skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats Yehuda! You are a true inspiration, and i just want to thank you for everything you've done and i'm shure you'll take rust to another level. Congrats to Steve too. 2015, the year of rust(?) :P
Why do you think those correlations don't have predictive power, eg, that if you give me a graph of the pirate rate over a long period of time, I can't make a pretty good guess about the global warming rate?

Now, obviously, these are only very coarsely correlated because they don't reflect small scale variations in either data set (which is why the graphs are so coarse). However, in this case, both seem to actually be driven by a hidden factor (technology and societal advancement), which means that they'll actually likely stay correlated (as long as the correlations with the hidden factor stay strong).

Similarly, internet explorer and murder rates.

tl;dr: Your articles are correct that correlation doesn't imply causation, but I never argued that increasing math or computer science education would improve scores in the other. Instead, I merely argued that as long as they're correlated, knowing about one will tell you about the other.

(Also, the examples you picked don't meet my definition of strongly correlated, because they don't mimic fine features of the data, but that's actually secondary, because the argument you presented doesn't even relate to what I claimed.)
Prejudice isn't necessarily a bad thing. As a society, we're fighting over where the line is between "bad prejudice" and "good prejudice", and the tech gender gap is just one of many battlegrounds in that fight.
What was incredible, for me, was to realize and to accept that stress can trigger Schizophrenia. It sounds completely impossible when you first hear it. But if you look at the data, there is a very clear correlation between environmental stress factors and Schizophrenia. Until we discover a better explanation, we should accept that it's possible for stress to trigger Schizophrenia.

And that is so incredibly strange to me. How can nothing more than feeling bad for a long period of time eventually result in insanity? What have feelings got to do with physical, measurable deterioration in the brain? And yet it appears true.
Honestly I think many 18 year olds would be well served to go through a good 2-4 years of national service before university. Being a private in the Army takes a lot less maturity and self-direction than being a freshman in university.
You can summarize quite a few of those bullet points with one statement:

"COINTELPRO never ended"
> This bending of traditional tradeoffs has let us implement features that would have been otherwise impossible.

Could you talk more about what sort of features these are?
Yahoo hasn't had a search back-end since about the Bing deal. Most everyone on those teams was laid off while they transitioned over. Yahoo BOSS is backed by Bing.

src: http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-boss-moves-from-yahoos-ind...

src2: I worked on the Yahoo Search team at the time of the deal.
The problem is that certain jobs create scenarios with imperfect information. The society of rational actors is a useful model, but so is a war of all against all.

Smart people aren't immune to principal-agent problems. The 2008 crisis was created by exactly the smart people we're trying to be. We shouldn't stop trying, but neither should we be deluded that that is sufficient.
A glance at the source quickly reveals an unsafe implementation.
I think you're reading way too deep into this.
Link to "startup": http://www.gocarry.it/

No personal information of founders on website is definitely a negative signal...
There's a very interesting idea at the end of this proposal: that the more-aggressive warnings arrive based on telemetry of the preponderance of secure interactions. By changing over time, and in a manner sensitive to the real mix of user interactions, there's less risk of habituation to "oh, all sites show that warning".

You could even make the switch based not on the entire browsers' usership, but an individual user's recent past. (Not sure this is a good idea, but it's an interesting one.)
Look at places like Kickstarter, Indigogo, Lending Club, and of course still apply to Y Combinator.
Can't edit my earlier post so I'll reply.

I found this page on other companies & projects using Akka:
http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0.1/additional/companies-usin...

I just learned about Akka recently (by way of Akka.net), and I'm encouraged by these frameworks that look like legitimate alternatives to Erlang. Erlang has always seemed like an extreme measure for implementing a distributed concurrent system, so it's good to know there are Java/Scala/C#/F# options.
The analogy mentioned quota programs, special scholarships, etc. But in reality there is not even allegedly any such thing aimed only at people who are non-nerds, so unfortunately these things have to be interpreted as being about gender.

Which causes the whole analogy to be interpreted as being about gender, and causes a lot of controversy, because it sounds like it's saying that women can't take the role of the "bear" in the story. In fact there have been many women (like Rear Admiral Grace Hopper) who took that role without special scholarships or quotas or whatever. They were bears. So it feels unfair for the analogy to apparently imply that these women didn't have any innate talent and just came into the field to be called special.

So if I am charitable, the analogy has a significant imperfection which is encouraging a negative response that misses any more constructive point which might have been there.
Whether or not there's value in it, why waste everyone's time if the candidate never had a chance without it?
Sure, but in this case, we're talking about a dropdown marked on the main UI immediately next to the search box. It's not as of it's hidden. Anyone who realizes the search engine has changed is saavy enough to figure out how to change it.
This is quite scary .__.
The whole thing is goofy. Coffee and caffeine without carbohydrate elevate adrenaline and cortisol. The way to take coffee is with sugar or with a meal including starch. Eating butter and coffee alone is an unambiguously bad idea.
1) in general, Rust 1.0 is about language stability. This means that any library not of quality will be pulled out.

