skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of Paul Graham's observation:

"Twitter is important because it's a new protocol. Fundamentally it's a messaging protocol where you don't specify the recipients. It's really more of a discovery than an invention; that square was always there in the periodic table of protocols, but no one had quite hit it squarely."

http://ycombinator.com/rfs3.html
Excellent. Looking forward to the memory enhancements that should help make Minecraft servers less of a hog :)
Not yet. Closures and other features were delayed to get Java 7 out sooner.

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/
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What are these obstacles? Employers are dying to hire female programmers. Universities are dying for females to enter CS programs. Right now, a women that sets her mind on programming has an easier chance of landing a job than any given guy.

Basically, women just aren't interested. I'm not sure it's an obstacle.

Why aren't we just as concerned that there are far fewer male hairdressers than female?
Reminds me very much of Lockhart's Lament[1] - an excellent essay on the state of mathematics education, and which has featured on HN several times[2]. So yeah, if this topic interests you and you haven't yet read the lament, go and read it!

[1] http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

[2]a http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=130499

[2]b http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=666563

[2]c http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256176
This. He took an out of context quote, and almost immediately appended his ideology to the end of it.

Honestly I think this should be marked as flamebait and ignored.
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Bob Woodward's are actually very good- he wrote a whole set on the Bush Presidency, from 9/11 through the Surge.
just out of curiosity i checked some of my web based application :

- orginal : load time 5 seconds *

- optimized : infinity....

I think they have to optimize their optimizer...

* : all js & css & image files about 900kb and the connection is 1Mbit adsl.
"they didn't hide behind anonymity" "they made it known who they were" "did NOT hide behind a mask"
"STOP HIDING" "REMOVE YOUR MASKS" "SITTING BEHIND THE DARK WALL OF THE INTERNET"

There are no lines to read between. If by take more risks you mean that they should stop on one hand saying that they have no fear of the government/police or the repercussions of their actions, that they fully believe that what they are doing is good and just, and on the other hiding their identities. Than yes, that's exactly what I mean.

If they are so sure they are right and that this "movement" is supported and needed by the masses, they should come forward and publicly reveal their true identities and locations.
Anyone know why an OS X release is not on the list?
The discussion wasn't started on HN, but on G+.

But the point isn't that there's no discrimination, just that we're not necessarily having this discussion because "women are fighting to get more respect and representation in computer programming."
nice article joel. Keep up the blogging
You could tell the female candidate.
It's interesting how mobile has totally reinvigorated the notion of stand-alone apps. On the desktop, stand-alone apps were going the way of the dinosaurs - everything was moving to the web. Web apps are easier to deploy, easier to support, easier to control access to, and there's no more badgering users to upgrade. The main drawback was the more constrained UI experience. Now suddenly apps are all the rage again, thanks to mobile. I wonder if eventually the advantages of web deployment will win out in the mobile space as well, once the novelty of apps has worn off.
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That's a deferred feature. It won't make it into Java until version 8.
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Apple has always handled the Java releases for Mac.. they usually come later.. often much later.
How can I teach a bright person, with no programming experience, how to program?
Apple manage their own java builds, and they usually lag way behind the sun/oracle releases.

With java "deprecated" in lion, who knows how long it will take this time.
The keyword is here is perhaps. What are these obstacles that you speak off?
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The picture is not offensive to anyone who matters, honestly if you are offended you should probably go build a sexless utopia and die off in a generation.
I agree. And I have no problem with people having their opinions. I know it feels like my own beliefs are in the minority here, and I don't have a problem with that, but Hacker News is always a better site when it sticks to what it's best at: hacking, technology and entrepreneurship. The politics and religion discussions here are always huge distractions.
Maybe he means the guidelines: "off-topic: most articles about politics". Anything from Cato is going to be politics.
You can now finally use a string in a switch statement, hurray (it's the little things that make me happy)!

http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/la...
Sorry about misleading, when I talk about symfony and tell about its features, I tried to pick superior parts where Yii lacks
Oh, in that case, welcome to the 50s ;)
>"was developed in response to a perceived problem."

It wasn't this either. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Javascript#Hi...

I'm just taking the piss anyway, the whole chart is silly. Cheers!
Google Maps has an experimental feature for downloading map information. I don't think it currently includes transit yet but I'm sure it will in the future.

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/07/download-map-area-a...

For cities that provide the information to Google, Maps includes realtime delays and closures.

