skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Men, can you imagine how hard it would be if all the women were constantly, and openly, talking about tampons, cramps, yeast infections, cheating, being cheated on, Trichomoniasis, faking-it, etc? I don't know about you, but It would make me feel out of place.

I've been the only male in a female dominated IT department before, and you know what... it does feel a bit awkward being a minority. It's not fun, and you always feel like something of an outsider in a sense, even when the other people are friendly and accept you. But at the end of the day, being offended is a choice... you can choose to take offense, or not take offense. And there's a huge gap between something that's merely offensive and actual "abuse" or "sexual harassment". When I worked with all those women, I just went in, did my thing, treated them like equals and did my work. We weren't ever really "friends" and I never hung out with any of them outside of work or anything, but that never mattered. The money they paid me to work there spent just as well, regardless of any of that shit, why should I worry about getting worked up over gender differences and the occasional joke about premature ejaculation or penis size.
No, it's not that you could get in trouble for being under 13... it's the site that could be breaking the law by collecting data on children (without parental consent).
Instead of asking what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country!
Yes, I'm pretty excited about this. I've been using ZMQ for a hot minute, and right now its just security via obscurity. I could crack my own apps. I've been meaning to openssl tunnel the traffic..... shrug never got around to it.
I find it interesting, that if they are not part of MPEG-LA, somehow these patents apply to VP8, but don't apply in any way to H264? Does that mean that most commercial MPEG-LA licensees also do separate deals with Nokia, or that by sheer coincidence, this boatload of patents manages to cover VP8 but does not intersect H264? It smells kind of funny, like there's an alternate motive besides looking for royalties.
Friend: If you can get the money together, get on a bus to Boston (many other cities will work, but that's my home base) and go on couchsurfing.com to find a crash pad. Show up, unannounced, at any of the many, many recruiting offices around here with link to a portfolio or github account and let them know you are looking for work. If you have even decent skill, you will have interviews within a day or two at most.

And I mention recruiters only because it will open your eyes to the possibilities. Much better, got to any of the many free meetups (check the "NERD center" calendar) that happen almost daily and you will find plenty of like-minded introverts to talk code and network with.

Whether or not you're actually good, I of course don't know. But don's sell yourself short. Take a shot. I did about five years ago and it was like being fired out of a cannon. Good luck to you.
I think he's saying that being a minority and feeling like a minority makes you sensitive to basically everything. Dick jokes just happen to get included in that.

Not sure I agree, but that is how I interpreted his post anyway.
Completely unrelated to the mechanized extraction of coal, of course.

Horses and zebras.
I'm not whining about downvoting, I'm whining about people not willing to participate in proper discussion but still voting. What's the point in the whole system then?
Could you post the exact commands you used? That high connection time for google looks like SSL setup.
I find the "Old Friends" hypothesis a good answer for why hygiene causes allergies: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1774411/

The basic idea is that the human immune system has co-evolved with a number of immune suppressing parasites. Hygiene has greatly reduced the number of these parasites we're exposed to and without them the human immune system is too reactive. That extra reactivity results in our immune system attacking proteins that are harmless, like pollen or peanuts.

So hygiene is definitely extending human lifespans by preventing us from getting deadly bacterial and viral diseases. But it may indirectly be causing auto-immune diseases. The good news is it's not all that hard to introduce safe parasites back into our bodies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy
The compiler was not explicitly told to use a temporary variable, and could have just as easily and legally put resVal in a register (if there had been another register available). The unconditional overwriting of a register's contents (the movsd instructions) that enable register renaming are not implied or required in any way by the high-level code. You can say that it's simple and obvious, but that's your level of experience getting in the way. The high-level code prescribes nothing but additions, and the smart compiler throws in 20% other instructions that make unnecessary memory accesses and comes out ahead due to register renaming and a sufficiently large reorder window. That's definitely much subtler than the still-largely-valid guidelines like preferring to use registers over memory, and using fewer instructions overall to be faster.
I came here to talk about this, because I also really don't feel that way. I feel more like I'm struggling to say something, and bugs are manifestations of my inability to be terse and precise. When everything comes together, it feels like I've communicated perfectly and eloquently. I get exactly the same feeling from programming as from debate, but my goal in both cases is simply to acquire the right understanding and be properly understood.
eh, I've been looking at doing something like this (hosting PI units) and the OOB solution I'm considering is soldering on a serial console.

