skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Any donkey can kick down a barn, but it takes a skilled carpenter to build one."

What language would be able to support billions of websites coded by millions of developers, rendered on thousands of different types of media and be easier to code with than CSS? Until I've seen a working demo of this mythical styling language, I'll be very grateful for what I've got.
Tesla D: New Model S goes 0 to 60 in 3.2 seconds, has “autopilot” mode
Bas Lansdorp already responded to some of the criticism: http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/news/mit-analysis-paints-bl...
looks good to me, I guess some draft was published intead of the correct version for some time.
the thing is if you build for unicode support from the start these conversations don't need to be had. The problem is not enough people treat text as a black box from the start (I can understand unwillingness to support bigger things like RTL)
Those are just titles. When you click on each of them, you get a more detailed description of what the item is and what risks it helps protect the wearer from. For example:

Boots

Ebola health workers typically wear rubber boots, with the scrubs tucked into the footwear. If boots are unavailable, workers must wear closed, puncture and fluid-resistant shoes.
Why our 30 hour / week policy rocks
I like the look of steep.it. Not that steep tea that but it's a nice idea and is more colourful than Google.
Yes, I run ZFS on Linux on my single drive laptop currently.

ZFS doesn't _need_ multiple drives to work well, but it is capable of using them if they're available. One can also run a HW raid solution underneath ZFS, where the RAID engine just presents ZFS with a small number of LUNs. It's all up to the admin; and what sort of performance, redundancy, and maintenance guarantees are required.
I'm currently reading "So Good They Can't Ignore You" which convincingly argues that getting really good at what you do - building "career capital" as the author says - is what we trade for the best jobs (compensation, flexibility, etc).

Nadella's initial comment was inarticulate in the sense that it could easily be misunderstood, but I heard "trust that if you acquire rare and valuable skills, the system will work for you, no matter your sex".
I don't think the term is misleading at all. Autopilot on aircraft does not remove the need for a pilot, it just maintains course and speed.
Basically all the early ones were Lisp companies:

* Symbolics, Lisp Machines

* BBN, Jericho Lisp Machine running Interlisp, lot's of applied AI stuff - BBN also did a lot of other things

* Thinking Machines, Lisp on the Connection Machine

MCC, Research Center with a hundred Lisp Machines used for research in AI (Cyc), chip design, object oriented databases (ORION), ...

* Xerox: Lisp Machine

* SRI: AI research
Between levels of service and visa requirements, west Africa is under de facto travel restrictions all the time.

Levels of service have dropped since the outbreak began, and you can bet that, for example, the U.S. State department is not issuing so many visas for individuals in that region.
Hey guys I created this site. Would love to get some feedback and will be happy to answer questions. There's a lot you can do with it, including reading/writing posts in any location around the world, searching for specific keywords, and following a geographic area. (ie. geofencing.)

One interesting way I was using it yesterday was to see what people are saying about ebola worldwide. A month ago there were almost no messages about it, but as you can see, people in the US, Western Europe, and Brazil are really freaking out now. (In fact, I learned yesterday of the first suspected Brazilian case by reading tweets about it on my own site. Pretty neat.) If you follow this link you'll see what I'm talking about: http://loqq.us/E
Extend this: be ready to leave every day. Treat each paycheck as a renewed offer of employment. Compare it with your current options of employment. Make the best decision for you.

Even if you don't change jobs very often, this position and attitude give you clarity.

Note: this is not at odds with the 'asking for a raise doesn't work' position. Its just that, employment means getting pay for work. If you can do better somewhere else, and you have no other personal reasons for staying, then go!
Journalists: Scientists found the love gene!

Scientists: That's not how it works at all! There is no love gene! A gene merely describes how and when to build particular proteins - e.g. hormones - which, together form complex processes in the organism which eventually result in ...

Journalists: Scientists found the love hormone!

Scientists: ...
have you been to /r/technology ?
another anecdote: I've only heard this mentioned specifically about using de-duplication.
I think this is great advice. I don't think it supports your assertion that this game is more difficult to play as a woman or a minority. If you claim that "clueless white men" take more risk, and therefore end up on both extremes (promoted or fired) more often, then they aren't privileged.
That sounds all well and give but it entirely ignores external factors.

For example, what if a big competitor moves into town, and they're paying 20% more than you. Are you just going to ignore it for 11 months while they pinch tons of your employees? No of course you aren't. So that statement is untrue even from a company's perspective.

That whole "annual review" thing is a manipulation by HR to take the discussion of pay and benefits off the table except for a predetermined period they themselves select (and can be ready with ammo against your requests or a list of increased responsibilities).

