skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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If they had men in revealing clothes, it would kill the event as most men don't want to mingle with other men in revealing clothes. They do this because they know men want to mingle with women in revealing clothes.
FWIW, the ppa is hannes-janetzek/enlightment-svn, and you can try it out in Ubuntu with:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightment-svn

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install terminology

great effort coming along. I'm sticking with terminator for now but will keep my eye on terminolog.
I was just trying to take pride in what is declared on the home page. That doing things simply is difficult. Nothing backhanded intended.
Right, I did restrict languages to a popular subset defined in another post: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2013/02/28/language-rankings-1-13...
Please make discussion post text easier to read. Whenever I view one of these posts, the submission's body text is in a light grey font that's annoyingly difficult to read compared to comment text (which is black). It's almost as difficult to read as comments which have been severely downvoted, which signals that the submission itself is not worth reading.
I don't think anyone deserved to be fired or receive hate mail and I don't think it is wrong to address potty jokes in a proportionate way. But I can't say that 24 hours a day, there's not even any point.

The incident belongs to Adria because she is the one who chose to prematurely go public. And the way she played the incident was no service to feminists or women in tech, as this thread makes quite clear. Actually a lot of people beyond Adria are suffering on account of her lack of restraint.

I really don't care about idiot men who are enraged by Adria except that I have to be associated with them and backstop blowback from their stupid actions.
Things You Think Aren’t Sexist, But Really Are
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Can you just once read the Constitution you're attempting to quote?
All true.

One of the difficulties with Expect is that it's hard to explain its usefulness to newcomers. Expect itself is easy enough to understand; but a common initial reaction is, "So?"

Part of the difficulty is that Expect particularly shines in occasional circumstances that no one wants to repeat. It's a tool, more than a product--like a funny little jig that looks peculiar, but saves HOURS when you are doing particular operations with a drill press.

Network devops, for instance, might need to monitor and update hundreds of devices spread across multiple datacenters for a particular task accessed through a command-line interface (CLI). The CLI is "easy", in that it only takes thirty seconds to do one instance of the chore--but a royal nuisance to repeat for hour after hour. A "correct" answer probably involves setting up authentication key pairs and ... well, you can see where this is going. How "correct" is that kind of configuration, though, when it might have to be done only once in the lifetime of the datacenters? This is a typical case where twenty minutes of Expect scripting can save HOURS, and sometimes days, of error-prone typing. It would easily be worth hundreds of dollars to have Expect on hand for this one use. No one will ever pay for Expect, though, because it helps most for these pesky side-tasks that no one really budgets.

I can give lots of examples of good uses for Expect--but each single example will only apply to a handful of people around the world. Nearly everyone needs Expect in some way, but each instance is highly idiosyncratic.

Expect is a little like duct tape or WD-40.
Segment.io: New integrations, and more all the time
I think the main problem is that women are already a minority. So when they look around, the women they are most likely to see are the ones who are not being taken seriously. This will discourage women from participating, and continue to ensure that the audience in future events is mostly male.

A larger issue is that attendees will stop taking all women at the event seriously. It's like a spam filter for the brain: if you want to talk seriously about a product, find a man. Please note that even women attendees do this to each other.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2963733 especially the comments
So everyone who doesn't believe in so called "positive discrimination" is an MRA automatically? Huh? You'll have to show me the logic you used to get from one statement to the other.
So like zsh? https://pastee.org/uka5q
Men are not being hurt by the existence of PyLadies in any way.

It's so easy to see everything as a competitive zero-sum-game. So that anything that helps women must be hurting men, right?

It's wrong, but the idea is out there. Sigh.
The rumor is that they were raising another round at a big valuation which might explain this. They might have been play off Yahoo and the VCs looking to lead the round off each other. Still, a really high number for an app that doesn't seem to have much traction.
The savings were because of new capabilities, not new efficiencies. Adding power (which they happened to use solar power) gave them new capabilities (compaction, signalling), which saved them almost a million bucks.

Solar was still the enabling technology. Marginal energy cost comparison with grid electricity is irrelevant, since the cost structure is dominated by fixed costs. Can you imagine installing, reading, and maintaining an electric meter and utility interconnect for every single trash can?
>"Given the choice between recognition of basic civil rights (same sex marriage, reproductive rights)"

It's funny that you lump those two together. Public opinion has been moving quickly in favor of gay marriage, but the trench warfare over abortion is the same as it always was. One NRO writer claims the country has gotten more more pro-life and more pro-gay over the last 30 years, and that sounds correct given my memory of the last time I found raw stats. More female voters identify as pro-life than pro-choice last time I checked, though you wouldn't know it in blue states.

