skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes few people are going to drive significant distances for tacos or ice cream but people drive distances to shop and buy then tacos and ice cream. Those are also cars with a whole family in it. Try to park your van with 3 kids in it in that gentrificated area for some ice cream. But hell...you don't want those loud suckers in your fancy eco-cafe.

Upper class gentrification people don't need to drive to shop. They eat in restaurants or order online. Because they can afford it.

You are causing a separation of classes here again. The whole argument runs on it and the arrogant way this class handles that by writing such 1st world problem articles is disgusting.
How could you solve the problem without indicating the group of people who is being treated differently?

I understand what you are saying, but there's no other way to achieve equality, other than specifically separating the groups that need to be treated differently than they are now. Otherwise you wouldn't even be able to do statistics or anything to see if what you are doing is working.
If only we had some kind of machine that was capable of computing these complex models for us...

EDIT: my point being, if the model is fairer, we can deal with a little extra complexity.
You still get at least an element of this with pretty recent til-death-do-us-part versions of serial monogamy: Gauss, for instance, had two wives, marrying a friend of his first wife after she died, and had children with both of them.

(I'd be surprised if serial monogamy alone were enough to get a 4:1 ratio, but you can definitely get > 1:1 ratios out of it.)
I believe the threshold is higher than that, as I am currently situated at 45 and do not have the option.
False premise: Software with such a license by definition is not OSS.
Happy user for over 3 years.
And this whole time I was precisely talking about what would need to be sent to the artist...

Guess I am just missing your point, if you had one.

Edit due to reply since its getting nested way too deep: Thanks for clarifying. I never meant to say it was a reason to switch, complexity should never be a reason not to improve. I am just trying to say it isn't what I would call a 'simple' solution as the author asserts. I am also questioning just how much individual artists would actually want to receive all that information, which I believe would become necessary for them.
> it's funny, back when programming computers and managing tech projects was (perceived as) low status work for nerds who didn't fit in anywhere else, i didn't see much if any hullaballoo over the lack of females in these roles. now that all of a sudden everyone including celebrities spends their entire day glued to the internet like a bad crack habit and people are getting rich off ones and zeroes, it's all of a sudden a real big deal and really super duper important. like i said, funny.

I think you're lacking a bit of perspective here. At first, when it was considered routine, rote work, it was mostly women who were programmers (you can find contemporaneous articles saying it's appropriate work for women because programming is basically like preparing a dinner). It was only as companies started to realize the importance and difficulty of the work that women were largely driven out.
I'm sorry, you're not addressing my point. If passengers in Germany didn't think Uber was useful to them, they simply wouldn't use it and Uber wouldn't have any market. But it does have a market because there's a demand. What you're suggesting is to ignore the demand and ban Uber nevertheless, hurting your own citizen's interests and emptying their pockets with prices you yourself think are reasonable for everyone.
DRM; or How to Make 30,000-Hour LED Bulbs 'Last' Only One Month
That's why I say it should be mandatory :-)
War has rarely had a significant effect on populations, certainly nothing like the effect of disease. Although many men in the ancient world died by violence (as they do in pre-political societies and failed states today) killing with stone tools is pretty difficult and dangerous, so constant warfare that killed enough men to account for a 17:1 reproductive ratio for long enough to leave its mark today would have made agriculture almost impossible. So it isn't all that likely.

Social constraints on reproduction are considerably more likely. All human societies are mildly polygynous, with high-status males having more mates and low-status males having fewer. This is why human males are somewhat bigger than human females: bigger men were more successful in mate competition, despite the obvious disadvantage of a larger size for a tool-using opportunistic hunter-gatherer-scavenger [].

The remarkable thing about this finding is that the level of social control was high enough to sustain such an effective* exclusion of most men from mating opportunities. In every modern human society cheating ("extra-pair copulations") is a significant factor in reproductive statistics, and a 17:1 ratio suggests a system that was capable of actually excluding, not just nominally excluding, the vast majority of men from reproducing.

It's difficult to see how that could happen in a modern human population, but then again: men and women today are descendents of the 5% of males who were successful in reproducing under those circumstances, so it's not entirely implausible that we are considerably fiercer mate competitors than our pre-agrarian ancestors.

[*] Bigger, more muscular bodies require more fuel, so bigger men starve to death more frequently than smaller men during bad years, which all the data we have on pre-political peoples suggest were not infrequent.
Did you read the original article? There is specifically discussion about how copyright cannot protect the actual topology.

The point is not to remove profitability from hardware. The point is for hardware you purchase to include the full schematic and source used to create that hardware, so that you can easily modify it and create a derivative work if you wish to.

