skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do yourself a favor; withdraw ALL your money from banks and buy a safe; keep it at home in safe bolted to the ground, fireproof; the type with remote off-trigger so with a gun to your head you can't open it for a burglar. Preferably replace most with silver coins the 25c 90% silver ones. Do not buy gold in large quantities as when buying food on a daily basis it will be hard to "break" a bar of gold.

Once successfully pushed in Cyprus, US will be the next one. Why you think they buying millions of rounds of ammunition? Street tanks bought by DHS (not a military part of government). And if you think about it, it makes perfect sense! Only by taking 25% of peoples assets can safe America, safe Social Security, safe Medicare, Medicaid, etc. Pres Obama already prepared it for you -- "you haven't built your business" yourself; the money you have is not really yours; it should be obvious!
In the NYC area we have http://www.ctoschool.org/
Am not sure it's useful outside the region, is mostly f2f meetups.
This is horseshit. When Asian parents tell their daughters not to date black guys, that is racist. It doesn't matter that Asians are 5% of the American population and not in a position of cultural power.

Marxists have been twisting the language to enhance their own power for too long.
How Apple invites facile analysis
> Maybe something in that vein?

Oh, my.
Interesting, except it seems hard to use. For example, on the front page, I can't select citizenship country. Also, playing with it, I selected: Chile visa, for a Mexican national, living in China (http://chile.visahq.cn/requirements/Mexico/resident-China/), and the whole site switched to Chinese. If I was a Mexican national, why would I want the site in Chinese, even if I was living there?
I forgot that they were split into two: Lectures on Literature and Lectures on Russian Literature. They're all terribly entertaining.
The intent of my blog posts (there's a few in the series) was to share my personal experiences and feelings. Not to explicitly label them as sexism or say everyone must share those feelings or say "hey you, you better go fix this" or any other number of things you seem to be attributing to it.

As for your comment about me being oversensitive, way to miss the point of the last paragraph of my post.
It's the same for men that want to be nurses is it not? I agree that saying 'girls suck at math' is a bullshit comment, but ignorance is applied equally.

Entrepreneurs, especially, get it from all sides. Part of my frustration stems from being tired of the worst class in America - privileged white male that wasn't born in the ghetto, but the rest of it is just tired of people looking for negativity all the time. It doesn't matter who you are, what gender you are, or what the color of your skin is - if you seek to be better than those around you, or different than the paradigm from which they view the world, then they will seek to put you on your ass.
I loved the screen of the OLPC XO laptop. I know we're really pushing for high resolution/Retina displays, but when it comes to laptop and mobile screens, usability in portable/mobile situations is desirable.
Is this a joke? She just gave a bunch of them in her post.
The blind-upvoting of celebrities on HN is sometimes appalling. This comment totally sidesteps the point of the article. OP is not asking for advice.

You are not being helpful here. She clearly points out "That no matter how tough I get, how thick my skin, the paper cuts still hurt." So telling her to get thicker skin really just adds one more papercut to the pile (and the rest of this thread will heap on a few more).

OP your post is well done and paints a clear picture. Hopefully you and others like you will continue to inspire folks to change.
Agreed, the best advice I can give is to learn core programming concepts (and if possible, computer science concepts) first, in a good language which elucidates them without getting in the way. Lisp is one, Python may be even better, Ruby wouldn't be bad.

Then take on Javascript, since it has some complex ideas and constructs.

Also "the way block scoping works/doesn't work" in JavaScript is weird, but it has closures and first-class functions, which are way cool and sort of make up for it. Coffeescript makes using these easy, thank goodness (these are the kinds of concepts I wouldn't want to deal with when learning how to program for the first time).
That's what we need, another article that treats all members of <class> as piece of a homogenous whole.
It is far too subtle for me. It lacks the call for curiosity, because the simplicity is just too well executed. Could have been made a tad more obvious, or more puzzling, at the cost of losing some of the simplicity.
You unfortunately doesn't seem to be alone in that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4LExVkv4Pw#t=6m14s
What happened to wages?
Chess does not make you smarter. Chess makes you better at playing chess. Nothing more nothing less. If you want to become smarter on a specific topic then you must study that specific topic.
Dead Souls, absolutely, but also the stories (The Nose and The Overcoat, at a minimum). Gogol is a one-of-a-kind genius. He is one of the funniest writers who ever lived, poignant, and utterly insane in the purest Russian way. He had an enormous influence, all of it good. I love Gogol!
They are rather abstract, though. They don't force the user to watch a movie about getting identity thefted.
The AIs in Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep can be pretty nasty.
"I think we should care more about women earning 77 cents on the dollar"

This is a faulty study and its well known. Why even cite it?

"unfairly hard time recovering their career progress after maternity"

They lost skills and their market value is lower. You can't force people to pay them more then they are worth.

