skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the cartoons I watched with my daughters have girls and women as scientists and doctors about 100% of the time. And exploit the trope of boys are stupid, fathers are bumbling.

These days, well for the past several decades, I would say TV encourages boys and girls to be high pressure, well dressed lawyers, or maybe high pressure, not perhaps not as well dressed doctors.

But even the Fringe like TV shows show scientists to be mostly dweebs represented by terribly beautiful and well dressed people with boxy bulky square hipster glass frames. (This is why I had to go into normal engineering and was always scared away from fringe pseudo-science science -- I wasn't as attractive and didn't have the wardrobe dollars or fashion sense.)
Maybe I am not representative of the general audience but I'd be happy to pay for a good IMAP client and even happier if I can fix small annoyances myself.
Why would you make it a mirror image? If they have anything written out it would be backwards.
> ...is blaming her discomfort/fear on her because she isn't interested...

No, it's not. You misread my comment.

> You didn't even reject the behavior, you justified it.

HN is large enough now that I can't expect you to know that I've never done any such thing, and in fact have said exactly the opposite pretty frequently.
> I never made the point that prosecution leads to suicide. You, however, tried to make the point that depression leads to suicide, and that's factually wrong.

The premise of the article this thread is attached to is, as I understand it, is that aggressive prosecution lead to Aaron's suicide.

> But, we know that Aaron's lawyer notified Heymann at least of Aaron's possibility as a suicide risk, and the response from Heymann was, "Fine, we'll lock him up."

What was she supposed to do? Treat alleged suicide risks specially?

> What a pile of ox manure. I would love to see you leave comments like this on threads about sexism: "Well, if she didn't want doctored pornographic photos of her online, she never should have posted her face on the internet for public consumption!" Someone writing their opinion on a subject never gives anyone else a pass to be an asshole.

That's an utterly ridiculous comparison and you know it. I'm not being an asshole to challenge a public opinion on its own merits. You're acting like I walked into some private memorial service instead of responding on its merits to a public posting implying that a public official was culpable for a person's suicide.

Also: it's tremendously bad form to turn a private tragedy into a public cause then raise that tragedy as a defense to any criticism of the cause.

> If you had said that, it would have been more valuable as a comment than the one you wrote instead.

No, it would be ad hominem, vacuous, and senseless just like the stuff you have been posting.
But for humans coal plants and their emissions would not exist. But for Humans cars and their emissions would not exist. But for Humans a population of 60 million American wild Buffalo might still exist.

I did not post to be controversial, I was not suggesting humans are not responsible for Global Warming, however, the contribution of humans to global warming is not always black and white. Cars and coal plants? Yes, black and white humans are responsible. Cows? Yes and No, sure you can count the 1.5 billion domesticated cattle as human behavior, but on the other hand 20% of all cattle are found in India where they are not domesticated or raised to be eaten. However, I suppose it is a matter of time before someone makes an analogous argument to the agricultural argument, if you can argue Humans raise cows to be feed on therefore their pollution is attributed to humans, then you can argue that if Humans raise cows to be worshiped their emissions are still attributable to humans....Screw it....whether you drive a car, operate a coal factory, spray an areosol can, eat a steak or passively worship cows you are 100% responsible for global warming.
It's much more likely that you're witnessing the confluence of confirmation bias and the inherent ambiguity created by many different sets of people operating under the same name. We have, in fact, been through this before with "Anonymous", because anybody can claim to be "Anonymous". (The post on reddit is hilariously out of touch with this fundamental reality.)

You, personally, have been making claims of false flag attacks for years with a similar lack of evidence. (e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659640) You might just be seeing what you want to see, instead of drawing the most accurate conclusions you can make based on the available evidence.
Two words:

Design Patent.
> The problem is that nobody really "knows" what is going on. Climate science is still very much a work in progress. This is the sad truth of the matter.

That's completely irrelevant. If you've read the IPCC bricks, you'd know there is a very sharp line between what's known and what's not and speculating on hidden variables makes no sense at all. But doing nothing or business as usual is not an option, except you pretend to live alone on this planet.
I like this model. I like open source because if you get hit by a bus as an indie dev, somebody like me can keep going. I do disagree that people wouldn't use it now (if it is in some state of working) and you could raise money if you want to spend more time/add more features/pay a designer and then it would be up to the community if they wanted those things or not.

Or you could keep it closed and ask for money and I would still consider buying it. I in no way feel disrespected by you saying that you'll make it open once you have hit some level of funding that you feel is appropriate, I can contribute or not at that point.

