skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about the hackathon Gina is referring to. But I think we've all seen the same thing - a faux commitment to diversity by just giving the most brown, female, or otherwise disadvantaged person in the room an award for trying.

But let's not take the GamerGate approach that diversity is therefore just a conspiracy of political correctness.

It doesn't mean that diversity is a bad idea, it's just that it's harder than giving people BS awards.

If you're committed to diversity, it means you are committing to undoing disadvantages that other people have been enduring their whole life. In other words: training, in a respectful and supportive environment.

The good news for techies is that it takes relatively little time to train a talented and intelligent person from zero to productive. We're used to smart 16-year-olds sometimes coding circles around industry veterans. Surely we can do the same for other kinds of people in their 20s and 30s.
Why I taught myself 20 languages
You can't look at yourself solely as an individual (unless you only depend on yourself), but have to look at yourself in the larger picture of our ecosystem. If your 'shorter-work-hours' results in everyone else needing to put in 'longer-work-hours' to satisfy global needs and/or demands, then there is an argument that you are a free-rider.

Instead, the totality of 'work-hours' needs to be examined in detail and we need to think about whether the distribution is 'fair' and how we can reduce 'work-hours' across the board, for all individuals.
My mom could never figure out how to double-click a mouse without moving it a tad. When she uses a tablet, she's understands swiping, but she can't help but touch the screen when a "normal" user would point without touching. She's starting to get it but I think shopping on Amazon may forever be out of reach.

She's definitely not the average user, and while usability is important to a website, the average user ought to be more concerned about security and privacy.
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People seem buy houses based upon how much money a lender will give them. Hence the whole housing bubble problem. I'm not sure if lenders factor in deductions or not.
That's assuming they're working alone for their own intent. Given how federal government agencies are responding to FOIA requests to local police departments regarding stingray operations, it wouldn't be completely ridiculous to consider they had help/orders from federal agents. That's just speculation, but it's possible.
I normally do my taxes myself (I only have a simple schedule A -- home mortgage interest and property taxes deduction). However, a couple years back I sold stock I got years before, so I went to H&R Block. When I looked at what they billed me for -- I sold something like 160 shares of a stock, but the broker had to do multiple transactions (150 shares in one block, 8.something, on another transaction, etc), so I had something like 10 lines that accounted for a few bucks each. And the Block charged something like $25 for each "stock sell" line. All told it cost close to $300 for them to do my taxes.
The US's view of Google is inadmissible. Several high positioned White House staff members in tech positions are Googlers, and Google has a massive amount of cash invested in the US Congress as well. Google is at the White House for meetings on a weekly basis. The US Congress' letter to the EU Parliament asking them not to break up Google: Entirely signed by representatives paid by Google.
Trolling 1,000,000 because it's a ridiculous number.
I will be the first to admit: there might be implicit biases for hiring a men but all of the spoken preferences are for women. (coming from myself, managers, recruiters). Female candidates are actively treated differently.
Generally around 30-35% of taxpayers itemize. So a minority, but not an insignificant one.
"The final factor is a distrust of government. They are seen as plodding, corrupt, useless, expensive, political, uncaring and largely pointless. They are very rarely seen as an instrument of voter will. This is what provides the perennial source of jokes - the DMV (department of motor vehicles), the IRS, city hall and all that. Who would trust government to get things right?"

This I find to be the absolute dumbest reason of all. The IRS already knows everything about your income that you would be telling them anyway.
Thanks. If there are any audio interviews/stories out there about these companies, I would love to listen to those.
> Dr Thomas Kitching, a co-author of the study from University College London, said ... "It's too early to say if this is a dark matter effect, or caused by normal astrophysical processes. What we need to do now, is make simulations of these collisions to distinguish these possibilities."
For us the argument is fairly simple. Resettlement of the Islands by Chagossians is possible, even maintaining the military base, and there is still will amongst the Chagossian people to do so.

Certainly internal forced replacement still happens and often has terrible consequences for people but internationally the Chagos situation is pretty unique, and what is especially unique is that something can be done about it.

(Link to a now slightly outdated page on our website on Return 2015 campaign)

http://www.chagossupport.org.uk/return-in-2015
Apparently unintentionally :)
For those of you not in the loop, these "keyless" systems let you walk up to your car and open your door without getting your key out of your pocket. There is a proximity sensor under the door handle (similar to proximity sensor on your smartphone). When the proximity sensor is triggered, it searches for a nearby key fob and then instantly unlocks. You can also usually start the car (with a push-button start) without getting out the key. And you can lock the doors (from outside the car) by pressing a button on or near the door handle with the fob in proximity. Basically, you never have to get your keys out for any reason.

