skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. It is a gross simplification.

For reference: soon after being formed, India was given 0 chance of survival, with a common theme being that the country would soon break up into a million different states.

That country with more languages, cultures and dialects than Babel is still here.

Further, for the longest time India depended on foreign aid to feed its people. Until they finally did something about it and ushered in the green revolution which turned Punjab and many other states into bread baskets. India has gone from a place where people died in famines to a place where they can actually worry about improving nutrition standards.

And the subsidies being reviled today played an important part before to make this discussion happen in the first place.

India built the IITs. Which went on to power companies across the globe.

They built their own space program, and they also built the Non Aligned movement during the cold war, which was a pretty nifty achievement.

They currently supply some of the larger contingents to the UN. (And some of those contingents are mired in corruption charges.)

India is a stupidly complicated country. I could go on for pages about its ills, at the same time point out genuine accomplishments it has achieved.

Edit: removed a line which was argumentative.
I probably won't. In formal writing with an anonymous subject, sure. For casual conversation, I don't care enough.
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Why not? If I grow some wheat on a farm, don't I get to take credit for photosynthesis and perhaps the nearby river? How is creating a company any different from growing plants?
Looks like they don't (except under very specific circumstances which include not living within the USA)

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#Anonymous
The fundamental economic problem is that demand is very inelastic. When you draw a supply-demand curve for food it looks very close to a vertical line, people do not buy significantly more food when you make it cheaper, people do not buy significantly less food until they run out of money.

The implication is that even slight excesses result in rock bottom prices, and even slight shortages result in very high prices. This volatility is bad for everyone. Therefore the government steps in with subsidies to even out how much farmers get, and to guarantee a surplus to avoid ruinous food prices for consumers.

But there is simply no good way to do this without perverse consequences somewhere...
What is even more deplorable, depressing even, is that the educated Indians are the worst of the lot. You would think education would bring about change and an unwillingness to give in to the corruption. You would be absolutely wrong.

The educated are the ones with money, and if you have money in India, you can get away with almost anything unscathed. Notice how the wealthy/rich/educated are almost never standing in lines in India. It is always poor folk in line; the rich have paid someone to either stand in line, or the government agent to cut ahead of the line.

As someone said, India's problems are too complex to propose simple solutions. Educating the masses is just one prong of a multi-pronged approach to making things "right".
> Given the attention this post has attracted I may write a followup post just on this topic.

I hope you do, I am very interested in this topic and I would like to hear what you say and what people have to say in response to it.
Rant : There is no implementation of any kind. No scalability of judicial,medical etc systems due to the population, largely self-centered mindset, lack of time to keep up with huge economic gaps, most importantly the country being ruled by goons (more than half of Indian leaders have criminal records). Getting into Indian political system is simply not possible for a person, necessary to initiate a change.

Researches study, but the figures they come up are far far away from reality. That is because everything exists on paper just not practically.
The Play team or someone else could just re-implement the template layer as Groovy once again.

Scala has a lot of nice things going for it, but using it for the Play2 template language was stupid - the benefits do not outweigh the drawbacks at all.
I can't think of someone more apt to share experiences and criticism about treatment of gender in an industry that someone who has literally experienced both sides of it first-hand. (edit: from an exterior appearance standpoint, obviously, but isn't that the very point of this discussion. People are inappropriately judged on their visible, expressed exterior gender rather than by the merit of their contributions?)
> Is this particular patent valid? Maybe, maybe not... it doesn't really matter.

Are you shitting me??? They just got two of their competitors' flagship products banned from sale over that bullshit patent, which will likely take years to invalidate.

What on earth makes you think it "doesn't matter"?
> If someone assumed I was brown-eyed (when in fact I'm blue), I'm not going to write about it, because it is a non-issue.

(for the sake of argument I'm going to assume you're male). Imagine you moved to a country with a different language, and your given name sounded feminine in that language. Every time someone met you in person they would look at you strange and go "oh, I'm sorry! I thought you were a woman!" Perhaps you would be assigned to the female dormitory if you studied abroad there, and embarrassingly had to file paperwork to change that.

