skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bigotry? Because I don't think people should lie to each other? LOL. It's asshats who buy the lie so hard, like you, that I have to hide my identity from!
It's also free, and written by someone who actually used ST2 for more than a month.
What price? Symmetric download/upload speeds? Unlimited data?
There are people who identify as genderqueer, who don't fit into any gender identity, and people who identify as a gender, who don't have a gender identity.
When was the last time a developer got sued for violating the OS X EULA? Start worrying about real world problems for a change.
There's people who don't identify as any gender. There's also physically interesexual people[1].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
Thakns for your support. I know, I will need to learn more about design.
You're on to something here. I imagine it was people with < 1GB plans that churned out the most (quit linode for a better offering) as soon as folks like Digital Ocean showed up. I should know, I was on a 768MB plan and as DO showed up with better pricing and more RAM I was gone. So I imagine that they've eliminated this plan to bring more stability to their recurring revenue, which makes sound business sense.

The interesting thing is that linode started out as a cheaper alternative to slicehost, so its ironic that they are now trying to differentiate themselves in much the same way slicehost did back then.
Try localepurge, http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/localepurge
Gender is not binary. Myself, I'm neither male nor female in terms of my identity. To simplify it a bit, When I think of myself in my head I don't think of myself as being "a male" or "a female".
To me, this is the same type of issue we see in IT/software development with users ignoring error messages or even banner blindness.
Dedicated servers, even the cheap ones, tend to offer a ton a disk space. In Europe, Ovh and Hetzner have entry-level offers with 2 or 3 TB at 50€, you might find something in the same prices geographically closer to you.

Other than that, there are probably VPS providers who let you upgrade disk space independantly from RAM (I'm using Europe based providers, so I probably can't give you relevant names, unfortunately).
The phrase is a little crude but I see no reason for it to cause offence to any particular gender more than another.
Maybe this makes me a terrible person, but "other" tells us nothing and seems to completely dodge the question.
my vote isn't counting or changing the number at all, but it would be a +1 to female.
> These pieces and the comments that follow are often addressed toward men as if there are no women present.

Or perhaps they're comments that the writer believes are gender-neutral, so the gender of the reader isn't an issue? This is obviously not always true, but it might be in some cases that are misread as being male comments directed toward other men.

> Some amount of introspection on how to be welcoming to everyone is good, but the constant drumbeat of articles on the "woman question" definitely increases my feelings of "otherness".

The "woman question" wording isn't really the most common phrasing, and it certainly sounds exclusionary.

In all such exchanges, there are some encouraging facts:

1. Mathematics doesn't care about your gender.

2. Code doesn't care about your gender.

3. A properly run code project doesn't care about your gender, only whether you can code.

Expressed another way, the basics of code development are gender-neutral, and where people are involved, a certain amount of direct experience will persuade most people that your results are worth supporting.

As to being excluded in a more social sense, the best way to defeat that is not to care about it. It's basic human psychology that not caring about acceptance will make the other group members wonder why you don't care, which naturally enough and quickly makes you an insider.
They are just playing the game as Apple built it to be played. They were just playing it a little bit to well. Apple doesn't want to see high quality apps with sustainable growth, they don't not want to see that either, but what they really want to see impulse-buy shovelware that keeps lots of money flowing in every day from kids pockets who have the most disposable income and interact with iOS the most. If AppGratis is twisting the game so that they are receiving the marketing money, and they're building more analytics by capturing the market, then Apple is not very happy. I think this is pretty clear and transparent.
The iPhone 4S was a huge improvement over the iPhone 4, but
the press and fans shat all over it because it had the same
case design and therefore wasn’t “an iPhone 5”.

Are we talking about "actual specs" or "perceived difference"? Because I have a 4 and a 4S and while the specs may be better, the average person cannot tell a whole lot of difference outside of Siri. Sorry, but it's truth. "Reaching" is the only word I can think of to describe OP's rant.
wow ... thats good to know. I thought they'd be free forever.

Do you work for digital ocean? how did you get this info?
Only slightly, though; I mean, Firebase is built on a fully-proprietary platform (Firebase).
How much of it is women being scared away versus women not having an interest or not considering it?

I'm not disagreeing that some women are scared away, but I can't fully expect that its the only reason for this gender imbalance.

As a guy, I can't really answer that. It'd take asking women outside of tech as to why they never considered it... Not just asking women in tech what they dislike about the gender imbalance in tech.
I jumped to a similar assumption, but it's not clear this app is their startup. They seem to have a company "Little Details", so this is likely just a pet project they enjoy working on together. If we see them raising millions of dollars for this app, then this rant can stand.
Unfortunately you can't back up billable hours, and carrying an entirely separate laptop or disk on the expectation that your main one will fail seems a bit too weird, especially when robust alternatives exist
To me, it's a curiosity, partly because I'm a gay guy and partly because sexual orientation isn't something that's outwardly obvious. The anonymity of an internet poll is the perfect place to find out.

