skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or it could be a real thing, that is common but not absolutely pervasive. I never SEE all sorts of problems that I care about (murders, rapes, etc) but I don't assume all reports are bogus.

Nothing in the post above sounds unbelievable to me.
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I think he was getting at the idea that in general each page has some specific-to-the-page JavaScript work to do as soon as it's ready. The delay punts initialization of the less-important plugins, allowing time for the important stuff in a page-generic way. Your point that the delay is a messy way of accomplishing this is certainly valid.
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What utter tosh. Those 'data' prove nothing of the sort.
Better Calendar integration with Gmail than Google can pull off? Interesting. Will definitely give this a try.
I like it. It reminds me of launchrock but targeted precisely at iOS apps.
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Well, the XML is just the template AXR uses to generate it's object model. Everything that happens after there is not upto XML anymore. It is all about HSS goodness.
I wasn't saying a $3.99 MW3 on the Wii, I'm saying that price point for that game regardless of platform. The idea that console makers will quake with fear because people purchase crappy games on their phones for a few bucks will translate to poor sales for consoles and console games is an amusing notion to me.

But I have to say I agree with every statement you made about Nintendo. Everything you said is true. Therefore Nintendo did exactly what they set out to do, to make a profitable and successful console. This makes Nintendo a failure how?

Most of the people I see who complain about the lack of software on the Wii are most likely not Nintendo's market. I have a Wii and my two daughters will happily play it whenever we let them, which would be every day if we didn't restrict it a bit.

The problem they may have with supposed lackluster interest in their console is when they release the WiiU. The question is whether people who are unhappy with their Wii will update to the WiiU. I can't say for sure whether I will or not. But people said the same thing with the GameCube to the introduction of the Wii.

Not directed totally at you, but in my experience most naysayers have no idea what they are talking about.
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the title was interesting... they story was confusing.
Not sure if it applies to other countries outside America. I don't have a cite offhand unfortunately, you'd have to read some books about the history of education in America.
I actually like seeing this development in tech because it shows we're not completely isolated from the broader social shift happening on the internet, as its culture starts to catch up with its user demographics, and the internet's brilliant information spreading capacity is being put to use by people who want to evangelize a more just and fair society.

If you're managing tech and wondering what the implication of this kind of public discussion is for you: get out ahead of it. The internet is making a CS major more and more valuable as an asset, but it's also starting to squeeze people who didn't major in CS to pick up coding...and half the users on the internet now are women, so five or ten years from now when you need to pad out a project team with frontend coders, you'd better know how to hire and manage any kind of person. Brogrammer is a marketing term for recruiters, it's used as a shortcut but it's nothing but a dead end. Hiring and building a team in an environment that will be toxic to anyone else will kill you three years down the line just as surely as hiring some kid straight out of college to do all your production releng will.
Yeah, I did create this account because this is an issue very dear to my heart.

I blogged about some of this when it happened about a year ago on livejournal, and that post made it to the front page of hn back then. I've experienced a lot of bullshit from brogrammer types. Of course, sometimes there's no bullshit. Some of my fellow CS grad students are awesome to work with. I'm dating one, and he's a champ. Others have 'calendar girls' up at their offices, or make lame jokes like "Do you taste pineapple? That's funny, cause I've been eating it all week." (Which is an oral sex joke, kids). When people gossiped that I'd been sleeping with the Algorithms prof (who was like 65) because I got into the class without taking the prerequisites, other guys came to my defense. There's good and there's bad, and it's certainly not all bad. But some people are really, really awful, even in the real world.

Edit: And to be fair, I go out to the bar on Fridays with my coworkers (fellow grad students), which is where some of these things happen. At my undergrad institution, some of this happened while bowling on our weekly bowling night. Most of this stuff didn't happen at work - it happens at events that are guy programmers and me. If I had kept in social circles outside of my field and only interacted with these people in a professional setting, and never ever networked, I would have been fine.
Glad to see that you have a great set of people endorsing you guys. I can't imagine people better than Andrew Carengie, Amelia Earhart, and Noah.
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This feels a little redundant now that we have SPDY getting implemented in more and more places, particularly as the browsers that do best support WebSockets also support SPDY.
Thanks, it is interesting to hear from personal experience what it is like.
Router firmware and software is still software no?
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Any armchair CEOs have suggestions for other Google products that should be sold or spun out?

