skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this from Facebook or someone's (very good) hack?
> However, if it is simply a fact that males are generally more variable than are females on many traits, why is this true?

> Since a male can have more offspring than a female--but also has a greater chance of being childless... natural selection favors a slightly more conservative and reliable baby-building process for females and a slightly more ambitious and error-prone process for males.

This is on the money. Women are generally the choosers when it comes to sex, since eggs are expensive, and sperm is cheap. Nature therefore needs to try many different "keys" to see which ones are good at fitting into the "lock", to draw a crude analogy.

Men may seem more "privileged" as they dominate the top of most fields. But one must also realize that many men are nature's failed experiments, and live lives of despair, filled with homelessness, crime, and drug abuse, as well as downright social failure. Problems occur when policy makers selectively see the former, and disregard the latter.
> But that won't stop your metaphorical Dad from swearing up and down you need to buy index funds....

The argument isn't that passive index investing is some kind of perfectly optimal investing strategy, it's that it's the most practical strategy for 98% of normal small, individual investors. If you don't have millions of dollars to invest, and you have a real job that prevents you from spending all your time researching investment opportunities, then you are probably better off just buying the market, instead of flailing around paying fees and trade commissions trying to beat the market.

If you believe in the weak form of the Efficient Market Hypothesis, and you are not a professional investor, then you should probably be in index funds.
Excel was so nice I wrote my documents in it. I wonder how much of Microsoft was built on its fame.
Interview with Ms Wilson: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102746190 - interesting throughout.
Perhaps governments need to apporach the problem from a different angle: How can we limit the extent to which bad actors (e.g. terrorists, organisaed crime, etc.) can benefit from private/secure communications technologies without compromising civil liberties and our citizens' right to privacy?

If anyone can solve that problem, surely it's us - the technologists, the problem-solvers?
Agreed. This is what "enamored" looks like: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=elon%20musk&sort=byDate&prefix...
> Docker is a cute little tool that gives people who aren't that great at Linux the illusion that they know what they're doing.

That's a rather embittered perspective, ironic considering how new Linux is in the grand scheme of things. A more germane perspective is that Docker is a new tool which acknowledges that UX matters even for system tools.
This is why I advocate for even the most junior programmers to earn more cash. Even a junior programmer's code can save hundreds of hours of labour and increase profit.
MongoDB 3.2 – A First Forward Look
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-mad...

Yeah, it's long. It's worth it!
As well as one for a Skype backdoor:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2509604/data-privacy/mi...

Microsoft has some interesting project choices.
Philosophical Questions are good, you must engage with them! However, look at Wittgenstein, Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, and others who proposed compact solutions (or approaches) vs. the Kantian or analytical treatise style. You don't need to iteratively find Total Solutions, following every decision tree to its root. You just need working answers that you can revise as you go. Think agile vs. waterfall.
Sentiment analysis of Glassdoor reviews
That's a great book.

It's also the kind of question that this career-planning stuff smashes into. Do you want to get married? Have children? Believe me, those are tremendous commitments that will drastically interfere with your career (and vice versa). I've been married 22 years and raised two children to semi-adulthood. It has dominated a quarter to a third of my life.
Is there a paper or something that describes how this works?

As fun as trudging through supposedly secure C++ code is, I'd rather have an understanding derived from the principles.
I would love to see an infographic of the topics HN likes. That sounds like a really hairy problem, I will leave it to others. Then again my Python is a little rusty.
My favourite quote on this (from the UK perspective) from Ross Anderson (one of the co-authors):
“A point I would like to make to the prime minister and his circle is: whoever put the prime minister up to this should get a complete bollocking. The proposals are wrong in principle and unworkable in practice.”

There is no quicker way of alienating people who understand complex things than by pretending that you know better and have thought of a brilliant solution.
How dare you tell a Hilary supporter to apologize! That's sexist and abusive and bullying!
No no no, you're behind the times. Index triple frontrunning is what's hot.
I'm not trying to be obtuse but don't most hunting rifles still work on a bolt action model thus requiring an operator to chamber a round manually whereas the AR-15, and rifles like it,
'automatically' chambers the next round in a fraction of a second.
nothing adblock plus can't handle, but that is what first came to my mind too.
Show HN: Free app security audit
One of the problems is that we can't figure out a better system of using humans to govern humans.

There are a lot of things we can improve, though. First past the post voting systems mathematically guarantee polarized two-party systems aligned on emotionally charged but relatively inconsequential issues. So we should switch to approval voting.