I know we could poll the hell out of the community and drill down to all kinds of details, but the one thing I've never, ever heard anybody discuss is the distribution of sexual orientations in tech, or at least as is represented by the HN userbase.
Genderqueer and other folks who identify outside the binary often prefer an other option. Trans people who identify as either a woman or man usually answer according to how they identify.
There really should be an Other - Other option
Biological sex is many things, chromosomes, genitalia, hormones, and the effects of these. If any of these don't match, is the person a guy or a girl? Even among these, there is ambiguity. I have a friend who - no joking - was born with both a vagina and penis. According to you, is my friend a guy or a girl? There were Olympic athletes who had vaginas and no penis but XY chromosomes, are they guys or girls? There is at least one study that showed transgender women (regardless of transition status) had traditionally female brains, so why should a penis at birth be more important then the person's brain?
I can copy-paste some things but not others and it is frequently a huge pain in the arse. Fortunately, codegeek did me the curtesy of adding a clickable link already. So it doesn't really matter.

But thanks.
This isn't just looking at sexual orientation, but gender identity and sexual orientation. Just asking about sexual orientation would be something like: Choose which of the following best represents you: Homosexual, Heterosexual, Bisexual, Other.
> There were as many gay men in many of my CS classes as there were women. I have no idea what (if anything) this tells us about gender and sexuality in tech...

My experience has been the same; I've always found it amusing.

> I've also wondered if it's just a coincidence that the US's tech center is also a historically gay-friendly place. I think it probably is just a coincidence.

I think it is largely coincidence. The reasons that SV is a tech center are completely independent of the reasons that SF is a gay mecca (and both have pretty traceable causes).

Furthermore, I have a lot of gay friends in SF, and I have a lot of tech friends in SF, but the intersection between those two circles is very small - not only do I not have many gay tech friends in SF, but my gay friends in the Bay Area are very disconnected from tech circles (or at least, as much as you can be in the Bay Area).

Despite this, I know there are a number of gay engineers; in an attempt to connect this community, a friend and I started an NYC meetup for LGBT engineers: http://www.meetup.com/Identity-Hackers/ (yes, shameless plug!)
If only it worked. We have a slightly nonstandard install with OTP enabled; this means that I can't log in.
I have now; I included "other". Sorry I didn't include it at first -- I should have known better!
> Would adding a HMAC string to the cookie value not get around this issue?

That would do absolutely nothing. Here are the attacks:

1) log a person out by replacing the session cookie

2) make github slower by making all requests have to send a large amount of cookie data.

3) Log someone in to one of the attackers accounts. For instance I can create an account like `jResîg`, and log people into that account.

Adding an HMAC prevents 0 of 3. Moving github pages to a different domain solves all three problems.
Hopefully, the existence / use of non-emailable browserid providers would encourage sites to accept alternate / custom 'primary' email addresses. It's definitely a chicken-and-egg problem though, and far from guaranteed that it would be resolved happily. And I'm in complete agreement on the marketing, and it's a problem for this setup - the system is young though, maybe this can be changed.

Though honestly I suspect browserid would encourage this anyway, since people are likely to use their primary email address, and they are likely to change to a different address in the future. If sites want to keep people through such a change, they'll want to allow changing it (since I doubt I'm alone in resenting sites that require me to maintain an address I don't use. resentment isn't good for retention).
JS can get at that with "navigator.appVersion"
When a woman gives a deep technical talk on some comp sci topic, I pretty much assume she's trans. I'm not sure why, but it's been pretty true so far.
This sounds like whining on the part of efnet...
I don't eat them either.
I would like to point out that the Austrian school teaches that economic predictions are impossible to make which is incredibly convenient when one of their theories breaks down completely (e.g. the Austrian Business Cycle Theory has been shown to be empirically false during all recessions we have data for).

Also, mises.org isn't exactly an objective third party.
CrowdShip: simple distribution for your Kickstarter t-shirt rewards
Does anyone know if others (e.g. Digital Ocean) follow the Safe Harbor like Linode?
It's called a low information diet. It is indeed possible.
I'm now wasting my time commenting on your comment on a comment about wasting time.

This generation is heartless!
Is it just the actual "buying" part that's banned? Wonder if I can buy it from the Comixology website, then sync to iOS via the app.
Sometimes I forget how fierce trolling can be. HN actually has very little of it so this really stands out. I'd have blown right past it on reddit but here I accidentally read it like a real comment. Kind of like absent-mindedly eating that last shriveled and nasty grape in the bunch while preoccupied.
Asexuality isn't 'unknown'. It should be its own category.
Kernighan: programming languages and the solutions they suggest
Am I the only one who assumed this was for constructing charts of who you're in a relationship with, who they're in a relationship with, etc.?
It's actually interesting to hear that you're serious. After the backlash against the gender poll I instinctively thought your poll was snark directed at the original poll e.g. "You think asking your gender is intrusive? Well how about I ask about your sexual orientation?"
Another big thing is privacy. Signing in with google, or facebook pretty much enables them to stalk you. This can't happen with person due to its architecture =)
What did the box look like before your brother jumped on it?