I would also need to figure out some automated bootloader setup, of course.
Some apps push data into the cloud without asking/having an option. For me this was Screens VNC, which synced semi-confidential information across my two computers without asking (all my bookmarks, except for the SSH/VNC passwords).

Arguably the external IP, SSH port, SSH username, internal IP and internal username of my client's confidential computer are only "security by obscurity", but I'd still rather have everything on my hard drive only by default.
>Misandry isn't a real thing men as a whole suffer from.

Within the halls of gender studies it certainly is...

>As for gender studies, I don't know what you are even saying since I'm pretty sure bigots exist in every studied discipline and gender studies is not a bigoted discipline.

No other academic institution accepts bigot ideologies as an orthodoxy. There's something fundamentally wrong here.

>In what I have seen and read there is been a big increase in the criticism leveled at the big name feminist academics and writers for their moments and instances of bigotry.

I've yet to see any twitterstorm over the horrific transphobia being taught by countless 2nd wave professors. No threats of boycott, no petitions, nothing. Yet, when someone like Joe Rogan mentions transgendered people feminists are out for blood. I'm sorry but the criticism you speak of is a drop in the bucket.
Please give me your opinions!
Well, why wouldn't they?

If you're the Communist Party of the PRC and your biggest fear is losing control over your populous why wouldn't you mandate an operating system that you can customize to include all the surveillance backdoors you'd like.

There's only so far an Apple or a Microsoft will go towards helping build the tools of oppression (it's a long way but not far enough).

I think that people will focus on the fact that Linux is open source and naively celebrate this as a great thing. But the Chinese government isn't doing this because they believe in freedom. They're doing it to a) stop shipping dollars overseas to US companies and b) so that they can control what goes into it and make it illegal for anyone to use a non-state-mandated operating system.

It also reminds me of the folly of Western governments' policies of allowing the manufacturing base to be shipped to China because somehow we'll still keep the top end IP-based part of the economy. Of course the Chinese government has no interest in supporting that vision of the future.
I'm curious how these situations are handled in Germany or France or anyplace where sexuality is not as much of a cultural taboo as in the US, though the tech industry may be just as gender-unbalanced.
I personally have been taught that even if someone instantly bombs the interview, you have to make them feel like they were given a decent shot so that they won't get upset and try to sue you.

Sadly you can't even give feedback on what people did wrong because anything that you say can and sometimes will be held against you in a court of law.
There are many other minority groups who seem to be perfectly ok with locker room humor.
I think a big part of the challenge of quitting, and what the OP seems to still be hanging onto is identifying as a smoker. If you're a smoker, it's what you do, it's a part of your life, and you'll always be a smoker.

I've always struggled with how in AA you're taught that you are an addict, no matter how long you've gone without. Of course, their studies hold more weight than anything I have to say, but many of us sucked our thumbs as children. It was an addiction for many, and yet, those people aren't considered thumb suckers. It's something they did, it isn't a part of their identity.

I have a friend whom I recently convinced to stop smoking. She's only 3 weeks in at this point, but says she has no desire to smoke. We talked at length about never referring to herself as quitting, or being a smoker, but just letting it be something she used to do, but doesn't find enjoyment in anymore and doesn't want to do.

