skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would disagree with your assertion that gender specific items are "nurture" and not "nature", and a lot of research would disagree with you, too.

I remember reading about a specific study done on humans, but I can't recall enough to find it at the moment. However, there seem to be several similar studies done on primates that reinforce the conclusion.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamen...

/edit Here it is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer
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Thank you all for your signups! Here is the demo video in case you didn't see it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFbGzuC08uE
It's certainly possible to run zookeeper across multiple datacenters at scale as yelp has demonstrated, however we've elected to make a different set of tradeoffs.

Our goals include reducing operational complexity and being able to minimize the impact of node failures, i.e. quickly remove them from consideration by clients.
This government has had a bad history of not listening to scientists. Specifically, the long-form census, the fresh water lakes project, the muzzling of scientists...
The most useful non-STEM class I took turned out be basic accounting.
Weren't you always able to just pay for the tests at universities?
This reminds me of Stefan's Head, which I think is really cool.

http://stefanshead.com/
I actually believe that you got the licenses mixed up. Not totally unreasonable. The code is definitely open source, but the design of the website is not open source.
I think at most colleges, you do have to get at least a couple of science credits. Of course, they are usually along the lines of "Stars for Stoners" (Intro to Astronomy), "Rocks for Jocks" (Intro to Geology), or "DNA for Dumbasses" (Intro to Biology)

I'll be honest, I took Stars for Stoners, and it was a very interesting class. But it certainly was not hard, and given the choice to do it again, without having to fill the general reqs, I'd spend the time reading some good hard science fiction and taking another higher-level history or computer science course instead.
First of all, when I said "science can't answer" I did not mean "science won't answer, ever". However, we might not get anything useful from science regarding those questions during our lifetime.

Second, the questions I referred to as "deep", and your examples of those questions - do you not see any value in asking them? For example, "are we living in a simulation?" is a meaningful question to me. Even if we might never know the answer, I still want to explore the possibility. Note I said "we might never know", not that "we can never know".

Finally, I said "science of mind" is in crisis because the explanation of how mind works proved to be more difficult than most people expected, again and again in the last 100 years. The task is well defined, we have a working example in front of us, we have tools to analyze it, and yet, we still have no general theory.
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As far as I remember, Windows 98 was rather considered bad until Windows 98 SE came out.

If you include Windows 3.1x, then why not 3.0? Also if there's NT 3.5, then why not NT 3.1 and NT 3.51?
How do you lift the suspended bed back up again?
Who gives a shit?!
My guess is no ... "When Nerds Collide" is a great piece of exposition but I doubt it's the source of the idea.
> I would be fairly surprised if Microsoft didn't re-display TOS after each update, so feel free to keep an eye out.

And my options as a user are then what exactly? Accept the new TOS or have the device rendered unusable and lose access to all my data? That's definitely the basis for an unbiased, informed decision.
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I'd love to see the empirical data that allows you to make the inference that company innovation depends on having wide-ranging salary levels.
Depending on the gig I've been recently working remotely 40-50% of the time, and have in the past done 100%.

1. have good collaboration tools with your co-workers. Whether this be IRC/HipChat/Slack, a good Kanban board, daily standup, a Hangout etc..

2. Carve out a quiet space in your house with a door. Make a Stop/Go placard to hang on the outside. Stop means you are busy and not available. (a call, middle of debugging something nasty, etc..) Go means your kid can come in and show you the awesome thing they just drew.

3. Have a clear start time, lunch, and end time. These can flex just like if you were in the office, but routine isn't just for you but for your family and work like balance too.

4. Just because you are remote, don't be afraid to step away from your computer for 10-15 minutes to get a breath of fresh air, stretch and reset. Surprisingly you spend a lot more time at your desk remote than in an office. You aren't grabbing a conference room with a colleague for some ad-hoc white-boarding to hash something out. It's all happening through this glowing screen and perhaps a telephone.