Anyway, fortunately, I can never find street parking near my apartment for my Prius anyway. But I'm still going to find a small faraday cage I can leave by my bed to put my keys in before I go to sleep...
>One is that women simply aren't as good at programming as men are. The other is that there is a persistent and difficult cultural bias against women in this industry.

What about option three: They've less of an interest in the area.

When these topics come up there seems to be this weird suspension of the fact that men and women, or girls and boys, are different in many ways. They've different interests, they're driven differently, they've different skills, etc.

They're not perfectly aligned bell curves across the board. We also don't need them to be. We don't need men and women to be identical save for what is between their legs in terms of their interests, or how they perform, or their desires, or whatever else.

We simply need to make the same opportunities available to everyone regardless of what is between their legs. If a man wants to become a nurse, he should have the opportunity to and he does. If a woman wants to become a programmer, she should have the same opportunity and graduate employment rates would show that they do.

Women dominate many professions. Men dominate many professions. As a society we don't need to have an equal number of penises and vaginas present in all professions.

Leave the opportunities open and let people develop their own interests.
It's incompatible with BSD/MIT in the sense that whatever you combine with this Apple-variant BSD becomes Apple-variant BSD and can't be straight BSD or MIT anymore. In that respect, GPL code is also compatible with BSD/MIT as it can legally be combined, it just becomes GPL and can't be licensed as BSD/MIT anymore either.

As for the GPL notice, I hadn't realized that was added in GPL3, so these additions by Apple would be allowable under GPL3. I don't use GPL3 so hadn't known about that, thanks for the heads up. They wouldn't be compatible with the more-popular GPL2 (Linux and everything else), though, which has no such allowances.
I'm getting tired of seeing "correlation is not causation" thrown around all the time, too. It's so easy and smart-sounding, saying it is guilt-free and feels good too.
A Mazda3 and a Prius are such expensive cars?
Some feature ideas they should have tried: real time locations of friends/family (ala Google Latitude), integration with something like Angie's list, integration with something like gasbuddy.com, pull in data from Google Now (be like Google Now but I see it on a map).
This raises a very difficult question: Given the results are personnalized and the algorithm a secret, how can we bring proof? Same question for many companies who can hide behind the absence of measurable data, because they keep it secret.
So only cars that "self unlock" are affected right?

If you have remote but no self-unlock it should be okay, for now.

Toyota has a way to turn on and off certain features from the lock system by reprogramming using a pattern of opening and closing the driver door and inserting/removing the key. Same way you add/remove fobs.

So it might be possible to turn off self-unlock. You'd have to find the dealer manual though.

added, or google it: http://thepoch.com/2013/automatic-door-locking-and-unlocking...

http://www.toyota.com/t3Portal/document/om/OM33856U/pdf/sec_...
Guilty of that myself ... 10 years ago I said that the next developer will be a woman. She was just awesome. Also pretty. And could curse and throw slurs with the best of us :)
ok, this makes lot of sense, I guess I somewhat misparsed the text.

EDIT: I wonder if it counts as misreading or misunderstanding, to not notice that a word is an auto-antonym?
Is there it possible to see more? My other account was over 10k before it was slow banned for unknown reasons.
great idea. Do you want to be able to get public transit times and locations (bus stops etc) on a map?

How about adding all points of interest and having the system suggest the best way to plan for the day?
I wonder if Soylent would have the same effect as that program
SVG can also be treated as a DOM and can be partially updated...or restyled with CSS.
Yes, it does work quite well.

In case of doubts, you can book (again, online, with a digital certificate) an appointment with the local "hacienda" branch on one of the available slots and have a clerk filing it for you.

The last time I was there, the clerk had me deduct the rent, when I didn't know I was eligible.

I have childhood memories of my parents being immersed in files and files of esoteric looking forms filled with numbers for days on end, and dreaded filing my first taxes.

Progress!
This is sort of interesting, and I think that this is a good time to comment on a problem I've been having with apps, tinder included.

Updates break perfectly good apps. Due to permissions changes, I haven't updated to Tinder's older update which introduced swipe-undoing and travel. Why? Because besides the fact that I use a version of the app which doesn't seem to adhere to swipe limits, I have no interest in granting tinder more permissions. Also, the plus-feature of visiting different locales can be achieved by using a GPS mock (which I suspect you can't do in the newer versions).

I've seen it too often that apps on phones get worse with each update due to trying to bandage up haemorrhaging losses. While this is a good addition to tinder I think, it's not compelling enough to get me to update.
As an aside, for the biological sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory operates the biorxiv: http://biorxiv.org/
You're right! Even with no rule having kernal caching enabled will crash it! I think IIS assumes it should cache all static content even when there are no rules specifically for them. Somehow I can't edit my comment anymore but I'll leave this here :

EVEN WITH NO RULES, YOU ARE VULNERABLE! My previous answer has been proven to be wrong!
the income tax is byzantine for maybe a third of the population. The other two thirds of the population have a W-2, maybe a 1098-T or E, and take a standard deduction. Granted, they can use TurboTax for free, but it's still a waste of time.

