skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes just with ads, but trying to keep the UX good and not fill it with lots of ads.
When someone who has your same privilege (male privilege in this case) and they are using that, intentionally or otherwise, to derail a conversation or attack another person, you absolutely should call them out if you feel safe about doing so.

You certainly can call out oppressive behavior from others that don't share your privilege or background, but a lot of times that behavior isn't standing against oppressive BS, but rather reinforcing it. In this very discussion, there any several posters who are disregarding the OPs experience so that their opinions about sexism and male dominance in the classroom aren't challenged.

The fact of the matter is this classroom was an audience of (mostly) women who had selected an environment that would have almost none or no men attending. We can't simply blame that audience and teacher for not standing up to an aggressive male when the whole point of this kind of class to leave those people out in the first place. I also don't blame the OP for not speaking out, but it's important to note once you learn that this kind of behavior is wrong, you can call someone out on it if you feel you are safe to do so.
Phil Schiller clearly has egg on his face.

Until Apple stops their stupid policies and starts communicating openly, they will embarrass themselves again and again.
> Gender bias is a touchy subject in these tech blogs and the responses to this (yet another) article are, predictably, dismissive. It was one person's fault, there's no widespread gender bias, the instructor should have things differently, someone has seen women be jerks too, etc.

It was one person's fault, the instructor should have done things differently, some women are jerks(just like some men). The way you are enumerating says you don't believe they are true, when they are. As for "widespread gender bias", I don't know. I haven't seen it in action myself(I have seen the reverse though - women getting preferential treatment). I am not denying it - I am just saying I am not in a position to confirm or deny.

> So while there really does seem to be a measurable, observable difference in gender involvement in computing (e.g. in CS enrollments, in working in the industry, etc), these anecdotes always get tossed as not significant.

High school kids get into CS enrollments. I would love to hear from them why they don't go for CS enrollments, rather than hearing speculations. I have heard students complaining about nerdy culture, more demanding courses, low grades, low female to male ratio(circular - if you don't come in, it's going to be always low), anti-social(non-party) students etc. Do you believe girls don't enroll in CS courses because they believe there male counterparts will discriminate against them? If so, can you please provide me some citations.

> Like, what sorts of articles would people _not_ jump on the bandwagon to tear to shreds?

The sort of articles where the conclusion follows from the antecedents.

1. I volunteered to teach a women's only class.

1.5 It was going well. Some young girl, who was doing well, just giggled and told me she has no idea what she is doing.

2. Some Dave walked in and derailed it.

3. I got angry, but the women just tuned out.

4. Hence, gender bias is real.

How does 4 follow from any of it?
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if he trusted in the cloud he wouldn't be crying in the stairs... ahahah
Hope he had backups...
Yep, he was. Although I find it difficult to think that RMS would find himself helpless and with no one around that would care for him, I do believe that the University/Event organizers couldn't care less for what happened.
You can't beat the drum about social issues and culture.

You can beat the drum about something people don't know, a food drive, a political issue, etc but it makes no sense to keep whingin about something that people already know and have made up their minds about.

Remember House? People don't change.
Me: Final year college student, iPhone/iOS developer, NYC.

My blog: Personal app milestones, interesting app statistics.

Traffic: 5k unique/month, >100k back in June 2011 (when I was active).

Every so often I receive unsolicited (but much appreciated) offers from SV, NYC, and Israel to work at a startup doing iOS development or management. A number of these have been well funded by top-tier VCs. What drives my traffic? A blog post detailing the most common iPhone passcodes, a blog post detailing how piracy doubled my legitimate sales (despite it being a poor post), and another blog post describing how to programmatically detect the apps installed on the iPhone.

In my opinion, a personal blog is an opportunity to demonstrate your expertise to those who are interested, and a way to increase your luck surface area.

Side note: I like Bump (YC S09), and I duplicated a minor feature of theirs (app detection in v2.X). Because I blogged about their feature and how I did it myself, a few people at Bump read my post. Later on, I found out that the CEO of another major company was referred to me for advice by them. I'm probably nothing special to Bump, but when I graduate, if I want to go work at Bump, I'm not just another name.
I'm in from the headline alone.
> Almost all people who "deny" evolution do so because they've been misled about what it means.

If they deny evolution as a natural process whereby mutations advantageous for survival are propagated, then yeah, they probably don't understand it. (The GP certainly doesn't.)