Would you want to make a small note on your email signature saying "I'm a man!"? I know I would. This is something you would write about, because it kind of is an issue.

These are the kinds of things female developers have to deal with all the time: "wait, you're here for the conference? As a developer? I'm sorry, I didn't realize!" "Okay, but you're not like a developer developer, right?" This shouldn't be the case. The annoying thing is that if a woman writes a note saying "I'm a woman!," they get put in a different class of developer than if they left it off.
Just notice that too. If I get some time next week I'll look into it.
>>Or Britain liberated India from a Mughal conqueror and put the Hindus back in charge.

Joke?

Firstly Muslims participated and contributed equally to Indian 'Freedom' Struggle. Notice the word 'Freedom' there! Indians consider it Freedom, being an Indian I've never read anything in our history books, which considers the post mughal period as a the period of 'Freedom'.

Secondly British stole a lot from India, took it back to England to make itself rich. Mughals as far as I know did nothing like that. The conqueror never went back, In fact he united India and contributed to India's rich cultural heritage in music, poetry, science, wealth and in nearly every aspect of life.

After all that India was never a nation ruled by single ideological power. Mainland India has been ruled by Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists(Asoka was a Buddhist), atheists. And there have been no defined borders of Mainland India throughout history. Which has been area from the north starting from southern tips of Russia, the whole of Afghanistan and then extending on the east till Iran.

India has been ruled by people speaking various languages, cultures, skin color and ethnicity for thousands of years.
It's a bad example because there's no history of discrimination and oppression against brown-eyed people.
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"Straight white guys don't react well to being told they are privileged. I will, therefore, come up with a condescending, stereotypical metaphor in order to tell them they are privileged, in hopes that this will...

well, get some clicks anyway."
This is basically what Grapes of Wrath is about.
> Why? Religious people commit less crime, get and stay married more, use less illegal drugs, donate and volunteer more... It would make more sense to fear people becoming less religious.

Are you just playing devils advocate (no pun intended)? Because there seems to be a rather large creationism, abstinence only sex education, and homophobia shaped blindspot in your view. There's plenty of ostesnibly legitimate stuff that religion does to damage society without needing to do anything outright illegal (but if you need illegal, then we need only look as far as systemic child abuse in the Catholic Church). I suspect that when the OP talks about being frightened, this is the kind of thing he's thinking of. Certainly this is some of the stuff that frightens me.

Of course this is not to say that religion is all bad. I know one couple, devout members of a Christian sect, lovely people and I have great respect for them. Why? Because they walk their talk and they don't feel a need to proselytize all within earshot, trying to force others to live by the same rules they do. I assume they must realise at some level that they have no right to make such a demand. I wish more religious people were like them.
How did India get to it's huge population, though? I would have thought that if you don't have food, eventually the population stops growing?
Research in the other direction:

http://www.atheismresource.com/2010/atheist-dont-commit-as-m...

http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.pdf

http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/06/22/study-finds-people-wh...

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
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1. Sometimes people use "he" to refer to people they assume are male.

2. Men outnumber women in tech, making it all the more important not to further alienate the women left.

3. Men make assumptions and then get super-defensive when it is pointed out that their assumptions are wrong.

4. Women attempting to correct those assumptions are told that men's assumptions aren't men's responsibility and women must take responsibility for what random men happen to think.

4.A. Those same men go on to whine about things that are only true in their assumption-filled heads and have no connection to reality. When called on it, they blame women through convoluted logic of refusing to take responsibility for their own actions.

5. The original author reports that sometimes those defensive reactions include harassment, which makes it even less fair to put the entire onus on women who not only are being asked to put in extra effort, but they are also subject to punishment for having done so.

6. Apparently verroq somehow thinks this double standard is fair and "better in the long run", probably because what he means it "it's better for me as a dude, since I don't have to do any work and can keep irrationally blaming women for my failings."
Isn't 4 sigma really low when you're getting terabytes of data?
Yes! I have the same error trying to push my blog :-(
Despite obstinate grammarians, 'they' serves as a singular gender-neutral pronoun pretty well.
> we, almost successfully, taught them to speak English

Ummm, no you did not teach them to speak English.

