skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is a girl band and what is a male band?

The first time I saw Nashville Pussy, Corey Parks was still playing bass for them. Her brother, Cherokee was an NBA player at the time and from my place in the pit, Corey Parks looked about seven feet tall. The combination of the very tall and imposing Corey Parks playing bass on one side, combined with Ruyter Sighs playing guitar on the other was very powerful. Nashville Pussy's lead singer and drummer were both men, but Ruyter Sighs' flat out amazing guitar playing really drove the sound. Are they a girl band or a male band?

Or, what about Sonic Youth? Are they are a girl band or a male band? Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore decided they wanted to start making music, so they recruited Lee Ranaldo and eventually found a drummer. Kim Gordon was just as much a creative force as any of the men she played with and when she finally put her bass down, lo and behold, she was a damned good guitar player.

Or, how about Bikini Kill? Are they a girl band or a male band? They're most heavily associated with riot grrl and are mostly considered Kathleen Hanna's band, but Billy Karren was a straight up incredible guitar player. If there was any justice, he would be recognized as one of the truly great musicians to come out of that soon to be famous Washington scene.

Or, in a different genre, are the Cocteau Twins a girl band or a male band? I simply can't imagine that band without Elizabeth Fraser nor would I want to.

Debbie Googe and Bilinda Butcher have been members of My Bloody Valentine since the late 1980s and I simply can't imagine what MBV would sound like without those two amazing women. Their other two members are male. Are they a girl band or a male band?

Or, Slowdive? Rachel Goswell formed the band in the late 80s with a guy she knew since she was a kid. Are they a girl band or a male band?

More personally, my sister is in a thrash metal band. A woman I dated several years back used to play drums in a weird shoegaze/electronic fusion band.
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I've not researched statistics on this, but anecdotally, I've observed more men than women playing musical instruments in general.
Yes. You wouldn't use this unless you're used to work with node.js, you have `tee` on all unix-like systems.

I created `ntee` to replace `tee` inside NPM scripts, so they support both unix-like systems and windows systems.

This is an interesting article that explains what NPM scripts are: http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/how-to-use-npm-as-a-build-tool...
People disapprove of Congress as a whole, but tend to like their individual Representatives and Senators. You don't vote your guy out of office just because the other 532 jerks in Congress you can't vote for or against don't let things run your way.
The code message is metadata, like the commit hash, date and author. It could easily be split up into different fields.
I got myself a cheap Acer with 32 gigs of eMMC storage. I removed Windows 8, its restore partition (that took 10 gigs all by itself) and installed Ubuntu. It's not as fast as the "serious" laptop, but it's light, silent, has decent battery life and I won't be devastated if a truck rolls over my backpack. I mean, if I don't have it on my back, that is.

For Python/Django/Twisted development in a couple LXD containers, it's the just right amount of computing power at an incredibly low price.
My wife and I brought my son to a rock band camp in the Boston area. My son loved it and maybe helped encourage him to still be an amateur musician all these years later.

At the same time it felt very weird to be seeing rock-n'-roll packaged, codified and commodified the way it was. At pick-up time you see a bunch of youngsters mirroring the clothes and attitude of rock culture - while being loaded into their parents' minivans. I couldn't help feeling a bit uneasy about the whole thing to be honest.

Back In My Day™ rock was a much more organically rebellious activity.
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I do encourage imagination, mostly by giving the example. But this means building weird things with Lego, it doesn't mean pushing babies on a stage with sunglasses and fake ovations by the parents. In our difficult times living a happy life most often means living far away from the media and the society of spectacle. Nothing bothers me more than the exhibitions of those little prodigy on t.v., it is rewarding for the parents only and steals away childhood from the kids.
Did he send you a personal photo gallery too?!

I love my KB. :D
If you're interested in keeping up with this kind of stuff on a regular basis (and without the in-your-face advertising as weather.com) check out http://spaceweather.com/
Ask HN: How do you deal with spammers calling your mobile phone?
I've gotten a bunch of spammers calling (leaving no msg) - i look up the numbers and they are reported as spam.

Specifically for android - what do you use to combat spam?
Yeah the global warming claim is ridiculous.
Would anyone care to explain how Microsoft fits on this picture?
jup, just don't handling it sucks (it gets everywhere and itches if it penetrates your skin. construction workers often don't seem to give much of a * though...)
The question is a common one, but it's close to Not Even Wrong.

Linux has won everywhere except the desktop, and that's for many reasons - one of which is Windows holding on with a vicelike grip. The first time Windows had actual desktop competition from Linux was 2007, with netbooks - they dropped the price of an XP licence to $5 or even $0 just to keep Linux the hell off the things.

