skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the correct term is humanist. A humanist wants equal rights for all human beings and not just certain groups based on certain characteristics. Does not claim one group is superior to another.

Feminism used to be different, it used to be like humanism, now I see it as a tool to tear down white straight men and claim women are superior and deserve special treatment. I didn't always have that view, but after seeing a lot of Feminist groups attacking Hacker News using hoaxes and untrue statements I eventually came to that conclusion. I have never seen Hacker News or YC discriminate against women, and anyone who posts a sexist statement gets downvoted.

I think on 4Chan and Reddit a lot of these sexist men are really boys under 18 who are not mature yet and hide behind an anonymous name to lobby death and rape threats at women. I just don't see that in Hacker News or YC, when men are mature they don't do those sorts of things.

So yes sexism does exist and there are issues, but not everywhere. The word Feminism in itself is sexist because it only mentions the female gender and there are more than male and female genders out there. Hence Humanism would be a better name or Equalism because it does not mention gender.

I want to state that equal rights is different from special rights and entitlements. If anyone wants a career in IT, they have to study hard at math and science, they have to work for years to become an expert sometimes as many as 15 years. You can't just avoid studying hard, blow off math and science, and then study arts instead and then claim you are owned a job in IT because of your gender. If you want a job in IT, study math and science instead of art, keep learning and gaining experience over the years to become better so you can get a job. Communication is a key, and about 80% of the job. If you cannot communicate with others effectively and keep using the terms mansplaining when something is over your head and you need help with, it isn't going to help the team and make you look bad.

Admiral Grace Hopper, Ada Augusta Lovelace, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, and many others studied hard, worked hard, developed the experience and skills they needed and didn't have anything handed to them, or were entitled to anything, or required special treatment. They just studied math and science, studied hard, worked hard, and reached their potential to develop the experience and skills they needed to do what they did.
Yes, exactly. I'm sure that there are more forms, but those are the two that Herzog traffics in.
barring recent changes -- the system in Australia worked quite well.

For government subsidized university places (read - most places for Australian students) - tuition amounts were capped at specific levels. These could be deferred by All students on a loan - that charges CPI (Inflation) as it's interest rate.
Repayment kicks in once the student earns a certain level - and goes up as a % depending on their income.
It appears that Network For Good largely operates this way as a "donor-advised fund":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor_advised_fund
Unless you're King.com with the money to trademark a word like "Candy" you're not going to have much luck against MS with a 4 letter dictionary word.
This article does not link to the response post from the DTLV which has a FAQ section

http://dtlv.com/2014/09/30/downtown-project-layoffs-tony-hsi...
Because nobody would lie on the internet? Look at the post history. They don't even live in a location with a Microsoft development house.
>It's violently offensive that I have to take delivery of a giant rolled-up paper bale every week if I want a good deal on unlimited digital access.

"violently offensive"? Without getting into a debate about the environment... hyperbole much? It's amazing what people get violently offended by in the first-world. What a sense of entitlement we all have. Sorry someone who works on pricing at the NY Times made a mistake and it offended you so much. I guess when you watch the news and see all the pain and suffering around the world for no reason you must get nuclear offended, right?
Ruby certainly has first-class functions. Not only can you pass "functions" around as lambdas or procs, you can also detach and re-atach methods from a class or object at runtime.

From the wikipedia:

"Specifically, this means the language supports passing functions as arguments to other functions, returning them as the values from other functions, and assigning them to variables or storing them in data structures"

All of these things are certainly possible in ruby, see [0] fizzbuzz in the lambda calculus in ruby

[0]: https://gist.github.com/tomstuart/1466504
Why are you and other people in this thread suggesting that you'd have a 2 hour commute in SF? My commute in SF is 6 or 7 minutes each way on a bike - shorter than I've had working in any other city/town in my life.
The 'pay wall' of NYT is just for show. Use incognito mode to browse as much as you want on nytimes.com
> I don't see where it reaffirms worldviews or makes behaviors seem reasonable.

The fundamental structure of the app is that women are to be trusted, men are not, and that if men want to speak to women, they must perform feats which meet the approval of the woman. (This is just paraphrasing their own description, from the news article.)

This exactly agrees with the world view of those problematic actors: that relations between gender is a game where you simply need to strike the woman's fancy a particular way and have little to no control over the outcome, besides simply throwing messages to the wind.

From a strictly rational perspective, the best way to succeed at that (if you're looking for short lasting relationships with many women) is to attempt to evade the evaluation criteria using trickery or find women with less stringent criteria, both of which are best accomplished using a lot of activity with generic responses/profiles and attempting to interact with as many women as possible.