Having the same person purport to represent our interests in everything from which soda sizes we're allowed to drink to whether we can make our own end-of-life medical care decisions leads to incompetent science denialists running the government's science committee, gross ignorance of the consequences of their actions w.r.t. encryption, etc. So we should design a system with separate representatives for each technical domain, combined with an optional directly democratic override on a vote-by-vote basis.

Etc.
To clarify, I'm not remotely an apple fanboy..but I dont think anybody excepted to continue 20k watches/week. They have sold a lot. The initial sales are done and thats fine.

Apple has a way with new versions of selling a lot all over again.
Yeah, are you going to believe in your eyes or in what the left is telling you?
FWIW you can help out http://www.joshmillard.com/2015/07/06/wanna-help-edit-calvin...
Google search poisoning – old dogs learn new tricks
It's interesting this came up today. I'm looking for a new language to migrate my flask/uwsgi web service to. I'm having a terrible time making it scale.

Are there any tutorials/templates/best practices for writing a small web service in Golang?
Wow! How does this compare to socket.io being used in a project running on different nodes / cores?
Environment Management for Development [video]
Computers and the World of the Future (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-world-future) is a highly recommended read. It's not a "history" text per-se, but rather, it is a transcript of a number of talks (and the resulting discussions) given by the then-stalwarts of computing in 1961. It's a fascinating account of the what these people thought about the direction in which computing was taking. John McCarthy, for example, talked about the "utility computing":

"We can envisage computing service companies whose subscribers are connected to them by telephone lines. Each subscriber needs to pay only for the capacity he actually uses, but he has access to all programming languages characteristic of a very large system."
>Sounds like you need to do a bit more reading on the subject.

I feel like you're making unsupported claims. I can think if two instances where you are correct:

1. "Equal time" laws, which are so specific and narrow in their scope to the point of being almost meaningless in a fractured media landscape.

2. Slander and Libel laws which protect people from being personally attacked when the claims are untrue. These laws do not apply to true claims, nor do they apply to criticism of opinions and they are very loose in the instance of public figures.

Neither one of these apply in this situation. I am perfectly within my rights to say "That opinion is wrong." and criticize it. Indeed, one could argue that's the very point of free speech, to encourage public discourse and argument.
US students might soon be able to use federal aid to attend coding bootcamps
Mods, can we change "go" in the title to "golang"? That's the official name, and it makes it searchable by search engines?
show me the clojure firewall and I'll take you seriously. Or the even something simple as an interesting clojure ML project. Java gross.
It comes from the same word, gelum, Latin for frost, which also gives us "gelatin" and "gelato".

"Cold", on the other hand, comes from Germanic roots (Proto-Germanic kaldaz.)

They both come from the Proto-Indo-European root gel-/gol- "cold".

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cold&allowed_in_fra...
Thx. I just installed Gitlab one click on DigitalOcean. Really cool. But I know it is the free edition which may be a bit limited. Will give it a shot and see how it goes.
I actually wouldn't be surprised at all if the US and UK governments would be perfectly fine with China, Russia and so on being able to hack and spy most of their citizens and companies as long as they could also do that.

From their point of view it might be quite a good trade-off, because they probably think it's far more useful for them to spy and hack US and UK citizens than it is for China and Russia.

And they also probably think that they, the elites, could use something better than what everyone else uses, too. So there's no negative to this.
Refactoring with Loops and Collection Pipelines: Grouping flight records
Drawing comparisons between my arguments and the political spectrum at large does nothing for your Swiss cheese argument against Brendan Eich's treatment. Why shouldn't he be subject to public criticism for his public campaign donations? Don't want criticism? Don't donate to causes that are going to cause strife between you and your resident demographic.

I don't actually think that everyone that opposes civil recognition of gay marriage is "hateful, bigoted, and evil." I merely think they are short-sighted and often eerily reminiscent of 1960s era pro-Jim Crow rhetoric. Re-read your post and think "black people" and "Jim Crow" and then come back to me about "national unity". No rights are being removed from those that oppose gay marriage... the only blow to "national unity" is one where gay marriage is disallowed.

Resist change all you want, but for the foreseeable future, the Overton window isn't moving back to a place where disallowing gay marriage is going to be palatable.

