skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's lots of man-made things that stop nature from "taking its course," like condoms or planning around a woman's menstrual cycle. An abortion is just another of those man-made things that stops nature from "taking its course". Aaand, it's been going on as long as people have been people.

We've been controlling pregnancy as a species for millennia. Abortion, in the medical, clinical sense, is just a safe, reliable, and legal way to do so, that also happily gives a woman body autonomy (a good place for us to get to, after so much of our history telling women their bodies aren't theirs).

Hey, maybe you don't like any of those, and sex should be purely procreative in its goals. Some people do feel that way, maybe you're one of them.
> I’m the PhD who wrote the original article. I’m delighted a high school student worked so hard and wrote so well.

He's certainly not doing himself any favors with this condescending appeal to authority. In general, the exchange between Jensen and Fried is a perfect example of how to handle a nasty person with grace.
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A sundress is much closer to a suit than it is to a T-shirt and jeans.

Considering modesty though, a woman in a sundress is equivalent to a man wearing a tank top. We don't get males in the office wearing tank tops or anything else that would expose the collarbone, armpits, shoulders, or shoulderblades. These things are normally considered inappropriate. We also don't normally see males wearing snug form-fitting shirts. It's not considered appropriate. Feel free to wear that stuff while you weed your lawn at home.

So that is two strikes against the sundress. It's kind of formal, yet no more modest than a tank top.
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Yeah, yikes. Jensen is really piling it higher and deeper.
Jensen attracted a lot of attention because he did not just write that the NINA signs did not exist, he said the Irish were and are delusional, that in order to sustain a sense of victimhood they had manufactured a group-wide lie of discriminatory anti-Irish ads and signs. He said that believing that No Irish Need Apply Signs existed was the Irish equivalent of believing in leprechauns. Here is what Jensen wrote more than a decade ago:

If this is a remotely accurate characterization, it baffles me that Jensen's work would have found a home in a journal or that he would have felt comfortable expressing those views in public. How profoundly emotional and unscientific (not to mention vile and insulting)

Such a claim is extremely complicated (defying occam's razor) and implies some sort of conspiracy that is at the very least questionable without sound proof. The idea that such claims would have not been aggressively debunked in the past is pretty questionable, as well. The seemingly trivial task of finding evidence to support the existence of these ads makes me wonder if Jensen did any research at all. Was he just grinding his racist axe, and did the scientific community give him a pass on it because they didn't care?
I think your comments, in conjunction with enraged_camel's, might have given the impression that you were preparing to gang up on me.

I'm a little perplexed. Had this discussion been about the more normal HN fare, it would have been quite different. It's, as another user said, about the miilitary/industrial complex elephant. What would you have me do? You seem to be a decent enough person. Would you have me email you and let us have a discussion there, privately? Even then, you would still have no way of really knowing that anything I told you is true (although I would not lie to you, you have no way to verify, really).

I do tend to comment on aerospace matters. Primarily because that's what I do. I am a recreational programmer and do write some code at work...So my interests overlap a bit with what HN finds interesting. But I don't solely restrict myself to them...
Opening it in Incognito mode also works.
What would make this more useful?

"Oversimplified models of biochemistry" - when insulin binds to an insulin receptor on a fat cell, the fat cell activates LPL, translocates GLUT4 to the cell membrane, and inhibits HSL. What else am I missing?

"No measure of insulin" -- insulin is not as easy to measure using off-the-shelf devices. If one meal leads to higher blood glucose levels than another, especially if it is vastly higher, it is a reasonable working assumption that it elicits a greater insulin response.

"No control of meal time" -- both meals were dinners.

"No control of fasting time" -- I ate the same amount during the day prior to each meal. Activity levels were also similar.

Re: widely varying blood glucose levels, in my own experience, it is very rare to see a meal cause a blood glucose concentration reach 150 mg/dL. This is very, very high amongst my meals and only happens with meals like this.

The following meal would most certainly be nowhere near 150 mg/dL no matter the time of day: vegetables (kale, broccoli, cauliflower), black beans, sardines, and avocado.
No modern aircraft are 'invisible' in any area of the spectrum.

In terms of radar cross-sections, low-RCS champions like the F-22 only have reduced returns in certain aspects and that only reduces the range at which they can be detected, it doesn't render them invisible^.

In terms of imaging infra-red all modern aircraft glow like candles. Even the B-2, which has various nifty features such as contrail-suppression, is a big hot pancake against the sky and makes a lovely 'hole' against the cosmic radiation background, or TV signals...