So Linux can do most of the job, and it's other factors keeping it off rather than anything that could be fixed by a concerted developer effort on a single distro.

(Some serious backing to Wine development would possibly be useful here. But again, the forces aren't susceptible to pure development.)

Furthermore:

* there are different distros because people can.

* there are different distros because there are different use cases.

* Red Hat and Ubuntu are already huge and neither is going away any time soon.
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http://www.taig.com/en/
Less time than it would take for you to realize that our experiences form only our perceptions, not universal law.
"Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform - don't kid yourself." - Frank Zappa.
Much respect to you for acknowledging that it gets your brain off mentally! Need a 12 step program for folks like you. Complicated one-liners anonymous.
I feel your pain. But, really, that sounds like a typical junior starting point, at least to me. It's a major pain but most places aren't going to put a newly hired junior on a major project his/her first time at bat.

Consider it a learning experience, and make yourself available when/if other projects are mentioned. If nothing else, consider it training for a future position. Quitting right away will only look bad down the road to future employers.
If you kill one man, you're a murderer. If you kill thousands, you're a conqueror.
As opposed to Obama, who had absolutely zero track record?
Yeah. For instance, in IA64 calling conventions the first several function arguments are passed in registers (taking advantage of the greater number of registers than in IA32) so the number of PUSH instructions should be reduced quite a bit.
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The American legal system lacks any semblance of justice or legitimacy. It is a system designed to empower and serve the State.
US companies or companies with a large stake in the US market will respond to national security letters which means It's easier to get them to cooperate.
It is useful to get these regular reminders that the authorities to which we give every day more power, are as human as they have ever been. Reading this, it is not exactly outside of the realm of realism that an FBI/NSA/GCHQ/etc agent would sell private personal data collected in the name of anti-terrorism!
Spotify migrated user database from postgres to cassandra
> My idea of education is one that teaches you skills that are broadly used throughout your career. ... applying arbitrary labels like "vocational" (whatever that means)

vocational - adj.
2. (of education or training) directed at a particular occupation and its skills.

Which is exactly your idea of education. The labels are descriptive, not arbitrary.
Using NoScript works wonders. In addition, I rarely see the annoying "Sign up for our newsletter" popups that assault immediately on most sites.
The cat lingers, and a story of data analysis
There is the obvious direct comparison with airline pilots. But it doesn't look like airline pilots became low-paid babysitters. This is still quite a respectable profession.
Implementing a turn based game ai
It is easier to pretend people were tricked by marketing than accept the fact that the majority disagree with you.
Concentrated ore is essentially solid material of a single nature. Nothing resembling that occurs in landfills. Its a big pile of 'stuff' with pellets of interesting materials every few meters. That's many orders of magnitude too sparse to be worth mechanically mining.
I guess we should spend more time tailoring the Internet to your needs and preferences.
How we planned, launched and pre-sold the first few copies of an ebook
> What really grinds my gears is commits without any comment at all.

That just shouldn't be allowed. Commits without JIRA (or whatever you use) task reference should just be automaticaly rejected.
There's something really nice about these minimalistic C projects. You can quickly take a look at the source and immediatelly grasp what's happening. A simple and didactic introduction. Super cool.
Does Android not have a block caller feature?
Covered California Data Mining Project to Collect Information on Patients
I find it strange that he says he's not learning anything. It sounds like he's in the perfect position learn everything he needs to embark on a nice long career in corporate programming.

More seriously, refactoring a neglected codebase and bringing up to speed with modern tools and best practices is probably one of the useful real world skills a professional programmer can have
How Akka Streams can be used to process the Wikidata dump in parallel
For serious. For just one example, `cat` doesn't act as expected without a trailing newline. You end up with stuff like <(echo) to space things out and it's really bogus.
> If you can't get quickly to an agreement about such a thing ... you are working with a team of divas.

Or you're working on such a trivial problem that it should have been given to an individual, not a team.
I suppose you mean this one from The Atlantic:

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/06/scenes-from-d-day-t...
Relevant:

https://silktide.com/the-stupid-cookie-law-is-dead-at-last/

http://nocookielaw.com/
> ...because of some European law I have no interest in.

Nobody in Europe does either. The whole thing is generally considered completely pointless and unenforceable.
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Ledgers and Law in the Blockchain
This needs to be converted to a catchy video and posted all over Facebook/Twitter for non-technical crowds to see.
I don't have problem with concept of minimal income, likewise i don't have so many issues with theory of communism. It's this harsh reality we call life when these utopias fail so spectacularly, because of... so many things. World is fragmented, people have so vastly different mentalities and goals in life (if at all), and I cannot imagine one realistic way to enforce this globally. I am more interested into iterations striving for improvement of our lives, rather than massively under-planned revolutions which might look appealing at first glance.

