skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I am glad to not be the first comment on this post, because I almost was. Instead, I took a while to compose my thoughts and I'm going to take a whack at writing them down. To start, I just deactivated my facebook account to get away from exactly this type of rhetoric. Why? When I look back over my career, it is striking that I have received no career enrichment from any of my female peers or co-workers. Absolutely none. All of the help I've ever gotten has come from men. Do I take a dump on that kindness by punishing them for another person's bad behavior, or by assuming these guys only wanted to get into my pants? I can't live like that.

A few years ago, I was pulling into my garage and because of whatever circumstance I have forgotten, my mind was grinding on the idea of prejudice. Specifically how the act of judging another person consumes resources in my mind that I am hesitant to commit, as I'd very much like to use as much of my mind as I can coordinate for more interesting things. This sounds arrogant, but I'm fine with that label and so let's move on. The way I think is the product of constantly having to not take on other people's drama in order to raise my standard of living. That's not the most elegant way of saying what I mean to say, but I'm a bit frustrated right now. The habit of not engaging makes me acutely aware that when I do engage, it is important to choose one's words carefully. I rarely get that right.

This is a blatant attempt to engage other people in a negative way. I fail to see the benefits such finger-pointing, but I am willing to learn that there might be some. It seems that if there were no perceived benefit to the actor for the act, but from here it just looks like fighting fire with fire.

As a woman in technology, I've seen some things. Mostly I just let it go. I don't think of it as having a thick skin (anyone who knows me will tell you, this is not a character attribute of mine). Rather I think of it as not letting other people's drama own any part of me. And that is what I think when anyone complains of anything, be it gender bias or racial bias or religious/political disagreement: nothing can own you unless you let it. Maybe this is what having a thick skin is supposed to mean. As I have said to my kids countless times, your anger hurts you the most. I can't find a clear source for this quote, but it goes something like, "Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."

This is not how you teach kids to deal with bullies.
You think society is going to take a step back? How do you invest in a company in a barter based economy? To save time I'm stealing the following issues with a barter based economy from wikipedia.[1] How do you think home manufacturing and automation are going to mitigate these issues?

Need for presence of double coincidence of wants: For barter to occur between two people, both would need to have what the other wants.

Absence of common measure of value: In a monetary economy, money plays the role of a measure of value of all goods, so their values can be measured against each other; this role may be absent in a barter economy.

Indivisibility of certain goods: If a person wants to buy a certain amount of another's goods, but only has for payment one indivisible unit of another good which is worth more than what the person wants to obtain, a barter transaction cannot occur.

Lack of standards for deferred payments: This is related to the absence of a common measure of value, although if the debt is denominated in units of the good that will eventually be used in payment, it is not a problem.

Difficulty in storing wealth: If a society relies exclusively on perishable goods, storing wealth for the future may be impractical. However, some barter economies rely on durable goods like pigs or cattle for this purpose.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barter
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5142274
Discussed extensively two weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5142021

Summary: They probably didn't have the money to build anything, so they funded it using Kickstarter-like preorders.
Just like most of these services, they claim big and tall sizing and then utterly fail at it.

Biggest size? 2x. I haven't been able to comfortably fit into a 2x shirt since my freshman year of high school. My shoulders prohibit that, and even if they didn't, a non-tall shirt is not going to be of use to anyone over 6'3".
Rally's flagship product was really, really bad when I last used it a few years ago. I'm curious if it's gotten better since they acquired AgileZen. The Flowdock acquisition is interesting, I wonder how they'll tie that in to the rest of the products.
Hey Presto, Opera switches to WebKit
How many people really need new clothing every month? It seems like subscribers would eventually have all the clothing they need (or more), and then they would no longer need the service. Is there a way to suspend the service, or slow the rate of deliveries? Maybe a way to do a one-time order instead of a subscription?
Yup, it's fixed now. A little speed bump on launch day. :)
HipHop works with a certain subset of PHP, whereas Zend Optimizer+ / APC / what-have-you works with it all.

In addition switching to HipHop is far more involved than optimizer modules like this.
In my experience (back in the dreary days when I did PHP stuff) installing APC took just one apt-get and a restart of the web server for instant gains.
So is this as simple as buying the hardware, installing a mining program on it, and letting it run?
The graph shows the impact of this user. http://www.btcguild.com/pool_chart.php
When you're ready to come to Europe, just start with Germany. DHL is very fast, even with standard shipping (compared to my experiences with shipping in Canada). Most shipments are delivered in one or two days. And 80 million people is a decent market.
Sure. The general complaint is that tech is dominated by males. Conferences & meet-ups are sausage fests and the speaker line-up often all male. Female devs are considered a novelty and the term female dev is considered to be frustrating due to the term dev being appended by 'female'.

