skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of the reason for this may be that some types of systems lend themselves to exploration and gradual learning through use, while others, being very tightly coupled, generally require a larger upfront investment in learning how they function as a whole, since any one subcomponent is only marginally useful without the rest.

This is largely how I remembered studying for Microsoft certification back in the day to be. There was only so much you could easily learn from playing around with the system. At some point, well written technical documentation was, if not required, extremely helpful in making connections between how systems worked together, or explaining exactly what a component was or was not capable of. I don't think this is inherently worse or better, just different, and with its own advantages and disadvantages. For example, people who went through this training seemed to have a very high base-level of understanding of how to configure these systems, what they could or could not do, and how to troubleshoot them, but not necessarily how they functioned in every case. Conversely, the loosely coupled individual components of traditional UNIX service handlers (sysvinit, inetd) promoted people learning how the actually work, and what they do, but with scattered and not entirely comprehensive documentation on how they worked. The average person responsible for using these will have vastly different levels of skill and knowledge about them, but with that comes how it actually functions, because that's needed to troubleshoot problems, since it's so exposed.

The feeling I get mostly when reading about systemd is that it's very much in the vein of MS products. Like I said, that isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it is very different than a lot of UNIX admins are used to.
There are a few littered along NY Ave when entering the city.
No, this is decidedly NOT planning for everything. I think you're right on with the Bioshock reference.

What about the security and technicians who set this place up and guard it while waiting for tenants to show up? Once the shit hits the fan, why would they keep doing their job or even let anyone else in? Once those fools are dealt with, who will be cooking and serving the food and drinks in that cafe? Who cleans up? After The End, what are you paying those people other than the threat of being kicked out? Do these servants get to bring their families? Either way, isn't it in the interest of these people to kill the zillionaires? And until they decide that, aren't these people basically slaves? How are disputes settled between zillionaire families? Are all those guns controlled by the family with the highest net worth (back when that was a thing)?

Either these shelters represent a complete lack of planning, or the kind of planning that makes you a monster.
This is too generic a comment to count as substantive discussion. It would be better if it engaged with the specific content of the article.

Edit: When I posted this, the comment consisted entirely of its first paragraph.
> female students are more interested...if they are shown a classroom...decorated not with “Star Wars” posters, science-fiction books, computer parts and tech magazines, but with a more neutral décor

> If the actor wore a T-shirt that said “I CODE THEREFORE I AM” and claimed to enjoy video games, the students expressed less interest in studying computer science than if the actor wore a solid shirt and claimed to enjoy hanging out with friends

So all we need to do is overhaul computer science's anti-women culture is remove computer magazines, computer parts, computer games, futurism, and coding.
I want billboards. Possibly more than now. However, like in Sao Paulo and France in the article, I would like to have them show arts, culture, interesting information. Not car ads.
Was the headline changed? The following quote is from the report the article is about:

> “We have not identified a single instance involving a threat to the United States in which the telephone records program made a concrete difference in the outcome of a counterterrorism investigation,”
I agree with most of what you said, except the fact is, chargers are in fact quite expensive to install. Putting in a large number of them requires massive upgrades of the electrical service. Consider putting in 20, 30A chargers would require a ~800A-rated service (since all could be in service at the same time and you need some safety margin), vs the 200A service installed in the typical home. It's also hard to run them to spots far away in a parking lot, which ups the installation expense quite a lot.
Same could be said for Singapore substituting violent pressure for legal pressure.
If you aren't interested in "computer parts and tech magazines" then what exactly is it about computing that makes you want to do it?

I am a woman with a Certificate in GIS. I know some HTML and CSS. I run some blogs.

I joined an email list -- a parenting/homeschooling list -- when my now 28 year old son was 11. It led to me becoming a moderator of an email list for a time. My advice was seemingly popular on that list. Someone liked my writing and wanted to put some of it on their website. Later, she helped me move that to a site of my own and take over the coding.

There are things I would like to do in this world to help other people -- to educate them, to empower them to solve hard personal problems. I joined Hacker News in hopes of eventually learning to write code to do that. So far, life has gotten in the way.

My two adult sons are masters of framing traditionally male interests in a way that appeals to me. My oldest son got me playing Master of Magic -- now one of my favorite games -- by telling me "It's like SimCity" and then helping me to play it in a way that appealed to my interest in civilization building. My sons want to make video games for a living. If things work out, I may join them in that endeavor at some point.

Having girly motivations does not mean writing code is of no interest to you. You can be interested in people or whatever and see code as a way to accomplish your goals. Mulan is the single best movie I know of that portrays a woman having success in a man's world doing a man's job for girly reasons: She loved her father. She felt guilty that she was a daughter and not a son. If she had been born a boy, she would have been conscripted, not him. So she went in his place -- and saved a nation, to keep her beloved family member alive.

