skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe I have a different perspective on privilege because I'm fat and ugly, and only the attractive white men get it, or something. But seriously, if I have privilege, how do I take advantage of it? Is there something I have to do to make it happen? Because I'd sure like to see it since everybody tells me I have it.

Playing "Oppression Olympics" is a common derailing tactic, just FYI. Your personal experiences don't change the difficulties that women face in tech.
So have I - I've had a morbidly obese Nurse Unit Manager with the hots for me come in and lean all over me - heavy and annoying. My female tech lead volunteered to provide evidence for a sexual harassment complaint if I wanted to. (I'm male, the NUM was female)

I didn't want to. The NUM came in maybe three times a year, for only a couple of minutes. It was just a passing discomfort, but the important thing is this: I never lost tangible power. I didn't work in an environment where it was commonplace. I never felt like I couldn't escape or verbally correct or even physically overpower her if things went too far. There was never a culture of undermining my power that it contributed to. I wasn't seen as more of a 'junior' because of it; it didn't diminish my status.

Separate to that, I wouldn't say men have a higher threshold for not complaining about shit that doesn't matter. In some senses they do, and in others they don't - the recent PyCon event showed vast amounts of men in tech providing plenty of vapid, shrill complaints over stuff that really didn't require that level of passion.
my girlfriend was miserable in her grad school program. it was becoming more and more apparent to her that she should have taken economic development but she'd avoided it because she was 'bad at math'. we spent the next three months doing a crash course of all the math she was 'bad' at and she went from barely understanding algebra to having a better grasp of statistics and calculus than i do. she was only 'bad at math' because she'd spent the first 25 years of her life around people who had let her be bad at math because she was a girl
When did I say anybody "should just expect to be raped"? Well fuck you too. Of course people should be able to anything they damn well please while remaining safe. But in the real world that isn't the case.

We should address circumstances that create unsafe places for women and change them. My goal is to reduce violence towards women. What is your goal?

We have a culture that creates situations where women are regularly drunk and defenseless in the presence of drunk and uninhibited males. WHY IS THIS A GOOD IDEA? Why do feminists defend this culture? It's dumb. Let's do less dumb things.

Why is it that anybody who questions the wisdom of the culture is accused of "blaming the victim"? I support feminist goals, but feminist wisdom on these things is bizarre beyond my imagination.
This was started as a weekend project. And ended up here. Socket,im is a tool for sharing stuff between parties without hassle. You just type socket.im/something then system creates something what we call a socket. You can send links, messages, images etc via socket.im and anyone who is already connected that socket (by also typing the socket name or if you sent him a link by clicking the link) would receive what you have sent. It's anonymous. Nothing is stored on the server persistently.

Soon we will add file sharing and ssl support.

socket.im is still in its early days so it's something like an alpha version.

EDIT: We will be available at http://socket.im/dev
It's interesting to see at least 3 companies focused on fundraising (or crowdfunding) in this batch. Watsi (https://watsi.org/ + http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/30/watsi/) and Microryza (https://www.microryza.com/ + http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/25/microryza-yc/) are also focusing on funding medical treatments and scientific research.

Also, getting public figures like Stephen Fry and Jamie Oliver is really great thinking, they are the perfect type of celebrity to help start something like this.
but that's what I always do! Whenever I read these problems, this is what I think! The only problem is, every time I think "damn, that's not cool someone feels that way, I wonder what I can do to make life better for the people around me?" I can not think of anything. There is nothing I could do! Absolutely nothing. I wrack my brain every time, but I can't do a damn thing.

How about this: I'll gather every single programmer in my office. I'll stand there infront of 30 software engineers and I'll tell them:

"The reason women arn't successful in technology is because you are implicitly
denying them the chance! You need to re-evaluate on what criteria you are
using to judge someones actions or opinions."

"But Fish, there are NO female programmers in this office. All 30 of us are male.
We have no one to discriminate against."

"uhh... and ITS YOUR FAULT!"