Maybe that will be of some use to the OP.
Contrary to the popular belief white-knighting never got anybody laid. Count on it.
Silicon Valley Discriminates Against Women, Even If They're Better
This is what an /r/MensRights commenter looks like, right? The weird, totally irrelevant racial tinge the comment has is a signal too, right?
I picked up my Android phone and looked at it compared to my iPad. I have a weather widget and a search bar on my homescreen, a friend feed on the screen to the left and an icon screen one more over.

I'm not an Android or Apple fanboi, if anything, I prefer Windows, and though I agree that Apple's iOS icon approach is 'safe', I don't agree that it looks dated. It simply looks familiar. To me, the widgets in Android aren't compelling enough to prevent Android from looking equally as familiar as iOS. They are both a modernized Palm homescreen.
just watch who's updating LinkedIn.
I was about to say something similar. I know at least one female friend who thinks this way for sure.

I'm also wondering if this white knight thing isn't making women feel powerless since they need to be helped as if they can't do it themselves.
There are a number of other similar offers. Just Google for "free raspberry pi hosting" (+ your country, maybe).

For example, here's a Dutch hosting company:

https://www.pcextreme.nl/en/
http://raspberrycolocation.com/home/

You can send them your Raspberry Pi for free (or buy one from them) and they will provide free power and network connectivity (500 GB/month). Offer is valid for an indefinite period of time, but at least 12 months.
How confident are you in this prediction? You sound very confident -- "Count on it." -- but hoping that something will happen and being certain that it will actually happen are two different things.
My wife works in a hospital, and she has been trained to always wash her hands. I on the other hand have always said that I am building my immune system by introducing my body to germs.

Not sure whose right here, but interesting theory nonetheless.
Hang out in NY or Boston. Attend every meetup you can find and let people know you're looking for a job. You don't have to be super pushy. Just do it in the middle of explaining your background.

-“What kind of work do you do?”

-“I do this, this and this. I just graduated and I'm hoping to find some work or freelance gigs. You?”
Bloomberg is really an awful being, all things considered. His response to people feeling the government shouldn't tell them how much soda they can have is "look at me I'm not fat, these laws aren't for me." What an adult way to govern. And this whole attitude of "haha you're afraid of big brother" or "wow look at all this magical technology .. I mean I have pledged to do some kind of bogus 'code year' so you shouldn't expect to have any sort of privacy" is just ridiculous of a public official; you'd expect this from some backwater town, not New York. Honestly, his response of "I don't know how we stop that" is just comical. Vaginal probes exist, the technology is ready to go, but I think there is a clear answer for how we prevent government from using them on people.
I didn't like the premise of the article because it made out women to be some kind of foreign entity in the industry, in the author's words, "our industry".

> I do not want the women in our industry to feel unwelcome.

I know it's completely good-natured, but these kind of statements make it seem like males single-handedly have the power to make women feel unwelcome or welcome... which causes a divide even further. The phrase "there are ladies present" is just strange to me, like males should be hyper-aware of the foreign entity that is present. Gives the same effect as "there are elephants present" in the room. No matter - we should be aware that /people/ are present and dick jokes, etc. have no place in a professional setting.

I do agree that the locker talk happens. On numerous occasions, the males around me have talked about seeing breasts and other (straight) male oriented topics.
network effect of caching aside, I decided to run tests from 95 nodes around the world. Most of these have above average connectivity, however some are true "last-mile" nodes. The following data set consists of just over 2000 runs over one hour of testing.

#tests avgTotal avgDNS avgPingRT
CDNJS 1105 187ms 58ms 27ms
GoogleHostedAPIs 1120 219ms 30ms 38ms

https://gist.github.com/dneufeld/5226469
If anyone is interested, I am working on a startup in this area (email+webooks). I'd love to see more thoughts on how email (both content of, and infrastructure around) can be extended and improved.
Cool link on the Helminthic therapy! I've never heard of it before.
'We've (and I mean "White Men") made it a point to relabel and rename everything to be non-offensive.'

