skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly don't understand your comment. It is very difficult for me to parse properly. How is it not sexist towards women for them to hear comments like this? "If I had a dollar for every time someone suggested that some demographics just aren’t biologically predisposed to be good at programming (even though research does not support this argument), I’d be rich."

I grew up hearing my father tell me that I wasn't good at math because I was a girl. Yes, he's fucking sexist, and so is everyone else who thinks that women can't be good at STEM fields. Props to you for apparently taking the time to carefully study your wife and decide she sucks at STEM because of who she is, and not because she's a woman, but there are plenty of engineers, like my father, who are not so kind. It's a constant, constant thorn to women in STEM, all the time, and I for one believe it is a miracle that they do not complain more.
It stops being stronger at some point I think. The water can only hold so much of the infusion. I have no scientific evidence other than my own observations -- and that's far from scientific.

"Too much" is generally a relative term depending on where you're from (although this lady didn't fit the customs of the locale) since people drink it both in the morning, evening and stometimes in the afternoon.

These cases also tend to show up in Sri Lanka, which has a tea culture as well. We also need to keep in mind that some areas have naturally high levels of fluoride in the groundwater. Without reading the detailed article (TBA), it's hard to tell if that played a part too.

Edit: Something smells fishy.

Pass it on: A 47-year-old U.S. woman developed a bone disease after drinking a pitcher of tea a day for 17 years.

The actual case hasn't been published in detail and the link to the case : http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1200995

But it mentions:
Brewed tea has one of the highest fluoride contents among beverages in the United States. I'd like to see some actual backup of that with hard data.
The public sector has never paid well, but now it doesn't pay at all. I know more than several people who could've easily gotten six-figure jobs in private practice that can't get $30k/year jobs in the public sector. Even if they were willing to work for free, public organizations don't even have the capacity to train people right now.
My personal answer would depend on whether I were talking candidly with my buddies at the bar, or taking a mandatory seminar in order to get rubber stamped for "diversity education" for my HR file.
Number 1 reason: Turkey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus ! Being in EU offers them protection from Turkey and bragging rights ("we're Europeans...a civilized country..."

Turkey occupies roughly half of the country and has more soldiers than Cyprus has inhabitants. If they left EU, in addition to the huge mess created, they would lose whatever protection EU membership offers them. A tiny country, in a strategic location and surrounded by enemies needs a big brother.

Just this week: "“The idea of the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus (GCASC) to offer the natural resources of the island as collateral for a solidarity investment fund or any other borrowing scheme to be established due to its current economic crisis, ignoring the inherent rights of the Turkish Cypriots who are co-owners of the Island, is a dangerous manifestation of the illusion of being the sole owner of the Island, which may lead to a new crisis in the region,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday."
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_24/03...

Number 2 reason: Integration with EU, such as travel, bank deposits, pensions etc etc. decoupling would mean a huge mess.

Number 3: If the left, their banks and econ would collapse anyway, so they still lose with no possible upshot.
Allegedly. I see plenty of people speaking their minds, on either side of the issue, and many of them are reasonable. I'm left to wonder how one can be so certain that 'the most reasonable people' (by what metric? In whose judgement?) are 'afraid to speak their mind'.
I've had to learn JS pretty fast just a couple of months ago and from what I can read I managed to do almost exactly what Derek did, same exact books and all. Professional JS is indeed fantastic and is highly recommended. Same thing as far as reading Underscore and Backbone source.

For fun, try implementing something in Backbone. It's certainly one way of assessing if you're at all proficient in the language.
Yes, sorry for the quick criticism without constructiveness. My bad.

Play with this tool: http://colorschemedesigner.com/

Currently you have a color scheme based on similar brightnesses of very similar hues—green and blue are very close together on the color wheel, thus it's difficult to tell them apart and in some sense they "clash" with each other.

The grey you've chosen is also very similar in brightness, which makes the whole theme quite low contrast, and thus difficult to read.

Analogistic color schemes like this can work, but they need to be relatively high contrast so that there's enough of a difference in perceived color to make text readable and transitions more clear. And to prevent clashing, which is just generally perceived as unpleasing.

I'd go with your little memory-chip icon. Take the green off of that (#60B660) and the chip grey (#424242) and choose a contrasting accent color. You can go with a blue, but I wouldn't recommend it, and if you do I'd go with either very dark or very light used in places where it won't clash (such as maybe the top nav bar). Against the green, I'd use an orange or red or magenta in there, or just go with one main color and adjust brightnesses as needed (pretty failsafe).

