skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: Woah, my mistake! I thought you were responding to my statement above. My apologies. What is the etiquette on HN for this? Is it editing out my comment, which, given my misunderstanding of the context, is irrelevant to your statement?

[ Did you read (critically) the comment I was responding to?

I mostly agree with your statement, except for the implication you may be making that agenda always has this pejorative meaning. It simply doesn't. If you want to understand people, you should not assume that it always does. And we should not police people for choosing to bring the non-pejorative acknowledgement of the fact that groups have purposes and goals.

If LGBT groups did not have agendas, they would not be worth supporting. ]
What Gets Saved and What Gets Lost: An Interview with Jill Lepore
This reminds me of the end of the famous DFW commencement speech [1]:

"I know that this stuff probably doesn't sound fun and breezy or grandly inspirational the way a commencement speech is supposed to sound. What it is, as far as I can see, is the capital-T Truth, with a whole lot of rhetorical niceties stripped away. You are, of course, free to think of it whatever you wish. But please don't just dismiss it as just some finger-wagging Dr Laura sermon. None of this stuff is really about morality or religion or dogma or big fancy questions of life after death.

The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.

It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:

This is water.

This is water."

[1] http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DFWKenyonAddress2005.pdf
I am using btsync to handle saving android titanium backup backups off-phone and to easily push podcasts from my personal server to my phone and every other device. It also keeps my keepass synced between devices. It has solved so many problems it's not even funny.
Looking at this from a country outside of the US, it's almost as if US employment laws were created with lots of help from large corporations who wanted to treat their employees like workhorses rather than people.
Yeah, it's a great theory, but in practice there are some obstacles.

Most quick-growing plants have a short life-cycle after which they decay and put their carbon back into the atmosphere. The only plants that really lock up carbon for decades or centuries are trees, and growing new forests is slow and daunting. You can solve the fast-growing plant problem by continuously growing plants (so as the old ones die, new ones lock up the same amount of carbon), but that means that a given acre of land has to be devoted in perpetuity to locking up X amount of carbon. And fast-growing, large plants tend to degrade soil quality -- they need rich nutrients to support that fast growth. They also need water, which is not necessarily locally abundant.

Reforestation is still probably the best way to capture carbon from the atmosphere. Do something where you build a young-growth forest, cut down trees and do something with the wood other than allow it to decay or burn it, let new trees grow. But it's not just a matter of flinging some seeds on the ground and yelling "Done!"
This sounds like a great opportunity! Do you guys have any case stories of people doing this? Would love to hear about the impact experteers were able to have.
Sacred Scripture does, in fact, have a scale of "really bad" sins.

For more information, look into the seven deadly sins[1], sins that cry to heaven for vengeance and sins against the Holy Spirit[2].

There is also a passage in one of the epistles of the Apostle St. John:

"If a man knows his brother to be guilty, yet not of such a sin as brings death with it, he should pray for him; and, at his request, life will be granted to the brother who is sinning, yet not fatally. There is a sin which kills; it is not over this that I bid him fall to prayer. Sin may be wrong-doing of any kind; not all sin is fatal." (1 John 5:16-17)[3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins

[2] http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/what-are-sins-that-cr...

[3] http://www.newadvent.org/bible/1jo005.htm
> When a person's entire exposure to a group consists wholly of a few bad members, they are likely to figure that sample representative.

But Feminism isn't a group; it is an idea. If some of the followers misbehave, you should still be able to believe and support in the idea.

To me, supporting ideas only when you "like" the (majority of?) people supporting them is akin to supporting free speech but only for the positions that you believe in.

(edit)

> Why do you feel compelled to couple it with insults?

I'm not sure where you're reading that. The "You" at the end was directed at the fictional person that I'm attempting to emulate with the 1/2/3 reasoning, not you.
I don't believe in the cause that Eich donated to. But taking away someone's job over a political donation is preposterous and disturbing. If he had donated to a liberal cause and was forced out because conservative employees had a problem with it, the entire media would have come down on Mozilla like a ton of bricks. Instead his resignation was celebrated.

Chilling political discourse by threatening the livelihoods of those you disagree with is a threat to democracy itself and should not ever be allowed to happen. Eich's forced resignation was an offense against everything America allegedly stands for.
As you probably have read, the historical reason for a limit on 'sick days' was abuse by people who were unhappy with their employer for one reason or another, that resulted in some employers simply firing people who go sick, and that lead to labor organizing itself in the form of unions and well you got sick leave as a thing [1].