Nursing is dominated by females. Male nurses are considered a novelty and men in the industry are almost always described as male nurses. Nursing is an insanely demanding career and requires tons of skill and training. Why aren't men posting in outrage about the gender disparity in nursing?

Why can't it simply be accepted that programming is simply a career that tends to appeal to men more than women in the same way that nursing appeals to women more than men?

There are arguments that women get paid less in tech. My direct experience with women in tech (and I have plenty) is that if anything, they tend to be better paid due to the fact that female devs are in high demand and I've yet to see proof, even anecdotal, proving otherwise. I've also yet to come across a single, official complaint of sexism in the workplace within the tech industry.
When the retail price is that different it's cheaper to buy at retail in the US than from the distributor in your home country. The only reason this does not happen is IP law in the home country in direct opposition of free trade.
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Honestly, I wish I could believe that. But I really don't see how I am reading anything into it. The implication that people who talk about programming languages that he doesn't want to learn about are not "shipping product" is quite clear. I don't see any way to interpret that sentiment other than as anti-intellectualism.
WebKit, yes - because all websites must comply with it if they want to succeed.

jQuery and Bootstrap, no. They are useful libraries, but developers can choose not to use them and still succeed. Few of the biggest websites use them, for instance--they mostly write their own javascript and templates.

But they all test against WebKit.
This is exactly right, it only works when it isn't observed by the people its trying to observe. I had this discussion with one of the project managers when it came out and pointed out the flaw, if you let people know, they could search for it and then that would mess up your graph. They believed they had a good handle on differentiating between people looking for flu information and people looking for Google Trends flu information. Apparently it still needs some work :-)
The trouble is that that $3.75 includes taxes that are supposed to cover road maintenance. And sooner or later those taxes will have to be replaced by something else, likely paid when you renew your license plates and likely designed to be more expensive for cars that use less/no gas.
The opportunity to make huge profits is closing (very fast). In fact, if you were to buy an ASIC miner now it wouldn't arrive until May and by then the bubble will have (mostly) popped.

The Avalon ASIC miners were pre-ordered which gave them enough cash to R&D and then produce them - but even if they had found cash somewhere else and made lots of miners for themselves it wouldn't be long until other people were selling ASIC miners and they were not so profitable. It's better for Avalon to make a name for themselves as a good place to get ASIC miners so they get all the business in the future.

I wouldn't be surprised if this user mining at 1.2 Thash/s is Avalon or one of the other ASIC manufacturers.
I kind of hoped for an actual torrent tracker rather than central site that can be easily taken down. But never mind :)
He may be using the pool for bragging rights.
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When JOBS Act regulations are drawn up later this year, non-accredited investors will be able to invest as well.
Yes. Bitcoin mining favors the already wealthy, but that's how most investments go.
There's a lot of factors retarding the balance. There's been a number of studies on it.

There's the stereotype threat and the common notion that women are bad a math. There's been a number of sexist comments and incidents within the field (http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents). There's even a study the correlates geek culture with keeping women out.

There's this thing called the patriarchy, you mighta heard of it. It's not something as clear as the things above, esp. if you have become comfortable within the system. However, it is there. There's subtle unconscious biases from both men and women inside the field (as observed in this study http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.abstract).

Is that enough to convince you? Or do you need more, because there really is an abundance of data to support this.
Sure, there's a lot going on that makes Chrome a great browser, but it's still not my daily driver as I prefer Safari for a myriad of non-technical reasons. I like the iCloud tab sync, the Twitter integration, the fact it looks significantly nicer than Chrome in terms of blending with the system style (which is arguable given how little else tries these days from Apple's own applications).
"breaking their contract with the publisher"

I don't believe this is true, generally. of course, it depends exactly what they email you, but if it is a pre-print, that is, the PDF you compiled with LaTeX on your laptop, then there is normally no problem.

The publishers only own the copyright to the particular typesetting of the paper (which was originally the useful service they provided academics) and as such, without their special-sauce theme that adds the journal name and page numbers on, it's fine for you to distribute it, host it online for free, etc. (Incidentally, this is also the case with sheet music, which is why it's legal to enter a score into a MIDI program and print it out, but not to photocopy it.)

