skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to echo dougk7's comments regarding statistics for ML. The fundamentals of ML would be of great interest - moreso with ML becoming more en vouge.

Cheers!
Reid Hoffman at MIT Media Lab
Text Only in android browser which strips out unwanted content and it displays only the needed text in a simple format.It supports more than 80% of websites..
Yes the chart has errors, yes some of the vectors make no sense. Yes, your version of the chart would differ greatly (hell, his "enhanced" one differs significantly from the basic one.)

Cut the guy some slack. He put the work in and the result is a pretty cool look at how he makes sense of the way various languages interrelate and borrow from each other. There are others showing the way other people think [1] and I hope some of you will try your hand at it.

[1] Personally, I really like the one O'Reilly did a few years back: http://oreilly.com/news/graphics/prog_lang_poster.pdf I suspect I tend to think more linearly than the OP
If I were betting, I'd be with you on this, even though the reason to raid may have been deliberately planted misinformation from lulzsec.
That gives me an idea. What if there was a paid service which would analyze such public information about you and tell you exactly what your "profile" looks like, or at least appears to others. Sometimes we don't realize how we project ourselves and this would definitely be useful to understand the implications of our actions.
It's incredibly difficult to poll populations of 750 million people and get an accurate cross-section. Especially when that population is spread out across multiple continents. To give a sense of scope, the number of people polled represents only 0.0008316% of Facebook users. With a sample that small, you'd have to go to extraordinary lengths to ensure diversity in polling cross-section.

In other words, this poll is useless.
Getting to know one? Why not be one?
I used to use Opera a few years ago, but its Javascript performance was iffy. By the time they fixed it, I was already hooked on Firefox, and if I recall correctly, Dragonfly wasn't as mature. After switching to Mac, I tried Opera again, but it -still- doesn't support inertial scrolling, so I'm currently using Chrome.
> I have since lowered my prices (I love my customers, and want them to be secure).

So why not charge $0?

If you love your customers, crank the price up - that'll encourage them to actually listen to the results you give them.
"Hoffman pointed to one of his recent investments, Airbnb, a short-term vacation rental website, as an example. The website pairs people looking for vacation rentals with people willing to rent out their homes. As Hoffman pointed out, both parties would want assurance that the other is trustworthy. Airbnb’s answer is an evaluation system based in part on the responsiveness of a host — the faster a host responds, the more reliable he or she is likely to be.

“And that’s a very good predictor of whether this will be a good experience,” Hoffman said. “This creates an improvement in the world.” "

...Spoke maybe a day or two too soon.
Ah I see, that area of the Pentagon was under renovation but not entirely unoccupied at the time of the attacks. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon#September_11_attac...).
> The US is far more complex than that with some areas being significantly more Democratic or Republican.

Are there many "swing seats"/"marginals" in US politics, or does gerrymandering pretty much rule that out?
If you wrote it in 1-2 days, not really (or you learned something on the way). Otherwise: yes.
I have seen precisely zero evidence of any "sexism" in the software industry. Maybe I'm going to the wrong conferences but this bullshit is getting old.
1. Woman does a presentation where she talks about objectification of women in a male dominated social group.

2. Woman gets hit on in an elevator in a foreign country after leaving a bar at 4am. She declines.

3. Woman mentions incident as a "What Not To Wear" style off-hand comment in a video blog about the conference, before going on to more important things.

4. Richard Dawkins flips his shit.

5. Some men think this situation means politely asking a woman out for coffee will get you accused of rape.
Very true. Nothing but sweeping happens here. It would be nice, but no convincing would change the reality of discussion here; that's sad.
I think it is nice, but what surprised me was that There was no notion of the impact on testing.

If I were to buy a database server for Unix, I would expect that it would have been tested on that platform (including hard-to-test things such as power failures at inconvenient times, running out of disk space, rinning out of swap, less common filesystems, etc). I guess a minimal test would eat man-years.
What is it about Google+ that brings out the sexism debate? Not too long ago, the public display of a person's gender was going to enpower stalkers and rapists.

