skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wish to be clinical about this? Consider.

Your statement essentially assumes linearity, when such certainly isn't the case. Look at other industries, harassment lawsuits do not rise in tandem with number of women. This is obvious, one can grow the number of women in an industry far more quickly than harassers. Since these harassers cannot well parallelize their activity, the strongest explanatory variable will be the number of potential harassers. Raganwald's point. We are taking it as a given that most men will not provoke things till disciplinary actions are required and most women are not lying about them.

Your post is also highly simplifying - assumes trivial reducibility, homogeneity and ignores the effect of interactions to create emergent modalities. Observe that Not all women will escalate to lawsuits or even disciplinary action first. Lawsuits are a sign of an endemic problem, lack of support - symptom of horrible rot. With more women the support structures would be such that these problems could be nipped in the bud early. Indeed it's very possible that beyond a certain threshold, the number of women in an organization shifts company culture.

These two points show why it is not a simple matter of 500% more lawsuits.
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"When we become overwhelmed by trivial information, we start to hate substantial/meaningful information, and both what we hate and what we love conspire to bring our ruin."

Is it hatred, or simply a desire to get the "cheaper" information? It seems like human brains are wired to assume a kind of information parity, in which "Kim Kardashian buys a soda" is equal in value to "Germany annexes the Sudetenland". Understanding the latter has a lot of prerequisites, each of which is also a piece of information that has to be acquired, and so the latter is rightly seen as requiring more work than the former. And so, if you have a greedy information-gathering algorithm, you'll prefer the Kardashian data to the WWII data. This is why I admire people like Carl Sagan, David Attenborough, and all the other great popularizers of complex subjects, because instilling that passion and showing why some data are more important than others is a really hard job.
Law and Medicine both get more pay and have higher social status and have less ageism :-)

And if you SE is hard try being a woman in Civil engineering - a place I worked at (an Arab Civil engineers) had to arrange a swap with an Italian Consulting engineers. All our work was in the middle east so she was unable to get the required boots on the ground experience on our projects to progress to chartered status.
masturbation > meditation
Logos, Flags, and Escutcheons
The moms told me that about 20% goes to the Girl Scouts and the troop keeps 80%.
What about something like Mahout?
Why would you guess it's raising money for camp whe the title is "9 Year Old Building an RPG to Prove Her Brothers Wrong!"?

I'm raising $829 to cover the cost of attending this RPG STEM Camp for kids

I think it's pretty clear. They could put the extra funds towards some kind of charity though.
Please don't let something like that keep you from reading a book. If you don't want them to get your money, get it from a library.
The real SMB 2 (a.k.a. Lost Levels) wasn't released in the US precisely because of its difficulty. Nintendo of America knew that US audiences wouldn't appreciate it (but Japanese audiences did). That's why instead they did a sprite-change on Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, and released that as SMB 2 in the US.
then watch your kids like a parent should
If it's in San Francisco or Berkeley/Oakland...
Can someone give me a small comparison between nginx and HAProxy? It seems like they're starting to overlap a lot. I'm really excited that nginx added Websocket (including SSL termination) support.
One correction: The last nexus(nexus 4) was from LG. The Galaxy Nexus & Nexus S were from Samsung.
Perhaps you have a small child, preferably a girl, who needs training on how to shoot better pictures? You could probably write the kickstarter from your child's POV, too. If enough people want to see the resulting snapshots, they'll probably kick in enough to cover a new camera as well as the plane ticket you've already bought!
Ya I like this - 'catching' the ejaculate would still present risks but it should all-but eliminate unwanted pregnancies and greatly reduce STD's which are passed by fluid exchange. You still have to worry about things like Herpes and HPV but this would be vastly better than no condom.

