skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great point. NCWIT has a good summary of the various factors leading to underrepresentation of women at http://www.ncwit.org/thefacts and the book "Unlocking the clubhouse" goes into a lot more detail.
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I think the how you see the context of the photo has a lot to do with how offensive it is - if it's a just a random photo from a party, then it's something I'd shake my head at and sigh.

If it were something on an official Google page (which seems to be how some people in the comments are taking it), it would be downright offensive.

As something in a "serious" article - it bothers me - not enough to be 'outraged', but it is indicative of a lot of the issues women have in technology. There are times where it's just not appropriate. It's fine to like looking a big breasted + attractive women, but also realize that women are made uncomfortable when they're put into environments where they feel like who we are/what we can do is second to what we are. Photos like that create such an environment - and take away from the article.
It skips the whole effing core of the debate...

Its not, "How do we get better test performing students?"

Its, "How do we produce people who are at the top of their self-learning game?"

The general idea is that someone progresses from elementary school of directed learning to self-directed learning when finishing a University degree..

Some of us reach that stage when in fact we are in High School..
Probably not. See what Rich Hickey said about this:
http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2008-09-03.html#09:13a
I don't understand why electricity must be generated at charging stations.

"Electric charing stations must have charging equipment, generate their own electricity and have the capacity to distribute a lot of electricity."

IMHO, the lack of a reasonable solution to the gas-station (err ... fill station?) problem is the key problem here. I was at the NYC auto show and saw the charging solutions for the Volt. They all sucked. As I recall, the fastest charging solution they had required custom electrical wiring and could charge the car in around 20-30 mins.

I've also encountered the idea of swapping batteries at the fill station. This idea has a lot of problems too but probably gives the best end user experience.
$100K+ and $150K+ /w pension are the salaries it takes to attract and retain excellent teachers and school administrators respectively (adjust for locality). These are the going rates at all the top public schools in the nation. With a fully staffed school, it works out to be about $15K per student per year if you include overhead. The results you get are a 99% graduation rate, average standardized testings scores in the 90th percentile or above, special education, tons of AP classes, and top flight athletics and fine arts programs. Success in college admissions follows from the aforementioned facts, i.e. extraordinarily successful.

So I would propose to reframe the discussion. Because talking about money is silly. We know how much it costs to run a top tier school. The central question in my mind is whether we can develop new methods of education that are cheaper but achieve the same result.
You are misunderstanding what college is intended to accomplish. The goal is to teach students how to teach themselves. This knowledge doesn't become outdated, and ensures that students never have to allow their other knowledge to become outdated as well.
Who is "we"? Oh, that's right - the sexist creeps who apparently make up the software industry he's referring to.

You encounter this anywhere dominated by one sex or the other. It's not at all unique to the software industry.
> And once the established smartphone market stabilizes at something with Android clearly in the lead (like 80% Android and 20% iOS) which platform do you think will get the attention of developers? Which platform do you think will get the apps first? Which platform do you think will get the exclusive apps?

Having just built an iPhone and Android app, it won't be 80/20. It'll be 20/15/25/20/20. Our iPhone app works essentially the same way on all iPhones/iPod touches. Our Android app was a horrendous bear to test - lots of "on one device it does this, on another device it breaks" from our testers.
How I created my own checkin web app (in about 2 hours)
> I am very amazed, but in many ways not surprised, at just how different the reaction has been in Norway as compared to 9/11 in the US and 7/7 in the UK.

I'm sorry, what? Given the context of your statement, this sounds awfully like a criticism. I remember quite a heart warming show of solidarity in the US after 9/11 and indeed an amazing show of solidarity with the US by the whole world after 9/11. I remember being immensely touched. It's irritating to have people using Norway's tragedy to take pot shots at the US. I don't want to get into a debate about whether there's good reason for the US and Norway to respond differently to their respective attacks--now is not the time--but it's hard to avoid when confronted with repeated digs.
NinePatch etc. are neat, but break down on complicated design elements.
Everything is politics. But reactionary free-market worship is too simplistic to be allowed here. Cato only exists because advocating private ownership of profit turns out to be profitable, not because they have any insightful analysis.
People should realize that by using this service, all sensitive data posted to your website will be readable by google.
I don't know if I agree. The Java language has floundered (I've been stuck coding in it for the last couple of years), but I think the platform/JVM has started becoming used more and more often for new + exciting language options. The new release should make implementing dynamic languages on top of the JVM easiser, and could open the doors for a lot of interesting options.
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That's why I said "in his opinion". You may disagree with him but there is nothing wrong with him saying he thinks that education was better in his day than what he sees now. He states his opinion, you say he is wrong and then demand he prove himself correct by presenting evidence that supports his ideologically favored argument even though you present nothing to support your ideologically favored argument.

