skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I should rephrase. We weren't taught that white people invented everything, it's just that everything we were taught about was invented by white Americans and Europeans. The other stuff, we never talked about who invented it. This even carried over into stuff like music classes - europeans invented everything. Except all the stuff that the Africans, middle easterners, and Asians invented, which kind of just exists.

My school only offered AP Euro history and all the science AP courses, definitely not world or asian history. But you're kind of proving my point - how many people are AP students? Like 2-5%?

Not a single time did I ever learn anything about Asian or middle eastern inventions. I didn't even learn that the numbers we use are Indian/Arabic until later. Or that Algebra came from the middle east.

But sure as shit, I was taught that some white guy invented calculus though.
They probably also have better internships (paying aside). I've been 4 times in GSoC and what I can tell you is that as far as I'm concerned this is the most interesting thing I can do over the summer.

An internship here involves at best, some random module in some offshore product, at worst a "hello world" type project in $insert_whatever_technology_the_company_happens_to_use.

I love hacking on FLOSS and I'm not that interested in how much I'm payed (as long as it's decent), but there's no way I could find a job where I could work on FLOSS on a 400miles radius. I guess this explains why so many eastern europeans and indians.

I might be wrong but my feeling is that here in the EU there are few to none hacker-friendly jobs.
http://j-klein.blogspot.com/2011/05/its-dinglehopper.html covers much the same ground with illustrations.
Agreed. Though I think the problem is not the "his", it's the "woman". "His wife" would sound fine. "HIS WOMAN" sounds like a caveman or Redditor talking.
Do NOT go to this service! It does not filter JavaScript and so is succeptble to XSS and other hacks. I sent on and clicked on a chat named 'Natalie portman' and it can up with an alert box that said 'no chance bro' and kept on popping up and I had to shut down my browser.
Other than that - pretty kewl! Is the code open source?
In Australia, we almost match this by (a) having a "Low Income Tax Offset" (being fazed out in favour of an $18k tax free bracket) and (b) having a wide-reaching 'Centrelink' social security scheme. One of our greatest worries as a nation is that we're very dependent on such structural measures, but that we're using a medium-term cyclical benefit (the mining boom) to pay for it.
Prompt is really useful.

I use it to keep track of my servers while travelling. Doing Java homework for a class was OK also: ssh xterm emacs Makefile - really worked OK.
I hate the UI design idea that some types of common pop-up window should become the sole top-level element across the entire program that creaetd it. It should instead be contained within whatever window/tab it originated. (There might be an exception, but I can't think of one at the moment.)
First Forays Into Responsive Web Development
In most societies there have been some form of "release valve" to keep everyone from ending up in permanent debt. Without such release valves everyone would end up as slaves to one person (or a very small group of people). When this happens you get a very unstable social order and it usually results in some form of a revolution.

In many societies this release valve has taken the form of a jubilee or large scale debt forgiveness at set intervals of time. This did two things: First it released people from debt bondage. Second, it forced lenders to lend responsibly. If they could not realistically foresee the debt being repaid before the next Jubilee they wouldn't make the loan. We've seen modern day Jubilees when it comes to 3rd world debt. We've also seen national Jubilees in Iceland and Saudi Arabia recently within the last year.

In our society bankruptcy is supposed to serve this function. Unfortunately congress rewrote the bankruptcy laws in 2005 at the behest of the credit card companies (it was a lobbyist for Visa who actually wrote the law!) and the big banks. Under the new law it's much more difficult to get one's debts discharged and almost impossible to get student loans discharged. This legislation was literally bad for 99.9% of all Americans. The fact that it got passed is one more bit of evidence that the 99% don't really have representation in our current government.

I think a Jubilee of some form would be an excellent development.
For Firefox, I am really liking LeechBlock.
This is actually a lot of fun man, kudos.
I enjoyed it, and I try to stay away from the gender stuff at HN because it is often trite in part due to the issue you are talking about.

