skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No: the overwhelming majority of law school graduates end up in established legal practices that employ many attorneys. It's possible that not even a plurality of CS graduates end up as software developers at software firms; a huge number of CS graduates end up writing line of business software for insurance companies, or on their QA teams.

I don't think I fully understand the preconditions for your theory, so let me try to carefully state it. Being asked out + diversity of work situations + mostly internal department rather than external firm + non-rigorous interview process => women won't go from 0 to 50%.

Did I miss any preconditions? If I did, could you carefully list them?

Fun fact: HR (lots of women) satisfies these properties, near as I can tell. HR drones certainly ask me stupid non-rigorous interview questions, I'm sure they ask the same of each other. So there should be a dearth of women in HR?

Incidentally, the process I'm doing here was described by Scott Alexander yesterday. Basically I'm "feynmaning" you - finding examples which satisfy your preconditions but not your conclusion. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/12/does-race-exist-does-cu...

You've agreed with me on that last point in the past, so I'd be surprised to hear you contest it now.

Let me repeat myself one more time. I don't disagree with you on this. I also don't disagree with your claims about people's subjective feelings. I don't think it's unique to tech, which makes it a poor explanation of a tech-specific phenomenon. Finance certainly uses similar interview techniques, and mid-office finance (besides IT) has no shortage of women.

Incidentally, if your observations about banks/f500 vs startups are correct and generalizeable, then your theory explains part of the discrepancy. Specifically, it explains the delta between startups and f500, but not the delta between f500 tech and f500 HR. It's not the only explanation that part of the discrepancy - risk aversion also works, and to me seems simpler. But I can't immediately reject your theory for that portion of the discrepancy.
>Helion directly claim they've "developed [a] complete self-supplied 3He fuel cycle", though. How did they manage that?

I have no idea.

The D-3He reaction is: D + 3He >> p + 4He + 18 MeV. The D-D side-reaction is D + D >> n + 3He. Maybe they're recovering 3He from the side-reaction? But D-D is harder to ignite than D-3He.

This would hardly be aneutronic (you'd have one neutron per two nuclear collisions, instead of roughly per 100 with exogenous 3He), but it does provide a way of making 3He. I should stress that I am only guessing.

>Are there any running fusion experiments that use internal boron carbide cladding to shield the vacuum chamber walls?

Germany's new stellarator, Wendelstein 7-X: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022311504...

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379697...

Actually, ITER uses beryllium[1]. This has the same high cross-section and low propensity to create dangerous radionuclides as B4C, but is expensive and toxic. It is, however, much easier to make things out of, because it is just a metal. Older projects use tungsten, which does create dangerous radionuclides (181W and 185W). I was mostly aware of research re: B4C, but had been ignorant of beryllium.

So I should have said "modern fusion reactors generally use first-wall materials like boron carbide and beryllium, which do not become radioactive when irradiated". In practice, it's not worth holding up experiments on containment to make safe walls (ITER isn't built to last). In any case, the question of irradiated reactor walls is slowly becoming a solved problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma-facing_material

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fusion_Materials_...
Much as it pains me to mention DJB; that sounds very similar to the Internet Mail 2000 model. http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html
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To expand on that: Rust references are guaranteed to be non-null. This allows the compiler to optimize Option<&T> to be the same size as a pointer by encoding None as 0 and Some(p) as the pointer value. When unsafe code violates that guarantee by transmuting 0 to a reference, Some(p) becomes None! Example here: http://is.gd/SIogwi
You're also assuming that this would not be easily noticed by the manager on shift (or that they would not try to prevent it, perhaps by firing a worker), and that you could shift the algorithm with an amount small enough that the workers (making ~$7/hr) can afford it without wiping out the income they would receive from the extra hour, and that the workers would band together instead of thinking 'well I won't be the one sent home so I'm not going to spend $2 on keeping Sarah here for another hour'.
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I disagree and think that people in the western world who are not starving want to do great things for other reasons which consist of: pride, ego boost, interest to face difficulties and overcome them, make history, find a goal and pursue it, mental challenge, feeling like they need to fulfill a purpose in life and many others. For me money is one of the most insignificant ones.
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I find it disappointing that MSR never released the code for this, as far as I can tell.
Even with one arm this guy is still better than the 3 two-handed guys in the cockpit of Asiana....
I feel the same way. In my opionion, Outlook peaked with 2010 but they are missing new ideas. There is SO much you could do if you would think just a little bit out of the box.

One could think of contextual information added to emails, like detecting invoice numbers, intellligent attachments (e.g. recognizing Dropbox links etc.) and so on. I really hope there will be some client like this in the future, if not, we'll build it :)
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>Societies with fierce weapons are empirically safer than those with outdated weapons.

