skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never seen a discussion on Hacker News where the substantive point was "ZOMG girls can program" or "we feel out of place because there are so many men around". The discussions tend to be around experiences in the workplace that men don't have and that (some) women do; different treatment during pay negotiations, sexualized presentations at conferences, co-worker passivity about sexual harassment. Please don't argue against the straw-man that women can "blend in" (I'm not going to analyse the language there, but the whole tone of the article was a bit of a red flag) as long as they don't encounter any of this problematic behaviour, because no-one disputes that.

Equally it's probably not very helpful if the distillation of your point is "women ('girls'): have you even tried talking to your peers?". Of course they have, it's the most obvious thing to try. To re-iterate, the problem is not that geeky men and women have strong social cues not to interact at all (like some sort of really weird Victorian tea-party), it's that there is a minority of men are actively and aggressively misogynist and the majority of men who aren't refuse to call them on it. Unfortunately there isn't much that women can directly do to change this (hence the perpetuating problem), they can only highlight this behaviour and expect to be treated with professionalism and decency.
This may be more true in tech circles, especially because everyone wants to compare themselves to big hits (Dropbox, Facebook, Google). It's less common in other sectors.

And if you are going to try it, test it first. Use your little catchphrase and then ask your friend what they think that means you do - 'Dropbox for Hackers' doesn't necessarily mean "code sharing that just works" - it could be interpreted as "making your private code accessible by our internal team" or "yay - unexplained conflict errors all over the place".
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He seems to have loads of videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/LilGiantsConstrCo
The service currently services RubyGems customers from the root domain. We figured Hacker News is a wider audience than just Ruby and would be of great help to decide which direction we should go next.
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While I agree that keeping track of what's been complete is important, it feels like a bandaid solution to a much bigger problem. While I dislike the waterfall method, it does give you the sense of moving towards a final goal. One of the problems of not setting larger/aggregate goals/milestones is the potential to be lost in the details, and to lose momentum and motivation. Many projects die an early death or go completely off the rails due to a lack of solid goals. Some people end up quitting jobs when they feel their company lacks direction.
If I understand you correctly, Ctrl+Left/Right normally does that in Windows and Linux. Alt+Left/Right for the same thing on OS X.
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Mounting a disk image is a step before trying to run the program. The dialog shown is what you would see when you first download the app in a .dmg file. Then you mount the disk image, and either run the app from the disk image by double-clicking on it, or copy the application to your computer.
FWIW, lorettahe, this is exactly the kind of ad-hominem idiocy/misogyny that women encounter[0] and men never do[1]. There's no one big issue keeping women out of programming, it's just the drip-drip-drip of "you're different from us and we don't want you here" that 50% (then 65%, then 80%, then 95%...) of the candidate pool simply never hear or see unless they make an effort to.

[0] This moron got downvoted because downvoting is not socially awkward; how many times do you see a social smack-on-the-wrist in a face-to-face conversation?

[1] I'll donate £5 to a charity of your choice for every time someone comes up with an attributed accusation of using "man logic" in a discussion related to programming.
Where are you getting these numbers from?
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How can public funding 'crowd out' other funding? There are more 'fund takers' than there is funding available, so if there were private funding available, it would be put to use. I don't understand your reasoning.
Here's an idea that just occurred to me:

Todo -> Future

Done -> Past

Present?

Perhaps a Doing list of length 1? Distractions are often the cause of procrastination, and of lack of motivation. The Doing list is perhaps the one we should be referring to most!

(I'm very much into the philosophy-meta-self-help stuff so please excuse me if this is way out there.)
I'd have preferred it if the trucks/tractors were fully autonomous, now that would have been awesome :)
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Combination of financial and social prevention, automated surveillance and market segmentation will (relatively easily) take care of this. I don't see how it could be a showstopper.
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This is a port of ScalaPrimavera for Kotlin. Same team, Same goals.
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Hmm, with a miniature cement sprayer, he might be able to install the foundation at the same time.
WinRT for coding for Windows 8? Is .NET really such rubbish?
This story, along with much of the content produced by Forbes are in violation of Hacker News Guidelines [1].

