skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing the point-- it is about gender. Women don't want to work with, and especially learn from, men because they are afraid that the man will not know how to speak to them as an equal. They're afraid he'll hide his discomfort behind jargon, and that he will be unable to be nice without being patronizing. Heaven forfend that this man, like many highly technical people, is socially awkward in general! In that case, he may be outright incapable of communicating with them.

They're not afraid of this by chance; this is a rational fear arising from a hundred, a thousand previous encounters with men, even trained teachers, who were abjectly unable to interact with women in a way that left them feeling comfortable. This is of course not to say that such men do not exist, as they surely do. But after a decade or two of experience, why roll the dice?
I think they may just be a lot better at framing the options for the people they manipulate in favor of their desired outcome. Mostly out of necessity, because people really don't often like helping or working for jerks. The most successful bad boys include a factor through which it is also beneficial to the people they are playing or even better - a factor through which they think they are the ones pulling ahead aggressively.
A slightly related previous discussion [1] on the aspect of blindly submitting stories.

Even not doing it blindly (say, you save up links that are good and post them all at peak times for better results) is not in good form either if it is more than say 5 at a time.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2386443
Why Apple won't make iPhones in the US
Proposal: Smith's Law

Every discussion of internet regulations eventually references child pornography.
This is an interesting idea, but for it to work, I'd add one more stipulation:

3. Have politicians sign an agreement that accepting money from We The Lobby's pool means you cannot accept money from other donors.

This would ensure that special interests had no more power than the majority of a democracy's population - as they do now.

But I seriously doubt any politician would agree with this.
Details from his blog: http://www.alessioatzeni.com/blog/mac-os-x-lion-with-css3/
Honestly, I really do not understand why women being programmers is such a hyped concept. I have seen many women as doctors, lawyers and in science. Women might be more interested in other professions, which I think is the only reason that keeps women from working as programmers or engineers.

Definitely, the problem, if it is a problem, is due to choice women make, not due to their abilities.
This is pretty great. Its first-order effects would be good enough: a successful class that turns people from mere users into content creators. Great!

But the second-order effects may be more important. Nearly anyone, when first introduced to computers, is "just" a user---they use the computer in the ways that are taught to them. Those of us that progress into general programmers generally had some transition phase where we were sort of "just users", typing something in or following instructions, but those things we typed in were our gateway to the next level. For me, it was typing in BASIC listings from magazines in the mid-80s on the family Apple IIe, and then figuring out that I could tweak them and make the programs do new things that weren't in the original article. For some of my students these days, it was typing in WoW macros and then learning to tweak their own.

A couple years ago, I had a student whose original entree into programming came via a web design class mostly involving HTML and largely done using a front-end app (Dreamweaver maybe?). But it was a start, and it inspired her to learn more about HTML and then eventually to take AP CS and major in it in college. I think her sex and her gender are only statistically relevant here---there most certainly are girls that play video games and will want to write macros, and there are boys that can will be well-served by an HTML-first curriculum. But she suspected, and I agree, that teaching people structured content creation will have long-term effects of increasing the ratio of females in all areas of CS.

But whether that speculation is accurate or not, let's not be dissing this person's experience because it's not programming-y enough. We don't need to be gatekeeping the secrets of the High Priesthood here; everyone needs to start somewhere. And whether Ms. Mlotek eventually goes on into "true" programming or not, she's more computer-empowered than before, so we should be happy for her, and if not her then others who go through this program, both male and female, will find their way into programming and other CS disciplines. And that is something we should all be happy about.

(PS: For those of you complaining that the post was more about feminism than programming, she warned you right there in the subhed: "Is Ladies Learning Code awesome and feminist, or just awesome?". What did you think it would be about?)
Let's find out indeed!

Make a pledge guys!

Sorry for the overt plug. Figured I should do it at least once though :)
Works fine here. Try it directly from YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b...
Text of the post, for those who do not want to access facebook.com.

«Group participation: what's wrong with this picture?

I ordered some video-editing software from Hitfilm in the UK which also comes with some instructional videos. So a few days later I get a call from FedEx saying that the DVDs were being held at U.S. Customs until I filled out a Video Declaration Form, which she said was now standard practice. Now, I'd never heard of this before, so I called... back to ensure that this was indeed FedEx and not someone phishing for information. Had them email me the form.

This is what the form said: "I/we declare the the films/videos contain no obscene or immoral matter, nor any matter advocating or urging treason or insurrection against the United States, nor any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon any person in the United States."

Now, the first clause I can kinda see, though "immoral" is weird and there's no standard definition of obscenity in the US, but let that go...what made my eyebrows go up my forehead and down the other side was clause two. So I called back the nice lady at FedEx -- who was only following instructions given to her by Customs -- and asked what this was all about.