The lifetime education credit is calculated based on the 1098-T that your school had to file with the IRS.

I had to help two friends navigate TurboTax after they couldn't figure out where to enter a 1098-E (student loan interest), so my anecdotal evidence is that TurboTax easily misses certain items when hey ask "Did you go to school this year", but not "Did you have education expenses" (or something similar). Without someone who had already used the software to enter similar items, they may not have been able to get that credit.

My main complaint with TurboTax (other than the fact that I have to use software to file taxes and buy a new version every year) is that I am charged to e-file at the state level.
Put an /s at the end. Usually hints.
so points of interest plus nearby attractions and places to eat all in one page?
But the linked page is there. Google is indexing Amazon, extracting the photo, description, and price of the product, displaying it in a box, and making it a link back to Amazon where it got the data from, what's the problem?

Product Search is just another form of summarization/snippeting that just presents the data in more digestable format.

Remember Google Fusion Tables? That was an attempt to extract facts from pages and put them into tables, so if you ask "What's the masses of the planets of the solar system", you could get a table of 8 planets and masses, with the results coming from 8 different sites. But the links could still be there to the original site, it's just formatted as a table instead of as 8 blue links with summary paragraphs, which is harder for humans to process.

Where do we draw the line? You've seen how Google has a new system that can automatically caption images with deep neural networks. (http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/18/new-google-research-project...)

Now what if this same system eventually allows the search engine to summarize your web page by 'reading it', and then auto-generating a paragraph that explains what it thought it was about?

There'd be no actual direct copying of text (like there is with search snippets), instead it would be more like a human going to a library, reading a book, and writing a review

Would this also violate copyright?
There is an even more interesting, medical story hidden in this article.

Hyperthyroidism is thought to be affected, even caused, in some cases, by an abundance of stress. Having your beard turn gray and "ultra fine" are literally direct results of having too much thyroid hormones in your bloodstream. There aren't other pathologies that would lead to such a symptom, especially when presented suddenly, and ephemerally.

In other words, this guy might have had a temporary case of hyperthyroidism that could be directly attributed to a period of high stress.

Disclaimer: This is not medical advice or advice of any kind, and I'm not a doctor.
I'm not convinced that leading is the job of a manager, at least not all managers. As an example, a line manager, someone who manages the work of several developers, is more of a Project Manager / People Manager and less a leader.

Maybe this is getting too much into semantics. A leader, as I tend to think of that position, is about setting direction, guiding the vision, dealing with the culture, more strategic in whatever they are leading. This could be a company or a project or a product, doesn't have to be high-falutin, can be as simple as leading a project to completion. The focus, however, is really about the strategic view of whatever it is that's being led.

A manager is the tactical view. Making sure people have enough work and that work fits the project. Making sure that the people doing the work are the right ones to do that work (some crossover into leadership here, can't help that). A manager is really part communication traffic cop (in a positive sense, not "give you a ticket" sense), part nanny (reward & punish behavior), part mentor and part canary for the upper management of things going wrong.

As a side note, this is why I found 1-1s valuable at all levels of managing. When I was running several teams, making sure my leads were having 1-1s with their people and talking about how their teams are doing gave me a view I would not have had otherwise. I'm still learning about this though.

Part of my thinking about the original comment was about the role of management in an ideal scenario. If you remove the "human machine" from the conversation and look at what most of the time managers at all levels are doing, it's communication management. Yes, this is an overgeneralization to a great degree, but it helps me to think about management in that way.

If your manager built his/her interactions with you around things you need to know (communicating vision, direction, business needs, etc.) from above and took your feedback and communicated it up, then you get lots of conversations and feedback loops. This requires the upper management to listen to what the people on the ground are saying, which is rare in my limited experience.

Incidentally, what you get is managing the what and not the how, letting individual contributors deal with the how. Which opens up a whole can of worms for corporations and, sometimes, from a legal perspective too - think SOX & HIPAA as examples.

Bottom line, I believe management is to leadership as tactical view is to strategic view. Genuine communication is what management is all about, makes our work interactions human and makes it easier to give and receive feedback across the entire org.

Of course I just described a utopia, but it's nice to work towards that, even if it's just a person approach.
Many apps try to just get traction instead and grow on that front, that they're as big as possible, then worry about monetization.
Engineering team invents a camera that powers itself
(Also it would be nice if it did/does, because performance will still be terrible if you have too many groups, otherwise.)
There are only two explanations for the obvious reality.