Someone has to actually raise children. The under the table immigrant nanny that's watching the kid is taking a break from her self-actualization career too. This is a cost people just have to deal with.

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I find your self flagellation going a little far. Nearly all the people in your industry are men. They are men because they are generally nerds that feel they need to go into a boring profession because it pays more and providing for women is their only way to get a mate. Women, who have natural value as the evolutionary bottleneck, don't have to do the shitty jobs. That's why they shy away from the boring, dangerous, or tough jobs men do for the sole reason that they pay more.

Women that are good programmers will do as well or better then the men. I've never seen a good woman programmer (or anything) get held back just for being a woman. Women who are bad programmers will still be kept around to add some diversity. And women who don't program or have any discernible job skills at all will get HR/PR lady jobs like Adia.

Adia forgot she was the token, she was getting a paycheck to do nothing to shuffle some paperwork and make the employment statistics look good. Or maybe she knew it all too well and that was what really pissed her off. Of course it didn't piss her off enough to learn how to program and get a better job, but it did piss her off enough to blame some imaginary patriarchy keeping her down.

The stuff your complaining about in the corporate world applies to men just as much. They just put up with it more because they HAVE TO. Because men are a disposable gender and always have been.
They said no and ran to Russia to try to pressure the Northern Europeans. And they came back crying...

The new deal, AFAIK, confiscates all money over 100K euros in the second largest bank, the other one was a 10% tax on all.

Either way, Greece had some leverage and used it to its advantage. Despite the huge cuts they were forced to make, they never met the goals set and they were lowered or extended. Cyprus it seems, has very little to no leverage.

They can surely leave the Euro, like I can leave my wife, drop the lease and quit the job at the same time with nothing else waiting.
Is that a mustache?
Finding Hidden Education Subsidies
The point of alcohol is to lower inhibitions.

So even when I'm at home on my own watching a great documentary on netflix, and I have a beer or two, you're saying I can only be doing it to lower my inhibitions?
Were you not around last week or something?
I haven't seen goodwill mentioned yet.

http://blog.crowdspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/goodw...
Usually it's pretty easy to get a Visa on arrival at most African countries, yet when I tried to add that, I was asked to log in through either Google or Facebook (I like neither). When I saw that it required my permission to use some data on my Google account even when I'm not using the site, I declined and then got a typical Rails error page.
Let's make one thing clear: in the spectrum of possibilities, a massive inflationary event (where the purchasing power of the dollar is significantly impaired) is far more likely than any government agency raiding everyone's bank accounts, and keeping cash at home won't protect you from it
It is mildly distressing that this is at the top.

For those of you upvoting thinking it's satire, see his profile:

recently finished coding: http://drudgenewsletter.com
You're just sick of hearing about sexism in tech. How do you think the people who receive it feel?

Sure, some regular shitty stuff applies to everyone and can get conflated with the sexist stuff, but there is still a clear strain of discouraging behaviour directed at women in tech.
speaking of probability, doesn't having a drink dramatically raise the probability of having a drink again soon? isn't human behavior the least reliable piece of the metaphor, not the spotty scientific research?
Hey Obaid,

Sorry for the delayed response. Don't know how I missed you question. Happy chat about the tech:

For now the recorder base is a flash app that has a JS API. We built a stock HTML interface that consumes that JS API but our users are free to replace or exclude that HTML if they so please. As soon as we can reliably record a WebRTC stream we will swap out the Flash :)

The server side is built in Rails running on AWS (Beanstalk) hosted on Passenger and NGINX. In addition to the web interface, There is a REST API for accessing info about your recordings. We can generate h.264s and png thumbnails of your recordings in any resolution and frame rate you want- our transcoding is handled by Zencoder and/or Amazon Elastic Transcoder (depending on requirements).

Hope that helps- did you have any specific questions?
Chemistry can create heat.
Actually, I have, but not rooted in fear of sexual assault. Of the six bullet points listed, I've considered all of them for varying reasons. Five of them at once on more than one occasion. You bet your ass I have.

I think, even as much as it'd undermine your clever preaching to men here, you'd find that most men consider the venue, who's going to be in it, and escape plans before ordering the first shot.

Sort of like walking down the street on your phone, being oblivious to your surroundings is a ticket to problems.
Make it soluble in a complementary gel.
I wouldn't recommend that to start tbh. Its a great book to get a deep understanding of how Ruby works, but as an intro, I think it could be a bit overwhelming and hard to get through.

I would recommend in this order

1. Beginning Ruby (From Novice to Professional)

2. Eloquent Ruby ... then

3. The Well Grounded Rubyist
Most women I've been close to, including multiple partners, have expressed that they have a decision-making process similar to this. Regardless of your assessment of paranoia, it is the actual experience of many women in the States today.
After seeing the other cases, I'm inclined to agree with your mentality, although I really would like to see more KS oversight or at least more options to flag what seems to be a violation of TOS
"100 tea bags daily, for 17 years" almost qualifies as an OCD.
This is all easy for you to say considering the privilege you mention. These things are academic to you. They are a real lived experience for some of us.