In this sense, Siren is actually incentivizing bad behaviors in a manner similar to other dating websites, except that it takes it a step further, and explicitly acknowledges and incorporates this gender bias. Further, it allows bad actors to concentrate all their effort on making a single profile good (in order to bypass the first layer of filtering and allow them to message as many women as possible), instead of having to create many messages. A profile, in this sense, is simply automating the copy-and-pasted messages that women receive.

As I mentioned, I don't think that it's any easier to filter problematic profiles in order to locate good ones, meaning that throwing your net wider (eg, many profiles of mediocre quality) and being a larger portion of the noise is more likely to get you noticed than being a high quality respondent.

In particular, why do you think bad actors are less likely to respond to many questions or post many videos than people who make quality submissions?

This seems dubious at best, and leaves Siren with a very nasty filtering problem: removing very active, low quality users without impacting high or low activity, high quality users.

Ed:

I guess I should mention that Siren will solve one problem that it explicitly aimed to: men can no longer simply message women in droves, and it allows the woman to regulate the rate at which messages reach her.

However, the more fundamental problem is that women weren't able to filter poor quality messages from problematic actors away from high quality messages they wanted to get. While Siren solves the flood of messages, in the sense of raw message count, it does nothing to address this fundamental problem of filtering quality from not, and might actually make that more challenging.

In short, I think that Siren has some really good ideas in terms of privacy and rate limiting, but that it falls short of its real goal, which is the quality filtering, and does so in a way that's liable to make the actual problem worse.
is memsql a free product, I can seem to find anything about pricing or otherwise on their site ?
Time, Investing, and the Power Law- the Value of Exponential Returns
That's a pretty pedantic comment. Are you saying that "move to sf or gtfo" isn't forcing? Of course they're not tying people up and trucking them off to SOMA.
Hello Bane, I'm from Germany and have read all your comments on this thread, because they piqued my interest and I admired your ambitious fight to reach beyond what live offered you. There was one thing that I really couldn't understand and I've heard a voice in my head that said: "And then he considered moving to Norway, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands or similar to graduate much cheaper and then return with a masters degree to his family. He would then be able to upgrade his family's from the poor class to the upper-middle-class". But you didn't. Why?

Btw. tuition fees were 500€ and you paid about 280€ for the University every 6 months.

While I've the great chance to ask the right person, would you mind telling me how a German student with a masters degree in Computer Science is seen in the USA. I mean what common prejudices do exist, are the prejudices in favor or against one. No worries, I'm very open minded about that =) I am at my late 20's and have been thinking that it would be a great decision to move to the USA. Would you recommend moving to the USA and if so, which state and city should I migrate to?

What would I earn there without work experience other than as IT-freelancer? And would that be by other americans as a lot or normal pay?
I heard that the health system is very expensive over there. Is there a reasonable number of salary that I'd have to earn to not have to worry about that kind of problems? This question might sound weird, but in Germany you only pay 80€/monthly into the state-issued health-insurance and that easily covers most of the regular stuff. By that I mean to say that you don't worry about getting broke, if you have to get an operation.
>Men have been so vilified that now mere acts of courtship

Please provide examples.

Strawman: a person compared to a straw image; a sham. a sham argument set up to be defeated.

How exactly are the examples in the article, which the app author states she experienced in her own life, shams or arguments set up to be defeated?
It's more Moore's law than competition.
The Art of Building Tools–A Language Engineering Perspective
If I didn't know better reading this I would agree. But remote working does not have to be "all in or out". Why not try to arrange something different? Why make such a drastic change? I would be very interested in knowing the % of Reddit workers who are remote workers (all the time or just sometimes).
There was a nice interview with Will Byrd a couple episodes ago on the Cognicast (Cognitect's Podcast). He discussed MiniKanren along with a ton of other work and thoughts. Recommended listening.

http://blog.cognitect.com/cognicast/063-will-byrd
BetterCompany - San Francisco, CA

BetterCompany is an early-stage startup (less than 10 employees), based in SF's financial district. The company is well-funded by some of the best enterprise angels and VCs in the business.

We're building a mobile- and web-based app for anonymous feedback and communication within companies. Getting feedback in the workplace is hard. Suggestion boxes suck, 360 reviews suck, questionaires from HR suck. We can do better.

We're looking for solid developers to work on all aspects of the app. Experience with node.js, Python, Objective-C, Java, client-side Javascript, Postgres and Linux would be directly relevant, bonus points for hackers with experience with "mind-expanding" technologies, like Lisp, Smalltalk, Erlang, Haskell etc.

We're also looking for a security engineer—someone who can audit the codebase, find and fix vulnerabilities and evaluate proposed features for their security impact. We're taking anonymity seriously.

Finally, we're looking for a technical marketer. This job is a combination of user reasearch and growth hacking. The ideal candidate is technical enough to dig into data but who is creative enough to test ad copy, write content, and comfortable talking on the phone with users to tease out insights.

