skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had the misfortune of seeing how very deep this sexism goes- it's not just sexual harassment that's an issue (though I will say, it's the most pressing), but also the prejudices women meet in the tech world. It's as if there are two major discussions about women's roles in tech: women are either assumed to be underqualified or over glamorized.

Get more women into tech, and then get over having them there.
I don't know, it's almost a little unnerving to think that a doctor would always go completely from memory and never look at any reference material.
Yeah, one of the things I like about drinking a good cup of hot coffee or tea is that spending a half hour or so savoring a single cup feels perfectly natural. There's a time limit in that it'll eventually get cold, but with a good pot and a good mug it's not all that hard to spend all day drinking tea without actually consuming all that much of it.
He seems to have brought his junk food carrots to market, except for one thing: they now contain 200mg of sodium.

http://www.babycarrots.com
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Email as the interface is really interesting to me. Users don't necessarily need a username/password combo. They don't need to learn a new workflow. They don't need to install any new tools. Company IT depts take care of making sure people can access their email on their phones/laptops.

I've built a product that tracks team mood that is based almost entirely on email. Instead of having a team of 10 developers each make their own accounts, there is just one account for the manager - who manages the list of the team's emails. The team members record their mood by clicking one of three links in the email, no complicated forms or sliders. Usage and adoption rates have been beyond my expectations (~70% response rate to daily emails) and I think the use of email is a major factor.

Email-first is very constraining - but ultimately constraints help spur creative and elegant solutions.
No, Torvalds doesn't get away with it because Linux is huge. In a world where Linux is huge and people didn't value his input, then he wouldn't get away with it. The open source ejects people with bad attitudes who are not worth the trouble, just look at glibc and Drepper's reign of terror.

If there are really millions of developers sitting on patches because they don't want to deal with mini-Torvalds, then you really should start a movement.
I'd be more interested in some replacement backs. Mine got a crack before I had even had the phone for 2 weeks. Gorilla Glass? OK! >_>
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I think the point is more this: everything is optimized for men, it's like a self-amplifying loop. Sure the things you mention are also a problem, but women face that everywhere.
I agree with the PHP module. Why not Objective-J or other languages+ToolAPIs that exist now (and are not easy to install and get working).
I think if you were selling widgets online (I assume you aren't), then the story would be much different. You can't know what behavior your customer took after seeing a print ad, but I know exactly how much traffic I get from our Facebook page, and how much of that converts for us.

Unfortunately since FB has started charging to promote posts, we get almost nothing from them, even though our likes grow, so we are all but abandoning FB. But that is a problem with Facebook's model, not social media inherently.
Idea: allow selling BTC for dollars too. And to maintain balance on the machine, adjust the exchange rate dynamically according to how much dollar bills are remaining or how much room is left. So people will keep it balanced to their own benefit and to the benefit of owners who would pay the difference in exchange rates and not do emptying/filling by themselves.
The cost of cancer/dialysis/diabete is quite relevant since those things are inherently expensive today, and you won't be able to pay it from your pocket unless you are in the top few % income wise.

Regarding the 7 % costing 90 %, it does not surprise me much (the figure I heard in France was something like 10 % costing 60 %, but I don't pretend for their accuracy). You need to take into account that the 7 % are not uniformly distributed (age being an obvious factor). Also, in France at least, there is no such thing as Medicare/medicaid, so the mandatory health insurance costs can't easily be compared.

Regarding the prince thing: I don't understand the argument of putting things from year X in year Y in 2013 dollars for things that did not exist at that period X. If we discover in 50 years a definite cure against say cancer, getting the price in today's USD is meaningless (how much would someone like S. Jobs be willing to have paid for it ? Much more than anything related to inflation).
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Lack of manners and as..ole men are enabled by a sexist environment. These are symptoms of an underlying problem. Women don't feel safe in these environments because of the behavior of a relatively small number of individuals, but these individuals are enabled by a system problem in which their behavior is rationalized and ignored as just s social faux pas.
And just because it can be reproached doesn't make it any less tiresome to the people who have been hearing it for years.
I have an anecdote about a guy who wasn't given recognition while female coworkers were. Want to anecduel? Or shall we actually look for hard data rather than relying on hand-waving and stories about women we've known?

More importantly, though I agree that women have to fight harder for recognition in many fields, there is no evidence that this means they are more subject to impostor syndrome. Impostor syndrome is an internal thing, not something somebody else tells you to have.
This is an excellent post. I used almost exactly the same system to build my app streamjoy.tv . Everyday streamJoy scours Netflix, iTunes and Amazon to find the availability of movies for streaming, rental and digital purchase.