I think it is generally a crutch used instead of good management (like mass surveillance is a crutch against better police work, and nuclear weapons are crutch against better diplomacy) but so far we know the 'no sick leave' state (pre-union organizing etc) and the 'fixed sick leave' state (what we have today). The new thing, 'don't work when you are sick or recovering' regardless of limits, is a bit too unbounded for most folks. And because of that lack of forecastability it makes forecasting productivity or work production very difficult. Anything that makes it harder on management has a fairly tough road ahead of it.

[1] http://www.unionplus.org/about/labor-unions/36-reasons-thank...
Contribute your skills, travel the world, get a different perspective and make an impact. I think this is a great recipe for personal growth and fulfillment
> For similar reasons, translations of technical books written in English are often unsatisfactory (when they get done at all).

That's true. When I read a CS book in Greek, it's hard to understand what the author wants at once. Words like module when talking about kernels for example, are not easy to translate.
Will do - but I suppose a "filter-less" version might be what I was leaning toward, as a potential user.
>> If he truly does believe in God, then, knowing for sure that he is gay, he has to believe that God made him gay.

No, not at all. This is only one very narrow view of how a deity may function, or the kind of relationship a diety may have with the universe, or the humans within it.
This seems like a procedural step back from XSLT.

Don't get me wrong, I certainly am not fond of XSLT, its programmatic fundamentals were certainly lacking (technically there, practically a pain in the ass) and the implicit nature of the "current node" always weirded me out, but the very descriptive match/transform of XSLT was reasonably great, any not-too-badly-written stylesheet would show the output structure shine through.

If I wanted something to replace XSLT, I'd take adding XLST-type (match-and-transform) capabilities to a general-purpose language, not attempting to extract a fucked-up version of a jQuery DOM manipulation chain.
Surface also uses these magnetic connectors btw. So either there is a patent sharing agreement, so they have somehow circumvented it.
Dump them into the ocean? That's a bit of a scary thought. Not only tinkering with the oceans ecological balance, but also the idea of our genetically engineered plankton spawning out of the control. I'd prefer to keep them in controlled environments.
Hey, I have implemented Curves transform in JS too! :) You can find it at http://www.Photopea.com (Ctrl+M). It works pretty fast even on large images.
I am no expert on this but if games is the primary target, would it make sense to make some sort of vector(ization) API? Or some tesselator API.

It's honestly baffling that we keep away from threads in javascript but do all these optimizations like SIMD which are very minor. I mean practically every CPU out there has multiple cores. Workers don't cut it because they require copying data.
How Apple Pay handles a canceled credit card
Maternity and paid sick leave policies have very little to do with tax rates.

See the CA state budget here: http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2014-15/Enacted/agencies.html

The big-ticket items are the things affecting tax rates, like 11B on corrections, or almost 50B on K-12 education, and another 50B on health care services.
> The most important process underlying strokes of creative genius is the tendency to pay attention to things that normally should be ignored or filtered out.

I'd add that it's not only paying attention to these things, but questioning them.

Noticing something no one else does is useless unless it incites action. Deciding to act upon something can only happen if there's sufficient curiosity. Curiosity comes from questions. Why? What if? How might one...?

Questions are so fundamental to everything from creativity to innovation, management, sales, relationships...I just had my eyes opened by A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger.
It amazes me that people think this should be at the employers' discretion.
I am also at BU (staff) and my wife and I had our first child this past spring. Our benefits are good compared to my past employers, and I took a few weeks of paid vacation time so I could stay home with my wife and help after her c-section. I'm glad to hear that there is leave available for graduate students as well. Are the 60 days of paid leave for sick time or paternity leave? I had not heard that anything changed recently with the rules around time off.

Best of luck to you and your wife!
Do my personal choices really effect the greenhouse gases in the air? I am not sure that they do any more.
This is a huge problem on wall street, where trades must have predictable latencies. Stop-the-world garbage collectors are another source of latency "catastrophes".
> If you're "okay with gays" and "not okay with gay marriage", it really means that you're not okay with gays.

That's not true. You're stretching a line between two distant things in hopes of having a nice neat world of bigots on one side, and everyone else on the other. "You're either with us, or you're with the bigots".

That's an unreasonable ultimatum that I don't subscribe to.

I might be "okay with gays" but I might be "not okay with the annual mardi gras." It's a festival that closes down the streets and has stupid giant penises and vaginas on floats to represent the "gay community"? If I were gay I would distance myself from that crap.