Rather, "you" eradicated the parts of the population that did not speak English.
A great way to see how outsiders view the U.S. is read the travel guides written for them.

http://wikitravel.org/en/United_States
People buy meat when they have more money than required for sustenance, which takes much more grain than direct consumption.
In case anyone is wondering how Dale Carnegie wrote a book on "How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age", the actual author for the current edition of both books is credited to "Dale Carnegie & Associates"
Display graphics in Vim? A REPL within Vim? This is precisely the main advantage of Emacs over Vim: Connecting to external processes and doing more than just text editing.

(Don't get me wrong. I am not saying that Vim is bad. But this kind of thing just does not fit its mission statement)
What a bizarre post. A company could have entered a different market and killed it 5 years ago... however that market has still yet to materialize, whereas the market that the company actually entered was rather lucrative. Also, Steve Jobs could have invented a company to build hover cars and that company could have changed the world.
We've had the same pronoun situation here in Sweden. Recently, however, a new pronoun started to become common in everyday speech: 'hen'. It's a mix of 'han' ('he') and 'hon'('her'). It's picked up in popularity fast since it solves the specific problems highlighted by this article.
This headline is extremely misleading! The article itself says that [Scientists] "are expected to say [it]", but haven't said it.
Terrible headline.
>Many of the distinctive things I noticed could be summed up by describing America as a young culture.

I felt the same way when visiting Australia for the first time. The sense of a "Pioneer Spirit" with a vast mostly unexplored territory seems to still be there. It was actually quite infectious.
This was submitted to reddit as "Site Jumps gun and announces God Particle has been found."

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/vwo1h/site_jumps_gu...
I agree that corruption and incompetence can be found in all nominal styles of government. The labels (socialist, capitalist) are distractions from the unpleasant reality.

That said, I wonder: Are farm subsidies in India that much different than farm subsidies in the US?

US farm subsidies seem to be, pardon the expression, sacred cows, supported (or at least not challenged) by both conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats.

Even though they result in lakes of high-fructose corn syrup, youth obesity (especially among lower-income groups), and high health-related costs to society (especially the uninsured).
The main problem with running 10,000 cores is partitioning your program so that inter-core communication can happen effectively.

You could have several very large thread pools, each performing a different task in a processing pipeline.

You could set up a big SIMD system. Bu didn't the Connection Machine already do this, to the tune of 64k cores?

Maybe you're trying to figure out how to apply the model in a large distributed system where "core" is actually some cloud compute instance. You're back to devising effective ways to communicate with all your cores.

In the end, massively parallel processing, beyond generalized horizontal scaling tends to be designed for a particular problem domain. Some problems lend them selves to vectorization, others to SIMD decomposition, others shared-nothing multiprocessing with message passing between cores.
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then you'll be accused of objectification.
>>not to be misunderstood as a claim that the US would have been incapable of dealing with Katrina by themselves.

Oh, yes sure.

But if somebody in my neighborhood dies, I lend them shoulder so that they cry in comfort. Not that they are incapable of dealing with their loss. But because that's how friends treat each other. With compassion and are always there for each other during times of need.
And wouldn't 99.99% be six sigma anyway?
So the obvious question is: How does one change this from the inside? Does the plan of attack differ if you were a line worker versus a VP?
Just remember that "normal life like back on earth" sucks balls for most of the people on earth. If there was a ship on the pad, there would be a line around the block that made "American Idol" auditions look like a small, intimate gathering.
Non-native here: isn't "they" more like addressing a royal? That's what it sounds to me anyway.
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I'm not sure why you're supplying a definition of "complain" except to confirm my point? Because none of those things are present in the OP.

Recognising bias is important in gender discussions. It doesn't provide many truths but it reveals the falsehoods.
Can you refer me to the amendment that states that law should be followed in spirit? Just curious, cause I don't recall seeing it.
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No, I don't. I and most people still don't understand what Pylon/Pyramid is and their page that tries to explain it does nothing but make the problem worse.
Yes, someone's wealth would be affected. I have no idea what you mean by that question.