Many, many digital designs do not include high value patented topologies, but are simply complex interconnections of many separate ICs. You can always choose a license without a patent grant too, if you want.
weak typing is something every javascript programmer likes.
Probably the same reason the Netscape logo isn't animated when the pages load. Cropped out of the capture.
i liked the article until it became feminist. the notion that because there are less women in industry recruiters cannot use a selection criterium that has intrinsically nothing to do with gender, however somehow guys score better on that criterium, doesn't sit well with me. like i'm evil and deserve less favourable treatment because i'm white and male.
I completely agree with you that when measuring losses, you have to consider the fact that much of the wealth lost never existed in the first place. There is still a tremendous amount of collateral damage, but a proper accounting is important.

I remember thinking along similar lines during the enron scandal. Evidently, employees moved all their retirement account money into Enron stock, and lost everything when the company tanked. There was an article about a couple who had lost $500,000. At the time, I do remember thinking - did they contribute $500k in principle, or was 500K the peak value of their 100% enron portfolio before it all fell apart? If it's the latter (and it probably was), then it's entirely possible that they contributed no more than 50k (perhaps even considerably less) to the account.
Ask HN: OS X/Linux: Which helps to decrease mouse usage/increase productivity?
Hi,

I am trying out new techniques/tools/equipment to increase my "general productivity" (roughly defined as how fast can I get stuff done). Some changes I have made is using Dvorak layout on a kinesis advantage keyboard, using Alfred, keeping apple magic trackpad on my keyboard. I found the latter two via HN comments. I wanted to reach out the HN readers for such tools/method that they use.
This is the most thoughtful, balanced answer in this thread. Kudos.
Exactly. Based on data from Spotify[1] and taking an average payment[2] of $.0052, I calculated Spotify would be storing about 20 BILLION accounting records PER MONTH.

Showing my work: 15m paying subscribers = ~150m per month, ~105m paid to artists @ .0052 per song = 20.154 million songs in a month.

[1]https://press.spotify.com/us/information/
[2]http://thetrichordist.com/2014/11/12/the-streaming-price-bib...
I posted this only so I could sigh at the level of technical inaccuracy in the story.
But only one quarter of the users is a subscriber:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/12/spotify-60...

Suppose that the average price for subscribers is $7.50 (since students get discounts and they are probably a large chunk of subscribers).

That's (12 * 7.50) / 4 = $22.50

Suddenly that $48 starts to look pretty good.
iterm2 on OSX is an example of another tool that made my life much better. On the editor side I am using emacs and I am very happy with it.
There are pipeline issues too, but not exclusively.
I wish more manpages would include a brief explanation of why you might want to use the tool. For someone stumbling across this utility, the documentation is baffling.
Right, because I claimed that there are no nice people working on rails at some point..?

We were talking about the overall culture of the rails community. Nor did I intend to imply the DHH was evil, just abrasive.

"nice" != "good"
TypeScript could be compiled to ES5 and ES6 (--target ES6).
Exactly. It smacks of abusive ads - Look at me! I'm the most important thing in your life! Its infantile and annoying.

If an OS started doing that crap, I'd drop it like a hot potato.
"[1] Including companies that have been acquired"
The thing is that the turkish "i" and "I" don't have their own codepoints, it is the same one as latin "i" and "I", when they should have been their own codepoints representing the same glyphs. That way going from I to ı and from i to İ wouldn't be a locale dependant problem.
yuri already chimed in, but if I were ever in a position to be paying over 5k/mo for a service I think I'd be contacting sales no matter what! Startup B2B companies are nearly always willing to work with you on pricing.
Just to clarify, I said "credit card" for simplicity but I use my card primarily as a direct-debit card; taxis (and everyone else) accept that here, and have been since 1980's. So the credit card company is not involved.
Maybe! But not funded by a handful of uber-rich people, and more transparent.
Which is why Germany has one of the best infrastructures, both physical and electronic, in the Western world?

If there is such a thing as a most right stereotype, it's how the Silicon Valley worshiping non-Americans on HN deny the successes and strengths of their own country.

Germany is a, if not the leading country in industrial standardization, and especially in the current climate most of the world will prefer to follow Germany's lead over the politically and ideologically compromised American industry.
Notice how you constantly say "I want". What if I, on the other hand, don't want to know those things and am simply concerned with the price, prepared to take a risk here? What right on earth do you have to tell other people what ratio of risk/reward is acceptable for them? Yet, this is exactly what regulation does: it says "this is in the public interest", yet "public" is very different in its preferences towards prices, comfort, risk and other factors.

If you want a safe taxi, by all means, use the government approved service. I for one couldn't care less, so I'm gonna go with a cheaper service. Everyone should have that choice.
Honestly, I'm not a big fan of Class-based design... I really feel that JS lends itself much better to a system of functions with composition.