First though, I do think in Aliens, that part of the mens' and the audience's enjoyment and celebration with Ripley that she ran that loader so well is because she is a woman, so in that respect, it is sexist (woman shows disbelieving men and audience). (It might also otherwise be because she's been in cryosleep for decades and unused to loaders, or just that she does her job so well.) (Also, there are times I really hate Chekhov's gun, but that scene has never been one of them.)

And one of the aspects of gender discussions on the web I find annoying is in fact that at many such discussions the male commenters getting the most applause are actually often very sexist, condescending, white knighting, patronizing, cheerleading, and fact free commenters (and that are probably clueless as to their own actual behaviors. (cf. Hugo Schwyzer)

For the sake of your essay you categorize men in two groups:

Men who don’t much like me or who are subtly trying to keep women out of a male-dominated area or some such but who are basically decent, professional people who don’t stoop to personal attacks and ugliness.

In contrast, well-meaning, supportive nice guys are frequently maddening in their boundless ability to pave a road to hell with good intentions.

My fear is that you and others default to perceiving the men from Aliens, and in fact, many men, as belonging to the first group. But you can see that Apone and Hicks aren't in either of those groups.

One take away from your discoveries is that maybe you should reconsider the nature of the word "enemy" and what it means to be an enemy or friend, because Apone and Hicks, and people that take you seriously and engage in an intellectual argument with you (and fight with you) are probably your friends in ways that the trite cheerleaders rah rahing you for your gender are not.

I am not sure what the relationship of your essay is to "Hacker News". Written as is, I think it would be better suited to a variety of feminist and men's blogs, including the Good Men Project.

Best wishes,
Thanks! I had a lot of fun writing it!
Much to my annoyance, the men who most often play this sexism-neutral role tend to be polite enemies rather than allies: Men who don’t much like me or who are subtly trying to keep women out of a male-dominated area or some such but who are basically decent, professional people who don’t stoop to personal attacks and ugliness.

Do you think they actually are sexist but are just acting indifferent? What makes you think they are trying to keep you out because of your sex? Wouldn't the fact they play a sexism-netural role make that less of a possibility?
Funny thing is that I tried to register "joshkerr" as my username on Hacker News but it was already registered. I've been successful on most other networks, but there is someone on this one that beat me to it. Figures, hackers and all.
I actually got tricked by that too haha. I went into the database and deleted that, and pushed a fix to production.
Well... Wallop was one of the first... thousand. ;-)

I really hate when people claim they were first on something hoping nobody remembers what came before.

Disclaimer: I helped build one of the first e-commerce applications in Brazil - a supermarket mailed CD-ROMs to clients who shopped and an application sent a text file over the phone (it was 1994 or 1995, months before the first proper ISP launched) and a program on the receiving end would process everything. Payment was money or check, paid upon receiving the merchandise. The client-side was mostly ToolBook and the back-end was Visual Basic.

That supermarket was one of the first to launch a website a year later built upon the backend processes we helped build, but with completely new software. Later in 1996 I wrote the e-commerce site for Brazil's then largest department store. At 10 orders per day, it was a huge success. I usually say it was one of the first and I'm aware of 2 other stores that came before.
It’s just a linguistic phenomenon. In English, at least, the prefix meta- denotes not only a single level of metaness (if you will) but also two levels or more, e.g., meta-metaclass → metaclass. So the “closed loop” is there only for convenience, like saying “and so on”.

If we were being precise, we would explicitly denote the level at which we were working. However, we tend not to do so for two reasons: first, that we rarely work with n-meta things for high n; and second, that being explicit is just plain unwieldy.