Apparently -- and this is only her understanding of the situation -- this is a new thing being done by Customs and Homeland Security with FedEx, UPS, and other carriers to make sure that films and videos with ideas or stories that were at odds with the United States Government didn't get into the country, as it was a form of terrorism (as further elaborated upon in the third and final clause.) She added that some DVDs showing Occupy events in London and elsewhere had gotten bounced because of the concern that these were being used to coordinate activities here (as if with the internet people actually need physical DVDs for that sort of thing but that's neither here nor there).

Under this new stipulation, if V for Vendetta had, for instance, been produced in the UK (instead of just filmed there), importing it into the US would be considered subject matter "advocating or urging treason or insurrection." And if you lied about it on the form, you could be held liable for this.

So there are now very literally guardians at the gate ensuring that the wrong sorts of ideas, movies or DVDs are not allowed into the country without investigation and/or prosecution. And most pernicious of all, they don't actually define what they mean by advocating treason or insurrection, any more than they define what "immoral" means, it's whatever they decide it means, so you could be breaking the law without knowing you're doing it, until they decide you're doing it.

Thoughts?»
> I'm convinced the professors have come to the wrong conclusion.

That's usually the part where you begin citing evidence that has convinced you. Unfortunately, it's where this article ends. I'm convinced this article is wrong.

See how that works? If you don't put any effort into backing up your statements, they can just as easily be rejected.
"Whoever devised the malware—a sophisticated program capable of dodging antivirus software—clearly had a leg up on university cops."

You don't say.
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Who are you selling yourself to?
Definitely. Once we do some serious accounting we'll know best how to divy up the data information architecture-wise.
Public speaking for normal people
Bay Area hackers, does anyone live a bit further out from the high cost areas?
At this point I'm pretty strongly looking to move back to northern California. I'm originally from an area just north of what I guess I would call the "high cost zone", where housing prices are a lot more reasonable. I'd like to figure a way to make it work so I can move to northern California but not double my housing costs. I'm wondering if anyone else there has made this work, I'm thinking partial remote work could help with this or living near enough to a Bart station to where I can commute there to get into SF easily, mainly what I want to avoid is long times spent in a car as I can at least use my time well if I'm on BART. Thanks for any advice
This sounds like a really bad idea, because the forensic tools mentioned in the article almost certainly examine the raw device.
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I think you (any many other commentors) have touched on part of a problem. It's not the lack of creativity per se, and not entirely related to the whole oh X is just Y with one new gimmick/game mechanic and different graphics.

Rather, Zynga's game development is heavily metrics driven. They can tune their games to max out metrics, and make them stupidly addicting, and 'fun' and get their customers. But in general, you really cannot create 'new' or 'innovative', or at least in the way people like those words to mean by following the metrics. You can just create more and more polished and targeted variants of existing games.
NoDaddy In Review (& How I Trolled Back)
First gay president ever for second round in Finnish Presidential Elections
While it's fun to point out downtime of hosted services, you have to balance it against downtime you'd have had if you hosted the service yourself. I've found non-critical services I administer and host myself always suffer worse downtime than those I outsource to a service.
This article seems a bit sensationalised. It kind of reminds me of the late 90s early 2000s where NetBus and BackOriface were popular.
We the People, Not We the Corporations
While I understand and see your first point, I strongly disagree with your assessment of the album. It was one of their best, IMO, and critics and fans seemed to have loved it. Go figure.

I wasn't the biggest fan of "The King of Limbs," however.
Wow, an 8 hour $40 course with a 4:1 student to instructor ratio. With even just a little bit of demand no wonder it sells out so quickly.
There's an excellent interview with John Perry Barlow on This Week in Tech from a few years ago where he discusses this:

> They're working in this way that just vastly consumes resources but doesn't actually get much done. I guess I could've seen that coming, if you say the existing institutions of the industrial period are going to collapse, well it's not like they collapse one afternoon and the next day you've got the new Jerusalem in place. It takes a while for them to collapse. Right now you've got this ugly situation in which they're all still occupying the receptor sites of power but not in a position to exercise it in any useful or judicious fashion. And we on the other hand, who saw this coming, have not been able to take the self-organizing systems that we can probably start developing and turn it in to much of anything.

http://twit.tv/specials43

Start at around 17:00.

For those who don't know, John Perry Barlow is one of the founders of the EFF. The interview is a few years old but still incredibly relevant and worth watching.
We The Lobby feel that characterizing Lobbyists as pigs, or Lobbying as essentially evil, is foolish at best.

At this point, it simply is what it is.