EDIT: There are some arguments where "the other side" might not be worth it's weight. Gay marriage and acceptance of equal rights for LGBT people is one of them. See "False Balance" and "Argument to Moderation" on Wikipedia.
I noticed on your linkedIn that you went to FAU - any interest in relocating back to the Boca Raton area? I'm hiring c# / .NET developers, which I know isn't exactly what you are looking for. We are a one year old start up working on making world-class cancer care accessible to more people and are finally bringing in our first full-time software dev. The first projects are going to be systems integration and internal tools work but we have the potential to move into some interesting data problems down the road (albeit still not within the lower-level realms you mention). My email is in my profile if you're interested.
Puzzle: Can Information Rise from Randomness?
I'm not quite sure this is necessarily the case - I noticed that on the regular FB site, it has one notification for two friends having a birthday, and yet in this basic version, it claims I have two notifications for the same notification.
I have no idea what this is supposed to have to do with the thread.
1. "Interesting" is way more about your own interests than it is about some inherent trait of a problem. Cultivate your own interests, live an interesting life, and build the skills that would let you contribute. That's a way better way of pursuing problems than waiting for 'the right idea' to land in your lap.

2. You should say "aw shucks, I guess I can't do everything," and then go back to work on what you're actually focused on. And maybe you tell someone you know who is interested in that domain that you've got an idea that they've probably already thought of.
> If I had to take a wild guess, the author/editor of the article might've wanted some fancy stuff (like the header videos and scroll behavior, for instance) and it was easiest to do that on this platform.

Yup. We set up a system for publishing git repos with static html/css/js to /graphics for our interactive charts.

When the features desk for the new site started up a few months ago it was much easier for them to piggyback on our stack.
Adding to what user wl already said - 'assault rifle' is a really vague term, but historically it is defined as a rifle that soldier can use to provide a covering fire to himself while assaulting an enemy position. Before first 'assault rifles' appeared comrade soldiers where supposed to provide suppressive fire during an attack. And from that definition it is clear that semi-auto weapon cannot be considered an 'assault rifle'.
Would be interesting to have an app that display stats and trends about technologies hitting HN homepage. Regardless of any astro-turfing going on or other shenanigans. But it's true Go somehow gets a lot of exposure on HN, not unlike Nodejs a few years ago, or Rails before. Funny how people seem to discover hot water each time a new technology/hype hit the IT world. Soon one will read "How we went from 100000 LOC to 1000 by switching from Go to nim/crystal".
We disagree and don't hate each other! It's an Internet miracle!

(Checks morning toast for image of Blessed Virgin.)
(currently finishing Masters in Methodology/Statistics in Psychology) There is evidence of inter-sex differences (and in many areas girls are at advantage), but the provably innate part is small, and the intra-group variance coming from other factors (that may include elements of culture) is much bigger. This allows for conclusions on population, not individual level. On a related note, affirmative action programs seem to work to societies benefit.

Another comment that phrased it well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9845165

And absolutely regardless of John Money being misguided and vilified (I don't think I even heard of him before recent Catholic backlash), gender is a legitimate and in depth academic topic.
A/B test design via dynamic programming and R
Does anybody here have any experience with Go's garbage collection pauses with large stack sizes? I've got a scala app that regularly consumes about 48G of ram, and I'm very happy with the response times during heavy loads like this, but the P99.5 is abysmal because of garbage collection. I've tried tuning it, but it doesn't seem like anything I do helps. I'll probably end up using an Azul JVM but I'm curious how other languages end up handling this problem.
>actually truly believes that being disarmed is a prelude to genocide

Try, if you can, to provide an example of genocide that wasn't preceded by mass-disarmament of the targeted populace (assuming they hadn't been previously disarmed).
Indeed, the current link seems to just be Atlas Obscura engaging in some churnalism and regurgitating existing articles on the subject. Apropos of not much, the account that posted the current link a) is new, and b) has posted nothing but Atlas Obscura links thus far.

I also find it a bit strange that Atlas Obscura is even posting this, being that its modus operandi is stated as being "the definitive guide to the world's wondrous and curious places." Signal intrusion or the 80s aren't much of a "place" no matter how curious they are.
$1B Facebook Data Center Project Underway in Texas
That really is the crux of the matter. Everyone should be given an equal chance with no prejudice, and then if population differences still emerge, that's OK.

Yup. One of the things that annoys me most about prejudice and such is that it is inefficient. For a well-run and rich (economically, socially) civilization, we ideally want everyone to excel to the best of their best ability. To find the best use for everyone's talents. We want everyone to find their own niche, irrespective of their gender, race, orientation, etc.
But if you are disadvantaging people that have objectively inferior genetics? Do you actually lose anything? Otherwise, are those people taking advantage of medical advances that prevent their deficiencies from being fatal?
If you're talking about raw performance, I'm afraid you're mistaken. If you're perhaps referring to the 'aesthetics' of the language syntax, that's pretty subjective, in which case you're right for your tastes.
this doesn't come as a surprise to me. they are over priced, have to be charged too often and do too little to improve the users life.
There is no male contraceptive pill. Men can also get taken advantage of, like in the case of a 15 year old boy who was seduced by his teacher. That boy has to pay child support now.
Most of the advice I've received in life has been misleading – most people did not know what they were doing, are probably unaware of what actually mattered, and are different from you in ways they are biased not to perceive – so recently I exclaimed in frustration: "no more advice."