In your world, I'm a bigot because I HATE that overly-camp, sledge-hammer decorative approach with men in g-strings running around in heels and pink fluffy decorations everywhere and don't forget the awful gay dance music. That's what it is to be gay? I don't think so. The mardi gras (at least the one where I live) needs to die. But I can't say that because I'll be "anti-gay". I'm not anti-gay, I just hate the annual celebration of the "gay community" by erecting giant penises on floats and broadcasting it all on live TV.

Do you see the problem? Just because you see gay marriage as something only a bigot would oppose, doesn't mean you have the right to drag everyone else into that binary mindset.
Do wireless chargers spend more electricity to charge your phone? Or the same amount?
Finding a place to live with two dogs and no car can be a pain. Somewhere with a nearby vet, pet store, and dog parks can be tough to find especially if you've got to reference 10 different websites. After moving to Oakland I had enough and decided to team up with my buddy Chris and build CityLeash. We've got a lot great features in the works but we're always eager to hear feedback so please feel free to reach out: contact@cityleash.com
A backpack solves all of those issues. None of that is necessarily very large.

As for the shower, some work places have showers. Depending on how much you work out and what the climate is like you may or may not be a heavy sweater after a ride to work. People who work out often tend to sweat more because their bodies adapt to their routines and start to sweat at the slightest hint of physical exercise. People who don't work out extensively often tend to be more reserved when it comes to sweating. You are going to work, not a date. So it may not be an issue at all.

I can't wait to get a bike next season and start biking to work.
There are experiments with threads in JS, however that would be a much bigger change to the language than adding something like a SIMD API, so it is more controversial and takes longer to sort out.
The manufacturing, maintenance, & mining processes backing them do, albeit less than, e.g., a coal-fired power plant.
This. I used to live in Kolkata (then Calcutta), where she had setup her place, and it was sick to see people being asked to pray to the Christ when they needed food and medicine instead.
contributor here. Cookiecutter conversion is in progress: https://github.com/jacebrowning/template-python/pull/34
I am also bothered with the way workers are treated. I sickened by the way these companies are polluting the world.
I've never been O.K. with this bottom line crap. It seems
like people really don't care though? As long as they can
have their comfortable life, exciting life, powerful life, and their electronic gadgets, etc., the're not loosing any sleep?
Maybe it's just human nature to turn a blind eye to the real
problems. Yes--Tim Cook coming out is a deal. Personally, I felt he should have came out a long time ago.(He was financially able to years ago?) If you have a deep felt
issue and you are poor, or have no power in society; I understand why you hide, and don't try to make the world a better/fairer place. Tim Cook should have came out years ago. Why--because he was an American, and was wealthy. Being American and having the protection of wealth gives you
a platform to really make a difference. O.K. Tim you are gay. The people around you(Bay Area demographics) never cared. Bring the manufacture of your products back to the
United States, or to countries that don't exploit workers, and decimate environments. I'll get hammered for having
an opinion on Hacker News, or any opinion other than a carefully scripted, beyond polite waste of words.
I think that's an enlightening way of looking at things, but doesn't quite bring the same shame as referring to ourselves as an uncivilized country.

Perhaps if the national debate was about being a civilized country instead of framing it as 'socialism' we'd eventually be able to move into the modern era in the context of social policy.
Per your first paragraph, they usually frame it as, "Would you vote for a candidate with the following background:" as a way to gauge personal feelings on a matter.

A Gallup one recently: http://www.gallup.com/poll/155285/atheists-muslims-bias-pres...
Ask HN: Does Python package management suck or is it just me?
I have been learning Python for the past few days and absolutely love the language but I just can't wrap my head around package management. Here's a few keywords I've stumbled upon trying to learn how package management is done: easy_install virtualenv pip setuptools distutils pypi wheel egg site-packages

Compare this with Node's npm and package.json. I'm almost considering giving up Python at this point just due to the apparent complexity of package management.

Is it just me? Is it not such a big deal in practice? Anyone else coming from Node.js land got confused by Python's package system?
I don't think the point of these pieces of journalism (the podcast and this response) are advocating 50/50 gender split in CS. It's examining a phenomenon where females fell off the map, and it is trying to understand the factors that went into that shift.

It's pretty clear that in today's society women make up a smaller portion of the workforce in general, so achieve a 50/50 split in all professions is simply impossible. And there may be anomalies in some professions where one gender is more represented, but there is no inherent reason that men should outnumber women so greatly in a profession like computer science. It's important to examine the impact social influences like marketing and advertising, etc. have.

Rather than caring what a gender quota number says, and trying to argue that it's unfair to women, it's exposing the underlying societal factors, thus suggesting a direction for change.
This is great, I often start projects with JSON response that I build out so it's great to have a standard to work with.