I'm an economist, and it really aggravates me to hear such misunderstanding of the profession. Try replacing "economics" and "economist" with "medicine" and "doctor" to hear how ludicrous it sounds.

But yes, I agree that many Econ 101 models are tragically flawed. Don't confuse introductory classes for the beliefs of the "majority of economists".
The second person plural in my parents' idiolect of English is "you", but in mine there's effectively a familiar/formal dichotomy of "you guys" and "you", with the latter rarely used. In the American South, many people use "you" for singular and "y'all" for plural. I wouldn't be surprised if other dialects are also losing the plural "you".
I'm a huge fan of Google, Apple, Linux, Xbox, and Kindle. Apparently, I need to start insulting and belittling myself or something...
We didn't have famines that killed in millions.

Even until say a generation and half back. During my Dad's times it was quite usual for couples to >10 kids. It was considered a sign of pride!

Apart from that there are other social issues. Social security is a huge problem in India, Pension is a cruel joke. Other form of income during old age include rent from real estate or meagerly savings. Amidst all this kids are considered as a somebody who can take care of their parents.

For the west this might sound strange, but parents are a integral part of the family. In fact family means Parents, siblings and their kids included.

In all this Boys are considered cash cows. Because they are perceived as somebody who can earn and feed them in old age. Girls are considered money drains, as they marry and go away to their husbands home, to never return or contribute much. There is also a huge problem of dowry(Mandatory gifts given to girls during marriage) which makes girls look like burdens. The Indian middle class is also shy to send Girls to work.

All this contributes to 'reproduce until you get a boy' problem. The rest is left to your imagination. Especially when more population leads to more of it, merely by its very dynamics.

So you see the problem isn't that simple. Sometimes its genuine. Imagine you are old, need food, clothes, medical care. You need money for it, you see your neighbor get all the help from his son. While you get no help from your daughters.

The natural reaction is ... 'If at all, I had a son... I wouldn't be in this state today'.

These problems are not that simple to solve.
My AWS EC2 instances got spun up to 100% cpu and have been like that for a day. Basically saw a step function from 0 to 100 in the CPU graph. Just had to reboot them.
Amen to that! It's more like $1 trillion or $1.3 or more, see my response below. And we need to go after the banksters and big oil and gas that take away more than enough money that could be used to balance our budget before we talk about aid that is a fraction of a percentage of our GDP.
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You realize your personal attacks hurt, not help, your message, right? Your snark, sarcasm, and overall angst is not going to get people to consider your point of view. That is your goal, right? If you just want to WTFPWN some random person on the Internet, well grats. Else, you probably just made things at least one unit worse for women in tech.
To put it bluntly - I don't know you enough to believe you, but then I am not in your target demographics.

(edit) To elaborate - there are people who care deeply about privacy, and there are those who don't (really) give a damn about it. Former won't touch Flutter with a pole no matter what you say. They won't touch it even if Flutter were open source. I know because I am one of them. Latter group however is substantially larger and it basically includes everyone with a Facebook account. Having built a product that could've been seen as privacy-invasive, I was in a situation similar to yours and the take away was to counter complaints from the former group with a simple "this product is not for you." It saves nerves, time and money.

Great site redesign by the way. Not sure if it'd would help with getting $ customers, but it's certainly un-ordinary.
Interesting, but a bit of a strawman: one comment dismisses complaints of women because he accuses them of not contributing anything of merit. That is of course flawed in itself, but it is just one person's comment, not a general attitude towards female bloggers.

I also don't think that for example on HN it should be possible to "pay" with technical contributions for non-technical contributions, like, for every x relevant
articles you would be allowed an irrelevant article. Ideally, every article should stand on it's own (probably not realistic, but an ideal to attain to).
Abstraction is the right answer. Just send a message, and let the application layer figure out the right transport to make it readable on the final device.
The takeaway ...

"The move comes just days after Microsoft introduced the Surface tablet, its first effort to compete with its computer-maker partners in the market for Windows computers."
They belong to the same family of interchangeable parts, seemingly used by people who haven't used a web framework that doesn't begin with the letters Dj.