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/06/know-when-your-bus-...
You aren't allowed to behave in a way that is making someone feel harassed.

You don't think it's a problem that the definition of legal behavior is dependent on another person's feelings?
It's not entirely clear to me that private schools would cater to individuals, or group by ability in the way that tutors do.

My wife taught at a private school for some years that did that. They had the traditonal grade levels, coursework was modified for the student.

They had to have the grade levels: it was K-8, placing students back in public schools, or a private high school, is really difficult if you don't.

This was a learning disabled private school, so your mileage may vary.
They link to it in the article.
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Apple maintain their own release of the JVM for OS X.
Nope, release 8: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/lambda/
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?

You're simply accepting that "grades" are an ideal concept, and that in order for a kid to learn higher math, they also have to accelerate English, history, etc. If you remove the concept of grades from the picture, you no longer have to call a kid who's really good at math a math specialist...you can just say he's very advanced at math, and on par with his age group at English and history and science.

Remove the preconceived notion that everyone needs to be studying the same thing in order to be in the same "grade", and you don't have this problem. Obviously some kids can self-direct their education to some degree. So, why not let them? If they can advance this way via online instruction, why on earth would you want to stand in their way?

I had a lot of bitterness about my school experience, because I was so often bored and slowed by the pace of my classmates. If I'd had the ability to set my own pace, I would have been much happier and much more successful. We're beginning to have the technology to allow kids to go at their own pace...it's obvious to me (and should be to any other adult who was a "gifted" kid growing up but shackled by the limitations of public school) that the only ethical thing to do is let kids learn as fast as they want to learn. It's the teachers and schools job to figure out how to accommodate that learning, not try to shackle it to a pace that matches the least common denominator.
Meh. The world turns. I spent a decade developing primarily in Java, and the last few years were really disappointing. The community splintered, the language and platform really lost any ability to maintain momentum. I might have been stoked about Java 7 three years ago (when it should have come out).
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There's no single reason why there are fewer women than men in programming, so asking if sexism is "the real reason" is asking the wrong question. Instead, you should ask, "is it a real reason" why there are fewer women in programming?

I think that the answer there is probably yes, and I think that if you talk to enough female engineers, they'll tell you that the sexism and insensitivity is a turnoff to them. It obviously doesn't push every woman out of the field, but it's pretty hard to imagine that it doesn't discourage at least some women from pursuing a career in software.

Getting to 50/50 gender equality isn't the goal; the goal is to not have women discouraged from doing a job that they'd want to do because of the (often unconscious) sexism of their potential coworkers. If we did that and the field was still 70% male, then okay, but can anyone say we're honestly at that point yet, and that no one is turned off by this stuff?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this appears to be something that mostly solves a problem related to old BIOSes, no? Because I can "burn" .dmg and .iso etc. to SD cards or USB memory sticks and boot them just fine from EFI on my MacBook, as if they were optical discs or external hard drives. I know this is possible with most modern BIOSes, too, so apart from the actual hardware identification of the device, cleverly claiming it's an optical drive, what valuable utility does it provide, and what problem does it solve?
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I like the US college system. In each track, you move along at the appropriate speed and levels.
This essay by Mr. Werdmuller did not start the discussion, it's been ongoing for a while now, and this essay is just a part of it.
In my wife's experience as a teacher, it's not the teacher who is incentivized to push students through, or even the one doing the pushing.

If the parent wants the student to advance to the next grade, the system says that they advance, often over the strenuous objections from the teacher who knows the student has no business advancing.
Or you could just use http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as...
You're right, modulo whether your favorite GPGPU API is supported.
That is why the for-profit Asian tutoring industry groups students by performance, not by age. There are “grades,” but they do not depend on when a student was born, only on what she knows and is able to do.

I just interviewed Andrew Hsu for Startups Open Sourced and he mentioned this was very important in education. He had scored so high on his IQ test at 6 years old he was classified as "genius" and received 3 B.S. degrees at 16, and then dropped out of his Stanford Ph.D. at 19 to do a startup. One thing he says really makes a difference is splitting students based on skill level, not by age. Hoping to release the interview soon.
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.