It’s for the same reason that we follow line, square, and cube with 4-cube, 5-cube, &c.
It's d3, http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/js/newsgraphics/2012/0...
3 Reasons Most of Us Will Never Be Famous
Yeah, like it's not anonymous. Someone figured out that you can see all ip addresses (tied to comments) when you open up firebug.
"$100,000-$500,000 worth of personal debt" is in no way something that 99% of people do. I can not think how one could get $500K of personal debt (excluding mortgages, etc.) without either multiple major catastrophic coincidences (by definition can't be 99%) or some very serious bad decisions going on for years. I do not buy that people owing 100-500K in personal debt are being "exploited" as a rule. This reminds me of this Person of the Year:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/12/sarah_mason_time_...
who raked up debts by going on random shopping trips at the malls and then blames the evil 1% for it. I do not buy it and I would not buy it.

As for the 1%-vs-99% rhetoric, it is kind of cute that people try to raise money using slogan-de-jour, but for me this sounds as a baloney. One can march on a street with slogans based on nothing but emotions and deep misunderstanding of economics, but as a business plan that does not sound good.

Personally, I don't understand why I would give any money to selectively bail out worst debtors and thus incentivize their behavior. I'd rather give the same money to a local charity or local Red Cross - I know they help real people in dire need and I can be reasonable sure I'm not just financing some loan sharks and some innumerates with appetites exceeding their capacities to pay.
Yeah, but pilots don't have the ability to put you in jail.
Synergy Aircraft Project
Interesting that the proposed question is almost exactly what a nice guy would ask himself, but applied to her:

Mr. Nice: "Is there anything I can do"

Empowering guy: "Is there anything you can do"
Thanks for posting that! I've been using Textastic for a while but didn't know about that feature.
Am I the only one reading this on a mobile? How do they get away with splitting the article over no less than 12 pages, two or three paragraphs per "page"?

I read the first page and gave up because I'm not going to sit there while its loading 12 times!
Uh, on a Sunday? Weird.
Sorry, I should've been clear that I don't actually believe the myth. Only that the movie Limitless is about it.
Are you planning on open sourcing the code via Github or something? I haven't built a Node app myself just yet, would be interesting to see how you did it.
I offered two possibilities there, one of which was that they don't much like me personally, which may have nothing whatsoever to do with my gender. So I am not suggesting that such men are necessarily sexist. But there are definitely cases where my read of a particular situation is that it is a subtle form of sexism, sometimes probably not consciously intentional but there nonetheless.

Thanks.
ok, ok. but hacker mansion? I mean, seriously...
Right, STEM fields.

Except Chemistry, biology, and biochemistry (massive R&D cuts by the pharmaceutical industry has flooded the market with experienced scientists).

Except CivEng (oops, not much new construction).

STEM degrees are often considered harder by employers, so for many jobs that don't strictly require them, they're used as signalling mechanisms in exactly the way that having a degree at all used to be a signal. That means there's a problem with encouraging more people to get such degrees because you flood the market with STEM degrees and repeat the process of devaluing the signal.

What does that leave? CS degrees are currently very much in demand, but will that remain the case for the next 10-20 years? Will it even be true next year? There were a lot of people who had employment trouble after the first bubble burst, I would hate to see that happen again. Not to mention that this is hardly a solution that will work on a large scale. The industry does not require a million new software engineers every year.

Would anyone have predicted ten years ago that going to law school would be a disastrous financial and career decision for many thousands of people? That was supposed to be one of those "safe" direct-to-career educations. Hasn't worked out that way.
As a once-professional musician who later learned a different instrument from the one I grew up learning, I can say that his learning to play the piano, with all it's fine motor control, is nothing short of miraculous.
Female editors growing scarce at Wikipedia
Why?

I don't mean that sarcastically. The patent is not on the existence of a particular trajectory, nor on a basic law of physics. It's a patent on a process to move a spacecraft from one orbit to another by firing rockets at precise times.

I can't think of a reason why this would be more invalid than a "composition of matter" patent that is just a list of particular alloys of steel with special properties: after all, it's a law of physics that 18-8 steel has special properties, which was patented [1]. The patent was issued just on listing a mix of iron, 18% chromium, and 8% nickel. Many other special steel blends have been patented [2], even though their specialness is a function of natural properties of materials.