The same boorish nonsense goes on in other contexts, but doesn't seem to attract the same level of drama.
Why is this on HN? I'd bet that < 10% of the population were offended by that photo. If it were a picture of Fabio with his shirt off (gasp) there would be < 2% offended. Yes, there are men who say "check that ass out" and there are also women. Generalizations suck.
For the same reason that we tolerate trolls and a-holes of all races and genders. Which is that most people dont care.
We happen to have 80% men in the industry. Since 'male sexists' seem for some reason to be more common among the male population, we do have a bit more of them than other branches with a more balanced male-female ratio.

I've yet to see a study proving that we have in proportion more sexist men than other fields.
It doesn't surprise me at all. The incentives are all wrong. Teachers are incentivized to push students to the next grade with as little fuss as possible. They aren't ever asked to help kids improve themselves... Only to make sure they learned the minimum required knowledge.

That teachers would ask that students be kept ignorant just to make their job easier does not surprise me a bit.

To be clear, not all teachers are asking this. Some teachers really care about the students. I had quite a few good teachers in school, and only a few bad ones. But my perception is that that balance has been changing. Lower pay, more work, and general bad conditions have been driving the good teachers to go elsewhere while the bad ones stay to collect a paycheck.
With git you only really need to care about 5-6 commands for basic usage. For more advanced stuff you could also use a GUI; for mac there are plenty of tools that are really polished.
Seriously?

RW said that being hit on in an elevator @ 4AM made her feel uncomfortable. That's it, and if people were able to muster up a shred of empathy and think "gee, if this makes people feel uncomfortable, I shouldn't do it", elevatorgate wouldn't have happened.

Instead, men came out of the woodwork left and right trying to defend their right to flirt on women in any situation, irrelevant of how it might make the woman feel.
In this particular case, he was clearly boned. In the general case, RUN. Being in the middle of a city only helps you.

I say this as someone who has never been arrested.
I've personally noticed fast food outlets clustering near welfare offices. Not sure which has followed which.
Absolutely, and I wholeheartedly participate in the discussion. However, my participation shows me that this is not the forum to hash it out. All reasonable points are bombed with pea-shooter arguments that hide all the real content of the thread.
I won't add everything everyone suggests, that's just silly, but I've added that. The whole thing is intended as a bit of fun and not to be taken seriously, but I thought that was worth adding, not least because it improved the layout 8-)
Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optical drive
If you're wondering why a field once roughly equal in its gender balance is now male-dominated, perhaps some real quotes from the hiring manager at this company will shed some light.

"Oh, a female applicant!" (Tone: Surprise)

"He's male which immediately places him above [the female applicant]" (Tone: Joking... but inappropriately sandwiched between comments relevant to their ability to do the job, imo)

Argument ensued as I pushed to see how serious he was being... had an interesting 5 minutes of biting my tongue while the owner of the company justified not hiring women, at length. The usual stuff, maternity leave etc. Plenty of anecdotes.

Most interesting part was right after the surprise at a female applicant, though...

"I've only known one female developer that was any good... now, you might say that there just aren't that many female developers full stop, and that's true, but there must be a reason for that"

I passed the conversations on, as verbatim as I can, to the relevant governmenty people but they can do nothing and I can do nothing. The only person that can do anything is a female applicant, if they don't get accepted, and it's shown that this is due to discrimination.