That's why these posts are frustrating. I've met three women in my life who actually typed code into a computer. 2 sucked at it, 1 was pretty good but didn't enjoy doing it (hey for the record that's better than the males, who come in 80% bad to 20% good).

You know what's weird? Regarding the skill of that one good girl programmer? No one doubted it. No one patronized her, everyone knew she was good.

I can't possibly wake any more up! I'm awake! I swear!
> I'm so tired of hearing about sexism in tech
> that's the way it goes.
> I haven't seen any of this. Maybe I've missed it, or I'm not looking, who knows.

Or possibly you're predisposed to an opinion and only look to reinforce it instead of challenge it?
> Personally I think we have gone way to far with what we accept in the media and it's only getting worse.

Personally I think we have gone way too far with what we deem "unprofessional" or "inappropriate".

I'm with Louis CK when I find myself being offended by hearing some white lady with nice hair saying the phrase "the N word" on CNN.
He's using his life experiences to explain how "if I can pull myself up by the bootstraps, you can too." He's essentially denying her experience, and he even implies that the two of them have had the exact same experiences in tech when he says that death by 1000 cuts wouldn't be his choice of analogy.
There was a nifty combo LCD/eInk screen on the market for a while that I was really hoping would take off, for just this reason.
Searching for a Geek Feminism Wiki term to apply to my argument, so you can minimize it and mock it once it's categorized in its little box? Your comment reminds me of those people -- and I've seen this in person -- that hit Wikipedia's "list of fallacies" looking for a fallacy to point out since they can't come up with a decent counterpoint on their own. Your comment history tells me all I need to know about my expectations of reasonable discourse with you. You might as well rename to GeekFeminismWikiSearchBot, but that username wouldn't fit on Hacker News.

"Oppression Olympics" wasn't remotely what I was doing, and if you took the time to read it carefully, you'd see that. Particularly and emphatically the portion that you took the time to quote. (Hint: "You say I have privilege and I don't see it" is not even on the same page of the map as "I go through more than you do". I was presenting a "maybe" scenario to explain away my not seeing privilege, not saying "good Lord the world hates me because I'm ugly, how dare you feel bad for having a vagina!")
When the Armenian chess team returned to Yerevan as winners of the Olympiad, they were treated like rockstars outside the opera house, fireworks and all.

There are many great reasons this is good for the country:
- cheap to play
- teaches discipline & patience
- both genders can compete on level playing field
- scope for creative thinking & problem solving
> Why do people drinking heavily make you feel unsafe?

I'm a guy and I've learned through personal experience that being around drunks is the least safe situation I'm ever likely to find myself in. (excluding the obvious exceptions: driving in traffic is of course the least safe situation any of us deals with ordinarily)

Belligerent drunks are worrisome enough even to a person who is fully capable of defending himself and they tend to show up when you're dealing with a group of strangers that could be described as "drinking heavily." When the small but finite risks of dealing with a big group of "heavily drinking" people are usually compensated for with noisy, difficult conversation... why bother? Avoiding the whole thing isn't "pathology" as you described elsewhere, it's closer to common sense.
I sold my car and got the Humvee of bikes, it can carry two loads of firewood, or two kids, or a kid and the plants we got at the garden store. Most of America is batshit crazy but in Portland, Oregon the no-car lifestyle is catching on. Hopefully other cities too.

Bike photo! https://mobile.twitter.com/jchris/status/312728928919896064
I don't mean to come off as snarky, but I'm not totally sure how this relates to my comment.
Site offers chatting, become friends, find new friends and mark facebook friends anonymous for banging.

Grammar aside, that is the best elevator pitch I've ever seen.
London's Tube map creator Harry Beck gets blue plaque
Was that vitriol against women? Or against a person?
Reduce ongoing liabilities (debt

FYI, during the Weimer inflation, it was those who went into debt (ie, shorted the Mark) and bought real assets who profited the most. There's no real good advice during a currency collapse for unsophisticated investors. Filling your basement with Jack Daniel's whiskey is as good as anything.

