skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speculation ahead! This may all be BS (except for the next paragraph, which Googling will turn up decent support for), but could lead to some interesting discussion.

Girls mature emotionally faster than boys, which may result in them starting to care about, and be able to understand and do something about, group status and group power structures earlier than boys do.

Anecdotally, that fits with what I saw as a kid. Going into the teen years, boys tended to have small social circles compare to girls. A boy sleepover was two or three boys. A girl sleepover was half the girls in a class.

Others I've talked to report similar, and this seems to be a common enough observation that it has become somewhat of a stereotype (hilariously parodied in the South Park episode "The List").

Now let's consider how an interest in a STEM field might develop into a career. I think for a large number of kids there is a critical period where an interest changes from a spectator interest to a participatory interest, and I think that often happens around the late pre-teen, early teen years.

(This is probably just a coincidence, but it is interesting that this is around the age that in olden days boys would start apprenticeships).

Note that the kind of participatory STEM things that you can do (outside of organized school activities) as a young teen tend toward solitary activities. Perhaps, then, boys are more likely to do these things because at that critical early teen phase boys are still oblivious to the importance of group status and power structures, and so a potential boy science nerd will spend Saturday night at home hacking alone on the computer, or building a ham radio, and so on.

By the time boys catch up on emotional maturity, and start spending time dealing with group status and power along with the girls, the boys have already set themselves on the road to STEM careers.

It would be interesting to get data on people who choose a STEM major in college, and on people who graduate with a STEM degree, and on people who go on to a STEM career, and break each of those groups down into two subsets. (1) People who decided that (or a closely related field) was what they wanted to major in while still young teens, and (2) those who discovered their interest in that field in college, such as when they took a course in it to satisfy a breadth requirement and found they liked it enough to major in it.

If my speculation is correct, the first subset (people who chose their path while early teens) will be more tilted toward men than the second subset (people who found their serious interest in the field while in college).

Finally, this suggests an interesting topic for one of those "late night, been drinking or smoking dope a bit, kind of tired, let's discuss something really wild" type discussions: will HBO's "Game of Thrones" have an effect on gender ratios in STEM? (Yes, there is a chain of reasoning to support the "yes" case that is good enough to give one a decent chance of defending that position long enough for everyone to get drunk or high enough, or sleepy enough, that discussion ends).
"pretty good feedback" could be interpreted as: 'the amount of hassle it causes us is (normally) less than the amount of revenue we get'
Reminds me of a prospective engineering candidate I tried to recruit from Google. When I politely pitched an opportunity, he insulted both me and the opportunity over e-mail, claiming how wildly successful he is. This is largely an exception to the rule: almost all other engineers have been kind & respectful!
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>Would we be hunting for a root cause in social pressure or discrimination if we found women were a much higher chunk of the audience for Twilight and men were a higher percent of Avengers viewers?

Why would you compare socio-economic inequalities to taste in media? That would be like comparing national budgets to a lemonade stand and asking why we don't put the same effort into managing a 12-year old's summer business.

These issues have entirely different scopes and priorities, and your comparison is invalid based on that alone.
When you write programms for robots, you can't afford such "maybe" things. I think Rust will be perfect for robots.
> To address the problem we need to dramitcally change our cities.

I am continually amazed at the angst it causes many people when you suggest that the current American way of life will have to change. When you say that in 20 years people won't be driving everywhere a lot of folks really freak out.

The arithmetic plainly indicates we simply will not all be driving or riding in cars regularly in the future. Hydrogen vs. lithium batteries vs. gasoline doesn't even enter into it. There simply won't be the joules for everyone to get about that way. People will be walking, bicycling, and riding boring old 19th century speed trains. Peak Oil is now-ish and nothing else is set to provide the joules necessary to power personal vehicles on the current scale, regardless of vehicle power plants.
http://iops.io/blog/docker-hype/
You can write a Groff-like text processor to the 1990 POSIX environment and it will work in a 2015 environment just fine.
You may have intended this to be a rebuttal, but you actually made the same argument as the person you were replying to. Once the nostalgia/sensation surrounding horses were gone, the companies providing transportation had no more incumbent advantage over auto manufacturers.

Likewise, once incumbent car manufacturers can't promote some of the things that people fondly associate with cars, new alternative car companies are better able to put them out of business.

The best point in your comment is that alternative car companies may be able to generate some of that nostalgia early enough to use it against incumbents - I think this is possible and that for some people, they will be happy to trade petroleum good feelings for electric good feelings while petroleum-based cars are still a sizeable part of the market.
> New York City is a city of renters, yet despite its high stock of rent regulated housing, in 2015, rents continue to rise.

