skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That particular provision is actually just making permanent a temporary exemption that already exists.

The intention is to increase capital available to startups because of the extra tax incentive for investors.
Thank you for your constructive criticism! Will work on it right now.
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Thanks for the link. It's a shame that functionality isn't built into VS (especially when it costs half as much as VS pro).
I'm sad that you feel that the post was dictating behavior based on gender.

I'm surprised and frustrated at how many people are reading things in the article that I never wrote, and never implied- like the sentiment you expressed, or the idea that I'm somehow an advocate for single sex education, or (as one poster on another forum put it, I come off like a "feminist bitch".
> I was directing my anger at the fact that Microsoft is insulated enough from the dev community that they haven't picked up on this.

How so? Not only were they not involved in this directly, they've posted their apology already and will take proper steps to make sure that even the smallest of parts in the smallest of regional events now have to get signed off on.
So is instilling self-limiting beliefs.
As a species we haven't had that long to get used to the idea. I hope sincerely that we will have all the denial out of our system in a few hundred years time.
While I agree a 50-50 gender ratio seems artificial at the moment, fact of the matter is the tech industry is becoming one of the great sources of power in society (think skynet). I think for the sake of civilization, we should try to involve women as much as we can and aim for the 50-50.
Some people may simply enjoy the process of development moreso than the process of building a business.

I've been at this crossroads for a a while now, and as a local startup guy in the area has posited, "consulting is like crack". From a financial standpoint, it's pretty hard to give up - even moreso if you're not really passionately on fire for one idea, which I do think you really need to be to focus on that one idea/service/product for a long time (years).

Additionally, just because you've got an idea about what people are willing to pay for because you've done consulting for some clients, doesn't mean that you can (easily). Much of what you've learned working for, say, 3 clients, may need to be validated with a larger group. The few clients you worked with may have extremely focused needs, and what you've built for them has limited value outside of those handful of orgs. Finding the other orgs that could also benefit from a similar service/product may simply be too much work (and it's not guaranteed to find anyone at all).

On top of that, some of what you've built may have been predicated on confidential information/processes which you can't replicate. You can often whiteroom something, but again, is it worth it?

It may surprise you, but many companies are willing to pay a lot of money for a solution that ties in with existing systems and matches their business process 100%, rather than use a genericized system which they'd have to adapt to (and which some of their competition might be using as well).

In my case, I've not yet found an idea that I'm really passionate about pursuing as a full-time venture. Until that time comes, I consult (and do things like indieconf.com - conference for freelancers like myself!), getting to the point where, should an idea strike me, I can self-fund the venture if need be.
Suggestions:

- Add some examples of reasonable programming tasks and prices. I have no idea of what size tasks I should give Codacy and how much I should expect to pay for them.

- Let users do other users' tasks and take a percentage cut off the transaction. I'd enjoy spending an evening working through little problems and getting paid for it.
This is a really short-sighted view, there are literally thousands (if not more) of freelancers and development companies who have no wish to work on their own products. It just isn't in some peoples mindsets. They literally just don't care.

Just because in our dimension every development agency, or freelancer writes a blog doesn't mean they're the only guys who exist.
They totally exist. My dad (an Epidemiologist by trade) didn't believe in evolution. He also wouldn't agree that gravity is the force that holds celestial objects in orbit around each other. People can be funny like that...
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NetBus[1] (1998), Back Orifice 2000[2] (1999) and Sub7[3] (1999) demonstrate that feature packed malware is not a novel concept. Kids were pranking each other with webcam-hijacking, audio-recording, port-redirecting, password-sniffing, auto-updating software in the late 90’s.

Hans Dobbertin, Wang Xiaoyun, Arjen Lenstra, Alexander Sotirov, Marc Stevens, Jacob Appelbaum, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik, Benne de Weger, Dengguo Feng, Xuejia Lai, Tao Xie, Hongbo Yu, Ron Rivest and numerous other researchers were instrumental from as early as 1996[4] in demonstrating that MD5 was broken. The MD5 collision attack used by Flame will be an implementation of and minor extension to this prior work.

My point is that technology development is incremental and tends to occur in small steps. New advances build off the work of many others. An understanding of hacker history is essential to any meaningful malware analysis. Early e-zines such as Phrack, the communities of 2600, CCC, Black Hat/DEF CON and the activities of the cypherpunk movement are good starting points. Without this historical perspective past mistakes will be repeated and insignificant matters over-hyped to the detriment of areas that matter.