2) this means Rust will have a small standard library. But we already have Cargo. So you end up getting lots of packages, they just aren't built-in: they require adding one line to a config file instead.

3) iterator invalidation is a compile-time error in Rust. Rust relies on Iterators quite heavily.
True, but it's not a choice made in a vacuum. Often the context is: I'm the only one making enough money to support the kids, so I have to work for this to work out at all, and I can't afford day care. So for the sake of the kids the mother gets custody. "Choice," true---but not free and uninfluenced, as you imply.
Anonymous message boards truly are an ugly place. One very accomplished woman speaks out about her mostly positive but colored with some negative experiences in the tech world and the top comment is an anti-affirmative action rant (bears and foxes) that brings out a bunch of old tropes while completely ignoring the history of our industry.
I think the phrase that deserves a lot of consideration is "better work environment."

To me, the question isn't about whether men and women are equals in the workplace. The question is whether the workplace provides an equal opportunity for men, women, and people with diverse backgrounds to succeed.
In theory, yes. In practice, no, because most of those female computer scientists won't be looking for jobs writing code. They'll be looking for project management roles. So while female applicants may bump qualified male applicants, the number is so small as to make very little difference.
I watched his talk Endurance(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYihop9gHj4) to be pretty amazing and inspiring. He talked about some really important points which makes me think and reflect on self. A must watch.
Personally, I use glass, as much for the taste as for peace of mind about potential chemical leaching. Stainless steel is probably second best in terms of safety as long as you make sure that the inside is not lined with plastic or some other coating (it happens) and that it is from a reputable manufacturer and certified free heavy metals or other metals that are not good to ingest.

Here are the bottles I've been using for about a year and a half:

http://amazon.com/Aquasana-AQ-6005-18-Ounce-Bottles-6-Pack/d...

All glass with a BPA-free plastic top. They're great, but I have broken two of them, which is of course the major downside of glass bottles.
I didn't see an import for unsafe or foreign in:

fannkuch-redux
pidigits
binary-trees
Call me a fireman and I’ll sock you in the nose. :)

We prefer “firefighter.”
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The interesting thing about medicine and law is that they are professions that deal with human needs and social relationships. As formal barriers were removed, the percentage of law and medical degrees awarded to women steadily increased to parity:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/hua_hsu/cohen_do...

The graph doesn't show the last few years, but I believe medicine is over 50% women now.

Compare this to computer science. I can't find easily find data for Ph.D.s or master's degrees, so here is bachelor's degrees over roughly the same period:

http://core0.staticworld.net/images/idge/imported/article/ct...

Lastly, for contrast, look what happened to vet school:

https://www.avma.org/News/JAVMANews/PublishingImages/100215g...

(NB: technically enrollment rather than completion.) That looks to me pretty clearly like a thumb lifting off the scale.

I do not think the quantity of sexism in CS is zero. Yet from my experience of CS and law, I have a hard time believing that there is more bad behavior, (on the order of a 200-300% difference) among computer scientists than among lawyers. Maybe I'm wrong about that?

In any case I think comparisons to medicine and law actually raise more questions than they answer.
In America, it is good to be self-reliant and not good someone carries around a cooler of water for you. A bottle of water is a convenient healthy alternative to a box of sugar water. Those water fountains are great for refilling the bottle.
Just in the first two examples on that page, you'll find allocaArray, mallocByteString, writeAlu, unsafeUseAsCString, unsafeIndex, withForeignPtr, unsafeDrop, and more. You really don't have to know Haskell very well (and I'm not claiming to be an expert by any stretch) to understand that this is far from idiomatic in a lazily evaluated, pure functional language. No parroting required.
ontario.ca isn't resolving at all for me.
> "They want us to take such great care of the tomatoes, but they don't take care of us,"

Wow, I am appalled at how the workers are treated. Quite an eyeopening article :O
My feeling is that they should allow both anonymous and non-anonymous reviews, and this should be standard practice for most sites.
An older study suggests :

In both genders,performance on Mathematics was found to be the best predictor in programming ability,followed by performance on a spatial test.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.110...
Google moves engineers out of Russia
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bpa-free-plastic-c...

Seems BPA got replaced with chemicals that just haven't been tested as much as BPA but have similar effects.

Glass is probably your best bet.
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I can respect that. It's a somewhat unexpected development, and I don't think our usage case lines up with this, but I can appreciate the intent.
This is a good point worth keeping in mind. We're talking about a statistical property of groups of people, and one that is relatively uncommon in both groups.
This looks like the typical Google interview and they had that going for a long time[1].

