skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be true, and if it is then we need to think about equality in a different manner, I suppose.

I strongly suspect that the vast majority of the differences are cultural in nature -- in fact I suspect that patterns exposed through culture that are identified as valid by the brains of the people experiencing them are biological differences, but they're not biological differences in the sense of what makes us a species (only that what people hold in their head about themselves and about how they should or shouldn't act, or what is masculine or feminine is stored, at some level, in a biological manner).

It really seems to me that the "classical" differences between "males" and "females" were really probably rather useful for a good chunk of humanity's history, and that they're really fairly useless now, and that people are recognizing that.

On a related note, gender and sex are a fuzzier topic for most than they were 10 or 20 years ago.

I freely admit that I do not know where the line between what part of a persons mindset is nature, and what part is culture lies, nor am I fully aware of of how they interact. Based on what I know, I strongly suspect that the vast majority of most peoples mindsets is based on culture -- based on patterns that they've seen since they were born that their minds recognize as valid (since that seems to be what our brains do).

I would suspect that if it was true, to a degree that would make it relevant for this company, that we wouldn't have had huge women's rights movements, and that feminism wouldn't exist. I suppose one could take the view that women and men are still somehow intrinsically predisposed to being better or worse at this or that, but have been able to be annoyed by it by being capable of higher-order abstraction, but I really doubt that that is the case.

I also don't think that the species is static -- that is, if there are said intrinsic differences, and our survival situation changes enough to make them redundant or change them, adaptation will happen. There's a large part of me that thinks that "you can't fight biology" is a hell of a cop-out for humans.

Eh, it's a can of worms really. I do work with the assumption that gender inequality is vastly more cultural than not. In fact, I work with the assumption that it is - for all practical intents and purposes - entirely cultural.

I could be wrong. I don't think I am, and I hope I'm not.
> This whole article smacks of the idea that there is something fundamentally different about men and women and their capabilities at different points in their adult life. I think this idea is harmful.

The vast majority of male humans are not capable of giving birth at any point during their lives.

We can argue about the consequences of that fact, but it's hard to believe that there are no consequences.

What other facts should not be discussed?
From earlier this year:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2344-construction-on-the-new-...

Guess they're finally moving in.
What's inside Evernote's new Trunk?
The compass and stocks apps aren't "junkware" in the sense the term is being used in the article (and the HN discussion here).
A friend of mine at University said the only true 'Big O' is Roy Orbison.
Enough to suck every last morsel of humor and joy out of the concept, and then a few more.
>A monopoly is merely having sufficient market share

It's not, but it's clear that the legal nature of it seems to be besides the point.

Who needs rule of law when you have uninformed opinion being passed around the campfire?
The problem of applying multiple classes to an element arises when the definition of one class expects another css class to be applied to all the same elements because there is an implicit inheritance relationship between them. Keeping inheritance in the stylesheet allows the implementation details of those classes to be kept together instead of leaking out to the html and causing display bugs (which are very hard to unit test).
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Is the concept of using 2 languages at the same time so scary?

In all honesty, yes.

But consider this also. The advantage of C++, such as it is, is that the big, harry objects you are creating can call each with just about any calling conventions you chose and you can parameterize them at run time and compile time in whatever crazy way you'd like (pointers, templates, static objects, classes and ponies! (Ponies will only be standardized in C++_2015)). This is why Python, Lua and all each call c/c++ for extensions. But while there are many interesting scripting languages out there, there's no guarantee that any of these languages' calling convention, memory usage and constraints will be what your large objects need. Specifically, to effectively use a particular higher-level language you'd have to know from the beginning that said language's conventions would satisfy your needs from beginning to end.

Add to this the fact that C++ may not be a "good" programming language but that it's not that bad if used with discipline and understanding. The badness of c++ comes from the many, many ways you can shoot yourself in the foot - it still doesn't force to do anything. But how many subtle bugs can creep in if you're sloppy in passing raw pointers to some other language? And using any higher level language will involve forcing yourself to do a number of things that could prove problematic.
I agree with you that this definitely is not Hacker News but please don't do this : "I will get downvoted into oblivion" "Let the downvoting commence"
Thanks for the feedback.

The Gordon Ramsay error is due to a last minute change (doh). In the meantime searching for 'ramsay' should give you the right results [http://cookblast.com/cooking/ramsay]. Edit: fixed.

Thumbnails are in the works, would have liked them to be ready for launch but thought it better to get the site out there.

That encoding error is actually from the original link itself, but I should try to clean those up.

