skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly. It's poorly written. It takes a lot of effort to read this and determine the author's point. She does a poor job of transferring from her bathroom story to the general issue of there being an absence of women in IT.

Then she starts throwing around statistics in paragraph 6 with absolutely no segue. She goes from whiny complainer about something trivial to I'm gonna fix the world's problems by talking to other women at this conference.

She's just not a good writer and her being a woman has nothing to do with that.
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Offering a priority listing is definitely something we have being considering. Thanks for the suggestion.
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I'm not sure if you have seen our video on our website but we have certain features (e.g. - invoicing functionality and rooming list feature) in the group organiser's dashboard already. There are lots of features which we could potentially add down the line to add value to their overall offering.

We are essentially looking for an alternative revenue stream, because we are not converting enough groups through our website. We don't want to arrive at a situation where hotels aren't winning any business through our website. So we are essentially hoping to move away from commission to something else.
Just a quick note to say that you can turn personalization off with Google. For example, you can choose the geolocation of the search results on the left-hand side of the screen. Searching with an incognito browser window is another option. You can also add "&pws=0" to turn personalized web search off.

In fact, if we personalize our web results, we mention that at the bottom of the web page. You can click on that notice to see what kind of personalization we applied, and we offer a link on that page to re-run the search without personalization.

Google used to offer the link to turn off personalization above the search results, but we eventually moved it below the search results, because practically no one ever clicked that link.

We don't want anyone to be trapped in an information bubble either, which is why we provide a wide variety of tools to help you slice and dice what you see.
Curiously, I need a desktop to do "real work". A laptop is uncomfortable for some things (mouse, small screen, etc)...
Le what? Ya.ru is the no-thrills stripped down version of yandex.ru
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If you take off you engineering hat when you look at the situation it becomes less simple.

First off, having something stolen does not merely mean you now lack that object to most normal people. Theft is a violation of your property, and by extension, yourself. Having anything stolen carries with it psychological consequences; it is unpleasant. (And this is to ingore that for many people bikes serve several roles, some of which people may see helmets as necessary and some less so. Furthermore the options are not "bike with or without a helmet" but rather "bike with or without a helmet, or just avoid the mess and get there any other number of ways". When mandatory helmet laws are in effect, that is the decision people are making).

You are also attributing to much logic and planning to theives and vandals. The people who sell their wares online are the tip of the iceberg, damn close to the "criminal masterminds" of the bike crime world. The junkie who is just looking for crape to trade or give to a pawn shop doesn't give a shit what something is worth; if he can easily steal it, he will. And the punk kids who think it is fun to trash stuff don't really care either.

If you want to leave your helmet locked to your bike, more power to you. There is no way in hell I am going to do that in a city though.
The litany of employee problems that he has to face because he cannot fire people is a nightmare...

The workaround for that in France: don't hire people.

I worked for a French startup. The founder rented all his employees from a consulting agency that assumed the risks and costs of providing fulltime employment. The end result was something that resembled American at-will employment, but with a higher cost of labor.
Iñigo Quilez has the best live coding tutorials on simple raytracers I've seen:

http://www.iquilezles.org/live/index.htm

It's so much easier than I thought...
Yeah, my guess is your only focus should be on driving up demand. If you had thousands of people booking rooms it wouldn't be hard to make money off them. With small numbers it will probably never work that well.

Maybe you can come up with some new approach by just focusing purely on what it takes to get more people booking rooms. Maybe by offering deals (not just bidding), doing deals with conference organizers, etc.
If I get up at 10am and go to sleep at 2am, should I just move the schedule they show forward 2 hours and it'll apply to me?
Yes, I remember that it was almost impossible to find anything with it in Russian.
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I wonder how hard it would be to make JS compile to Erlang like Elixir. I think the big problem would be some kind of actor model in the browser with everything callback based. Other than that, they're both dynamically typed, functional (Erlang obviously more) languages.
Obviously Linux on the desktop will never happen for mainstream people, but I can imagine a future where people use tablets to such a degree that the average person never interacts with a Windows PC (except, ironically enough, for iCloud).

As for belief that technology can make society a better place, that was never universual on /. (or the YRO section wouldn't exist) and I for one absolutely still believe it.