One anecdote deserves another I guess.
What's the incentive to be a sponsor vs. someone who receives a copy after the work is finished?
I'm not convinced that Mozilla and Google are as chummy as this video suggests.
I think you don't give it enough credit. Israel has a history of disinformation and misinformation campaigns and I think the Obama administration will take a page from their book.

This strategy may be at the forefront of Obama's domestic policy strategy for this term -- just look at how they're discrediting the pro-Republican anti-Democrat media and they're very successful so far.
I am in another Coursera course that seems to be experiencing some issues. It seems this whole process is like early beta software (not like gmail "beta" years later...). Which is fine with me as a consumer.

I was a bit frustrated that the process wasn't a bit clearer up front. And it does seem they haven't really figured out he huge class size issues yet. It does seem to me it woudl have been better to start out slower and work out some of the kinks but so much is done so quickly these days I am not really surprised they jumped in with both feet quickly (it seems to me).

The coursera effort really seems like a pretty audacious effort to me. Running into issues as they try to make it work isn't that surprising. I do think pulling the plug if things are really not working seems like the better choice than just pushing forward. Giving themselves a chance to regroup rather than try to just forge ahead seems like the better option. Granted not getting into the mess in the first place would be better but I'm willing to accept the idea that maybe they just ran into more problems than they imagined and just need some time to figure out alternatives before doing some great things in the future.
window.navigator is useless as screen readers run on top of the browser. If you know that little about screen readers you probably shouldn't be opining on a11y issues.
Except that the prosecution was warned that Aaron might be suicidal.
How is the theory not disparaging to women? Society is run by people at the edge of the bell curve, if you say that there are less women at the edges than you are saying that it's no big deal we have less women in high-ranking positions.
This is really timely and really damn useful. The bookmarklet in particular is great. Nice work!
When people die in car accidents, "we" investigate why they died and try to figure out how to build better cars in the future. I'm alive today thanks to that process.

That's a hell of a lot more than Carmen Ortiz has decided to do.

You are defending your profession at the expense of your humanity.

I can not think of any more powerful way to state my criticism of your comments here.
How much would you pay? Let's say something that taught you how to effectively enter and leave conversations in a positive light, basic body language reading to gauge your audience's interest, and maybe 10 or so basic conversational tools?
These days I think it's clear that the dominant use case for shell scripts is not a full time responsibility but rather edge work for deploying/installing code written in other languages. Most people looking at shell code aren't going to be shell masters, they're going to be engineers of more modern things that have to look at the shell script for some reason.
Because then the thumbnail where you see your own face behaves more like a real-world mirror, which is easier to reason about if you want to adjust your position.
“This world would be a better place if we had more men like him.”

…if you say so.
I fully support playing tag/assassin at PyCon!
All of this is just one of the reasons I would never use Google as an ISP.
It's really no big deal at all.

McCain knows perfectly well he's too old to ever run for President and probably doesn't have that many years left - though in light of his stated policy toward e.g. Russia, you have a point about how much his platform valued diplomacy. This was not really different, however, from Bush's similar disregard for diplomacy, which actually played quite well domestically (tough on perceived enemies, etc.)

This gaffe in itself is the absolute tiniest blip compared to McCain's "bomb bomb bomb Iran", Bush's "axis of evil" or, for that matter, the nonsense churned out by Iranian politicians and state press on a daily basis. And it's not as sinister as half the nonsense that Vahidi says openly to the international press.

In Iran, the US is already guilty of pretty much everything. Even if you just stick with relatively credible accusations the Iranian public might well compare this to the deaths of nuclear scientists, Stuxnet and other fiascos for which the US is allegedly responsible, and come away with even more indifference than usual about this latest. They weren't born yesterday.

At least since 1979 we have known that the US cannot really get less popular in Iran short of war. For years now Iran itself has routinely incarcerated ethnic Iranians visiting from the west, accused them of espionage, sentenced them to death, and dumped them in Evin prison to use as diplomatic bargaining chips and targets for the two minutes hate.

Meanwhile the usual reason for having a space program (as with the US, Russia, and now North Korea, etc.) is to develop and demonstrate worldwide reach with ballistic missiles.

This is an inherently nasty relationship only somewhat short of war and has been one for decades. Outside of specific shelters, the world is an inherently nasty place. If our relationship with Iran were characterized solely by stupid animal jokes, it would be a dramatic improvement.
That's not my experience of the Apple jailbreaking community. I'm starting to see the same mentality in the Android rooting community too.

When I went to jailbreak an Apple TV 2, I was presented with lists of software to buy. WTF? Show me the code.
I agree that it's a hard choice; I had to make this exact choice last week when working on a video chat service. Possibly because of the nature of the service (tutoring/teaching) it felt incredibly unnatural to see a non-mirrored image of myself. I tried it out both ways and it really did feel quite peculiar, and I had a hard time figuring out my own movements (kinda like trying to shave using two mirrors).
"The enemy knows the system"
Stealing a definition from below:

> Sexism definition: Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.

