skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When women look at tech companies and math departments, they see few women. This activates the stereotype that women aren’t good at math. The stereotype…

Is there any evidence that this is what actually happens? Are all women carrying around these stereotypes with them? It just seems like a "just so" explanation.

Most of the examples in this article aren't of stereotype threat, they're examples of the authors' insecurity and social anxiety about being in tech. I can understand how a women would feel uncomfortable working in large groups
of, what are generally socially inept, geeks but that seems like a different
problem. This was the money-quote for me:

I remember one instance in particular when I was feeling particularly isolated at our company. “I feel like an outsider! Like the guys don’t want me here because I’m a woman!” I whined to one of my male colleagues. He looked at me and replied, “Well that’s dumb. Of course they want you here. You’re great to work with.”

So essentially this woman has a self-confidence issue. I see little evidence from this article (and the NPR one) that these problems, to the extent that they exist, are just run-of-the-mill social anxiety and nothing more.
I don't understand personally how padmapper interrupts Craigslist's revenue stream. All posts direct back to CL.

I suppose you could argue that if padmapper found a new awesome data source to crawl & became so big they no longer needed craigslist and people stop bothering to check CL for rental postings THEN padmapper could be affecting their revenue stream.
It is a little strange, but I think it's also a product of how it came to be.

It began as a post on a hobbyist 3d headset forum. The guy piqued the interest of John Carmack, who started developing for and promoting it, in tandem with a re-release of a doom game which worked with its specs. It generated a bunch of buzz, so the initial guy was going to put it on Kickstarter to get better deals on some of the components.

Regarding the Kickstarter cut, there was a forum-only Paypal 'gift' donation a couple weeks ago to avoid that, but it wouldn't have been enough. Plus, the rift developer wanted to launch on Kickstarter ahead of Quakecon for the publicity of it all.

This was scheduled to be a couple weeks ago, but then in a flurry, Palmer, the developer of the rift, got a bunch of meetings with some game companies and it's been kind of madness since.

Looking back, it may have been better to work with those companies first, but before he could even get in touch, he drummed up all this interest, and now we've all been waiting on the Kickstarter, I think he feels compelled to launch the Kickstarter anyway, since that was the original plan.

As for headaches: John Carmack demonstrated the rift at this year's E3 and the reviews were almost uniformly positive.

edit: I'm not involved, just have been excited about it for a long time and pledged today.
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I think the standard response here is that CL clearly leaves massive amounts of money on the table. It can't be modeled well as a for-profit company. Whether or not it can be modeled as a non-profit with a coherent philosophy is debatable, but just pointing out that some of its actions seem profit-driven does not eliminate the apparent conflict with other actions.
Hot corners?
why does it give you that same feeling?
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In what way is Craigslist forbidding its customers to advertise by other means?

The rhetoric on this is getting ridiculous.
Not really. Hybrid devices always suck.
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> calls page mindless FUD when in fact there are specific examples cited on page

> doesn’t back up own claims of FUD

Hello?
I was happy to see the interface and tried to sign up. Outlook.com would not let me set my password bigger than 16 characters. wtf?
Due to exaggerated copyright concerns, Dropbox no longer dedupes across customers, last I checked. People were using dedupe to "instantly send" files (a project called Dropship). Dropbox felt that made them too liable for copyright infringement and nixed the feature.
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Most of us actually live in Raleigh so we want to make sure people searching for Raleigh in the thread find us. (from North Raleigh it's about the same time to either Downtown Durham or Downtown Raleigh)
Keep in mind that I was explaining to a newspaper publisher why Craigslist would not work with them to help them make more money. Craig's focus is on building tools that help fact-check stories and help news organizations remain trustworthy, not efforts to help increase monetization.

That's fine, but it's a bit like polishing the brass on the Titanic.

From NiemanLab:

"Craig Newmark’s most recently announced project, CraigConnects, is, as best as I can tell, a way of funneling Newmark’s attention capital towards (mostly) nonprofit organizations."