While these are simply guiding principles, they are an important measure of what is permitted within the community.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter."
It appears his acquittal was based on a technicality (language within the Economic Espionage Act) and he has pretty much admitted that he did something wrong (uploaded it to a server in Germany to bypass Goldman's security):

At trial, Mr. Marino, the lawyer for Mr. Aleynikov,
acknowledge that his client breached Goldman’s
confidentiality agreements, but insisted that he did not
commit a crime.

So, it would seem that Goldman should rightly be rather upset about this, as much as I dislike Goldman, they seem to be in the right here?
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I don't understand how you could say the industry hasn't changed. Services like Netflix and Hulu have sprung up from people wanting internet based video services that they were otherwise getting from pirating. Spotify came about from people wanting instant access to a music library without dropping a dime. Companies like Amazon offering free online storage that will also play your music (With content you purchase from them not adding to your limit) is only offered because it makes buying your music more convenient than pirating it.
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Wow, nice to see a Bootstrap site which doesn't look like every single other Bootstrap site! Good work!

Though, what's the difference between this and rubygems.org? Is it just like a private version, so you can create proprietary gems and be able to pull them down from anywhere (production, other team members, etc.)?
Whats the algorithm here? This is pretty neat--the future of diagnosis.

design needs some work
Having once worked in a female-dominated department of a large company and currently spending 9-5 as a stay-at-home dad, I can say it's not ideal to be surrounded almost completely by the opposite sex. Sure, we're adults and we can make it work, but it would be a relief if there were more men around at Li'l Tots French class on Wednesday morning, for example. And it would be more fun parenting during the day and I would advocate it more to other men if more men were already around during the day.

If women programmers are surrounded by men all day because 95+ percent of programmers are men, it makes sense that it's not an ideal work environment (not that it's unworkable, just not ideal). Until women reach a certain representation in the field (maybe 20-30 percent?), why not cluster together and make a point of working together? To say, "Being one in a hundred is just fine" seems to leave the problem unsolved.
I cringe too, but the reason it's used is because it works - great way to explain something new based on something you already know in a few words.
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There does appear to be something new I learn every day. " it's that there is a minority of men are actively and aggressively misogynist and the majority of men who aren't refuse to call them on it" I really have seen none around, to be honest. As other guys on this post have been saying, they really would rather women bothering to talk to them. Speaking from a personal experience, I have not found any misogynists in the IT industry, but I have however worked with females who simply do not utter a word in the office, and these females have generated comments from my males colleagues to me, including 'She just does not like us'. I'm not trying to make a generalisation here. But I do think, in the IT industry, just like any other industries (such as teaching or even the finance industry), men and women can get along, because at the basics, developer roles and what they do aren't really that different to the other jobs.
My laptop which could be a bit faster, the cold cache issue is the major issue though. Distributing a file this big in a scalable way without blocking requires a lot of servers.
Its endemic in big companies I know one big tech employer which has major problems compounded by older males at the top of the scale who joined when there where regular increments and women where forced to resign when they got married.
We do indeed have these issues in the UK; men were paid more than women in almost every sector, and around 20% more in technology in 2011. [0]

[0] http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/08/internat...
It also appears that the current version of the Pandaboard uses the TI 4460, not the 4660 which was benchmarked.
http://pandaboard.org/content/pandaboard-es
Or run by mechanical turk HITs...
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The actual fete within Paris is a very elegant event associated with music. It is a really big day as well as tourists flock to get a glimpse of the fashion and glamour associated with Paris.
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Totally off base. They mistook hipsters for geeks.
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An interesting way to raise seed funding.
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The issue in this case wasnt over whether Aleynikov did something wrong (he even admitted as much). The issue is over how he should be punished. Goldman should be upset, but that doesnt necessarily mean he deserves the degree of punishment that the Economic Espionage Act entails.
this is pretty cool. The "find a medical practice" tool is a great use of data on care quality. kudos for making this data easily accessible to the general public!
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This does look really cool, however, surly his resolution is only 1 pixel?

He is limited to hearing one note at a time, therefore he can only perceive one color at a time?