You can be a girly girl and love someone enough that you would murder others over it. We aren't all helpless whiny crybabies. Sometimes, doing things like a girl makes you a total badass.

But there are serious "marketing" problems with how we approach the problem space currently.
I think it has to do with the maturity of the smoker. Since you probably have an established career or passion, weed tends to amplify that. Whereas with students, they are still maturing and figuring their lives out and since marijuana
amplifies that they become even more lazy? Just my 2 cents
TypeScript type system can't describe currying?
Yep.. Read the comments on stories like this

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/09/tar...

Target tries to make one step in the right direction (like making sure a chemistry set is not labeled as a BOYS chemistry set) and people respond with:

"You liberal POS idiots are ruining this Country. Just because you morons don't want to think there are boys and girls, doesn't mean the rest of us with a brain have to think in your warped ways."

"Complete stupidity. I want my girls and boys to identify with their gender."

"This is stupid! So you think my grandson's wants to sleep on a frozen bed set made for girls and my granddaughters wants to sleep on spiderman bed sets. I don't think so. You better leave well enough along before you lose your business."

"This is just stupid. Kids are being taught not be them selves such as a true boy or a true girl. Men now a days are not men, they are girly men. A lot of women are not women they are trying so hard to fit into a mans world. Leave kids to b kids please. Pinks and blues do not hurt any one!"
This article is discursive. It talks about modern issues we need to deal with (current image of computer scientists), but then goes into an outdated story of direct harassment she received at Oak Ridge. The latter is irrelevant to discussion at hand.
this point is explored in the article and seems a good point is made: nerd male still have a stereotype to conform in the culture and set of social rule/standing to navigate relationship, especially promoting late career 'wins'; girls don't.

of course as this is the experience as reported from the author, it is at most anecdotal, but it's interesting and actually could be a good starting point for further inquiry.
True, but that doesn't change the fact that Android makes a massive dent in Apple's profits. Android's market share has surpassed iOS is almost every rich country where people can afford Apple's devices.
>I have no moral objection to prostitution. I also have no moral objection to "I'll give you money everyday for cleaning my house" to a poor person who hates cleaning.

Do you have moral objections to anything, then, or do you think that as the necessary money have been exchanged everything is OK?

Also do you think that "voluntary agreement" means the same for everybody in every financial situation?
>As much as I hate advertising, how exactly would you reconcile such a ban with the first amendment in the US?

This article has a nice explanation about that: http://nsglc.olemiss.edu/SandBar/SandBar5/5.2advertising.htm
Static site generators are used to speed up the process of development in terms of being able to code it as you would a dynamic site, but "compiling" down to a production-ready static site with minified code. A lot of them allow you to do things like including partials, string interpolation, using middleware and pre-processors, etc.
"female students are more interested in enrolling in a computer class if they are shown a classroom (whether virtual or real) decorated not with “Star Wars” posters, science-fiction books, computer parts and tech magazines, but with a more neutral décor — art and nature posters, coffee makers, plants and general-interest magazines."

The "neutral decor" sounds awfully boring for a computer classroom. I love art, nature posters, coffee, and plants; but when I imagine a computer classroom in both of these styles the former is infinitely more appealing.
I had a hard time with this when I was in software, because I didn't enjoy video games or sci-fi or a lot of the things my coworkers did. I have nothing against those things, but I feel like in the industry it's pretty common to adopt these things into the work culture instead of trying to keep the workplace more neutral.

I would liken it to working at an office where everyone is really into sports. I'll watch the occasional college football game, but I'd be pretty alienated working at an office with sports stuff hanging on the walls where people expected you to watch the game every weekend in order to fit in.
I incorporated in Hong Kong which has the same tax advantages but with more stringent reporting requirements (you will actually need an accountant).

The main reason was because the banking system is much better in HK than in the Seychelles. You could open an account in another country but many won't touch a Seychelles IBC with a barge pole. HK has a better reputation.

Incorporating is easy. Getting a bank account can be difficult.
Sure the journalist could do that search for every university - but why would she start with MIT? She (Sarah McBride from Reuters, not a click-bait agency) also talked to UCLA and Harvey Mudd, both Californian schools and on her beat (as a SF-based journalist). Harvey Mudd had a reputation for high female enrolment in STEM and was a more logical first call than MIT, on the other coast.
122MB music player? It better come with some music already packed in.
> How can I get an AWS IoT Button?
AWS IoT Buttons are provided from time to time as part of AWS public events such as the re:invent conference as a “hello world” device to try out AWS IoT. We currently don’t plan to sell them. However, if you have a great use case for the AWS IoT Button and would like us to get back to you if buttons become available for sale, contact us at aws-iot-button@amazon.com

I requested one via email... we'll see if that works.