Maybe something that just partially covers the head of the penis?
I can "ditto" most of that. I've had a federal felony conviction for computer fraud (against an ex-employer) for over 10 years now and have been employed for most of that time. I was terminated as soon as my case hit the news media, but I was able to find contract work with friends before my sentencing. I was able to pay my restitution in full, which really sucked financially, but was a great feeling and something I'm still proud to tell people. Not long after my probation ended, they offered to hire me full-time at a significant raise. They never did a background check.

Since then I survived two corporate acquisitions, multiple new bosses, new CEOs, etc. Every time I sweated it out waiting to see if my background would come up. I actually heard about conversations with two incoming CEOs about me and both basically responded "he's paid his debts" or something similar. They didn't really care as long as I was trouble-free since then and had been working hard.

I finally got laid off with quite a few others after almost 10 years there. I have a few different friends that know my background that would love to hire me for their growing startups, but instead I finally started my own mobile app company and have grown it to almost paying all of our bills. In the app store, nobody even needs to knows your name.

You can look at some of my post history here for advice, but in general, you need to expand your circle of friends as much as possible and let them know you are looking for work. Volunteer at things and go to meetups and developer user groups. There will always be people and companies that will refuse to hire you, but there are a decent percentage that will hire you. You just need to increase the number of people you know and the number of potential job openings.

I should also add that I've had almost no issues volunteering for many different organizations that require background checks. I just disclose my background and write an explanation. It sucks every time, but I've never been turned down. I've coached sports at the YMCA, led scouts, taught Sunday school for kids, etc. Every one of those has built my personal character references as well.

I also made a point of being very active online with my real name. Now when someone Googles me, they have to dig through many pages of material to find any press coverage of my conviction.

Just hang it there and keep chipping away at it. I used to think about my conviction every single day. Now I can go a week or more without even remembering it.
And you likely miss out on a ton of great talent. Not everybody can put up code publicly or speak technically on sites.
You don't need fast go to serve php through nginx. You can - and probably should - just use nginx as a reverse proxy in front of php-enabled apache. Best of both world.
I knew about that code, but I never knew you could use it to jump to the end.

Come to think of it, I never actually got very far with that game. I should re-play it. I always got bored and started warping around the game at random.
I've pre-emptively excluded meditation from my set of legitimate things, because it pattern-matches to white people taking something non-white people do and finding "deep wisdom" in it. It's the same reason why various fruits and berries that are common and worthless in south africa sell like hotcakes in the US, and the same reason why anime has so much Christian imagery.
Pale Fire is my favorite book of all time. I have a braingasm every time I read it. I first read it as part of a class back in my university days, and it's definitely hard to grasp the incredible intricacy, detail, and even humor in every page without having someone to help guide you in your first reading. A lot of my friends I recommended it too were put off by Kinbote's (seemingly) random meanderings.

Having said that though, I highly recommend it to anyone here with even a passing interest in literature. There's a huge corpus of analysis of Pale Fire online, and if you plan to read the novel I highly recommend you simultaneously read one of them. Don't worry too much about spoilers, the beauty of the book is mostly outside of the plot and I think having a guide to help is a benefit to sacrifice for.

It's also perfect for e-readers, because you can just use hyperlinks instead of flipping back and forth between footnotes.

If anyone wants help with it drop me a line :)
The local Girl Scout troop. ie: a local branch of the Girl Scouts. That changes absolutely nothing about my criticism of your post.
It would be a neat one-off RV, but the cost of removing all the fire truck bits and building a living area would likely exceed just starting from a van or bus and beefing up the springs.
May I inquire why? Was my criticism out of line?
You are providing what I believe to be --- pragmatically --- terrible advice in this thread. It is not impossible to find employment in tech with a felony conviction; in fact, by all outward appearances, the opposite is true; people with CFAA convictions are employed at a rate higher than that of the overall population; they are, as a general rule, employed.

What you're saying is that you think the job market is so inhospitable to people with criminal convictions that they should endanger their career to weasel their way into jobs. We could debate how unwise that advice was if you were right about the employment market. But you're wrong about the employment market, which makes the risk/reward on what you're suggesting so far out of whack that your suggestion isn't worth entertaining.

