skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree that technology (development) is a field that is not always friendly towards women. Being a male dominated field (like construction, auto mechanics, airline pilots, doctors, lawyers, politics are all male-dominated as well) means that ideas from women are sometimes dismissed simply because they are from women, or unnecessary sexual or sexist comments are made that make women not feel welcome. I think that's an area this industry needs to improve upon, being more welcome.

But that's not to say it needs to be 1:1. (There's no high-paid profession that is 1:1, is there?) I think it's valid to question that we need to have an equal ratio, although I agree we have to improve a lot.
spe·cious
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Adjective
Superficially plausible, but actually wrong: "a specious argument".
Misleading in appearance, esp. misleadingly attractive: "a specious appearance of novelty".

So you are saying you would prefer wrong information?
It's a question of social status. Programming used to be a low social status occupation. Skyrocketing pay and the second tech bubble changed that, so now there's an emphasis on hiring women programmers just like the emphasis on women doctors and women lawyers. Garbage collection is still low status, so women garbage collectors are a lower priority.
For lots of stuff along these lines, Donald Norman's Design of Everyday Things is highly recommended.
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I see absolutely nothing wrong with that page.
cough "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" [1] cough

[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-schmich-su...
Sounds like the issue here is:
1. immediacy
2. too many auth options on one (often poorly protected) device
That's a lovely strawman you're beating on.

If you actually read the post, jwz isn't complaining that bugs aren't being fixed on "[HIS] SCHEDULE AND SATISFACTION. THE NERVE." He doesn't say anything at all about bugs not being fixed.

His complaint is that his bug reports are being completely ignored, and/or developers providing no way to even REPORT bugs.

I imagine he would be happy (well, HAPPIER, it is jwz) if a project owner said/posted "this is a one-man show. I'm really busy and don't have any time at all to work on it right now. Here's a bugzilla/github issues/whatever where you can report bugs and at least see if it's a known issue"
Having a discriminatory policy is unjust. So changing who you discriminate against is not less unjust.
I got the Playbook (2 actually, one for my mom) and it's actually pretty good. Considering how much cheaper it was to the Nexus, I don't mind the purchase and for what we really use it for (chat, YouTube, email etc...) it's pretty good.

The AppWorld isn't the barren wasteland of shoddy apps it once was either. I think they're slowly starting to attract decent developers.
I wonder how Etsy defines "most success" in the teams of zero or two women.

I'm a female dev and I don't feel weird on all male teams. Just another team member. But I did feel singled out when the other female developer and I were mostly assigned to work together.

Not that I don't love working with other ladies, but making it any kind of policy makes me feel more segregated than included.
I gave this to my parents as a birthday gift, one of my favorite writings on life wisdom and finding inner peace. There's so much written on self help, yet this summarizes it all well. Various stanzas keep coming up in different situations and it keeps making me remember how to handle that situation. There's so many -isms out there that everyone fights about but this combines the most basic, common sense elements of them all.
You're drinking the wrong stuff, is all I can say. You've got to get the ones from the refrigerated section, not that crap that is sold at room temperature - that's no good.

And if you don't want it out of a box of any kind, you can get it fresh squeezed from many places. Nothing beats that.
I'd like to see the same visualization, but for the distribution of the nationalities/origin of the actual paper authors.

i.e. of the ~300K papers published in the US, how many of those papers were authored and co-authored by immigrants (H1-B, or naturalized) etc.

I suspect that a greater % of these papers were written by foreign born researchers.
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Thank you,

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What else, in your opinion, makes that short list? Fried chicken comes to mind for me, although Korean fried chicken may have surpassed the traditional US creation.
How Valve's Steam Box will reinvent the game console
A lot of things in KDE4 were (re)written from scratch. No such thing will happen for KDE5. It is mostly about splitting the base libraries.

That said, Plasma and KWin will probably have the most changes, one from the mass conversion to QtQuick, the other for supporting Wayland.
Law and management are high enough status that women had already broken into them by the time you started noticing.
I interpret "I have watched in envy as my wife could get so much done on her phone" as regarding how many apps are available for one phone and how few were available for his Blackberry.

It's great if the phone at launch has all sorts of modern features, but this same sort of device/feature envy will exist if Blackberry can't attract significant developer attention.
>Neither of them sold

It's not even available yet...
Right. I didn't learn programming (or anything much of value), so I would have had more balance with less video games and more of some other thing.

That's not going to be true for everyone though.
I don't know why anyone would be hesitant to join companies' with uncertain financials with unremunerated risk... probably has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with intelligence. Buying lottery tickets is not a wealth building strategy.