Aw. How cute and generous of y'all!
How is that a counter? It follows directly!
Mars or bust: a private mission to the red planet can take risks Nasa can't
> While I agree that there is a limit, I don't see how calling languages "estrogen" is offensive and I don't understand how calling a hat "cute" is offensive.

To be frank, you don't see these things as offensive because you're ignorant. I grew up in the same era as you did, and I'm guessing you just had the misfortune of not being asked to walk in another person's shoes. You go ahead and enjoy all that delicious privilege.

> I don't see how calling languages "estrogen" is offensive

When I first read this in the article, I cringed. Then, when he further tried to 'explain himself' with, "I was mostly making a joke about how seriously C++ programmers take themselves compared to Java programmers," I cringed even harder. IT'S OFFENSIVE TO SAY THAT ONLY MEN TAKE THEMSELVES SERIOUSLY IN PROGRAMMING. It boils down to men = serious and women = emotional, flippant, hysterical, etc. It's a horrible horrible analogy and quite frankly I'm surprised that didn't blow up in his face even more than it did.

> I don't understand how calling a hat "cute" is offensive.

Again, ignorance. Would you tell a male admiral that his hat was "cute"? This is a classic case of infantilizing women, which makes it seem like Grace Hopper's brilliant, groundbreaking work was just another finger painting that can be tacked onto the refrigerator. "Aww, look at what the cute little girly did! Go run along now and put away your EasyBake Oven."
This is what happens when a company stops having anything relevant to contribute and just becomes a bag'o'patents.
Your explanation of 'true' QC seems misleading as well. We can (and have) constructed the quantum gates necessary to build a computer with the classical gate structure. It is true that in doing so, if we make the input a superposition of states, then the output will be a superposition of the states that would result from passing in each individual state into a classical computer. However, this is not sufficient for us to actually take advantage of the massive parralelization.
Lets assume you have a N quibit input, which is a perfect superposition of all 2^N possible states, and as many internal quibits as you want. You have some boolean function, f(n), that is true for exactly 1 number (and that number fits in N bits). If you tried applying programming your QC to apply f(n) to the superposition, then after you do that, you will have a superposistion of 2^N-1 0s, and one 1, all with an equal probability. When you go to measure it, you will read either 0, or 1. Not very usefull.

You can fix this problem using N+1 quibits, and returning the input number along with the answer. Now, you have 1 state where the 'answer' quibit is true. When you go to measure the system, you have a 1/(2^N-1) probability of seeing that state. If you see another state, then you have collapsed the superposition and need to redo the computation. This is equivalent to just randomly picking an input in the first place.
Quantom mechanics does not allow a way of taking a system and making one state more probable based on its value (IE. guaranteeing that the one you measure is the one marked 'true'). However, their are some quantum mechanical mechanisms that can provide provable improvement.

One such algorithm is Shors, which allows efficient factorization of prime numbers.

In my opinion, their is a far more interesting result I have seen, which is a general algorithm that can take any problem with a solution space of 2^N, and solve it in 2^(N/2).

Sadly, it has been a while since I dabbled in quantom computing so I do not recall the details of that, and I very well might have gotten stuff wrong to.

I am however becoming convinced that P/=NP is a physical law of the universe.

EDIT: I just read farther down the thread. I think the algorithm I was referring to is Grovers search algorithm which was mentioned by zaptheimpaler.
I am not a woman so I cannot know for sure but I figure is it as funny for them as it is for men.
H1B visas are hard to get.
After reading the title I wanted to write something funny, but after reading the article, I just couldn't do it. This is awesome. I think the biggest thing they're doing is instilling confidence which will bring you a long way!
There are people that have the "I'm offended" weapon and people that don't. As far as I can tell offending a woman or a non-Asian racial minority is considered to be a Very Bad Thing. It might even get you fired. And there are no rules. Every person is different and you don't know who you will offend and who you won't. Adria was spotted playing "Cards Against Humanity" at the conference and I would assume that I would be safe making almost any joke in conversation with someone that played CAH. But I would be wrong and she would kill my job with her special weapon.