Keep in mind when looking for the cause of the lopsided male-female split that it happens well before they even start university.
I think a more generalized solution will still work with this problem. When there's no center (ie beach extends infinitely), the hot dog vendors would choose to be close together for the simple fact that any distance between the two they share equally. Both vendors would seek to minimize this because any distance outside they claim completely for themselves.
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I agree. Men talk about women. Women talk about men.
Put the $100 into a savings account and use it for a rainy day. I see no reason to stop running something that makes money.
In a separate statement Police said they have arrested Mr Big

- "we have been looking for a Mr Big behind lots of crimes in London and now we have found him after an extensive search of the phone book"
Captivating language-seeking behavior.
Your work place must be one in a million. (Not that is bad or good, just different).
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PHP gets no love.

Where would it be in the chart? coming off of C or C++?
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Why would I pay for something that I can do with unetbootin?
I bet that this is just lip service, and that the on-the-ground reality will be that, paradoxically, Muslims in Norway will be under more pressure to prove that they are not terrorists. This is how psychological sublimation works : as long as the Norwegians stick to Christianity (and blue eye + blonde hair) as part of their identity, they will be unable to accept that an avowed Christian did what the "other religion" was supposed to be hated for, and the psychological dissonance has to be released elsewhere. This is what religion does to you.
As much as I disagree (strongly, at points) with a lot of Dworkin's work, she really has become a sort of punching bag for anti-feminism. She isn't nearly the caricature that her detractors make her out to be.
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Are you sure their market cap is that low? I find it a very hard number to believe.
Unfixable.
have been using Symfony since 2007. Today it powers the backend and website of my gaming startup and we still love it very much.
Project is still SF 1.4 though, would love to upgrade to 2.0 but that would be too much work right now as 2.0 changes alot of basic principles.
I think the strategy would depend on the cost of moving. If moving has no cost associated with it, then I see the game playing out as you describe. But if the cost of moving repeatedly becomes prohibitive, players would be more likely to adopt a strategy of equidistant equilibrium.
College is not working - by the time kids graduate most of what they 'learned' in the classroom is outdated. College if anything is just a good place to gain 'social experiences'.
Do you have any analytics data for your site for this time so we can a better picture of of its growth? What is happening to your servers now? It seems you guys are in the middle of a massive transition.
No no, closures (basic) are part of Java 7.
Well I think your figure is wrong. Samsung is huge. Samsung Electronics has a market cap of 253 trillion won or 240 billion dollars[1]. The group's 2010 revenue was 201 billion dollars or thrice as much as Apple. They aren't big, they are absolutely huge.

[1]http://thechinesenewsoflasvegas.com/business/market-cap-of-t...
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung
It's not just Apple anymore.

Apple and Oracle will be working together to create an OpenJDK for Macs.

http://www.macstories.net/news/apple-and-oracle-announce-ope...
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That support is not a required part of the EFI spec. It's possible to emulate it anyway, but quite complex: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4957.html
i'm assuming that the app store revenues are counted as part of the iphone and ipad revenues?
There hasn't been any sexism at the developer conferences I've attended. At all.

However, I've heard personal accounts from friends who have attended conferences of other circles (say, a linux-centered conf), and the account is quite different.

It really depends on the culture of the group.

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I don't think Tom's photo is sexist. It's inappropriate, perhaps (depending on the audience), but not an attack on equality.

Naming a project 'Pantyshot' and 'Upskirt' is.
Flash? Sure, HTML5 can replace many uses of Flash. But HTML5 is no competition for an app store. Apple's App Store has value in two ways: (1) for developers it's an easy way to pull money from consumers with a mere password entry (i.e. no email, address, CC number, etc. entry). (2) For consumers, it allows easy discoverability of nominally safe applications.

The technical side of having APIs to draw things on the screen are very minor hurdles compared to the social hurdles that the App store has overcome.
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Where's INTERCAL? What does _it_ fix?
It's not a question of what the language was derived from, it's a question of what prompted it to be developed.

It's not where it drew it features from, or what its ancestor was, or what's it's most like. It's a question of what caused the developers to create a language, not where they got the new language's feature from.
This isn't surprising. There was actually an experimental elementary school in my town that was eventually shut down because the students were too advanced in math, so once they got to middle school it started causing political issues. Rather than having the other three elementary schools adopt the same system, they literally demolished the school and replaced it with a parking lot. There is actually a pretty good book about the whole incident called Public Schools Should Learn To Ski.
Oh god, thanks. I was confused about this new-fangled technique of using "HTTP headers" to pass pricing information...
If we are less sexist than the financial industry, but finance has more women, it strongly suggests that sexism isn't what's scaring women away.

