skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the narrative you're constructing is inaccurate. Even given that society only just recently realized that women could be equal members of the workforce, I don't think that tech fields were especially male dominated when they started out. In fact, there was an article recently arguing that women used to comprise about 40% of the IT field. Computing used to be seen as somewhat clerical work, so the inclusion of women into it was natural early on—it wasn't a field that women had to fight as hard to get into.

http://blog.fogcreek.com/girls-go-geek-again/

I know several women in their 60s now, friends of my mother, who were early systems analysts for IBM or otherwise involved in the tech field. IT is a field that women have left, not that they have been excluded from.

Second, taking from my mother's experience, she did have to fight her way into a field that was male dominated: graphic design. But that field is no longer dominated by males. Look at graphic design degrees awarded and you can see that women outnumber men now. Is graphic design somehow fundamentally different from IT? Are people in IT inherently more sexist than people in graphic design? They both use computers to do their jobs. But graphic design sees growth in the number of women, while IT sees a decline.

I just don't buy the early socialization argument, because there are just as strong pressures on boys to not be nerds. Simply because there are more male losers doesn't make having a 'clique' of losers an advantage over a loser girl. It's still discouraging whether or not you have a bunch of other negative charisma, zero social skill geeks to be miserable with.

As for your personal anecdote, I don't see how that's unique to tech at all. It sounds just like everyone else's shitty high school experience: you endure shitty fucked up social situations in order to fit in. Would have been no different had you been interested in other things and been in a different clique. If it hadn't been guys saying retarded fucked up shit, it would have been girls saying retarded fucked up shit.
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We've just posted a story about this on the LAUNCH blog -- Google PR person said this was not in response to any incident (and yes, the notification is temporary).
bing.com has yahoo at the top haha.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=search&go=&qs=n&sk=...
No. You don't necessarily work in a brokerage. You work as a market maker. You are obligated to constantly show a price at which you will buy and a price at which you will sell. Inherent to being a market maker is using the information the market tells you to take views (which influence the buy/sell prices you show to the market - which of course influences your profitability). Do not confuse this information with "insider trading." This is very, very different. Knowing information about the company fundamentals that is non-public is highly illegal. Knowing that a lot of people want to buy stock from you and using that to influence your trading is not.
If a company has a lasting place of business in a country (a Permanent Establishment), it falls under that country's tax law for some proportion of it's profits. You acting as a director or manager counts as a Permanent Establishment.

If I register a limited company in Britain but I manage it from France, that company will be taxable in France to a greater or lesser extent. While it may be possible to distribute profits in a more tax-efficient manner, a company cannot operate in a country but completely avoid paying tax by mere fact of being incorporated abroad. Simply employing a contractor or renting a server in a country may be sufficient to fall under the Permanent Establishment rules.

International taxation is punishingly complex. Inadvertent evasion is easy and mistakes expensive. If your company is only paying tax in Hong Kong but has offices or employees elsewhere, you need to contact a competent accountant now.
I really don't understand the point of this article. The author seems to be honestly interested in exploring GPU computation, and is clearly reasonably well-read in the field. The sarcasm is just really off-putting, though, and the article really presents ver little of actual value--this one trivial computation happens to be slower; so what?
I bet adblock usage peaks between 120-130 iq and drops off on either side.

This is a wild, completely speculative hunch for which I have no evidence.
You know he's looking toward the future when he calls the Khan Academy videos "archaic" :P
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Here's a page at the USDA that talks about the deoxygenation of citrus juices for increased shelf life, so at least that part of the article is accurate:

http://www.reeis.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/207232.html
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Did we read the same article? The one I read promoted eating fruit over drinking juice:

"Juice removed from the fruit is just concentrated fructose without any of the naturally-occurring fiber, pectin, and other goodies that make eating a whole fruit good for you [...] So, my first piece of advice is to get out of the juice habit altogether. It’s expensive, and it’s not worth it."
Poe's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
"5 gigabyte and 10 gigabyte unlimited plans" - how twisted our truth in advertising laws to allow items like this to be marketed?
The redesigner did make some breathtaking pronouncements:

"The New York Times presents a rather typical example of terribly-designed news"

"popularity has nothing to do with news"

"today's paper: irrelevant"

"the Times’ search results page is an excellent example of usable news design"
But Opera had almost no users below 50th percentile.
What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with the redirect?
The button on the home page in practically pointless.
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There's a pretty big difference between talking to your wife about moving a few pounds of garbage, and speaking to the world as the leader of a company with $360+ Billion market cap.