Most economists do not agree that rent control is a useful way to maintain housing affordability: http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-re...

I don't see any real support here for the assumption that Air B'n'B is having a negative impact.
My solution is pretty low tech. I keep a spiral bound notebook by my desk for notes. When it fills up, I run it through the scanner, copy to backups, and buy a new notebook.
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> Isn't a bolt action a lot simpler?

Parts count of a bolt action is a bit smaller, but that's potentially deceptive. I'm pretty sure the tolerances are actually much tighter with a bolt action. If that isn't a problem, yeah, it's down to whatever gun can be cheaply produced in volume. (I'm sympathetic to the idea that a stamped-receiver semiauto might be a good idea as well)

My opinion here is influenced by the way lever-actions gained so much popularity in warfare and the old West even though bolt-actions were an older design.

> And a lot easier to make strong?

I imagine that's a function of metallurgy in either case. The grizzly-killing lever-action .45-70s in existence today are 140-year old designs scaled up with better materials.
I hope she wins, but this issue is a lot bigger than this one case, and what we also need is a new law that holds investors responsible for the conduct of the people they fund. Right now, they can fund frat boys and while the frat boys get sued for sexual harassment or domestic abuse, the investors are scot-free. Indeed, the appeal of Silicon Valley and VC is the disposable company. (As in... don't like what has attached itself to your creation? Shoot it in the head.) But this allows founder quality levels to reach an all-time low, and it's time to reverse course by holding investors responsible for the character of the people they fund.
"Connecting your fire alarms to the internet will, at some point, result in someone setting all your alarms off at 2am just to fuck with you."

I disagree. The "at some point" argument can be applied to anything. Having a smartphone connected to the internet will, at some point, result in someone hacking into your phone and calling 911 using your phone number, tens times a day. At some point, it's going to happen to someone.

By your argument, we should ban smartphones because they are not 100% secure. Phones should just be phones, and web browsers should be separate devices. Phones should not be internet accessible because then they can be hacked into.
Yes, sure, but there is big difference between leaking your private data out of your home and break in.
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Because science is just a theoriticaly ideal process.

The actual practice of science is fallible, like many other things.

First, science is mostly done as paid for governments and corporations, both entities that are know to lie, distort the truth, and make up stuff for their gain.

Second, science is mostly made by normal people, a lot of which can lie about their results to get grant money, a promotion, be published, or other personal interests.

Third, scientists are also people with ideologies, prejudices and prevonceived notions, and as much as the scientific method is about keeping those in check, they come through a hell of a lot more times.

Fourth, the scientific community at large seems to feel prey to the prevalent ideas and ideologies of its time every time. In 19th century, few scientists would consider black people equally capable as white people, for example, or being gay OK. Similarly tons of stuff ingrained by culture into scientists comes up as "truth" and is actively seek out against other views, even today. (In fact the belief that "today is different" in that regard, is probably the biggest myth of all).

Fifth, we bundle as "science" a lot of stuff that it's 90% ideology, things like economics, sociology, psychology, etc.
Privacy vs. automatic license plate readers (ALPR)
You are cool. I'd like to read your twitter or blog (link please). I don't see here any personal messages to ask it another way. I just respect professionals with knowledge.
People replace smart phones mainly because they are slow or have become slow, or they want some new feature that isn't available on their current model. As smart phone mature this becomes less common, the technology will get to good enough level, speed, battery life, camera, and people will not feel compelled to replace their smart phones every year.

Hell I bought my Nexus 5 on release and don't feel the need to replace it yet.
We need a visual representation of this for programming lore / systems concepts :) Any artists want to collaborate? Perhaps the title could be 'Visual Arts', and the subtitle 'a language that was invented first and then people came around to try to get semantics' (referencing Leslie Lamport on UML)

9 coders = Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. Nine women can't make a baby in one month.

figure dreaming of a hall of mirrors = Design up front for reuse is, in essence, premature optimization.

poster of darwin image with man deevolving to a computer = Software Architecture Paradox #3: Evolution impedes survival. We design a software system that can evolve, but in doing so hasten its death.

gps unit with a stack overflow error = All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except of course for the problem of too many indirections.

mirror being installed while a surveyor surveys = One person's constant is another person's variable.

light-projected space invaders down the kryptos sculpture = One person's data is another person's program.

person in 'chief architect' office atop the ivory tower with completed survey papers, telephones, frazzled with pages of a destroyed calendar thrown across the room and playing oldschool pitfall type game (possibly with a waterfall feature in the room or out the window, and a UML book on the shelf) = Any attempt to formulate all possible requirements at the start of a project will fail and would cause considerable delays.

house being brick-layed without a clear plan by rugby players = To the extent that [Agile software development] is [an excuse for not thinking], it's a bad thing.

burning google balloon floating in the clouds = reference to failed google project

wheel as the logo atop the ivory tower = A general-purpose product is harder to design well than a special-purpose one.

someone looking at an empty parking space and buying a car = Generalized form of Parkinson's Law: The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource. The reverse is not true.

