skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had experiences very similar to those of the OP. After almost 20 years with Solaris or Linux as my primary OS (with a brief interlude using OSX), I bought a Lenova Yoga 2 Pro and I thought I'd try using Windows as my primary OS. Two motivators: Windows had at the time better HighDPI support than Linux, and since I use Vagrant for everything anyways, I thought I could get the best of both worlds. That experiment didn't last long.

It works both ways. My boss is a Dev that's been developing in Windows for a similar amount of time, and he's being exposed to Linux for the last 3 years due to the project we're both working on, and I can understand his frustration.

It's a different mind set, really. Emacs & the CLI are second class citizens on Windows. Big IDE's are second class citizens on Linux. Not too mention 20 years of experience solving problems and knowing where to look for answers....
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I'll save you the effort. Shock horror, he has to download a wifi driver.
Mentioned in the article, too: Sitting in the shadow with sunglasses on a sunny day: >10000 lux, typical indoor/office: 500 lux.
So, while much brighter than a candle, this can not be compared at all to sunlight.
> but for a whole field like e.g. programing/computer science/IT, it almost certainly doesn't for the simple reason that the field isn't composed of anywhere near the top 0.001 percent of the population in terms of IQ.

If programming requires significantly higher IQ than average, then if male and female IQ variance are disparate then males and females will be differently represented in the programming field.

It's not really an issue of 'kicking in'; in any normally-distributed function, differences in variance are always relevant, and can rapidly be more important than the mean the further one gets from the 50th percentile.
Great project, love the multidisciplinary approach. It's also a shining example of how open source principles can be applied on all aspects of (professional) life!
Evil ad networks only need a handful of cookies to track you. They could probably go without cookies entirely, just by fingerprinting the browser. They have the resources and know-how.

This happens because many webmasters build frankensites by copying and pasting snippets of code to get the functionality they need. Those load a bunch of resources from all over the net and dump a jar of cookies in your lap. It's the same laziness that makes devs set expiration to 9999.

The popouts, or banners, with cookie information are a pointless annoyance, not an encouraging development.
This may relate to CVE-2015-0285, the high severity vulnerability preannounced earlier this week. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/18/5
Resistance Training Under Caloric Restriction Enhances Muscle Maintenance
If you don't use Facebook for those reasons, you probably won't want to use a site like this either, though. I know I don't.
Here's an article explaining it's features with more mainstream terms.

http://www.hakank.org/constraint_programming_blog/2013/09/a_...
Data and Insights from the Product Hunt API
I second this opinion. We're getting ready to enter the era of being able to host our personal data on our own infrastructure. Let's start making that available with all offerings, instead of making these centralized hosted solutions that all require different types of access.
The headline makes it sound like Gabe wants Apple to make the iPhone more open (which I'm sure he does), but the quote itself sounds like he's criticizing Microsoft for attempting to make the PC more proprietary. That's two different sides of the same coin.
What's this about people not talking about sex? When I'm talking with friends, sex comes up in pretty much any conversation.
Would this lead to a Visual Studio on MacOs/Linux one day? (I hope it would)
I don't agree that people do stick to MSBuild scripts for their build processes - I have seen many .net shops and almost all don't do anything in msbuild because they don't know how.

I see things like ANT scripts and individual steps in things like TeamCity as being far more common.
Check the bottom of the screen (you may have to look carefully). You're looking for something like Sign in without a Microsoft account (not recommended) -> Local account - there's a similar flow when creating a new user.

It is there, but it's (obviously deliberately) hidden behind one hell of a UX antipattern. I guess they want people to use Microsoft accounts more than they want people to be able to use Windows.

And Microsoft accounts are still stuck using only 16-character passwords (!), and I'm not completely clear on what does and does not get 'synced' - if it's my %AppData%, I don't trust SkyDrive, so that's definitely out.
Please read carefully, as I stated "mixed group". How about "jongens, kom", to a group of boys and girls? It's common.
I made the move in the same direction some years ago and, yes, there are always problems, but IME a missing or broken driver is common with a fresh install of Linux OR Windows.

I've often had to download a network driver (both WiFi and wired Ethernet) separately and get it onto the machine via physical media, bluetooth or IRDA.

As for software updates: Yes there's a load of Lenovo crapware and yes it's best to just do a clean install. I'm writing this on a T430s which I did a clean install on. I then installed the Lenovo software I actually use:

Power management driver
Active protection system (I replaced the DVD drive with a SSHD)
Fingerprint recognition thing

The OP says they install Ubuntu and all is well, but Ubuntu is going to be wanting software updates just as Windows is - it's just that it doesn't have separate crapware asking for them separately.