It's not what lobbyists do that make you call them pigs - it's the fact that they are eating from the troughs of corporations.

Let's we the people feed them individually so they'll fight for us instead. Maybe then, one day, we can do something about the troughs.
There's been an issue for dropdowns since may [0], but there hasn't been much activity in the repo. I guess you could fork it and add it in yourself, or use it in combination with the fb-bootstrap posted. I would fork it and add it myself, but I'm not good enough at web design to do so.

[0] - https://github.com/necolas/css3-facebook-buttons/issues/1
Actually, the same thing.

All society is turning to "organized corporations" controlled by the state.

That's why in my comment above, I did not only talk about corporations as such ("Microsoft", "Google", "Apple", "GE", etc), but also about lobbies in general.

All those (actual companies, and aggregate lobbying entities like the health lobby, the christian lobby, the gay lobby, the gun lobby, the press lobby) etc are the equivalent of fascism corporations.

A nice discourse of this can be found in this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Unconscious-Civilization-John-Ralston-...
Redditers Call for Google Bombing Lamar Smith
> Ideally there would be some magical way to have all these posts direct to a canonical discussion, but in practice it seems this requires human intervention.

Some, but just to flag the duplication; how to process the dup is a matter of policy and could be largely automated once the humans had annotated it. Some ideas in that vein: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975950
We don't have that in Arizona. They can work the guys 40 hours in two days and not have to pay overtime (they've come rather close to doing this). Also, only working hours count towards the 40: vacation does not. Work through Thanksgiving? Well, that just sucks. Like you say, CA is a lot more employee friendly.

That said, you're right that they avoid OT like the plague. That's what made me speculate that they were already running at maximum capacity and had to do something to boost that for a while. But yeah, it does happen. I've been there to support an 18 hour shift. Not fun.
Mentor Yourself With Jeanne-Marie Robillard, National Speakers Bureau Part II
Thanks for the warning, and yes, we are in talks with several tax lawyers about how best to handle this.
There's nothing debatable about gender discrimination existing in the industry. It's not your opinion. It exists.

Age discrimination exists as well, but that's not what this article is about, and you shouldn't try to grab focus with it.
Well said. It's a pedagogical problem; and it's about gender.
At least the Japanese are honest about the fact that they don't want programmers older than 30 years of age.

When I lived in Japan it seemed like nobody even got a job until they were 30...
In retrospect, I have come to partially disagree with my own assessment. I did not account for the fact that Radiohead also released an $81 box set with the digital download, and that 100,000 loyalists bought the set -- earning the band a cool $8.1 million in addition to the revenues they earned from the digital download (believed to be in the ballpark of $3 million). When you factor this in, the band did very well for themselves. Not quite as well as they usually do on big-label albums (even after middle-men's takes). But for an experiment, I would call it a success.

What's fascinating about "In Rainbows" is that roughly 8% of the users accounted for approximately 80% of revenues from the site. That speaks volumes, and it dovetails really well with recent blog posts (linked here and elsewhere) about the new metrics of success in digital distribution: i.e., monetizing loyalists. A small core of loyalists who are willing to follow you to the ends of the earth are worth more than fairweather fans.

I'm actually contemplating doing a more in-depth analysis on this, Louis C.K., Reznor, and others in this space. While I believe the jury is still out, and I believe that most people will pay nothing if offered the opportunity, there are clearly those who will pony up -- and even those who will pony up big. Piracy -- or free acquisition, in this case -- doesn't seem to matter too much if the loyalists are there, and you can differentiate the product for them. (In this case, the notion of a "fair price" actually seems to be relative).

It's interesting how Radiohead seemed to succeed by recognizing this fact, whereas Reznor's experiment failed to account for it. And Louis C.K. avoided the free option altogether, which is another way to go.
Same problem here. It showed up again after Command + Tabbing out of Chrome and switching back in. It's humorous that the custom cursor fails in the one case where it's identical to my default cursor.
From "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72", p. 247:

The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumor campaign about his opponent's life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his own barnyard sows.
“Christ, we can't get away with calling him a pig-fucker,” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody's going to believe a thing like that.” “I know,” Johnson replied. “But let's make the sonofabitch deny it.”
I have seen far too many people leave the restroom without washing their hands, and when not sharing food, I prefer utensils because it's easier to stay clean.
If you are using integers as, well, integers then there is relatively little benefit other than compatibility with data structures from other languages (e.g. wire protocols). However, unsigned integers are also the building blocks of large bit string structures i.e. bit structures that are not interpreted as integers per se. For these it is a bigger problem. It is not the range issue so much as you have a bit that behaves differently than the others e.g. for operations like comparisons.