I'm not arguing that this isn't a terrible, unwarranted attack; I'm arguing against the dilution of the term. Not every attack against a person of another race is racist and not every attack against a women is sexist.

Where is the "basis on sex" in this story (genuine question, i.e. did her gender motivate the attack)? Without this, you can call it many things but not sexist.
Daily Droid Deals is now in beta, any Android devs like to help test it?
Dear website owner, stop treating me like a spambot, it’s annoying
Just because it's possible to steal something, you/society should allow it to happen? Did I misinterpret what you said, or is this what you're saying?
Generally speaking, across the globe, female sexuality is framed as something which exists for the pleasure of men. A stronger rebuttal to remarks which objectify a woman sexually is not to be all in a huff but to turn it around and talk about men like they are sex objects. I am a woman. I have done that. It is such a powerful thing to do that if I am not extremely careful, rather than teaching men they should not talk that way about women, it teaches them I am some crazily dangerous, disrespectful person whose presence should not be tolerated. Women put up with that every single day. It is such a strong part of global culture that I believe it is the real reason that "Silence of the lambs" creeps people out. I wrote a blog post on that some time ago. This may not be the time or place to go into it. I usually try to tread very lightly on such topics on HN.

Which is a longish way of saying that, globally, it is so common for women to be treated in a demeaning manner that many women view porn per se as demeaning to women. I do not. But I do think a great deal of porn is done in a fashion which is demeaning.

Hopefully that satisfies your side question in some meaningful manner, hopefully without getting me publically lynched for daring to say it.

Oh, and have an upvote.
I think we see more engagement from hirers (both the hiring manager and potential colleagues) because we're coming at the process as educators. I've certainly seen some share of "not a fit", but that rate goes down once there's an interview, or even a phone screen.
Can I sue politicians for lying? Why is it that this is only a one way street?

Hell, frankly, I think that heads should roll for the bailout. It is not authorized under the constitution, and it is the largest financial heist in history.

A bunch of politicians can simply steal american money and give it to banks, and get away with it? Really? And people are upset, but they blame the banks only?

And then forgive the "debt" they created and pretend like it was "paid back".

It's still going on too.

Right now, every month, they are handing out $40B a month buying "distressed assets".

You know how to get rich? Be well connected, make a loan to someone who then turns around and defaults (he got the loan money, so he's well paid) then get the politicians to write you a check!

There's no oversight now, the Federal Reserve-- a private bank owned by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, probably Rothchild family, et. al. is the one spending the money. No legislation is needed to make it legal.

It's stealing more money every month than all the organized crime has stolen in this countries entire history!

And it's not even worth a mention in the local papers.

That's messed up!
It's not privilege because it's not undeserved. They paid a price that affected their ability to compete in the workplace when they got back home. It's a form of social compensation.
The sender of the file can set it on a timer so that it will automatically “burn”—deleting it from both devices after a set period of, say, seven minutes.

This one rings the snake oil alarm bells with me. I wonder if this is due to sloppy reporter research or actual advertising of the app.

At least they promise to release source code, so maybe it is not that bad after all...
Fibs. The whole reason I'm using flash in my startup (and it is a major component atm) is because of IE share (and the relative immaturity of HTML5). Are you really telling me that you want to deny your service to a fresh install of windows?

While many people appreciate the benefit of better browsers there is still a significant portion that don't and hopping aboard this wagon prior to full adoption means that you exclude them or present roadblocks to them.

I have the added benefit of targeting (in part) the older generation with the software I produce making all this excitement muted without cross-browser consensus.
Yes, even on my N900 where I have Emacs+Org-Mode, I still SSH in to my mail server and run mutt. Mostly because I'm lazy, but also because every other mail client I've ever tried has just sucked more :)
Dealing with cycles in family-tree data-structures due to incest (stackoverflow)
I think 37 Signals is quite a bit more pissed off about their pricing page being emulated by 10k+ startups.
Visualizing the Fourier Transform
What happened to the debt you had already acquired when you dropped off?
A 3% gap is trivial! This story should be about how similarly boys and girls perform in Science, not that ridiculous difference.
I am not making any statement about who is or is not sexist in this instance. I am solely talking about the role of intent with regards to actions that may or may not be sexist.