But just because you accept evolution as a process doesn't mean you have to believe it is the origin of all biological diversity on Earth. It certainly doesn't mean you have to become an atheist.
I find it hard to believe that all females(or males) exhibit same behavioral and learning traits.

I don't see anyone suggesting such a thing, but instead, that the majority of each gender may have certain behavior and learning styles in common.

And even if this happens to be true, then why stop at gender-segregation?

Why go any further? Just because one type of segregation may work, doesn't mean that all types of segregation would work.
Most do.

37Signals, Pivotal, Zurb are great examples of companies who have transitioned from client based to product, or are currently doing both.

I'm a freelance developer and based on my situation and those of my peers, everyone is working on side projects. The reason I choose to consult and have clients is because it lets me be my own boss and create a business doing other people's (clients) work. I can craft and hone my skills doing client work, while always brainstorming an idea or product to launch in my spare time. When the moment strikes I will already have all the resources and knowledge available to make a great stab at the startup scene.
> I think that division by sex is often used as a proxy for division based on learning styles. Not fast vs slow per se, but in how people respond to teaching styles and student interaction.

Which brings me back to my initial point. Is there data that suggests males and females respond significantly differently to teaching styles, and all member of a group(male or female) are consistent?
I have your site bookmarked reminding me to buy it when I have a good project that would use it. Really need to come up with something, it's a fantastic idea :-)
He was robbed by someone attending his talk, not mugged on the street at gun point so I don't think that "glad he's okay" is appropriate here, especially since "okay" in this case means that he's in a foreign country without passport, money and medicine.

Such a shame.
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Damn, this is not nice. Maybe HN can pitch in to get him a new laptop? I'd donate a few bucks.

Edit: What the heck? What's wrong with what I suggested?
I'm almost twenty-three years old with schooling for Computer Science and Business doing freelance full-stack engineering work primarily for the flexibility (fiancée has a few years of school left so I'm delaying "settling in" because there are no interesting tech companies around her University), and I would love to start a startup.

However, as some other posters have said, a big burden is the regular pay. Freelance work pays now when I need the money, verses startup work being, in a lot of cases, basically an "option" to be paid later...maybe. I'm working on a pretty ambitious start-up idea in spare time but unfortunately I can't afford at the moment to focus my entire work life on it. Ideally I would try to bootstrap it but other expenses (cough student loans cough) take some precedence.

It really is a frustrating position to be in.
Python is fairly good at embeddability too. And at least irssi embeds Perl successfully.
Considering RMS a careful person, he probably had backups for all the important information. However, for a person like him, that laptop is probably much more important: he needs to get a specific laptop that respects his freedom, as that one did, so he's probably going to be a bit behind on his e-mails until he gets a proper replacement.
If you assume costs as follows:
- $1 a month for domain
- $20 a month for hosting

I'd say it shouldn't be terribly difficult to find audience enough to generate enough revenue to cover costs with even just ad revenue on even mediocre projects.

Though I should also point out that the word 'revenue' doesn't necessarily equal profit.

Are you having a hard time generating even the first penny? What's the niche? Who's the audience? What are the revenue strategies tried?
As a former kendoka, this is a wet dream. I can finally put all that kata to good use!
The possibilities are endless.
Top-left is a bad position for the login form, because it's the very first thing people see. Put your slideshow there, and the login / registration on the right.

Also, add some graphics. Text-only slideshows do not interest people. It can be simple to illustrate what your do or the benefits you provide using freely-available icons and arrows.
Something similar happened to Tom Preston Werner of Github when he was in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Conference organizers have a responsibility to emphasize the high incidence of theft and assist them however possible - most people coming from developed countries do not have experience with this type of danger. This seems like a situation that could have been avoided if someone was keeping an eye on Rms' bag.
>That wasn't a racial attack

"attack" might be a strong word, but it was definitely a racist comment. Whenever you generalize or predict behavior or outcomes based upon race, you've made a racist comment. Maybe you liked the sound of it. Doesn't really matter, though, does it?

Substitute "black" for "white" and how does your original statement sound?

You're decrying the solutions that those three guys could come up with in part because they're white. Maybe you wanted to say, "ethnically homogenous"?
Anyone remember Die by the Sword? Admittedly it was more sword flailing than sword fighting, but it's the only game I've played that had a semblance of direct control. It was also the first game to use IK for everything from sword fighting to rope swinging and ladder climbing. Even nowadays it's rare to see IK used in games for anything except relatively minor pose fix-ups (blending canned poses offers better control, and IK fix-ups can then be applied on top to get perfect alignment for aiming, etc).
Very interesting. Do you find it difficult to do business in Nigeria?
You're right. Trust is huge.
In order to gain trust from developers we are trying to make this personal. We are responding ourselves to every email sent and talking to everybody. We dont have automated responses also because of this.
We also have put our faces for you to see it.