For kernels that do a lot of manipulation on largish bit strings there are two ways you can deal with it: use some additional conditional logic that treats the sign bit as special or design your code so that it can accept "gaps" in the bit string.

The reason you might want to do direct unsigned 64-bit bit-twiddling on packed bit string structures is blinding speed. It fully utilizes your CPU's ALUs. The equivalent code when limited to signed integers injects branches, extra operations, and/or requires working in 32-bit chunks, all of which slow down the code significantly and makes it uglier to boot.

For most apps it doesn't matter. For some algorithms that work on large bit strings it makes implementation in Java more painful than it needs to be.
> Actually, the same thing.

No. Look up the definitions.

> All society is turning to "organized corporations" controlled by the state.

Again, only in your mind. There is no evidence of this outside your head.
Whenever I read about Darwin I'm impressed by his commitment to a pretty disruptive idea in the face of substantial criticism. Also interesting that he (over)worked himself to the detriment of his health and relationships but left behind a pretty amazing legacy.

Not surprised pg is interested in him as a subject!
Agreed. Stick with HTML5, people. It's almost always never just "HTML5" so we know what to expect. Labeling this as CSS3 is much more misleading.
I find it amusing about how this comment thread turned all about technical solutions (from hidden partitions, to encryption, to steganography, to dual booting, etc).

Now, I understand that as "hackers" we are likely to go on about technical measures to avert this kind of search. But, that's not the point. The point is they should not violate your privacy in the first place. And that is a political problem.

It would be nice if most of the comments were about how to avert ACTA in the first place. You, know, like SOPA, but even better.
> In Fascism the Government is owned by (some of) the corporations.

No, in Fascism the government owns the corporations and uses them to control society.
Look at the three games you listed. Pac-Man, Super Mario, Goonies (a game about young men).
The linked study is a lot more interesting than this article:

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/halevy_nice_2011.h...

Some choice excerpts:

"Our findings show that people want respectable and admired group members to lead them at times of peace, but when 'the going gets tough' they want a dominant, power-seeking individual to lead the group,"

"...sharing one's resources with both in-group members and outsiders had the most dire net outcomes on a person's status. The researchers discovered that universal generosity decreased perceptions of both prestige and dominance compared with those who shared resources only with members of their group."
Hence the line about people being pushed to the outskirts.

Now hunter-gathering is a subsistence lifestyle. Back before agriculture it was a very different story, since there would have been hunting in the most productive lands, too. Fossil records back this up - early hunter gatherers were much larger and taller than later farmers.
You're missing the point of the article. It's not about getting you introduced to the class; it's about discussing why this class is dedicated to women but not identifying as "feminist".
There's also the infamous "Virgin Killer" album. There was a big edit war on Wikipedia over it that made the news.
I eat Indian food with my hands - but usually with the help of flatbread. One gets strange looks.
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Musicians talk about freeing yourself from your instrument, after which your instrument allows you to express yourself, rather than being a thing that you consciously manipulate.

That's what you get from Vim (or Emacs), and it probably takes about as much time and work.
> I find it amusing about how this comment thread turned all about technical solutions

And people using 'fascism' as a general-purpose pejorative with no understanding of the history of the world.

http://www.anesi.com/Fascism-TheUltimateDefinition.htm
Anonymous shuts down Polish PM's web site / against ACTA
He said "Chrome or Safari" and Youtube prefers to serve WebM over H.264 where possible so it's likely WebM if it's Chrome.

It's even possible that you'll see WebM in Safari if you've got Perian installed, but I don't actually know that for a fact.
Perhaps an example of such tweaking is the "discovery" of black holes reported to the public, when the definition of a black hole precludes definitively observing them. What actually happens is that astronomers plug values for observations above a suspected black hole (e.g. the orbital speed of stars) into Einstein's theory of gravity, and let the theory tell them whether they "discovered" a black hole. Then they let the media report the black hole as a confirmation of Einstein's theory.
Really? He is saying that Venture Capitalism will eventually reward the nice guys becuase of a somewhat similar analogy in school (the dating analogy)? He should have started the article with "I hope.." or "I feel".
> and this is only her understanding of the situation

And this should be right at the top of the post.
I don't know about you, but I think 4 months is just way too long to expect someone to stick with it. I'm not going to invest months of time into a tool with no measurable benefit.
Agreed, I saw the windows bashing and became kind of wary of the whole article, as soon as I saw the vim / emacs debate brought up I just closed the tab.
What are: Pros and Cons of HTML5?
Defining them as "intentional bugs" doesn't seem particularly accurate or useful.

Some of them may class as "design" rather than "coding" bugs but they still aren't usually what the programmer intended, and I would say that the majority of production defects that I see in our systems these days would fall into this category.