^ source: a relation who in a former career often tracked F-117s. The radar detection range was indeed reduced by an order of magnitude but once detected they could be tracked. And when using mobile radars the 'red force' on exercises were often able to align their radars with the aspects of strongest signal return.
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Who would have thought that the Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange was not a reliable place to keep your money?
It wouldn't matter even if the bees could only survive lower temperatures than the hornet -- bees are expendable if it allows the hive to survive.
Why am I not surprised?

I wouldn't put it past the fact that the high schooler probably knows how to google better than the "phd"

"Jensen attracted a lot of attention because he did not just write that the NINA signs did not exist, he said the Irish were and are delusional, that in order to sustain a sense of victimhood they had manufactured a group-wide lie of discriminatory anti-Irish ads and signs"

Oh wow, lovely lad

Another edit: "Wanted - A Middle Aged protestant woman... no Irish need apply" I think it would be hard to find an Irish Protestant at that time, no?
I cannot recall such an elegant and well researched response to such a load of whale shit.
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Lyft forgoes global expansion in favor of U.S. market domination
There's a weird connection between Mark and an online game I used to play way back in the day (late 90s).

http://www.graalians.com/forums/showthread.php?p=456435#post...

https://www.google.com/?q=Mark+Karpeles+graal+online

The game is still online: http://graalonline.com/
You don't beat sexism by creating a sexist organisation.

It's amazing how people think that there are all these barriers to programming for certain groups of people which must be overcome. There aren't. Sit down, grab a computer and a book, and learn to code. If you're good at it, you'll get a job, and people will respect you.

If you can't learn to code on your own, you probably don't have the mental skills necessary to be a good coder. (Critical thinking, drive, determination etc).
It's really interesting that, at least at that time and in that place, there appeared to be more employment discrimination against Irish than African-Americans. I noticed that several of the job ads would accept "colored" applicants, but not Irish.

Edit: "that" -> "than".
What aspersions? I've noted your opposition to Dart. You've explained that it has to do with memory management difficulties that seem intractable. I now understand this better, so I thank you. The world has moved on and now transpilers are coming into their own, so we do have real choice in the language we use in the browser, which as a programmer is all I want.
Ah yes, the convenient argument that the world is truly a meritocracy, and that those in positions of power, who evaluate merit, have no biases.

I do not know whether you are in a position of power, but I note that this argument is often advanced by people in positions of power.
> I think it would be hard to find an Irish Protestant at that time, no?

Belfast (and the whole of Ulster) was full of them.
Even if your friends don't yet use TextSecure, you can still send / receive messages with them; when they do (if they do) get TextSecure, then messages can be encrypted -- until then, they will be as insecure [and with privacy issues] as normal default messaging.

So, what do you lose if you use TextSecure ... even if your friends don't or won't use it? What is the problem?
> have you used Apple Music and has this feature failed you?

Absolutely. I have a number of mix CDs (above and beyond, mainly) where apple music has apparently looked up the songs by title and artist only and replaced all the tracks in a mix CD with single versions of those songs, needless to say not mixed. I also have other songs which simply refuse to sync.

The article says: If you subscribe to both iTunes Match and Apple Music, then iTunes matches your songs using digital fingerprinting - but I thought Apple Music included iTunes match. Do I seriously have to sign up for another product as well to get this working? Not very impressed.
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> "the whole premise of 'couldn't find evidence thus fact didn't exist' was fishy"

Not really. The one thing he's correct about is that, if NINA was a real and widespread phenomenon, it would show up in certain pieces of documentation of the era -- newspaper want ads, for example (we actually have fairly large archives from the relevant era; it's not like something from thousands of years ago where it's plausible that no documentation would have survived.) His problem was that he didn't look deeply enough, and once he drew the initial wrong conclusion, he invented a totally wrong theory to explain it.
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In spite of what some may think, these groupings are not based on some essence but on observation and the goals of those of us who seek to change the situation. We don't try to make everything equal, but first and foremost see if there are any obvious power differences in society at large. Since women form a group with a power share that is clearly and significantly lower than that of men, it is useful to treat women as a group for the purpose of enacting change.

Again, the goal is not to make everyone the same, but to make sure there aren't any social groups that are somehow marginalized away from society's seats of power, and software happens to be one such seats of power.