The lesson when it comes to installing an OS is: Be prepared. Either be somewhere where you can download your NIC (or WiFi NIC) software separately and get it onto the machine (it's too often NIC drivers that are missing, which is pretty much the worst thing to be missing!) or get them downloaded first, after finding out what's in the machine.

As for the developer account thing: I don't know why that is, but it annoyed me too. They should really not do things like that. They should also stop the push to get everyone to log into VS using a Microsoft account, as that's plain annoying.

Finally: "I start Subleme[sic] Text , download some npm packages and started writing code ."

Installing Sublime text, npm (and npm packages) on Windows is just as easy as on Linux.

With .NET becoming easier to work with in Linux, I'm now considering a move back to Linux on my laptop, so perhaps I'll write an equivalent article on attempting to move the opposite way.
Alas you currently can't use RDS as either a target or source for Postgres streaming replication.

Right now the best you can do is a scheduled cutover. This isn't as bad as it sounds because you can provision the new instance, import the production data and test everything before final sync and cutover.
Welcome to London, where homes earn more than their owners
IIRC the only BSOD I got on XP on my thinkpad since 2006 was caused by not even driver bug, but by driver that seems to have intentionally caused BSOD.
The problem is that everyone is viewed as a perp, particularly if you are black. "Innocent until proven guilty" means something.
Yes Skype is pretty horrible, but at least they did what they should have done and continue the desktop version.
I was not familiar with the async attr in a script tag before. Thank you for pointing this out.
I also use the scaffolding tools the other commenter noted and never saw this attribute before.
> Compare your acuity in outdoor, shaded light, to a solely fluorescent lit environment

The amount of light in the shade outdoors, or on an overcast day, is around 12 EV [1]. A bright indoors office with fluorescent lights is around 8EV. This means that the human eye will be receiving 16 times more light in the outdoor shade, compared to even a bright indoors room. That's a big difference that has nothing to do with the source of the light.

Common sense also dictates that fluorescent lights did not get popular in homes until the last 10 years due to the rise of CFLs, and yet kids grown up in the 1970s have increased myopia rates- the source of the myopia therefore cannot be due to the indoor lights.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_value
Re the regions, Figure S4A in the supplemental material (1) suggests that patterns varied somewhat with geography.

1: http://genome.cshlp.org/content/suppl/2015/02/18/gr.186684.1...
A survey (published in Science[1]) of ~1800 academics across 30 disciplines in the US saw a non-significant positive correlation between estimates of how selective a department is with graduate students and the female representation in that disciplines.

In other words a field that was more selective (as measured by the proportion of applicants being admitted) might have more women in it.

This evidence is is not compatible with any reasonable prediction from the "different high tail" theory.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262.abstract
Why so Sirius?

Sorry, couldn't resist.
How is a maths award for women a "self-defeating measure". Please elaborate on this claim. Thanks.
There are 2M total jobs in the EU as a result of the app economy in 2015
"Emacs & the CLI are second class citizens on Windows"

I haven't used Emacs on Windows, but Powershell is the best shell I've used (I used to use zsh on Linux). There's also console2 and conemu if you want to avoid the built in cmd-derivative, which is rather unpleasant.
Well the project is in it's infancy, so this may change, but currently the only thing needed to run it is a platform that supports Go and OpenGL.
Xerox runs California's parking services collections?
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What makes you think that? I have had the opposite experience with Scala/Haskell
Looks like they got too much traffic due to Hn :/ http://i.imgur.com/A2K9mDr.png
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Thanks!

For some reason, when I was wrestling with that problem, all I could find was other people on forums with the same problem, and an acknowledgement that MS tried to keep the differences minimal. (I think, too, that some of the larger discrepancies must have been fixed with newer releases of VS... I recall things breaking even with VS's regular build command, not just when debugging.)
Anecdotal, etc, etc:

I was home schooled through fourth grade. Lots of time spent outdoors, even on school related things (setting up little rubber army men in the sandbox when studying the revolutionary war, for example). My eyesight was quite good, despite spending quite some time on the computer (balanced, of course, with out-door activities).

Half-way through my first year in public school, I needed glasses. My eyesight went from 20/20 to ~20/80 in less than five months. 20 years later, it's around 20/300 - though fairly stable for the last ten years.
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The issue is not about the WiFi driver, i can live with that but when my wp8 phone is getting in my way of downloading the driver, its just wrong, really wrong. Its like it is saying to me "You don't know what you are doing, let me fix this for you".
RISC-V or lowRISC are only some of the many projects available out there. I think you may find http://opencores.org/projects interesting.
xorg-dev and libgl1-mesa ? Where are these pulled in ?
When cookies were first introduced a number of sensible people had reasonable concerns about privacy.