Also, note that that definition is not the one that most people who care about this topic use. That would be 'sexual discrimination.' Sexism is a systemic cultural force of sexual discrimination. That said, it's not particularly relevant to what I'm saying either, but I thought I'd mention it.
Good question. I don't know off hand, but will keep an eye out as we work with more UK employers. If you want to follow up email me at darrell [at] thinkful.com.
Your lawyer trolling is asinine. My other degree is aerospace engineering: did you see me falling over myself to defend Boeing in the battery threads? No, because I'm not a caricature and capable of having my own opinions.

It doesn't even make sense--every day engineers and scientists make decisions trading off cost, effectiveness, and preventable death. The accountants and actuaries then sign off on it. It's not a deficiency of the professions, that's just how human society operates. Contrary to your assertion, we do not launch an investigation any time someone dies in a car accident. We don't start posting how the engineers at Ford are morally culpable for the death because if only they had used a more expensive XYZ widget our loved one would still be alive. Sometimes bad things happen and it's not anyone's fault.
This Developer's Life 3.0.1 - Cancer
Does anybody know what the state of unlocking A4+ chips is after this release? Stuck with a friggin Bell Canada iPhone 4S I can do shit all with
The lack of profit sharing will seem outrageous in the future :)
Am I following this correctly, that you believe the US government and particularly our central bank is corrupt, and therefore we shouldn't sue corrupt private companies because that's hypocritical?

Or do you think the suit against S&P is a good thing, but not enough of it?
those in the Al Gore camp calling for drastic reductions of CO2 are essentially asking the third world to remain poor, and are asking the first world to become a little less rich

To clarify the clarification a bit further: those in the Al Gore camp are asking most people in the first world to become less rich, but that's mainly because some (like Gore himself) stand to make quite a bit of money by using "carbon credits", cap and trade, etc. to siphon wealth from other people's pockets into their own. That's a key reason to oppose such centralized schemes: even if there is a real problem, it won't get fixed that way, because any expected benefits will be more than swallowed up by the social costs of people gaming the system.
Intro to Backbone.js
> She's implying that Carmen Ortiz bears some moral culpability for the suicide,

Suicide accounts for almost a 3rd of all deaths in US local jails. Things are much better in state prisons - "only" 6% of deaths are from suicide. (Behind AIDS at 9% and illness at 80%). (These are old, but accurate, figures. (http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/shsplj.pdf) )

Aaron meets some of the risk factors for suicide. Male, history of mental illness (and suicidal ideation), significant life event, potential institutionalisation, and being bullied.

Ms Ortiz owed a duty of care to Aaron, if only to ensure he survived long enough to face trial. When they were told that he was suicidal, and had a history of depression, they should have at least obtained medical reports. They did not. They continued to aggressively pursue this young man (for an alleged crime that neither of the victims wanted to be prosecuted) and threatened to remove him from any support that he had by locking him up.

For almost a third of local jail deaths to be from suicide (and almost half of those occurring in the first week of admission) is pretty shocking.
You can't really hover with your finger on an iPhone.
Definitely – This is exactly what we're seeing. I think people are more open to feedback when working with Thinkful because we're educators not recruiters.
> Janke has also committed to making the source code of the new technology available publicly “as fast as we can,” which means its security can be independently audited by researchers.

We'll just have to see if they follow up on the promise. I poked around on their website and didn't find anything.

tarsnap is a good example of a successful commercial product that makes its source code available for security review.
> Do you know how psychiatrists or clinical psychologists diagnose depression?

Yes, and do you know how much variability exists between practitioners? Diagnosis is largely a matter of personal opinion, not science.

The reason for that, in turn, is because no on knows what causes depression -- it's not like a medical condition with an identified pathogen and clinically validated treatment.

But the vague state of depression as an illness with an unknown cause doesn't prevent psychiatry and clinical psychology from offering therapy and drugs of dubious efficacy.

Antidepression drugs have been shown to be ineffective in most cases --

Link: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

Title: "Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration"

Quote: "Meta-analyses of antidepressant medications have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment, and when unpublished trial data are included, the benefit falls below accepted criteria for clinical significance."

The story is that drug companies publish only studies that support their belief in their drugs' efficacy. But when completed but unpublished studies are included, the evidence for the efficacy of antidepression drugs evaporates.

The study's authors don't say the drug companies deliberately suppressed negative findings -- they leave that conclusion to the reader.
No, not really. It's a rough estimate; given that the "Rape statistics" page on Wikipedia you reference puts rape attempts on women in the US at 1 in 6 (meanwhile, the same article puts rape attempts on men in the US at 1 in 33, largely accounted for by prison rape), adding in sexual assault, street harassment, etc can only increase that number. And 1 in 4 is a meaningful thing to visualize. Think of four women you know.

I'm not claiming that for the statistic for the US at large is 100% representative of the tech community. But unless you have a good reason to believe it to be different, it seems like a reasonable starting point.