You can create a number of stand-alone functions that take an object that is operated against as a parameter and return a value, or modified object. You can now test these independent functions as modules without a lot of distractions that come from side effects and state. With that in place you can bind those functions into a composed object (state), and use that in the rest of your application. You have composition, encapsulation and testable code that is just plain difficult to reason about when you are using Class-based inheritance and trying to test against it.

I actually love JS... it has its' quirks, but I find the flexibility it offers to exceed what most other languages offer for most tasks. Using small function libraries and modules, I find that I can orchestrate much larger operations far more easily than can be done with other systems (usually). All of that said, I also love C#, and use it very differently.

People should stop trying to walk in water, and just swim.
For comparison in the US: My wife and I recently took about 60 days of leave (paid) when our daughter was born, but paid leave is uncommon in many industries. Federal law requires the employer to let you take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave after giving birth, and does not guarantee any pre-birth leave.
This is very much the same place I came too with regard to Brandenburg. Regardless of the speculation, the sites look to be interesting places to explore on future missions.

In hypothesizing possible causes, I wonder about the relative size of the ejecta of a type 2 super nova. Given that the Uranium, on the planet originated in such events at some point, and the 4.7 billion year half life, one could imagine perhaps a modestly dense fragment cloud of U235 which was traveling at relativistic velocity away from a Type II supernova, and it collides with the atmosphere of a planet in a far away star system. If the pieces were small enough they might simply heat up and impact the ground, however if they were massive enough, the shockwave of hitting the atmosphere might be sufficent to compress them into a supercritical mass. At which point the meteor would undergo rapid, and energetic, disassembly.
Your "invisible frogs" would not be a reformulation of Newtonian Mechanics (NM). A reformulation needs to make the exact same predictions as the original theory. There are many reformulations of both NM and GR, and they are quite useful (and interesting) in various contexts. This is a solid, interesting work that does not deserve being dubbed "horse shit" by a person who does not even have a formal training in the field.
and another one: https://news.ycombinator.com
Paid Acquisition and Marketing Tips for Startups
WireOver (YC W12) Shutting Down
This article has an interpretation of meritocracy that doesn't fit mine. I always took it to mean that in open source you're judged on the quality of contributions and software projects speak for themselves. All the connective tissue to that making a person "deserving" of anything other than earned respect for their accomplishments, or the idea that people who don't contribute are without merit are completely foreign to me. This article was the first place I heard of people getting that impression.
I have no serious experience with Erlang, but what are you looking for? E.g. if you're running a chat server that keeps all data in-process, Erlang _is_ your platform, and PaaS isn't much more convenient than a cloud or a dedicated server. If you want to pay someone to manage PostgreSQL and Redis clusters for you, a PaaS provider may be more interesting.

Do note that AWS offers a _lot_ of services; using e.g. AWS RDS isn't going to lock you in worse than using Heroku.
Recent infamous examples:

* Berlin Brandenburg Airport, originally planned to open in 2010, estimates suggest that the airport will open in 2018 or 2019: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport

* De-Mail (competitor to email): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Mail

* E-Postbrief (competitor to email and De-Mail): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Postbrief

* SAP Web Dynpro (Java, only ABAP now): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Dynpro
3.5$ per user(!, or should I say a fan ) is significantly more than just negligible compared with fractions of a cent for every user.

It is also more correct, your subscription is distributed to artists whose music you actually listened to. It repeat listens are accounted for, then it would be even more fair, since you usually listen more to your favorite artists.

Currently the distribution just isn't correct. This is probably because of technical reasons.
FREAK Attacks Still a Threat for Hundreds of iOS and Android Apps
So the paper says yes, but offers no analysis on why it's potentially better or different from other models of logical reasoning?
Founder of Detroit Water Project here. Despite what you’ve said, this is a serious effort to do good. You mention saving a life versus contributing to a water bill. Why are those so dissimilar? Our assistance application data shows that over 350 children are in houses affected by this crisis.

Not having running water at your house is a real problem. It’s a public health and sanitation issue. People have not been able to flush their toilets, clean, cook, or exist in a state of dignity.

On top of that, without running water in a house in Detroit, a house can be ruled unfit for habitation. That can translate to children being removed from the home because they're in a dwelling unfit for habitation. Preventing families from being broken up isn't goofing around.

It’s a false dichotomy to say that you either save a life by helping a child in a poor country OR give to a water bill in the United States. You can do both in proportion to your ability.

Yes, these people are citizens of a wealthy and powerful nation, but we’ve already seen that it’s allowed them to suffer greatly. The City of Detroit itself—especially before we forced them to react—turned people off with very little regard to someone’s ability to pay.

You should volunteer to help us return phone calls to people that need help. If you do, I’m sure you’ll find that this is as serious a project as any!

Edit: On losing children, etc.
> and a 17:1 ratio suggests a system that was capable of actually excluding, not just nominally excluding, the vast majority of men from reproducing.