Also, I'm not terrified of drinking events at conferences. It's not like it's this super-fun thing I'm so sad I'm missing because I've got this unreasonable fear. They're things I skip sometimes because it's more fun to go do something else than risk dealing with bullshit (or on rare occasions actual risk).
People don't go to law school to become billionaires. They go to law school because it used to be a pretty good odds ticket for a lifetime in the upper-middle class.
True. I think the best characteristic of a programming language is that you can do really cool stuff with it that makes you want to learn to program, and enjoy the results. Javascript has a monopoly on doing cool stuff in a web browser, so for that reason alone it makes it fun to learn.

Heck, thousands of programmers (myself included, come to think of it) got started on programming because of "DHTML" and script kiddy DOM manipulations back in the days of Netscape. It was a gateway language. Fortunately I learned the fundamentals more thoroughly in Scheme...
In the past few years Virginia has passed laws raising the speed limit to 70 mph on some highways. [1] You would have to be traveling at least 11 m.p.h over the speed limit in order to be convicted of reckless driving.

It might seem that it is easy to avoid going this fast, but there are several reasons that you might. It is harder to feel a 10 m.p.h gap when you are traveling at high speeds, especially when the roadway is filled with insane drivers that are tailgating you and cutting you off because you are driving too slowly for their taste. Virginia also has some steep hills, which makes it easy to go to over 80 m.p.h without pressing on the accelerator. Many people also speed unconsciously when they feel stressed or angry, are listening to fast music or an exciting radio broadcast.

[1] http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+46.2-870
Were you away from HN during the "PyCon Event"? It was only a couple of days ago, and was a startlingly clear example.
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I think this is a very important point. Why is it that we accept grossly sexual comedy and imagery as means to advertise to the masses. Yet in the work place this same culture is seen as totally unacceptable.

Personally I think we have gone way to far with what we accept in the media and it's only getting worse.
The average income of a college graduate in my location is $34,000 per year.

Source?

Is that average income across all jobs, or entry level jobs? Because there is an expectation that people coming out of college get low-paying jobs, and then see fairly rapid career advancement.
We started off building this infrastructure for another project we were working on. We quickly realized that we could / should encapsulate our pain / learnings into a simple SAAS solution so others wouldn't have to waste their time the same way. :)
"Bang Friends" is for sale with 100k users' data
It's a knockoff, but still sort of scary.
Satellite image of gas flares from North Dakota fracking
OK, but what stops them from daily performing a mirror clone, checking it for consistency, then backing that up? As mentioned in the linked update, 30 complete backups would consume only 900GB, so you could keep weeks of daily backups, plus weekly and/or monthlies going back much further, for a terabyte of space. That way, in the worst case, you could go back to a backup before the corruption began. Obviously you would want to have plenty of safeguards in place so that that never happened, but just in case, it's good to have an honest to goodness backup too.
This is horrible advice.

It's worth keeping physical currency immediate needs in the case of a storm, earthquake, banking glitch, etc. (For most people, maybe $500-1000; the crazy thing is I know plenty of people who do nothing but use credit cards and just have $0-20, which sucks even if their bank just freezes their ATM account or credit card for 3 days!)

Otherwise, physical currency is exposed to the most serious risks (devaluation, inflation), plus physical loss, plus is relatively inconvenient to use. If you want a hedge against USD shenanigans, the things to do are:

1) Reduce ongoing liabilities (debt or expenses), particularly those which might adjust

2) Invest in income-producing assets which have pricing power

3) Potentially, hedge by investing in assets in foreign currencies or non-currencies, or assets in foreign countries, etc.

#1 and #2 are generally reasonable no matter what (buying energy efficient appliances, buying foods/etc. in bulk, education, being in good health, improving your skills, building products or companies...)
What do you think of the $10K reward where the boys apologize?

How much do we have to give for them to whip themselves like penitents while they apologize?
He is allowed to share his life experiences and offer his advice to the readers of an online discussion forum, even if the author of the article linked at the top of the thread didn't solicit personal advice. He doesn't need anyone's permission.

Women aren't fragile creatures who need constant protecting. The author of the article is not your personal damsel in distress. She is a human who feels she has faced challenges.

So is edw519.
Anyone who carries concealed on a regular basis thinks about things like this all the time.

Carrying a firearm makes you think ten steps ahead to avoid dangerous situations, because suddenly, any dangerous situation you may find yourself in is now a dangerous situation with a gun involved.