Something like this would be similar to what you have, but with a better accent than blue (dark magenta) : http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/132637/Odd_but_trendy

Here's an analogistic color scheme that works due to the contrast and hue separation: http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/81885/Hymn_For_My_Soul

It's hard to explain how good color schemes are really created, other than by following the color wheel somewhat and your sense of aesthetic above all, but you can take any of these as a start for reference on what's "good." -- http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/most-loved/past-month/m... -- Yours isn't too bad, there's just something off about it due to the low-contrast high-similarity colors used. Cheers.
Putting scare-tactics on cigarette packaging works because the person buying them is "in the wrong" and needs to be "scared away". Negative reinforcement to make an action or habit less desirable.

I'm no psychologist, but I would guess that associating the scary images of STDs and the like directly with condoms and contraceptives in general would be more likely to cause people to form a negative opinion of condoms. What you want to do is advertise sex and condoms side-by-side, so that thoughts of sex trigger thoughts of condoms, rather than thoughts of condoms triggering thoughts of STDs and child-support. Positive reinforcement rewarding positive behaviour.
Was going to say the same thing, in marriages like society, once there are things you "can't talk about" it only gets worse.
> The problem is the statistics that are given contain ABA-approval

Can you expand on that? Are they providing misleading data?
Because you snub them.

(Full circle!)
the sort of specious argument you would expect from jezebel, the more people eat gluten free, the more gluten free products will be manufactured and ceterus peribus, the lower the unit cost of each product

celiac sufferes should be happy and promoting gluten free diets because their own diets will be cheaper, more abundant in product offerings and more available - in essence, the 'just cause' gluten free crowd is subsidizing celiac's diets

economics 101
Antifa regularly 'bother' fascist groups.
No love for the Hartford Whalers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Whalers
He goes on to do just that, though. His comment is claiming that because he was able to tune out his problems, he just knows that whatever she's going through, she can too.
I'm intrigued that you'd give a different answer for each scenario.
The fact that lawyers with jobs are still extremely highly paid in many cases also skews the perceptions, I think. Lawyers at the big firms are still making $150k+. That's different from areas like some parts of the liberal arts, where you don't really see people pulling down those kinds of salaries at all, so nobody is under the illusion that $150k+ jobs exist. In law they really do exist: salaries at law firms are comparable to those at tech firms. It's just that the odds of getting one of those jobs have significantly decreased over the past 5 years.

Why that situation remains, I'm not as sure. Why has the glut of lawyers not brought down salaries or prevailing rates? It seems instead that incomes have become bimodal, with one group of highly paid lawyers, and another group of very poorly paid lawyers with unstable employment.
I think ngninx is likely faster and more stable than apache, but I have yet to see anything close to a trustworthy benchmark.

I come from the php world, and people always say how much lower-memory nginx+php-fpm is than apache+mod_php. Well no doubt! If you understand how the architecture actually works, it's clear this isn't a fair comparison. mod_php means php is fully-loaded for serving statics, not to mention having a smaller pool of php-fpm processes will take less memory and also be faster (due to less context-switching) than the larger number of mod_php processes.

However the real comparison should be between nginx+php-fpm and apache+mpm_event+php-fpm. Nginx is an evented server, so at least try to compare apples-to-apples. I've seen very few comparisons of nginx with mpm_event.

Also, apache's default tunings are much more geared towards modest server usage whereas nginx's seem more geared towards high scalability. An argument could be made that apache should have "better" defaults, but since at scale you need to start tweaking your OS/rlimit/etc to prevent bad things from happening you can see why apache might stick with more modest tunings ootb.

Our app has a lot of apache custom config and so I was a hesitant to try to switch to nginx due to the risk of getting things wrong porting the configs. We did move from apache/mod_php to apache+mpm_worker and php-fpm and we've been able to improve throughput (especially on statics) at a far lower memory footprint. Key to success in lowering the memory footprint was dropping ThreadStackSize (from 8M default to 1M). What a difference!

Other than that, the competition is good for everyone. I am sure nginx pushed apache to work on mpm_event much harder.
> I just wonder how many young brains are going be hardwired to think some of the design choices (the way block scoping works/doesn't work, equality, lack of modules, etc, etc) in current JavaScript versions are normal, when in fact they are very unfortunate.

Your concerns echo those of Edsger Dijkstra when he discussed the educational shortcomings of popular PLs in 1975:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EW...

For what it's worth, I share your dismay. However, I (and many others) cut my teeth on BASIC -- turned out just fine.
How much do you drink? The article said that there were other cases in the U.S., and that the typical patient was drinking about a gallon a day.

I myself on a typical day drink 2 32oz pots. That's half a gallon so I kind of wonder if I should cut back.
Tea is one area where I go for the expensive stuff. It has to be pure. Drinking green tea with impurities like fluoride may or may not be killing me, but the thought of it kills the experience.