5. carve out some time to get face time with others in your company monthly or bi-monthly.
I guess that depends whether you consider the amputation treatment for the disorder or a negative symptom of the disorder.
Robust Design Through Diversity (1999) [pdf]
This could be a great show if there able to get interesting guests. Seinfeld & Deadmau5 both have podcasts like this and driving around gives the show some interesting visuals. The audio needs to be higher quality.
If the money spent on this failure of a flying machine went to NASA's budget instead, we'd probably have a Mars colony by now.
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> An option would be to write a super-set of Go with generics that would compile to Go code.

You could call it go++!

(But seriously, that's pretty much what C++ did to C.)
That is certainly quite a bit of not useful hyperbole.

What connection do you think that GUI dialog styling and security/compatibility have?
The F-22 Raptor is a specialized air superiority fighter and an overwhelming success at that.

The F-35 is meant to do everything else and can certainly drop bombs on enemies of the United States. What else do you want from it?

Think of the US arsenal from the point of view of opponents. If you were running any other country, would you feel comfortable going to war with the United States? Iran? China? Russia? Israel? France? United Kingdom?
Cool thanks and goodluck with your project.
So what should the government have done about its rapidly aging aircraft fleet?
Yes, I wasn't saying it's a problem to 'fool the system' and get free songs, I was mentioning that it's not a problem because of how it works.
Exactly --- F35 went off the rails at the concept stage. The "focus" mentioned in the article is incredibly diffuse:

> he said they stayed focused on “delivering a stealth fighter that could fly faster than the speed of sound, carry its weapons internally, conduct short takeoffs and vertical landings, and be deployed from amphibious ships and austere bases.”

The justification was, if you can believe it, that having a single platform would reduce costs.
Who was hurt by law?

Remember, CA had its equivalent version of statutory marriage, called civil unions in other jurisdictions and called Domestic Partner law in CA.

Mark Leno among others said D.P. law was good enough, both when it passed and as amended. I agreed eventually, and stood firm. Fat lot of good that did me.
Yes, I would. Typos on github readmes and HN posts are trivial, however, any blemish on a site built solely to showcase accomplishments, skills, experience, and attributes, regardless of how small the blemish is, reflects negatively on the author. Of all sites, this site should be top-notch.

As for your PS, yes.
I recall a long time ago reading something about potential uses of a 128-bit CPU architecture with 128-bit addressing.

Obviously 128-bit addressing isn't and probably never will be needed to address memory, at least not in this geological epoch. But that's not the point.

Instead, 128-bit addressing would allow every pointer to have 64 bits of tag information that would allow all kinds of VM optimizations. Not sure if the additional memory bloat would be worth it though. Like some RISC architectures it might die by memory bandwidth constraints.
My last statement may be too strong, but I still believe there is a very strong amount of nurture in our culture regarding gender differences. Things like "girls like pink" is a big one considering that previously it was boys who were associated with pink and we changed that as a society.

On the other hand, things like girls liking dolls may indeed be due to nature (never mind that boys like action figures which are basically dolls).

I think like most things it is actually a combination of nurture and nature.
Who gives a fuck?!
how is "base 10" related to these rods?
According to the history of the development:

The original F-35 was designed to meet Marine Corps demands
for a supersonic, short takeoff/vertical landing plane.
That vertical landing requirement dictated an extremely
wide, 50-inch fan blowing straight down for lift and sucking
air through a huge intake door on top of the fuselage
directly behind the pilot. That, in turn, led to an
unusually fat fuselage that is so high it completely
obstructs the rear of the canopy.

Subsequently, when the Air Force and the Navy were enticed
into joining the F-35 program — supposedly to benefit from
the “savings” of a large 2,500 unit tri-service buy (savings
that quickly turned into huge cost overruns) — they both
had to accept the fat fuselage and lack of rearward
visibility of the Marine Corps version. [1.]