Personally, I have too much libertarian in me to call myself pro-life. But I find that the left lacks intellectual honesty and serious engagement with the stance of the other side whenever I hear their rhetoric. They seem to convince through loud shouting and calling their opponents names, or labeling their own positions "basic civil rights".

Killing a human fetus may not be "murder" but it surely carries some moral weight. And no middle ground position will be stable without recognition of that.
I. screwed. up. You have an excellent point.
Just to add some more information to your comment, I'm an Architect and I worked on a building with trees growing on top of a structure, but not at high level. I just happen to know that, according to the tree specialist, a 5-8m tall magnolia tree can probably survive in a cube of soil 1.5m x 1.5m x 1.5m encased in a concrete pit lined with a geotextile to prevent root damage to the structure. It needs to be hooked up to a fairly sophisticated hydroponic system to keep it alive and their growth will be stunted by the restrictions placed on the root ball. Another issue with some of the trees shown is that, because they are under the structure, they will need to be turned every couple of years and/or illuminated with special lights to keep them from being distorted by growing towards the sun and to ensure they receive enough light to photosynthesise.

More generally, the computer renderings you see in the article are often generated by students or outside design agencies based on sketches and other early information from the architects. They are done in a few weeks often to very tight deadlines and are definitely not based on technical drawings so you can get all kinds of weird stuff in there depending on how imaginative the computer graphics person is and how late they had to stay up to beat the deadline. A real skyscraper takes years to design, the details of how tree pits work wont be fully bottomed out until a few years after the fancy renderings are done. Ultimately, trees often disappear from the finished product once it has permission from the city as the developer will be looking for ways to cut costs; things like this often get the chop unless there are specific conditions to keep them in the design that have been placed on the permission granted by the local authority.
If only someone can put all this information with a format like hack design. That would be pretty cool.
I want so badly for the XFT thing to not be a problem. All my favorite terms benefit from using the old font system instead, but there just aren't any good fonts I can use.

I do like some of the classic monospace fonts like 6x13, but my monitor resolution is just too high for that.
Similar to how the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) went down, I would imagine...

Or are you arguing that all organizations that have a focus on expanding the role of a minority in a community that are inclusive to all in that community should be shut down because you believe some people would complain about having one focused on the majority?

That is some twisted and messed up logic there.

http://wearebit.com/ has quite the presence as SXSW. Haven't heard similar complaints about that...
You are right, if one sees roots it doesn't mean there aren't other roots.

I think the difference is, South Finland was compressed by 1 km of ice during the last ice age, and the ground is pure granite that is blown up using explosives whenever a new building or road is built.

In those places I talk about, the dirt layer is extremely thin or often nonexistent. The photos I linked don't show that, but many trees are clearly sitting on pure red granite rock with just a little bit of dirt and moss surrounding the roots, in the middle of pale rock.
s/email/emacs/
I also found it interesting that Objective-J is well ahead of Objective-C. The parts of those languages that are not pure Javascript and C, respectively, seem like they should be equally expressive. Especially when Javascript and C score side by side, eliminating any effects by expressiveness of the subset language.
While their chart confirms my personal bias (that FP is more expressive), I think their methodology is flawed to the point of making the whole thing meaningless. They are not measuring expressiveness, they are measuring lines of code per commit. Having a community that likes lots of small commits doesn't actually make a language more expressive than one with a community that likes fewer, larger commits. They even acknowledge that the javascript numbers are basically meaningless because it is so common to copy+paste entire big external dependencies into a javascript project.
Clojure is more popular than Scala for web stuff, especially among the startup set. Clojure is increasingly popular for analytics and data-driven use-cases, partly due to Marz.
Our city has these. The price I recall they paid was $4K per unit. I think they are using some really twisted math on these claims. A simple wire trash basket can easily be inspected by sight and emptied when full... it's not like the garbage trucks are dispatched to individual trash cans. They have standard routes at standard times, the only question is whether they need to stop and check each can.
Does this data take into effect the total lines of code in the project being committed to? Would this not have an effect on the results?
You're right that these retargeting shops have a stupid thesis and can only exist because marketers' metrics haven't evolved enough yet (and that's changing). Highest purchase % doesn't mean you changed intent or created business, you just won the bidding war to show an ad to someone who was already going to buy, or maybe already bought.

