skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of the things you mention are large enough to account for more than a tiny fraction of this observation. There are only a handful of cases like Ghengis Khan and that Irish king who are ancestors to a fraction of a percent of the human population, which in any case don't exclude other men from ancestry. If you have ten children and I have one, I am still an ancestor, although your DNA will show up more frequently in future generations than mine.

These results suggest the actual exclusion of 95% of the male population from reproduction. Chromosomal disorders affect less than 1% of the population, which would be deep in the noise in this study.

With regard to the rate of evolution on the Y chromosome, I think it's pretty plausible that people who do this stuff for a living are aware of it and corrected for it. We don't know that for certain, but since we don't know anything with certainty--only with an overwhelmingly high degree of plausibility--that isn't a big criticism.

Edit: also, any harem-keeping species is likely to have a high proportion of genetic losers amongst the males: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harem_%28zoology%29#Mammals
You appear to have a strong opinion of which charities are more 'meaningful' for a donation. Out of curiosity, which specifically make your list?
Why did you do it in the first place?

Here's why you might consider contributing to OSS even though others use it to make money:

If you have contributed to a successful project it's a major leg up in getting hired by someone using that project

If you use that product in your own work, then you are paying that benefit forward and can expect some (additional) returns in the future

If you learn something new/interesting that is outside of your normal work-a-day stuff
Jsan – stringify and parse js objects with circular references
There's an app called Divvy (2 v's) that I use every day.
Because that question is easily answered: It seems the more desirable goal would be that women and men can equally find the kind of work they want, instead of being forced into or out-of jobs on some purposeless quota system.
Existing bus services aren't subsidized for the popular routes, they are subsidized for the unpopular routes. When you take the bus at 10 PM, and are near the end of the line, and you are the only one on the bus for 10 minutes... that's what is subsidized. A private bus company could just say, "sorry, not enough passengers to run that route today."
Wow the "old news" idea blows me away. I really, really want that.
Cisco needs to release key signed software to verify that your firmware has not been tampered with. They are either complicit or cooperating with the NSA...either way, this is a pathetic attempt at thwarting NSA subverting firmware.
I said a similar thing in another comment thread, I agree it's WAY too big of a jump. Especially since a lot of newer companies are already using Google Apps (so they get storage included, unlimited if they have 5+ users) because it let's them scale up and have fixed costs... 3x that cost/mo for dropbox/gdrive on YOUR OWN hardware? $15/u/mo AFTER 30 seems reasonable but going from $0 (30 users) -> $465 (31 users) is odd....
Well, if you are processing CSV or XML data-stream for import operations into a foreign system, JS is a very natural language for this type of work. Being able to translate anything into a 32-bit integer value with ~~ for example, or understanding falsy-truthy operations can make text composition easier as well.

The only real gotcha in validation is when you want something that is a numeric-string or a number to be a number, and anything else to be a null. Outside of that case, I find that dealing with data migrations/translations in JS is FAR better in practice than most of the options I've used. Especially when you compare to the likes of say C, C#, Java etc... Yes, you can use strong XML validation, but it tends to produce a lot of errors that are recoverable in JS.
Women were not "driven out". The job requirements changed. What you're referring to as programming was more what we would call data entry now.
There is a growing opinion and growing number of studies done on the subject. That is, simply giving poor people cash helps alleviate poverty in better ways than (many or most) organized projects can, as the theory is that they better know how to spend it on their needs than those in position to help.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/25/240590433/what-hap...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/opinion/let-them-eat-cash....

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141214/christopher-bl...
That takes planned obsolescence to a whole new level.
I don't have to listen to it consecutively. But I listen while driving, while studying, while working. I certainly fall in the category of indie fan listening to a lot of music from catalog artists, not hit makers.
I just signed up, and all I see is the equivalent of twitter posts for #ISIS, #Ferguson, and #Ukraine -- for both "Live Feed" and "Popular Feed". Am I missing something?
Still not a silver bullet. Women would still be disproportionately effected and it would further incentivize discrimination on the basis of family status.

You can tweak the parameters back and forth, but every solution will be imperfect.

There is also the matter of if it would be mandatory for women. If so, that would be discriminatory against women, as single women would more frequently be forced to put their careers on hold than single men. If it is mandatory for men but not women, that is also discriminatory.

Currently in the US, women cannot be forced to take maternity leave: http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-preg.html
Fascinating - do you remember it? (As opposed to being told about it / vague memories-of-memories). Are there any remnants in how you communicate with your twin now?
Why should the people maimed by those cut-price cabs suffer from the poor risk assessment of the people using those cut price cabs?
From talking to hundreds of people over the course of running this project, in many cases, what we have is not a failure to organize one's life. Instead, it's life events such as being laid off or having a medical issue get out of hand and force a person to leave work and forgo a salary that cause people to fall behind and need assistance.