My theory is that some companies want to be google-like and hope that by trying to apply the same interview practices they might be successful in finding and attracting the same top talent as Google attracted/attracts.

[1] I interviewed with them a while back.
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Thanks so much for the comment! Can you suggest some other interesting problem domains to start researching? I think lately I've been so fascinated by web programming that I've stopped learning other areas, but I realize I should diversify my domains of knowledge. Thanks!
I just hope everyone is a gentleman like me and trolls are promptly dealt with.
As a frequent flyer, this startup idea interests me. But then seeing gvb's comment .... yeah, this might not be such a good idea after all?

Additionally, in many countries in East (and maybe southeast?) Asia, being caught with drugs is punishable by the death penalty...
> Give me "x + (x + 1) + (x + 2) = 69" and I wouldn't know where to start.

You memorize a few rules about what things you're allowed to do, then you apply the rules to simplify the problem in front of you. Sometimes, the hard part is that you don't know one of the rules you need to know. Other times, it's figuring out which of the rules you need to know that you should use. By practicing lots of problems, you get a good intuition for which direction to go, but it's not uncommon with more difficult problems to take the wrong way and end up confused.

First, we're allowed to drop the parentheses with addition (the "associative" rule for addition), so

x + x + 1 + x + 2 = 69

Now we put the similar terms together:

x + x + x + 1 + 2 = 69

How many Xs do we have? Three. Another way of writing that is 3x. So replace that part. Also, 1+2=3, so we'll replace that as well. "Apply rule and replace" is pretty much the most fundamental mathematical operation.

3x + 3 = 69

Let's get rid of the 3 by subtracting it from both sides to keep the equation balanced. On the left side the 3 cancels out (that's why we did this). On the right, we get 69-3, which is 66.

3x = 66

At this point, we just divide by 3 and simplify.

x = 66/3
x = 22

Our numbers are x (22), x+1 (23) and x+2 (24) according to how we listed them in the original problem.
Chrome to Firefox is a large upgrade. No one that cares about their privacy should still be using Chrome.
Great move. We also need free/cheap wild card certs.
The goal of the drink is to stunt hunger and prolong the morning fat burning process. The sugar will spike your insulin levels and put a stop to that immediately.
I'm running Linux Mint and I don't have this problem. Chrome runs pretty well for me.
It's less like driving, but more like access to public libraries.

When was the last time someone died due to drunk surfing, or excessive internet speeds?

I'm being facetious but the point stands.
Noooooooo! Why must the entire web be secure? I might run some micro news site for my local church that I update manually with (S)FTP and html files - why on earth should that connection be encrypted.

Bad security should be marked as bad. No security is not inherently bad.
It looks too pessimistic. I'm sure it would depress a great deal of people who view it.
The science behind controlling your insulin levels is pretty solid.

As far as the coffee goes, it's pretty good coffee, but Dave uses the "no mycotoxins" as the selling point for his brand. For me, the whole mycotoxins thing is where things start to get a bit muddled as there's a debate on whether or not they actually matter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwY4H3cNTH0).

I wouldn't go so far as to call it snake oil, but I don't think all of his stuff is 1000% necessary.
OTOH, identifying a decent mathematical thinking background as a predictor of CS potential is a pretty big win at a societal level. Teaching math is relatively cheap; you don't even have to buy computers...
Father of two, I have earned ~20,30,40k a year at various points in the past decade, then a good bit more.

You are simply wrong. There are places below $50k where you might suffer from close to 100% marginal rates, which I view as an enormous problem, but it's not true at higher incomes. Even the 80% figure you quote sounds wrong (and of course I know I shouldn't believe you because you don't even pick a set of numbers and stick to it).

Edit: I see elsewhere in the thread, it's clear that you're not really talking about income.
Great, we've been using performance counters to characterize what's been going on inside caches at runtime and I'm really glad Intel is taking time to add real monitoring features to cache contention and use.

These factors are increasingly becoming a critical part of system performance and our operating system and hypervisor schedulers are woefully underprepared to deal with it.

That all said, I'm sure the OS level interfaces are likely to take some time to become available and even more to become usable, the perf_events_open syscall on Linux is a clusterfuck and performance counters have been around for years. This stuff may only be usable from kernelspace for awhile.
This is where the US should be sending drones out to liberate the populace. Really gives the lie to "Western values" and America as "leader of the free world".
This is American Empire.
I think I'm exactly the audience that TNR wants. I'm well-educated, make a good living, largely agree with them politically, enjoy long-form journalism, and am familiar with the brand and its history. Yet I don't think I would ever subscribe to TNR. I just see a magazine as something that's going to pile up in my house. I can read more than enough great content online for free. If I was going to subscribe to a magazine, I think that The New Yorker is a lot more interesting than The New Republic. If I was going to subscribe to two magazines, I might pick the Atlantic or another competitor over TNR.
The media has largely portrayed this as Hughes carelessly destroying a renowned and vital institution. Hughes has certainly made some mistakes, but I wonder whether Foer and Wiesetlier were just letting the magazine gradually slide into irrelevance and inevitable death anyway. This is a magazine whose readership has dropped by half since 2000.