And based on data I've seen for the past few years on the performance of our education system I would have to say he's more likely correct than you.
Its not a perfect monopoly, but the market dominance of state education is greater than that of Microsoft, or Standard Oil, or any of the other companies we tend to think of as monopolies.
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Jumping to conclusions is the name of the game when you're giving your the keys to your apartment to a stranger for a week.
How Apple sustains their rumour mill
This is claimed very often. I did some very basic research here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2766844 (in a related discussion). In short, I don't see a substantial reason to believe that Americans drive all that more than Europeans do, and certainly not enough to say that the US switch to electric would happen significantly below the current gas price in Europe.

(there may be other factors - Americans' general tendency to go to technological solutions earlier than others, other interests that will drive development/adoption of non-petrol powered cars, ...)
off-topic: I have a perverse desire to put some microphones up, see if there's any birdsong recognition software out there, and tweet whenever a bird in range tweets :oP
It was just a joke :(
So the author has reached this conclusion after _several hours_ of using Lion?
Apple cares about market share in two very different ways. Firstly, they care about it for the simple reason of making money on each handset sold. In that respect, those charts actually show Apple crushing every other smartphone manufacturer out there.

Secondly, they care about marketshare of the iOS platform because this is one of the determining factors in how much support a platform will get from developers. Here it could be an issue if the get swamped in volume by the Android platform. But marketshare isn't the only factor that helps developers make the choice to support a platform. Developers care about how much money they can make by developing on a given platform, and this is not determined uniquely by the marketshare. Other factors include discoverability of the developer's application by users, the demographics of the marketplace (are they users that tend to hand over money for a product, or do they prefer free stuff), and ease of development (how good is the SDK, how fragmented is the platform, how restrictive are the T&Cs of the marketplace).

In this second aspect of marketshare, Apple may end up losing out to Android overall. But firstly, that day is not yet come - when talking about platform marketshare, there are also the iPod touch and the iPad to toss into the mix, which changes the final numbers. Even when (and I do think it is a question of when) Android takes over as the leading platform, the factors outlined in the last paragraph mean that it is not an automatic given that developers will flee iOS for Android. Indeed, unless Android can claim more than 80% of the market, I would expect developers will show equal preference for supporting both platforms. We are a long way from 80% marketshare for Android, so I doubt Apple is particularly worried just at the moment.
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"But even setting subsidies aside—after all, every energy source in use in the U.S. today continues to receive federal tax benefits, among other incentives—there's the simple economic cost of building all those corn mills, stainless steel fermentation tanks and other infrastructure needed to churn out ethanol on the tremendous scale of transportation fuels."

Maybe the subsidies should go there, to promote job creation in those areas for the infrastructure buildup.
Rails App Without Tests = Guaranteed Fail
I hate to parrot quotes as an argument, but I feel like this one is appropriate here: "Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" - William Blackstone (various others have said it over the years with "ten" replaced by some other value, usually even higher than ten)

Given that having your computers and data seized is already punishment for a lot of people, possibly significant and life-altering punishment, I think courts should be damned careful about allowing police to take that action. I've known people who's businesses have been destroyed by computer seizure. And I've known people who have only gotten their computers back years later (which effectively is the same as "never", because computers have a relatively short shelf life), despite no charges ever being brought against them. My business probably wouldn't currently be destroyed by the loss of all of my personal computers, but it would certainly be a very serious hardship, far beyond what I feel would be just punishment without a trial. And, seizure of all of my servers (including the ones where the backups are stored) probably would very nearly destroy my business and cost me tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost sales and data.

A search is one thing, effective theft of my means of putting food on my table is something altogether different, and I think police ought to have to have a pretty damned good reason for taking away my livelihood for an indeterminate period of time.
My point is not the bad teachers. They just serve as a litmus test. My point is that the incentives are wrong, and bad teachers react the most to that.

Good teachers care enough about the students to sacrifice their own livelihood for the good of the student. At least, to a degree. Sometimes that means buying school supplies from their own pocketbook, and other times that means extra time spent on students who have different needs than the rest of the class, above or below.

