skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your quest to fit the data is admirable; the data available to me suggests that you either have some axe to grind, and are hiding your axe behind the veil of the reasoning process on display, or else you suffer a breathtaking lack of introspection, since every human being alive has experienced a variety of pathological effects, like poor decision making and poor impulse control, as a result of some temporary stressor. You're hungry, you yell at your wife; you get chewed out by your boss, you kick the dog; you get fired and you buy a bottle of vodka and a pepperoni pizza and spread out on the couch.

It takes minimal imagination to extend these common experiences to a world where one is not momentarily hungry, or momentarily stressed, or momentarily taking shit from someone in power, but is rather subject to a constant onsalught of stressors due to poverty or systematic racism, and to imagine the consequences that such circumstances might produce. And yet you're not alone in your failure to do this minimal amount of mental work.

So as an aid to you in explaining the variance in the data, since your own life's experiences have seemingly left you with your current best explanation that a wide swathe of humanity is demonstrably and inherently inferior to the swathe of humanity that is currently winning, this book might serve as a useful meta-analysis covering the relevant issues:

http://us.macmillan.com/scarcity/

References inside.
Yes — HotSpot does much of this, but the inability until recently to encode "call this function which expects some number of arguments" in the instruction set has historically been the limiting factor. invokedynamic helps a lot, but it adds enough levels of indirection that AIUI often enough isn't inlined for it to really solve everything. I wonder if a tracing JVM would handle it better? Probably.
It is not particularly slippery.

In theory, I could also have you arrested because your sleeve accidentally brushed mine in a crowded elevator. "Assault!", I cry, while I flop to the ground like a soccer player. But that's not a big problem because it turns out that legislators and prosecutors and judges and juries are not total idiots. The flopping thing has been attempted, seen as a problem, and generally dealt with.

It's also not even a slope. Blasphemy has been a crime in plenty of places, but we're moving away from that. Ditto crimes like insulting the king or harming the state. We move away from it because we get better at discerning actual harm from societally valuable dissenting speech.
True - within the acting community there is primarily virtuous behavior. There is certainly no reputation for male gatekeepers within acting or music to perv on women trying to break into the field.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casting_couch
Whole Foods doesn't seem to have a lot of trouble setting up shop in more affluent Chicago neighborhoods.

Moreover: people who live in Hyde Park do not as a general rule drive into Englewood for groceries (non-Chicagoans: Hyde Park is an upper class white college town stronghold in the predominantly black south side, and Englewood has a reputation as one of the most dangerous areas in the city).

I'm also having a hard time imagining anyone getting on the Dan Ryan to get groceries, given that there's a giant Whole Foods right at the intersection of the Ryan and the Ike.

If Whole Foods wanted to light up the upper/middle class south side, there are less "interesting" places to park one; Chatham, maybe, for instance. Auburn/Gresham.

Regardless, I'm glad they didn't stick it in Beverly. That map of Whole Foodses in Chicago would have been pretty damning.
All, or maybe most, well and good. Not sure if re-directing the proceeds from police to general funds will eliminate conflicts of interest.

Instead, the incentives to seize assets might well expand now that the legislative power will be tasting the goodies.

I know at least one cop who will vouch that at least one place he worked enforced a quota system for traffic tickets.

If you believe such pressure would not extend to asset seizure, you might want to cut back on your drug consumption.
I did exclude the cache part when measuring the memory usage. And they were measured using standard tools like top, ps, etc.

Most likely I'd have used the system monitor that comes with KDE.
I guess I'll have to take your word for it. Still seems odd that they doxx you and try to get you fired if you're a woman. Maybe you're right and people are that crazy on the Internet.
Why I left the job it took me ten years to create
I suspect the high memory usage OP saw on Linux was a combination of:

- swappiness:
they said they switched swappiness to zero but my guess is that by that time their mind was made up. Also, from the mention of swapping and the mention of apps being slow to come back to life, I really think this was the main reason for their memory issues. For reference, high swappiness will make the kernel will push memory for apps into swap to the benefit of caches. Default is 40, I have not seen one single case where that is a good thing in 12 ro 15 years. Do yourself a favour, make your first CM rule to switch swappiness to zero!