As I say, this is probably not a universal fact, and will depend on what the terms of the journal submission was, and indeed for the book mentioned there was probably a specific contract at some point. Although, if there were small changes between the book and the thesis, the author was probably within her rights to email (and indeed host online) the thesis for free.
interesting!

in the same vein as the h1 equals, i like the blockquote brackets implementation as well:

https://github.com/mrcoles/markdown-css/blob/0d00981143172aa...
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I drive past opera software every morning, if it wasn't for the sign on their building I'd never think about them. They were popular a long while back, but now? Does anyone still use opera. If so why? It was behind in tech and for any serious web development it didn't matter, chrome, Firefox were the two that get used. Safari obviously but mainly for iOS platforms.

The number of comments here surprises me, I would have thought this irrelevant news.
So the Linux kernel should cache more aggressively? It does not seem to keep everything in RAM for the second startup of the browser on my box.
I drive a bottom-of-the line sedan from Saturn with no features on it from about 8 years ago. It officially claims 35-37 (somewhere in there), and I tend to get that on my commute due to its nature. I don't hypermile it, but my commute is largely highway. It's probably a bit more than 1.5 gals now but it's certainly less than 2, I fill up less than once a week.

It's not very powerful. Stick 4 adults in the car and the efficiency noticeably drops, along with the performance. But it works for me.
Aw I wish I'd read your comment before getting to the shipping address stage. Can I sign up somewhere and have you notify me when you come to Australia?
Thanks for your motivating words! The travel idea sounds so exciting but it would be a big step out of my comfort zone.

Is http://freelancersweekly.com/ the newsletter you were talking about? My email is hndbert at gmail.
Pretty cool. Would it also be possible to include the markdown markup when copying the text?
I have always found that the argument of pay inequality doesn't really make any economical sense. If a woman is as qualified as a man, yet is ready to work for less pay, wouldn't that be an incentive to hire loads of women? And if someone, regardless of gender, is OK with the salary they are being offered, why should anyone else care if a separate group of people, who have also accepted the salaries they got offered, are earning more?
But he probably does it because it's just easier than getting a subscription to a university library. Proving my point exactly - how hard is it really to get access to academic papers? Most authors can't even find people that want to read their stuff. This whole 'I can't access research' is really 'there is no website where the 0.1% of people who don't have main stream and side stream access to journals can download them from'. Hardly the big threat to society it is sometimes made out to be.

Let me state again that I too would sometimes prefer one huge easily accessible database with all articles ever published, along with cites and H-factors and objective impact factor rankings and a bookmarking/personal library feature and maybe a pony too. Then again, the magnitude of that problem is miniscule compared to other problems I have I'd much rather see solved, or spend my time on. And my experience says most of the people in my work field feel the same.
Isn't it somewhat ironic that Forbes purports to educate the reader on modern marketing techniques with a site which seems hell bent on putting you off reading it using some of the most annoying web adverting I've ever seen. Setting filters to block.
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Except it is not that easy. PHP magic is not supported, they are usually a version or two behind, and not all modules are supported.

Adding the opcode cache to core will help get more eyes on the code. This should have happened sooner.
It just says, in all-lowercase, "an open access creative commons attribution license". Does that mean they have to pick one of those licenses later? Why not specify Attribution 3.0 United States?
Looks like the "shovel & pickaxe trade" during any gold rush. There is some money to be made by the early adopters, little or no by the late comers and then a steady and good source for those offering services to the miners.

P.S. One problem these ASIC manufacturers have is not being able to shift a lot of BTC, the kind of which they would be hypothetically making by just mining themselves. Leave that matter to the miners to work out.
Why not simply using hiphop-php ?

Try using HipHop before using the word "simple." Take it from me, as someone who's been playing with it inside of the last 72 hours, it's not an instant plug-in option, and it's absolutely not simple. You're compiling PHP scripts to C++, and if you use any non-standard modules, you're going to be in for some fun.

This option is simple: it's a plug-in module, just like APC, and it requires very little setup or configuration.

If you're going from using nothing to using Zend Optimizer+, you should be blown away by the difference it makes.
Read the first sentence of the ea spouse letter - the author's spouse, who is later identified as a man, is the one who's plight/mistreatment is being discussed. This letter has been generating tons of discussion for close to a decade now. It's not focused on the rights of men as men, but is talking about issues affecting developers in one particular industry (of any/all gender)
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Hey I'm a founder. We actually just started picking up real Big & Tall sizing within past 2 months. Still gathering data on how B&T fits guys' bodies, but learning a lot.
Nursing is a reinforcing of traditional gender roles. It being female dominated is a bad thing to. This wasn't brought up here because this is about a girl who wants to be a programmer not a little boy that ways to be nurse.

You know, I'm tried of this straw man (excuse me, straw person) being brought up every time someone talks about women in computing.
If you actually read the article, you can see how some of the statements might apply to nursing (there might be short lines for the men's room at nursing conferences), but many clearly don't. Some examples:

* Male nurses will not be told "good for you" by someone finding out their profession.