If you're interested, please contact me - colin@bettercompany.co
> - hardly any email at all (async chat ftw)

Thats not the case everywhere. In my previous remote only job there was a reply all deal and usually a lot of people were on the email.
In Germany, the liberal arts programmes are mocked as "taxi driver courses" all the time, ranging from libertarian hate for any form of public spending all the way to happy self-deprecation by those who elect to be taught in a field they like at the risk of not benefitting from their education economically. But aside from a few outliers in the most extreme corners of conservativism, antiintellectualism and leftism most people tend to consider the general availability of those programmes to people who are willing to take that economic risk (high enough even without student loan debt) as an important piece of freedom.

Of course it helps that educating in those fields isn't terribly expensive: you basically pay infrastructure and a few greybeards, the lower ranks are nearly working for free due to the low market value of their education and the resulting attractivity of maybe becoming one of the greybeards themselves. Also, some people might even understand that the greatest thinkers, just like the greatest sportsmen, are unlikely to be produced by focused training of a tiny elite selected by circumstances or a superficial entry test. Talent is rarely visible before a considerable amount of training has been applied.
Has no site tried to apply the standard techniques used by email providers to deal with spam? Ex. Spam filter trained to recognize spammers and harrasers.
I read Tony Hsieh's book with hopes for an inspirational read. I came away from the book thinking that it totally sounded cult-like. Making one of the fundamental tenets of Zappos to be working with people with whom you'd like to drink after work sounded crazy, especially when the decision became not just drink together after work, but also move to an entirely different city where you don't know anyone else and don't plan to meet anyone else except those who are already part of "the group".

What I originally thought. http://www.pakg1.net/2011/05/problem-with-team-building-init...

When people think like this, I get really worried. Like companies that tout the "Sunday test". Would you come into the office just to hang out with that guy on a Sunday, for no other reason, just want to hang out? At work, masks come on for various personal reasons. Outside of work, masks come off for various personal reasons. Rare is the person who can be the same person in work and out of work. And for the same reason, rare is the person who can suffice with a support network only at work.
I thought this was going to be yet another 'compiles to JavaScript' language. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it isn't.

Unfortunately, there is an "Iced CoffeeScript": http://maxtaco.github.io/coffee-script/
"Big companies choose to give us their money instead of to other companies."

What's the issue there?
Netflix, Hulu Plus, Spotify etc. are all benefiting from the old model of media. Albums, TV shows and movies make back their production costs (in the whole, if not individually) through theaters/DVD/album sales, and then Netflix/Hulu/Spotify buy the streaming rights, which are all gravy at that point. They're not sustainable models. The New York Times is further along a curve where digital eats the old media model, and is having to adapt sooner.
That is irony, your comment's contrast being the result of your complaint. :)

In general, I don't think webfonts are yet appropriate for body text. headlines, maybe. But it's a crap shoot if your reader's UA will render them right or not it seems.
I don't understand why people think working remotely can be as productive as working together under one roof. Unless you are doing things that does not require a team anyway, there are times when face-to-face conversations are necessary to get things done.
That's actually more likely to be reason (a).
Yep. When people ask me "where to visit" style questions, the Container Park is my first recommendation.

http://downtowncontainerpark.com/events/

Also... a MASSIVE robotic fire breathing praying mantis.

What's not to love?

My next recommendation is Red Rock National Conservation Area.

The strip is just a the strip. YMMV.
At my company, we've been struggling to "make it work" with remote workers for the past few years and it's been really problematic. We've had a lot difficulty getting remote employees to maintain consistent work schedules, provide frequent updates (trello), or simply communicating regularly (hipchat). I don't think it's a lack of tools at all: I think it's hiring the wrong people or having the wrong management (My fault either way. I'm mediocre at hiring and definitely not a good manager). I guess I just assume people will approach work with the same autonomy, motivation, and drive that I do myself. Unfortunately that has not been the case.

Either way, we've decided to scrap the idea of remote workers and are opening an office + hiring local next month to see how that goes. We're in Portland though, not SF, so it's not a ridiculously expensive decision like Reddit is making.
The lower case "distinguished senior database engineer" seems distinctly different than the awarded title "Distinguished Engineer." I am unsure if he meets the dictionary definition of "distinguished", but if he does, it isn't wrong to use it.
I'm Brazilian.

Those things are already too subtle and hard enough to learn in a second language. People defining the same expression with widely conflicting meanings in different places do literally turn it into a maze :)
When I saw the date and the location of Uzbekistan, I thought it was related to the huge earthquake (7.5) of 1966 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. But it looks like the bomb was exploded in September but the earthquake was in April.