I built it as a portfolio piece and haven't finished it because I've been doing consulting jobs, but if you want to watch a particular movie online without going the pirate route, it's the start of a legal alternative to the old sites like sidereel.

The tech behind it is the same as this article. Flask and jinja render a static html page for each of about 92,000 movies.

I use a flask app for the search functionality that accesses an elastic search database.

I used mongodb because it was incredibly easy to create a local cache of the JSON data I was getting from the apis I was accessing.

It all took a lot longer than I ever would have though to even get it to this point. There were a lot of little annoying issues with the various APIs I had to access, and the annoyance of parsing XML amongst other schelps I had to deal with.

I have only ever mentioned it on hacker news one other time and the last time my elastic search server crashed from the traffic. It is all running on a $5 a month digital ocean vps.

The flask/jinja static page creation is rock solid and would never fail if I pushed it to s3, right now my elastic search server is the bottle neck. I haven't taken the time to throw hardware at it or set up clustering.

All in all it's a pretty cool service in my opinion, I built it for myself because I love movies and spend a lot of time watching them online and made a decision to never pirate a content creators work again. Also the experience of netflix, amazon and itunes is orders of magnitude better than the old megavideo/bittorrent trouble of finding the real deal and not being inflicted with spammy ads with voiceover.

I really like the flask/jinja/bootstrap/javascript/mongodb/elastic search stack. I've learned a lot of tips and tricks by building streamJoy and if people want I would be happy to share them with the community.

I know this sounds like self promotion of my app but I haven't even taken the time to implement affiliate tracking for any service besides amazon. Consulting is serious and real money right now and that takes priority over this little side project I did.
Bleh.

I may as well respond by bringing up the mother of three who works 12 hour shifts at walmart was expelled from highschool and never had even the most basic idea of food preparation or culinary training. I suppose she should simply 'bootstrap up' like the rest of us did when we were in that situation. Hah, oh that's right, the vast majority here are college educated and in the top 15% of income earners.

This gets us nowhere. It's a circular argument that has been done to death.

If you want to argue that I (me personally) should know better, absolutely, if you want to argue someone in the bottom 50% should know better then go volunteer at a shelter.
Most opposition to tort reform comes from the left, and fans of European-style health care also come from the left, so saying that we couldn't set up a European style because of the legal climate is intended to cause cognitive dissonance.

(I'm not advocating putting everyone into a government system run NHS-style system. Surely, though, me and a few thousand of my friends ought to be able to get together and attempt to emulate it if we wish.)
I see "culture fit" mentioned so much, but I'm never sure what it actually means. There are many things it could mean, some OK and some downright immoral. So purely for my elucidation, what does culture fit mean to you in this situation?
1) A mega platform on top of existing EHR's won't be an easy thing. It would require them to play ball and large players, like Epic, probably won't.
2) Chronic disease management is important, but really challenging. People don't really spend their days thinking about their illness. They don't look forward to having their blood sugar assessed. Any kind of disease management program is going to require that the patient be minimally engaged, yet data still effectively collected and assessed. The only evidence of real consumer engagement in health has been with respect to personal fitness.
3) HIPAA in a box is going to require some involvement of the government. They've thrown these regulations out there with rather vague specifications as to how they would be applied to ehealth initiatives. If the government wants to enforce this, which they have begun doing, they have to provide better guidance.

Just a few thoughts. In general though, Rock Health has grown into a great program and anyone who is pursuing a health related startup should give it strong consideration.
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Because they spend 50% of their waking hours in school where it is impossible to monitor exactly what they're eating. Parents do take responsibility for what their kids eat at home. The alarm comes from schools marketing unhealthful food to them when we can't be there to ensure they make good choices.
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Bad statistics shouldn't be considered adequate for anything. I have no problem with solid statistics being used assuming they have been properly scrutinized by experts before being used to pass judgement.

So many convictions come based on simple circumstantial evidence without even considering the statistical basis for those circumstances. Many convictions are entirely emotional bias on the part of the jury. Why should allowing statistical analysis to be considered as evidence be considered worse than the status quo?
Fish oil, via EPA or DHA, has been implicated in acting as [1]:

An anti-inflammatory
An anxiolytic
A brain booster
A heart health compound
A liver health compound

How is this misleading? See: http://examine.com/about/#support

Trans fat page is in the works AFAIK. Also it's mainly a supplement site. (wiki for the evidence on supps) FAQ is just a useful addition.
Amen to that. Where does everyone find their sense of entitlement?
I Google everything right away. I guess this makes me the bestest programmer!
Hah, the triclops comment made me chuckle. And don't read too much into this, as I doubt it is at all an appropriate indicator, but I should disclose that I actually have an anxiety disorder. Particularly in conversation I will sort through conversational trees and actively analyze the dialog I am having, as it is happening.