So, perhaps it meets their specifications and use cases, but not the other organizations'.

Source:

[1.] https://medium.com/war-is-boring/everything-wrong-with-the-f...

[2.] Many HN submissions with discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=f-35&sort=byPopularity&prefix&...
The way this works is described here:

http://bakerstreet.io/docs/architecture.html
I think the 3rd paragraph is inacceptable.

"Good" or "Evil" are things that can only be seen by Humans. They are neither naturally "there" nor intrinsical.

Same with "value" and "harm". Your Model only works when people feel similar to you about whats "harm" and whats "good", thats why it won't be able to scale up.
yes and no.

With radios it has been that moving for tubes to transistors to ICs has upped the minimum tools needed to get anything done.

With cars emission laws and such had introduced something similar via computerized injection etc.

But with computers etc the complexity was there for the start, but the tinker hostility has, IMO, come from a change in business from selling hardware to the hardware being a terminal for "content". Thus the tinkering hostility comes from propping up DRM under the guise of "security".
Ask HN: Who's idea was Windows 8?
Someone at Microsoft must have been the driver of the failed vision of Windows 8.
First of all, manned fighter planes are dinosaurs. No human being can possibly react as quickly as a drone.

Secondly, there are existing designs that I'm sure could be refreshed for a lot less than $1.5 trillion dollars. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with them -- reboot them with new electronics, better materials, etc. They'd still be far better than what anyone but maybe the Russians or the Chinese have -- and they're probably also moving to drones quickly.
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The rods often (typically?) have 10 units on them.
Kindle land, with requisite ruminations on the iPad (2010)
What hit me most today after is saw the news.
For many years ebola killed people and only after it hit mainstream media and it could have been an potential threat to the western world. Money just magical appears and we have a vaccine in less than a year.
You know the personal computing world has run out of technical ideas when we spend massive amount of time fretting over "ui design language"...
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9983224
Especially as it looks like pickled capers have only 2/3 the quercetin that fresh ones do. To achieve the 50mg/kg dosage in the study, I'd need to eat 2 kilos of pickled capers... on the other hand, you can buy quercetin in bulk for about 10g/$1 USD, which might be a little easier on the stomach.
You can use it to read and it is free.
It's not a recent phenomenon; you've just started noticing. for many years, Apple hardware has plagued by recalls, the website was wonky, etc.
Conversely, researchers have poor judgement assessing the economic value of their inventions. There was no ebola outbreak at the time the government (and by that, I mean the bureaucracy) was finding a buyer.
Drones can be jammed and even stolen (Iran did this a few years ago). And those existing designs have had refreshes and continual improvements. Look at a Block 60 F-16 and compare it to the first F-16s. But those designs have little room for growth.

Boeing has even tried to create a stealthy version of the F-15, but has found no buyers, because even that aircrafts capabilities do not compare favorably to the avionics present in the F-35.
There's a few good reasons for residential rooftop solar, particularly in areas where the peak usage and sun coincide (where aircon is used for example).

It not only dampens peak demand (the most expensive to serve) it can also delay the need for grid improvements required to deliver the peak demand. Progressive utilities consider it a win-win.

I'm surprised landlords haven't jumped at the chance to add solar, they seem like exactly the kind of people who would invest up front for a guaranteed payback. I guess there must be some reason why it's not a standard thing, the difficulty of billing the renter for their electric use separately maybe?
I call it web-ification. More and more programmers likely get their feet wet doing JS/PHP on some site or other, and bring their rapid iteration thinking from there on to compiled projects.
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The brilliance of the cuisinaire rods is they are accurate and so the way they fit together was immensly pleasing to me when I was little.

The smallest one is a cube, then a red rod exactly two cubes.

I loved the cuisinaire rods I had as a child, the colours were harmonious and I can still count in that spectrum.

None of my other blocks made patterns as well, they were just innacurate and at a certain age I loved patterns & ziggurats.