... etc. quotes taken from my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
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Elon Musk famously calls them "fool cells":

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-25/toyota-to-...

“As people probably know, I’m not the biggest fan of fuel cells -- I usually call them ‘‘fool cells,’” Musk said this month at Palo Alto, California-based Tesla’s annual meeting. In a speech to employees and enthusiasts at a service center in Germany last year, he called fuel cells “a load of rubbish.”
I think they can build a lot of ways in which the "community" angle adds value to a guest.

For example, they could encourage hosts to provide a list of top 3 things to do / eat / see, and aggregate this for guests.

Based on a guest's FB profile, they could suggest neighborhoods where they would enjoy staying, or connect guests to hosts who share similar interests.

There is so much potential, and I won't hold the current lack of community oriented benefits against them. Startups put a stake in the ground, and then build towards it.
Doesn't cost much to register a trademark.
Perhaps you're aware that one of the biggest influences on P6 was Haskell and the 2005-2007 Audrey Tang / Pugs / lambdacamels era. Loads of crazy smart kids sharing wild thoughts with Larry, Damian etc. and writing the first P6 compiler in Haskell.
> An anonymous Reddit employee sent a letter to Kleiner’s legal team, asking them to subpoena Reddit employees “for information regarding conflicts with Ellen Pao.”

Wow. I had heard about the case, but didn't know the drama had sprawled over to reddit. All things put aside, including my own biases, if I was reddit's board, I'd get rid of her immediately. It doesn't matter whether if her claims are justified, or even if she's 100% in the right (and Kliener was in the wrong) - she's obviously a toxic presence and brought some of that toxicity with her over to reddit.
>except science never says the step one part.

Science, the ideal method as imagined in the heavens, does not.

Real practicing scientists do it all the time.

Not just "the media" misreporting. Tons of scientists present their research findings as the gospel -- even Nobel award winning ones.
Things that seem impossible to me:

* Having a many lane, many cars overtaking each other system. I don't see mechanically how you'd make a system in which cars could, at 70 mph, go from one rail to another in order to pass.

* The distances involved. I don't really know why conventional trains that cover more than a few dozen miles are all energy-on-the-train rather than third-rail, but I know they are. And absent other considerations, I assume there's probably a sound reason for this.

* This quote from wikipedia:

> However, because third rail systems present electric shock
> hazards close to the ground, high voltages (above 1,500 V)
> are not considered safe. A very high current must therefore
> be used to transfer adequate power, resulting in high
> resistive losses, and requiring relatively closely spaced
> feed points (electrical substations).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_rail#Benefits_and_disadva...

* And of course just the overall scale.
"IoT devices should not be connected directly to the Internet. I don't want my "smart" lightbulbs to be turned on or off through the Internet. I also don't want them to become yet another way for the NSA to spy on us."

Seriously?

By the same argument, phones should "not" be connected. It will just make it easier for the NSA to hack your phone through your data/internet connection, read all your call logs and maybe even take over your phone and start making random calls on your behalf.

Phones should just be phones. Why in the world would we want to make phones "smart"? Phones should not be connected to the Internet. What a dumb idea it is to make a phone that's connected to the Internet--that is going to be a HUGE security disaster. The world is going to explode because everyone's phones will be hacked
Your numbers [1] are off by 3x - the federal highway administration calculates 164K miles of highway.

However, like Tesla's Supercharger idea perhaps a targeted rollout of functionality to connect major centers combined with the existing charging infrastructure would settle the "range anxiety" issues.

[1] http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/pubs/hf/pl11028/ch...
"A system where 0.1% tell 99.9% how to spend their precious time alive is not morally just"

Welcome to modern-day capitalism. This is exactly what it is, with or without Magic. Don't like it? Neither do I, but then we need a new socio-financial mechanism to redistribute wealth, which goes well beyond the scope of services like Magic.
It is not supported but it makes sense. If it is important to our customers we'll probably make it.
I've looked at the kind of PDFs heirloom troff can make, on an iPad, and my eyes, just, wow. There aren't words. If Debian would put heirloom troff in its base-install (along with, say, E.B Garamond or Junicode) instead of groff, there'd probably be more people (1) making beautiful man pages, and (2) viewing man pages graphically (with evince or another PDF viewer) than ever before. It's not like there's a licensing problem, AFAICT.