And I'm not calling all the rest of the teachers 'bad'. The ones that do their job to their best of their ability, but don't sacrifice, are not bad. They're largely being ignore here.

It's only the teachers that do the bare minimum and only think as far as making teaching easier for themselves... Those are the bad ones. And the incentives currently favor them.
To address your first issue: I'm guessing it must be cheaper (in the long term) to generate your own electricity as a charging station that buy it off of a provider.
Google+ minus growing pains
How the A lister's view of Google+ is totally skewed, how social signaling works among new adopters, and why agile social needs methodology, not just opinions.
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Or use the Resurrect Pages extension if you're in Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag... and choose among the many cache sources.
As for "failsafes" and "procedures", could you tell me how these procedures prevent sexism in JP Morgan Prime Brokerage operation

If you'll re-read my comment, I was talking about failsafes and procedures in the medical field.
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Will 3D printing revolutionise manufacturing?
Society does push both genders toward and away from particular careers; look at the imbalance in nurses or teachers for the other side. However, this has nothing to do with sexism in the workplace. It's not sexism in the software industry that causes society to push women away from the sciences. (That's not to say that sexism doesn't exist in the software industry or that it's not a problem.)
not familiar with RO, but awesome story telling! Looking forward to seeing how the rest unfolds
There is precedent, sorta, in aviation: 100LL hit $4.50 a couple years back and is now between $5-$8.

Cessna started developing an electric 172 in 2010: http://green.autoblog.com/2010/08/11/cessna-developing-elect...

I say "sorta" because it's not an industry-wide movement.
Amen. As a lady dev, I think this is a universal truth. I don't think this particular male-dominated field is probably any more sexist than other male-dominated fields, though.

IMHO: What holds some women back more than anything is unwillingness to be a potential lighting rod everywhere you go. I have kind of a pioneering spirit, and am willing to fight the sometimes daily battle to be recognized more for my merit than my high heels. But I absolutely understand why another woman would find that kind of effort exhausting and unworthy of her time.
Some people are happy standing out in a crowd and others are not. Most people are crowd people. It's not good or bad, just a preference.
Twitter comes up with "Promoted Tweets"
There is a memorial for those who died on the Pentagon's western boundary http://www.whs.mil/memorial/
To add/agree: I think the biggest difference is that CGI dealt in data, and did not have objects/APIs/etc. In many ways it would have been reasonable to skip even that, and pass an HTTP request in on stdin, and get an HTTP response on stdout, with just some minimal sanitizing promises; but I don't think I've ever seen that approach. Coincidence of history I suppose. Anyway, WSGI also carefully avoided any objects, only using standard data structures (dicts/hashes, strings, ints, ordered-associative-arrays, and iterable response). The result is a functional API without an opinions.
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The worst case may be coal, but the most likely case (for America) is that the additional electricity needs are met by Natural Gas. More specifically, natural gas derived from the oil shale deposits.

Here's a link with some interesting info on this:
http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffmcmahon/2011/06/30/cheap-natural...

While this isn't the ideal solution for the environment (frankly, I then that solar towers with molten salt storage reservoirs are the best all around energy solution right now), natural gas is altogether far less damaging to the environment than coal.

Take a look at this study:
http://media.kentucky.com/smedia/2009/10/19/10/HiddenCosts.s...

In a nutshell, coal is vastly more damaging to the environment than any other form of generating electricity.
HR software
Talent Pack is great HR software was developed by professional on this area, thought the platform you will post all jobs your company needs, score the applicant and contact with them in an easy and innovate way! What are you waiting for?
Good for Oracle. There are (reasonable) concerns about their ownership of Java, but at least it's moving forward again.
Ideas are not considered property under copyright law. Only the expression of an idea can be copyrighted.

But I do see your point. Yes, in order for EXPRESSIONS of ideas to be protected, they have to be considered property. A contract a buyer signs may restrict him, but third parties haven't agreed to it. A single buyer could violate the contract and then the whole world would have access.

The only way third parties could be prevented from getting it is if the law recognized this as property being stolen.
the security bug was a lack of authentication that rendered Dropbox nearly useless for its core purpose of securely storing files, that got pushed to production and _stayed there for multiple hours_.

giving Dropbox some guff for it is completely reasonable.
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I disagree with your view of CodeIgniter. It's one of the best documented frameworks out there; it's quick to learn; and it doesn't require a lot of typing/coding. It's best suited for smaller projects, I would say, but for those projects it rocks.
iOS may be more valuable to developers today, but if marketshare keeps developing according to the current trend, there will be an inflection point.