Cryptography conferences, arXiv, hacker conferences (HOPE Number 9, DEF CON 20, 29C3), open source mailing lists and security researcher blogs are the places to look for new developments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBus

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Orifice_2000

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub7

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5#History_and_cryptanalysis
To be literal about it, as far as I can tell, it takes at least 5 minutes to figure out which version of git to install. So far msys send seems to be winning.
Do you actually compare a desire to get more women into tech with forced castration?!
The thing is this: the first generation of machine translation system were hard coded systems that translated a string in one language into a string in another language using a set of hard coded rules. These systems were bad at the sort of semantic ambiguities that you describe. Also they tended to give too literal translations.

The new generation like Google Translate are statistical systems. Semantic ambiguities actually are fairly easy to resolve using statistics. The basic idea is this: Google can use the entire Internet to check if "Knives were ethical" or "Knives were efficient" is a more common thing to say. Also Google tries to translate the largest possible phrase, so if there is already a translation of "Knives were good" in their corpus then the problem will never occur.

Of cause there will always cases where this fails, but you'd be surprised how well it works. At least that is not the main concern at the moment. Maybe ultimately you could have a UI where a human selects the best translation. The actual problem with these systems is that they don't even have an understanding of syntax. With Google translate often entire parts of a sentence get lost.
> there are literally thousands (if not more)

Like who?
This seems unbelievable coming from France where most internships are usually pais between 500€ to maybe 1k/1.5k€ per month...

I'm going to be looking for an internship somewhere next year, maybe I should be going in the US !
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> I'm sad that you feel that the post was dictating behavior based on gender.

No, I think you're perceiving it more strongly than I meant it to be. Like I said, I don't actually think this is the most interesting point of the article - so my response here is more a testament to the general reception by our little group than anything else. Overall, I thought it was a good piece to read, actually.

> I'm somehow an advocate for single sex education

I didn't perceive it to be. I too think single sex education is a huge mistake, and one we should not be repeating again. In fact, I believe the more recent conflict of the sexes is largely based on baggage we're still carrying around from that era.

> I come off like a "feminist bitch"

If someone says something like that, just ignore it. It's really not worth responding to people who talk like that. Their phrasing already tells you everything there is to know about them. They're trolls.
After having re-read it a few times, I don't think there is a typo. That's why he feels "ashamed" about it. I think you've interpreted it correctly.
Many do! 37 Signals, Magento, and also our agency Company 52 (responsible for Pluggio and TinyGrab) being some examples.
Cool idea! I could see myself using it. However, I'm not sure how scalable this business is, unless you're planning to crowdsource this to some per-verified team of experts
There are plenty of twitter boostrap themes for ~$20.

A fellow HN user started this theme shop:

https://wrapbootstrap.com/
We've certainly come a long way since Demon Attack and Pitfall! :)

I remember 23 years ago, trying to do 'ray tracing' on my Amiga would take... hours for one frame. It looked pretty good, but... wow. This is jaw-droppingly cool.
I was under the impression that it meant you can call into VBA from Python and vice versa.
Typically, wife/kids. Also, mortgage/car payment.
Don't forget the guy that salted his own passwords - googlepassword, linkedinpassword, yahoopassword (yeah ... he probably has a Yahoo account).
It's Apple's store ergo their rules.

Subject to the rule of law, of course.
Yikes! That puppy nearly killed my browser (FF13, Ubuntu).

// Some pages should come with warnings... <grumble>
I don't like this conclusion. Anyone can be a jerk, including a woman.
Harvest, Balance Media, Disrupto, Pivotal (I know 6 months ago they were starting to get serious about Tracker as a product), and that's only off the top of my head. I think turning to product dev is a pretty common aspiration for consulting companies.
Nooooooooo! I'm gonna miss Clik and Clak. My wife is not a talk radio listener, but she'll listen to Car Talk, and laugh. Sad to see them hang it up.
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I wouldn't downvote and I probably would have a laugh with my kid sister at how inept MS is.

However I do have concerns for young girls who are interested in programming and technology and believe this is how women are perceived in this field. This is especially true of those who don't have a sound parental foundation or looking to define themselves.
I see two reasons: (1) A very small proportion of the applications ever built, constitute ballgame-changing breakthroughs. The other applications could still make some money, but not much. (2) The closer to the client, the bigger the slice in the value chain. A client may pay 5000 USD for small modifications -- often only applicable to his own setup -- to a program that may only have cost 100 USD to buy in the first place or that he even downloaded free of charge. In other words, for lots of developers, it makes economically more sense to customize a ball-game changing application for a client rather than to spend their time trying to push self-created but actually mediocre applications.
What? Bully? That word is getting tossed around a lot these days, and it seems in danger of losing its meaning (or, like "fascist" meaning "someone who thinks or does something I don't like").
There was no "bully" in this story. There was just some guy who loved to hear himself talk, and wanted everyone to think he was smart.
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As a developer, I'm fed all the hot new released Open Source apps that might integrate well with my other businesses, while they're in Beta.