Pretty sure there's nothing more I can do at this point :( Very, very angry and feeling utterly powerless.
Women are fighting to get more respect and representation in computer programming. That's why we're having this discussion.
Diversity and Google+: Why it Matters
I am familiar with the psychological phenomenon you are referring to, but these people were not forced to do anything; they clearly considered it wrong; and yet they proceeded. Feeling trapped isn't being trapped. Being rude to a researcher is not as bad as physically injuring an innocent person. Excuses do not change the fundamental reality that people commonly do things they know to be wrong and suboptimal – we are so far from perfect agents! Improving this through rationality is the whole purpose of e.g. lesswrong.
WebPagetest is not run by Google : http://www.webpagetest.org/about
Testing from within their own datacenters would be biased _very_ heavily toward their own service, don't you think? These tests are only meaningful if performed on an external ISP. Note also that if you do the test it says "US East (Virginia) - IE 8 - DSL", suggesting that it's on a regular DSL connection, not a EC2 box.
There might be other reasons that are more important to you. e.g. if you've been using Modula-3, its syntax might be a reason to switch to Python, but in my mind, things like the iterator protocol and NumPy are better reasons. (Also, you've been asleep under a rock for fifteen years.)

In my case, I've been surprised at how much less syntactic overhead Ruby imposes than Python (despite the explicit "end"!), and how much it matters. Compare:

def mouse_clicked
x = mouse_x / @cellsize
y = mouse_y / @cellsize

if @cells[x][y] == :empty
set x, y, :wire
elsif mouse_button == LEFT
set x, y, :empty
else
set x, y, :electron_head
end
end

def mouse_clicked(self):
x = processing.mouse_x() / self.cellsize
y = processing.mouse_y() / self.cellsize

if self.cells[x][y] is Empty:
self.set(x, y, Wire)
elif processing.mouse_button() == processing.LEFT:
self.set(x, y, Empty)
else:
self.set(x, y, ElectronHead)

(Here ElectronHead and the like are assumed to be top-level empty classes in the module; the Ruby equivalent is a Lisp-style atom that doesn't need to be declared.)

To me, the Ruby version has a much higher signal-to-noise ratio.

Another thing: JRuby seems to be a lot more mainstream among Rubyists than Jython is among Pythonistas, which I think means it's a bit more solid.
I sincerely wished a magic bullet existed, but I note that Berkeley has not been front page news every day for the last fifteen years, so it makes me skeptical that this is it.
Female humans are often referred to as women.
Do they do this? I thought there was a free version and a paid version, and in the paid version, don't you get all the levels?
I suppose it's a Cato blog post, but I was hoping for a more interesting discussion than just a random call for private education, with a market-will-solve it assertion. People learning at different paces and on their own is a fairly interesting problem highlighted here, but I think it's wishful thinking to claim that the perfect answer is already known.

It's not entirely clear to me that private schools would cater to individuals, or group by ability in the way that tutors do. There are other market forces at work, such as the preference of many students and their parents for students to be grouped with those of a similar age--- and the dislike of many parents for their students to be seen as "behind". There are also administrative/cost problems with individual attention that weigh in favor of uniformity. For example, if there are a few students who learn "too fast", the optimal business solution for an education provider might be to say, "fuck 'em, 5% of the students isn't where my money is coming from". Or, it might be to generally go by age but have a smallish exception pool; the age-groups-plus-'gifted'-class model that many public schools already use might cover enough of the skills variance, while being much cheaper to administer than a fully individualized model.

At the very least, I don't think it's entirely obvious what the results would be. The bits of evidence we do have don't seem super-encouraging. For-profit universities, for example, appear to have decided that a mass-production model is the best business strategy. And existing private K-12 schools don't seem to have adopted an ability-based model, instead using traditional age-based classes. Is there a reason that, if market incentives would indeed cause such an outcome, they wouldn't have already caused it? It's true that the private-education market is currently effectively restricted to wealthier families, but it's still quite large.
I've trained 10 develepers into using HG.
And still seems to me that SVN is a lot easier to teach
and comprehend.
I don't know why this is... maybe the mental load of having a current directory + local repo + a remote repo.
Makes it hard to understand?
Nothing after Erlang, does that mean its perfect :)
I met with a Director at a local consulting firm a couple of days ago and while discussing the growing mobile practice at his firm and talking of the team in charge of it, he referred to the lady who held the reins in growing the practice, and how effective she is and how hungry she is, in growing it.

