skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems strange to me to place him into "cold storage" after he was completely ravaged by ALS and had died. Wouldn't there be more hope for a recovery if he had been placed into a frozen state before his physical form had died? No doubt a dicey area of law but surely a treatment for ALS will be reached for those still living before we discover a treatment of ALS for those who are already terminal.
As someone that has spent the last 18months building on WebRTC I can agree with all of Microsofts points - particularly offer/answer state machine which is hugely problematic.
cperciva did not attack the methodology at all, which would be clear if you'd thoroughly read the first sentence. He didn't really say anything that disagreed with it at all, but rather put forward a hypothesis explaining the data therein. Said hypothesis implicitly acknowledges that it is harder for women to get into the workplace. But because his phrasing happened to include the phrase "sampling bias", you got angry and apparently stopped reading, missing the forest for the trees.
Growth and Culture at GitHub [Interview With Zach Holman]
> Good for them? I did this in 2010 using a G1 phone as a controller.

By an extremely liberal interpretation of "this", perhaps.

What's your pet peeve? That you did something vaguely similar a few years ago? Someone did it before you, too.
Sure, those are all valid concerns, but all of them are within the realm of possibility. We don't know if we'll achieve the technology, but we know we can in principle. We don't know if future people will care about reviving us, or that we'd even want to live in that future, but it is possible.

Note that there's no religion here anywhere, everything is casual and derived through logic from the current state of reality.

Cryopreservation is taking a fully <del>scientific</del><ins>materialistic</ins>, supernatural-free bet that gives you 0.1% (or 0.01%, or whatever) chance of not dying, when your only other choice is to die with 100% certainity. So unless you believe that you'll piss off God if you dump his promise and freeze yourself, you're better off cryopreserving than not. There is no leap of faith here, it's a result of plain utility calculations, if you agree that being being alive has nonzero utility while being dead has zero.
Seconded. In 2010, $1700 for Mulholland Drive free-standing house with a brilliant view. (I cycled about instead of owning a car and avoided the local gym and cocaine habits, which easily made up for the difference!)
I think something like a "Firefox subscription", an automatic monthly donations like those offered by PBS and NPR, could be interesting. NPR calls this "sustained giving". [1] Many people don't mind donating if they are not nagged repeatedly.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/nprresearch/sustained-giving-resul...
We're LA and SF only for the time being. We save you money by refunding most of the buyer agent's commission (usually 3% of the total price). We're able to do this because we're automating a lot of the time consuming things normal agents such as pushing you listings as they come on the market.
the total population of women entering such programs is not any smarter on average

Sorry, I was unclear. I meant that the total worldwide population of women is no smarter on average than the worldwide population of men. The evidence points to the subset of women who enter CS and engineering being smarter on average than the subset of men who enter CS and engineering.

It's equally possible that women of average or median intelligence deicde they're unlikely to succeed in that field and drop out, leaving only the best female students.

From everything I've seen it's less a matter of dropping out and more a matter of not entering those programs in the first place; but yes, there are societal influences which result in "marginal" men entering those fields while "marginal" women do not.
Mozilla's $33 smartphone has nearly the same specs as the first iPhone
Let's boil that away even more: suppose that the population entering CS is representative of the total population. Then, let's suppose that the social barriers to graduation & the professional workforce are adequately high that it filters out women who are not exceptionally determined to succeed in this environment[1].

When I've talked with women about this, they generally seem to agree with that.

[1] Some women get death threats over their analysis of sexism in video games. I can't think of a more hostile environment.
I used to do similar before pulling all-nighters in college. I would take an adderall and go to sleep around 11pm, my normal bedtime, then after a 30 minute nap I'd be wide awake and ready to conquer whatever project I had been procrastinating on.
Hey Eric!

> I've previous written about techniques for implementing fast multiple
> dispatch using Dylan's type system:
> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/abstracts/TR2001-404/

We may be coming back to you about this. The dispatch mechanism implemented in Open Dylan is great for 1990s hardware, but less so on today's architectures.

> Limited integer types were ....

One of my next posts (already a good deal written, but a lot to go) is about the "limits of limited types" and looks at how they might be generalized into some more interesting and broadly useful types, namely parametric polymorphism and refinement types. There's some interesting research required to pull that off though.

> - Both type unions and subclass types worked quite well in practice.

Funny ... I forgot to mention subclass types (since they're technically an extension to the language and not part of the core specification).

> Dylan was an exceptionally good language for its time, and I had a ton of fun using it.

I hope that you're on the hackers mailing list still, then. We're going to start some discussions this coming week about the future of Dylan and making some fairly drastic changes to things.