I don't have strong opinions about what you do with a prospective employer who at no point asks you about your criminal record. But if you're asked about it, you're crazy if you lie.

Again, let me (tediously) repeat that I don't know you personally; you happen to spend a decent number of words on HN articulating ideas that I find worth disputing, but on the street I wouldn't know you from Adam and I have no issue with you personally.
some women would do anything for money.
if vim counts as meditation then Yes, I do meditate.
> Which yogic meditation tradition? There are dozens if not hundreds of them.

I am well aware. The interpretation mainly comes from the Raja Yoga Tradition which is more concerned with meditation as the vehicle to some form of enlightenment.

The quote is according to the Kurma Purana.

[http://www.davedavies.com/splanet/raja.htm]
[http://www.sivanandaonline.org/public_html/?cmd=displaysecti...]

My comment above was not attempting to be authoritative just adding some interesting thoughts to the discussion, thats all.
For those wondering if kickstarter will do anything about this:

It's pretty clear that kickstarter is happy with getting the 5% cut, and I wouldn't be surprised to see more of this in the future.
My bus/RV conversion weighs about 18 tons. It has 6 ton front axle and in the rear it has an 11 ton and an additional 6 or 8 ton axle. While a fire truck has a ridiculously strong suspension, if you used that for an RV, you would get a punishing amount of vibration and shaking. I guess you could ballast it, but you'll waste a lot of fuel hauling ballast around, in addition to being dangerously underpowered in some situations. I think that a fire truck is not a good candidate for an RV conversion, unless you have a very specific definition of "Recreation" in mind.
Interesting. I can see how architecture plays a role in this.

My experiences were mostly in large towns and cities, where the architecture was sufficiently 'open' and 'organic' to perhaps make the areas safer than the ones you mean (even despite the 70s / 80s ugly and depressing concrete-everywhere approach that needs little more than some graffiti to look like a ghetto.)
"... can actually be less painful to scale than MySQL."

Can you expand on this? All that I'm aware of, in the scaling department, is their basic replication introduced recently.
The only thing that -really- bothers me about this kickstarter is that people kept donating after it had passed its goal by such a ridiculous amount. I can understand it ending at a few hundred dollars more than they asked, but 20x the original asking amount? Really?

It's as if the people donating don't really care that donating more money may complicate things - they just want to donate so they can get their daily "I'm such a nice person" high.

I can't help but wonder whether or not this controversy would have even happened if the donators had stopped at the target amount of 800 dollars.
No, it's not identical.

$ echo -n "<?php echo 'Hello World'; ?>" > hello.php
$ php -d vld.active=1 -d vld.execute=0 -f hello.php
line # * op fetch ext return operands
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1 0 > ECHO 'Hello+World'
1 > RETURN 1

$ echo -n "Hello World" > hello.php
$ php -d vld.active=1 -d vld.execute=0 -f hello.php
1 0 > ECHO 'Hello+World'
1 > RETURN 1

$ echo "<?php echo 'Hello World'; ?>" > hello.php
$ php -d vld.active=1 -d vld.execute=0 -f hello.php
1 0 > ECHO 'Hello+World'
2 1 > RETURN 1

$ echo "Hello World" > hello.php
$ php -d vld.active=1 -d vld.execute=0 -f hello.php
2 0 > ECHO 'Hello+World%0A'
1 > RETURN 1

PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.6 / Zend Engine v2.3.0 / vld-0.11.2
> I love being able to host multiple SSL sites on a single IP with no hoops to jump through with Nginx. On Apache your options are to acquire more IPs or set up SNI which for me was more hassle than it was worth.