The categorization into geeks and non-geeks, while perhaps useful for identifying social cliques, is not at all useful for correcting society's power imbalances.
Right. MySQL's optimizer knows how many records each table has, but not much else. It doesn't do statistical tests on the tables. Depending on table contents, "WHERE b=X" can select any number of records, from zero to the whole database. Whether the optimal strategy is to do the "WHERE b=X" first, possibly getting a large number of hits, or simply making a sequential pass, is not decidable from the database size only.

An alternative would be for the optimizer to do an indexed SELECT on b for "WHERE b=X", and if the number of hits exceeded some threshold, abandon that effort as inefficient and start over using a sequential pass. But MySQL doesn't abandon strategies once selected, or keep such statistics as a hint for future queries. As someone pointed out, Oracle's flagship database product does do that. Anyone know about Postgres?
Website has slowed to a crawl. Here's Google's text cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:23zU9KH...
There is a problem with your argument: evidence points to the contrary. As a (very) gentle introduction, here are some facts:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...

http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelor...
The real problem isn't the carrier version but the jump jet version. The B is ok, it's an appropriate response to a challenging problem (stovl), the real issue is how it affected the performance and cost of the Air Force version.
> it would show up in certain pieces of documentation of the era

True. I think what he assumed was that it would show in other types of documents (like discrimination lawsuits, news showing revolt of the Irish against this policy, etc)

But I suspect this was very common and accepted, unfortunately.
Check out the Quest for Glory games. They are open world, the puzzles can be solved in any order, and each puzzle has three possible solutions (roughly corresponding to fighter/wizard/thief methods of problem solving). Also, many of the subquests are optional and you can beat the game after solving only about 50% of the puzzles. There was recently a free spiritual successor called Heroine's Quest which was pretty enjoyable as well.
Same as patents. You don't get to just ignore reams of existing regulation because you tack 'but with a computer' on a business model. Uber is only succeeding on the basis of having escaped notice for long enough that they could build coffers to bully their way into markets. The public is more aware now than it was then.

SV/StartupLand needs to get over this idea that they can magically just make the world do what it wants and pretend things like legislation and human rights don't exist when they get in the way of their business model.

You've got to work hard in the system like everybody else.
In California we have a government of the employees, by the employees, and for the employees of the aforementioned government.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/11/michael-lewis-201111

"I did a calculation of cost per public employee,” he says as we settle in. “We’re not as bad as Greece, I don’t think.”
> That being said, I also sympathize with the workers who were making $70k. If I were making $70k and a junior developer making $30k before (all hypothetical) got a raise to $70k I would absolutely be pissed off that I am now apparently considered equally valuable to them.

I am baffled by this mindset. You had something that you were happy with, but now it's suddenly not good enough, because someone that you consider your inferior has it too and it's messing with your sense of superiority. This isn't even throwing a tantrum because the neighbor kid got a better toy--this is throwing a tantrum because the neighbor kid got the same toy.
That is just completely false.

1. Women had enormous trouble entering those fields (and, in fact, are almost as well represented in the physical sciences). They won their position after great struggles. You'll note that some of those fields where women have had better success (after a long battle) have high governmental regulation and/or high rate of government employment, which makes it easier to allow women in through regulation after a successful political battle. The private sector has always been more conservative and more resistant to social change.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_medicine, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_States_jud...

2. Women did not use to be so under-represented in software. There's a clear trend of women leaving software, starting in the mid-eighties: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-... Women participation in software is on the decline, unlike any other white-collar profession, requiring math or not.
I already understand mining. I didn't need to learn about mining. It's just looking for hashes with successively larger numbers of zeros at the ends as the difficulty increases (or the other way around.. the difficulty increases as the zeros do). But I wanted to understand the blockchain, which I didn't, and still don't. Apparently it being distributed is important in some way, and there is some mechanism by which it gets updated with records of recent transactions (again nothing to do with mining) but I don't know the details, and would like to. The promise was not fulfilled. But otherwise, great article. BTW I have no database background but do know what a transaction is.
> Two of Mr. Price’s most valued employees quit, spurred in part by their view that it was unfair to double the pay of some new hires while the longest-serving staff members got small or no raises.

Man, that must have been awkward to explain to anyone who stopped by while you were cleaning out your desk. "Yeah, I'm quitting because you don't deserve more money, peasant. It was really nice working with you, though!"
Software is well past the point that medicine was at in 1915. In fact, computing specifically had lots of women in it's early days - probably more than medicine had at the same time.

Any theory which predicts that math/physics/cs/EE has few women is inherently flawed if it doesn't also predict that medicine/law/advertising have plenty of women.
That's my default view, but then I get surprised by both Uber and airbnb. StartupLand is one place where these limits are tested and you and I aren't the final arbiters of when or where they'll be overcome.