Honestly it is just a very effective technique that reduces pay increases and delays pay increases as much as possible (e.g. new employees often not getting their first bump for 12 months, even after they lave their probation period (e.g. 6 months)).
But the gauge for success shouldn't be whether it handles every situation better than humans, it should be whether the use of these tools leads to a lower rate of accidents/injuries/deaths. Just pointing out that there might specific situations where humans would do better, while downplaying all the situations where an automated system would do better, isn't all that useful. I mean, it works on an emotional level, but we should try to be objective by looking at the numbers.

Saying everyone should just drive defensively isn't a solution. The evidence for that is the fact that that's what we currently try to tell everyone to do, and it's still a problem that people drive poorly.
He gave an off the cuff answer that was wrong. He didn't write an essay about it that was proofread and considered. I'm not surprised that people are assuming they 'know his heart' based on one quick answer, but I am disappointed.

Something I've not seen pointed out elsewhere too, is that (unfortunately) this is an answer that every manager of every large company has ready at the tip of their tongue. It pops out from rote memorization. Not about women, but about all employees: "We only give raises as part of the normal annual review process. I understand you think your compensation needs to be reconsidered because ...... and I'll make sure to discuss that with the rest of the management team at review time." It's not good, but it's a well rehearsed blow off answer for which every manager is trained.

I think he's a good guy who is handling the aftermath well. He gave a stupid answer and apologized. I honestly the bigger mistake is telling employees to trust the system, rather than a single off the cuff answer that didn't fit well.
How do you keep your employees after firing 80 of their friends?
Asking has been the only way to get a raise above inflation in any corporation I've ever been at, even after taking on extra responsibilities.
From my perspective the first answer he gave is not a "wrong answer." It's the corporate party line. It's exactly what managers are coached by finance to tell their employees.

The revised answer is the politically correct one. It's what fits with the current pro-feminist narrative in media and pop culture.
They both work, with two caveats:

1. ZoL is currently incompatible with kernels built with either PAX_USERCOPY_SLABS or PAX_KERNEXEC_PLUGIN_METHOD_OR. The next release should fix PAX_USERCOPY_SLABS and might fix PAX_KERNEXEC_PLUGIN_METHOD_OR. The former should be fixed by a kmem-rework that the project plans to merge before the next release:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/spl/pull/369
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/2411

The fix requires both pull requests, but I have yet to refresh the second pull request with the fix. I plan to refresh it before I leave for LinuxCon Europe 2014.

The latter might be fixed by changes to drop support for pre-2.6.32 kernels that the project lead would prefer to merge for the next release:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/spl/pull/395

2. There is a bug specific to ZoL where unlinking a file with a directory extended attribute (Solaris-style) will trigger a full traversal of all objects (i.e. inodes) within a dataset. It manifests itself as the zfs_iput_taskq kernle thread consuming excessive CPU time. It is fixed for the next release:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/0d5c500d6cf4dd9e133...
I fully agree! He should have just said "I know it's a huge problem, and candidly I don't have the answer, the research shows that women get short shrift for asking for raises, and there doesn't seem to be a clear good way to do it. Of course, that's something we don't like to see at Microsoft, but changing/countering subtle biases is extremely hard, and this conference has inspired me to allocate some resources, and take a hard look at what is possible here"
You will never be able to move forward if the only possible reaction is negativity. That's not a feeling people want to join in on.
You wrote: "We haven't even figured out how to 'deal with' black people here in the US..."

That's an absurd statement. The US has an African American president. He was elected twice by a large majority.
No, that's flat out not true.

I've seen that metric thrown around when talking about the "dedup" feature of ZFS, but honestly, don't use dedup unless you know what you're doing. It's way to easy for things to go wrong otherwise.
Just looks like a regular Google search here.
I've never met anyone who likes CSS. Sure, I write it, the people I meet write it and it's unavoidable but it's little more than a necessary evil, as nothing else works on the web.
I've been lucky in my career. I'm valued; I get paid well; I have equity and perks.
Yeah this has definitely been around quite a while. I still find it much easier to just open a timer app on my phone. It provides a much nicer UI for selecting a time (scroll wheel) as opposed to typing it. This is handy when at a computer but I could see myself accidentally closing the tab/window and losing my timer.
Your interpretation is the way people are interpreting it and disagreeing with!
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There just isn't a lot of pervasive experience in the development community for multi-language unicode devlopment. Also xlrd is fairly old, although I don't know if that tool is part of what limits this to english.

In ten years it might be better.
This would probably be a good starting point. I've already found it quite useful sometimes to have programs output HTML+images so that the results can be viewed formatted. A terminal that could display that inline would be very handy! I don't really want one window for my text output and one for my HTML formatted output. There are some open questions (support links? do anything with javascript? etc.) but for my purposes just displaying reasonably-formatted graphical HTML output would be a useful improvement.