- the myriad of small apps in a lot of modern Linux distro (pieces of systemd, pieces of gnome (even on servers!), dbus, etc...). They are minimalistic distors out there which use a very small footprint

- the way memory is reported:
If you look at free, the first line shows free memory as what's not in use by apps, cache nor buffers. If anything, free memory on the first line is memory that the OS is wasting (not using). If you want to know what is available for use by apps, you have to look at the second line (-/+ buffers/cache)
This could be a third-rail question, but I wonder how that "dropout" rate compares to any arbitrary field when measured by the same yardsticks. Women are still the primary caregivers for 95% of infants born, and hence will always show up as more frequent "dropouts," so that statistic really needs to control for this factor somehow to be compelling.

Without that control, the anecdotes are more convincing than the statistic, so why bother with the statistic?
Edit: Stream of thought below; sorry if it's awkwardly worded/structured.

This is beginning to happen - harassment laws are a thing, and so are anti-bullying laws (the line between the two is different depending on jurisdiction I believe).

The question I have is around how far we can go with these laws before we start to impinge on valid civil rights concerns. As your sibling comment explains, it's pretty difficult to establish where the line is - too far and you start to impinge on legitimate comment.

Personally, I tend towards the free-speech angle, but it depends on context. For example, I feel that there's a difference between bullying IRL and on the internet, and between Twitter and Email.

Perhaps the difference is in the directness of the conversation and the avoidability. For example, workplace bullying laws (and policies) are necessary because the conversation is quite personal and there's great difficulty to avoiding it. Twitter is not necessarily personal, and avoiding those you don't like is pretty simple.

But what if your work is on Twitter? What if most of your personal life is there? It's obviously not reasonable to ask someone to abandon either of those things. Do you prosecute the ringleader? What if the first result for your name is a derogatory page on Encyclopaedia Dramatica?

It occurs to me that the answer might be found by a creative interpretation of defamation/libel laws.
There's a lot to like about w3w, but note that the word->location mapping isn't open data, so think carefully before becoming too reliant on it.
I've just started using AMD and have no idea how this differs (maybe it effectively doesn't), so it'd be nice to have a paragraph on that somewhere.
I understand that we are all programmers, and so we love to nitpick things. But the point of that list is not to say that none of them ever cause physical harm, but that in the cases where those things don't cause measurable physical harm, they are still often crimes that would merit punishment.
Gamergate
Or:

free -h

h for human, so it converts to KiB, MiB or GiB depending on which one is the most suitable.
The website http://controversyextraordinary.blogspot.com is one of the more intelligent site that keeps both atheists and so-called religions on their heels.
Ask HN: Part-time remote dev positions?
I've spent some time searching on the interwebs, but haven't found any.

Do part-time, remote dev positions exist? If so, if anyone is in such a situation how did you find it? Thanks!
Care to back that statement up? Any proof, any proof at all?

Randi's post does not have any proof linking #GamerGate, an amorphous hashtag to threats, or even casually proving that "GamerGate supporters" are the ones carrying out the threats. It's just an opinion.

It'd be pretty easy going back in one's twitter timeline to make that determination, would it not?
By one side you mean one person who affiliates with that chosen side, trying to say that all the SJW's or GamerGate people support murdering children is ridiculous.
If cities arent allowed to include projected seizure revenue in future budgets, but D.C. has budgeted for their seizure revenue through 2019, whats going to give this new reform any teeth? Whats the difference in flouting one law or two?
"plenty of women" (what does that even mean, anyway?).

Not really sure - I don't personally view a lack of $GROUP as a problem. If you feel similarly then disregard my entire post - it's premised on the idea that the reader does view a lack of women as a problem.