That said, a FRN crisis, if any, is many years off.
> I've experienced things from women in the workplace that would have resulted in instant termination had she been a man.

I have too, but it's nowhere near as bad as what women I know tell me they deal with.

> But men have a higher threshold for not complaining about shit that doesn't matter.

This is sexist.
You know, Microsoft may not be "cool," but heck if I'm not thrilled to be in a work place concerned with

1) Engineering

2) Business

And that's about it.
I think we may have lost that battle. People are interested in 'rockstars' and 'ninjas' that can make shiny things and contribute to a hype cycle long enough to get acquired.
and I am you
I'll offer 20 bitcoins and not a cent more.
How about channelling your frustration into creating an environment for more women in tech?
Using games to teach physics
The parallels to sexism in your comment are striking and serve to confirm my point, in a way.
Take Instagram filters to the next level with Maxstagram
The permission to use some data is the minimum permission requested (Email address). The intent here is to use OAuth to allow easy logins, not harvest data. BTW, The entire site is open-source at http://www.github.com/udit99/visamapper, so not only can you a) Verify that there is no foul play, but b) send pull requests with alternative login methods.
You may break something by breaking it yourself, like naive code: if (window.chrome) console.log("dev forgot to delete this"))
Previous discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5433433

[dead] Bang with friends is on sale for 550,000$ (flippa.com)
I tried doing a total immersion in JS recently by coding up small learning projects for Ember.js, Ember.js + Node.js, Node.js + Express, and some general experiments while reading "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja" (I like this book, BTW).

All that said, I did a 90 minute sprint with Clojurescript tonight, and as awkward as it may seem to use an intermediate language, the development process is really nice. Whether I am modifying server side or client side code, the edit, try it cycle is very quick (a second or so). I have found that if I make little changes in one cycle, keep a browser JS console open with logging from client side code, and keep repls open for both the server side Clojure code and the client side Clojurescript code then I have a good window into both sides of a web app.

However, Node.js with either something like Express or (if you are brave) Ember.js is really nice also. I understand why people like Node.js.
Presumably it's a tail. A whale's tail.
Do you think the crazy Bitcoin-to-dollar conversion might be foreshadowing this somehow?
The primary drawback from the male perspective is that condoms decrease pleasure as compared to no condom.

Um, pretty sure they decrease pleasure from the female perspective too.
The problem with heavy drinking is that it reduces females' safety far more than it reduces males' safety, even if both sexes are consuming.
Were Cyprus banks really in trouble before they were forced to mark down their greek 5 and 10 year by 40%? If anything the lesson here is a responsible bank can't hold debt that's backed (directly or indirectly, like laiki) by the ECB unless it's german.
That could go both ways.

My point is that I look all around me and I do not see anyone in my circle being sexist to women about their role in tech(or lack thereof). I coach a mixed basketball team and the girls are the best and most poised athletes on the team. Not a single one of the boys has complained or made a comment about it.

I watch my daughter grow up, in her 2nd year of school, as she takes to reading/writing over math. She's good at both, but she prefers the former.

I'm not saying sexism doesn't exist, I'm just saying that I don't see it to the scale that has the entire industry freaking out.

If anything, the SendGrid situation proved that it can go both ways.
If the hardware access is taken care by the hypervisor, doesn't this imply the hypervisor supports the functionality of device drivers, i.e. the hypervisor has become the OS? Granted, it may delegate the device driver work to a some VM, in which case we're dealing with a microkernel of sorts.
>As for your comment about me being oversensitive, way to miss the point of the last paragraph of my post.