(Writing HTML files is workable, but a bit annoying to use in practice, because if you don't run the web browser from your program (= more windows) you have to tab over to the web browser and hit F5. And that assumes you're overwriting prior results on each new run, of course, which you might not want to do (= more coding and hassle).)

I suppose it wouldn't even have to be HTML necessarily, but HTML has the advantage of being some kind of standard and many people are familiar with it.
I agree with your main point but while there is a pay gap between men and women in similar roles within a company it is particularly an issue for gender paid less (in practice women).
Note that this is fairly common in rodent models for human diseases [1], but as the referenced article says: "Less than Perfect, Still Invaluable". I guess the same applies here.

[1] http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/institute_basic_biomedical_sc...
Your first paragraph suggests the problem lies within your team and not CSS. I'm sure that's not your intention but that's the way it reads.
I found an old ZFS disk laying around the other day (a few years old.. from when I was playing with zevo community edition ZFS and I had forgotten what I had stored on it) and I was interested in trying https://openzfsonosx.org so I installed it and mounted my disk up. It worked like a charm. I was pretty impressed.

I kind of screwed myself over though because I to do a bunch of file cleanup that I was hoping to perhaps roll back if it didn't go well so I created a snapshot and then got to work with some copying…

I wasn't paying attention and I ended up running out of space on the disk. The way ZFS snapshots work is that ZFS still does what it would normally do on a copy: writes data, then verifies the write is completed before deleting the old data. When there is a snapshot, it just skips the second step and leaves the old data around. This is how snapshots have zero performance impact on data write.

Turns out that I couldn't even delete the old snapshot (or rollback the new one) because I didn't have enough space to make any changes to the disk. I couldn't even delete files because they would stay in the snapshot.

Aha! I can add a disk to the pool! So I added a small disk to the zpool and then I could delete the snapshot ok. However, I forgot that you can't remove a disk from a zpool. I ended up having to move the data to another disk, drop the entire zpool and recreate it, and move it back.

Honestly, everything worked rather well except for forgetting a few of the limitations of ZFS. Given how often I have issues with HFS+ I really think it's pretty tempting for OS X.
He should just avoid these types of conferences all together so that things like this don't get negatively construed by association.

Absolutely. And this shows how useless this type of conference really is. If there's only one right answer to the question, the only benefit to attending is to pose for holy pictures about how sensitive you are to the needs of $DISADVANTAGED_GROUP.
According to this article, ZFS is sub-optimal for databases due to fragmentation of the db files. Could you please comment? Thx. http://bartsjerps.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/zfs-ora-database-...
I think you are doing a good thing by pointing out his exact words. You are right that subtle differences matter. However, Nadella was still incredibly tone-deaf here...and this wasn't the first time. He's been doing this over and over.

And in this case, the compensation system is NOT working right, and he certainly knows that, and the question was clearly asked in that context...the context of what we should do about a failed system which is unequal and unfair.
Right; so it can't be seen as a solution to suffering, right? Because you won't be suffering or not-suffering; you won't 'be' at all. Its not an answer, because the question is nonsensical at that point.

The only question worth considering is: how do I get from negative to positive? And the answer is: if the problem is external, then change your situation (move to Mexico; change your name; go plant potatoes in Idaho; whatever). If its internal, harder. You have to change yourself.
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They might have fixed it. I just was trying it out and it let me set a reminder 40 minutes away. But threw a message for 10mins. Thank you for the information though. Really helps me.:)
It is recent but I'm seeing >85% of visitors to non-technical sites using a browser which supports flexbox. At that point, using something like a CSS preprocessor to manage the prefixing / older spec support and deploying flexie for older versions of Internet Explorer starts looking like a very reasonable prospect. If your goal is simply to do vertical centering, align elements with consistent sizing, or have the ability to reorder elements in different contexts without having to change the DOM order, flexbox works well in all of the browsers listed at http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox.

That said, it is something of a travesty that one of the most popular reasons to dive down that particular rabbit hole in 2014 is to get real vertical centering: https://gist.github.com/acdha/a91a46706de02c37566a is still 11 lines for one of the most basic layout requirements.
Not sure what you mean. Are you suggesting everything produced today will simply be thrown away? There will be much better computers 500 years from now, but people will still want to see content created in the early days of computers (if only to giggle).
I love tesla for it's all electric cars.
But do we hate driving so much now that we're taking drivers out of the driving experience?
This is not just for tesla but any other automaker.

If you're doing 'self driving' cars, why not make better technology for public transportation which makes way more sense. Not to mention this picture: http://randomdude.com/images/car-bus-bike.jpg
Is a very subtle one.

Imagine having a workstation where the whole stack is written in Clojure (e.g. Lisp Machine).