Am I missing the point?
What is with all of these "Why to do lists don't work" posts on HN? I use them and they work fine for me.
A strong reason to not do so is when you want some part of the page to be immediately enhanced with JavaScript (like a login form). If the page has many images and other resources, your users will have an awkward experience, with the scripts suddenly engaging at a time that feels arbitrary. While some scripts absolutely belong at the bottom of the page, it is a very good idea to decorate JavaScript widgets immediately after the HTML is rendered, as in:

<div id="widget1234"></div>
<script>
(function() {
var widget = new Widget({
el: document.getElementById('widget1234')
});
// ...
})();
</script>

Note that the script is also inlined here: Losing the overhead of an HTTP request is beneficial when a widget needs to spring to life immediately: You want it to be active the moment the HTML is finished.
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Could you elaborate on why you are against this? I use boy/girl interchangeably with man/woman and don't attach any meaning beyond stating gender. Do you feel strongly that it belittles adults to refer to them as boys or girls?
"Perhaps I have been really fortunate, as I haven't really seen/noticed women not getting promoted/paid less just because they are women."

Well, you can't see it. The only people who know someones salary (generally speaking) are the bosses doing the paying, and the employee herself. You must be another employee, because otherwise you'd know for certain.

It seems obvious to say it, but these problems persist because they're largely hidden from view, unless you are the target.

The sad thing is, I can't really do anything about it. I don't know the salaries of any of the women at my work, and even if I did I can't request more money on their behalf, only stand behind them if they are the instigator and they're unfairly refused.

Instead, I decided to just drop my salary amount into conversations sometimes (it's probably middle of the road for developers at my company), so anyone can compare and make their own evaluations based on that. I don't know if thats good idea or not at the moment.
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What's un-intuitive about it? On touchscreen—you move your finger up, content moves up. On Lion—you move your finger up, content moves up. Took me 40 minutes to get used.
I see what you're saying - in fact, I just switched my usual hardware store from a big Home Depot to a local Home Hardware (a somewhat smaller, Canadian chain), partly because of that personal relationship you're alluding to.

I think, though, that the relationship to Target isn't like that, because while they know an awful lot about you personally, you don't know them personally at all - they're just a corporate face, not a familiar one behind the counter.

In fact, you've just helped me figure out a bit more specifically what I found vaguely unsettling about it.
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"Your RubyGems are protected during deployment by a secret token that's part of your Gemfury Source URL"
Are URLs secrets now?
The United States is the most charitable. Charity -- giving to the poor gets you blessings.

Democrats forget that people of faith give to charity. I've never heard a democrat acknowlegew the existence of charitable giving. They pretend it doesn't exist.

By the measure you measure-out, it will be measured to you. If you are stingy, expect a stingy return.

One passage says a poor man will step on another poor man if he is down but a rich will help a rich man if he is down.

You would not cannonize an ugly man for not committing adultery. It's a safe bet the poor would be scumbags if they had money, worse than the rich.

God says...

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e valour; and believe
me, Senor Don Diego, in attempting adventures it is better to lose by a
card too many than by a card too few; for to hear it said, 'such a knight
is rash and daring,' sounds better than 'such a knight is timid and
cowardly.'"

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and done is proved correct by the test of reason itself; and I believe,
if the laws and ordinances of knight-errantry should be lost, they might
be found in your worship's breast
I used to work at Goldman's and I can tell you that they will be absolutely furious about this. I have never worked at a company so paranoid about having work stolen. Once - a friend of mine sent me an email with a tag-line with a bit of code in it. When I replied the email filters picked it up and I had to explain to my boss why I was trying to "export" Goldman's code. They are nuts about it.

Goldman put a lot of time and energy into making an example out of this guy. He blatantly "did it" - they had recorded phone conversations of him talking to his new boss and uploading code immediately after. I know the details because we received almost weekly reports on the case via the corporate intranet (in the "news" section). Goldman wants their people scared so nobody else tries this.

I always found it a bit odd because the court sentenced this guy to 8 years. Ummm... ok. But why is Fabrice Tourre still walking around? Justice indeed.
I'm really glad you haven't had those experiences (and I'm glad you wrote a post about that, even though I didn't agree with your points). I do think it's something that's getting less acceptable over time, certainly I've seen it decrease over my decade or so at work, so I have high hopes that it's on the way out. I'm really glad you haven't had those experiences (and I'm glad you wrote a post about that, even though I didn't agree with your points). I do think it's something that's getting less acceptable over time, certainly I've seen it decrease over my decade or so at work, so I have high hopes that it's on the way out.

Here's an example of what I mean by misogyny: a previous manager at a company printed out an A3 picture of a woman in hotpants and a bra with the caption "Please update your Jira tickets before you go home". When I came in the next day to replace it with a picture of 4 (clothed but sexualized-I think it was a picture of a male stripper troupe) men, I received a disciplinary action from the company. The same manager, when he introduced me to the team, introduced the male programmers as "he works on ToolName" and the female programmers as "she makes things look pretty".