Sadly, the woman likely believed she was gaining super health benefits from her daily ritual. That or she really loved her tea.
interesting (wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_on_meditation)

Of more than 3,000 scientific studies that were found in a comprehensive search of 17 relevant databases, only about 4% had randomised controlled trials (RCTs), which are designed to exclude the placebo effect.[13] Reviews of these RCTs consistently find that meditation without a focus on developing "mental silence", an aspect often excluded from techniques used in Western society, does not give better results than simply relaxing, listening to music or taking a short nap. While those who practiced mental silence showed clinically and statistically significant improvements in work related stress, depressed feelings, asthma-control, and quality of life as compared to commonly used stress management programs.[35]
It must have taken a lot of effort, and/or licensing agreements with publishers or the existing citation indexes.
Yes, that is why I said last two. I knew that. I own Nexus #3 and have worked on both #2 and #3 (and of course #4 is LG's and maybe #5 too) :-)

Thanks for reminding though. Maybe I should have explicitly excluded the current from from last two.
I guess I see "you're a man, and therefore likely to discriminate against and marginalize me and therefore I cannot have you on my mailing list" as pretty much the same thing as "you're a woman, and I can pay you less". The magnitude of the likelihood is just different, is what we're saying. Is that fairly accurate?

> Personally I'd prefer no segregated environments for any minorities, because I fear they reinforce the idea of segregation ,amplify difference, and encourage resentment.

This is exactly where I am coming from. To the T.
There is still plenty of work available for someone who wants a law degree in order to defend the defenseless and fight tyranny.

I really like law as an intellectual discipline and (I think) I would be happy to work at it for a fairly ordinary wage as opposed to big bucks. But it's hard to study outside of a conventional school (lack of contact with other students or feedback from faculty) and fairly tough to get job of any kind and accrue experience no matter which school you go to...and although there are schemes designed to enable relatively low-paid lawyering in the public interest by reducing loan obligations, I really don't care for the idea of running up >$100,000 in debt at a fairly high rate of interest. There aren't exactly a lot of low-cost law schools and scholarships/grants are not transparent at all.
She just wasn't interested, and still isn't. We've been together since school, and I watched her grow up...it had nothing to do with the teacher or institution.

I know it probably isn't popular, but men and women are biologically different. I find it arrogant to believe that humans of the past decade are so intellectually superior that human physiology is of no consequence.
Here's a spreadsheet (on google docs) that pretty much fulfills the same need: http://goo.gl/RXSQk

You just enter any airport code in the country where you are from, and any airport code in your destination country, then you get the visa information.

To OP: seems like there's quite a bit of information missing, you could try scraping it from the link on that spreadsheet
I've experienced things from women in the workplace that would have resulted in instant termination had she been a man. But men have a higher threshold for not complaining about shit that doesn't matter.
Really well-written article. Thanks for sharing.
"They cannot leave EU so they must do anything else asked."

Good lord, do you ever read the news? In case you missed it, the last 2 weeks have involved non-stop negotiations with various parties as the people Cyprus pressured the Parliament of Cyprus into rejecting the original deal, with had largely been designed by the Germans. And the deal now being considered does not resemble any deal that was suggested by the Germans or the Russians, so clearly Cyprus can say "No", at least enough to gain some flexibility. And Cyprus can certainly leave the euro, thus endangering the long run health of the European project -- and considering how much Germany has benefited by having no restrictions on its exports to the rest of Europe, this would be bad news for Germany.

But even more crucially, there is the question, has Cyprus already, de-facto, left the euro?

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2013/03/fed...
Has Cyprus already left the euro?
Oh wow, I never thought I'd find a Pioneer on HN :)
I'm an '07 graduate! :)
Yeah, the failure rate is due to misuse, but that still matters.

Alcohol has an extremely low risk of death (overdose), but alcohol misuse (driving, etc) is much mor common, and that is critically important when assessing the risk.
You are correct. The EEOC agrees with you. "Making a dongle joke is not oppression of women." In fact, a workplace where everyone cracks Benny Hill-style jokes full of sexual innuendo does not (according to the law) count as form of sexual harassment.

Sexual jokes are not a form of sexual harassment. Not stopping unwanted sexual jokes, after someone has complained, is a sign of sexual harassment. The key thing is that someone must complain. To quote the EEOC:

"In Commission Decision No. 84-1, CCH Employment Practices Guide ¶ 6839, the Commission found that active participation in sexual conduct at the workplace, e.g., by "using dirty remarks and telling dirty jokes," may indicate that the sexual advances complained of were not unwelcome. Thus, the Commission found that no harassment occurred with respect to an employee who had joined in the telling of bawdy jokes and the use of vulgar language during her first two months on the job, and failed to provide subsequent notice that the conduct was no longer welcome. By actively participating in the conduct, the charging party had created the impression among her co-workers that she welcomed the sort of sexually oriented banter that she later asserted was objectionable. Simply ceasing to participate was insufficient to show the continuing activity was no longer welcome to her."
I'd recommend starting with The Well Grounded Rubyist, by David A. Black. Publication Date: June 4, 2009 | ISBN-10: 1933988657 | ISBN-13: 978-1933988658
>Tea is one area where I go for the expensive stuff. It has to be pure. Drinking green tea with impurities like fluoride may or may not be killing me, but the thought of it sure kills the experience.