I've skipped going places when I was carrying (places that I would have gone to, unafraid, unarmed) because of the _potential_ that I would find myself in danger and have to do something I didn't want to do.
Regarding your tips on passwords, one technique I used to employ in password security was the following:

When the user signs up, store a Timestamp for creation date, then take their email address and use it as a prefix and suffix to salt the password, for instance:

If the users password is shanelja, then the routine would be as such:

TIMESTAMPshaneljaEMAIL

or in my case:

147182994718shaneljashanea93@hotmail.co.uk

This produces a ridiculously hard password to brute force.

While this may be easy to compute if you know the rule, the general rule of thumb is that if your server has been attacked in such a way that the attacker has a copy of your database, they will most likely know the rule in any case, so it makes sense to have a good one.

Outside of this, no one should be using MD5 in this day and age, I would even recommend against Sha256 and other variants in that family, though I have a lot of respect for Blowfish, etc.
Software has apparently become some sort of social cause, instead of an engineering discipline, and my patience with this constant caterwauling about it is at its end.

I too am dealing with death by a thousand cuts of unprofessionalism:

- People swearing in presentations, and then people whining about swearing in presentations.

- Presentations that aren't backed by research or papers or anything of particular engineering note, but instead are a platform for social butterfly developers to build a larger popularity platform.

- Conferences named after beer drinking.

- Constant whining about some sort of offense that someone dealt you, or some social situation that you were unable to handle like an adult.

- Constant wheel re-invention of 1990s engineering dressed up in fancy websites with funny names like "unicorn" or 'nyan rainbow cat daemon'.

- Conference blow-ups about things that SHOULD NOT MATTER. Like dongles. Multiple people losing their jobs and articles in CNN.

- Drama-fests about workplace behavior, cancelled talks, "triggers", t-shirts that make people cry.

I'm sick of this. THIS is what a real conference with real papers look(ed|s) like:

http://static.usenix.org/events/usenix01/technical.html

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/tech-schedule/atc12_proc...

Maybe this is just what happens when a fringe group like technology is re-integrated into the mainstream, but I would like to go just one day without hearing about some other act of stupidity, sexism, tweets, or social anxiety, and instead focus on what actually matters, which is real, hard, respectful, careful, and attentive ENGINEERING.
I have used the "mom" example a few of times. My mom is quite capable, so most anecdotes I have of times I've gained insight into how people use computers when they aren't familiar with them are of other people in my life. But I do have a few anecdotes about her that I've used.

One day someone was Wrong On The Internet and I really wanted to make my point and found myself making my point with a "mom" example that had never actually happened with her. Initially it made me a little uncomfortable, and I thought the discomfort came from representing my mother as less capable than she is. But I figured I'm anonymous, and since I could be anyone,I'm not really talking about my mom specifically. "My mom" could be any mom and I was conveying something I figured might happen to lots of moms.

So I posted it anyway. It wasn't until later that I realized how extremely obviously sexist and ageist it was. The ONLY reason I was using "mom" in that example was to enlist the stereotype that older women aren't adept with technology. That made me further realize that even when I was using true anecdotes from my life, I was likely motivated to do so because enlisting the stereotype strengthened whatever point I happened to be making.

When I read the girlfriend/wife line from the OP I thought the same thing as many responders here do: There's nothing wrong with someone sharing a true fact about their experience being in a relationship with someone that doesn't care as much about technology. But that can still be sexist if you are unknowingly choosing to share the fact because the point you are making is made stronger by enlisting a stereotype that women don't care about technology.
Like I said, I don't know your wife, so I can't comment.

But she's not the point, anyway.

The point is that you hear of "girls not being good at math and science" much more frequently. But when you control for societal factors, there's nothing that really separates male and female math abilities.
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If the gender bias you're implying is accurate it's probably more from arrogance than any other factor.
"you're a man, and therefore likely to discriminate against and marginalize me and therefore I cannot have you on my mailing list"

I think you're still too focused on the individual level here. It's not meant as a personal rejection. It's more like "We are a minority and need a place to get away from all of that sometimes".

Try to think of it as getting away from the troubles and stress that come with being a minority in the environment, rather than a way to get away from specific people.

And that is why a male only hacker group (for example) wouldn't look good. There would be no minority environment to try to get away from. The group would be excluding females simply because they are females. In order to be less offensive, there must be some other reason for the exclusion. A mailing list that only allows men suffering from erectile dysfunction probably wouldn't raise too much scorn from anybody.

So for any minority-only group, the trick is to accept that there are legitimate difficulties inherent with being part of that minority. Sometimes it takes effort to see things that way, especially if you are supposed to be part of the majority and see no benefit from it.
This comment needs repeating. Telecommuting will make the current situation worse.
I don't really think it's "dreaming big". Compare that to Elon Musk.
I love this blog, along with CJ Chivers (the NY Times guy who wrote "The Gun"), and a few others.

Sad about Reader, still, for reasons like this.