I think weapons are only relevant to safety when they're used, or when the threat of their use is plausible. More modern weapons with their greater killing power make the society using them safer, but only when they're being used against other societies, with a certain distance. Used domestically, and with the possibility of retaliation, not so much.
Thanks. I'm also interested in the "new identity" and "new face" stuff, if you have a link for that.
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There are two big trends:

- External immigration to large population centers in New York, California, Washington state, the Washington DC area and Illinois.

- Inward migration of Americans leaving those denser areas to states such as TX, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, etc. where land is cheaper and the standard of living is higher for the middle class. This is not represented in the graph because it only shows the origin of state residents.
http://www.governing.com/gov-data/census/2010-census-state-m...
Good catch! We actually completely developed AirDispatch without realizing that it had many of the same tenants as IM2000.

I haven't seen any IM2000 implementations, so I'd love to check it out if you know of any.

Do you not like IM2000, or have other feelings towards it? I'd love to hear your feedback.
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Fair point. The cancer of the global elite has spread to quite a large number of cities: certainly not only London and NYC.

Silicon Valley, I think, is more attractive because if you're going to make over an exiled corrupt official into a corporate executive with a completely different CV and identity, the privacy advantages of a free-standing house are pretty compelling.

Also, it's easier to pull one over on tech people (see: highly talented young people working 80+ hour weeks for tiny pieces of equity). If you need to turn a corrupt official into an executive, you're going to have an easier time of it in some flake-ball VC darling than at Goldman Sachs.
Excerpt:

"In his original research, Christensen established the cutoff for measuring a company’s success or failure as 1989 and explained that “ ‘successful firms’ were arbitrarily defined as those which achieved more than fifty million dollars in revenues in constant 1987 dollars in any single year between 1977 and 1989—even if they subsequently withdrew from the market.” Much of the theory of disruptive innovation rests on this arbitrary definition of success. In fact, Seagate Technology was not felled by disruption. Between 1989 and 1990, its sales doubled, reaching $2.4 billion, “more than all of its U.S. competitors combined,” according to an industry report. In 1997, the year Christensen published “The Innovator’s Dilemma,”

Seagate was the largest company in the disk-drive industry, reporting revenues of nine billion dollars. Last year, Seagate shipped its two-billionth disk drive. Most of the entrant firms celebrated by Christensen as triumphant disrupters, on the other hand, no longer exist, their success having been in some cases brief and in others illusory. (The fleeting nature of their success is, of course, perfectly consistent with his model.)"
Does the size of that device bother you or the dogs? My dog would not be okay with that haha.
I've done this. I found it to be extremely relaxing. The best way I can describe it is that half-awake dream state you reach sometimes when drifting off to sleep for an afternoon nap.

I found the after effects to be similar to my (limited) experience with meditation.
Great Idea - I think this really should be integrated with http://allaregreen.us/

AllareGreen is a "..free browser extension for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox that exposes the role money plays in Congress. Displays on any web page detailed campaign contribution data for every Senator and Representative, including total amount received and breakdown by industry and by size of donation."

In fact I am rudimentarily working on a Bias Detector type application that shows, if it is sponsored content, if the main principals mentioned in it are on the payroll of companies etc (does some other things such as Sentiment analysis, chronology ordering etc).
The abstract:

Power exists to be used. Some wish for cyber safety, which they will not get. Others wish for cyber order, which they will not get. Some have the eye to discern cyber policies that are "the least worst thing;" may they fill the vacuum of wishful thinking.
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Why don't I metaprogram more?
How to raise $2M with a 5 slide presentation – about nothing?
> For starters, isolation messes with our sense of time.

Interestingly, people who have lost their sight or hearing, at birth or from a young age, experience this too.

From my own experience (back when I was deaf), I would (and occasionally still do) perceive relatively large stretches of time (up to a few hours) as considerably less, and vice-versa.

Funnily enough, though understandably I suppose, I also have a very hard time placing events in time in relation to each other, it very often becomes an exercise in rationality (i.e. event A could only have happened if event B had too).

Sadly, I can't find much information about this, except maybe this (which I don't have full access to) http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/jocn_a_00135...
The best case (for them) is when they fool an actual user to look up the product and add the link.
Thanks for the feedback. There is also a code on the tag that you can text to get info about the dog and also texts the owner. We are still working out the bugs on this though... But maybe I should add to FAQ on website?
I don't see how finally (especially with the unusual order) is much cleaner than defer. That's the main advantage of defer: the idiomatic way to use defer is right after the construction of the object in question, rather than half a screenful down like it would be in Java and friends.
But your email is never decentralized. The email you've received stays on a central server, unless you delete it.
If I narrowed the source of CPU usage down to this block of code:

for {
x <- f()
y <- g()
} yield (x+y)

I would not immediately conclude that f() is the source of the problem. That's what you are advocating doing.