The crowd here is smarter, work harder, has better focus and willing to offer experienced opinions. Some of these folk are an inspiration to myself and my own goals in life.

Some sites similar to this are true time-wasters (Digg, Reddit, 4chan) with no obvious benefits to furthering your intelligence, strictly dumb giggles and cute pictures.

This site is also designed with no graphics for fast load, and a focus on the important content: words!

Every minute spent on HN is better spent than probably 99% of the other sites you visit.
I'm always glad to see news like this.

After I got my B.S. in computer science three years ago I decided to start "from scratch" and applied to molecular biology and genetics. I was fascinated by research done in immunology, cancer biology and many other fields which helped prolong human life considerably during 20th century.

However after some time I realised that improving human health and prolonging life is just one side of the coin and that there is something equally important (and sadly often neglected especially in the media): we should strive very strongly on improving quality of life and not "only" it's length.

There's a very good chance that you and me will live quite a long life, according to statistics. But over the last year I experienced some things that really shook my personal and professional view on this... That's probably the same for anyone who had at least some experience with any case of mental deterioration disease, not only in case of elderly people even though they're affected most often. I've realized there is no point in living into one's eighties without some dignity or without being able to enjoy it.

Luckily for as all there's an amazing research being done in the field of neuroscience so I have my hopes up.
The dynamic is an important consideration, like it or not. Do you think a woman would play dumb, bat her eyelashes and flip her hair (embellishing) while asking for help if her instructor was a woman?
I'm the only maintainer of this project. I find revision control redundant, since it takes extra steps to set up and use while being of very little value. I'm reasonably good at maintaining my tree without needing any fancy revision control systems (git/svn/whatever).

I will get hated for what I've just said.
Is "info" acceptable in professional business communications now? I don't mind that it's friendly and informal, but I also wouldn't call it professional.
To me, it adds insult to injury when companies that fail to take the most basic, well-known measures to protect their login databases always tell us how much they value the security of user information.

That would only be acceptable if the next words were, "and therefore we have fired the CTO and all programmers involved".
Is there a chance you guys are not native english speakers? I'm Canadian and didn't find anything odd about the sentence. I think the context made it clear that he was talking about contributing.
I downvoted you because I think that during a discussion about how people (in this case women) learn, figuring out common ways that people (in this case women) seek help is a pretty valid concern.

Maybe men do similar things when they are confused, or maybe not. I don't know enough about education to comment, but attempting to would be off topic anyways.
in no way does cygwin make windows a unix workstation.
iPhone with Evernote. I actually don't miss paper at all. My handwriting was always terrible, and I doodled a lot more than I should have when taking notes.
Who said it was stupid? Evangelicalism is one of the fastest growing Christian denominations AFAIK, so arguably it is a quite successful belief. Of course it is unscientific, but that is a different issue. It might be smart to deny science depending on what you want to achieve.

I don't know much about religion in South Korea, but I would assume that the denialism is due to American influence, since it seems to be a recent phenomenon (according to the article). Jehovas Witnesses is another world-wide movement that denies evolution, and it also originated in the US.
Competent men do not 'show of their skills, brag and one-up other men'. Yes, they may be technically competent, but they are socially incompetent, because they never progressed beyond that juvenile behavior. I'd gladly drive them away.
Thanks for posting this. This now gives me the framework to start creating a plot around some ideas I've had floating around and evolving for quite some time.
If they got my account info... not a big deal.
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I think we simply need to start calling people out in person regardless of their gender. If I saw "Dave" acting like this I'd pull him aside and set him straight. And if he couldn't pull his shit together i'd ask him to leave. And if he couldn't manage to do that, I'd help him leave.

Not that your post is passive-aggressive, but we need to start being proactive about this. In all realms of life. Call people out on their shit or they're not going to change. Humans are weak to the pressures and influences of society. If we continue to stand there and allow certain behavior, they'll continue to do it. If you man up and call people on their crap, it might not work the first time but if enough people do, that person will eventually realize what they are doing is wrong.
There is a very strong selection bias here (both in your comment and the original article). The woman who signed up for something like your class may be very different (in personality, outgoing ness, comfort with men, etc) from the women who signed up for the original author's class.

