skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're right that it's a less overt form of sexism, but I support what you're doing and I hope one day this clicks for Tim and he sees what a minor concession this is and what a positive thing it would be.

I'm a Vim user myself, and a big fan of his work. It's not nice to mention his name in a thread like this, however tangentially related. But given the topic, I thought for once it might be forgiveable to err on the side of those without male privilege.
Cases of men being stalked do exist.
Scaling SongPop to 60 million users with App Engine and Google Cloud Storage
I'll admit, I haven't had to touch OSF/1 in a long time, and I really would prefer to avoid it, but it's not always possible. Even modern systems aren't entirely consistent. As a real world example, I like to setup persistent SSH sessions on my laptop at home and personal smartphone. autossh is a nice solution to this, but it isn't available on my smartphone. To create one command across all environments that will create a persistent SSH connection, I do some OS and hostname detection to determine what I've got to work with, then create an appropriate function (either using autossh, or a more crude version using while). Then my dotfiles work across all platforms and I can keep them synchronized with git. Something like:

if [ -n `command -v autossh` ]; then
function ssh_persist {
autossh -C -o "CompressionLevel 9" $@
}
else
function ssh_persist {
while true; do
ssh -C -o "CompressionLevel 9" $@
sleep 60
done
}
fi

Edit: well, as long as I'm doing this much editing, I might as well make it better. To be sure, this isn't exactly what I actually run :) But it's a fair approximation and it gets my point across.
And I would be especially interested in this site: http://www.creativegerms.com/about

I don't see any similarity at all (except for maybe some basic stuff that can be found on many websites) and including them into that "ripping off" article could be perceived as defamation. Did they just quickly switched to different design?
It doesn't make any more sense to say that people should be taxed more for spending their money. Even less if they are spending all their money on basics/necessities because they don't have a big surplus. In the US, domestic spending is the basis of the economy
Skimming the paper, it doesn't look like she accounted for how common each name is overall. Assume instantcheckmate, which runs the "arrest" themed searches, uses a broader set of names than the competition, that runs generic "looking for foo?" ads. If the black-identifying names are less common than white-identifying ones, that would be enough to cause the correlation.

Do these scam sites even check public records? "The Cesspool of Online Ads is Poisoning Online Ad Delivery" might be a better title.
> Somebody HAS to pay the full price

If everyone does CCx2 years -> Statex2 years, then it simply means the market also has to double which I think isn't a problem.
Perhaps – but then why the geographic coincidence/clustering I noticed in the sites cited by the author? It certainly could be just dumb luck, but it seemed unlikely.
I actually encourage you to do this with the final version of a back-up copy of your homepage design. Homepages rarely change, in my experience. So, it's a good compromise. Any developer is going to work-up on the un-adulterated code, not on the obfuscated version. I am sorry for not being clear about this.
I think two things make it more likely for me to encounter incidents of sexism:

1) I do some programming for my job, but a majority of it involves going out and meeting other developers, learning about their work, and seeing how we can make our API better for them. I live in SF so I can't get a coffee without bumping into another developer. I bet I have many more interactions than someone who is developing full time in their home or office. More interactions increases chances for good and bad types of interactions.

2) Since I have been researching sexism in the industry, I have started to notice small slights and snubs more. I went for years brushing off countless minor incidents. I still don't get offended easily, but I do notice things more. For example, checkout the gun.io landing page right now (Beards of Experience). I like gun.io, but their homepage is definitely not female-friendly, and I noticed it immediately.

I'd wager that people who have had some kind of experience that really bothered them, or ones who have recently started learning more about gender bias, will suddenly start to notice all the little "micro agressions" more. Even my male colleagues have started noticing them more since we have been discussing it recently.

One of them even said "it's like when you get a new car, you suddenly start to notice how many people drive the same car as you do".
I believe WebRTC is peer to peer.
What? You are going to

- break your CSS by making it dependent on javascript
- use inefficient compression, easily reversible, to "obfuscate" javascript
- both of these slowing your page loading time

That's like the worst of DRM badly emulated in a browser. You do realize that the script which checks the URL can also be modified by the copycat? Minifying CSS+HTML+JS as usual already gets you the most benefits, while being good practice. This is shooting your own foot.
When working on new concepts of human interactions, may be we need to rely more on social science than technology.
Having a ton of information on people, may not be enough to predict with whom they want to hangout.
I wonder if big companies like Google and Facebook, used focus group and social science before launching g+ and “Graph Search”. I hope they did.
Oh rubbish. She's demonstrated the bias in ad delivery exists and is unlikely to be the result of chance, identified possible vectors, and observed that there's no way of knowing where the bias originates at present. The paper [1] is cautious and methodical.