And if someone suggests g() might be the problem, you are assuming they are wrong and demanding an excess level of rigor from them. That's exactly what Scott Alexander is warning against.

[edit: I'm sticking to epistemology. I'm not hijacking the thread to discuss gender.]
The extreme low rate of settlement etc. in the deep south had a good deal to do with the weak economy.
I'm actually afraid that the internet is moving to this model, specifically with Facebook. How many times have you seen an ad that, instead of a URL, asks you to go to their Facebook page?
I'm not sure if I understand the use-case. If you're a hacker/dev/whatever, why would you need to start a campaign in the first place?

That is: If you've got the skills to build a product, why do you need to raise some money to get that product going?

I certainly appreciate the open-source nature of Tilt, but I wonder who they are catering to. Who is this middle-ground developer that knows enough to take advantage of your github, but knows so little that they need to raise money to pay for another dev?
Great suggestion - we will put this info in the FAQ. Thanks for the feedback.
http://mashable.com/2013/06/25/call-to-hacktion/
http://mashable.com/people/lauren-drell/
http://mashable.com/2013/08/16/hdhacks-recap/

So they talk to a "Branded Editor" who writes the intro and then you post it as a series of native articles which is just marketing content straight from Home Depot.

It seems BP would be able to do the same thing which is effectively identical.

Maybe this seems fine to you but it doesn't to me.

It is one thing to have what are essentially links to other sites as "native advertising" its quite another to let them shill on your site. Imo anyway.
How would you even know? I can say that mine have not. Ars Technica started cross-posting articles from Wired, which I would rather avoid. But for weeks, I would only realize that I had clicked one when I got to the bottom of the article. It's just exhausting to check all the bylines all the time.
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Great suggestion - thanks!
Because it is so small that you could actually control most of the variables.

E.g they generate a magnetic field and they recover the energy from the same magnetic elements generating electricity instead of having to add a completely independent turbine generator with all the heat and radiation problems associated with it.

Even if they don't reach the goal, they could discover something useful.
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It's worth noting that Kalin at UW-Madison is looking to resurrect Harlow's work on socially deprived primates[1], something that was previously posted here at HN.

Some of the primate researchers' work is (to a layman like me) just bizarre -- one study involved isolating mother-deprived rhesus monkeys in individual cages and giving them unrestricted access to food, water, and ethanol, in order to test their postmortem CSF 5-HIAA levels and study "early life stress on drinking and serotonin system activity." (Conclusion: if you deprive a monkey of maternal contact and then give it booze, you'll end up with a drunk monkey.)

For me, I'm both fascinated and repulsed by research into, e.g., rh5-HTTLPR polymorphisms and anxiety. Fascinated because it really is inherently interesting, and repulsed because I'm not at all certain that torturing monkeys through isolation and/or maternal deprivation and then killing them is really advancing the state of 5-HTTPLPR research far beyond what is already being done with studies that don't involve the psychiatric destruction of presocial primates. (PubMed shows 75 animal-based 5-HTTLPR/rh5-HTTLPR studies, and 1221 human-based studies.) There are some truly thorny questions here -- and I'm a proponent of animal studies in many cases -- that I feel researchers, particularly those involved in psychiatric animal models, are hand-waving away.

[1] Fellow UW-Madison researcher A. J. Bennett's view of Harlow's work is available at http://speakingofresearch.com/2014/08/03/harlow-dead-bioethi...
On asking questions
Is this along the lines of what you're looking for? http://www.governing.com/gov-data/census/2010-census-state-m...
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Because mainstream news is garbage.
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Yeah, I meant I was writing a Gameboy emulator.
So 'kam' had a reply to this which is now dead, and I don't
understand why because it looked informative to me. Could someone explain what was wrong with it?:

"To expand on that: Rust references are guaranteed to be non-null. This allows the compiler to optimize Option<&T> to be the same size as a pointer by encoding None as 0 and Some(p) as the pointer value. When unsafe code violates that guarantee by transmuting 0 to a reference, Some(p) becomes None! Example here: h t t p : / / i s . g d / S I o g w i"
(link expanded in case that was the issue).
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It's not exactly new. I remember a thing from the 90s that was basically a specialized Pac-Man emulator, but hooked the graphics routines in the ROM and displayed its own, higher color depth graphics instead. It is a cool way to get gameplay fidelity with enhanced graphics and sound though.
These numbers can be roughly predicted by Smeed's law, which states that a country's per capita road deaths are directly related to its number of registered vehicles and population.