I'm not saying it's a good thing that this is patentable, but it's very far from "obvious" that it's not.

[1] http://www.estainlesssteel.com/historyofstainlesssteel.shtml
[2] At random: http://www.google.com/patents?id=L0YhAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...
But but but... MURRIKA!
I fixed that actually. You can still get around my fix but I will fix the fix later.
Even if what you said is true, it's definitely interesting that the browser that is on the forefront of implementation of almost every new web feature is about a year behind on only this one while all the other major browsers have already implemented it.
I'd suggest you hire one, because it certainly looks like what IRS would consider income. If somebody - no matter who - forgives a loan for you, it is considered income. Otherwise nobody would pay any income tax as they would not have any income - they'd just have some loans that by some miracle are regularly forgiven. Every employer would have a loan forgiveness program instead of salary. I don't think IRS can be cheated as easily as that.
I think I might! The code is still kind of gnarly right now but I'll clean it up this week and decide then.
Twas the joke. But I did get a bunch of useful links above that I didn't read.
the thing is why should it be supported if the website is tracking you any way?

its just a request to not track me but i don't can see if its really not tracking me.
I have argued for days about what does and doesn't constitute art, and it's almost always a futile endeavor.

The artist intended it to be art, and had a message to convey. Those are definitely components which make me lean towards considering it art.
Is this really a constructive way to build custom in this day and age?

No offense, but is browsing without javascript enabled really a way to use the internet in this day and age?
Yahoo and Alibaba Set to Shake on $7 Billion Stock Sale Deal
The real question isn't whether Google's browser supports this, it's whether Google's servers support this. It may be that Google isn't adding it to the browser until it can commit to it on the server.
It is a little suspicious that Chrome is dragging it's feet, isn't it?

I guess we'll see if they honour their promise by the end of the year.
How do you type a tab into the text editor?
I feel really lucky that I dropped out of college without accumulating any debt, and that I was never unemployed during the recession. I wish that gave me some ability to advise other people on how to escape the debt+unemployment trap, but other than "be smart and tenacious and lucky", I don't actually know what to say.
This is why Silicon Roundabout will never be Silicon Valley.
I'm ashamed to be British when this kind of story breaks, it epitomizes our dysfunctional view on failing and debt.
Allowing people to opt out of tracking would decrease the load on Google's servers.
Just to clarify, the $100,000-$500,000 is collective debt from many different debtors ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars each. This isn't forgiving one single person's giant debt.
The "Do Not Track" HTTP header is useless, equivalent to a "Do not Steal from Me" T-shirt. It is also harmful because it gives users a false feeling of protection and security. The question should not be why Chrome didn't implement it, but why Opera and Firefox did.
Cool one!

It'd probably be a good idea to crop titles and contents if they exceed a particular length.
Thank you for your long, thought out reply. However, I tried to carefully qualify my statements. Please note the use of phrases like "tend to be". It isn't possible to put forth ideas without trying to generalize somewhat. Unfortunately, generalizations frequently then get misinterpretted as bias as well.

FWIW: I like the scene so much in part because my father and ex husband were both career military. I don't see Hicks or Apone as her enemies. I like the blunt nature of military culture. I do not read such bluntness as "hostility". I just chose to leave out additional thoughts on that aspect of it because I felt it would be an extraneous (thus distracting) tangent which would take a lot away from my point rather than add value.

Edited for accuracy and typos.
I just started taking similar steps a couple of weeks ago as well.

- LeechBlock for Firefox, RescueTime as well.

- Cleared out my browser bookmarks and history of distracting sites so they don't pop up as suggestions all the time.

- Turned off email notifications on my phone and my work machine. It's amazing how easily one little "ding" noise could break my focus.

- During the workday I only allow myself to read industry-related articles and blog posts, so I'm not so entertained that I lose track of time.