But users will never manually enable 3rd party cookies, even if they agreed with you that the ads were adding value (which odds are they never will either).

Content has to be monetized in some way -- if not ads, then how?

All that blocking 3rd party cookies will accomplish is put most of the less technically-mature shops out of business while the smart ones figure out a way to route around using the exact same data science for targeting.
An in-depth interview with PandoMonthly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y04gnM57Sow
I'm thinking that's mostly due to the testing methodology. In JS it's pretty common to start a project by downloading and committing jQuery, Underscore, and whatever framework dependencies you're using. And just speaking from experience, coffeescript is better, but it's not _that much_ better (I'd guess ~1.5 lines of JS per line of CS, the chart shows somewhere around 8:1).
(None of this should be construed to be legal advice...)

If it's in federal court on what seems like a breach of contract claim, then it's probably there on diversity jurisdiction and thus the amount of claimed damages is over $75,000. So probably not something he can take to small claims, unfortunately.

The real question is, who sues a student for > $75,000 for breaching an employment agreement?
When it first came out, Chrome's killer app (to me) was performance and the lack of bloat that had infected Firefox at the time. However, FF can more than redeem itself by making privacy and allowing users to easily "go off the grid" its killer app.
I'd be curious to know where Knife Depot is putting its advertising dollars now that it's not spending on AdWords.
The good thing about Coffeescript is that it actually seems to deliver what it was promising in the first place, terseness, expressiveness, simplicity and good Javascript output.

It is really a joy to develop with (though my being a Ruby programmer probably makes me a somehow biased and enthusiastic candidate).
As a tech person involved in a small company (not a startup), I can vouch for this reality, because I see it every day. The tech I bring to the table is very helpful, but the service side of the business is core.

There are tons (tons!) of businesses out there that can be made to scale, optimized or otherwise improved through technology, but can be proven out with nothing more than a wordpress blog (or other free, non-custom infrastructure).
No, it's a combined total across all ~7.5 million open-source projects in Ohloh, so (potentially real) effects like that are averaged out.
>"a soso ex eBay exec"

Now I see your bias. Meg took over as CEO of the company when it was 30 people. Most companies that size crater and are never heard from again.
I'd recommend using PlainSite

http://www.plainsite.org

to see A) which lawyers and firms have represented your former employer, so you know who not to call, B) cases based on the same statute as yours, so you can find lawyers who are experienced in that particular domain, C) information about the judge in your case, and D) what similar case dockets tend to look like.
Are you a student? If so, most universities have free (included in your tuition/fees) student legal services, with lawyers you can meet with for free.
Since I'm not a researcher I can really only speak to my experience around Milwaukee. Basically any town within Milwaukee County doesn't (as a rule, there are exceptions) have that kind of space. But further than that, there's quite a bit of space. Probably still not fire-engine-storage space, but at least riding-mower-recommended space.
It would be better for the reddit founder to remain silent than to post this. It's an attempt to shift blame entirely to the individual users from a centralized platform that picks and chooses its battles, and does so poorly. Throwing around the term "open" where not appropriate doesn't help the cause of openness online.
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He's sponsoring a bill repealing mandatory minimum sentences for marijuana crimes. You might want to send me your number so I can call and wake you up when it passes.
> The question is whether or not PyLadies allows men to join as full members.

What exactly are you looking for? PyLadies is not a dues-paying organization. There's no screening process or special clubhouse. Local PyLadies groups organize events (like hackathons, workshops, or happy hours) and people show up. Nobody stands at the door and checks your secret decoder ring to see if you're allowed in or not.

This line from pyladies.org has already been mentioned above:

> Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate!

Nevertheless, it's still a fact that if you let people know "hey, there's going to be a hacknight this week, and most if not all of the attendees will be women" -- then many women would admit to feeling more comfortable in that sort of environment, and might subsequently be more likely to show up than they would otherwise.
"But look, the point is this: the definition of a poor diet is a diet that doesn't provide for all of the necessary nutrients as part of the diet. If you have to take supplements to make up for dietary shortfalls, your diet is a poor one...period. Waiving away the handful of supplements you take everyday is madness and a serious problem."

That's simply your opinion. You're obsessed with the evils of supplements. Who cares if you need a couple of supplements to make up for some known shortfalls? It's a trivial part of my day, and it's hardly a "handful of supplements". Besides, consuming animal products has its own set of drawbacks.

I'm not sure why the vegans you know are so concerned about iron and zinc. I'm deficient in neither and don't go out of my way to supplement them. They're readily available in many plant foods. I'm also well aware that vitamin D is produced in skin, but you might want to double check your latitude if you're relying on that in the winter.