It doesn't actually imply that, because many of them could have reproduced, but not had offspring that survived to reproduce for sufficient numbers of generations. Modern DNA won't distinguish that from didn't reproduce. So, the fact that the vast majority of men of the time weren't successful in reproducing in the long term (viewed by having descendants survive to the modern day) doesn't mean that they were effectively excluded from reproduction.
> There is voting, of course, but to become an informed voter all one needs to do is read a short guide about the candidates and issues before the election.

I have often wondered how people can make uninformed decisions easily. Now I know.

Only reading a short guide, is akin to reading a Wikipedia article for a monumentally important decision, and not bothering to check the edit history, let alone the references.
Because Anil Wilson is of Indian ancestry. She claims the group thought she did not fit in and she was replaced with someone who did. Also, see my comment below.
Disclaimer: I'm all for bringing as many women as possible on board the tech industry ship for their fun and profit. I fully support improving job conditions of anyone in tech industry who may be treated unfairly and empowering groups that are currently at disadvantage.

But.

>one day there will be one female engineer for every male engineer
>We're still so far from this dream...

There are billions of women who live on less than $5 per day. There are hundreds of thousands, even millions of curious, intlelligent, inquisitve girls who won't have even a miniscule chance to become a modern Ada Lovelace because of poverty, abuse, preventable illnesses, lack of education, early pregnancies and exploitation. But somehow I am not seeing nearly as many posts and comments full with righteous indignation about that on HN.

I wish there would be a community dedicated to programming, tech entrepreneurship and social good for like-minded people from developing countries. No first world problems allowed.
Okay but I didn't say western countries. I just said most countries (as in of the world).
This is a bummer and not because I am a subscriber, but because I would have been one had I known about Hacker Monthly. Sorry if I missed it somewhere, but will the issues be archived somewhere for newcomers to read?
I don't disagree, but in the context of this joke I was just wanting to say "Hey America, us too!" :D
What's also unreasonable is that 31 users means 31$15/mo not 30$0 + 1*$15/mo which is disappointing. 30 people is a medium company and I just feel like going from $0 -> $465/mo is a BIG jump.
I think the author is attempting to make the very valid point that not all good programmers can be expected to be giving freely of their non-work day time.

In short -- life happens but then the jobs dry up and good talent is over looked or lost.

And, yes, it does happen to women more than men.
Releasing software that others are legally allowed to use, and then them using it is being 'exploited financially.' Interesting.
I think what would really help these kinds of discussions is to first agree on whether we're discussion a 'should' or an 'is'.

In the latter case, there are many conclusions one can draw that are considered racist, misogynist, or discriminatory in any other way. And this knowledge can be valuable for study, or other ways.

In the former case, however, all of that doesn't necessarily matter, partly because we assume the reasons for things being as they are, are a result of unfair processes, and partly because we prefer to give the individual the benefit of the doubt over trusting on the statistics that would put this individual in a group that he might not really be part of.

I often feel that both types of discussions are significantly harmed by conflating the two.
Your implication that productivity increases with more exclusive use of the keyboard against all other input devices, is dubious. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_chording, and programs where it is put to good use (acme).
Yes, the article really missed this point.

One could also mentioned some sort of tiered payout scheme or a non-linear minimum after a certain amount of plays plus a percentage above that. Likely something that Spotify will experiment with over the years.
Yeah, I can confirm this comment... We are using OneDrive for Business for various reasons, I strongly advice to stay away from OneDrive for Business if you can...
Somewhat related to this topic: doing 10 sessions of intensive rolfing therapy years ago not only helped correct some musculoskeletal issues I had; it also coincided with a significant dropoff in recurring Iraq-related dreams (I had previously served in OIF).

Most of my musculoskeletal stuff was directly attributable to carrying 100+ lbs of kit up and down the street, up and down stairs, and over 2-meter walls, 4-12 hours a day.

Maybe there's no correlation and it was just a placebo-type thing and/or my mind playing tricks on me, but I'm inclined to think that the improvement in longstanding tissue-related issues that were caused by deploying also ameliorated some of the psychological residue of that experience.
> I would love to know of other mammalian species that have such low reproductive rates compared to females.

Some species of deer probably match it.
If there is a 1:1 applicant pool then absolutely! If there is not a 1:1 hiring ratio implies hiring less qualified applicants to reach a quota (assuming equal distribution of skill, which I think most people would agree is the case).
I suspect that the paying users are more likely to listen to more obscure indie artists, simply based on the people I know who pay for premium. Anyone interested in listening to only top 40 likely won't see the value in paying $9.99 a month for it. Thus the less popular artists are bringing in the revenue but the big artists keep more money.

That being said, there's no proof of this without data to back it up.