They talk a lot about diversity and then talk about ivy league, how much diversity are you really getting from focusing on such small segments of the workforce? Unless they are specifically targeting the Ivy league Harvard's grad gender ratio should mean absolutely nothing. I don't see what being born to wealthy parents has to do with good developers, or diversity.

The article might as well say "We're diverse because we hire people who think the same but have different genitals"
This is a good approach! Doing a little work to narrow down the scope of the bug and where it belongs can go a long way towards bringing it to the right developer's attention.

It also helps to attach a reduced test case and as much information as you can glean about the bug so that it can be reproduced.

And as you say, there is a point as well to go on IRC and ask. :D
Yeah that's still a permissions issue. The user/account did not have write permissions so instead of just erroring out its trying to preserve legacy software by taking the change and ignoring it silently. Who knows why MS chose this path but the fault is still on the installer.

The fix is either use the proper locations for app data OR change permissions on that folder. its not some insurmountable hurdle that forces you to use weird locations. If permissions were correct then it would be fine. Heck, install Apache on windows. Everything just works in the proper locations because they didn't half ass everything.

Its also worth mentioning that this change came along when Vista was released; prior to that this didn't happen, yet crappy installers pulled the same shit: install to c:\, attempt to write to c:\windows\temp, etc and other DOS/Win95 legacy habits.

Ironically, Vista helped fix all this. Now I see installers for open source or community projects uses proper locations much more often than not. I guess people got sick of the UAC prompts and corporate admins were complaining about how all these arbitrary writes weren't compatible with their limited users.
http://blog.headius.com/2009/04/how-jruby-makes-ruby-fast.ht...

At least once a year there's a maelstrom of posts about a new Ruby implementation with stellar numbers. These numbers are usually based on very early experimental code, and they are rarely accompanied by information on compatibility. And of course we love to see crazy performance numbers, so many of us eat this stuff up.
Task management software
I'm looking for a recommendation for a good hosted task management system. All I need to do is post tasks, notes with the tasks, file attachments and set priority. I found basecamp to be really annoying. Any suggestions? Paid is fine...not looking to be cheap.
The difference here is pretty obvious to me. The Surface can stand alone, recover and reset itself, etc. The iPad, should something go wrong, is a useless brick without Apple's helpful malware called iTunes available on another PC.
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Totally with you on that last point. I think what set off my alarm with yoga in particular is that while it is a fantastic meditative and healthy activity, it's often very sexualized.

In reading more about it on their site and an AMA someone did about their experience five months ago, it's a mandatory morning activity they've been doing for awhile now and there don't seem to be any complaints (though a blog, http://newbietoruby.wordpress.com/, says that while he enjoys it, it took two hours out of his day and sometimes stressed him out).
Well, my feeling is that if you are going to ship it, you better fuzz it. And if you are assembling something with this card, you are the manufacturer.

A true fuzzing run for something like this ought to run in the tens of millions of packets.
Incidentally, this is exhibit A in Orwellian political redefinition. Instead of using the plain meaning of a word, you load it with political assumptions based on your manichean worldview so any word with a bad connotation cannot be applied to your side.

"You can't be sexist against men" is a classic Orwellian contradiction in that (by the plain meaning of the term) it itself is a sexist statement while simultaneously reinforcing this redefinition. It is so blatantly self-refuting that I'd long assumed it to be some kind of straw man, not something feminists actually said.
Can you securely share your data with this service? The reason I ask is because we're addressing this problem but at the same time addressing the difficult issue of secure collaboration in the cloud.

-V.
The second one was on the 3rd page with 30 points posted 2 hours ago which doesn't happen without flagging.

http://i.imgur.com/ADMcanz.png

Copy pasting from my earlier reply to you about the first one:

Then why was it sitting below another article that was posted around the same time but had only nearly half the points?
http://i.imgur.com/uFPTSqR.png

Edit: Even now, it ranks lower than another article with the exact same points posted a full four hours before it.

http://i.imgur.com/Yg5kXJb.png
I stand corrected, but I have my doubts. Maybe they should have given the design to HP, Dell, Acer or to everyone.
I have one word for you. Trello. Supporting details include "it just works" and "It is free". Seriously check that out.
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So, if I am getting it right, the point is not that diversity is important to a job.

The point is that women want more status, thus people see that status giving jobs with few women have a "problem"
The US has, historically, been very good at producing stuff that's good at being packaged up and sold anywhere in the country. Getting fresh fruit in Minnesota in the winter is a minor miracle of logistics.

However, the general quality of fruit and vegetables there has been inferior to that which I get in Italy. I think it's changing, and that things have improved a lot, but the US is still catching up.