And as for unions, another poster expressed it perfectly. The current political reality of them is pure shame, nothing I would ever, anywhere put into my signature as something to be proud of. So that tells you/me soemthign about author.

Btw, why unions left for example doctors out of that 40-hour work week? Or you think that having over-exhausted expert, who hadn't slept for a day or two, decide on your best treatment for some acute life threatening state, when you take your own medications, have your own allergies and set of other important conditions to consider?
Ask HN: How to compare different programming languages
C++ is best for performance, in this case how to compare c++ to other languages in term of performance.
http://www.taig.com/en/
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Duverger's law describes how the plurality rule (there can be only one winner) in elections usually results in a two party system, and the Hotelling-Downs model explains the Median voter theorem which shows that these two parties will generally settle on the (centrist) outcome preferred by the median voter. Neither are obvious and intuitive so without this understanding it can look like democracy is broken. Surround yourself with people who are both uninformed and hold opinions far from the median voter and you'll be convinced it's not just broken, but manipulated.
I will agree that Elixir has better tooling around building and releasing code.

However, in terms of barrier to entry for developing in, I actually think Erlang's is lower. People tout Elixir for its syntax being similar to other languages, but that's a detriment, not a benefit. Erlang and Elixir, both, require you thinking in a way most other languages don't. With Elixir, and the language looking familiar, you're tempted to try and shoehorn your existing knowledge, practices, etc, into an Elixir shaped package, and that leads to less idiomatic code, more surprises in how things actually work, and sometimes even more brittle applications than how they ~should~ be (though having a decent supervision tree means they'll probably still be better than what you'd have had in those other languages). Using Erlang, though, you relearn from scratch. It's a small language and that syntax isn't really a huge barrier; being forced to code in a language that shares so little with what you're experienced with means you're likely open to new paradigms, and will pick them up instead of trying to reuse your existing ones.

At least, that was my experience with Erlang, compared with Scala/Akka (which I tried first, and ended up with a lot of OO, non-functional, non-parallel code).
I'd rather immerse myself in hot oil.
I know people who have their kids in this program. It has nothing to do with prodigy culture or even really about the actual performative aspects in front of other people--it's about encouraging a love of music and feeling good about making something. That you're getting salty about it is, to be honest, kinda really weird.
Reproducible Builds Get Funded by the Core Infrastructure Initiative
I don't know those people.

But again it only reinforces that I don't want to be doing those things in my pocket.
Show HN: Lapface – live community of people working on laptops
The issue with this is that, over the course of development, the comments on a given JIRA ticket will start to cover QA and release steps, and they drive down the signal-to-noise ratio.
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I think the confusion here is that you're taking what he's saying in terms other than those of topology.

In topology, you deal with manifolds. Manifolds have no thickness, but they do have area.

In topology, there's no such thing as a 'filled' sphere: a sphere in topology has no edges and an inside surface and an outside surface, much like a football.

There are two ways you can make a 'bottle': you can deform a sphere, which gives you a 'bottle' much like a vaccuum flask; or you can deform a planar manifold (which is like a sheet of paper). The former will have two surfaces and no edge, whereas the latter will have two surfaces and one edge, that being the rim.

A broken sphere would be a planar manifold.

A vaccuum flask is simply a deformed sphere in topological terms, and thus only has two surfaces, the inside and the outside.
Doing more and having more control are not interchangeable. Your parents reading more books on their computer means they do more. More control means they know what happens inside the software/machine and they can change something about that.

You are right that people don't care about control as much as an idea of it. And you are also right that giving control to someone else who can get a value out of you might result in you being able to do more, but at some point having no control over ones life will bite people in the ass. And that's what the control topic is about.

In a simple example Apple can decide to not show the books to your parents any more. There is nothing they can do about it. Getting your Linux computer to work right takes time but then it's much less likely that a software can delete your data or if they delete it you are more likely to have a backup because you put sweat into configuring your system that way.
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The idea behind this proposal was a noble one: companies should ask permission before invading the privacy of consumers.

Unfortunately, companies collectively decided that their businessmodel does not need changing at all, and simply implemented a "cookie wall" for all their consumers. This led to consumers, like you, to quickly get "cookie wall fatigue" and try to click 'OK' as soon as possible, without thinking at all.