Attention capital is nice and welcome, but hardly the thing that will save good journalism.
I'm all for this as long as only the top .1% of people can afford this. We can't have everyone and their mom achieving immortality.
When I did more active development of my iOS apps I was always on the lookout for good icons of this sort. Sometimes I would even do my own using a tool called ArtText2 from the image components they provided. I even sent them an email offering money for more components to build the icons from, which they never followed up on.
In other words... learn vim?
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Also, a checkbox.
This isn't correct. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRT
"Programs can be written using Windows Runtime that will run on both the X86 and ARM editions of Windows 8 without modification."

The entire point of WinRT (read: Metro-style apps) is the you can code it once, and it will run on either platform.

> Why would a developer spend time working on Windows RT software

Because they don't have to spend any extra time over writing the same application for x86-based Windows 8
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Now up - all works.
What's the current market price for the personal contact details of 11,000+ individuals? Keep in mind that these people are willing to sign up for something they know nothing about...
Hiya, thanks for the feedback! what info would the comparison give? Did you want to compare kerning and baselines?
Do you think the author who found this malware in the wild had the original source code to it?
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yeah i was wondering about that too...

"Github.js is automatically™ tested by the users of Prose. Because of that, we decided to save some time by not maintaining a test suite."

I know that Prose isn't a for-profit, business-centric app, but how does this work exactly? Is there some system built in to notify developers when an error happens, like with Airbrake? If so, THAT sounds like an awesome tool for businesses!
This kind of diatribe -- along with the PadMapper debacle -- simply makes the participants look like naive entitled children.

You don't understand why Craig won't play in your sandbox, berate him for not doing so, shout at the world that CRAIG IS A MEANIE.

Yet, Craigslist is phenomenally successful, and has an enviable organization model that has allowed them to stay true to what matters to them. The fact that these things don't matter to you does not make them wrong.

Craigslist has a "lifestyle" business with revenue numbers that would make any startup green with envy, and it seems to me that you -- and others like you -- can't get your head around the fact that Craig (and Craigslist) is so successful, and yet they do not want to play your game.

If you think Craigslist sucks, then either make a better one, or figure out how to work with Craigslist within a framework that does not run counter to their established ethos. That probably means no venture capital, and no standard corporate organizational model.

Simply taking what you want -- or haranguing them openly for not operating the way you would like -- is simply childish petulance.
What aspect of security are you referring to or do you just mean overall?

I have been using mediacloud ( http://mediacloud.cc/ ) for the past few months and I've been very impressed with it. They have built-in file acceleration to give you the maximum upload speeds your network allows. I've been using it to upload files anywhere from 1mb to 20gb and have never had a problem.

As for security I know they use AES256 SSL, but again, am not sure which aspect of security you are interested in.
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Craigslist tightens grip, demanding exclusive ownership of ads
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Yeah, I guess it might take a name change to get people to stop assuming that Craig is in charge.
> You say "seized control" like he showed up with a bunch of armed goons and wrested it away from its rightful owner. Craigslist dominates online classifieds because they recognized it was a market worth serving years before the incumbents in classifieds did, and served it. It's not a crime to get there first.

I agree that "seize" is poor word choice, but the fact that he gained a monopoly position through legal competition does not negate the fact that it's a monopoly.

>I must have missed the part where Craigslist used their dominant position in classified advertising to unfairly benefit other products they offer.

They use it to advance an unusual philosophy. Yes, this is different from using it to get money, but the effect for those of us who do not share their philosophy are similar.

If Standard Oil used the money earned from its monopoly powers to buy teddy bears for orphans, that wouldn't have reduced arguments that it was a trust and needed to be broken up. (And given Rockefeller's philanthropy, this isn't too far from the truth.)

Edit (since I can't reply): network effects keep out other competitors. I don't know what "unfair practices" are defined as, I just know that monopolies insulated from competition are bad. Somewhat analogous was Standard Oil's policy of dropping their prices below cost locally long enough for small competitors to go out of business, and then raising them afterwards. New competitors were prevented from entering because Standard Oil had a reliable threat of doing it again. This didn't require Standard Oil to apply horizontal leverage (i.e. using dominance in the market for one product to influence another).
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I actually find CL's actions entirely rational. A business is about building value and services such as pad mapper decrease that value. Its easy to say PadMapper is just an overlay on top of Craigslist data - but its not. PadMapper aggregates data from other providers and in fact allows users to post to it directly.