Just because you can predict a rebuttal doesn't make it wrong. Just because a rebuttal is wrong 90% of the time doesn't make it always wrong. Sometimes feelings ARE baseless. I don't want to get into the semantics of whether they're still 'valid', but everyone occasionally thinks things that are objectively wrong.
It's pretty simple, honestly. For an entire day, just make things. I've found that the noise in our industry is pretty easy to ignore with minimal loss to signal by merely choosing when to partake. If you want to avoid all those things you list, it basically means detaching from the social components of the industry ... one example of which is HN.
The difference is fixed-rate, vs. things which could adjust. It's all about being on the right side of optionality :)

It's better to own a subsistence farm than to have something which requires purchasing market-priced inputs and to sell at long fixed-term prices.

Similarly having long term fixed-rate debt (mortgage) is better in a market where rates go up than having to refinance every few years with short-term debt (or, say, rent, in a place where there's no rent control). But a disadvantage of owning vs. renting is that you can't move as easily to take advantage of opportunities.

Reducing mandatory ongoing/recurring market-rate purchases seems like a win; usually that requires either spending capital now or some form of (ideally, fixed-rate) debt. Like borrowing at 3% to buy a fuel-efficient car or live close to work/transit is probably worthwhile, if you get 10-15mpg now and need to commute to work.
Most importantly:

"Uh, no. A clone of Bang With Friends is on sale.
The URL to this one is bangfriends.net, the real URL is bangwithfriends.com."
I was in a negative situation at a workplace (despite being a straight male) and yes, I did exactly that, and found a new job that was a hundred times better.

Sometimes it's a good idea to leave and find something better. Sometimes it's worth it to stay and try to change the situation. It's difficult to say when each action is appropriate, but you can't say that either one is strictly a poor choice.

In other words, yes, she absolutely should if it makes sense.
Exactly what I was thinking. It's treating half of the human population: mothers, sisters, wives, daughters, as an inferior class of people. It's ridiculous and absurd.

It's also something that's both new and western. Programming, as an occupation, used to have a much healthier mix of genders. Looking at foreign-born computer scientists at my old grad school and at work, the ratio distortion is pretty unique to here. I donno what the cause is, but it is cultural. And we don't have enough of a culture for it to be anything more substantial than the accumulation of "1000 papercuts."

I think it's happening out of a combination of childishness and laziness. Most of us who repeat the same little phrases like "so easy my mom can do it" over and over just do it because we're too lazy to come up with a metaphor of our own. Here's an example replacement: "So easy a congressman can do it." (I don't think I have to explain the childishness part).

So, as colleges have higher proportions of women in the US, are we going to lose domestic undergraduate CS programs due to a lack of interest?
U.S. wants to attract hackers to public sector
A misdemeanor is an offense that can yield no more than a year in jail and requires only a conviction by trial. A felony is considered a "high crime" and is defined as an offense that can yield more than a year of prison time. Felonies require an indictment (basically a preliminary jury hearing to determine if there is sufficient evidence to go to trial), and then a conviction by trial. Felonies generally are much nastier records wise, require more time before they can be sealed or expunged (depending on state law) if they can be at all. They exclude you from certain rights such as gun ownership, voting, holding public office etc automatically. The system is fairly skewed and crimes are often made felonies in a reactionary context, i.e. some trivial computer crimes can yield felonies while cracking another mans skull under the right circumstances may only yield a misdemeanor assault charge after plea bargaining.
Do you mean that as in it isn't worth doing? By that logic hardly anyone would be doing anything.
BTC is far from a stable and accepted currency, and the fluctuations in USDBTC are still being driven by developments in the bitcoin community (e.g. good press, bad press, technical issues, new sites that accept BTC).
TANSTAAFL = "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch", for those who are wondering.
Someone should definitely do a Kickstarter project just to make such a screen.
Just use bcrypt [1] (or scrypt [2])

[1] http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
[2] http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html
Article is a bit misleading, because they mention former world champion Tigran Petrosian who passed away in 1984, and quote his son the 29-year-old grandmaster Tigran Petrosian.
Eloquent Javascript is absolutely the right starting point, I'm glad there's been a shift from recommending The Good Parts to that one.

It was linked here the other day, but Superhero JS is another great "what is the path to javascript mastery" lists:

http://superherojs.com/
At the risk of derailing this thread, why the hell do you carry, then? If you don't want to have to fire your weapon, what the hell did you buy it for?