There's good reason these groups have these weapons. They have historically gotten the shit end of the stick from everybody else and we are sensitive to any potential bias compensate for that. But with power comes responsibility and we can't go using our weapons unreasonably if we are all going to get along.

I don't mean to have a "irrelevant racial tinge" and you can correct me if you think I'm wrong, but my read is that white and Asian men don't have this weapon, unless they are disadvantaged in some other obvious way. For example, if a handicapped white man got offended at someone making some statement related to that handicapp it might be treated with the same gravity. But most don't have the weapon, so they are scared and confused and grope for understanding (like the OP).

I've never been to /r/MensRights. I guess I'm not supposed to say things like this. I could just think forbidden thoughts to myself, but I would rather engage in dialog with others to learn more.
I've had the opposite experience to you. It took a little while to understand what was going on but once I did, I set up a project template that I've been able to use in all projects with little in the way of changes. Dev with asynchronous loading and production with built file.

The best thing about it is I use jade for my template language and it can be configured to precompile the jade in the bill step, allowing me to use jade in the browser on older browsers. Also as mentioned in a sibling comment I use the same config file for building and development.

This isn't specific to requirejs but it was also possible to work it into the asset pipeline of my backend system so that in production it compiles, caches and serves the built file and in dev it uses the asynchronous loader.

The only issue I've run into is the same as the flotr2 issue described in the post, which it sounds like there is an easy fix for ski look forward to trying it out.
I've been using Ghostery since the recent HN post [1] and I really like it. It's great to go to Schneier's site and see Ghostery report nothing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5387380
Speaking of PC bullshit, let me quote from the agile manifesto website [1] (emphasis mine):

> This freedom from the inanities of corporate life attracts proponents of Agile Methodologies, and scares the begeebers (you can’t use the word ‘shit’ in a professional paper) out of traditionalists.

It looks like you've already been unprofessional by using that word :-) By the way, I don't want to be part of those events, too.

[1] http://agilemanifesto.org/history.html
"Ask people to write code on paper or a whiteboard
Ask someone to code a fibonacci function"

Absolutely. Some try to do this on the phone. What a waste of time.
WP templates are so coupled to WP itself, I truly don't think it's worth it.
I'm not sure where you would have gotten the idea that there wouldn't be. By and large, we tend to be more interested in correctness than performance, but that doesn't mean we aren't interested in performance.
This reminds me of my general curiosity about, how our muscles develop in regards to workout during early childhood, and during our adulthood. Its a vague feeling, but I want to share it, if it helps.
Actually, the war was every bit as intense in 1914 as it was in 1915-1918. 400,000 casualties at the Battle of the Frontiers. 250,000 casualties at the Battle of Tannenberg. Half a million casualties at the First Battle of the Marne -- which included losing 20,000+ men in a single day.

Remember -- the war in 1914 was a war of movement. Which meant that men were charging across open fields to attack the enemy. The Germans wore leather helmets, the other armies wore cloth caps, and the French wore red trousers. Yet the armies had modern rifles and artillery. This was a deadly combination.

Battles in 1915-1918 racked up higher total casualties, largely because they lasted longer. The Battle of the Somme lasted four months -- because they kept fighting over the same piece of land. Whereas in early 1914, the armies were still fighting a war of movement, so they'd fight in ten different towns, and the casualties would be spread out over ten different battles.

The Christmas Truce was not a question of numbers -- for a lot of men had already been killed or wounded -- but attitudes. The soldiers still felt that their opponents were fighting honorably. Poison gas, the British starvation blockade of Germany, unrestricted submarine warfare -- that would all come later.
I've been to a handful of hackathons and they were all poorly managed. Angelhack SF is the only hackathon I ever went to that was well managed.
It's my username @ gmail
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