If I owned PadMapper my business plan would be to leech listings from all over the place in an effort to grab traffic to the point where people use my service (and pay to list there) first. Isn't that the goal? CL doesn't want these types of services to build their market on the backs of the value they've created for their customers (people who post) and their audience.
Padmapper is for-profit, just like Craigslist. Padmapper wants to eat away at CL by taking listings directly through Padlister, which is how Padmapper makes money.
When I looked at this around a year ago, there was surprisingly little code involved with supporting Python/WSGI. I was interested in adding support for Perl/PSGI; I decided that would take me longer than I had free time to commit, but for someone with more knowledge it might be a quick project and a real boon for running Perl web applications on shared hosting.
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Likely. But highend android models actually have more horsepower than the apple alternatives.

They do really need it though. Because on iOS with truly native code and a static hardware stack, they can just push more performance. The same is true when comparing consoes with desktop pcs. Many games actually run slower on more powerfull hardware, just because of all the extra levels of indirection.
The big question is whether there's more similarity (today) between tablet and laptop than tablet and phone. Microsoft has bet on the tablet-laptop combo while Apple and Android have taken the tablet-phone route.

If Apple does indeed release a 7" iPad then this further cements the tablet-phone approach. Microsoft will have difficulties competing here immediately because Win8's UI is not made to scale down that small and it would be awkward to release 7" devices running WP8 (2 different tablet OSes!).

Most people agree that there needs to be more continuity between desktop and mobile and Microsoft is setting themselves up decently with Windows Phone 8 (based on the Win8 core and WinRT).

My concern with Windows 8 is that it took a cheap route to extend to tablet UIs (the second shell, Metro), resulting in 3 UI platforms- desktop (classic shell), tablet (Metro), phone (WP8), rather than 2.
Here's what I find interesting many hours after my original post: Not one person --NOT ONE-- posted a reply that made any attempt to address the data. Most replies have consisted of thinly veiled personal attacks or, failing that, simply ignored the data and chose to go off on a tangent where an alternate reality is used instead.

And of course, there's the downvote "campaign" by liberal-trending HN'ers who seem to have no interest in the facts.

I am personally scared of the idea of having people in media, government and law-making that actually think and behave this way. Ignore the facts and come-up with an alternate reality that fits the ideology being promoted. That's wrong.
Btw We can also provide individual icon svgs with the font pack if this is useful
When I was handed my exit survey at my former workplace I didn't lie. I just omitted.

I omitted how repetitive and useless was the work.

I omitted how micromanagement was killing the spirits of the employees.

I omitted how many growth promises they made me were still unattained.

But I did underline some positive aspects of the workplace: the cafeteria and the bar.

What I mean is, there's no reason to lie. Maybe just omitting stuff and praise useless perks would suffice.
Be interesting to see what comes out of this program. What are some examples of current companies or startups in the Edu-tech space?
Here's what I find interesting many hours after my original post: Not one person --NOT ONE-- posted a reply that made any attempt to address the data. Most replies have consisted of thinly veiled personal attacks or, failing that, simply ignored the data and chose to go of on a tangent where an alternate reality is used instead.

And of course, there's the downvote "campaign" by liberal-trending HN'ers who see to have no interest in the facts.

I am personally scared of the idea of having people in media, government and law-making that actually think and behave this way. Ignore the facts and come-up with an alternate reality that fits the ideology being promoted. That's wrong.
I'm in Canada and your site is very slow to load (over a minute). It is also very tricky to scroll vertically on an iPhone, it wants to scroll sideways instead. Just FYI.
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Is Data Science Scary?
I will say good start but not useful though. Except entering numbers I couldn't do any thing. One good thing is it is very light. The reason people use excel because you can do lot more than just entering numbers.
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