One question I have is how does it differentiate between the spec and the structure? Like if I actually have a property called type?

All-in-all this is an exciting time for JavaScript devs with all the JSON stuff going on. Here's another JSON-centric project I discovered recently: http://jsonpatch.com/
While what you say is true, for the benefit of the readers not very familiar with India I would like to add a few things for context. If from the name of the politician linked by the parent comment you come to the conclusion that homosexuality is frowned upon only by muslim politicians, you couldnt be more wrong. India is an incredibly high variance country. In some metros you would find gay pubs and bars, open kissing on the streets among gay partners with no one bothered a bit (if your state is one of the right wing ones then YMMV). Then again there are states (correlated with Hindi and Haryanvi speaking regions) where parents and family would kill their children, subject them to community sanctioned gang-rape because they married or proposed to marry someone considered different. Note that these 'punishments' and 'corrective measures' have popular sanction within the community and the perpetrators often voluntarily surrender after the incident.

It is as if India remains frozen in different centuries in different regions, ranging from the modern to the grotesquely medieval. If you ask your local hindu rightwinger, its of course all the muslim invaders fault that they have to keep continuing these practices. Hinduism of course has done nobody no wrong, just been stabbed in the back (this should sound familiar).

Anal sex (in fact anything apart from missionary position) continues to be a crime according to law but it is not something that gets enforced unless the enforcer has some specific axe to grind. That law certainly does not represent practice. Indian legal system is another weird thing. Most of the laws were set down by the colonizers, not to set a framework for justice but to facilitate control. We as Indians have done little to dispose that baggage, rather it has been actively embraced by those in power to exercise similar control, often with a lot of popular support.

Quite interestingly, a marginalized community would see nothing wrong in cruel treatment of another marginalized community, often happily taking the lead in the harassment. A low caste person in a caste'ist state would see nothing wrong in hounding someone just because he is muslim, or belongs to a caste that is even lower. A gay person in such a state may see nothing wrong in persecuting other minorities.
> I am no expert on this but if games is the primary target, would it make sense to make some sort of vector(ization) API? Or some tesselator API.

Both of those would be harder, and less general. Game developers are asking for SIMD; they aren't asking for specialized APIs.

> It's honestly baffling that we keep away from threads in javascript but do all these optimizations like SIMD which are very minor. I mean practically every CPU out there has multiple cores. Workers don't cut it because they require copying data.

Threads aren't easy to "just add" to JS. Making a thread-safe GC perform as well as today's highly-optimized single-threaded GCs is hard. And not even counting the engineering effort required, none of the millions of lines of JavaScript out there is thread-safe. Of course we will need a way to do threads eventually, but it's much harder than SIMD.
The reason this is placed at the door of Cook is because he's very likely one of, if not the most responsible person for those choices at Apple. He played a very large role in operations at Apple. He also sits on the board of Nike, partly because he is very well regarded in supply chains and operations. Are you going to sing Nike's praises as well for worker treatment?

Whether or not those choices are moral is certainly up for debate. Whether or not Time Cook was largely responsible for them is not.

And as for the "market rate" you are talking about a country that does not allow it's currency to float on the exchanges, heavy subsidizes or outright controls much of the industry and denies workers access to information online about working conditions and pay. Playing into a regime that intentionally abuses workers to ramp up their industrial output wouldn't be something I would be particularly proud of and most definitely would not be something I would consider controlled by market forces.
Thanks!

A few highlights here on our "Experteering Stories" page... including a UX Designer from Amazon.com. https://movingworlds.org/experteering-stories

Outside of the published stories, we've also placed technologists into innovation hubs to support startups, with social enterprises, universities, and also into nonprofits (including the Red Cross in Kenya) for roles from database management to devops to full stack web development.
Sure - frozen has fantastic messages for girls. But a 1 second glimpse of a family and the love between two sisters is very far from Disney making a statement on homosexuality.
Why Are Victorian Houses So Creepy?
I'm for it, but it's harder to legislate.

What if the father and the spouse are different people? What if someone meets and moves in with an already pregnant woman? What there isn't a spouse/SO but a live-in grandmother would want time off to perform similar functions?

It will be a challenge to both accommodate diverse family situations and make sure all newborns and mothers are properly cared for.
There's no personal information here. Everything you see was what she had posted at the very end of the article, her signature, and common knowledge "Duke City" is Albuquerque. What remains were DDG searches for the specific phrases she put into her article in quotes.

I understand "outing" is a legitimate concern, but these are bits of information that she herself has revealed. The rest is conjecture, as I'm sure she would have expected of her audience as an educated and reasonably intelligent person.