Should probably hire a pro to do the design. Thats the best I can do without tearing my hair out!
You've got this wrong. kaens did not claim that men and women are "fundamentally the same". He's saying, don't assume there are fundamental (crippling) differences.

All you've pointed out is that there are indeed fundamental differences of some kinds, but not of the sort kaens was talking about. The inconclusiveness you raise supports his point.

Edit: Wow. Downvoted. What on earth for?
Looks good so far. Here are my quick first impressions:

* Have your logo/search box above the explanation.

* I don't like the scrolling box the results come in.

* The results are kind of bland...in other words WHY should I click on the first link that comes up? Is it the best keyword match? Best video?

I was going to do some more testing but it looks like it died/dying. One thing I did notice - is there a limit on the text box?
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I don't bother keeping a good grasp on it. The less you try and reason about it, the more likely it works as intended. You can concoct lots of scenarios where the type system in PHP breaks down yet in the average well-designed code those sorts of problems are rare.

Your example highlights some weirdness in the type system, but that could would never exist in actual product.
Ryan, IMO this idea itself is worth pursuing as a service/company given the difficulties in finding a good domain name. Its not going to get any easier going forward .. looking forward your next steps on this. Great post btw!
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Engineers aren't cheap, especially top-tier engineers in the valley. A reasonable estimate for an FTE (full time employee) is $200k per year, once you add in equipment, office space, management overhead, HR, recruiting costs, etc. Sure, you can be somewhat cheaper when you're a three person company, but this doesn't last forever.
Or maybe I didn't know that this had been posted before. A colleague sent me a link to it today, I thought it might be interesting to this group, and I posted it. Feel free to mod it down all you like. Having high karma on Hacker News is not a high priority in my life.
There are many names for this. Fad/Fashion/Trend.

And I don't think the phenomenon is a negative one. Just as clothing fashion changes so does naming fashion. For some reason we feel that names should have a timelessness to them, but clothing should not? Both exist to engage humans on an emotional level and human engagement will change over time due to exposure to the current trend.

IMHO Rebranding long lived companies > Stressing out about finding a 'timeless' brand. Optimizing your brand must take temporal concerns into account.
Ask HN: What's the best (recent) router for DD-WRT?
I woke up this morning to discover that my router has apparently decided to give up the ghost.

Hoping to leverage the wisdom of HN as to what is a good, inexpensive router that is able to run DD-WRT.
"However, annoyingly Apple decided to disable WebSockets in iOS 4. What's strange was that WebSocket support was in all the previous development releases - oh well..."

Well of course they did. Background/multi task the web browser with WebSockets and you effectively avoid all need to publish to the App Store. Once a standard is chosen for displaying notifications through Javascript to the browser, there will be less and less need for a "native" apps on any platform.
Excellent idea. After spending 8+ hours trying to come up with a good name only to then find it was taken, it would be far quicker to instead be able to go through the non-taken names and see what pops out. Also good for starting the brainstorming process rather than just staring at a blank page or going through all the "positioning" and branding tactics for name generation.
Thanks, I'll sort out the autocomplete.

The idea is that it provides a couple of things Google doesn't.

1. All results in one place, watch videos from across the web in one interface

2. Exclusivity of results - you know its all cooking and all good quality, don't have to weed through some of the random stuff from Google.

3. Ability to navigate, surf and refine. Helps you to explore dishes, ingredients, cuisines - for example to quickly look through popular Thai dishes and ingredients. This is something I hope will keep the cooks coming back for more, and will be working on improving in the coming months. Also realize I need to improve how I communicate this, both in conversation and to users!
Look, I'm as big an Android fan as anyone, but I've seen several people really regret their decisions. For example, some of my friends have the HTC Hero. It's slow, runs Sense on top of Android 1.5 (still!) and the battery life is awful.

I don't really know anyone who's regretted getting an iPhone, even though they know there might be a handful of better Android phones out there.

The overall impression is that Android is a mixed bag, and that you have to watch your step. Not everyone wants to spend days reading Engadget reviews and trawling through forums, and the iPhone is rightly seen as the safe choice.
Yeah, if you Google for cytokine theory of depression there are a bunch of papers. I'm not an MDPhD so I have a very limited understanding of the science, but from observation and personal experience the hypothesis seems quite accurate. The good news is that it's extremely easy to manage, the bad news is that no one knows this.
When I lived in the bay area, it seemed more like a vacation than a hardship.
Male and female bodies are not completely different. I suspect for example knees work similarly across genders. So it does not automatically follow that the brains are different.