One thing is that we'd like to make it much easier to hack on. The compiler is, as you indicate, fairly complex and it would be great to reduce the build time, add more tests, and in general, make it simpler.

Another is that some parts of Dylan could use an update in keeping with modern research and theory. The type system is an interesting example of this, and that's why I wrote an overview of what we have now. We'd like to increase the knowledge available to the compiler and increase the amount of static checking that can be done. I've already written about adding function types, we want to add parametric polymorphism in a general sense, and there are other things that can still be improved.

There are also just some missing features in the language & implementation like vector math, a solid Unicode definition and implementation. It would be interesting to revisit mutability of some things.

We'll see!
Great to see efforts like this not primarily focused on just delivering books or groceries but being put to the use for AID and resources that otherwise wouldn't be able to get there in a practical manner.

I'm curious what kind of running time these have though and distance they can travel. Would be great if they could just have 2-3 go for a dozen roundtrips each in circumstances like Katrina.
I've only used the Firefox one, I didn't realize the Chrome one I linked worked that way. Does anyone have a better suggestion?
It solves port conflicts caused by running multiple copies of the same service on the same host. Kubernetes likes to have a few sidecar containers hanging off each service instance (e.g. memcached might have an sshd sidecar that wants to be on port 22 and nginx might want to have its own sshd sidecar also on port 22), and if your host only has one IP address then Docker has to do dynamic port mapping and your service discovery system has to track port numbers and such.
Was that 100% autonomous or was there some extra input besides endpoints?

Does it use maps&gps/vision (yes)/lidar? (I assume the green images are taken from the imaging sensor on the controller).
Whenever someone asks about the consumer demand for privacy, I have to ask "what kind of privacy?"

Almost everyone says they value privacy, but that means different things for different people. Most teenagers don't care at all about government surveillance but care a lot about what their parents see. Spouses may care about the history log in their browsers. Employees care about what their employers see.

In addition, our desire for privacy is also contingent upon the effects of losing that privacy, which may vary based on factors that aren't strictly related to privacy. For example, people may regard their e-mail address or phone number as "private", but what those people (or at least some of them) really care about is spam. In the absence of spam (e.g. thanks to really good filtering), certain individuals might not regard an e-mail address as private.

If we analogize privacy to security, we might say that different people have different threat models, and that in turn determines how much convenience they're willing to give up for more security and the corresponding "market" for products or services that enhance that type of security.
This is interesting, it's pretty similar to http://tinc-vpn.org which is a mesh VPN.
Given that the frequency with which the key critical words are applied to men (essentially never) and women (essentially always), your explanation cannot tell the whole story.

Saying that this is inconclusive is a strange thing to claim - the evidence is plentiful. You are describing a serious but separate problem which adds to but does not explain this difference.
When I started meditating I found it much easier to fall asleep quickly. The 'opening game' of most, if not all, mindfulness meditation is simply relaxing your body and preparing for the meditation. Turns out this is something you can get better at with practice; at least I did.

Pick up the Headspace app. You get several meditations for free and those should be enough to arm you with what you need to learn "speed relaxing".

https://www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app
I find it telling that you jump right into assigning me an emotional response for countering his logic with my own. Do you often accuse women of being too emotional? Or too aggressive? I can tell you that I have a male named account on hacker news and it never, ever gets called too angry, or aggressive, or emotional. Try it sometime, as a woman. It's most instructive.
This is an interesting point. We often observe a backlash against those who claim authority but don't deserve it (whether from being new, smaller, weaker, less skilled--lower on whatever status criteria is established in the group). In the case with masculine men, there might be a subconscious acceptance of their claim to authority, whereas with a woman there is a subconscious resentment towards their claim.
I can at least say when I am habitually sleep deprived I find it easy to fall asleep on a whims notice.

If I get a proper 8-9 hours of sleep, I find it impossible to nap.

Maybe the insta-napping is only possible due to a more fundamental lack of sleep issue?
I can't even comprehend why you're doing it like that. Do you expect users to write the routes down on a piece of paper?

Even when I know the route, I still (always) check it on my phone the very moment I leave the house, because I expect to get up-to-date information. If I can go to two different bus stops, I don't want to get an average! I just expect you to tell me which bus is coming first — right now.

The only situation when I'm checking a route ahead of time is when I need to know when to leave the house. For this I use Google Maps' "Arrive by" option, so even when I don't take the route immediately, I still expect to see exact times.
Introducing Project Wing [video]
No, because it doesn't make sense. Salaries in San Diego actually aren't that much higher than they are in the Detroit area. Neither place has public transportation (to speak of), and housing prices in San Diego are about twice of those in Detroit.
Of all the press about this project today, this is by far and away the best article.
PREGNANCY WITHOUT POUNDS- PRGNANCY WITHOUT POUNDS UNBIASED REVIEW
I still remember this: (notice the GPL violation and 2% donation) http://cryptomining-blog.com/2496-new-sgminer-fork-for-x11-m...
The difference is that law and medicine are both highly proceduralized, regulated, and standardized careers, and they both require far more training, at a far deeper level.