What did the box look like after your brother jumped on it?

(It's the same box, right?)
If you are interested in scoring points, yes. If you are interesting in being a mature engineer[1], no.

[1]: http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engi...
I can't comment on their VPS / disk space offering, but I've been a customer of TransIP for well over 5 years now and their support is stellar.

Disclaimer: They're Dutch and so am I, so you should factor national pride into this endorsement to some degree.
Or you can reframe things without dumbing anything down. In spite of my currently bitter inclination, I am generally an optimist, yadda.
instead of paying for this go for d3, dc.js, crossfilter, nvd3.
Sudo apt-get install torbrowser
Some people are crass, boorish, crude even. Develop some tolerance. I don't mean suffer in silence either. It's fine to let someone know how you feel. But it's not (IMO) fine to demand that everyone always cater to your extreme sensitivity. I'd personally prefer to be insulted occasionally, rather than having to walk on eggshells for fear of offending someone.
I'd tell you that in a community of 95% dudes, the welcome-ness of any given dude is a much lower priority than other things I might worry about.
Android and Play aren't synonymous. You can use Android without any trace of Google on your system; and, since Android is open source, it can be verified none of your information is being leaked.
Except that some of other stripe prefer "other" to having to choose between male and female, and it respects them to provide that option.
Hmm, I can see how this would be better than using facebook connect for the risk adverse (though I must question that if one is using something like facebook connect or google whatever in the first place).

But most web users aren't risk adverse, and I question the utility this will have over facebook connect when using it in some kind of application that the user wants to use that requires some kind of social data in order to get the most out of the app.
Unfortunately, the fact that tech is seen as a male-dominated field, and what you said often being true, may only serve to reinforce the notion that trans women are men for some people.
what bugs me the most is when the barista asks for your name, but then doesn't use your name to call out your coffee. Or when they ask for my name and my credit card is in their hand.
GNU code is ornate. GNU code always tries to do more than other implementations of tools.

"Quality" is in the eye of the beholder. Some people might like the extra features and in the usage documentation built into the GNU product. Other people hate every excess line of code that they need to maintain.
We've been running many nodes (in the Dallas DC) in production on linode for years and have only seen one significant network issue like you described that we "fixed" by rebuilding the node before Linode support was able to narrow down the cause, so in our experience this isn't widespread.
Grande is a small(ish) Texas ISP:

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

I do hope Time-Warner is severely disrupted, though.
GREAT initiative! Thanks!
A) It's pretty clear the brains of transgendered are physiologically different.

B) People who have an emotional response to sexuality and gender are usually the ones who have repressed issues regarding their sexuality and gender identity. It's a touchy situation. On one hand I want to call you out for being a bigot on the other I feel sympathetic and wish you the best.
Looking at the default icon a bit more closely, the gradient kind of messes with my eyes and makes the S look fuzzy. If you compare it to other common icons, you'll notice none of them transition quite so harshly that the gradient produces more contrast than the other shapes in the picture. The new icon provided simplifies it a lot, and makes the S more readable, but at the expense of throwing away any hint about what the app is for. I think it'd be best to just tweak the original icon's colors so it looks more clear, while keeping the keyboard key look to it.
> It's amazing how much intellectual talent we're missing out on because it seems tech scares away women.

I don't think "scares away" is accurate. There are reasons women don't get into tech, but I don't think being scared is high on the list. I also think this will change over time -- I think social perceptions are changing and technical and scientific occupations are gradually being seen less as a male approach to processing reality and more gender-neutral.

For all our sakes, I hope this is true.
Even in this fucked up day and age, telling the truth does not make you a troll.
A tool to find duplicate copies in a build
Quantum Network Experiment Could Change The Way We Communicate
that is true, i also wonder about this. thanks for making the poll.
I actually have thought of a strategy for that as well ;). The other thing, maybe it might be time to slow down this planned obsolescence garbage and replace it with a more sustainable model.

It's one of the reasons I hope to expect the laptop take off.
Yeah freaks exist. But most "transgender" people are perfectly physically normal people who decide they want to "identify as" the opposite sex. The existence of mules does not imply that horses can just declare they want to be called donkeys now.
none of the above? not even "Female - Unknown"?
You are not using the same definition of "gender" as me, and so your reply doesn't make sense. Sex (what you are born with), and gender (what you perform as), are two different things. No, you can't change what you are born with, but you can change what you perform as. Whether you think this is right or not doesn't come into it – it simply is. A great deal of people perform outside of the gender they were brought up as. If you don't like that, that's one thing. But it does happen. And why not let those people be happy and comfortable?
How unfortunate, another "app" that would be more useful implemented as a web page and text messaging service.