In other cases, people are in situations where they're not earning enough to cover all of their life expenses, but the water department itself has turned them down for assistance. We see their attempts to do the best they can in their payment patterns. $25 here, $50 there as soon as they can.

These are not people that sit around actively looking for handouts. And many people we've helped have volunteered to help us however they can.
I thought it had been observed with monkeys or apes that in times of scarcity they will share, but if you dump a whole truck load of bananas they will fight over them. The rise of agriculture would be a similar time of plenty which may be what triggered all the fighting and hoarding.
I'm assuming Bill left out specific numbers because he doesn't want to share them. "Watching the sausage get made" just means he got to see all the details that went into building Twitch.
I don't, unfortunately. The company had three series (A, B and C).

Anecdotally I know that the company was not super generous with early employees. Part of what it did prior to IPO was to do a couple of refreshes to make sure people had a reason to stay (and they were extremely successful in this, we've had very little turnover).
I would imagine people actively avoid them if they plan on charging for something.

I'm honestly not sure what you wanted. You contributed code to something, and people used it. Some of those happened to make money on code that included yours (I'm sure the impact yours had on their bottom line is debatable). Did you expect financial compensation? Did you just hope for whatever reason that nobody would make any money off any code that you wrote? If you didn't want people to "avoid" your software, you wanted them to use it, right?
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That's just awesome!
Can you share more details about it? Looks like you are consuming some api and producing the graphs and data realtime.
The article bounces around to touch so many different social issues its nearly incoherent.

Regarding the main point I think it's a non issue. Companies are only interested in hiring OSS contributors to get a feel for their work. There are many other ways to do this. For example since a lot of my work is visual I maintain a demo reel. For others it may be articles you've written or even Stackoverflow contributions. It is not hard to get a job without OSS if you have some way to communicate your past performance.

Also the author says she knows "many" women who have had trouble contributing to OSS based on how they were treated. GitHub should make it easy to provide examples of this right?

I know women have a tough time in certain tech environments, but I'm really surprised to hear of repos where this is happening because perpetrators would have to do it publicly.

Please provide examples of the largest OSS community where this is happening and where offenders are not called out or reprimanded. I'll be glad head over there and back you up.
According to the posted link, part of his "evidence" is proximity to the Face on Mars.

That's not some irrelevant religious belief. That's a chunk of unscientific nonsense at the very core of his claims. Pointing out that it is in fact nonsense is not somehow "cherry picking."
I think 1:1 is a little bit of a stretch initially, but should be the long term goal. The short term goal for new hires should be to match the ratio of males:females graduating with degrees which is currently less than 1:1.[1] Once we reach that point then the number of women seeking a tech education will also rise.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing#Statistics_i...
Twitter does it again without notice in 2 hours
The only thing that renders in Lynx is an RSS link.
So I have no idea what this is, but it's not accessible.
Edit: Just viewed source and wish I could unsee it. Meteor.js :/
Am I not a part of the society? If I am, why is it that some part of the society, however big, is telling me how to spend my own money if it doesn't actually affect them at all?

It is my choice whether to insure myself or not. It is the choice of the driver whether to insure himself or not. It is the responsibility of the road owner to demand all cars have insurance. Unfortunately, we mostly have only one road owner these days: government. If you had plenty, then some would allow uninsured cars and some wouldn't. Then it would be up to both drivers and pedestrians to use those roads (this is one possible solution).

You're trying once again to draw an image of a libertarian as a ruthless individual who doesn't care about the misfortunes of other people. I do care very much about that and I would be happy to help out. What I am against is FORCE with which government demands people operate in the market very often against their will.

Some people are riskier. Some people are careful. As long as it doesn't affect another person, everyone should be free to do whatever the hell they want.

Finally, your elitist standpoint "we in Europe" is simply disgusting to me. I apologize for this emotional outbreak, but I have zero respect for collectivism. "You in Europe" are all different and by saying it they way you did, you simply disrespect people who have opposing views, not considering them a part of your society.
http://www.reddit.com/r/sorryforyourloss
Unbelievably, some "mastering engineers" have been known to deliberately clip the track in pursuit of loudness, often at an ADC stage, and then turn the level down a fraction so it doesnt clip on playback. unfortunately, lots of DACs will produce inter-sample peaks under these conditions, which leads to that awful sound.
Did you hold your most recent meal to this same standard?
As a fellow Dvorak typer I'm a bit surprised that you've had such a negative experience with it.

I didn't have a negative experience with Dvorak, it's just virtually pointless when compared to the benefit of consistent, light key pressure, mechanical keys, and a physical design that suits your body.