Ultimately, though, what matters is experience and skills. Again, in law and medicine, the only way into the profession to gain the experience is to have the degree. That's not the case in the tech world.
> BTW, are cryonics and singularity part of the same mythology?

As far as I can tell, those are two completely separated, though not unrelated concepts. Cryopreservation is about a hope that we'll get advanced enough technology, whether or not singularity occurs before or after. Singularity is about progress of technology accelerating to the point we absolutely, positively can't keep up with it, so we can't predict how anything will look after singularity.
It's possible. It's equally possible that there's a lot of men who like to dish it out but can't take it.I used to do a lot of work with hedge funds and the amount of preening and effort invested in maintaining the pecking order (in an all-male environment) was just ridiculous.
We are making progress in our own country, but it's slow. Our prime minister ignores rallies with tens of thousands of citizens in every capital city decrying new policies similar to the US's, the debate on metadata collection is fierce, polls show 97% of citizens want an emergency federal election called immediately.

I'm leveraging my skills to create a website to inform voters exactly the consequence of their vote, since many people can't believe their vote ends up in the hands of a party contrary to their beliefs; apart from that, I feel like I've exhausted most reasonable options available to me. Reasonable debate is only one small part in instigating change.
What's your pet peeve?

Do you want Google acknowledge that you did it first?

That this drone project may not have been possible without your earlier efforts?
Feds warn first responders of dangerous hacking tool: Google Search
> Note that we are sure it can be done

Although this is not part of the interesting religio-philosophical discussion we're all having here (which, BTW, finally fulfills my own dream of visiting 17th century Europe), that is simply not true. We are not sure it can be done, and we are even less sure it can be done with current preservation technology. There are few things in biology we are sure of, so many things that we only partly understand, and human neurobiology is very high on the list of things we understand least of. Also, your usage of the word "sure" sounds to me like saying, "well, we're sure God exists, we just don't know if He's Christian, Muslim or Jewish". After all, even if that were true, our actions must depend heavily on that second part of the sentence.

Finally, even if the god of cryonics is real, and even if he's Alcory, the preserved don't know if they're buying a ticket to heaven or to hell (see Cold Lazarus[1]).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Lazarus
I don't actually want to be arguing against this study, but without knowing how those two fields are quantified, those numbers are completely meaningless and referring to fuzzy numbers like that is one of the hallmark ways to lie with statistics.

There are also lots of uncontrolled variables, such as the average woman submitting 1.4 reviews, while the average guy submitted only 1.3 reviews. This means the totals would obviously be off, even if everything were symmetric per capita, a fact not mentioned when the numbers are displayed.

Further, it's likely that the discrepancy in the number of reviews per capita submitted is a sign of some underlying sampling bias, which needs to be accounted for before we can really talk about the distribution of feedback.

I think this is a serious issue that needs addressing, but that's exactly why I feel it's important to object to bad math.
It's rather interesting that it hasn't made the frontpage.
You're probably right, but I just thought about it from the point of view of someone dying from a (currently) incurable illness.

On one hand, you can die, and that will probably be it for you.

On the other hand, you can become cryogenically preserved. In that case, there are two outcomes I can see. One, you're never revived (which is functionally equivalent to death). The other, you awake (in what feels like an instant) in a world where you can continue living. That certainly makes it seem tempting for me.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting what the author wrote, but it seems clear to me that, having identified a statistical anomaly, she is assuming one explanation -- that there is a problem with the review process -- and ignoring other potential explanations (e.g., a bias in hiring which results in non-aggressive women never being hired and thus never being reviewed).
Previous discussion of Amazon's drone plans.

Initial announcement
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6830547

Don't believe the hype
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6833223

Delivery drones are nonesense
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7005702

Is Amazon drone delivery real?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6834561
I wish I was able to take naps. Do people can really fall asleep on command just like that when they have some spare minutes in their day? Shit, even when I am sleep deprived, I can barely fall asleep in my own bed, sometimes it literally take me hours.

When I manage to take a nap it's usually involuntary by falling asleep in front of the TV.
Or you could do the smart thing and hire a designer that can sling front-end code worth a damn for $150k, and the feedback cycle becomes much cheaper and faster. "Let's see it in green" should take no more than 10 seconds, and can be done in-meeting.