They were my absolute favourite building blocks and perhaps helped me become numerate, I certainly knew how many red blocks matched a green and understood add, multiply, & divide operations with coloured blocks intuitively before I knew number symbols.

I think the only change I would try is to add the base 10 number symbols to each one which might make the transition to symbols easier ( maybe put binary notation on the other side* ;)

*[ my dad was a programmer so I learned binary, octal and hex counting as well as base 10 ]

I didn't have the numbered track that seems really cool but there was a very long one in my box, longer than 36 units, maybe it was 100, can't remember, was less fun than the coloured ones.

That the numbers on the track are not coloured according to the blocks seems odd, it is not quite as pretty as the blocks. Perhaps putting symbols on the blocks would make them less appealing to the infant mind ?
In short: They first used JSON, if I understood correctly. Then

"In last six months, we have transitioned most of Facebook on Android to use FlatBuffers as the storage format. Some performance improvement numbers include:

Story load time from disk cache is reduced from 35 ms to 4 ms per story.

Transient memory allocations are reduced by 75 percent.

Cold start time is improved by 10-15 percent.

We have reduced storage size by 15 percent."
Never mind the whole NATO pileup...
The other way round (deciding whether a newly minted string of length 10 can be put in a tagged pointer) is slightly more complex. Also, for tiny strings (the only strings that this supports) on modern hardware, I'm not sure that O(n) takes much longer than that O(1).

I would think the avoidance of allocations and the pointer indirections are the big wins.
Vaccines (like everything else in medicine) cost an awful lot to research and test. Somehow somebody's got to pay for that. Many vaccines aren't 100% effective, and add to that the fact that there are a variety of people who can't get vaccinated because they're too young, too old, too sick, or otherwise. When I get my vaccinations, I'm doing my part to protect everyone else. To me, the crucial issue is that vaccines are done for the common good anyways, but we make individuals pay for their own vaccinations. Even if the vaccines are developed by private entities, they should be purchased by governments or coalitions of governments for free-as-in-beer distribution.
> I'm wondering if there is so much turmoil here, why doesn't someone (like VLC) take the best features from both projects and create their own library?
These days I just use gStreamer which can wrap either one in a sane API and is 1000x easier to extend.
I have a particular hip-hop album on my phone that is an orchestra version of the original. Every time I attempt to play the studio album, I hear the orchestra (live) version. It's extremely annoying, and I hope they fix it.
I probably would leave, but mainly because I feel that by paying most of the employees the same amount, the company is showing they don't value the employees who are actually worth more to the business. This shows poor management in my opinion. If they had increased everyone's wages accordingly by the same percentage I would feel differently.
Coal and kerosene are cheap.

We need to stop dicking around with idealistic ideas involving electronics and design more efficient and safer uses of these existing cheap fuels for lighting and more importantly cooking and phone charging.

They are being used because they work for people in these situations.

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/Two-Videos-Illuminate-Energ...
It looks like they are trying to make them in a locally sustainable manner...

>We're doing this in our approach to distributing GravityLight

>We are partnering with local networks of people earning a living by selling products such as GravityLight, rather than disrupting local markets and jobs with free giveaways.

>We're doing this in our manufacturing strategy

>We aim to create jobs and skills in the regions where GravityLight will be sold, firstly by establishing an assembly line in Kenya.

from http://gravitylight.org/our-approach-3/

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And it looks like they've already run into robustness issues, but they weren't due to cheap plastic components, and it looks like they've modified the system to deal with them...

>GL01 had a protection mechanism that clearly indicated an overload with a red light, and helped reduce damage to the gear teeth by allowing it to run more swiftly, but this did not make it indestructible. An entirely novel way of protecting the system has been designed for GL02. It will allow an overloaded bag to descend to the ground in a safe and controlled manner, repeatedly.