* Male nurses are not assumed to be secretaries in meetings.

* Male nurses won't be judged by their body over their skill -- and as a result, they won't face cognitive impairments because of internalized objectification[1][2][3][4][5].

* Male nurses will not be perceived as "bitches" if they are competent at their job -- and they will not be perceived as incompetent if they attempt to be likable[6].

* Male nurses are not paid less, on average, than female nurses[7].

By ignoring these very tangible and well-demonstrated barriers to entry for women in a wide variety of careers (any of the above arguments apply to women attempting to be lawyers, doctors, or executives in addition to being "in tech" as you put it), you are minimizing women's lived experiences of these effects, and you are retarding the balance.

[1] http://pwq.sagepub.com/content/30/1/59.short

[2] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11199-006-9140-x...

[3] That swimsuit becomes you: sex differences in self-objectification, restrained eating, and math performance. Journal of personality and social psychology [0022-3514] Fredrickson yr:1998 vol:75 iss:1 pg:269

[4] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FB%3ASERS.00000323...

[5] http://www.sanchezlab.com/pdfs/FredricksonRoberts.pdf

[6] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0022-4537.2004....

[7] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4932.2009....
In fairness, there are a number of mistakes on the page that indicate it wasn't written by a native speaker.
According to this article, Venice has 26 miles of canals:

http://www.canalvoyagers.com/2012/does-birmingham-have-more-...

I picked an arbitrary American city of similar population that I'm familiar with to compare. Harrisonburg, VA has over 300 "lane miles" of streets:

http://www.harrisonburgva.gov/sites/default/files/CMO/files/...

I'm not sure if a two-way road counts as one or two lanes for that count, but suffice to say that, despite having fewer people, Harrisonburg has roughly an order of magnitude more streets than Venice has canals.

Venice's canals aren't appreciably more crowded from what I remember, which supports my "order of magnitude" claim.

Alas, I couldn't find any statistics on the total number of boats in Venice, which really would be the best measurement here. But canal-miles seems like a decent proxy.
I just simply think those people who always talk about a specific gender’s rights in fact are helping to create more and more distance between two genders in the tech world.
Increasingly, jQuery is not just an implementation, but is rather an API. That's why we're seeing the rise of alternatives like zepto.js that match the jQuery API de-facto standard but are implemented better (smaller, dropping IE6 compatibility).

Replace "jQuery API" with "Web API" and this actually argues against John's point. Multiple implementations are better for everyone.
If anyone has any questions about Barley I'll answer any of them that I can here.
But the biggest websites generally don't use 3rd-party JS libraries at all--Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, etc. all write their own javascript libraries.

Sure there is a long tail of sites that do use jQuery, but most of them don't do very much or get much traffic.

If you look at jQuery's market share by aggregate user sessions or by aggregate time on site across the entire web, it does not look nearly as important.
> Among people gullible enough to download and run executables containing random unknown content

Like Ruby developers, for example?

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

"curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby"
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The overall rate of BTC production is basically fixed. If anything this is going to push some people to stop mining BTC.
> On the one hand, you're targeting guys who feel like they don't know enough about fashion to be able to make good clothing choices themselves -- so they trust an unknown stylist with unknown credentials to make the choice for them.

> On the other hand, you're targeting guys who value premium, name-brand clothes.

I fit both of those categories, and I don't think that I am particularly unusual in that regard. That said, I share similar reservations about a subscription model for clothing as others have voiced here, but I might give it a go.
> But will developers/users really flock to Opera just because it has a fast JIT? For me, Opera is just something to check for compliance.

I think it's the reverse: users will like Opera if it has UI features they like. It's highly unlikely that Opera would be able to beat Chrome / Safari on speed but there's plenty of room for innovation in other areas now that the web is becoming fast enough for most users.

Not having to support a modern browser engine just be able to start those features is the major win for Opera because they can focus on things users actually care about rather than obscure feature compatibility or baseline competitive performance.
We've intentionally made it super flexible. You can rush or delay your next shipment, choose to skip a month, ask for another pick if you don't like it. Can change frequency to every 2 or 3 months if you'd like too. Can indefinitely put account on pause.
Well said. If I had read something like this when I was eight years old, I probably would have almost immediately backtracked and started looking for something else to do with my life. The author could instead tell her niece that being a game developer sounds like fun, and then help her deal with any discrimination as it comes up, if it comes up at all. But to start off a person's career with the message that she is going to be discriminated against, that she is going to be at a disadvantage, that she should watch out for all those people trying to drag her down... that's just sabotage.