As an aside, that sounds a lot like design-by-committee, which isn't known for producing the greatest results. If there are problems with the design (not branded enough, important button isn't emphasized enough, etc), then make sure that the point of the meeting is to highlight those problems and let the designer take care of the solutions later. If a (non-designer) founder is picking button colors, that founder isn't delegating properly.
>> And one could make the argument that the sample of men was also biased--towards men who liked tech.

Sure. I think the implicit assumption is that "men in tech" is a more representative sample of "men" than "women in tech" is for "women".
I'm kinda sick of seeing these articles on gentrification. Hey, if you can't afford to live there on a burger flipping job, then don't f'ing live there. Then the "rich people" who buy those hamburgers will pay more for them, which requires higher pay for the burger flippers, and less desirable to live there. Maybe it will become a desert void of service jobs, which would suck to live in, thus lowering prices. Oh, and I don't live in CA, actually someplace in flyover country that is affordable.
In other words - Google Maps will become the interface to your Google Car.
??inane?? WTF are you smoking mate

PARIS the in house system was updated for 20+ years quite successfully never missing a run.

And you do know that for serious HPC a lot of work Is still done in the venerable Fortran (look at job adverts for CERN) and yes people use Python for some of that now as well but the Libraries that do the heavy lifting are Fortran ones.
> You misinterpreted my statement. From that point on means when you code it.

That's a very aggressive way to phrase, "Sorry, I stated that unclearly."
>If you don’t think that being a white, straight male grants you undeniable and unassailable privilege in modern Western society, then you need to get your head out of your MRA ass.

laughing at the level of racism and sexism in this post.
This is so simple minded I doubt it could even have a chance on reddit.
I'm curious how it is a police force could be talked into doing something likes this in the course of a prank. You would hope they would do at minimum a cursory amount of investigation before taking measures like this.
How do you get the listing information? I assume you wont be connected into every realtor database so where are you pulling data from?
No we are not. He asked about the speed of light.

And the game world has some super weird discrete geometry anyway.
do you recommend using an online IDE only for beginners or is it something you would utilize for your own projects?
I completely reject your premise of certainty, but won't repeat what I've said here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8240354) except to reiterate the following:

> ... chance of not dying, when your only other choice is to die with 100% certainty

You see, those aren't the only choices. I won't debate the chances of success, but assuming they are as high as you believe, there's a chance you're trading your certain death for an eternal life in a jar in some future hellish lab.

> Note that there's no religion here anywhere

There's religion here everywhere. I see people spending money for a chance at an afterlife they have absolutely no proof of. I see vast exaggeration of some anecdotal observations (miracles?) as "knowledge" of life. I see people finding comfort in an unknown future predicated on the powers of some super-human entity (at least super-human compared to the present) and on the optimistic belief in the benevolence of that entity. In short I see religious texts and religious arguments, hence: religion.
@Pinboard: "Right now the IFTTT business model is to charge one user $30M, rather than lots of users $2. The challenge will be with recurring payments"

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/505081162264363008
I fully agree. And besides being outdated, this article totally matches the expression: "Torture numbers and they'll confess to anything".
And still no webhooks - http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/08/05/ifttt-needs-webhooks-st...

This one thing would blow up usage by developers across the board.
Unfortunately though, data is not all there is, and a good part of what our brains do is electrical in nature.

In other words, you could save all the data in the brain but without knowing what the CPU was doing when it shut down (which is electrical state) that may not do you any good.

http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2013/07/16/i...
A few centuries kicks the problem down the road a long way. If we successfully sequester enough carbon to prevent any horrific consequences of energy generation until, say, 2300, well, by 2300 people may well have plenty of additional options to deal with the carbon.

Or at the least they'll probably be able to just once again sequester it through the same techniques.

Or else global warming will be the least of humanity's problems in 2300.
This requires a growing economy.
Alternatively, people could try to prevent bad things from happening before they happen.

"Let the city go to hell and then it will adjust" is crappy policy.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 375 Review
I have been made deeply uncomfortable by hagfish since reading Cruz Smith's Polar Star [1] in high school, where they feature in a minor but electrically memorable plot point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Star_(novel)
The evidence points to the subset of women who enter CS and engineering being smarter on average than the subset of men who enter CS and engineering.

Isn't this rather at odds with your hypothesis that they do well because of being more aggressive? I mean, perhaps that is true but if the data suggests that women entering those programs are in fact smarter why would your hypothesis be any more likely than the existence of bias in HR departments?
Google Launches Guest Mode for Chrome Beta
I'm exactly the same, I find it very difficult to nap during the day even when sleep deprived. It takes me a long time to fall asleep.