The end result is that you both may be right: maybe women (and men, for that matter) should be fully integrated in learning environments and have segregated environments. No two people learn the same, why would we expect the same level of comfort in every classroom setting.

And if I look back to TFA, I think that is what the author meant by "more PyLadies". Listen to everybody and give them all comfortable places to learn.
It's not really the denial of evolution, it's the selective denial of the scientific community's ability to understand the world. Especially where it would be inconvenient.
Do you actually compare a desire to get more women into tech with forced castration?!

Did you actually read that comment as comparing the "desire to get more women into tech" with castration?

You really didn't understand that the castration reference was to a "simple technical fix" for typical male behavior, and that the reference is what is often called "hyperbole?"

You really misunderstood not only what was being compared to castration, but also the tone in which the reference was made?
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Interesting article, overall. Something occurred to me though:

> "Dave expressed his enthusiasm for the material by asking a lot of very technical questions to the instructor. Largely, these questions seemed designed to show off his own knowledge, or to challenge the instructor. In other words, Dave was the jerk at the conference."

This isn't a male-only phenomenon. Whether it's philosophy classes, psychology classes, or other courses with a significant female composition, this type of behavior is not entirely absent among females either (I have distinct memories of this in college). Granted it may be less common or less confrontational, but it exists, and let's also not forget most women will acknowledge that they can be quite vicious toward one another in office settings as well.

Think about the amount of women in law and medicine (I believe they are the majority at this point). Do you think hot-shot male lawyers or med students behave in significantly different ways than hot-shot male hackers? I doubt it. Men are men; I'm sure in the courtroom, at university, or at the medical conferences, or tech workshops, a minority of us men will exhibit this same "jerk" behavior (i.e., challenging the lecturer, asking questions to show off, etc...). In summary, jerk behavior does not sufficiently or completely explain the lack of women in tech. It exists in most if not all professional fields, even ones in which women are coming to dominate (which, hey, I think is great).
Stating that there is no search box on HN is a.) incorrect and therefore b.) adding nothing to the discussion - so it seems to fit the criteria for downvoting.

Downvotes don't have to indicate "I'm punishing this user", they can simply be "this comment is low-value".
I don't have any special knowledge about Sortfolio or 37Signals, but it seems like Sortfolio is really inconvenient to divest.

It's big enough that shooting it in the head seems wasteful (and potentially disappointing to existing customers). It's small enough that the opportunity cost of dealing with a sale quickly exceed the proceeds, and that sell-side advisors aren't going to be clamoring for the opportunity to help. And on top of that it's an unusual business, so traditional small business brokers don't know what to do with it.

The demand side has similar size issues, where it's big enough to be a large purchase for a random individual, small enough that it's unlikely to attract attention from strategic buyers with an eye out for acquisition targets, and unusual enough that a purely financial acquisition is unlikely.

I feel like you're on the right track, but again it goes back to value. The expected value from finding somebody to take over sortfolio, spin it into a separate entity, and then get 37s out of their ownership position probably isn't that much higher than the value they'd get from spending the time working on and marketing their key products and simply shooting sortfolio in the head at some pre-determined date.
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does it have fork(2) support?

if it doesn't, then it's rather alternative to MinGW, not Cygwin
Yes, I admit that in code reviews, staleness of comments is a thing that tender to get pointed out to me. However, I've since developed a procedure (review comments belonging to any hunk of changes) to prevent that.
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Even in the context of "helping", some people have to show they could teach the class. They do this by asking leading questions, pointing out any mistake, no matter how pedantic, and other obnoxious, interruptive actions.

Students quickly recognize the adversarial relationship and, depending on how the teacher responds, either lose confidence in the teacher or tube out the cock fight.

As the teacher, in a short-term environment (like a substitute or a half-day seminar), you have to shut that person down unequivocally. In a longer lasting environment, give that person a chance to teach.
Blow it out your ass, Techcrunch.
i wanna add to this: most startups that work are iterative. revolutionary ideas take too much to be accepted by consumers, only through iterative steps, could startups like dropbox, facebook, esp google, be where they are today. by being the next step up, and more. i'm working on this myself, on the failures that foursquare and other location based startups have failed. i hope this to be true :)
Really? Almost everyone I grew up with didn't believe in evolution. It was far more difficult to find somebody that accepted it than to find somebody that denied it.

I grew up near Jacksonville, FL. A pretty big city, but I've recently moved to NC, and the problem isn't much alleviated up here.