"Smeed had a fatalistic view of traffic flow.....Smeed interpreted his law as a law of human nature. The number of deaths is determined mainly by psychological factors that are independent of material circumstances. People will drive recklessly until the number of deaths reaches the maximum they can tolerate. When the number exceeds that limit, they drive more carefully. Smeed's Law merely defines the number of deaths that we find psychologically tolerable."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smeed%27s_law
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The new model has SSD but both could serve a useful amount of multiple 10Gb I believe.
Site is behind a paywall; I'm guessing most of us can't read the article...
It is. We use electromagnets to make the plasmas, move them, and finally compress them all without moving parts, just magnetic field.
Odd they didn't use such stretch marks anywhere else.... except perhaps check boxes.
Yes, but with a democratically generated currency to collaboratively benefit the community.
Comcast is throttling / dropping traffic because they want Netflix to pay for bandwidth. You're right that they'd be getting paid twice for the same traffic, but ISPs already do this -- if Comcast and Netflix are connected via Level 3 they both have to pay Level 3 for the same traffic.

What if Comcast offered to host Open Connect devices for a fee -- would that be a violation of net neutrality? To me that just seems like the free market doing what free markets do (I'm ignoring for a moment that Comcast is basically a monopoly which is a legitimate problem).

What if Comcast throttled everyone _except_ Netflix. Is that really different than Comcast allowing _only_ Netflix to peer?
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This whole discussion about weapons seems strange. It's true that the words "nuclear fusion" appear in the article, but my reading of the article doesn't make me feel that this research will lead to some terrible, existential risk to mankind.

For comparison, consider robotics, drones, nanotechnology, and AI. I am fascinated by these subjects (and, apparently, so are many other HN readers), but I have some concerns that these non-nuclear technologies may end up having very negative consequences. Yet these high tech areas, with which I would guess the HN readers have a better understanding than fusion, don't engender such negative reactions here.
Yes and no. It is a very few more minutes for me to get from work to the airport than to the train station. It takes less time for me to drive from home to the airport than to drive to the train station.
I can speak towards migrating to Oregon. My cost of living has dropped by about 25% while my overall quality of life, sans anything money-related, has gone up.
IIRC, C says that you get a real pointer back from malloc(0). Repeated calls return distinct pointers.

For whatever that's worth...
> a rolodex social network

As someone who recently came across an actual rolodex, with both typed and hand-written notations throughout, this idea sounds like something I'd seriously consider signing up for.
1. copy text in said paragraph

2. paste into google

3. click first result

4. read entire article

5. profit ?
It mainly depends on a lack of cooperation between nations.

I register a company in small country A.

As a representative of that company, I open up another company in another country, preferably one that will not extradite and has a history of a lack of cooperation in criminal and civil cases.

They then use that company to open up another company in Seychelles which in and of itself according to this post is a known place to siphon funds through a corporation.
Likewise. There's enough information in the paper to recreate a few portions of the algorithm, but not the whole thing.
Well, having a game under emulation gives you more control over what you can do, certainly. You now control the software and hardware. But I think most people also don't want to make enhancements that only work on a single emulator. And getting emulator authors to cooperate is like herding cats (which is why we are still using the woefully inadequate iNES header format in 2014.) So I could have made MSU1 run some 1080p video mode with a 2GHz simulated x86 processor, but it was important to me that the protocol be as simple as possible and exist in a physical implementation that worked on the real system.

More along the lines of your example, my emulator core is completely abstracted to its own library and is GPL, so it would be quite easy to hook routines as you have to do things like hires textures even on the SNES. But there are some more extreme challenges to that than just identifying key functions, as the SNES renderer is very elaborate.

I can't say I've specifically enhanced PC games, but I've definitely worked on translations of them from Japanese to English. There's definitely lots of fun tricks you can do outside of emulation, still. I usually write a debug process launcher that uses DLL injection, which is then followed by installing trampolines in various functions.

We worked on a game called Heroine Anthem, where the movie file format was entirely custom. So we ripped the movie with screen capture software, subtitled it, encoded it to XviD (this was a while ago), and then ran our own DirectShow window to play back the movie in place of the originals.

We also patched an online multiplayer game, Fuurai no Shiren, to add a new dialog to configure the server you connect to. We reverse engineered their protocol (their "encryption" was a strtr function on streams of hex values. Quite laughable.) and then created our own PHP server, called OpenShiren, so that people could run their own instances. Especially useful once Chunsoft shut their servers down.

I've done far, far crazier things with manipulating others' applications, but since they weren't games, I won't elaborate on those here.
If a disk does they just stop using it and continue with less capacity.
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