Wikipedia has an interesting list of discontinued Google products. There might be some interesting product ideas that didn't work at Google scale, but might still be worthwhile for a smaller company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...
I've owned nearly every Nintendo console and my memory seems to be that this has been true the entire time. The highly successful games for Nintendo consoles have been Nintendo games, despite a few exceptions here and there. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that most people purchase Nintendo consoles for the purpose of playing Nintendo games. I personally see nothing wrong with that as long as the buyer's are happy with it.
I don't know of the specifics, bit I would have also assumed that since abortion is a slightly controversial issue now, that Apple blocked it. They don't want porn on app store, so I assumed that they blocked abortion providers aswell.

The other reason I find this "siri sexism" theory hard to believe is how the OP phrased the complaint. "... the male programmers didnt think to include abortion ...". Does the OP really think that everything in Siri is hand entered? That a bunch of (men) sat around and wrote out everything that Siri could be asked? The OP knows about search engines right?!
This is a fantastic first project to get started with Python! If, in the future, you make another scraper (or anything else that requires retrieving data from the web) I'd recommend using the Requests [0] library. It's much cleaner and easier to use than urllib, and it makes it very difficult to do something wrong.

[0] : http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html
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Quantify how sex affects the brain in specific ways that effect the likelihood of developing an interesting in programming and being an effective programmer.

I'm not sure I can be quite that specific, but there are some very well-established differences in the way men and women think, and the way the respond to stress. See here:

http://bible.org/seriespage/biological-basis-gender-specific... [1]

. . . particularly sections V and VII.

I wouldn't go so far as to say we know how gender affects brain chemistry specifically as it refers to programming, only that we know it does affect how we think, process information, and handle stress. And those things seem like they would be relevant. Don't they?

That is to say, I wouldn't say I know ALL of the differences between us are innate, only that I find it plausible that a lot of them are. And that I'm hesitant to treat statistically underrepresented women as necessarily a problem.

[1] You'll have to excuse the bible.org reference; the christian academic community seems to be about the only one in which one can have a serious conversation about innate differences between the genders without getting immediately taken out and shot. You have my assurance that the discussion in the article is interesting and scientific, and comes with copious footnotes to mainstream sources.
I've been a "nice guy" my whole life, and sometimes it's socially detrimental (read: being too nice to girls that were hoping I'd be more than nice). At some level, I find the idea of brogramming attractive. Yes, I said it, and I know how awful that is. But consider that some very nerdy, possibly more insecure guys could look at this culture and decide they want to be part of it. They get to maintain their nerdiness and love of coding while making social changes that elevate them, at least in their mind.

I've never wanted to join a frat because they all seemed like idiots, but I can't say I haven't been jealous of them for the girls that seem to hang around.

All that being said, do you understand what I'm getting at? No, I don't wish for hipster sunglasses and drunken weekends. I am what I am, and typically that means I'm too shy and/or nice to girls for my own good. But at some level, the brogrammer culture looks cool to a guy like me.

I hope that makes sense and adds something to this discussion, it seems like most people are a bit older here and only approach it from that perspective.
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What isn't clear in "promoting" the Services?

Google can broadcast TV ads with your private photos if they want to.
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It's extremely likely that Google will search your personal data for ad targeting purposes. It's what their entire company exists to do.

The only way I'd believe they won't do it is if they VERY publicly state that they won't in completely unequivocal terms such that they'll be held liable if they do.
That's the premise of South Park, and why I accept it. They pick on everyone equally. That is the only "fair" way to express that sort of humor.
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"institutions will seek to preserve the problem for which they are the solution"

That said, isn't "crowdfunding" your startup the same as charging $9/month for a service they need -- except in advance, before there is a service?
Yes, and seeing the message that the password is already in a database used by cracking software should give users pause.
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I just boot from disk so I can get the upgrade done as quickly as possible. This way, my machine does everything it needs to upgrade, without anything else going on. Then when its done, I let it update in the background while I make sure everything went smoothly.

In this case, it went very smoothly for me, and was worth the hassle. I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.04, which had been rather a bit of a mess actually, in the Unity/Gnome3/fvwm shell department, as in I had them all and had to switch around to get certain things I liked. Unity crashed too often (in 11.04) for me to trust it.