>GL02 suspends the bag from a pulley, which reduces the strain on the cord and the gearing. This also decreases the loading on the drive system and permits a smaller gearbox ratio, which helps to improve efficiency.

from http://gravitylight.org/coming-soon-gl02/
Become a technical polymath. Consider branching out in to hardware? IoT, etc...

Take away technology, what are you passionate about? If you founded a company, it went big, you cashed out and started a foundation, who would your foundation give money to?

Go do that.
My granny don't care!
cargo culting. Apple's software takes usability into account though and then polishes the look. Mozilla skipped the usability step.
US police brutality: videos of shame (in German media)
Some of that doesn't scale rapidly. If they need to buy a thousand car washes nationwide, an owner in Omaha is not going to sell at a discount just because they already own 10 car washes in Los Angeles. Similarly with pricing for gas/electricity.

Their economies of scale are akin to those of Avis or Enterprise Rent-a-Car, and those companies are not valued at high multiples, due to high upfront capital requirements, insurance burden, fast depreciation, low barrier to entry, etc.

Current multiples for Uber are there precisely because of the lack of all liabilities associated with car ownership and maintenance.
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Gallup poll: "In general, how harmful do you feel smoking is to adults who smoke?"

Responses:
- Very harmful: 80%
- Somewhat harmful: 16%
- Not too harmful: 3%
. Not harmful at all: 1%

http://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Prod...

Where is the significant percentage not convinced that it's unhealthy?
Thanks that was informative.
No country is even remotely close to totally supplanting its air force with drones entirely. You speak as of these things are happening at a greater pace than they are.
Pardon the cynicism if I say that this is how nature works. How often is that only threats make things move ?
There might be a bias when it comes to presenting oneself as the 'fellow whose boots are yellow'. For some people it is not a problem; there's even a punk-rock band frontman who claimed Tom Bombadil is his alter-ego. On the other hand in 2012 I role-played a pastiche character of Bombadil at a major larp festival and everyone agreed that in the over-twenty-year history of that game, a couple thousands of participants for sure, I was the first to do so.

(in doing so, I sticked to the leprechaun interpretation of T.B.; not a Dark Lord as the linked article would like to inflate, but not a goody-two-shoes either. Mind you, these leprechauns have as much in common with green-irish-hat figure as elves with Santa Claus elfs)
Branches on the Tree of Time
Orange Digital now Hiveworks had a few. I never was a jr contractor, thus I'm not super up on how they find them.
My impression was that the DjangoGirls founders have probably done some significant A/B testing on their presentation, and found that having a more "feminine" (even if that follows stereotyped gender lines) set of options makes it more appealing to their target demographic (ladies).

If having flowers, sparkles, cute animals, or beautiful typography on the pages helps women and girls discover that they love programming (or even that they don't), that's _awesome_.
Plus if they used fingerprinting couldn't you still circumvent that with a youtube downloader or even torrent downloading?
now ship them to enemies of the us as a trojan horse.
> Connections could be decrypted ...

This is only true using a man-in-the-middle from the initiation of the connection. SSL/TLS sends random PKI keys at the start of a connection. The trusted CA keys are used only for identity (so you know you are really connected to xyz.com). After all, you can have SSL/TLS connections without a trusted CA. It basically works like this: When you make an SSL/TLS connection, each side generates a random keypair, whereafter each sends its public key to the other side. Using these public keys, each side sends a new random symmetric key back again to the other side, whereafter the actual data transmission begins.
All this does is do a deep copy, which is a costly operation.

I suggest using persistent DS libs like immutable.js. You just let that object loose in the code and not worry about side effects happening on the object you are referencing at some point in the code.

Sure, they may have the same overhead, but the idea is that your code doesn't do unnecessary defensive cloning all over the place. Plus, defensive cloning is an eyesore in code. It isn't UI logic, it isn't business logic. It's just technical debt waiting to happen.
Unhook the four corners from the system, raise the "hooks" and have 3 or 4 associates help you lift the bed on to the hooks?