And all the while, we complain that privacy on the Internet is going to hell, and there is nothing we can do about it, because consumers don't care enough, or have given up...
Everyone says it's a bubble and yet seven years later, since 2008, I can only think of three major VC implosions off the top of my head: fab.com, zynga, and groupon. Fab was a train-wreck that anyone with a pulse could have seen coming. Zynga... way too dependent on Facebook and a fad. Groupon is the better of the three, only seeing its valuation fall from $30 billion to just $4 billion - but still well over $1 billion. These valuations, as lofty as they seem, ain't goin' lower.
No, as opposed to most political candidates who have historically been taken seriously as candidates for the presidency.

Obama was (and is) an outlier.
"if users can have mobile experience which is not tainted by interest of big co-operations"

This is impossible. All co-operation has biases, for profit or for another reason, everything comes with "strategy-taxes".
Lapface was my weekend hack designed to give the feeling of working with other people. It takes a low resolution webcam shot every 3 seconds of you working. I made the image with slow fps to relieve you of the pressure that usually comes with broadcasting

It feels nice to have people working alongside you. I've had it described as a virtual coffeeshop where you see people in the ambient background

Let me know what you think!
Assembly code is best for performance but it is a huge pita.
The Metrics of B2B Product-Market Fit
The US Army is getting hoverbikes
These kinds of visualizations are awesome; I remember a site back in the day during undergrad that helped visualize the fourier components using image processing. I learned so much more from that site than watching a professor scribble out the formulae on a chalkboard.
It reads better than the alternative, which would be to bury the input filename in the middle of that second line.
It is kind of humorous how people can't see past their hate of America. Meanwhile weed is being legalized here, is it legal where you are?
I think that text and binary can both be used together:

Internally (between services) the format should be binary. It's important to have appropriate tooling support in order to be able to debug production service communications if necessary.

For development purposes it would be nice to be able to switch to a text format (i.e. JSON) for debugging.

Since JSON is a very convenient format for the web, it would be great to have a library that is compatible to both modes.

I'm currently evaluating Flatbuffers vs. Cap'n Proto. I think that for my purpose they don't differ much. But Flatbuffers implements JSON reading/writing. I like that Cap'n Proto has forwards- and backwards-compatibility. So I would be interested in your plans on implementing the JSON codec support (mentioned on the Cap'n Proto Roadmap).
I prefer the next step over: Branch is named after the ticket and a short description of what the branch does, commit messages just talk about the contents of the commit itself.
The sad thing is that this development was perfectly foreseeable.
Only with knowledge of platform AND compiler, though.

Also these are C puzzles and casting pointers to incompatible types and dereferencing them is undefined behavior. Using memcpy would indeed fix this according to e.g. [1].

[1] http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-... (section "Violating Type Rules")
Airline pilots used to make $200K a year. PSA Airlines has an average starting salary of $22K now (for PILOTS, not baggage handlers). Read up on what has happened to pilot salaries.

"Respectable profession" is relative.
Working software mike speaking. How may I help you?

My left handed smoke shifter is frog nozzles.

What happens when you try?
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A number of the heartrate monitors have "recovery indicators" that are based off of how steady your heartrate is I think. In other words a very solid 41.2bpm +-0.05bpm would be indicative of full recovery and 42bpm +-2bpm means that you're still fatigued.

I don't know if you've looked into that at all but I messed around with it a little some years ago and saw some correlation between low recovery scores and feeling like a ride was harder than it should have been. I say this as someone who was a competitive amateur cyclist in college during a time in grad school when I could really ride.

I would also caution you against doing nothing but threshold and tempo if that's all you're doing. Morning and evening base training would be really useful and would definitely make recovery easier. I read The Cyclist's Training Bible and found that slowing down when I was supposed to go slow actually meant I went faster when I was supposed to go fast.
>I mean, obviously, this heroic Force whose court testimonies and affidavits sent the guy for life couldn't be the same Force who stole the money.

There was no affidavit or testimony by Force or Bridges, as far as I know. Please source that if true.
Pretty much every political failure can be described as a noble idea with a dumb outcome. And this one was obviously predictable.
Relevant, although mostly just to the UK. The ICO in the UK generally only goes after "worst offenders" or the biggest companies. This means anyone under a certain size can either ignore most of the laws they enforce or at least only bother to resolve the issues when ICO chase them up.
Socialism doesn't mean what you think it means.
I had to think about what that meant for a moment, as it's sort of part of the weirdness of the bottle. Really, putting a cork in it is probably closer to putting a lid on a bowl, no?

It's just sealing the local minimum. (Maximum? I don't really know what the sign should be for this. Probably maximum, for enclosed volume, since I'm not sure if it's reasonable to talk about the topology having a minimum in this context...)