My Monster cables may or may not provide a better a signal than a coat hanger, but the thought that I might not have the best possible audio sure would kill the experience.
Despite my privilege, I have studied the real numbers both from the literature as well as having personal experiences regarding the safety (or, much more accurately, the often total lack thereof) of women in western society.

Still, this strikes me as an unreasonable level of fear in response to common social situations.

Yes, rape culture is real. Yes, drunk people are more dangerous, on average, than sober people.

No, this does not mean you should start skipping events where people are drinking because some of them might hurt you.

Just because our western culture is generally terrible doesn't mean that you should go around living in fear. The moment you start equating the median drunk stranger with "someone I should avoid being around", you have crossed the line into pathology, in my opinion.
I want an example of a time when there was "vitriol" toward women in the tech industry. I've certainly never seen it.
I've heard those exact sentiments expressed on this very website, from people who were sitting at positive karma.

It really isn't hard to see sexism in technology. It's a shame every time this subject comes up, guys clamor to be the first to post [dismissive reason] or [request for extremely specific example of sexism]. I mean, this submission is about a woman chronicling sexism against her, and there are guys in here just flat out saying, "This isn't sexist."
yawn!

nginx's ssi capability is so bare currently. however, it is an excellent reverse proxy for me.
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When I make tea, I find that as little as an extra 3g of tea, or an extra minute of steeping can ruin an entire pot. I can't imagine dumping several ounces of dried tea leaves into a single pot of tea, which is pretty much what this lady was doing.
I want a jet fighter. I wonder if I could get a relatively new one. All weapons would have to be removed of course. It would be the sports car of the air. I would need to get a billion dollars first though so that I could afford top notch maintenance. This would be my expensive toy. Instead of a yacht the new "in" thing could be buying a sport jet.

In reality, I like the idea more then the reality of it. If I really had a billion dollars I would simply buy a porsche and use all my free time to do research.
I get that and I agree. I guess the key is to ensure any service you move to has an export functionality and should be standards based. I also believe that using multiple services, each of which is built around a core service, be it email, file sync, RSS (not sure who yet) is going to be far less likely to drop that product like Google are doing, unless they just go out off business.
Treating coworkers with respect should always be the first responsibility of all employees. Many of these situations you describe are gender discrimination, but even at a higher level they are just an example of coworkers not showing respect for one another. I've worked for 2 places in a row where not showing respect for your fellow coworkers is literally a fireable offense. These places exist. Many of the behaviors you mentioned in your post would be so far over the line of appropriateness that it wouldn't even been a question or issue. If you brought them up to your manager immediate action would be taken.

So I'd encourage you just to keep looking if you continue to run into these issues. All tech companies are not like this.
I doubt that one guy joking about dongles constitutes a sexist comment. Also 25% of people who drive have been in a car accident. So should I think "Maybe some of the people sitting next to me have been in car accidents, and me talking about cars might remind them of a traumatic experience?" While what the men did was immature and inappropriate it didn't require the response it did. Also 20% of men have also been sexually assaulted at some point in their lives, also it been shown that men are a lot less likely to report it then woman so we can only guess how high that number is. So men can also be looking over their shoulders. All the things you're saying can also be flipped around to men. We should be aware of offending anyone not just women. I don't think you should use the phrases "known space" and "absolutely" those aren't proved facts. The bottom line is that, that one guy was being immature, but it didn't constitute him getting fired he never mentioned females in any offensive manner.
> Now to a Brit, maybe other Europeans, 60 miles feels like anything but "local". So, I get the impression that we don't understand the sort of scale of travel there is in the US. Which kinda begins to explain this fascination with big large cars with big lazy engines. These cars fit American geography and scale. I think it also explain what oil seems that bit more important to the Americans.

I would daresay it's more cultural than geographical, or at least it's an isolated case. Distances here in Australia are even larger, yet SUVs/4WDs don't outpace the small-medium car sector in year-over-year growth.
> What Julie is doing is not attacking your way of, but rather showing her point of view on various things that occur within the tech community that has stood in her way.

People drinking didn't stand in her way. It's a convenient scapegoat, and I'm sure her feelings of fear were legitimate, but drinking at a conference is not, in any perspective, oppressive behavior.

Just because some people who drink also rape and/or assault, does not mean that "people drinking" creates an unsafe environment.

By that logic (some people who perpetuate sexism also make sexualized jokes), it would be inappropriate to make jokes about dongles at a conference.