It is you who is 'just flinging around wild accusations'. Read the paper and critique it on its merits, by all means. As it is, your little rant tells us far more about you than its subject.

1. http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1301/1301.6822.pdf
The comment is needless noise that the reader must check for correctness and then determine whether it or the code is the intended behaviour when they differ. The same is unfortunately true of many comments.

BTW, you've probably a bug in your regexp because you like to needlessly and wrongly escape a dot without knowing the regexp syntax you're using. Assuming you don't intend

$ grep -Eo '[\.]' <<<\\
\
$

that is. :-)

(curl's -s should be accompanied by -S IMHO, and it's brain-damaged in not having that behaviour under the one option.)
You should...at the inputs to your system. Check the data when it enters your control. After it enters your code it's almost always possible to statically ensure that the data meets your invariants (hopefully they're well documented). Thus, programming defensively at this point doesn't do anything but slow the system down by adding redundant checks.
HBO vs Netflix
I agree that the governments typically don't need to "use violence". Do you agree that the "threat of violence" is sufficient?

I can't speak to Europe as a whole or the specific country you are from. In the US, you can be put in jail for non-payment of taxes. We have good old debtors' prisons. Also, if you are hungry and take food that does not "belong to you", there are certain criminal laws that can result in imprisonment. How do European governments deal with non-payment of taxes and the taking of food?

By the way, US "foodstamps" are now called "EBT" and you get a normal looking debit card that has certain restrictions on how it can be used (no buying shoes, only food ingredients).
> There are many industries and companies where the economics of the business essentially require large companies to be viable.

Well, then obviously these companies would not experience price competition from smaller companies when they pass the tax on to the consumer, right? I don't see how that's a problem. If there's a demand for the product, it will be built. It will just be cheapest to build it in the smallest company. Larger companies could still persist at it if their size confers cost savings over the cost of the tax. The point is, rather than having all the financial wizards trying to figure out how to hide money and feed monolithic behemoths, they instead will be working on how to carve themselves up into independent pieces that can be held accountable.
1) Require at least partial payment up front if there is any concern about getting paid.
2) Handle this in small claims instead of publicly. This doesn't make the developer look all that great.
Good-bye PC maker Dell and hello cloud company Dell
Retort to what? I honestly don't understand what point you're trying to make here.
Secret police are used to stifle dissent; they aren't subject to it. The whole point of a "secret police force" is that they are an incredibly powerful tool not subject to public oversight, public debate, or even public approval.
Excuse my ignorance, just wondering: is it established that porn is sexist? Are they demeaning to the male actors in porn, too? Or is the underlying value that it is demeaning for a woman to have sex? It seems to me a universal judgement isn't easy to come by?
I have a feeling a lot of people on Hacker News went to top-ranked colleges with full scholarships--Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, etc. These universities provide completely different environments and experiences than the typical college. They're also so well funded that they provide significantly better financial aid and scholarships as well. Provided you can get accepted, it's actually much, much harder to get a full ride at the University of Missouri than it is at Harvard.

In short, if you're going to one of the best colleges in the nation for free and you love classroom learning, of course it's going to be a great experience. That's a no brainer.

What if you don't like classroom learning? What if you went to a bad high school, you disliked it from the beginning, and weren't motivated to get the grades to get into one of the top colleges because of your prior experiences with school?

Speaking as someone who started college at a state university, it was a very mixed bag. All these brilliant peers you guys are talking about? Yeah, they weren't there. I was taking classes as a freshman with seniors who were barely passing and bad-mouthed the professors whenever they could. When I mentioned functional programming to my advisor in the CS department, she didn't really even know what I was talking about. They had a theory of programming languages, which she "thought" would talk about them, but I wasn't allowed to take it for another three years because of all these requirements on how you progress through the courses. So instead I got to take a class on Java where you'd have a three hour lab with TAs there to assist you, and your only task would be to write FizzBuzz.

Now I eventually transferred to a much better school, and I had a much more enriching experience. Suddenly I had peers who were interning at Google, Facebook, etc. Suddenly I had an academic advisor who wanted me to push myself rather than hold myself back. Suddenly I had really interesting homework projects rather than a week to do FizzBuzz. And at that point I started to get a lot more out of college.
The Scottish University I attended in the 1980s had years made up of 3 terms of roughly 10 weeks - 9 of teaching and one of exams. A class would typically run for the whole year - so for our first year maths course there were about 6 lectures and 2 tutorials and one exam for that class at the end of the year - the class exams during the year not actually counting for anything. We probably had about ~30 hours of timetabled lectures and tutorials a week - which actually got less as you went through the 4 year course but the overall workload incread a lot - although you were always left to decide how much you wanted to work (in my final year I did a lot of 14 hour days).