(Btw, did not downvote)
He's not acting strangely, just irrationally. The two, unfortunately, are unrelated.
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Where is the scale in the business? How does it get better when it's 1,000x bigger?
The reason it's much cheaper in Canada is collective bargaining through the single payer. The hospitals can't charge exorbitant markups for those procedures and take the profit because the single payer knows how much it actually costs and will make it just worth their while.
Homejoy also had terrible customer service. I bought a cleaning deal advertised on facebook, the day of the appointment I tried to cancel and they charged me an additional $10 to cancel. That's right, I paid more than the cost of the appointment to cancel. I tried to get my money back from them through support but they wouldn't budge. I just refuted the charges on my credit card and got it back that way. It was a nightmare dealing with them. Good bye, and good riddance.
True that. I also think it has a lot to do with the culture at your workplace. If everyone in your office works reasonable hours then there is less reason for even junior engineers to put in insane hours.
"The fact that there are over a million and a half capable, beautiful, inspiring apps on the App Store. And each and every one was reviewed and approved by a team of real live humans. With great taste. And great suggestions. And great ideas."

It's just a couple of well chosen words ("classy"... "gold"..?) short of a Donald Trump quote.
The outcome is the same: replacing the 16/16/18 with a craft that is also the future stovl craft, is an engineering nightmare.
The best way to share it is usually a write up explaining how you did it. Include the source code, some pictures, explain the progress and just try to share your excitement.

If you just drop a link to a Github repository with a very minimal Readme file only a few people, usually the ones already familiar with the topic, will even click through to see the source code.
You're making a mountain out of a molehill. Nobody said these things have to be set in stone, the idea is just to try things and see if you enjoy them.

So it was cupcake tasting this week. You don't like cupcakes? That's fine. Next week it's yoga. Don't like yoga? That's fine. The week after that it's etc...

The way you want to paint it is that you have to like certain things to be 'one of us', the real message is that you can be different and still be 'one of us'. As I said before, you can't be all things to all people. The idea is to make things inclusionary by being fun, and I hope they continue, even if people want to make a point of being offended about eating cupcakes at a programming class.
How many hertz is the pitch drop experiement? (Sorry I am so lazy)
fair enough, I have a blog post written up but haven't added it to the new blog. I'll get this done and provide the link. Thanks for the feedback!
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"I mean, Jesus Christ! If there are a bunch of really happy and super loyal people working here and that does great things for the company then maybe it'll turn out that I'm not as important as I think I am and then what?!"

"Uh, you'll try not to let the door hit you on the way out?"
Slow and maneuverable doesn't win air combat. The Japanese found that out the hard way.

Ask any combat pilot and they will tell you Speed Is Life. The faster aircraft dictates the terms of the engagement.

Also the F-35's stealth capabilities have been compromised.

Edit: down voters please check your understanding of air combat. You can't fight what you can't catch
This is a dumb sentiment and the article is actually one of the few that ignores the bogus culprit of employee classification in Homejoy's demise.

It really makes very little sense to forbid a person from driving a passenger for money. The AirBnB situation is actually grayer since zoning does make sense (who wants a revolving door of random tourists in their apartment building or even residential neighborhood?).

Uber and AirBnB are succeeding because they are delighting customers in a rather visceral way.
Thanks, I'll definitely read that. I actually misread your original post and thought you asked about the best way to share projects. I tried to edit my post but it didn't work from the app so I'm sorry if it sounded a bit rude, wasn't my intention!
Finally someone states the obvious that Homejoy's problems had little to do with employee classification and far more to do with the basic business model (trying to convert a match-making situation into a transactional business) and sloppy execution.
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I could point out, as others have, that he knows better than you do what's "best for the company"; that people who are under financial stress have been proven to be significantly worse at intellectual tasks; that by erasing his employees' worries about rent and student loans and feeding the kids, he could be dramatically increasing their productivity and thus improving the company's bottom line in the long run.

But I shouldn't have to do that, because I shouldn't have to make an economic argument for being a decent human being. I mean, Jesus Christ, come on.
Yeah, I was sort of excited to upgrade my Win7 VM to Win10 .. but with all the hassles and privacy violations I've been seeing reported, and now this - using my bandwidth without giving me any control over it - is just the last straw.

I'll probably never upgrade Windows again and just let my Win7 VM die an eventual death. This is not an Operating System being released by a company that cares about the user experience - its more like an AOL CD being shipped out to gullible users ..