If anyone figures out how to get one outside of attending re:invent or knows more events where they'll be available, I'd appreciate it.
I suspect there are more people who sell and use web-ads than billboard ads here.

In fact, I'm bet a few people are wondering when they can all be replaced with giant QR codes, so they can automatically be replaced by something a little more "targeted".
if you write html files individually, you'll have to update the navigation of each file when you add a new page. Same issue with categories, tags etc. SSGs just make it a bit easier to manage that stuff, and provide a framework to add other functions - markdown support, rss, sitemaps etc
what about a tax of incometimenumber * k ? (Oh wait, what does it mean to talk about a company or collective's income? What if you pay someone else to pay for the billboard? ok nevermind this is probably a terrible idea.)
> In fact, Dr. Cheryan’s research shows that young men tend not to major in English for the same reasons women don’t pick computer science: They compare their notions of who they are to their stereotypes of English majors and decide they won’t fit in.

I wonder how long it will take for humanities departments to adopt a more inclusive culture? Why must our obsessive hand-wringing be be reserved exclusively for computer science and engineering, which are mostly hidden and do not set the wider cultural narrative (for the most part).
If you can, the best way to get into research might be to go get the MS or doctorate. Disney research is made up of multiple labs, several of which are university programs that Disney sponsors, and full of people going for PhDs. In the internal labs most of the core researchers do have PhDs. There are ways to get in, it doesn't require a PhD, but it might take a demonstrated history of commitment to research, or willingness to take a job that is supporting or doing something tangential to core research. I have a friend who worked doing core research for both MSR and Disney research who doesn't have a PhD, but he published heavily and demonstrated he didn't need the degrees by being smarter and harder working than most researchers.
From the screenshots, it looks like a lovely music player. I've been searching for one for quite some time for OS X. I sincerely hate iTunes and Songbird is goners. Vox went bad after a gigantic UI overhaul. Right now I'm using a two year old nightly of Cog because it's the closest I get to an OK player.

However... I can't start Aurous. I get: "The application "aurous-0.1.1-osx-installer.app" can't be opened."
This is probably it, there's even movies about it (Legally Blonde, etc). What's different there is customer-facing vs non-customer-facing roles, a lawyer who shows up in court in non-professional attire is going to get flak, and I don't know what the immediate female-heavy analogue for a back-of-office, not-customer-facing male-dominated engineer department. The usual examples of female-dominated professions like nursing and teaching don't fit that comparison.

But it's very disingenuous to call engineering low social status these days. Wearing Star Wars t-shirts or talking about computer parts and technology 24/7, yes, that will still receive at least some ribbing, if not more, but that's not the same as being an engineer by day. In my recent social experience, reaction after someone asks "what do you do?" is pretty uniformly somewhere on the positively-neutral-to-impressed spectrum.
You've been pretty lucky. I would say 90% of workplaces do not have a sick policy like that.
Cool, I got the pdf version. Is this legit available for free? I just found it as the first link on Google
A horrifying reminder of the capability for critical thought of the general population!

This is to be expected though. Removing gender associations is going to be seen as an attack on existing peoples' upbringings. Anything that falls into that category is going to be a painful fight.
cities in motion was very interesting but the scope was a little too small and forced. there were some interesting mods tho.

so far my preference goes to sim city 4 deluxe + rush hours. that has a very good traffic simulation and does a good job of simulating cities, has a lively modding community and it's quite cheap.

haven't tested yet skylines, waiting for a sale.
Atomized somehow so that it would be inhaled.
I'm a hardcore fan of My Little Pony. Gender stereotypes mean nothing to me.
As white people make up a significant portion of the population this just explains demographics more than anything. You might also correctly guess high-paying industries in Japan are dominated by Japanese people.
..great stuff!
Have to test this, thank you.
Overoptimistic.

There is no insurmontable platform advantage. Microsoft's Windows and Google's Android are in their best shape yet and one can switch platforms without major inconveniences. Maybe there's the exception of very specialized software applications not available on all platforms, but for most apps, they cost 0.99 because that's what they're worth.
Hardwarewise Apple is best in class, but Lumias are fine and I'm guessing there's Android manufacturers that don't suck.