What? Neither Apache nor nginx can serve multiple SSL sites off a single IP without a UCC certificate, SNI, or multiple IPs. SSL requests have their Host header encrypted, which means the server doesn't know which SSL certificate to present until after encryption.
The guidelines that I've followed always say not to fight these thoughts, but to let them pass over you: that they are inevitable, but you should not give your energy to deal with them and to let them pass on their own
This reminded me of a favorite story of mine about Nabokov and Thomas Pynchon: Pynchon was a student of Nabokov's when he was at Cornell. Years later when Pynchon himself became famous, Nabokov told interviewers that he had no memory of Pynchon as a student. But Vera remembered Pynchon's handwriting. She really was the "course assistant" as this article mentions: she must have done the grading too.
> Every single project, open source or not, needs to have a "Why Use It" page.

True and while creating such a list please consider to add as well a short list of scenarios in which you would not recommend the use of the product even if this may be a little "contra-marketing" and is probably even harder to come up with for the authors than the positive list.
At that rate, in just over 20 years every woman in the world will be a software engineer at Etsy.
I am using lighty for that reasons. Can anyone compare lighttpd with nginx performance on small servers like Pis?
Hooray for firetrucks! Back in undergrad, my fraternity owned two firetrucks, and for about a year I was in charge of them. One was a 1940s ladder (with an open cab and still-functioning ladder), and the other was a 1960s engine (closed cab with still-working pumps). Tons of fun to drive around campus... except for the time I clipped a parked car with the engine. Oops!
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I think its very interesting... and to be honest it is hacking in a way... not just in the technical way you want it to be.
Where are the css files stored?
Yep, me too!

My only salvation these days is to save articles to Pocket (or Readable, Instapaper, etc.) on the iPad and go to the local coffee shop for a session of concentrated reading. (It's a village, there's no wifi.)

I take notes on paper and action them when I'm back on the internet.

[An unintended bonus is that my handwriting is starting to get back to its pre 24/7 internet level, i.e. legible and quite pretty rather than the scrawl of someone who's more comfortable with a keyboard and mouse.]
> Who still cares about resumes?

and the next sentence...

> When I am screening resumes...

Ok.

> If a candidate doesn't have documented, public proof of quality, I have no way of assessing their quality and always say no hire in this case.

You could do it the good old fashioned way and talk to them but if you want to let Google do the interview for you then that's your choice.
I want a plane.
If you have an app that completely ignores the HTTP specification like that then you could well have bigger problems.

I recall reading about a very popular image website doing exactly that and, when Google attempted to index it, some strange things happened to the images as the web crawler chased down all those "safe" links.
+1 My kids are sleeping right now!

1.5 - 2 hours is the max 'free programming time' I have anymore.
Perhaps you don't know what theft is. Theft is taking something that belongs to someone else (without permission) with the intent of keeping it.

She is not taking anything. People are choosing to give her money. She's not (obviously) defrauding anyone either; she explained what the money is going towards. Maybe it is all a scam and she doesn't exist and it's going on coke n' hookers, but you don't know that any more than I do.

You, however, don't like this, and you don't like that people are choosing to give her some money, but you are unable to express yourself clearly.

All you have is your pathetic rage and your inability to explain what you don't like about the situation. Does it make you feel like a big man? Are you going to start issuing death threats now? You're safe to do that; this is your new throwaway account, yes? So you can let you inner rage out without losing any of your precious social approval.
Early entrants in the market extract profits, leave the "currency" to deflate back to Flooz valuations. At a certain point in the life cycle of things like BTC, trading takes on a life of its own. I'm sure tulip traders could have given you an impassioned defense on the intrinsic long-term value of tulip bulbs during that bubble, too.
Brilliant! Libraries... I remember them... And much more ethical than the method I was considering.
E-reader? Psh, just buy two copies. ;)

Have you read any of Brian Boyd's work? I think you'd really like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691089574/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
Fraud requires a lie, which I don't see. Apparently "fraud" now means doing something that you don't like.