I have not seen a PDF made by mandoc that made me react that way. :-|
The Four Fundamental Forces (xkcd)
> use it to take notes for classes

Why not just use a pen and a spiral notebook? (Scan the pages in later.) They're:

1. lightweight
2. cheap as dirt
3. don't need a charger
4. battery never runs out
5. can drop it with impunity
6. nobody is going to steal it
7. not distracting to the guy behind you
8. no temptation to surf the internet during class
9. no user interface issues
10. no buggy software
Anecdotal evidence here. The last person renting the apartment I rent in NYC didn't live in the apartment. She was renting it as two units on AirBnB (and lived in different building). She was kicked out when the landlord discovered it, and we were lucky to grab it.

If at all, this proves that long term rental units are being rented on Airbnb. This might not drive rent but drives availability of units.
Vice did a great segment on Ibogaine in their first season on HBO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkkMhKEfOqw#t=919
This pretty much sums up my usual explanation :)
Already over funded at 305% after just 15 minutes. Pledges increasing at about $1,000 / second.

Great work to the Flow guys on building the hype before the launch. It appears the last minute change from Kickstarter to Indigogo didn't do any damage.
Should? Sure, no argument. I was merely expressing reality. You go on trusting the software and I'll go on verifying my backups.
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Well, get into that code, and improve it! :-)
Did something happen to you? This seems like an absurdly high bar.
I'm not the author of the original comment, but when I was in high school I found the Graphics Programming Black Book to be useful for understanding graphics primitives and how they can be implemented in software. It's available for free online: http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/graphics-p...

Maybe start with chapter 38: http://downloads.gamedev.net/pdf/gpbb/gpbb38.pdf
I know that looks like a disagreement, but it's actually not. Note that I said the odds of observing a reversed entanglement is exactly zero, not that the odds of it actually happening were exactly zero. The odds of it happening are comparable to the odds of thermodynamic reversal. The difference is that if a thermodynamic reversal were to happen, it could be observed. If a quantum reversal were to "happen" (I put "happen" in scare quotes because the whole concept of something "happening" becomes a little murky here) it could not possibly be observed, because any attempt to observe it would "prevent" it from "happening."
In my Sisyphean search for an Evernote alternative, I periodically try out OneNote, too. For note-taking on the desktop (including on Mac), it blows the doors off of Evernote.

But, it can't search the contents of attachment files. So you can't just throw everything into OneNote and then count on being able to find it again.

In my view, this makes it a fundamentally different kind of application.
Thank you for this recommendation! I was looking for a service just like this about a year ago (because I use Evernote heavily).
I personally wouldn't consider Knex an ORM. I'd describe it more as:

A cohesive set of functions that help you build and execute SQL operations.
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After some research, it looks like my answer is that I can't call it unconditionally from Elm. Elm doesn't provide an easy way to access arbitrary JavaScript properties, and doesn't attempt to expose all of the functionality of the browser, but instead provides its own API.
Thanks - I'll be contacting them.

I agree git-annex is the best solution for now - I just wish some effort would go into versioning binary files by creating projects that mimic the behavior of the programs that generate them in some way.

Probably the closest thing to what I am optimistically hoping to see someday is how developers save DB migration files instead of versioning copies of the database tables, and then run the migrations as part of the merge process to sync the databases.

Thinking about it more, it seems like a general project to create 'migration' specifications to generate binary files would be more appropriate than a project to modify version control.

Anyway, thanks for your work on Gitlab!
Good heavens. You've just levied a harsh accusation against Pao: you called her a toxic presence, and called for her immediate termination.

Your only evidence is one letter sent by anonymous employee (assuming the NYT has accurately described the person in question and they were in fact at Reddit).

It's very possible the employee just had a grudge against Pao and was trying to complicate things (No CEO will ever avoid having enemies). Or they weren't a Reddit employee at all. We know almost nothing. You're calling for a woman's career to end, and for Reddit to upend their management, based on a single anecdote.

We know nothing of Pao's actual performance at Reddit. Presumably the board made her interim CEO for a reason. Claims such as yours demand much stronger evidence.
Time to trade up the chain?
AirBnB is fine how it is now (for me), I'm pretty indifferent to the 'community' aspect... It's just funny (and, well, dishonest) that they market it like it's so community oriented. Maybe it was community oriented before, but it is literally inundated with profit-seeking power users renting multiple apartments solely to tourists (no actual residents).

That facet is incompatible with 'community.' Forcing them to recommend stuff isn't community, but it is a nice perk.

Granted not everyone is like that on AirBnB, I'm sure there is much more community for shared apartments where you are living with travelers... but for whole apartments I would venture the large majority at this point are these profit seeking/multi property/ no residents types.
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