My point is that yes, you probably won't get such a good overall package from anyone else except Apple, but that package does cost a ton of money, and you can get something more than decent for a third of that price.
Can't really imagine what an Apple car would do that other cars couldn't, except maybe driving itself, but then I don't see why Apple would beat Google & the others to the punch.
Is diet-induced (or even diet-associated) Alzheimer's Disease a proven phenomenon in the first place? The article seems to be pretty speculative on the whole thing, and I'm under the impression that the research on lifestyle risk factors is quite inconclusive (e.g. risk factors show up in ecological studies but produce no significant difference in controlled intervention trials).
> seems hardly worth the trouble

Assuming it works well why not keep in touch with the loved ones. Funerals are so gloomy. Why not an upload party? You could make the virtual environment like the versions of heaven in the various religious books and have that stuff for real rather than make believe.
Spiegel is very well situated within Germany's industrialist and business interests. I really would not have expected anything less from them. I don't think we really have anything sufficiently similar to compare them to, but it's definitely very upper establishment oriented.
i don't like it much because she seems to be saying "hiding positive expressions about things you like could be helpful"

Quite. The person who happens to like sci-fi isn't motivated by excluding anyone; they like it because they like it and will share their enthusiasm with anyone. Has that person intentionally done something wrong? And if not why should they be censured for it? That is the elephant in the corner of the room here. There is no conspiracy to keep women out of tech, never has been, and demonizing decent people for innocent things, doesn't ultimately help anyone.
This gem is in the comments:

> The average programmer spends only about 30 percent of his/her time working alone.

That's nowhere close to my figure. In fact, I can pretty much _only_ program alone. Individual investigation and discovery is most of the fun in the field.
Over and over, Dr. Cheryan and her colleagues have found that female students are more interested in enrolling in a computer class if they are shown a classroom (whether virtual or real) decorated not with “Star Wars” posters, science-fiction books, computer parts and tech magazines, but with a more neutral décor — art and nature posters, coffee makers, plants and general-interest magazines.

"Tech" isn't a single thing. If you want to make non-geeky spaces for tech, go ahead and do it. But lots of geeks do like tech, and they understandably make geeky environments. Why can't everyone, as the bumper sticker helpfully puts it, coexist?

I think they can. But I also think that the association of geekiness with tech isn't a random quirk of history, but rather indicates a common origin. The kind of personality and psychological profile that predisposes one to an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics also predisposes one to geekiness. Moreover, geekiness isn't gender-blind: men are simply more likely than women to be geeks. Indeed, people on the autistic spectrum are especially likely to be geeks, and the overrepresentation of males among autistics is incontrovertible. [1]

There's nothing wrong with creating non-geeky tech spaces that cater to non-geeks (male and female alike)—indeed, I think it's an excellent idea, and not only because it's generally more welcoming to women—but let's also let geeks be geeks.

[1]: http://www.autism.org.uk/about-autism/introduction/gender-an...
if i wanted to become a hair stylist (an occupation primarily done by women), i would need to accept a culture that was different than my own...so why cant the same happen with geek culture?

The article also goes into many stereotypes and many women arent going into computer science based on these perceived sterotypes. If we were talking about any other group, the words "racist", "sexist",
Or "bigot" would be thrown around and used to describe the group not accepting the culture.

This is a tell-tale sign that it is a power-play move to gain control over another group of people.

I also thought that we were supposed to be accepting of everyones culture. Does this only apply to the privileged few???
> If you aren't interested in "computer parts and tech magazines" then what exactly is it about computing that makes you want to do it?

If that's not rhetorical, I'm uninterested in "computer parts and tech magazines". They're just corporate blahblahblah selling technojunk. But I have zillions of books on computing. More interesting to read about the computing roads society didn't take.

Even with books, I probaby don't empathize with most readers... tech isn't a smorgasbord I wish to shovel down indiscriminately. Most of it tastes like crap; some is entrancing.

Anyway, most computing is bureaucratic rather than poetic, as anthropologist Graeber puts it. On social media, people constantly fill out forms. (http://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declinin...)

And of course, ends matter if tech isn't just masturbation. Why ultimately care about computing? What about a universe full of other intellectual pursuits?
That's a cool website (on your profile), I miss those sites.
The situation in Android is such, that even if you can afford an expensive android phone, you don't lose much by buying a $200 phone , in many cases. And that's a huge market.
Forget about my time, save your own:

TL;DR: Fan greatly motivated by interaction with celebrity.
English is a funny language isn't it? From the context, it's obvious I meant "degree of excellence" though.
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What is better, billboards and a bike scheme, or no billboards? We shouldn't ignore that there are real tradeoffs at stake here (even if they don't involve bikes).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vélib%27
Yet, it appears that you will assume that we will assume that you are male. Why? Because you are on HN? Is this not buying into gender stereotypes?

(I am a woman. I am sometimes referred to as "he" on HN. I am quite open about my gender and it is specified in my profile. But the default assumption here is that anyone talking must be male -- because tech. This is accepting a stereotype.)