I'm not a FaceTime user but seems like a year after "we're going to start tomorrow on an open standard", it's not unreasonable to expect more to have happened.
My work ethic was instilled way before college. I feel fortunate in that regard as I had Grandparents who grew up through the "Great Depression".

For me college taught me an important skill -- I learned how to learn. I learned the best ways to pack data into my head and acquire new skills. College was an environment where I wasn't responsible for getting groceries, paying bills, family, etc and was able to devote maximum time to figuring stuff out.

Not sure the origin of this quote, it could be my friends, but one of his motto's is "Fail Early, Learn Often" That's what i thought of when i read the last sentence of your post. You just need to pick a path that's going to make you happy, set a goal, and start moving towards it.

If you think college is the path, do it, set a "get all A's" goal and make it happen.

I can tell you this for sure, you will never have the perfect skill level -- it won't guarantee success.

What is guaranteed is that you will make mistakes... The key is making sure to learn the lesson and keep on moving.

Good luck!
I recommend graduating, but if you were unable to work on your startup due to your poor work habits, why do you think you'll be able to handle 20 hrs a semester? That's also lots and lots of work (on things you may find boring). Why not ramp up gradually?
You seem to be placing the blame for girls not going into to tech on other girls. Are girls' peer groups really the ones holding back girl in IT?

I don't see the "nerd phenomenon backing guys being interested in tech." It's a negative stereotype, not a positive one. Negative social stereotypes don't encourage people to take on an identity/vocation. No one sits at home, looking at the stereotype nerds on TV shows saying, "Gosh, I'd like to be a weakling with no style, no charisma, no popularity, no girlfriends, but a really sweet nitrogen cooling system for my computer."
Does 100x, mean full time? Khan Academy has various full-time engineers.
A prototype compiler will be released in the next month or so. It will be announced on the ParaSail blog and the ParaSail google group.
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...the argument that the redesign’s author makes is not quite so persuasive, mostly because it makes some rash assumptions, misses some critical realities and, perhaps worse of all, takes a somewhat inflammatory approach in criticizing the many people who work on the original site.

This guy sounds like the redesigner really hurt his feelings.

Why not share the design constraints that the redesigner failed to consider? Wouldn't that be more productive than complaining about link baiting and criticism?
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But as they do so, I also hope they remember it helps no one — least of all the author of the redesign — to assume the worst about the original source and the people who work hard to maintain and improve it, even though those efforts may seem imperfect from the outside.

Redesigns, solicited or not, are very helpful to me. I don't care what internal politics the original product designer is grappling with. It's refreshing to see what outside observers come up with, politics and other restrictions be damned.

I'd hate to work for someone who was so critical of critical thought.
Iteration-itis is also known as "change management" in academia, which boils down to "before you change, you must consult." Academia and Information Technology are particularly prone to this disease. A good take on change management in academia is http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/feb/22/university-a...
So honestly, shouldn't google show up as the top result for search? Does the fact that it doesn't prove that Google does, occasionally manually 'fudge' search results?
I knew several Asian students who did this, even in the engineering department it was rampant.
Try doing 11 classes per semester :) you can do it in a year.

You can't go full-out until you actually have a reason to care about your classes. Actually try to work hard on your classes, and maybe after the first semester you might find that you enjoy the work (or, as in my case, you really enjoy the feeling of pushing yourself for 72 hours straight).
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Some do. Epic Systems, for example, is quite well known for this attitude.
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I don't care what internal politics the original product designer is grappling with.

Exactly my thoughts. The original article was harsh but not disrespectful - it's a critique of the end result, not anyone's capabilities, and it has lots of reason.
I try to keep up with Khoi Vihn and Subtraction because I believe he always provides a balanced insight into respectable/high-design principals and the practicality of applying them to mammoth operations like the NYT and such.

In fact, his tone of decency and respect, despite the the off-the-cuff pronouncements made by Andy Rutledge is exactly the voice I've come to expect from Khoi. Which is awesome.

Also, this reminds me a lot of the Delta Airlines redesign fiasco brought on by another designer (http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html). It's really easy to sit back and critique the obvious flaws in design from within the ivory tower of photoshop, where you can arbitrarily remove advertisements and ignore the loads of user studies that entire teams have spent significant portions of their careers.