More about this earthquake: http://www.tashkent-info.narod.ru/en/e_ze.htm
WHY YOU SHOULD CARE THAT LADY GAGA'S SUING ME FOR $1.4 MILLION
Now think for a minute which one of these actually matters more for continous well-being of mankind, and you'll see why effective charity is a hard problem.
"all donations are 100% US tax-deductible."

The tax-deductability of charitable donations has always sat weirdly with me. It's not exactly charitable if you're not actually sacrificing anything; it's more a rearrangement of your tax allocation. That can be a good thing in and of itself, but if you're going to claim donations on tax, it's not really something you should get a warm, fuzzy feeling for (in my opinion). I have a regular payment to MSF happening every month, and it doesn't really sit right with me that I can claim it on tax (and I don't).

On the other hand, this is a good argument against the libertarian dot-point that private charity 'would happen if we weren't taxed so much'. Given that you can offset your tax by your charitable donations, it becomes a zero-sum game, so why aren't people currently donating at the levels libertarians say they theoretically would? In the US, you can deduct up to half your gross income from tax, and given that the tax load is less than 50%, you can at least convert your income tax to charitable donations, and then start this theoretical "extra charity" that would apparently spring into action.
There is a lot of use case optimization going on here. The sorting inside the columnar store is in and of itself a huge performance boost. And saying that it scans 138Billion rows per second is completely wrong because it uses a lot of short cuts to get the result and it doesnt even use rows to store the data.

There is nothing stopping Oracle using the same optimization for their use case, although they would be better suited if someone from the crowd queried something that MemSQL didnt sort/optimize for.
Most people are happy to take that deal though: a cheaper subscription and a print edition every week. It's also more profitable for the New York Times. So those rocket scientists are unlikely to change their minds while that is the case.
Check out http://goodst.org/ to pay $0.25/day
I don't know where you live, but in the USA the weapons aren't an issue. This country has literally tens of millions of high quality small arms already available to the people.

Instead, the real key can be found in the words "well regulated" in the US 2nd Amendment.[1]

"[t]he adjective 'well-regulated' implies nothing
more than the imposition of proper discipline and
training."

A hundred true "soldiers", well trained in small unit tactics, can easily outfight twenty times as many idealist hipsters. It doesn't matter if the hipsters have the most expensive commercial rifles or if they're using crude AK knockoffs.

The professionals will win even if they aren't "heavily armed". Because they are trained and they're not simply a disorganized mob.

In the USA, most of these professionals can be found in "a well regulated militia", which nowadays we tend to call by a slightly different name, the National Guard. [2] Every state has one, they're full of veterans of the Gulf Wars and of Afghanistan, and they're not simply "weekend warriors".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_%28United_States...
Isn't this the company that the lady who caused that dongle fiasco worked for?
I have no family and no car, but I do live in Chicago alone in a big apartment (for about $1000/mo) and I have a sailboat which is cheap to own in Chicago because the marinas are inexpensive. I also save a large part of my take home pay.

Practically speaking even for me, to really cover a cost of living, giving like-for-like living situation, luxuries (like the boat) and maintaining my savings rate, double my current salary, or very close to that, would be the proper COL for moving to San Francisco. Ironically when most companies talk about COL it's usually on the order of 20%.

I highly doubt reddit is really offering a COL that allows people to reproduce their lifestyle like-for-like in SF. For people like me who are single and have a few luxuries and live in not a particularly cheap city you're looking at double. For a family living in a cheap city you're looking at multiple times that.

Really what Reddit is offering (assuming their COL is typical) is that the employee takes a pay cut, or they're fired. If that's not a shit sandwich I don't know what is.
That's right. "Distinguished Engineer" is a title at Microsoft. At the time of my tenure at Microsoft my title was "Senior Engineer". The bio was written without referring to the title, but rather the fact that I was "distinguished" with Gold Star awards and HiPo program. I asked to remove "distinguished" from the bio to remove any confusion. It's already live.
Since it's the first time ever I saw this thing, apparently Google failed at visibility this time. So there's the differentiation.
That's just the 300-weight version of the Lato font, one of the most widely used fonts on the internet.

If you have trouble reading it, you may need a new monitor or get your eyesight checked.
> In general, I don't think webfonts are yet appropriate for body text.

Personally, I would agree with that, yes. For body text, I highly prefer a screen-optimized Arial or Georgia over any oh-so-trendy webfont. But I acknowledge that this is the fault of Windows' subpar font rendering. I understand it if designers who have access to a OS with better rendering, and probably even to a hi-res display, don't want to be stuck with "font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" for life.

But this is not the point that I was trying to make. Here, they choose a font-face/font-size combination that makes the strokes 0.5px thick. It just physically can't work. What I see on the screen is probably just the artifacts of subpixel hinting. It will look better or worse depending on the rendering engine, but it's still a terrible design to rely on the half-pixels.