I'm not the only one to see things this way - this book has a great section on why food is the way it is in the US:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005GSYYQ2/?tag=dedasys-20

Food in Italy is more likely to be good, but a bit less good looking on the supermarket shelves, or perhaps inconvenient. Some of those red orange varieties have lots of seeds, and aren't very big. Oranges in the US are large, last a long time on the shelves, don't have many seeds, look good, and tend towards blandness. In my experience.
Or you could discuss concepts at difficulty levels 1-7 and gauge how well I'm keeping up. The conversational interview is just as effective, more disarming, and more pleasant. I'd dare say it's more humane.
I'd love to see someone use this to build a browser-based way to use web-app-type things stored in Dropbox. I have a TiddlyWiki [1] stored in Dropbox, and I can view and edit it from any computer with Dropbox installed. On mobile, I can view the .html file (with effort) using the Dropbox app, but can't save, follow relative links to other Dropbox files, or do things like load external .js or .css files from Dropbox.

[1] http://tiddlywiki.com/
Like Button widget for website
LikeBtn widget allows to add the Like Button on the website with just a few lines of code.
Now you can get rid of a bunch of social buttons.
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Turn them off?

Or, try Razor-qt.
http://razor-qt.org/
I made a similar ask HN some weeks ago, people suggested Trello, and yes, it is badass and kickass and everythingelseass that you can imagine.
Not to rub salt into your wound, but $1250 for work which you personally acknowledge can take up to 3 months (it took you 3 months to dispute!) is hardly "generous".

What US-based developer can afford to work on your project for this long on that pay?

In short, if you don't want to get screwed, you should: first, start paying competitively. That will help you attract good candidates. Second, spend some time vetting them properly.
> the disbelief many show when hearing a software message can bring down a NIC.

Shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Firmware is just software, and it necessarily deals with raw bytes. Not really surprising that it can contain bugs that are triggered by certain byte patterns.
The old 1 GB = 1000MB instead of 1024MB marketing trick reduces usable space to ~119GB even before you start subtracting the OS space.
First, name a male dominated industry and I bet I can find you a group working to make it more diverse. For instance, finance: http://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/student/workexperience/follow-a...

Second, people here talk about that too. In an article that you should have read just recently: "hiring for diversity will set up better recruiting opportunities. Consider Harvard’s graduating computer science class: forty-one percent of the students are women, and an inability to hire talented females will start to significantly impact your ability to recruit altogether."
Heh, yeah and he pretty much gives all the info on how to create the attack.

The test would be to find out how common that particular NIC is out there - and grab a few and test out his method.

Looks like it would be fairly trivial to setup duplication given the author did all the heavy lifting in finding this. Putting a small AWS bot-net up that just sweeps massive IP blocks would be easy - heck you could do it really easily from a single machine, it would seem.

If you can take out a machine with a single packet....
The book I posted elsewhere points out the biggest thing: barbecue. They "grill stuff up" here in Italy, and it's quite good - especially a fiorentina steak - but it's not barbecue.

On the good side, you can get quite a wide variety of food in the US. Italy is very nationalistic about its food, and people, in general, are not as inclined to try new and different cuisines.
This is unfortunate but not unexpected.

I used to run a fairly large 40K website (Tau Online, now defunct).

I'd regularly receive letters and e-mails from the Games Workshop legal team.

I remember one time, someone had made a simple post on our forums saying they were thinking of selling a short story they'd written based around the 40K World. He hadn't named the story. It wasn't for sale. He was just thinking out loud.

Anywhoo, the GW lawyers contacted me: they asked me to delete the whole thread, ban the user and provide them with the poster's IP address, name and contact information. Which, y'know, is a bit overkill. (And possibly not legal? We didn't have their name nor contact information, but I would have assumed I couldn't just hand this information out to any random lawyer).

As in this case, the Games Workshop legal team regularly throw around threats - often with no legal basis.

I hope the blog poster is able to garner enough support to move forward with this. Unfortunately I fear that GW's baseless threats will beat back hobbyists, yet again..
Arthur Anderson collapsed after Enron catastrophically cooked the books on their watch. An entire industry cooked the books on the 3 major ratings agencies watch, yet they are all still in business.

Why?
And not just here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sexism?s=t http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism

I think it's worth pointing out that the definitions you're using are relatively uncommon. That doesn't make them wrong, but it does mean that they're probably not the definitions that any of us learned in school, or the definitions that are mostly widely known and used. I'm all in favour of the idea that the meaning of words can change, but that normally goes alongside the idea that the meaning of a word is determined by its popular usage.