It can be both maddening and very useful. But more than anything it makes you realize how comfortable you are with those closest to you, because all that overlaid mapping and planning fades away into actual casual conversation.

Veering far off topic now though!
Why is it the responsibility of women to take the stand? Isn't it the responsibility of the people making unprofessional advances to stop and silent bystanders to tell them so? Why is a professional conference ever even thought of as a venue for making advances?

I don't understand why you think this is not sexism.
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Can someone explain the concept of "flat files" to me and why people like to use it?
I'm not too impressed by Stephan Guyenet's article. He is wrong about one of his main points that fat is completely regulated by the brain and that insulin does not cause fat gain. You can Google for photographs of people who have done insulin injections in a single place over many years (rather than moving the injection point around) and see huge fat deposits at the injection site. That has got to be tissue regulation. Further, lipodystrophy is hard to explain by only invoking brain regulation.

We know that artificial insulin is a great way to gain weight. But is that only for diabetics? Hardly. It works just as well on athletes. Stop by your local gym and ask any of the chemically-assisted bodybuilders there for details. Insulin injections are a very common way to put on weight while bulking.

The idea that the body is "confused" by food density, which seems to underlie many of your ideas, is simply unsupported. The brain is very good at measuring calorie intake irrespective of density. I could point you to rat studies to confirm this, but I'd rather propose the following experiment that you can try in your own kitchen: Try making cream of cauliflower soup tonight, one with skim milk and the other with heavy cream. Measure how many spoonfuls of each that you can eat before getting full. Your brain does not get fooled by food density.
Ask HN: Static site Jekyll vs. Middleman for a portfolio with blog?
Any thoughts from people who've used them? Which should I go with?
It depends on what you're working on. If you're working at the cutting edge, you will find that Google often doesn't have the answers you need... simply because they aren't out there.
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I think these 'I'm european, I'll work for free' posts are a bit tiring. It is a very difficult proposition and if we take into account business rules and regulations it becomes much more unsavory.

Why not just ask for a tour or find people at hackathons or meetups?
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Wow, thanks Taleb. I'm really glad you enjoyed the workshop. Hopefully I'll be doing more work with Pace in the near future!
Hardly anyone is really approving or denying care based on cost-effectiveness. Which is why costs are out of control.
I don't want to provide any identifying detail. I figured it might still be possible for people to generalize which is a more pleasant place to be an employee.

I will say that I am a software engineer.
Trite and untrue.
It's just not true that large numbers of Canadians go to the US for healthcare. You need to supply evidence of this. The numbers are vanishingly small.
This post again?
The problem doesn't seem to be the ASP itself, but the failed (OAuth-like?) implementation.

"- OAuth tokens are created automatically, while ASPs are a thoroughly manual affair"

"- OAuth tokens use a flexible authorization model, and can be restricted to accessing only certain data or services in your account. By contrast, ASPs are — in terms of enforcement — not actually application-specific at all!"

Well, there's your problem. Application Specific Password isn't very specific at all.
Craigslist did start as an email.

From wikipedia: "Craig Newmark began the service in 1995 as an email distribution list of friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area, before becoming a web-based service in 1996 and expanding into other classified categories. It started expanding to other U.S. cities in 2000, and currently covers 50 countries."
The developer often chooses to write highly detailed simulations of, say, realistic glacier movements rather than fix known problems. It's his game, he's beholden to no one, and when he wants to skip the boring bugfixes to work on things he finds interesting, he can just go for it. I think he'd continue to code the game even if nobody ever played it.
This is a very old trick. According to Knuth, it goes back to at least 1961, where it was found in IBM programming course notes in a more general form that includes a mask:

x ← x ⊕ y, y ← y ⊕ (x & m), x ← x ⊕ y

The mask determines the subset of bits that get swapped.
the US is where a lot of the interesting innovation happens, latest product launches and technologies are here. I think that has a lot to do with why people want to be here
Your googling skill plays a big part in problem solving, and most of the time you are required to know what exactly is your problem.

I personally google stuff a lot when building a side project, I dont google for solution for a given problem, this is where your programming skills come in . You need to know what exactly you are looking for to get the correct answer from google. It cant be a blanket statement ("parse data from json"). Most of the time the answer is split across multiple sites and which you put together n solve your problem.
Meh, the degree of processing can be hard to measure. Yes, I agree. But it's far more useful than clean and unclean. Because these are fantasy.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/should-you-be-...