If Hughes doesn't want to subsidize a money-losing institution with a declining and aging readership, then isn't it his prerogative as an owner to shake things up? He may have gone about it the wrong way, but ultimately wouldn't the public be better off with a TNR that has an ability to support itself and thrive in the future?
> I count benefits as part of income.

While there's a case to be made for that, it's not what most people do -- and it's not what you do for computing benefit eligibility for food stamps, ACA, and other government programs, AFAIK. So I'm not sure you should count benefits as income for this purpose. In principle you're right re: getting cash income instead, but in practice, I'm not sure it's that clearcut.

Re: taxes vs. credits, it would be really interesting to actually work that out. I'm not convinced your take is right, but I'm not convinced my take is right, either. :) I didn't intentionally pick the perfect example; the $24K a year came from typing "2000" into the spreadsheet I downloaded from the CalFresh web site because "3000" was too high to qualify. I didn't actually try any numbers other than 2000 and 2500. But my suspicion remains that most people would be better off actually working than taking assistance programs, both in purely pragmatic terms and in less quantifiable terms -- I've known a fair number of people who make assistance-qualifying incomes but I haven't known a single one who wants to be in that position. (Which is of course anecdotal, but it's still interesting to me.)

(Also, I don't think you can really count every possible credit -- most people can't qualify for disability income, for instance. And the observation I made about not wanting to be in that position is extremely relevant here; I've known a couple people who get permanent disability income and they absolutely do not consider it a good thing. They're making less than they were when they could actually get employment, and that's not getting into unquantifiable but real things like damage to their self-esteem.)
One of the surveillance attacks pointed out in the post is the NSA piggybacking on advertising cookies. Details in the Snowden leaks were scant, so we did some research to figure out just how far the NSA could go with this technique. Very far, as it turns out. Here's a blog post with a link to our research paper: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/dreisman/cookies-that-giv...

One of our conclusions was that tracking companies switching to HTTPS would help, but a large majority would have to switch to make any difference, because of the sheer number of trackers (Section 4.1). This proposal or something like it is probably necessary if we're to see that magnitude of change.
You really have to be willfully ignorant to not notice that it mathematically impossible to deliver food at the prices we pay while paying a decent wage.
fannkuch-redux heavily utilizes unsafe operations on a mutable vector.

binary-trees uses artificial strictness for the sake of the benchmark.

Nine of the ten Haskell implementations are demonstrations of writing C in Haskell (without reaching C's performance).
I'm curious as to why butter is perceived to be so "out-there" when compared to something like "half and half."
That doesnt say I'm incorrect. the official pr says that they combine over 100 sources including bing without specifying how heavily they rely on any single source. But I've seen many times comments from ddg staff on here saying its mostly bing.
LOL! Down voted because nerds.
They are treated fairy good. let me elaborate:

1. The earn way more than the minimum wage

2. They offer them housing

3. They have a local store for buying goods with credit

4. They pay the total at the end of the project.

Why?

Well, first of all, imagine they dont offer them housing, and housing is on their shoulders. They are going to live like pigs. Second, If they close the local store, they are going to travel great distances in order to buy soap or anything (most people cant do that, they dont have cars), is similar to the case in the US where the only store (a walmart) in town is 30 miles from a guys house. They end up buying crap food because they can only afford a trip per month. Why is it good they dont pay them? Most Indios cant stay sober. Is a hard truth, but once they take some money, they are going for whores and alcohol. I've seen that a lot of times, and well, why at the end of the season they dont have any money left (after they clear the account at the store), because sadly they keep buying fries, candies and crap. It's not a coincidence Mexico is the fatest country in the world. I've employees earning 950 pesos weekly who spend every day 15 pesos in a coke, 9 pesos in chips and a couple more pesos in a candy bar. You make the sum, and they spend more than 10% of their salary on candies, chips and coke.
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The problem is that the data has so many errors and inconsistencies it would actually take much longer to fix them than to start fresh. There is also the problem that Wikipedia data is based on pages (each page is an article). Using a smaller data type would allow for features like sorting and filtering the data on the page. I am working on these issue on my own site. As for the culture: that will not change. The culture follows the software design. You can read a deeper analysis here: http://newslines.org/blog/wikipedias-13-deadly-sins/
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