Sure, there will be some different things. For example female brains probably have learned to not bump into things with their chests, whereas male brains have learned not to bump into things with their groins.
Any ideas what they are doing in their source of their homepage with G-analytics JS written 4 times in a row? Then also it seems 2 more times at the bottom; Is that A/B testing or are they pumping numbers>? (and surely pumping numbers this way wouldnt work)
Funny, but not as funny as if it were true. PP is when you're competent and get promoted to something you suck at; Peter's suggestion is the other way around. Sorry to nitpick.
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Well, your first wish has some small fulfilment. I had been thinking of getting a Droid, but after reading about this, I no longer trust Motorola. Any idea if HTC is better?
Could you point me at some studies that suggest that there are intrinsic things about men and women that would make it more likely for women to not be capable of participating in a startup in their 20s?

I don't claim that the male and female mind are the same. I suspect that the differences between them have more to do with culture and pattern-recognition than biology, even though there is some overlap there. I'm also not anything more than an armchair neuroscientist, so if you'd like to point me at this "mounds of evidence to the contrary", please go ahead. (Edit: This sentence sounds a bit more snarky than I intended it to)

As far as I know, we're still in a big grey area as far as how much evidence points to the majority of someone's mind being nature, and how much nurture, and how those interact. I'm working with the assumption that people's mindsets are almost entirely a blank slate at (or a bit before) birth, and that the vast majority of what they think about the world and all the stuff that comes with that is created via pattern-recognition over the course of their lives, with patterns they're exposed to frequently when young being more strongly ingrained than others. Am I wrong here?

That is, I'm saying that I think that if you took a baby female, and raised it in an environment where the only exposure she had to what a "female" was and how a "female" differs from a "male" were manufactured (reversed even), that she would have those ideas about being a female instead of the ones in common usage.

My conclusion isn't driven by political correctness either, although I can see how you would make that assumption. I don't give a shit about political correctness.
Dunning-Kruger perhaps not so simple...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1494732
The 35-year old cut-off could be considered gender-specific.

I'm a 30-year old female entrepreneur and software developer. I would love to do Y-combinator or other incubator program. I also want to start a family. If I wait for years to have kids, there is a statistically higher risk of infertility. This isn't the case for men. I think the author is correct that women may be more ready to launch a start-up when they're 40.
I'm a liberal, but I really don't like reading or watching liberal biased news constantly. It's as uninteresting and un-though-provoking as watching conservative shows all day.

That said, Rachel Maddow compared this gulf oil spill to the gulf oil spill of 1979 by using news clips from then, and the sad part is, the new technology we used for this spill is the exact same technology they used back then. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHmhxpQEGPo
Thank you. If you really want to attract scorn the question could extend to race as well. Too often we confuse equality with uniformity. Woman tend to be worse at math, black guys tend to be great at basketball. Who cares? We're all people.

Political correctness puts a thin outward veneer over real the issue -- that deep inside of us we all want to be better than the people around us-- race, gender, physical disabilities and class are only the most obvious ways that we all play the game.
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Oops, "walk around".
I had approximately no knowledge of embedded systems beforehand. I did well in math in high school and I played around with an Apple II and BASIC as a kid. (Initially, I was just aiming at "engineering" as a broad field; it wasn't until I got further into it that I focused on embedded stuff. My degree was in mechanical engineering, but I took mostly EE classes.)

I switched because I discovered that I love designing and building things. I still love teaching, and I wouldn't be surprised if I did it again.

Why didn't I study engineering the first time? That's a damn good question. The English degree did give me the ability to write reasonably well, but other than that, it was crap.

Mostly, it was just bad luck that I didn't end up in a technical field initially. I went to a liberal arts college and took soul-crushing, thinking-free chemistry and biology classes as a freshman-- that pretty much killed science for me. It should have been obvious, but even as late as my junior year in college, I didn't know that the field of electrical engineering existed. It's kind of a sad story, looking back on it, but at least it ended well.
It's unfair to compare JVM performance with that of C/C++ ones. Given the kind of high-level language that Clojure is, it doesn't matter if it's slightly slow than a C program.

Today, developer time is more expensive than CPU time.
Advanced C, C Traps and Pitfalls, and The Standard C Library.

Those are the classics.

C Interfaces and Implementations is over-recommended by people who haven't read it. It's a literate book that consists of heavily commented code. The comments distract from the prose and you're better off getting the library sources and jumping through it with ctags.

They faithfully address all of C's quirks. It's such a little language that most quirks lurk in the syntax and machine-specific parts, like storage classes, pointers, and its crappy little type system. But to master C fully you will need to learn some assembly and play with systems software. Try to replace libc with your own standard library and see how far you go.