I'm not sure how we got from there to here - a sub-optimal law and not-great research (81 sites?) all while companies aggressively collect and mine data.
No need to believe here, there are possibilites to measure that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux
http://www.wikihow.com/Measure-Light-Intensity
Assuming no difference isn't Politically Correct (by which I take it you mean a social lie that nobody actually believes). Really, there are no differences (cf Delusions of Gender http://www.amazon.com/Delusions-Gender-Society-Neurosexism-D...). There is no difference between a woman's brain and a man's. Give two brain scans (fMRIs/MEGs/EEGs etc) to a neuroscientist and they cannot tell which one belongs to which gender.

And people do have qualms saying women are better at empathy. "Women's strengths" justifies sexism and boxing women into specific roles. In the 50's it was keeping women in the kitchen, "because they were naturally better at it and want to do it", now it's empathy and relationships which justifies them having to raise children and doing emotional labor.

Regardless, the article is bad, it makes a false dichotomy. First, Putnam should increase participation in girls, then it can remove the special women's prize.
In print you do a lot of hand kerning, including magazine articles as well as ads.

And print designers do have access to high-quality fonts.
You can't. And, you shouldn't try to find out, either. It's specifically if you know that your code infringes.
I think some javascript build systems are getting better, like Gulp. I'm starting to think that most build systems could/should be written in javascript from now on since you then have a scripting language that probably will run on most systems.
Well, SBT has this built in. For free.
Thank you for actually replying and clarifying your statement, I enjoy learning different ways of thinking. I guess I am changing my word for R to "Fast Enough for Me." I can run my scripts in under 20 seconds, but a few years ago it could be 2 or 3 minutes.
Please stop. Sex is not broken, just look at the population growth rate as the single fact that acts as a general counter argument.

My feeling is the the author has a very special filter to view the world.

ps: this should have been posted to medium.com :)
So's the website.

Error establishing a database connection

Caches don't seem to have it either.
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:siBjE2U...

They also link to this paper: http://clarity-lab.org/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/hauswal...

It describes the system as a hidden Markov model combined with either a deep neural network or a Gaussian mixture model which compute the probability of state transitions, based on which the Viterbi algorithm computes the most likely path in the tree, a sentence.
Absolutely beautiful design. I wish I had the skills to design something like this.

As a user, it would be fun to look at your journaled life years from now. However, the skeptic in me thinks advertisers must be drooling at that much data. Also wondering what impact could it have on potential health insurance providers. Or perhaps one day big G or FB would swoop up all my data.

All that aside, congratulations on a fabulous job. I'd definitely give it a try someday. Please enable sign-up without FB.
Have mentioned it here before, but again, great newsletter! Congrats on issue #100!
Consider compiling the fonts into the binary.

This is what I did for go.uik: https://github.com/skelterjohn/go.uik/blob/master/luxisr.ttf...
> Yet people are pleased with a two year delay disseminating the most important research? The heartbeat of progress is the time it takes to disseminate information.

This is a bit of a strawman, don't you think? Researchers, the vast majority of whom are located in corporate R&D labs and universities, already have the subscriptions to big digital libraries so they can download papers as soon as they are published.

The move towards open access mostly affects practising engineers outside this environment, and I think a delay of a year or two is acceptable in this scenario.
The article is a fun read. . The interpretation is beautiful. This is not just an ideological project of "open source all the things" there is real content .. It evades the sterile discussion between "high culture" vs crowd creativity. Anyway go listen to it.
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What you're saying isn't wrong, but I doubt that societies where rulers have a monopoly on violence have existed long enough to have had an impact on evolution.
I couldn't select the search box so it was impossible to do a search.

Instead I clicked "Web developer" and chose a random hostel, which offered me "reception work on my vacation". That seems kind of odd
Whilst this is a great idea which I look forward to watching progress, Sirius doesn't seem like the best name for this. It's very close to an existing industry product in the same category and Apple certainly don't hold back in trademark litigation.
If you are running PhantomJs, did you encounter any issues like memory leaks and socket errors ?

I'd be interested in the solutions you used to solve issues like that if it's not proprietary / private.
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> It's a police force that handles an area which has just 7400 residents.

And about 300,000 daily commuters. What's the commuter/resident ratio for Ferguson?

The City of London Police also have certain national responsibilities, in the fields of fraud and intellectual property.
>> opposite of a privacy issue, since it's keeping your data in your browser.

In a way instantly accessible to the host site.
Data I wasn't really consulted about. Data I might not be comfortable sharing every time you ask for it.