This rubs the wrong way when most people that carry concealed tell me "I do it to protect myself". Well, no shit, Sherlock, that means you're going to have to discharge the weapon if you're in danger. And a sufficiently likely conclusion involves someone getting the drop on you and/or taking your weapon, anyway.
The problem is one of what happens on existing lists. Devs who openly identify as female face more hostility (technical and otherwise) than those who identify as male or are not identified. The idea of a women's only list is to avoid that hostility and provide a place where they can talk tech without the negative inputs.

If the same thing were happening to men, then having an exclusive list would be appropriate there as well.

I'm also a white male and still earning nowhere near average wage despite hitting 40 recently, but I'm not blind to having less obstacles to overcome. The thing to remember is that social wealth is not a zero-sum game - we all gain when someone grows.
Prizeo seems very similar to GiveSpark ( http://givespark.com/ ). GiveSpark was funded in YCW12 ( http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies#ycw12 ). Is there any connection between the two companies?
This isn't really a unique story. Understand that it sucks to be treated like that but the same can be said about women dominant workplaces. Sexism and not being taken seriously can be found everywhere. I've been called "sweetie", "honey" with a demeaning tone on daily basis, I've heard about fucking so and so and drama that goes with it, my opinion was dismissed and I was left out from the "club" more times than I care to remember and females usually got better treatment simply by being a female countless time.

This shouldn't be news, this is just life.
Agreed. At the most, tea should be left to infuse for 1 minute (loose tea less than that), especially for Black tea blends. Any more and it just kills the flavor.

I'm willing to bet she was doing it for some sort of DIY health thing. People do silly things like over-doing something if they think it's good for you. Well, that then makes it bad for you.

There's a great book on all this called The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Tea

A very good read on the subject. I think Google Books probably has a free translation.
Bcrypt uses the blowfish encryption algorithm published by Bruce Schneier in 1993. [1]

I do.

[1] http://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/
You need to separate each layer with an insulator to be effective, otherwise you could just use graphite.
This is probably the best comment I've ever read on HN, and it sums up my feelings about a vast majority of complaint threads on this forum. Especially this:

"Software has apparently become some sort of social cause, instead of an engineering discipline."
Before computing, I worked in motion pictures as a lighting director. I'm credited, and my name is in IMDB. You've very likely seen some of my work if you're a fan of the indie circuit. I pivoted to computing after six films because I found it a more interesting line of work and it's something I've done since I was a kid (I trained on lighting later in life).

That gives me the perspective of two careers: one full of primadonnas, constant whining, arguing over trivialities, pampering, and bizarre celebrity status, and the other one being motion pictures.

(Cheap joke aside, I found film a more calming career. I certainly came home angry less.)
Steve, I'm sorry to mention this, but a few weeks ago you mocked someone's repo on Twitter. Incidentally, that person happened to be a woman.

The personal attacks on Adria (death threats and all) are disgusting, but they're not the kind of thing that keeps women away from tech. It's the small discouragements, like the one you did when you mocked a stranger's repo (probably without knowing her gender) that keep women from thriving in tech.

I'm really sorry for the ad hominem/tu quoque, but if you want to make tech a better field for women, you have to make some adjustments that can make it better for non-heterosexual people, people with disabilities, foreigners, etc...

It's not enough to be open for women in tech: we should strive to be friendly to people who don't have the same level of proficiency, people with different tastes and opinions, and strangers.

It's not a kid with a DDoS tool and a fake Twitter account who makes a women avoid a career in STEM. It's a well-meaning technologist accidentally being an asshole (http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2013-01-23-node).

Actions trump words.
Uh? What's the advantage of this technique over a randomly generated salt?
What Extremely Successful People Did At 25
Cyprus or individual Euro countries can't "print" the currency to save all bad debt -- the US can, and does.

So, ahem, snicker, not to worry! ..rright?