Dvorak is more difficult in regular life but it can solve pain issues.

I don't believe this claim at all.
Why Muni can’t find good drivers: http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/why-muni-cant-find-go...

The starting wage is $18 an hour, going up to $30. The $70k is with overtime. So the starting worker probably does make more like $35k, which isn't exactly amazing in San Francisco.
Not sure why there's such a sympathetic write up in this article. People who sell guns and drugs get ripped off, and worse, all the time. I get the Bitcoin angle, but still...
When I came to Spain a lot of (Spanish) people would give me the "why do we need to learn English?", and then the market crashed. To this day I interact with younger folk who continue this line of thinking; the ones who leave and learn English and find work are going to be much better prepared...
True! Then it seems that the early agrarian humans had more of a herd mentality or reproductive structure of winner take all. Do other apes or monkeys have similar breeding structures? Fascinating stuff.
What is most exciting about this announcement, to me, is that it provides the starting point for researchers to publish data and code.

I frequently hear scientists say that they would like to publish their data sets and source code, but don't know how to do it, or don't have a public place to put it. This NSF announcement streamlines solutions for these items.
Check out this French company https://www.clever-cloud.com/en/

They have support for Erlang although I don't see it advertised there anymore.
>Yet if I use restrictive licenses people just avoid the software altogether.
Do you mean gpl/agpl? If yes, why do you care if leaches don't use your code?
If everyone followed this advice, there will be no startup employees left.
The reason for his strong bias is that no news show in their right mind will tell you:

"Here's a list of stuff that is working perfectly fine..."

News are cherry-picking the few examples that DON'T work.
Or cause, whatcha gonna do? I had 25% of a company, let myself get pushed out. New owners did a good job turning it around, sold it for over $20M. I ended up getting a few K. While not as clear-cut as making more money would have required positive action on my part, eh, well, this was years ago and just serves as a lesson.

Or when Bitcoin was cheap and CPU-capable and I started a 64-core mining setup but figured I'd only make a few hundred BTC a month and turned the system off cause a hundred bucks a month wasn't worthwhile (even though I wasn't paying for the hardware/electricity). Including throwing away whatever I had mined so far (a block or two?). Oops.

Or another settlement, that's under NDA.

Or not taking this prototype software I had (that's actually now powering the tech support of voice division of a public telco) and turning it into a commercial offering because I figured the tech was too easy. Then finding a similar solution with 1/100th the performance sold for around $21M.

I prefer to try to view these as inspirations, that opportunities are around and even random "nobodies" can end up in the right place by moving at the right time.
It's difficult but it comes down to loss-prevention.

I could setup a site with a front-facing flower shop, accept orders, take in the peoples $$ legitimately, and then transact and fulfill their orders (via fraud) on 1800flowers.com for example.

I realize that anyone could do this for anything, but the weaker your weak points are, the easier it is to capitalize on them.
It's a valid question, and there is some controversy, but the usual answer is "yes". Tombs are some of the best-preserved remains of historical times.
Tesla can now sell its cars directly to consumers in New Jersey
WireOver (YC W12) will be shutting down April 1, 2015
And the constant performance improvements over the last years, that are the result of the ongoing race for better performance between the browser vendors.
He may be using GPU acceleration, with something like PGStrom.
Rather than make a snide remark, it's more useful to "steel man" this argument: Consider the X hours you spend over the course of a year reading the news, which for most people you would consider "informed American" is in the triple digits. (That's less than 20 minutes a day.) Now, rather than reading any news that year, imagine that before the election you sat down for X hours and read a some books and long-format essays about the candidates. While reading you are free to look up old news articles when pertinent. Who is the better informed voter? What if you spend only X/10 hours?
You can get good jobs without having an active OSS history. I'm not asking for financial compensation. I was stating why I contribute much less now than I used to.
They don't need to write anything. They just need to impose an increasing delay after every failure when the code is being supplied via USB or bluetooth. First failure, wait two seconds, fifth failure wait 30 seconds, eigth failure wait 90 seconds.

If they really wanted to write it to flash, they could make it so that the first failure isn't written at all, the second has a 50% chance, the third a 100% chance.

Or make it so that if the device has only been running a short period of time, then all failures require a thirty second wait until you can retry.