However, we understand that we have a long way to go.
However, things are running! people are sending and getting their problems done.
Hopefully today I will put a testimonial section in the page to address that.

Thank you for your feedback!
He wasn't "robbed" at all. He was a victim of theft.

If he'd actuallyh been robbed (as the headline stated) concern for his physical well-being would be entirely appropriate. That's what I meant by my comment.
rms, he himself, should have kept an eye on the bag, not somebody else...
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I launched a Mac utility app called DragonDrop (https://shinyplasticbag.com/dragondrop/) that got a lot of pretty good press (including getting fireballed — here's the HN discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3946404).
Biggest problem with these games (I've found, anyway) is that your sword controller cannot magically stop in mid air when your virtual sword hits another sword or a wall or whatever. It really ruins the immersion.
the joys of cloud computing. oh wait...
We (littleheroes.com) launched an iPad app to read kids books purchased on our site. We were fortunate in that we already had a customer base to market to.
Here's his interview on The Setup where he describes his laptop and the software he uses http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/
Turing thanks for letting me know - I adapted the title after I verified he was technically mugged.
Understanding Bitcoin
Hiro.
NO HOW FROM HACKERS
what? any evidence (of lack of care from organisers)?
"Most of the time I do not have an Internet connection. Once or twice or maybe three times a day I connect and transfer mail in and out. Before sending mail, I always review and revise the outgoing messages. That gives me a chance to catch mistakes and faux pas." http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/

Oh well. The interview is from 2010 though.
Nice read.

My system for being creative is slightly easier to follow:

1. Do cool things

2. Show them to people

And that's pretty much it.

However, I do keep a notebook in my pocket at all times to jot down interesting ideas, not so much because I'd ever look at it again, but because it makes me think about it a little bit longer.

My value evaluation system is similarly silly - if I still remember the idea a week from now, two weeks from now ... whatever. If I have an idea consistently for a long period of time, then there's probably something there. The next step is to make it and see if anyone else thinks there's something there.

Or at least to tell people and ask them if they think there's something there.
While I am an atheist and do believe that evolution is the origin of all biological diversity on Earth, I think it's monumentally important that traditional theistic beliefs and evolution be reconciled.[1]

Before making the jump, I had no problem with this at all (i.e. I believed that a deity put things in motion, then moved around a few probabilistic sliders to make sure things turned out the way they did). I have a few friends who are professional scientists, all of them devout Christians, all of them totally happy with evolution.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theistic_evolution
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Those types of problems are addressed by consulting firms with thousands of employees. We are trying to be do micro consulting for that itch you have but cannot scratch it in time :)

We are actually surprised by the amount of "puzzle" problems we are getting!

Thank you for your interest. I will be putting an example problem page and a testimonial section as soon as possible to address that.
Very good! So it's a sort of dashboard for a customer to see all his bills due?
Oh, I see. Mea culpa then.
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We, the hackers, can do anything we like with Apple's gear.

At the same time, Apple is under no obligation to make it easy for us to trample on their licensing deals for technologies that form part of Apple's unique selling proposition in a consumer's mind. AirPlay is so well implemented, consumers find it magical. To keep that mystique, Apple has a right to review and license AirPlay to those vendors that it finds aligned with its long term goals. If you want Apple to be forced to do something different, you're not a "hacker", you're on the side of big government and "Big Brother" demanding to oversee and meddle in a company's right to sell the product it wants that works in the way that it wants.

Finally, I personally want to encourage the hell out of a computing environment that makes everyday people find computing approachable and fun. Just as you don't want a power outlet that needs constant tweaking before you can plug something in, normals don't want a computer or smartphone that requires maintenance just to be able to have fun and get things done.

Apple's forced the mainstream computing industry to stop designing for ourselves, and start thinking about everyone else. This is why computing has finally gone viral.

Did you use that first Mac? It was never about "open" or "hackable", it was about appliance computing that gets the computer out of the user's way.