Only if you make the assumption that people make career choices that organically fit into equilibrium and as rational actors. Drawing a dichotomy seems naive.
Presumably the original idea was IIS performance.
The thing is, though, I find it cartoonish to force people to calculate and file their own income tax. Especially since many of them just pay someone else (a person or a computer program) to do it for them. Which, in a way, is like yet another tax.
Am I the only one who's disturbed by the notion that a human should have to check a computer's math?
"But since Microsoft (on purpose) didn't make a unique name and logo for it, the media didn't pick it up."

Haha! I don't think MS got that memo about having to name bugs and make logos.
This might help

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/15/what_did_google_do_w...
It's sex abuse hysteria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria

The women aren't deliberately lying, but they're not telling the truth either. They've talked themselves into believing these things, forming false memories.

The more who come forward, the more likely even more will come forward who have had interactions with the man in the past, since when the women tell their stories to the press they're creating an environment where more false memory formation is encouraged (at least until the supply of women who were acquaintences is exhausted).

I mean, since we now "know" Cosby is a rapist, every female who ever met him or spent time with him starts wondering if they were drugged ("I might not even remember if I were rufied!"). So poorly remembered details from 40 years ago are re-analyzed, in paranoid fashion, until they're quite sure it was a thousand times creepier than it seemed back then. Every time they go over it in their heads, details mutate slightly. New embellishments occur. Stuff other accusers said in interviews gets conflated with stuff they think they remember...
Small Packages of Code Are the Biggest Thing in App-Making
The WP article dances around a problem... that the reason there are fewer women in STEM is because they avoid it from childhood. Which begs the genetics vs socialization question. Are women not as good, or are they discouraged at an early age?

A lack of good candidates is a serious problem (this even more obvious racially than by gender - where are the black and latino engineers?). But the way women are treated relative to their male peers is a massive problem within software, as opposed to the broader STEM fields. Don't believe me? Sit down and have a heart-to-heart talk with experienced female software engineers about it sometime. Ask them what sexism they've experienced at work, how it's hampered their careers and their job satisfaction.
Take a look at this Yelp business: http://www.yelp.com/biz/morgan-automotive-portland

It has 33 5-star reviews that are "unapproved", and eight 1-star promoted reviews that amount to a 2 star overall rating. I'd say that's an undeserved bad reputation. And no matter how many good reviews there are, the 1-star ratings are still the only ones weighing in.

In comparison, Google review page has a near perfect 5-star non-curated rating - https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

The real kicker here is that to get to these 5 star Yelp reviews, you have to navigate a barely legible grey link at the bottom of the page. Purposefully hiding good reviews until the business pays for membership borders extortion to me.
Actually, that's the technical definition of "unfounded accusation". I don't have to reduce, that's what it is.
do you mean sort of like google map but professionally done?

How long do you think the video should be? and from what vantage point? maybe filmed by a drone? or on a bike?

Also do you want videos from the insides as well?
So, you mean profit? They're a public company, so the bar it set at a different level.
Fudge. It was an article listed here. I'm paging down, not finding it.
> Having your beard turn gray and "ultra fine" are literally direct results of having too much thyroid hormones in your bloodstream.

I'd love to see if this is true via a blood test. I'm 32, and my beard has gone from a dark brown to very much gray in the last 12-18 months due to a highly stressful life. My brother calls it the "Obama Effect" due to how quickly Obama's gone grey over the last ~8 years (supposedly due to how stressful being POTUS is).
And is that a fault of Google or a terrible system for software innovation? Google was created while students in a very successful university collaborated with the means to actually make their vision a reality. Excluding GB, how many schools in the EU fit that bill? I can think of ETH Zurich and that's it.
So i am going to keep a journal on this project. I must be honest that the windmill overhaul is at the top of my punt list due to the multifaceted danger [climb up, remove topper, winch down, climb down, reverse&repeat, inline battery array, wicked wind in the west] but there are a number of other cool things i am doing there: rebuilding an articulating dock, re routing the water system, planning and implementing a solar system, repairing roads, rewiring structures, and preforming black magic rituals to curse the monsters at HughesNet [jk but serious]. We are going to play around with using Pi s or Arduinos for some of the management tasks, and the Ranger Power Management system is pretty cool, if dirt simple and dangerous to mess up. All this to say, if you are interested and have any advaice for my team and i, please hit me here. I will start posting a journal and pics when we start Phase I. The island is Norton Island in Downeast/Acadia right next to Jonesport-Beals [setting for SKs The Fog]. The organization that runs the writer's residency can be found here: http://www.easternfrontier.com/ aaaand i just realized it is EFF... lol. No relation.
My dad works for the IRS. Got an SMS from him the other day: "I owe 11k!” Guess working for the IRS is no guarantee of getting your withholdings right.