Write something you care about in C. Small binary analysis utilities are a fun way; write an ELF parser or something. It excels in bit-manipulation. However, doing GUIs in C or processing strings would be an exercise in boredom.
That's what we get from that crazy model of handsets being subsidized by carriers.

Exactly, and unfortunately that's what "we" want. Google tried to break that dysfunctional model with the Nexus One, but most people can't get past the initial $529 price. I wish they at least tried to explain how you can end up saving a lot by using T-Mobile's contract-free plans.
The gist of it: children are curious and clever, and able to learn by exploring, particularly in the presence of other children. Presented with a novel and engaging device (an internet connected computer), a test group was able to acquire the knowledge necessary to make use of it. Extending this idea, classrooms that mimic this interaction may prove an effective way of integrating educational technology into the classroom. Technology will then raise the quality of education in areas where the quality or availability of teachers is poor.

I spent two years in Cambodia working on an American-funded educational technology project. I think many well-intentioned technology projects (like OLPC), find the real world has sharp edges. Implementation woes are many in poor countries with poor infrastructure. In particular:

- Electricity is extremely expensive in rural areas. In many cases, you're talking about operating a generator fed with expensive gasoline. A generator is a prime target for theft. As is the gasoline, wires and generated electricity (which can be sold to neighbors). Most donations are for the initial installation and a year or so of operation. Money for ongoing operation may not be available. In our case, it wasn't, which meant operational electronics lying dormant.

- Wires and electronics must be locked up and guarded. This means metal doors and windows, padlocks, and a night guard.

- General purpose computers with a CD drive can play music VCDs and games, which children find more fun than typing programs and courseware. Children in foreign countries are not so different from children in the developed world. There's excitement about technology, but things tend to follow a path of least resistance if there is a lack of direction.

- Internet-connectivity in a remote region means a two-way satellite, networking equipment, and trained personnel capable of installing and troubleshooting inevitable issues. Again, theft and misuse are issues. And the payoff is hard to measure.

- In Cambodia, a college-educated teacher may get paid around $40/month. In the past, the government often had difficulty making those payments. If I had a family, and were trying to support them on a little more than a dollar a day, I might have a motivation problem as well. To float themselves, many teachers charge for test answers, handouts and additional lessons. Spending relatively large sums of money to solve the problem with tech seems like a short-sighted bandaid atop a much larger systemic problem.

To be clear: I think technology has a place in education, and improved education is the most effective way to lift up the struggling poor. But many of these ideas veer off-course with flights of fancy, like a pricey vSat-powered "granny cloud" video chat systems vs. utilizing existing teachers or paying local grandmothers a very small amount to provide encouragement in the actual classroom. The lack of pragmatism is what bothers me, I guess.

How this would work in Europe is another question entirely.
The correct response to this feeling is flagging the link. That's how moderation happens in HN.
Clearly you believe there are $29 worth of IP and licensing costs to justify the price.

No, if there were $29 of licensing costs, then they'd be selling at a loss, since bringing such a product to market involves a lot of other costs, as well.
Amazon S3’s Enhanced Cloud Storage Security is Nice But Not Good Enough
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Agent Smith surely modeled after Carl Sagan (Sagan's 4th dimension video)
I wonderd if setting up a specific service/framework for liveblogging on events like this could be a viable business? Or is twitter + #hashtags enough?
There had been talk of "convergence" for years, where the digital camera, digital music player, digital phone, PDA, etc. would be combined into one device.

However, that's not exactly an earthshaking prediction. I mean, really, did anyone think that this wouldn't eventually happen? It's more of a question of when. In fact, when I read your quote, you're not predicting something, you're asking for it.
what kind of programming did you do?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_of_Wisdom for those unfamiliar.
The doctor wants to run the genetic test because if that's negative, we can rule out Celiac. A positive result would only indicate that it's still a possibility. If the bloodwork had come back negative she wouldn't have bothered, and just rule out Celiac then and there, but it was "strongly positive".
> But what if it's true?

And what if it's not? What's wrong with resisting the idea until we actually know?

Yeah, there are deep biological differences, no doubt. But the idea that women were fundamentally incapable of X for biological reasons has been the norm in history, and the history of women has been repeatedly proving that they can, in fact, do X.
This is desperately needed, I think. I've fought the modeling the tools used by EF4 for months now (especially back in the dark days of beta). POCO support in the official release of EF4 was very helpful, but the fact that the XML model still existed could be problematic.
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Personally I like the andand gem for this..

my_variable.andand.do_whatever
Excellent links. Here's a shortcut to Professor Mitra's publications on the topic since the BBC article is minimally informative about his research.

http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Publications.html