This is the kind of stuff that gives designers the MO of being 'decorators' who don't 'respect constraints' - operational or technical. As a designer myself, it's sad to see this behavior showing up again and again.
Until I read this article, I had no idea you could even upload music. I was under the impression that all of the music was being streamed from the grooveshark servers.
The thoughts he is critical of here are not those related to the design - it's all of the newspaper/media/NYT-bashing that takes up the first half of the essay. The designer makes a lot of claims about why things are the way they are for newspaper websites in 2011 without really backing them up, and seems to be assuming the worst about everyone involved.

The redesign on it's own is fine but the screed before that is the issue.
I gave it shot for a while because I needed the Turbo feature. I liked using Opera, it was fast and the new chrome-like GUI is nice. However... as soon as my internet was back at full capacity I changed back to Chrome. You say you like it because of the completeness, but I found that it was missing quite a few small things which I cannot live without. Off the top off my head I can only remember two things -

Tabs cannot be dragged in and out of windows

Text cannot be selected and dragged into the URL bar
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The only really egregious criticism was that "the front page of a news paper is not editorialized". Someone DOES choose what the most important stories are at the time of publication and puts those on the front page. That is editorializing. If all the stories were in reverse chronological order or alphabetical order or something, then it wouldn't be editorialized.

All the "terrible/unusable design" criticisms are quite valid today, I think. Maybe they weren't 5 years ago when the site was designed, but there is simply too much information to process now.
You completely missed the point. Comparing a single private school, or some subset of them, which has selective admittance with public schools which have to educate everyone is not sound.
It's fairly plain to see that the "redesign" completely disregards any presence of advertisement. I'd say that would be a constraint failed to be considered.
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> You cannot change anything meaningful
Sure you can. I think it's great that a lack of versioning discourages things like renaming a field. It's with versioning where you wind up with...multiple versions.
If they truly aim to teach math and not, say, engineering, then they should not be teaching students to assume constraints that aren't given in the problem.
Well, why would google put itself as the top search result, when you are already on google search. And also, recently, there was some complaint (don't remember exactly who filed the complaint) about the anti-competitive movement of google when it comes to always showing google maps results when searching for locations. Anyhow, just my view of this.
Fine. But a company can charge per seat and still legitimately claim to "help you deliver great support". Saying that's a "lie" really bugs me.
Ask YC: How can a startup wannabe make the most of an upcoming trip to SF?
I'm going to San Francisco in a few weeks for an extended weekend, partly to do some sightseeing, but partly to check out the startup scene, which I'm pretty sure I want to join in the near future. I've been programming for several years now, and I think it's time for a change. I was part of a sort of "internal startup" at my company, and in the years since I've realized that building that group up was when I felt most excited about my work, and I want to go back to that. So I think I'm at a point where I either take the plunge or stop daydreaming about it.

I'm planning on finding some meetups and tech social events to attend, but I'm a bit worried about, well, not fitting in. I'm 27, not fresh out of college, and by no means a hotshot coder. I don't have much of a web presence, no open source contributions, and (currently) have no non-work projects I can talk about. Maybe it's silly to feel like I might be looked down upon for this, but going by startup job postings I've seen I wouldn't qualify to be an unpaid intern at this point. I guess I'm worried I'll feel like I'm going to Hollywood and don't have a screenplay to talk about. Silly, right? Time is tight between now and my trip, but is it worth it to try and hack together an API mashup so I don't feel like a total poser, or should I just relax?

Any specific suggestions on places I can go to get a slice of startup life? I'm planning on staying in SF since I do want to do some sightseeing and check out some good restaurants, but should I make a trip to Palo Alto or Mountain View? Go to Berkeley or Stanford? Is it possible to even visit any companies? Is there a hacker house I can couchsurf at?
Based on the timing, I believe he's talking about the redesign exercise Andy Rutledge did @ http://andyrutledge.com/news-redux.php

Khoi Vinh is being a poor sport here. Criticism is an important part of the design world. In school we're taught to use criticism as another resource and learn from it. The design team at the New York Times could have learned a lot from this 'unsolicited' exercise. Instead, they chose to be offended.
"But were you given a good education, or were you smart enough to educate yourself given a modicum of education and a structured environment?"

I didn't care about education until i was in my 20s. I would not have educated myself as a child or teenager.

"The problem is that half of people are not smart enough"

That sounds like a number you pulled out of your butt. Do you have any real statistics on that?

"The problem with zero-competition government schools is that when they get captured by a fad (word recognition, new math, no student left behind, etc.), it happens everywhere. There is no escape. "

I'm not sure I understand, but I'm pretty sure it's not true. Our schools are becoming more federalized, but that hasn't always been the case. States once had a lot of leeway in their education systems.