Instead of seeking guidance, sit down with a piece of paper and try figuring it out for yourself. Make lists, weigh pros and cons, identify key questions. Don't be afraid to throw out your work and start again. Speaking with others is useful, but consider their stories merely data points for your own analysis.

Some of the more successful people I know have elaborate manifestos, codes of ethics, and spreadsheets that they use to organize and manage meaning in their lives.
If it was $299 for the non-sport edition, the watch market would implode.

Apple's doing a lot of companies a favour by keeping prices high enough for there to be room for competition.
this article discusses how they handled 69GB of heap and up to 6 seconds of pause times:

http://blog.golang.org/qihoo

the new garbage collector in 1.5 should improve things.
The SR-71 was so far ahead of its time, it's a little ridiculous. Look down/shoot down capability in the mid 1960s. Synthetic aperture radar mapping. An IMU/astronavigation system almost as capable as the early GPS units of a few decades later. An airframe that actually becomes stronger the more you fly it as designed. Thermal management system techniques that weren't used elsewhere for decades. I can keep going. But basically, for almost every single system in the aircraft, the next comparable system you can find was developed at least 1 to 2 decades later.
Hopefully you've seen this:

https://networthify.com/calculator/earlyretirement

OP's tool is great, but this tool might address your second bullet point.
If you can get to Silicon Valley, go to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
some might have heard of this TLS stack as OCaml-TLS, but we rebranded it for our Usenix security paper. The paper includes an evaluation of common vulnerabilities in widely used TLS stacks in 2014.
my father's company distributed the TV movie on VHS. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089568/
Ive been using the basic site ever since I saw since I saw a talk by RMS about the "javascript trap" of unintentially running non-free code in your browser on an otherwise free machine. I have since grown accustomed to it and instead of finding it to be fast, I rather just find the regular site to be horribly slow.
I'm sorry but the official name is Go. You can search for "Golang" or "Go Language" with no issue.
Panorama Expands School Surveys, Brings Analytics to Education
I still see it written as "Go" most of the time. It's unfortunate because I've picked up the habit of searching with "golang".
I wear a watch (Pebble) because I have an iPhone. The primary feature is my phone can be always on silent.
I really wish Apple would have focused on some type of e-Strap. One that would coordinate with my $1000 mechanical Robert Weil watch. If the e-strap came from Montblanc, Google, Apple, or pebble I would not mind. As long as it matched my R. Weil style and gave me usable functionality. Also, when I sent it in to Robert Weil for service, they respected the e-Strap, even if it was from Montblanc.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/03/heres-a-closer-look-at-the-...
The best advice I can give is to write a minimal web server using net/http[0], get a feel for how to write a RESTful HTTP API by hand, and then start experimenting with web frameworks like Gin[1], Martini[2], and Beego[3].

[0] https://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/

[1] https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin

[2] https://github.com/go-martini/martini

[3] https://github.com/astaxie/beego
the only reason to write something like that in Go is if you're looking to impress a recruiter at (Go). Advise: pick a better tool for your problem.
Did you miss China during the "one-child" policy era[1]?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#Effect_on_inf...
Cool article, not necessarily because of the language specifics but because of the thought process involved. Thanks!
4th comment from the top of the thread and we've already reached Godwin's Law.

Have you ever wondered how the electorate becomes uninformed? Certain information is declared off-limits because of what it might make people think or do.
Reminds me of this from 2009:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/11/facebook-begins-testing-fac...
Free printable app sketch paper
In general I think that's a good thing. People are hard to change, but redesigning the system is relatively easy.
A collection of Linux commands which can save lot's of our typing time
White people can be African. There are about 5m to 6m white Africans. There's probably not many white Nigerians - probably less than 10k. But white does not mean not African.
Ouch, it really shows that getting to the HN frontpage can be just a lottery.
US$800 for a 2TB 850 EVO is rather impressive. Samsung must be getting good at producing their V-NAND in quantity. Interesting that it is still 32 layer though. If they can increase the number of layers with relative ease, we should see a continuation of the trend of halfing NAND prices over the next few years.