It's widely reported that iOS users are more likely to spend money on apps than Android users. Let's assume that the percentage of users spending money on apps for iOS vs Android is something like 80% vs 40%. For a developer this means, ceteris paribus, there need to be twice as many people on Android to make the same amount of money he would make in the Appstore.

If you look at marketshare trends, Android is slowly getting to the point where you stand to make as much money developing for Android as you would developing for iOS. In fact, if trends hold, there will be more money in Android than in iOS in the long run, making it the logical step for developers to jump ship (or at least develop for both platforms).

This is why market share matters.
Not quite so hilarious for the person who (if this story is right) has been arrested for things he didn't do.
Introdution to ParaSail
Congratulations to Fabien and the Sensio team! Fabien is an amazing evangelist for the framework, and I've had the good fortune to attend Fabien's talks on multiple occasions. I've used Symfony since 2007 and it's clear the framework has staying power and significant adoption with each new year. Congrats again!
But would a test case be a good example of using the code? As in, good for the purpose of understanding the code.
Well said, if perfection is the only thing worthy of being posted nothing would be said.
* Slackware patches KDE to remove the PAM dependency.

* The Slackware devs do not much fancy the new HAL replacements.

* KDE apparently changed the compilation infrastructure such that everything comes as a lot of little packages, which makes maintenance harder for them. Without somebody to step up, Alien Bob has even implied that KDE might get dropped from the official package list.
I'd like to see it go further, and see a machine pretending to be a person tweeting, a Twitter version of the Turing test. Or you could go one better, and apply machine learning to the social media output and other electronic communications of a class of users, or a single user, and use it to create a software personality that autonomously tweets, posts to G+ and Facebook, texts, maybe even posts its own code and forks other users' code on github. Then let human users see if they can tell software-based users from humans - or from a particular person it's been programmed to emulate. Does anyone know of anyone trying something like that yet?
Is this more of an indictment of the NYT than Groupon? It seems an ill thought out advertising attempt by the Times as Groupon has penetrated local markets far better than national.
The police (here in Scotland or pretty much anywhere) can arrest someone on suspicion of something with pretty minimal evidence, you don't need a warrant but once you have arrested them you then have to either charge them or release them within a relatively short space of time (our rather draconian anti-terror laws which mean they can be held for weeks without charge wouldn't apply here).

It makes no sense for them to arrest him without evidence. The two options for who arrested him are local or national police.

If it were the local police why would local police on a sparsely populated island with little crime go and arrest someone and accuse them of being a hacker with no evidence knowing that he'd be out in a day? It makes no sense to do so and if you did do it you certainly wouldn't go public with the arrest knowing you had no evidence.

On the other hand if you're national police working in cyber crime out of London, to make the arrest you've got to convince someone to pay to fly two officers six hundred miles north and them and the suspect back. Given that UK police are being asked to make massive budget cuts and are under significant scrutiny (particularly the Met who would likely be heading this) because of the phone hacking, that trip isn't getting signed off without someone convincing a senior officer that there was something to it.

So the chances of there being no evidence is basically nil. The evidence they have may be misinformation, or they may have misinterpreted it, but they will have believed that this guy was involved.
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I agree with some of the commenters - this information is useful but only when I need it. Being bombarded with the weather every 15 minutes is pointless - I only need it when I'm about to head out for the day.

That being said, filtering all of this data via geofencing, time fencing, etc would be awesome.
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Most norwegians are not religious. The stats are skewed in direction of Christianity because everyone is a member of the government church per default. That doesnt mean they go to church, nor does it mean they are religious at all. Christianity has had a great cultural impact, true, but I woudn't say that it is part of a "norwegian identity" today, at least not a very prominent one.

How moslems, which several of the victims were, could be stigmatized much by this is beyond me. I would rather say that FrP and the extreme right will take a blow...
I wrote a simple desktop client in C# .net that minimizes to tray and can be controlled with global shortcuts and haven't used ANY other audioplayer since.

Edit: its available here: http://www.missingstatement.com/groovesharp
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A fringe, but relevant, furthering of this line of thought from another direction: http://partialobjects.com/2011/04/is-science-just-a-matter-o...

I think Daniel is angry not at science itself, but at the kind of story into which the 'clergy' is interpreting it.