There are two claims here. One is that bad behavior exists. The other is that this bad behavior plays a significant causal role in keeping women out of tech.

The latter is what I'm questioning. Since large number of women seem to want to enter acting in spite of it having a far worse reputation (never heard of a "casting couch" in tech), it seems that bad behavior alone is a poor explanation for the lack of women.
For the most part, I like having my assumptions challenged, but Chris is more credible the closer his core argument is to the facts he's mustering. In comparing, say, rural Indian poverty to US urban poverty, he can marshal a pretty strong argument. But in diagnosing the roots of US urban policy from BLS statistics, his rhetorical strategy is a lot less effective.

Not every worthwhile commenter is going to make you happy all the time.
I haven't found Anita's videos particularly compelling as unique analysis, but that's become an utterly tertiary issue to the completely insane crap which has happened to her, and started happening, at the mere idea that she would make them.
Accusing someone of cheating on you by posting their personal information and sordid details of the affair on the internet and trying to get as many people to read it as possible? Yep, I'd call that slut-shaming.
Feedback:
Partyoftheminds: Sounds elitist.
Pro-tech party: A weird & big category to be pro or against.
AGI: How will this affect FTL travel? :p
Website: A wiki would be better, imo.
No reason it wouldn't work for ruby. It's about propagating type information. The way specific operators are implemented makes not much difference.
The 'he' seems not to be the most important part here. (Though, as the GP points out in another comment, the singular 'they' is useful.) The particularly nasty part is this:

> And I eventually leave, because now they're being really sexual and creepy.

Mistaking someone's gender is a relatively small lapse (though I understand it gets painfully annoying when it happens all the time) but the subsequent creepiness is just actively toxic.
Funny, they have a perfectly translated Dutch version they serve to me, it looks like a lot of effort and time has been put into this project.
Being honest, you come off as extremely out-of-touch with the experience of poor people in the US. Have you had any close relationships with poor people? I don't mean an educated person that is down on their luck, or college students eating ramen, but someone who grew up poor and is still poor now.

Most people here probably agree with you that poor people tend to have worse impulse control. But you seem totally unaware of how significantly stress, trauma, or desperation affect impulse control. It's more than just stress about paying the bills. I tutored reading at an intercity elementary school and there were kids there who had family members incarcerated or murdered, homes foreclosed, parents making the local headlines for child abuse, etc. One boy I taught had to move out of his house because someone shot it up in a driveby looking for his older brother. A girl from a refugee family had 19 siblings and a physically abusive, alcoholic father. My coworker taught a boy whose parents were both in prison for murder. It was not uncommon to see little kids wearing RIP shirts for friends and family members. These stories are so much more common than you'd think. I'm not being hyperbolic, look at gunshot and homocide maps for Chicago in a single year:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Yt65uE9YlMk/UR7-1mGIo8I/A...

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?oe=UTF8&source=embed&ie...

Sure, a phenomenally resilient person can make it out of horrible circumstances, but the average person isn't able to. I personally don't think I would have fared well if I grew up in a bad environment. As a younger person I was angry and depressed enough already without the reality of hearing gunshots nightly, losing family members, facing systemic discrimination, going to bed hungry, etc. I had a great family and I still fucked up along the way sometimes. I also had a support system that allowed me to take the risks that made me independent and not poor today.

I somewhat disagree with your last point too. I grew up in the US but now live in a very poor country. The struggle is bad in both countries, just different.
Tim Harford tried to myth-bust this a few years ago. Yes, you can buy Maldon sea salt at Whole Foods, but you can also buy (more prominently displayed) Morton kosher, and it's priced the same was it is at Safeway. There are organic lemons that cost $1/unit more than conventional lemons, but there are also conventional lemons.

The way you tend to spend more money at Whole Foods than you would at Safeway is, you go for staples and end up buying premium stuff. So: don't do that.