There are plenty of ways to make it impractical without necessarily reducing the lifetime of the device.
I'll refer you back to the "Shadow IT" that was mentioned in the article, while the company I work out has the money to spend on something like this it would never go anywhere since we are a "startup" (Stretching the definition a little) and any cost over $0 is heavily scrutinized (for better or worse). We still use jabber because "It's Free" and now that we have 70-odd employees switching to Slack/HipChat seems like a huge expense. I will readily admit that the issue here isn't as much the cost as much as the people making the decisions thinking that ChatProgramA == ChatProgramB except for ChatProgramA.cost < ChatProgramB.cost where ChatProgramA.cost == $0.
Tesla can now sell cars directly to customers in New Jersey
I have no real idea how wide-spread the issue is, but I tend to go with what's concretely known, as opposed to just making crap up.
Sling TV is coming for your cable cord with more channels and Xbox deal
True, but unfortunately, under our economy that free time just gets used as an opportunity to out-work the competition.
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Pornography’s awkward phase. The new book “Psychedelic Sex.”
I imagine that's true once you get tenure, but not before.
I suggest Sococo (I work there). Free. Includes chat, webcam/audio spaces, doc sharing. Best for distributed teams, especially if practicing Agile.
I didn't want anything. I was stating why I mostly stopped contributing: Other people were making money off of my work without me being compensated. OSS is a vehicle for companies to exploit unpaid labor. The hacker community just hates to hear that.
Is this essentially the NIH policy, now also applied to the NSF? If so this is great news!

(Actually, I didn't realize the NSF wasn't on board with this already)
I'm going to hack these comments to point out how dumb this is.
Undefined behavior does permit optimizations, yes, but I think you're overselling its benefit. Rust doesn't have undefined behavior and there are many instances where its strict semantics mean that it is far more optimizable and runtime-efficient than C++ (though some of those optimizations are yet to be implemented).
This has been a fascinating back and forth. Thank you for taking the time to have a comprehensive discussion.
This is a good point of view because it frames these donations as personal consumption, which I think is accurate and distinct from the duty we owe our fellow man.

So yes, I view donating to this or the opera similarly to eating a meal.
There are people on reddit raising funds to doxx the people who ran Evolution.

Jesus... a whole lot of shadowbans are going to happen once the admins wake up. Maybe even some subreddit bans.
...and that's probably the same for 90% of everyone's retirement portfolio. The "we lost everything we had" line could be as meaningless as having someone say "well, I put all my life savings in this slot machine because the guy at the casino said he'd been keeping track of it and it's been paying out over the odds for months, and at first, it seemed to be true... until I put in my last dollar and it blew up."

Not that this makes anyone feel any better about losing their life savings - but risk is risk... and betting all your life savings on something as fickle as an illusion carefully sculpted by financial giants to pad their coffers, protected by bills carefully designed by lobbyists to protect what might as well be fraud, all buoyed up by public opinion of those chasing the dream of endless wealth [which about sums up the entire financial market], is a gamble no matter how you look at it. What did we learn about gambling in school? The odds always favour the house... and unless you're the house [which you're not, because the house is the conglomerate of banks that propagate this mess], you're extremely unlikely to win.
There is no "enough", when you want everything.
Large public works projects are a problem in Germany.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/disastrous-publ...
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The fact that I, in theory, can complain as a voter and maybe change things is much less valuable than the ability to choose another provider.

I simply don't have time to fight with professional bureaucrats when something sucks, and the professional bureaucrats know it.
Honestly, I feel as though manual control over kerning will become an anti-pattern for most designers.

Most good OpenType fonts have kerning data built in, and its pretty simple to enable this feature for most modern browsers (Safari is lagging, see font-feature-settings). There certainly are times when you want to override the default kerning, but its few and far between, and certainly not a good idea for body copy.

I'd rather have improper kerning for old browsers, and nice kerning for new browsers than trust designers to properly manually adjust the kerning themselves.
It seems to me that you could be a bit better at criticizing; you give this guy a hard time for having a thin skin, but you're being really antagonistic. I agree that his original post in this thread seemed a bit sales-pitch-y, and I resent that too, but you come off as being on full attack. Chill out a little, people will probably pay MORE attention, rather than writing you off as an angry competitor.
Thanks! I think we may have just pushed through at least a trial run of HipChat but I'll pass it along and check it out myself.
The before & after pictures plastered everywhere (that increase in frequency as you get close to Gangnam but are still very common) have the same effect for me. Input person who at least has some semblance of an individual physical appearance and output yet another who looks like all the others. When numbers are as high as possibly being 50%+ for women in their 20s, it becomes even scarier. I have numerous 20-something female Korean friends that make me doubt that statistic but I'm sure it's not far off.
Starbucks and Postmates announce partnership
The infrastructure is from another timeframe (pre-2000, often pre-1990) - like elsewhere. The roads, and telephone copper&fiber cables last a long time, with maintenance.
But roads! There aren't ever going to be several roads in parallel, going the same places, with different standards, that form a free market. That's ludicrous. Its an ideal place for government to step in, ensure a well-regulated network and enforce standards. You don't like that, ok. But you've got nothing to suggest as an alternative, that any modern society could afford.
EA didn't develop a majority of the games you listed. They were the publisher.