Now when you open a REPL window, similar to what Common Lisp Interface Manager is, you can (:require) anything public from the OS, including applications, to interact with.

Powershell is similar in that, you are using objects and are able to reference any .NET class, COM instance or public functions from native DLLs by importing them.

So you can for example, import the Office COM automation API and interact with an Excel document that you just selected from the shell.
As usual I expect the original story to far outlast this. Outrage is the order of the day.
Why South Koreans are fleeing the country's biggest social network
Anyone else seeing an IIS .NET permissions issue error?
Your point is valid but please don't defend CSS, we deserve something better.
It's telling that that hospital's infectious disease ward was closed a few months before, e.g. see https://www.thespainreport.com/11651/spains-health-minister-... which echoing other reports says, quoting someone, it was reopened "in a rush, urgently and at top speed".
Or, Siri for this: "5 minute timer" works great.
I would guess that the processing power is all that matters. It's not difficult or particularly dangerous to drive without being able to hear. I would guess that people driving remote controlled cars with 360-degree views but no other cues would perform very nearly as well as real drivers.
It's one thing to internationalize software. That's hard. But not being able to handle UTF-8 in 21st century is downright shameful.

The notion of non-ASCII characters in user Excel documents IS NOT something rare even for English speaking nations. There are tons of people with foreign names, addresses and other personal information which is commonly stored in Excel documents. And the funny thing is: it's usually not alot of additional work to support UTF-8 if you START correctly.
well done. How have you done the map?
It's already solved for highway driving. There have been radar assisted cruise control since 1997 and consumer cars that can handle stop and go traffic automatically since 2006. I don't think anyone who recommend or take liability for taking your hands off the wheel, however.
Wow, no. I don't trust the internet to give me real facts about elephants, let alone anything life-threatening. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiality_and_Other_T... If the equipment had some built-in tamper detection, and Google's sensors digitally signed data if they didn't detect tampering, then I might trust it enough to drive with.
Conspire has become my go-to networking tool. It uses your real working relationships, so it's much more accurate and useful than LinkedIn. I've used it to make introductions, and to seek introductions, and it's incredibly powerful.
I would say it is not.
Anecdotal, and not only anecdotal but anecdotal with a sample size of exactly one.

I'm currently working as a software engineer at my first post collegiate (post college? Collegiate sounds cooler.) position. I started a bit under market and after about eight months I scheduled a meeting with my CTO to review my compensation. Stressed that I enjoyed working at the company but I had come to understand that in similar roles at other companies I would receive a significant boost in compensation. I provided examples of value that I bought to the team (which was simple because I was one of the first programmers hired in the states by the company and had proved myself many times and received many exemplary quarter reviews from my CTO and super) and was asked for an indication of the salary I would like.

I provided a range, and my next paycheck was at the top of that range.

I got very lucky in that the day I asked, my CTO sent along a request, which happened to be on the day that all salary reconsiderations were happening and so within a few hours it was approved. That was merely chance. I had no internal understanding of the system prior.

However, prior to asking, I did my research and concluded the best way to receive a raise was to 1) ask. 2) stress that I would like to stay in the company and enjoyed my work there. 3) show the value I bought to the team. and 4) to do so a little before my one year review.

I'm now a vested employee :-).
Agree that text is being abused in Unix all the time. The problem with passing everything around as text is that you cannot reason about anything, because everything is of the same type. One big advantage of object-based systems is that they can catch type errors and notify you of the problem. Text pipelines will simply break because one of your implicit assumptions didn't hold.
Ah ha! Thanks. Data deduplication. Well, yeah, that makes sense to me. Thank you very much for clearing that up.
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Patio11 made a great point years ago which is still true.

For that matter, if you think that there is a vast pool of untapped female talent working for 80% of the price of equivalent male talent… what are you doing hiring men, again? That would suggest that you could field whole teams of ladies and clean up.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/02/23/women-men-and-other-thin...
you are comparing the past with the present. Which is exactly my point. If you were in the past, you would think that you were in the most exciting times. You wouldn't know about the future. You would never say "oh, in 30 years time will be the most important time". It's a human failing, we always think that right now is the most important.

We can compare now with the past. But whenever you are in a now, you will always think it's the most important time.

So. We have to remember that everyone always thinks that their now is the most important, and we have to remember this when we think about what the future will be like.

Basically what I am saying is that we need perspective, but that humans are naturally biased to whatever moment they are living in.
People disagree that the quality of your craft is more a determining property of your success than your sex?
ahem. "It is not a nuclear war, meteorit or terrorizem, but those small organizem which eveolve on a microscopic level, where we cannot see them." From the very first paragraph of the article. If that "looks good to you," then your standards must be as low as the author's.