see how an original topic in HN starts delving into side topics that have nothing to do with the original. I thought it was a one-off thing but seems to happen quite a bit.
You should be regulating that material and there are many ways of doing it from limiting access to the computer to when you are physically present to all kinds of software solutions. There is no reason for the government to be involved nor should they be determining what is blocked. You should be doing that.
> Yes, because publicly funded research institutes have enough money to cover multiple drugs in development (a majority of which will fail), clinical trials, and manufacturing, etc...

I didn't say they did; I'm saying they should. Medicine as a business is immoral IMHO, and a good half of this county agrees with me. We want public healthcare, not private healthcare because money is a perverse incentive when it comes to health.

> But the public institutes just aren't equipped or financed well enough to handle it on their own.

Agreed, but they should be, and if we want to see a better healthcare system that does more for the general public rather than just the rich, they'll need to be. The free market is not the correct solution for healthcare/medicine. Medicine is a communal good and should be funded by and available to the whole community.
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How many more posts like this are needed to convince you that the whole community of tech meetups is hostile towards women?

Of course that individual deserves the lion's share of the blame, but writing this off as an isolated individual acting inappropriately misses the forest for the trees (i.e. misses the root cause [culture] for the proximate cause [assholes]).

To further analogize, perhaps the bad apple was there because the bushel was poisoned?
not sure what connection to Bitcoin here. The guy behaved like, for example, the mayor of San Diego (that mayor).
Different age, different business ... Would it warrant "This is What it's Like to Be a Woman in a city administration"?
Yikes! At first glance I thought those were questions to Mr. Peck and thought it was fine, but if that's the signature.... It's a little presumptuous isn't it.
Have you ever played against a formidable electronic opponent? I've heard they sometimes use unusual tactics.
I do it sometimes by accident, mainly when incognito or on another computer. Alt+D->gmail-> enter, so I miss the autocomplete and it does a search.
Even if the drivers/users ratio is constant, raw #drivers does matter, given a fixed amount of space. As you get more drivers in the same amount of space, the minimum average distance from a user to a driver decreases.
It's time to bring back the good old polymorphic code. If there is one thing that ASICs can't do faster than generic CPUs, it's executing code that constantly undergoes changes.
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I didn't have any problem with gmail today though my roommate's mail was down.
However, my yahoo mail is still down.
I have watched people google 'gmail' and ignoring the autocomplete, but clicking on the link that comes up in the search. At some point people were told "do it this way" and to change that would require a 30-minute handholding and de-education session.
While I'm on my phone it's much easier to just open the browser, type "h" in the search box, auto-complete kicks in, I press the "hacker news" suggestion and then click on the first result in the SERPS which gets me in here. Otherwise I would have to start typing "hn..." something in the browser bar, remember that's not how HN's URL actually looks like, curse and revert to using Google.
In December, they did a piece [1] on the woman who got the FBI involved (i.e. discovered the hacking aspect). Also a good listen.

[1] http://www.onthemedia.org/story/why-one-moms-investigation-m...
You have to consider everything he says through the lens of "Stephen Wolfram is crazy".
Jesus Christ.

Is it only Texans and the South that know how to raise a gentleman these days?
I am not a woman. I am a large, muscular male who doesn't get bothered by anyone.

But it doesn't have to lead to actual physical assault to be uncomfortable or cause negative lasting effects in one's life. The intimidation, the mental abuse aspect of it is enough. If you've been mugged without being shot, it might make a little more sense to you.

And really, he put his hands on her inappropriately, so he's already committed physical assault -- not to get all bleeding-heart emo feminist or anything. But that just ain't right.