"The latter does not require education or sophistication, just the ability to ask about the relative rank of the nearby schools."

This isn't true. She'd have no idea what graphs mean, and even if she got it to some degree it would be very easy to mislead her. Think about it. Have you ever watched infomercials with absurd assertions that have graphs and numbers on them? You and I realize they are absurd, but most people don't. Think about it.
Great question! I've just added the question on the following link to find out what people say.

http://flipter.com/flip/is-airbnb-a-fad-or-will-it-revolutio...
Seriously? The author says you're better off eating only food you grow yourself or that you can verify the origins of. I don't think that's an industry lobby's viewpoint.
I wonder why it doesn't just switch on the ordinal directly.

I don't know how JVM bytecode works, or if it's even possible to assign discontiguous ordinal values, but in C compiled to x86 assembly language, a switch statement on (mostly-)contiguous values can be converted into a jump table. If there are large gaps in the switch values, either you have a lot of wasted space in the jump table, you have multiple jump tables, or you fall back to if/elseif/etc-style code.

It would make more sense to me to assign the contiguous integer values during the construction of the Enum, but maybe that doesn't work when Java 7 code tries to use an Enum compiled with Java 6 or earlier.
"Completely" is unfair. See: http://andyrutledge.com/images09/newsSite/nyt-redux-article....

But just come out and say "we had to cover the site in ads and couldn't do a better design" if that's the case.
Ask YC: GeekSplash, a place for geeks that just jumped ship... thoughts?
I'm thinking about using my domain geeksplash.com for geeks that recently left a company and are looking for a new opportunity. I was curious to see what you guys think and if anybody is interested in helping me getting this started. Thanks!
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This was the first thing I considered doing for a living when I got more into the internet back in 98~ (unsolicited redesigns), but I knew I would get into so much trouble and even legal implications. Nowadays if a site has king content and terrible ui/ux I'll just Stylish it down or stick to the feed and move on, if they can't bother to improve the experience the next one will.
Reading this makes me think of the iPhone commercial about FaceTime. http://youtu.be/EmAIptWS7Mk

"If you don't have an iPhone, you don't have FaceTime on your phone."

Perhaps it was the marketing department that was not informed of Steve's intentions to open up the FaceTime protocol, or maybe Apple really has changed their position on opening up the protocol.

I really wish they would open up the protocol. It would be very cool. And just think, all these android users would have to get iTunes accounts.
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Often knowledge of design constraints is part of an organization's competitive advantage. These are often painstakingly discovered through mistakes, and any competitor has to make the same mistakes to figure them out. If you tell everyone exactly what you did wrong, it won't take them long to start doing things right.
Even so, implementing EHRs in a way that qualifies as meaningful use still improves patient care for the worst institutions.
nope, parents would mostly fall for marketing and branding.
It turns out that it's possible to make a single file that is both a bootable ISO image that can be burned to a CD, and a bootable hard-drive image that can be written to a mass storage device (like a USB key), to create a storage device that is bootable on x86 machines with a BIOS, x86 machines with EFI, or PowerMac machines.

It's possible, but it's not pretty: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4957.html
Silverlight is still limited to Windows and Mac. Moonlight is from a third party and doesn't count toward Microsoft's community altruism score.
If I could make a better product than apple wouldn't that be a good thing? Too bad I can't.
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The article mentions that there is a weird problem among African American students at Berkeley: the middle of the SAT distribution and low end of the income distribution were doing better than the high ends of either. They chocked this result up to "disorientation". Treisman himself seems to emphasize the importance of the group aspect.

Shouldn't we pull back a little on the claims about study then? It seems possible, though without much data, that hours of study and hours of group study aren't perfect substitutes, at least for some subset of the population.
Regardless of the health conclusions - you can't deny the amount of sugar in single cup - absolutely contributes to the obesity we are all facing.
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The problem with rip is the lack of cross platform support due it's usage of symlinks.

Its management and mixture of git/gems can make things a bit complicated.

Not to mention that it plays with your environment variables (RUBYLIB) making things not as transparent as npm.

Node really endorsed npm and both worked together. RubyGems until 1.9.1 was never part of "Ruby", even while is extensively used as package manager.

Worse than that, Ruby-Core doesn't use it and cripples it to avoid the startup pain it could be, instead of making it integral part of Ruby.
The world also needs more poster re-designs for Kubrick movies. Here's my ideas for 2001, remember that scene at the beginning on a space station? That would make a good poster. What about Clockwork Orange? They could use the Ludivigo exterior in a poster too. I mean, why did they not originally do that?