Personally, I think your usage is fine, and I think it represents a more precise concept, but I'm not surprised that it causes confusion and I'm not sure it's fair to blame everyone else for that.
You've just described how many on HN view Windows Phone. It doesn't matter how good it is, remember how bad it used to be?
yep, looks pretty good thus far
It isn't "you've already given me a bunch of your time, so now you owe me even more", either.
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Thank you for your feedback,

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Cool story bro. (I've seen you comment on these stories before, and I know I'm not going to get anywhere with you, so know that I'm just choosing not to respond to you.)
Yeah.. and I totally feel for this person. I see now it's not actually low cost at all for them. Working on social anxiety will help not just with job finding but also at making your next job fit with yourself much better.

Good luck.
Actually, I think you're misusing the term "devil's advocate". Unless you think that it is correct to attract women over other minorities?
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I think that asking for a NDA is a very big red flag to the investor.

It shows:

Or you are crazy, and megalomaniac, and believe that you have something so awesome that the investor will want to steal without having a clue on how to do it.

Or you want to make something so stupid that anyone can copy.

Or you are just a paranoid sucker that wants to be secretive because you are paranoid and flees your shadows.

Or you are a hipster trying to show off with your "stealthy" idea.
I wont bother next time as it's pretty clear that you're a fanboy so any evidence presented to you would be dismissed.

The RDF is strong in this one
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Larger projects like GNOME and Mozilla are developing communities of bug triagers to help with exactly this problem! For example:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugmasters
https://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage

So adopting a little bit of a big project, and watching its bugs come in to help triage them, is going to be helpful for this increased ratio of consumer users to producer users.
Please answer my question. If package management shares the characteristics of a "store" in that it is the "blessed" and easiest method of obtaining software, what makes it not a walled garden while app stores are?
And, eventually, self-driving!
Olbers' Paradox and how E.A.Poe anticipated some aspects of it, 170 years ago
I do want to hear it, actually. Thorium looks especially good in the long term, though it's still in the research phase.
They're not doomed, but consumers are certainly right to look at them with more skepticism before dropping hundreds of dollar on their product.
Chances of a user messing up an iPad OS install are much slimmer than with a Win 8 device.
I was put off just in the new BBM, where some options were hidden under the left swipe menu, other the right swipe menu and yet more under the top swipe menu. Not to mention options hidden under the button bar at the bottom. I don't want to spend my time looking all over in apps for an action. They need to set strict guidelines on where things go.
Some companies have thresholds after which up or out is no longer the case. The logic being, below this level, your seniors are putting more work into you than you are producing (i.e. holding your hand, reviewing your work, generating new work for you to do, etc.). After you pass the threshold where you are a net contributor, you no longer have to go up if you don't want. Not sure how common this practice is.
That's assuming you know the magical position. If you need to test all positions, it's 256 to the power of the number of bytes in the message.
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Right! That's why I wrote the comment: people who haven't needed to care about this (coughmencough) generally... haven't needed to care. Dictionaries are really bad at terms of art:

1. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/object
2. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/thread

etc. Both of these terms (and many more) have special meanings within computing that aren't in the dictionary. (This one has a reference to the 'computing dictionary' at the bottom.) Likewise, social scientists have terms of art.

> I'm not sure it's fair to blame everyone else for that.

Who am I blaming? I just mentioned that a term was being mis-used. No blame here. I expect people who've never been forced to confront their privilege to not have any understanding of the topic, by definition.
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Here is a question: I am an early employee at a small startup (5 people.) We don't have much space, nor do we have lots of cash. Which means we couldn't possibly set aside a few rooms to host hacker school - we just have a small office in Brooklyn. Nor do we have the cashflow to offer scholarships like Etsy has. We probably only have the budget to hire another engineer this year, and we rely a lot on contractors.

Not having the means to sponsor broad programs like this, What can I do - either as an individual, or as a company - to contribute to diversity?
They are illustrations of two forms of IF statements. One is very weird and hard to use, and the other is... standard.
> The latest bug on the public tracker is bug number 174163. Chrome was released in late 2008, so let's round up and say the tracker's been up for five years. That's averaging nearly 35k bugs a year, or 95 a day, and in reality the rate was slower in the early years so it's much faster than that now.

That honestly doesn't sound too scary. I did QA for Opera for a few years, and triaging (for specific platforms, at least) is remarkably quick after a while. A glance and a quick test on two platforms should let you toss a bug in either of four bins:

a) WFM/invalid/bullshit

b) Duplicate (it's scary how many bug id's you remember after a while)

c) Likely a core/cross-platform problem (somebody else's problem)

d) Worthy of further investigation

Provided that you have some sort of bucket in which to toss the cross-platform/core bugs, only the bugs in category d should take longer than a couple of minutes each to triage. Some would argue that bugs in category d are already triaged at that point and should be put in some ANALYZE bucket.