In many ways hn is a much more grown up version of /. we recognize that communism isn't a workable philosophy, that money can be pretty sweet and there is nothing wrong with making them so long that you provide real value for it.

Oh, and that AB tests are like printing money, once you have users.

But in the end, and even considering that my /. user id is much more than a few digits, I am pretty happy that it exist. The teenage me would not have been so into tech if it hadn't been for /.

So a happy birthday from me.
You are willing to accept physical differences but not psychological differences between men and women?
Nope, the level of reader comprehension here is too low. She said that there was no line at the family restroom before she said she threw her water bottle. If that isn't enough to clue readers in about the real source of her anguish as opposed to the thing that first tipped her off, there's the whole rest of the article.
Go in general seems to be a very clean language with a lot of little warts everywhere.
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I would also recommend people look into notmuch.

http://notmuchmail.org/
FWIW, amazon's RDS supports Oracle already, also allowing you to reuse existing licenses
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In short, it comes down to that she wants more women in the industry. Maybe she seemed a bit lonely among so many men, or maybe something else—I don't know and she didn't tell.

All right. Now what?
An introduction about Hibernate in Java
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Just wait until someone gets arrested.

The technology will change once again to get around the legalese. Also of note, Japan has very strong anti-wiretapping laws[0] that prohibit carriers and other providers from port blocking, tapping or redirecting packets -- the only presumable legal way for these associations to check on downloaders would be to hold illegal content themselves and wait for a Japanese IP address to connect.

[0] http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%80%9A%E4%BF%A1%E3%81%AE%E7%...
In India, if a train arrives, it is considered 'on time'.
Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
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I liked this piece overall, but there's one part that annoyed me.

Something else that had long-lasting influence over software we still use today was the ADM-3A terminal. If you ever wondered why vi uses 'hjkl' as left,down,up,right - this is why.

You won't find anyone who believes more strongly than I do in the importance of understanding our history. But understanding history is different than making a fetish of it, and this explanation tiptoes pretty close to the latter. OK, vi uses hjkl because the ADM-3A terminal didn't have arrow keys. But every keyboard for decades now has had arrow keys. Given that, what's the value in pretending they do not?

This explanation basically boils down to "we do it that way because we've always done it that way," which is poor argumentation.

It's also a good illustration of the distinction between 'easy' and 'efficient' - the modern cursor key layout, with the 'up' in front of the 'down', is obvious, intuitive, and easy to master. No argument. But it's not the most efficient layout - it's not possible to keep all four fingers on the four navigation keys - you have to settle for three fingers and move them around. And if you're typing and suddenly need to move, you have to move completely away from where you're typing and switch to the cursors.

hjkl answers both issues - the four keys in a line make it possible to keep one finger on each and so move about as quickly as possible, without ever having to move from the text-entry part of the keyboard to any other. It's not as easy, not as obvious, but it's quicker and more efficient when you're used to it. Even on my modern keyboard, I go for hjkl far more than I reach for cursors.

Well sure you do, because you have trained yourself to do that. But how many people can say that? And what's the value in leaving everybody else out when you design your tools?

Anytime you talk about how UNIX-like systems have evolved, there's a danger of falling into the trap of hailing historical cruft as "misunderstood features." But at the end of the day, it's still just historical cruft. It's there, it won't kill anyone if it stays there, but it's not something awesome either. It's just an evolutionary dead-end; the male nipple of software design.
> Yet when was the last time that the general public was genuinely excited about some open source project? Firefox? Wikipedia?

Android?
The recent wave of password and hash theft might become an incentive to move to this login method. I was skeptic about the possibility of BrowserID catching on, thinking the Google/Twitter/FB wouldn't give up tracking users with their ID methods. But if there is a way to make this widespread (though I can't imagine how) I'd really like it to happen.

Will Mozilla provide native support or an extension? Or they feel like it would hurt if someone could implement a bad login page that still works if the browser has native support?
I would suggest not looking at the people and raise their taxes, but instead look at government itself and see how they can spend less. (Not talking about cutting benefits but the size of government itself and everything regarding it's operations).
Google Fusion Tables: Combine your spreadsheets with other data on the web.
It was also very good! I much preferred its results to Rambler which was popular at the time (and the developer behind Rambler wrote ngnix, afair).
I'm kind of disappointed by the comments here. Not just by the fact that people couldn't read the entire article before making judgments but more that I would have thought the people of this website would understand why it's important to bring women into tech.