This is reasonable subtle stuff, but I am surprised (though happy) if you've genuinely never encountered it rather than cultivating obliviousness or growing a thick skin.
Experiences differ. The same solution won't work for everyone.
thats insane, are you doing this while in med school?
Thanks. We're adding more medical practices this weekend.
See, for example, the serotonin hypothesis, and the fact that good quality evidence shows that for mild to moderate depression CBT is more effective than SSRIs.

I was careful to put a bunch of qualifiers in my post, but i'm keen to make sure people realise that mental health problems can be very serious even if they're not "physical".

This is important because people with chronic fatigue are often sent to see CBT practitioners. Lots of those people feel that they're being trivialised or fobbed off; they say things like "I have a real illness".

It's a shame, because CBT is used to reduce pain in cancer patients, and there's reasonable evidence that it's useful in CFS/ME type illnesses.
God, yes please. Talking about "men and girls" as the article did sets my teeth on edge.
This is awesome! Looks like phone triage might be enjoying its last days. What inspired you to start this project?
good work folks. keep it up
We've taken a leave and are part of the health tech accelerator Blueprint Health in NYC.
Your ears decode multiple frequency's at the same time so nothing limits things to a single color at a time.

But, this is for someone who literally could not perceive color at all but can still see. If he waves it around he can probably quickly tell that the wall is blue or white and then focus on extracting details from things he finds interesting.
I wonder if Teza even used the code Aleynikov took with him. If they didn't, would he even face civil penalties?
I studied mathematics at Cambridge University. While there were some very good female students on the course, it's worth recording that the better colleges had smaller proportions of women; New Hall (all-female) had possibly the worst academic reputation, while Trinity (probably best academically) had two girls among my year of 42.
> does not let me to install any software except one
> approved by the OS maker

Default is to allow signed apps. No approval is involved there.
Ask HN: Why does Code Canyon's signup process suck?
At codecanyon.net, they ought to rethink their retarded sign up process. Enter username. Enter password. Enter password again. Enter email. Enter email again. Enter name. Enter captcha. Check email for verification email.

Seriously? Is it really necessary to captcha the process AND force us to type in our email twice AND deal with a verification email?

Is the front-end community really that inept that they need all of those verification and confirmations?
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Well I can't see how any "resonable" operson would not say that a trading platform used in an international and across state boundarys is not a “product produced for interstate commerce”

This is one of those bonkers decisions by judges a bit like the famous Prince Philip Prestel Hack back in the 70's

Basicaly the judgement was that an electronic key is compeltly diferent to a physical one - WTF!

I used to work for the guy who had been in charge of that system
Push vs Pull mentality.
"Stop Paying Your jQuery Tax", that's an attention grabbing title with an attack on a free open-source project. It took you at least 20m to write that post, probably over an hour. You can't just say "oops".
I think what he means is that if you take the entire article as a bag-of-words model, the general topic of the article will be a stronger signal than the position the article takes with respect to the subject.

The latter is a lot harder to extract from a bag-of-words. In fact the only thing I can imagine is if an article uses a lot of euphemisms or negative synonyms of a topic.

So you get the factual reporting articles regardless of left/right bias. With the more polemic hyperbole using articles, it will filter a bit more of the angle you disagree with, which adds some bias, but it also good for your blood pressure and a polemic article you disagree with is not going to make your view more balanced either.
> By filtering out stuff, you'll never expose yourself to things outside your "pattern".

What makes you think that a Naive Bayes classifier will automatically put all unseen/unexpected/surprising data in just one of two categories?

Indeed, to the classifier it's just two categories, it doesn't "know" what's "in" or "out".

In fact it is much more likely that the classifier will sort of distribute the data that is unexpected (read: doesn't contain many features that are trained on) rather evenly among the two categories based on other features. Which is exactly what you would want it to do.

The author also said he plotted the precision-recall curves? (too bad he just showed a screenshot with the numbers instead of the graphs) That sort of analysis is bound to bring out such behaviour.
Even if he violated confidentiality agreements, wouldn't that be a civil violation instead of a criminal one? Why is the federal government prosecuting what should be a civil case?