I realize web pages have discovery problems, but so do apps at this point. But if the goal is an aquihire, I guess they can get bigger bonuses as an app development team rather than a web development team.
I love the icon. I don't have an opinion about the default theme except to say that part of the whole point of Sublime (to me) is to find a custom color theme for your code. It's like css for your workspace!

I use a modified Cobalt that has much more green in it. Honestly I love that Sublime allows you to fulfill that urge to express yourself while you're expressing yourself (yo dawg etc.).
> Thunderbolt can currently drive only one 30" monitor.

The 27" monitors are not 30" monitors.
I haven't looked at the code so I can't give you too much of a hard time (have you looked at it?) but the Firebase team might take issue with your use of the word 'slightly'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5519094

> All of the OT work happens client-side, so it's certainly
> possible to adapt it to other backends.
Zuckerberg could be done paying taxes
Damn you, auto-correct. That's "agender."
great share!
This is a great article. It is nice that github is comprehensively explaining how they are protecting user data to reassure their users.

However, this is one of the rare blog posts that go on to educate the reader about the technical aspects of something (in this case -- cookie attack vectors) that they can put to use somewhere in their own projects.
Unlike a high level gloating blog post that is meant to inspire awe in the readers about how awesome company X is doing thing Y.
Look at the warranty, expecting any device to outlast it's warranty is naive.

Longevity has no bearing on the need for backups either, so SSD vs. HDD longevity is irrelevant, in my opinion.
Well, I personally don't think they do imply the same thing from a user's perspective.

* Google, Facebook, Twitter, ... have become so well-known brands comparing to the new Persona. Normal users could quickly get a sense of what "Sign in with Google/Facebook/Twitter/..." means, but not "Sign in with Persona" means.

* Persona is not a social network while other mentioned brands are or provide a sense of social network. A user might perceive "signing in with <your-favourite-social-network-provider>" as an act of making the site a part of the network; while with Persona it's totally different.
I'm pansexual but will go ahead and identify as bi for the purposes of this highly scientific experiment.
Nowadays you can't get a gmail account without verifying using a phone number...
As someone using 'echo -e' all the damn time I find the rant misdirected, poorly thought out and pointless.
No, healthy sites should not have 30-50% search traffic. If that's what you have, you have too few regular users and are at high risk to lose a huge chunk of your traffic and consequently business at the next <random animal name> Google update.

Also, bear in mind that Google has acknowledged that keywords in URLs "help a little", so this is a good SEO win that has (arguably) nothing to do with how useful people find your content. It's much easier than putting effort into better content, too.
So because they're mentally ill, it's the rest of the world's job to affirm their delusions?
The title is very misleading, judging the whole userland with this example is just unfair, besides, FreeBSD's one isn't pretty either still the OP choose to only bash on GNU.

Also, if you actually read the code it's the --help that takes up most lines in GNU's case. That's probably a standard inside coreutils codebase.
Hmm. I think ability to do the following would be nice: boot from Linux LiveCD, copy (dd) whole disk to another ssd/hdd (with no hardware encryption), plug in the second one into Windows 8 system, check the settings (AES/256), enter BitLocker password (or/and insert USB flash with keyfile etc.), get your data.
Funny to see that listed in the article. I've experienced the same thing. Had a lot of trouble hunting it down when switching apps. I've been using this replacement from Dmitry Svetlichny: http://dribbble.com/shots/468176-Sublime-Text-2-icon-you-can...

Don't absolutely love it, but after a month or so it's definitely helped me find the app easier.
This is my only complaint about Linode. We run our one stack that requires a lot of storage on EC2 and use EBS (and we might consider moving to just leasing real hardware in the future, since that is more straightforward & cheaper than EC2+EBS).
Salesforce - Mobile Paltform As a Service
Feature idea: let the passenger schedule a text message to the pickup person when it's time to leave. The same logic that powers the app could also send an appropriately timed message.
It's ingrained into my subconscious. I automatically refer to people on IRC networks and such with male pronouns, without thinking about it.

This is despite being female and sometimes frequenting majority-female channels.
No, you're right, the actual installation is a few hundred megabytes, if I remember correctly. I did say that 28 MB is the size of the iso, though.
I don't foresee CSS shaders shipping in any browser. The proposal is fundamentally at odds with pretty much every browser's accelerated graphics stack, and forces falbacks to slower, power-hungry modes of operation. The filtered results are independent of hit testing, meaning a filtered element can visually appear in an entirely different location than the corresponding hit target. The security implications are downright frightening, including leakage of image data, history, and other state across origins.