People just call clean, whatever they like/think is beneficial. Everything they deem harmful is unclean.
Can you elaborate? Do you think your employer provided health insurance is related? If so, how?
Given the furore that occurs whenever a Kickstarter doesn't actually produce the product that people had backed (and mistakenly read as "pre-ordered"), I can't imagine the fuss that will come from funding academic research.

My own research has often diverged down a path that I thought more interesting, dead-ended quickly from what I thought I should do, or turned out to either be trivial if done 80% of the way, or impossible taken 100% of the way, so I couldn't publish it.

I'm sure if I had a crowd behind me, it would have turned into a rabble very quickly. I would not have liked it.
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There are plenty of stories like Phineas Gauge that demonstrate the importance of placement in brain damage.

Seeing a dwarf fight with a torn brain isn't unrealistic.
Several ongoing efforts exist to get Android bits into the upstream Linux kernel, but those efforts have definitely not finished, and Android kernels still have quite a pile of changes that probably won't make it upstream.
Instead of dynamically generating HTML and JS on each page view, you run a render process that creates html files and serve them statically until the next refresh cycle.

Its the difference between running a wordpress server and a jekyll blog.

The security and scaling benefits are immense. With javascript you can replicate a lot of the functionality of dynamic sites.
> I've gotta disagree with you there.

I was talking from the POV of the developer.

In many cases, you get what you pay for. I've used many examples of open source software. There are times and places where it's the best thing. There are areas where there is too little incentive for commercial companies. There are also times when you want ultimate freedom to do what you want. There are also times when you want to pay for a level of polish and know things just work. There are also times when you want to be the one doing the polishing and get paid for your work.

> Meanwhile, it costs money over on Mac OS. It certainly does nothing to help the perception of the mac ecosystem as one that's overpriced.

I don't see the logic in having a price above free being "overpriced." Free as in beer is not a right, nor is it some sort of ultimate good. Sometimes, it's also a sign of a broken market.
Well, the short answer is: they mostly don't do "serious software engineering" - they do a lot of design (UX, mostly, but to some degree product design and graphic design) - and shuffle the UI around. The software engineering happens in short spurts, tucked away in conference rooms with the door closed, or after hours when the managers have gone home (...assuming the managers go home. I worked in an office where those people tended to still be there at 8pm)
No after reading that he's right. Anyone who gets more than 10 emails a day will probably agree
Yeah, I think there's definitely an ego/butthurt attitude here I wouldn't put up with.

Don't get me wrong, I think everyone needs to have a certain confidence on their abilities and expertise, but it works both ways: when hiring for our startup we'd look for honesty and humble acknowledgment of the candidate's shortcomings/lack of expertise.

I wouldn't fail you for not knowing what the Newton's method for finding square roots is, but I will fail you for thinking it's irrelevant or not caring. If you don't care about my requirements in an interview, I don't think you'll do much better with actual work.
This is going to be the most energetic hackathon ever :-)

Curious to see if such a big prize is going to make the result worst or better, what you think?
I'm disappointed that this post focuses on an incident of groping. Not because the incident is "not a big deal" or that it's isolated, but because it's the type of incident that nearly everyone can agree is beyond the pale and should never be tolerated by society.

Even sexists.

I think the more prevalent problem is the underlying sexism, the institutional bias, the reluctance to speak up, the fear of being judged "the token" -- the fact that a man can think it's appropriate to put his hand on a woman's knee unsolicited is just a blatant, ugly manifestation of the underlying sexism.

I know this post had a little more nuance, but it's hard to come away from it without the impression of: "Women aren't on speaker panels because they're afraid of getting molested". Maybe that's the case (and if so, we as a society have serious issues)...but there's at least an equal problem of women just not being considered or being searched for. And as that problem persists, then women continue to become such a minority at these conferences that the aforementioned creep feels perfectly comfortable with invading a woman's personal space.
I agree with most of your points except for #4.

There's nothing inherently wrong with flirting at a conference. Flirting is a very natural type of interaction for people, and asking people to not do it at all doesn't seem realistic.

However, men should not assume that flirting means that a woman is inviting you to touch her or sleep with her. In fact, she may not even be flirting. Men often misinterpret simple friendliness as sexual interest.

Be conservative in what you say and do. At a professional event, it is far better to miss an opportunity for a casual hook up than to be aggressive and make the conference an unwelcoming place for women.
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