If I still don't feel like I'm getting enough done, then I am considering going back to a dumbphone, making use of timers, and other more drastic measures. So far I'm doing much better though.
AT&T, Feds neglect low-price mandate designed to help schools
"but really has no effect on me"

Except it does. An intersection is one of the worst places to be "pulling a maneuver." There are too many things happening from too many directions, and vehicle and pedestrian traffic are intermixing.

The base reason we have traffic laws is for safety. A good part of traffic law is flow: direction and speed. Anything with a wheel is a vehicle, and all the vehicles are using the same space. When you have all that lethal metal (and bikes are also lethal metal) moving around, it all needs to be going in approximately the same direction and following approximately the same rules.

At an intersection, you have all these things ... intersecting. And now you throw a bike into the intersection, moving across expected flow. It's unnecessary risk for everyone at the scene.

It only has no effect on me if everyone is lucky. But it still adds risk, to me and everyone else.
Just skip Node and go for vert.x, right away.
Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?
What are the posts that have inspired you the most?
Just out of curiosity, in what countries is it "Tyre"? Can any HNer's fill me in?
Nice work dude! This is like 4chan, but real-time :D
E-Books may take page out of digital music’s book
lol the xss possibilities on this thing are making me drool a bit

and that guy is not going to get banned
Well, sure, and if everybody installed effective ad blocking software so they never saw a google ad, that would decrease the load on google's servers too.
Why do people keep creating small useless apps in the weekend?
Why do people keep creating small useless apps in the weekend for no good reason?
Just out of curiosity...
Agreed, this whole patent nonsense has officially crossed over into dystopian sci-fi territory.

Steve laid down his MacPad Pro next to the water cooler and hailed Tom over.
"Guess what, I took the A9 this morning, I don't know why I don't do it more often, no traffic, no headaches, pure bliss."
Tom eyed him with a frown, waiting a couple of seconds before replying.
"The A9? You have a family Steve, aren't you worried about them?"
"What do you mean?"
"Don't you know that entire route is patented? What happens if your plates' RFID tag comes up in a random check and they find out you haven't licensed it? The lawsuit would drag you under for sure."
Why would Chrome not support a meaningless header sent by the client?

You are asking Schneier to implement security by obscurity with emphasis on the obscurity part. Hell, you are asking the same people that sent a "This is not a P3P policy" P3P policy.

Now I don't know if they think, as do I, that all of this is just meaningless extra traffic on the wire, or that they are evil and don't want to commit to privacy guarantees. No way to tell.
Note that this is ranked by units produced, and the Lego tires are for their toy kits. It's kind of silly to compare their production against Michelin, Bridgestone, et al.
Doing this right now!
Thiel's college dropout plan scrutinized by '60 Minutes'
I'll take that as a compliment haha.
This doesn't work on sites like The Pirate Bay where trusted uploaders make it easy to find what you're looking for. If my torrent was uploaded by eztv then I know what I'm getting.
Tyre is English.
Outcry after Facebook removes pic of dying baby
Any country that uses British spelling for things.
UK -- or at least it used to be (wouldn't be surprised if more people were using the american form now).
I've bought a few domains (nothing special) for general ideas but I haven't had the time to polish off anything to do with them disappointed in self. Hopefully one day soon I can also Show HN, but for now, they can sit dormant while I appreciate others!
It's not who's more important.

- You need a designer to design a product

- You need a developer to make it work

- You need a marketing person to sell it

Miss on any of those and you're missing an important part, so I'd say all three are equally important.
And perhaps something of a report?
In my experience it's the other way around. None of the hackathons I've been to in the UK have asked for rights. I'm sure if you looked you could find one, but clearly most aren't stupid enough to try.
Google's home page reminds me of the portals in late 90s
I guess he's NOT GOING TO GET BANNED....
Pushed a limit of 200 chars
...where my read of a particular situation is that it is a subtle form of sexism, sometimes probably not consciously intentional but there nonetheless.

Can you give an example of this?