Personally, I think this could be great, if the parents are doing it properly. The daughter is learning how to achieve her goals with assistance from other people who give willingly, instead of mooching off mom and dad. A lot of children are lucky if they can manage to learn this lesson by the age of 18 (or later... I wasn't exactly an early bloomer here myself), and, managed well, this kid is going to have a good handle on it much faster than that.
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I can understand why people would think this is an inappropriate use of Kickstarter (I thought the Death Star crap was annoying), but the level of righteous indignation and hyperbole on this topic is extraordinary.

Not the first time this week HN has embarrassed itself, mind.
I spent some time in Japan studying different forms of meditation, mostly Rinzai zazen on Koya-san, and find it to be quite beneficiary for high pressure jobs. I also find meditative activities to be a nice supplement or more social form of meditation. I especially like the long walks (I'm a big fan of the walk and talk meetings) and various athletic actives (like surfing or climbing) that force you to empty your mind and focus.
Unfortunately, we're talking about situations of depravity over which there are practical and ethical reasons why data collection is not possible. One falls into them very rarely, and hopefully never.

I've never done most of this extremely chaotic shit that I endorse, but I think it's important to have the ethical conversations to shine some light on to things that actually go on.

Societies like to see themselves as existential struggles between lawful good and chaotic evil, but neither of those are major players. (Lawful good is too restrained; chaotic evil is too maladjusted to have a chance unless the world's already fucked.) The real battle is between chaotic good and lawful evil. So excuse my chaos. :)
You don't see the difference between millionaires asking for significant investment for viable products vs. a millionaire asking for $830 for her daughter's non-viable product/camp fee?
“Just because you have a business does not mean you're rich -- it often means the contrary.”

Very true, but that’s not the card she’s playing on her corporate website:

“Prior to starting The Judgment Group, Susan was a founding member and the Executive Vice President of a technology startup that raised $12 Million in venture capital, became kinkos.com, and was sold in 2000 to the copy giant Kinko’s for $100 Million.” [1]

It could be that she had no shares and didn't gain anything from the deal, but at the very least, she included the experience to appear that she gained from it.

[1] http://www.judgmentgroup.com/About_Us.html
I've meditated weekly for about 2 to 3 years on and off, but these past three years, I've meditated almost daily averaging an hour every session, sitting zazen and breathing. For me, there's two types of meditation. One that clears my mind from the day and one that relaxes my mind.

a) Clearing my mind - I usually do this when something existential consumes me i.e. I get a bad phone call, someone pisses me off, anxious and unfocused, hyper, etc. and I simply can't stop thinking about it during the day. I do very controlled breathing exercises for 20-30 minutes. Inhale for 5 secs, exhale for 5 secs;then 7 secs;then 10. In almost all situations this frees my mind from being consumed. In the most drastic cases I've had to do this for nearly 2 hours. I'm almost always drenched in sweat and feel revived afterwards.

b)Relaxing my mind - I do this when I've had a very long day tired, but unable to fall asleep for various reasons. Again, controlled breathing for the first 15 minutes. The first few weeks were extremely tough. My mind would start racing in all sorts of directions and was unable to be mindful of the breath, especially since I was not consciously counting. After the first 4 weeks, though I was able to 'push' thoughts out of my head and start relaxing certain muscles in my body. I really can't explain this process/feeling without sounding like a crazyman, so I won't. But I'm at a point now where I can almost feel as though my mind is a shell and I can consciously shed layers off with each layer giving me a new sense of calmness. This type of meditation is vastly different that the one before because I'm here I'm not fixated on one certain thought, my mind is just kind of loosey-goose.

Disclaimer: I was taught meditation by a Daoist monk, so if there are any religious undertones, I apologize. Its unintentional.
I guess it's a good thing for people who are under a lot of stress. But I'm not. And I tend to find sport more "productive" in terms of kicking out the stress.
and the cross platform ability. I constantly flip between Mac, Linux, and windows.
If this sort of thing is enough to keep you away from the book, note that the author of the book died in 2003, so you can't really blame him.