As for "failsafes" and "procedures", could you tell me how these procedures prevent sexism in JP Morgan Prime Brokerage operation, but not in JP Morgan IT? Or if you want to push things back to the college level, how they prevent sexism in Biology 101 but not in CS 101?
As the father of a near 3 year old the educational questions weigh heavily on my mind. While this is a great thought experiment ("How could we make it better?") it's scary when given a concrete example that is near and dear to your heart.

I believe:

[1] Each general subject has a core competency that you have to achieve at a minimum.

It's broken into skills and subjects.

Skills includes: programming, reading, writing, functional mathematics (+-*/ and solving word problems), learning (figuring out how the pupil best learns for themselves, or if you want "meta-learning"). I may be missing some skills here.

Subjects include: english, history, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics (both higher level functional math and theory / proofs). I may be missing some subjects here.

[2] on top of #1 you have focused subjects of interest which you should support the pupil learning to whatever depth they are interested in learning. Most people I know upon finding something they are truly interested in become a borderline expert. Are they world class? Maybe or maybe not, but they are certainly journeymen. These range everywhere from finance to car repair to engineering to language learning to musical instruments to basically anything people take an interest in.

If your student can reach functional usage in all parts of #1 earlier that gives them more time to learn different things from #2. Note that the skills and background knowledge learned in #1 are reusable to various subjects in #2.

Circling back to the article: It's a stupid idea to even attempt to prevent a student from mastering anything in #1 above faster. It might help if the peer group instead of being defined by age could be defined by what your interests in #2 are. Then you get cross pollination of students by more advanced students in those same interesting subjects.
Wow. That's incredible. In Montana we have just shy of 1 million people. According to the stats there were 28 murders in 2009. Montana is a very safe state and that's still 5 times Norway's murder rate.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/all/1

the very end is about a proposed private school

"For his part, Khan says he’s now considering starting his own private school, as a way to see just how much you could wrap learning around Khan Academy. His ideas are intriguing: Among other things, his school wouldn’t divide kids by age; teenagers would mix in with kindergartners. “I have no research to back this up,” he says, “but younger kids act more mature around older kids, and older kids act more mature around younger kids.” If the classrooms were fully flipped, students could spend more of the school day doing creative activities. He’d use board games to teach negotiation, and he’d teach history backward. (“Why are the Israelis and Palestinians pissed at each other? Let’s go back a couple of years. Wait—they were pissed at each other even then! So you go back even further …”) He also thinks he’d teach kids subjects that have more real-world applicability—like “statistics, law, accounting, and finance. Why are you teaching people civics? Teach them law. That’s more relevant, and you learn civics at the same time.” He calculates that it would cost only $10,000 per child, “affordable for professional couples out here.”"
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Have you seen this article from The Atlantic?

"How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code"

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/how-i-...

The author praises the use of Project Euler as a way to stay interested in the "instructional exercises" needed to learn a language.
With PHP you can create the headers at the top of the page, with python you can create a 'script' that sends custom headers to a server, thus you could tell the server that its a image via the headers but it could be something different ie a script... Any good developer will look out for this stuff though.
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Does it come with more patents? Serious question.

I'm thinking Oracle tried to put a lot more locks on this version of Java, to make it theirs, and not so open source anymore.
That sounds pretty interesting. Would you walk us through how you do that? (Or maybe you blog about it someplace?) You seem to be in Israel, is it hard to find properties in Cali from there? (Maybe you use an agent?)
That's an verbal attack, not just an offensive statement. It's quite a different category than taking a picture with a woman using her boobs as O's in a logo.

The woman in the photo obviously wasn't offended. Most other women apparently aren't, either. But for some reason, MEN feel the need to make a big deal out of this situation.

If a female blogger were writing to say she was offended by this situation, I'd be paying a lot more heed.

People talk about equality and all, but when it comes down to it, the people defending 'women' from this are actually worse than the people that supposedly caused an offense!

Wrap your head around this: Why are men getting up in arms about this? Because they think women need their protection. They are playing right into the sexism by thinking women can't handle this on their own.

If women can't handle this on their own, they're welcome to say so, and I'll jump on a white horse myself. They aren't saying that here. Or ANYWHERE that I've seen lately.

I'm apparently one of the few men out there that actually believe a woman can handle things. They aren't inferior; They don't -need- my help.

So everyone should heed their own advice and back off.