Women aren't biologically inclined to not like STEM fields (which I sadly see is a popular sentiment). The reason women don't go into these fields is because of the misogynistic culture. The stereotype of a computer whiz is a man. Ask yourself why you never considered becoming a nurse (if you are a man) and you will understand why women reject the idea of working in the tech industry.
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Blacks and Whites are different. There's no discrimination, it's just that Blacks are more interested in basketball and driving taxis and making music then getting into Harvard or practising law. We should celebrate these differences instead of trying to tear down barriers that don't exist.
If you don't think that's the case on HN, just look for a discussion about something that has anything at all to do with Elon Musk.
Honest question, Are people concern because there are not enough afro-americans/hispanics/etc in the software industry?
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For those of you who will undoubtedly complain that this is an unfair/exaggerated analogy, think back to how many posts have been on HN about the rampant sexism women have experienced at tech conferences.
That is not a similar experience at all. Even if we ignore that you completely missed the point of the article (she's not complaining about the bathroom situation at all, as seventy trillion other commenters have already pointed out - presumably you didn't read them either?) we still have:

First, you wouldn't have gone to a NKOTB (New Kids on the Block) concert if you weren't going with your daughter. You didn't actively want to be there. The author of the article was going to a programming conference of her own will.

Second, I don't think that NKOTB are important enough that it matters what the gender composition of their audiences are. Programming, on the other hand, is very important, and will only get more important in the future. Such a huge gender imbalance at the most important PL conference will be problematic for women in the future (and for men as well, if you can believe it).

Third, you "doubt" that there was a similar reaction at the PL conference. I presume you weren't actually there, then? I wasn't there either, so I wouldn't even begin to think about making up random suppositions and using them to support my argument.
Mobile computing has definitely changed my life. I just realized the other day as I tossed my busted up laptop from 2008 that I no longer own a magnetic hard drive. I also don't have a desktop computer, anything running Windows, TV, a CD player, a DVD player, or a landline phone (technically I do w/ my DSL line, but I've never once used it). I live my e-life via a 13" Macbook Air and a 2 year old Android smartphone.

I don't consider myself bleeding edge anymore. I still don't have a tablet, although there is the occasional day I want one. Diablo 3 will be played on my next laptop, my 2010 era Macbook Air doesn't have quite enough horsepower to power point and click monster bashing for my taste. And while I've been pushed into going touchscreen on my phone, I still yearn for a physical keyboard on a mobile device.
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Don't you think it makes more sense to contribute to existing open source projects than rewrite one without offering anything new?

Depends on whose goals you're trying to further. If you're just working for the Man^H^H^H community at large, then yeah it makes the most sense to spend your free time on contributing to existing platforms. After all, any time spent not acting as a unit of production is time wasted.

On the other hand, if you're doing it for your own enjoyment then it makes all the sense in the world to spend your free time working on whatever gives you the most enjoyment. There's nothing wrong with being satisfied with 40 hours a week of being a unit of production, and wanting to spend the rest of the time living for oneself.
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Relocation is definitely available for well qualified candidates (I moved from SF to NYC to work here!)
Sometimes it's the little things that can drive home "You Are Different Here" and make one open one's eyes to how something is wrong.
Unfortunately they say little about who they are...
I know I'm making a generalization here but the software industry isn't racist like it is sexist.
Android phone 'wipeout' security flaw exposed
Tried notmuch a while back, ended up going back to mutt. If you're an emacs user the notmuch mode may work well for you. The notmuch.vim plugin, OTOH, leaves a lot to be desired.

More promising is this fork of mutt that adds notmuch support:

https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz
We also travel extensively for our work anyway -- projects in Africa, India, Latin America -- so we're used to setting up shop pretty much anywhere. And definitely in less hospitable circumstances than Sao Paulo. So that helped mitigate the culture shock factor somewhat.
A plea for the word service
I use maildir-utils instead of notmuch as an indexer; notmuch had odd failure modes for me that weren't worth trying to debug.

mutt can also use IMAP/SSL directly, and I do that for some accounts, where I don't want to have local storage.
Fair point. I was thinking the last 1000 years as opposed to 1000, 2000, etc. In that state the same could be said about the last century or even the last decade really.