And then he made the comment that she being all that, is also "easy on the eyes". I flinched, but held my tongue and it bothered me afterwards enough to think why he felt compelled to put that out there, especially to someone he just met.

I agree the problem is pervasive, whether its against women, minorities or the guy down the hallway.
Perhaps women just don't want to get into computer science.
And no amount of bending over backwards and trying to
appeal to female programmers will get us to a situation of
50% female developers.

Or perhaps they do want to get into computer science and there are a number of obstacles stopping them. Most people would agree with this.

If you're going come up a controversial answer, you better have some solid evidence backing you up.
Isn't there a difference between that picture and what's common? I mean, if there's anyone objectifying women in that picture it's the woman! And I don't see how is it wrong for people to objectify themselves.

Frankly, that picture is a bad example of the rampant mysogyny which does actually exist in our field.
So the basic difference is that the Chinese students worked longer, and in cohesive teams?

I wonder what it was about the culture they came from that encouraged that.
Really interesting, shocking quote from the original article, but the Cato free-market spin is questionable and not terribly well suited to Hacker News, IMO. The original Wired piece is great, though.
Business continuity, a pain but needed.
I know exactly how you feel. I helped start up a political satire website (http://thewashingtonfancy.com/) just over a month ago. I spend hours every single day trying to plug the website all over the net. I find blogs, other news sources, anything really, and post a link in the comments with a funny caption or something interesting to grab attention. I keep an active twitter and tumblr. Also I make a point to post articles on reddit constantly. In the beginning we were getting ~500 viewers a day, but one day an article went viral and all of a sudden we averaged ~50,000 viewers a day for about a week. Now were down to~3000 a day. The point is that you can do it and it will work out, but it will require a lot of effort. Also this helped me learn a lot: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-online-marketin...
With 3 hot dog stands in 3 dimensions they would still be very close together. This trivially holds true as we are living in an N dimensional space and there are N or less stores.
The article identifies a strong problem, but:

> "This attitude is a natural outgrowth of our decision to operate education as a monopoly."

Without any arguments to support it, the libertarian approach is served as the only solution.
Which was actually started by a man.
C++ -> D "Kludge"
Java -> D "Too high level"
C# -> D "Not binary compatible with C"
Sure. I consider myself a feminist insofar as I believe all people should be treated equally, with respect and dignity.
Very often, people push the hypothesis that women avoid the software industry because of sexist behavior. (This particular article did not, but many similar articles in this genre do.)

If IT is no more sexist than any other field (as peterwwillis hypothesized), this would refute the hypothesis that women avoid IT due to sexism.
It's not a good idea to turn a product into a free product to support another one unless that other product is something like Google's Search Engine.

Even then, you could argue it's better to build multiple streams of income and not depend on one product.

An offer of Buy 1 product and get the other free - that's fine.
But giving away inbox cleaner doesn't make sense unless you get a really high conversion rate for Tweeting Machine.

You have also asked a completely different question in your blog post. To sell more tweeing machine subscriptions - perhaps a longer trial (1 or 2 months instead of 10 days) or a lite version would make sense.
Tell HN: You can be emailed when WP updates are available
Given how often Wordpress & WP plugins are released, and how commonly both WP & related plugins are the targets of real and common hacks, you should always stay up to date. I operate two WP installations and do not log in to them very often — so I was glad to find there are plugins that can email the administrator whenever an update to core or plugins is available. I'm sure anyone with clients on WP can also see the value here. I installed "WP Updates Notifier"; there are others.