Overall I thought it was great, I learned a huge amount, pushed myself really hard (mentally and physically) and had a hoot of a time socially. I don't regret it for a moment - and not just because it didn't cost me or my parents a penny!

[NB My tax payments have more than repaid the investment made in me.]
I actually tend to agree with that statement to some extent. Not because I can take in an entire class worth of material in an afternoon, but because experience with school showed my learning style did not lend itself to the classroom, so I would end up not learning much in those ten weeks. I'd have to put in those afternoons (and evenings) applying my own techniques in order to stay up with everyone else who learned naturally in-class.

I feel people who have graduated from college, and have obviously excelled in that environment, fail to realize what it is actually like for other people. Sadly, promoting college as the prescription is even more common than this side of the coin.
Thank you for actually contributing with your actions. I see a lot of rhetoric on climate change but very few people actually willing to do something.
What I Do for a Living
> Sorry but your scenario is fallacious

How so? Taking the scholarship out of the question for a moment, how does that change my central argument? That still puts my degree around 15K (a reasonable sum).

Community College => State school BA. I bet most people could do this for under 20-25K depending on the school. Going to an expensive private school for all 4 years is absurd unless you have a decent amount of grant/scholarships etc.
Doesn't follow because Adsense isn't "reasoning", it's optimizing an ill-defined objective function. Optimization isn't the same as reasoning.
didn't hackulous develop Appsync? That's the only simple method I knew of for transferring pirated apps from iTunes to the iDevice. Which is the main way the non technical users did it. Now that they've called it quits piracy will probably be drastically slowed down until there are new well known alternatives.

I could be totally wrong though, I don't own any iDevices, just basing my knowledge off helping people jailbreak their phones and pods over the past many years (except this last year of course..)
No, it is because you consider him a jerk, a liar or incompetent. That really does not mean he/she is any of those. Especially considering your attitude, which comes across as dismissive and self-assured.

And what about "incompetent can't improve"? This is plainly wrong. We all were incompetent at some point.
4 Not-so-obvious Costs of Downtime
"Men" is a stretch.
I think it's funny that this inference based approach to discovering "racism" is, in its own way, "racist" itself. The only thing this ad tells you is that people searching for "Latanya Sweeney" seem to warrant advertisers purchasing ad space relevant for people who have been arrested. It says nothing directly about the race of the person doing the search.

That takes a leap that is based upon correlations: that there is a correlation between someone searching for "Latanya Sweeny" and them being black, based upon historical birth records. Of course, it's this same type of blind correlation-based thinking that results in racism. Swap out "birth name" with some other less appealing attribute and "black" with your race, ethnic group, or other group of choice and you have a textbook example of racist thinking. It doesn't exactly serve their point well to use the same mechanism which brings about racism as a means to make an argument.
Its been pointed out a number of places that no, this doesn't represent the majority of male developers. It's established it's a small subset of a larger population.

Even so, the fact that its a minority is irrelevant, its the fact that it happens, and the fact that it happens on a regular basis is the issue.

That it happens regularly is what makes it the norm, not that its perpetrated by the majority of people.

And as people that work in the industry, we do have a responsibility for how others act, and we should act accordingly. Yes, it may not directly be our faults, be we do have a responsibility to react to this kind of behavior, and deal with it.

Otherwise, we are condoning it and then it does become our fault. As cliche'd/dramatic as it is, this is exactly the situation that is talked about in "all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"
Lots and lots of negative responses here. I'm probably in the minority then, on the same boat as the author that ran aground.

I never finished college. It was boring and just felt like an extension of high school, an experience that was mostly mediocre and not due for repetition.

It was just me, my sister, and my mom growing up. Not a lot of money from mom for college, though she helped where she could. After a while, I was pretty much doing what the author was. Side projects and self-education. Until I was 27, the most money I ever made in a year was $30k.

I went through a nasty breakup in 2007 and moved out to San Francisco. Within 2 weeks I had 2 offers for between $75-$85k. I thought getting $60k was going to be awesome. Needless to say, I was floored. To be honest, I'm 10x the engineer now than I was then.