The "Whole Paycheck" trap is mostly a problem for people who aren't price sensitive when picking out groceries.
Purpose: Why Creation Transcends Evolution That Has None of It
Turkish Hackers Crack Electric Utility; Delete $670B of Pending Bills
Drove back from Brooklyn last night after celebrating my friend's 40th at Arrogant Swine, and then I wake up to see this on hacker news. Crazy.

This restuarant appears out of nowhere in Bushwick/warehouse district. Being a North Carolina native I was a huge skeptic walking in. Mr. Ho has an NC (and SC) flag on the wall, usually not a symbol of pride outside the state (even for me), but in the case of BBQ it's respectable and makes a statement to anyone who know's anything about pulled-pork BBQ.

If you're ever in Brooklyn, definitely check it out. There's something to be said about eating, drinking, and enjoying the vision of an entrepreneur. Impossible to do with your stereotypcial start-up.
Actually in the current version to expose them to the global scope, you should add the global attribute to your script tag and pass the window as it's value, like global="window".
That's a very generous description of the zoe post.

If Eron wanted to only accuse Zoe of cheating on him, he could have done that and left it there.
It saved him from buying a new laptop (he could have also only upgraded the ram)
I really love FreeBSD and use it for servers, but I wouldn't use it for desktop. It lags behind Linux quite a bit (which itself lags behind proprietary OSes) in things like driver support. I've found it very hard to use with modern hardware.
The pronoun I use to address people is "you", which is conveniently ungendered. If I need to refer to somebody whose gender I don't know, I'll generally just say their name. If I really need to use a pronoun for a person of undetermined gender, I say "they". Shakespeare used singular they, so I think it should be good enough for me.

This is just as practical as saying "he". We say "he" for reasons entirely different than practicality. We do it because dominant groups tend to treat dominant characteristics as "normal", as the default.

Indeed, it's practicality that drives me to use the singular they, especially when I'm talking about tech. Right now there's an enormous deficit of people with technical knowledge and experience. To fix that, I want to get everybody possible involved. If I were to help drive half of humanity away over such a small thing as me wanting to be disrespectfully lazy about pronouns, I'd feel I was being very unpractical.
Neither one? Can you provide evidence that shunning works?

For example, if a police officer is checking out in your store and you say "sorry, I'm not selling to you", I think you've just created a very ugly situation.
> Howso?

Because they did it for non technical reasons, i.e. just because they could. They abused their monopolistic control in order to extort money from Netflix. Net neutrality should address such abuse, but the problem here is not so much in definition of such behavior as in its detection, since there is hardly any transparency in what is going on.
Regular Expressions in OCaml
Why even allow similar sounding words? Lamp and lamps?

I thought the whole point was to avoid ambiguity.

I wonder where there corpus of words comes from..?
(Aerospace engineer/student here)

While there were certainly some political aspects to the question, there were other more pressing reasons to not pursue an RTG design. First and foremost (as others have pointed out) is the lack of knowledge towards this technology within the EU/ESA member states. Also, there's little left of the fuel usually used for these generators (238-PuO2 in space applications), and while it can be bred, none was produced for centuries (last time I checked). It is expected that NASA can only launch a couple of addtional RTG-powered missions before its ressources are depleted.

An RTG also poses quite a few engineering challenges for the spacecraft itself. They are huge and heavy with low efficiency, and their design requires them to be positioned on the outside with sufficient surface area to radiate away their heat. One of their main benefits – almost constant power for a long time – is also their biggest flaw: Their power output cannot be regulated.

While these challenges are in no way unsolvable (they are used both in space and on Earth), they require a certain spacecraft design which makes them unsuitable for many missions. If you take a look at the design of Philae and where it was attached to Rosetta, there is no way an RTG would have fit the design and mission characteristics chosen.

They could have chosen a different design. Though the question is then: Would this have changed anything wrt science output and/or success of the mission?
I personally don't think so: An RTG would have increased cost and complexity without a significant impact on science output. An RTG would not have helped with the harpoon and ADS (cold gas thruster) issues which are the primary reasons why Philae landed in the shadows.