This whole law about disclosing cookie use, which I will agree is not necessarily a good approach to the problem, does nevertheless exist because of a problem - People getting tracked, followed and profiled without their permission. Website operators and browser-makers seemed to be complicit in this. Some website operators seem to think it's their god-given right to do whatever they want in the browser on my computer...
For Linux user it is sort of shock. Also why that thing has 230MB? Even 10MB would be too much.
https://gist.github.com/BenderV/c2cb4e070213328e1b3b
Access 1.0 was the first piece of software I paid for out of my own pocket. I'd been doing BASIC, VB, Pascal and Assembly for a few years then, so getting into JET and Access was easy. And the ease blew my mind. Before Access there was Borland Paradox, which was (if memory serves) the only database engine you could call from VB. It was really brittle though, which made the ease of using the JET engine all the more amazing.
It worked in my case.
In Germany, in many cities and towns, local attorney associations provide emergency phone numbers. The provide free legal advice on the phone and provide you with a free attorney for the duration emergency (e.g. while a search warrant is executed).

Intrestingly, I just noticed that I have the number stored in my cell phone (since before I had a smart phone). That may not be the smartest way to do it.
Even MS Excel runs just fine on Linux.
Adding an XHP-based form design environment to PHP would produce the same increase in value that the form design environment of VB produced over QB. Both PHP and BASIC are seen as having low barriers to entry, and are/were already widely used in their respective problem domains. It just seems like a natural choice to me.
Probably a decade ago I'd heard of yerba mate, so I got myself a gourd, a bombilla and a big ol' sack of the stuff. Honestly, I wasn't impressed: it's not as refined as tea and not as interesting as coffee and frankly the bombilla doesn't do a great job of filtering the leaves out. I've since had other mates (on the theory that perhaps the stuff I bought was low-grade), and so far as I can tell there's no real reason to prefer it over other caffeine sources: it's just a trendy/fashionable thing to do. And really, how trendy can it be if I knew about it so long ago?
New Jersey legalizes direct Tesla sales
So you're telling me, acquired traits are inherited?
I've gotten the same reactions by showing alert boxes and changing background / font colors using JavaScript.
I completely disagree with your assessment, and I don't understand why you're so offended by it.

The article is accurate and provides details of the methodology and results. Of particular note, if you look at the report, is that two thirds of cookies on UK sites are third-party ones. That's a significant number, and means the average site places 30 third-party cookies on a users machine.

Your proviso about being 'from a single domain' is pretty much irrelevant – that's not the issue at all!
That was the main source of my confusion.
I fully support google on this. What use is your great content if I have to pinch and zoom to actually read it ? It's not hard to make your content responsive to the viewers screen size.
it's a math competition for god's sake. so math competitions are for celebrating "mathematicianship" rather than measuring how good you're at math?
The full details are right there in the the report, but I don't think that's a misleading headline number to use.
I can't speak for everyone obviously, but I have plenty of lecturers that insist on .doc/.docx handups and after an incident where a basic document (as in headings, page breaks and paragraphs as the only formatting) written in Libreoffice ended up in a 5 column layout on Word for no explicable reason, I'd rather just write them in an application that I know will show the same when the lecturer opens the file as when I open it.
Ask HN: Whom to contact for review of software consultant contract?
For the last 4 years I have been working (as a contractor) for a New York startup that recently got a large investment.
With the investment, they have started to be more grown up and for my contract renewal I received a contract with new wording.

There is one section "Ownership" with three paragraphs, and all of them scares me.

To me it reads as they will own anything I produce during the term of the contract that is related to the line of business they are in (which can be a very broad term depending how you interpret it; and I read this as they will own stuff I do in my spare time as well).

Anything (code, ideas etc) I create in my spare time I have to disclose to them so they are aware of it.

And the final clause is that they have the right that for all eternity sign any papers in my name to protect their intellectual property rights.

I am now looking for advice on this.

Ideally I want to find some standard paragraphs that I ask them put in instead.
It should give them all the ownership of the code I produce for them, but anything that is not produced for them is none of their concern.
(With exception if it would be something that could compete with them).

Anyone can give pointers to where to find such standard clauses?

Does anyone have recommendations for someone that does review of contracts (this is a New York contract)

Anyone have an idea what such a review of these paragraphs (or a whole contract) would cost? (just a ball park figure would be great, since I have no idea if it would cost 50 USD or 50000 USD)

The rest of the contract looks fine, it's just these paragraphs about ownership that are scary.
This isn't as bad as it sounds

As someone who has done this multiple times in the past I have to disagree.

Yes, it is very much as bad as it sounds and a big pain point with Postgresql in general and RDS in particular.

For small databases it may be considered a mere nuisance. But when your pg_dump takes an hour to complete then the whole "final sync and cutover" becomes a real problem.
First: The fight _is_ against the top. 'The top', more precisely the structure that enables 'the top', is the patriarchy that feminist have always been fighting against.

Second: Even thinking of it as 'the top', 'the few that get to have all the pro-creation' as another commenter wrote is bad. Because the 1700 concubines, they weren't treated fairly. They taken away from their parents at age 8, held captive for sex and raped if they didn't comply.

Feminists are fighting for the women first. But the structure that enables this hurts everybody.