Nothing has changed since Apple's 1984 when Apple adopted the slogan, "The computer for the rest of us."
Don't know about a sword fighting game, but I would gladly part with $20 to see Snow Crash rewritten in the past tense :)
Thanks. I sort of almost majored in English in college (besides being a native English speaker) and didn't even realize the distinction there (i.e. "robbery" implies force).
This advice could be analogous to applying randomization to optimization problems.

Randomization can get you unstuck from the locally optimal trough you've found yourself in.
Gotta have that TFU
Absolutely, no need to crawl 10+ websites to see your expenses anymore. Thanks for feedback
> I don't see anyone suggesting such a thing, but instead, that the majority of each gender may have certain behavior and learning styles in common.

Unless you can prove that certain behavior is common among majority of females, and that certain common behavior is more significant than bazillion traits which are not shared, and then that certain behavior is significant to learning, and is more important than traits which aren't shared - the segregation is meaningless.

> Why go any further? Just because one type of segregation may work, doesn't mean that all types of segregation would work.

The chances that a group of students is going to be consistent, coherent, and will respond to the teaching style in the same way is essentially zero(group size > 1). If gender segregation show a noticeable, significant improvement; by all means have it. But don't make claims in advance.
>Once more, a reminder that we - the hackers - should stop giving Apple our money. This is not the kind of computing environment we want to encourage.

And hackerism is not the computing environment Apple wants to encourage. Besides the obvious benefit of more control = better stronghold of their market, Apple is also philosophically in favor of closed, well defined systems and minimal end user confusion, not pro open-ended, experimentation lands, "we give you the building blocks, you make it whatever you want".

And, as much as I like the notion of open systems and hacking, there should be room for the other side too, systems that are designed top-to-bottom and sold "as is".

I believe that history has proved that while it is possible to get quality UIs from open ended/open source style development projects, you get them with LESS consistency that you get them from an Apple-like process, and you also get more competing stuff/chaos/design by committee, unless you coordinate the whole process, from the kernel, to the end user apps.

Open source projects are mostly islands, so you don't get to have that long term vision / whole stack co-ordination.

To put it another way, an OS called OS X exists as ONE thing where one person had ultimate responsibility for what's included and in what shape to ship it. An OS called Linux does not: it only exists as disparate things collected and distributed together (a distro). The Gnome desktop environment, for example, is not produced for a specific OS: it's produced for whoever wants to use it, from various flavors of Linux, to FreeBSD, its apps even run on OS X.

>It's time for someone to re-edit Apple's 1984 commercial and swap the logos.

Why, did Apple ever changed course? The Mac was about a "computer for the rest of us" (ie simple users), and it remains the same now. Neither Mac, nor the 1984 ad was about tinkering. It was about empowering people with simple technology (a simple spreadsheet, a simple text editor, etc), not about empowering hackers to build things.

Actually, now, with the Unix underpinnings, the Mac is also a computer that lures tons of hackers (prevalent in any programming convention and most alpha hackers use a Mac, --even Linus, although he runs Linux on it), but the main market for Apple was an is the common user.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20833

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=95912

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=408226

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611466

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=697879

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=962405

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2120799

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2230161

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2267166

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2786808

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2952297 (update)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3659492
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Launched http://www.TrickedOutTimeline.com on HN in february (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3522255) and have made ~$2500 on around $100 costs from advertising and hosting on google app engine. Nothing huge, but good for a weekends work with a friend!
I appreciate that this is a joke, however it disheartens me when I hear people associate the word "app" with only mobile software or particular software packages, especially as I've been using the word "app" as a shortened version of "application" to refer to software since Windows 95.

Oh and by the way, Apple attempted to claim that "app" stood for "apple" last year when they were trying to block companies from saying "App Store". Of course, Steve Jobs had said "Android App Store" publicly in the past so nobody really believed them.
I don't think it was a "mugging," either, which AFAIK is a form of robbery that happens in the street.
I don't mind putting a bit of cash towards projects where those involved really don't have the resources to pull it off otherwise, but does Neal Stephenson really not have enough cash to bootstrap this himself?
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One of my anecdotal observations is that people (especially children) who read more often have significantly better written communication skills. I had a number of peers that I went all the way from kindergarten through undergraduate with, and by the end, the people who had done a lot of reading as kids could write significantly more coherent papers, essays, and even emails.

Now, it's only a correlation; the kids who read a lot as children may have done so simply because they had some kind of stronger innate language skills. I'm not a psychology researcher or a neuroscientist, but it's definitely an interesting anecdote to me :)