Though certainly a malfunction has happened, I do not consider this mission a failure, quite the opposite is true! Due to the hopping, there's a slew of unexpected science data which awaits to be analyzed. Additionally, there's still the chance that Philae may regain enough power once the comet is closer to the sun. Lastly, the primary mission objective – analyzing a comet – is still well underway with Rosetta orbitting Tschurie.
No, I'm not saying that, I'm saying that you can use them and that polyfill allows you to do so.
The way I see it, this appalling deluge of harassment she receives will stop only if she becomes completely silent and stops expressing her opinions and perspectives to the world. As she actually makes her living out of speaking engagements and video production (as evidenced, for example, by her lucrative Kickstarter campaign), this is clearly an undesirable 'solution' to such harassment, meaning that such abuse will remain a pernicious side effect of her feminist critiques.

As this harassment seems to be a permanent fixture, she really has only two choices. She can either completely ignore it and not acknowledge it in any way whatsoever. Or she can incorporate it into her commentary and reflect on it in the context of her wider work. Given that she evaluates from a feminist perspective, the sexually demeaning and misogynist elements of her harassment are certainly relevant and on topic.

So I quite disagree with your characterisation of her as a "professional victim". It seems more that she is simply making the best of a bad situation, extracting some advantage from prejudice.
>Javascript was inspired by Scheme, and obviously other languages as well.

Well, I didn't argue that JS isn't Scheme (that is of course obvious).

I argued that it doesn't seem to have anything specifically Schem-y about it.

Eich says it was "inspired by scheme", but I, like the article author, fail to see any such inspiration.

JS doesn't have Scheme syntax, nor does it have Scheme semantics (of course that's obvious to see). It also doesn't have the most celebrated Scheme features (from homoiconicity and macros to tail call optimization). And all the other stuff (GC, closures, etc), was already available in languages predating Scheme, and he knew that (Lisp, Smalltalk, etc).

And he even mentions the language Self, which is a much closer to JS than Scheme. I think he mainly just wanted to do a Scheme, but INSTEAD he did JS, which is mostly Self, Java syntax and a few other ideas thrown together.
Monolithic may have a specific technical meaning in the context of kernels which is not opposed to modularity, but in general the two can be considered opposites. Monolithic is simply "of one piece", while modular means something has separate, changeable pieces. If you disagree it would be more enlightening to tell me your definition instead of a list of exceptions, because right now I don't see why they are.
My wife and I are very much into knowing where our food came from, how it was raised/produced, etc. As you can imagine, we shop primarily at Whole Foods (outside of our CSA). We are also interested in making sure we buy these products at the best possible prices. So we routinely cross-shop at places like Marianos and even Jewel for these items. Interestingly, the cost of these types of items are almost always cheaper at Whole Foods than anywhere else. I think Marianos and Jewel mark these items up much higher because they take up precious shelf space and tend to move more slowly than the non-organic and/or mass-produced items. Just something to be aware of. If you're concerned about where your food came from, Whole Foods is actually not overpriced. If you look at how European families spend money on groceries proportional to their income, I think the Whole Foods model is more in line with that than the familiar American model. I'd have to Google the numbers, but I believe American families spend roughly 10% of their income on food, whereas Europeans will spend 15-20% of their income.

With all that being said, surely this is a huge risk on Whole Food's part, and I'm not quite sure how it will turn out. I enjoy that there is probably some portion of idealism in this move and I hope it works for both WF and more importantly the residents.
Even in city general fund creates the same conflict of interest. Forfeited property should be destroyed.
Yeah, and you're one letter away from "oops, accidentally shipped my package to Australia"
One of the main goals here is to provide developers the ability of exposing it to different globals with different behaviors and configuration, which is not possible yet in this version, but it will be there in the next couple of hours.
TMK, he was never prosecuted. Baited, yes.