I know that for a lot of people, your degrees were hard won and very valuable to you. Hell, I'm jealous from time to time of you guys and regret I never finished my computer engineering degree. I was scraping by and learning where I could, but almost totally missed out on the college experiences that so many other people have.

But I think what the author and I are saying is that there are multiple roads to success. There's nothing wrong with getting a degree if you're the kind of person that its good for. We just aren't those kinds of people. You don't have to be defensive because we aren't criticizing. At least, I'm not.

If anyone is looking for a node.js/js engineer hit me up. I run jsonip.com which is currently pushing almost 6 million requests per day. I can make things scale.
I want to do something about this.

How can I help?
The TED Conference Is Moving to Canada
http://www.creativegerms.com/about and http://pearlwebstudio.com are copying the text messages
> 3. A majority (but not a consensus, IMO) extending that to humans being the most direct and primary cause of warming;

That's just flat out wrong. There is a scientific consensus that humans are responsible for global warming. To elaborate: "That humans are causing global warming is the position of the Academies of Science from 19 countries plus many scientific organizations that study climate science. More specifically, around 95% of active climate researchers actively publishing climate papers endorse the consensus position." [0]

This is based on models that have been refined over decades, and data and analysis from multiple separate scientific disciplines that agree with each other.

Your resignation that we don't 'know' (which alludes to an unscientific requirement for 100% certainty), and that climate science is 'still very much a work in progress' betrays a lack of knowledge about scientific models in general. It is worth reading this section on climate models to understand their purpose, value, and reliability [1].

[0] http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-co...

[1] http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-models-intermediate....
Because another god seems to be offering a better deal. I think that the point of the quote is that one should not care about the unjust good. Why would I want to be "welcomed" by a god that does not care about my pursuit of good life but only about devotion?
It's like that scene in Star Wars where Luke asks Yoda what's in the cave, and Yoda says, only what you bring with you.
I am an attorney specializing in immigration and would like to give some inputs on applying for H-1B visa in the U.S..

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Second, once you have a job offer and the company is willing to sponsor you for H-1B visa, you should be able to get your H-1B visa approved if the job is within the categories of specialty occupation as defined by US immigration law and you have required academic degree for the job.

Third, if unfortunately you get laid off when you are on your H-1B status, you will need to find a new employer immediately and transfer your H-1B. If you fail to have a new company to file a transfer of H-1B or change your status to another non-immigrant visa category within a reasonable time (usually about 15 days after the last day of your employment with the previous employer), you will have to leave the country to avoid to overstay on your visa.

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Unfortunately, if this page is accurate, DataChannels don't really work yet:

http://www.webrtc.org/chrome#TOC-Data-Channels-

A shame, because I have a use in mind for them. :)
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nice summary -- it's not necessarily what your degree makes of you, but what you make of your education and degree, especially remaining a self-directed learner.

Too many graduates stop learning, thinking they're done.
On the bright side, now you know definitively that it wasn't the right option for you. You won't spend the rest of your life wondering, "what if I had gone to college instead...?"

I am of the opinion that some mistakes are worth making.
I don't like commenting the how and what; that's what the code is for. Comments are for "why".
Personally I think 24x7 support for something that is not "Mission Critical" is overkill. Unless you are a hosting company, Point of Sale, or payment processor, I think 24x7 support is a lot to ask. How many times have you got a support request over a weekend or at midnight that "had" to be answered immediately and could not wait until the morning. I think on holidays and weekends it would be nice if someone just checked the support Q for any emergencies and let the rest wait until the next business day. Most businesses are not 24x7 and I would not expect a support request for a game sent on Saturday to be answered that day.

[edit]

Also good practice to not do any code deploys on Fridays or day before a holdiay
I have yet to see someone who actually did the work and was _successful_ in college later regret having had his higher education. (Or, i.e., think that he would've been off better without it.)

By contrast, I've definitely seen people who dropped out of college and became successful in something, but who later regretted having not taken advantage of their college education.
It looks like the OP should be using std::inplace_merge instead of std::merge/std::copy.
Do you mean the JailbreakMe web-based exploits? JailbreakMe is not available for iOS 4.2.1. It's available for 3.1.2-4.0.1 and 4.3-4.3.3 - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe#Compatible_iOS_vers... for details.
We've been ripped off way worse than this. I'm talking about wholesale ripoff of a full application, not just a tiny brochure site. What must have literally been a multi-month development effort to rip off tens of thousands of lines of javascript, css and html, and building a new backend from scratch to plug it in to. Because they were an eastern bloc country there was no point in trying to prevent it or even getting upset. The way I see it it's tremendously flattering.