That has all changed. I am now running Ubuntu studio, which features fvwm, and nothing else. Gnome only if I truly need it, and Unity .. after the dust settles.

So I'm quite comfortable in my upgrade to 12.04, and everything works like it should - full multi-channel digital audio, multi-monitor support with acceleration, and so on.
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I have just discovered www.cloudability.com - they generate reports to give you insights in to your AWS bill, and you can configure budget notifications. I am trying the beta now and am very impressed so far.
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>instead of some handwaving about people with an agenda

I'm sorry but when people are intentionally cherry picking incendiary parts of one ToS while intentionally ignoring those in another, that speaks to an agenda. The reporting has not been more clear.

>Lets take a (very unlikely) hypothetical case of you uploading a movie script to Google Drive, and as you're shopping it around to studios, Google makes a new service called Google Studios and uses the script for free. You sue them and they point to that clause.

"Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours."

This could not be clearer. The principals of intellectual property and copyright are well enshrined and are not abstract ideas. That overarching statement invalidates the ludicrous notion that Google is going to sell your script, or do anything else to monetize private content beyond the most obvious of building a profile (which is no different from Microsoft, your beloved, or Apple).
Women are said to be better at language, but that didn't keep Shakespeare and Gabriel García Márquez from being great writers.

This pseudoscience typically accompanies discussions of gender and racial superiority.
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"Sure, and see virtually every user flee the service. It wouldn't be shocking if Congress and the FTC got involved in such a situation, either - they got involved in Google's P3P non-policy, for example."

Well then they shouldn't have a problem amending the TOS, right? If they know what's okay and what's going too far, they must have some idea where the line is.

"TOSes are generally overly broad, yes. Virtually every one you've ever agreed to had language that could be interpreted in an absurdly negative manner."

Dropbox's TOS seems pretty clear on the matter.
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Hahaha, I'm glad somebody noticed! We figured none of them would complain :)
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Specific to open source on Github, but I've encountered this before:

http://calendaraboutnothing.com/
That said, the right to use your content to "promote" Google is the item that's problematic for me.

It can be legally argued that for a web based storage system with web based file management, all the other items are necessary to deliver the service.

The same cannot be argued for their right to use your content to promote Google.
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Sqoot and Geeklist may or not be sexist. If you think they are, respond accordingly by not applying for work with them, not using their products or actively campaigning against them.

But don't assume that they're not allowed to be "sexist" (in quotations because what they've done isn't really "sexist", more like immature). They can run their companies any way they choose, within the laws of the land. They are under no obligation to cater to women.
MetaLibri is another free site which uses TeX to typeset classical texts, among them The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

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> How does an HFT, in practice, add liquidity to a market?

Bid/ask spreads used to be 10 cents or more. Now they're generally a penny. That is evidence of a more liquid market.

In practice, this is because computers are now market makers instead of humans so they can do this job at a lower cost.
I was reading this article with an open mind until the SIRI issue was brought up. This is because the groups involved were not listing themselves as abortion providers, but as family planning clinics. Siri can't read minds (yet!). It makes me question the motivation behind the article.

I think everyone realizes that there are far too few women in technology. The thing is "brogrammers" are not at fault here. Girls being pushed a particular way in school is. It is a larger cultural issue.

I will be the first to say that 'brogrammers' or whatever seem a little like dumbasses, but people need to stop taking themselves so seriously and get a sense of humor, aswell.

In my experience females in tech are celebrated.

This to me isn't a gender related issue, but a small general issue being blown out of proportion.
We are not ready for these sorts of jokes yet.

Once a community overcomes its sexism and does start treating people equally then we can start joking about it. However at the moment these jokes give strength to sexists and discourage women. As such, we should not make these jokes yet.

Or to rephrase it "Too Soon"
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How much of this is a real issue versus something that is so incredibly annoying that any trace of it feels big? I haven't met a single 'brogrammer' in my professional life yet...

Let the idiots filter themselves out. Obviously they love attention or they wouldn't be doing these things. No amount of negative press on Mother Jones will fix that. The only way is to make it personal: if you encounter this behavior personally, say something.

That being said, our society as a whole is pretty sexist too. I don't agree with it, but subcultures tend to reflect at least some elements of the encompassing culture. Any male dominated field (think about truck driving or construction) will inevitably have this problem I'm sure.