My goal is not to get 100% of my dietary requirements from food. That's apparently your objective. I never claimed a vegan diet can provide all the nutrients you need without supplementation. I readily admit you have to take B12. Some other things might be good to supplement too, depending on the actual make up of your diet. This is true even if you are omnivorous.

This whole thread started because you made this claim: "Non-animal sourced diets are hopelessly unhealthy in the long term no matter how many supplements you take to try and take to make up for it"

And now you've added:

"Vegans are among the only otherwise healthy population group in the developed world that routinely suffers from illnesses seen only in the most decrepit poverty stricken parts of the undeveloped world."

Please cite something specific to support either of those claims. "Google it" is not a citation. I know a lot of long term vegans (multiple decades; some lifelong) who are doing just fine.

If anyone else is still following this thread, this is a good source of information for vegans who want to be healthy: http://veganhealth.org
The change on immigration feels to me like "too little, too late". The leadership would like to see the party's position change, and various leaders are following course.

But you have to go to elections with the party you have, not the one you want to have. Republicans voted in anti-immigration laws in Arizona and elsewhere. Those laws are very popular with the Republican base. Politicians running for office have to recognize that reality. And as they pander to that reality, they make comments that reinforce that. All of which hurts them with the Latino population.
Thanks Dan - didn't see that in the article, but if that's really the return on capital, its a significant one. I'd poke a little bit more as to what the real opportunity cost was here (ie, did you absolutely need to spend the $2.2M to get the fuel savings, or could a more efficient system of checking them with cheap transmitting devices work), but that's context that should have been in the main article.
Definitely. All too often, I'm into building what can be bought (often bought for $0). I'm a developer because building stuff is fun, but it isn't always the right choice for the business.
It could very easily be seen as a monopolistic move on their part if they were to move in that direction oddly enough.
I predict Google will come around and open up your adwords account again. Don't give up on it if, of course, you want their traffic. Were you running product listing ads (PLAs) as well?
An interesting course on using software algorithms for stock analysis and trading can be found at Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/compinvesting1

That course also uses Python as programming language in the examples. Short description from that URL: "Find out how modern electronic markets work, why stock prices change in the ways they do, and how computation can help our understanding of them. Build algorithms and visualizations to inform investing practice."
> This is a rhetorical device, intended to use an emotional argument ("hatred, rage, vulgar insults and detailed threads of rape, bodily harm, and murder!!!") to justify totally unrelated behavior of public naming and shaming for a mild offense.

I do not agree that public naming and shaming is unrelated to this incident. You have to keep in mind that it is not unreasonable to see the penis jokes as a sexist microaggression [1], esp. if you are a woman of color working in a field where those kinds of jokes and microaggerssions happen a lot. To that end, sexism is reenforced and made more prevalent by those microaggressions. Sexism and misogyny in society does directly translate to outright physical violence and murder of women. So for a woman of color to confront that microaggression and then receive threats on her physical safety and life isn't just some idle trolling, it reflects a reality that this person may very well experience. Keep in mind that 1 in 5 women in the US will be sexually assaulted in their life time and that people of color, esp. black women, face a variety of forms of institutionally backed violence. Public naming and shaming is a valid form of defense against those conditions and kinds of violence.

> The whole thing was and is a ridiculous mess, and it all was avoidable by behaving like responsible adults.

I agree and it should be noted that being a responsible adult means avoiding penis jokes when representing your company at a conference they sponsored, esp. when said conference is working very hard on including women.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaggression
very slowly, but very, very surly, google is doing a complete 180 on "don't be evil". I think the slow pressure of being a public company is really going to strangle out much of the "good side" of Google. Everything they've done in the past 1.5yrs has been terrible for their users.
NewsBlur doesn't have an API, and as a result, the defacto standard would be Feedly. We now have a similar singular pipeline problem.

The Digg engineers have a lot more experience working at scale than the one person behind NewsBlur, and can probably whip out a suitable competitor and an API to boot faster than NewsBlur can.

That, and everybody loves competition.
So clearly if the general population was less heterosexual[0] and/or more women in tech[1], this wouldn’t be a problem. However, it is rather difficult for me to understand that an action (employing scarcely dressed women) can be sexist depending on external factors such as the percentage of people interested in women/men.

[0] Such that more men would be interested in men and hence scarcely dressed men were around as well.

[1] So that the link female ⇔ booth babe breaks down.