I can’t imagine anyone who uses Wordpress not wanting to know about these important tools.
I've added (something similar to) that.
Where Is Now? The Paradox Of The Present
Essentially, the performance gap disappeared when the students formed study groups ("learning groups" in this article). The students were not selected from the general population, but from UC Berkeley undergraduates. Let's see if anyone can replicate these results on a large scale in average American public high schools.
"All men are creeps for being naked in front of me" --- said the female reporter in the mens locker room
But that would mean no judge or other government employee could make any decisions related to taxes (and probably other decisions affecting their pocketbooks or work environment) and as such be a ridiculous and impossible condition. Unless, billswift, you're a libertarian and just want to do away with all government, then your comment makes complete sense.
Pentagon To Deploy 20,000 Troops In CONUS For Civil Unrest :
It's a very bad way of putting it - but I think there's a valid discussion needed around whether schools should enforce 'rounded' education - I think the question is essentially what should we do students who are at 10th grade maths and 5th grade social science?

Should we allow earlier education specialization? (ie move them up grades but accept they'll be lacking in some areas) Or keep them in 5th grade until they are sufficiently good in all areas - maybe allowing them skip classes they're already excelling in so they have more free time for self-study?

I imagine allowing 5th graders to attend 10th grade maths only say (or more general any student being in a mix of any level in any subject) becomes impractical to schedule.

UPDATE: and as other people pointed out that's ignoring all the potential social advantages of being roughly grouped by age
That is an opt-in list of sites to ban. My ISP, for instance, does not block those sites, and no-one has been ordered to follow the list. It's a bit different than being ordered by a judge using the new DEA legislation.
I think your complaints are mostly fixed in the second version.
Trojan tricks victims into transfering fungd
A nasty trojan here. It convinces the user that a transfer was made into his account by mistake and that he must return the transfer before the bank will unlock his account. The victim actually transfers his own funds to the attacker.
> Most people would agree with this.

I doubt it. And I don't really find his answer controversial at all.
Google Executives are Exceptions Worth Emulating
I read somewhere that Khan is intending on starting a private school where all ages will share classrooms.
My reading of this is that the 'socially' optimal equilibrium (that is to say, the equilibrium for customers) is to build stations in a way that minimizes people's effort to get to them (assuming an even distribution, it would be at .3~ and .6~ on that line he uses), whereas the equilibrium for station owners in light of competition is to cluster roughly in the middle.

Social optimality in this case is all about population density (finding the minimum of the function that represents the total effort of everyone involved, _assuming station owner profits are constant_ which is a big assumption), and has nothing to do with forcing stations into Wyoming (unless a few million people suddenly move to Cheyenne).

I could be reading this totally wrong though, you can define social equilibrium an infinite number of ways depending on what you're trying to maximize, and what you simplify to 'ceteris paribus'
If you're going come up a controversial answer, you better have some solid evidence backing you up.

Would he not need solid evidence if he were pushing the politically correct answer?
Protection for your ideas and creativity
It doesn't say it fixes it, it asserts that ForTran was created because people thought Assembler was too low level.

Not the same thing at all.
Isn't that what this is, but with buzzwords thrown in? They lost me at "coöpetition".

That whole article just screams "Stereotypical LA". Buzzwords! Excitement! Sizzling burgers! Boardwalk!
Best Stand-up desk out there...now we need the adult size
Android browser which strips out unwanted content
It is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv

I think this app is the first one that makes it possible to buy content when abroad, though.

From that link, I also get the impression that iPlayer still has a fairly nerdy image. The most viewed shows are a documentary about mathematics "the code" and a repeat of an episode of Sherlock; both beat an episode of Eastenders.
The elevator pitch for PaaS
I'm probably the biggest libertarian you'd meet (that doesn't live in his or her mom's basement) and I feel like HN is pretty friendly to my thinking.
>Or perhaps they do want to get into computer science and there are a number of obstacles stopping them. Most people would agree with this.

You might want to provide some support for this before you start demanding evidence from other people.
Mac cosmetics wholesale
I don't see this as necessarily a problem. The fact is, men judge how women look and will comment on it when among other men; so do women. There's nothing inherently sexist about saying a woman is good looking. It was probably more his attempt to relate to you on a personal level.