Speaking of truck driving and construction, you don't hear much from those fields about needed more women in those roles. I truly wonder why that is.
Neat idea, instead of discontinuing the product. Too bad they didn't have the foresight to do this with Dodgeball.
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Since we're being 'realistic', the opportunity cost to a business for a disparity in talent in HR barely registers. Relatively minor differences in skill between programmers can mean millions of dollars to a business.
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I agree the meta conversation is of a particularly low value, and it wasn't my intention. Unfortunately, it's towards the top too!

I went back and looked for were I was slightly patronizing and the only thing I could find was this line: "So, you had two of your photos chosen for this release or no? Is that rare?" Which I can see how that could be more than slightly patronizing if it was read in a way that I hadn't intended it to be.

What I was trying to say is that for a project as big as Ubuntu, having two photos chosen seems to be a big deal. I didn't realize this when I originally down voted you, and I just wanted clarity.

In any case it was never my intention to be patronizing, so I'm sorry for coming across that way.
PCs aren't hobby devices. If they die at all, it will be due to tablets becoming popular.
It appears that SketchUp was one of the thousand flowers that Google let bloom that isn't making it into Larry Page's bouquet. [1]

It's a good move for companies to shed products that aren't their core competency. Resources, and more importantly focus, are scarce and should only be used in activities which add the most value for the company.

[1] http://dcurt.is/googles-coherent-bouquet
Both browsers and servers need something like SwaggerSocket this--SPDY is a good step but i feel it's more of a "pipelining" solution rather than an async + multiplexing issue.
I suspect you are misremembering either a real story about an advertiser using someone's photo without permission or rumours based on it that occasionally become popular.

An advertiser once, against the FB terms of service, used a user's profile picture in their advertising. The advertiser was banned from the platform. Here's a news story that might jog your memory on this: http://mashable.com/2009/07/17/facebook-dating-ads-2/
None of the examples given showed liquidity being added, because the people involved would have traded with each other directly without an HFT being there....In every example OP gives...

You clearly ignored one of my examples.

Consider the example of Fry and Zoidberg. Fry places his sell order at 12:01. Leela and Bender are absent, so Fry's order goes into the book. Zoidberg places his buy order at $9.50 at 12:05. The bid/ask spread is now $0.50 and Fry has not traded.

In this case Fry is better off with Leela in the market.

At any point that an HFT is willing to buy stock, it's because there's a high likelihood that someone will show up to pay more after a few seconds or minutes.

If you want to take that risk, place an ALO order at the bid or ask price. You won't cross the spread, though your order might go unfilled.

The fact that most people don't place ALO orders suggests they don't want to take the risk.
Oh please, this isn't black or white. HR dept are not all like that and are beneficial for companies to have. Companies should not. think that the only options are "don't protect women" and "900 page manuals about bathroom breaks"
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Huh?

$ uname -a
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> My own conjecture is that women don't want to do software development because it's boring and difficult.

Why would women find this more of a problem then men do? You're just replacing one unproven assertion with another, the latter that women are more sensitive to "boring and difficult" jobs than men are. I can't think of any compelling reason or even any evidence for that, given the number of "boring and difficult" jobs done by women.

Also, given the average salary and demand for developers in the current job market relative to other fields, women -- as a group -- would have to have a rather strong aversion to software development to be avoiding it purely because it's boring and difficult.

I don't see any reason to take that particular conjecture seriously.
No, lots of these companies might be half a dozen people and not need or have the work for a dedicated HR dept.
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I used to agree with you. But I've seen too many doctors who are either outright bad, or who don't recognize the limits of their knowledge.

I've been told many things that were directly contrary to the reality of the situation. I've been prescribed drugs which exacerbated my condition, only to read up on them on the Internet and -- within hours -- see how they'd obviously prescribed the wrong drug based on the symptoms I had described.

In my current opinion, doctors are far too convinced of their own infallibility and supposedly immense knowledge. I believe that if you're a rational, intelligent person who actively seeks out reliable knowledge, you can in fact have far greater insight into your specific problem than any doctor can hope to reasonably attain.

I used to think it was crazy that in various other countries you can visit the pharmacist, describe your condition, and likely walk out with the drug you wanted. Now I'm convinced this is a perfectly acceptable solution, at least for me.