skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish the guy would do something to help these people, instead of just letting them throw their complaints uselessly into the aether while thinking they're accomplishing something; perhaps redirect the page to http://www.google.com/contact/ (though, oddly, I don't see a single point of contact there for "general complaints"; they seem to suggest using their Help newsgroups.)

http://getsatisfaction.com/google/ might actually be your best shot at a clear, simple and direct response, which is sad given how good Google is at keeping most of their other services simple.
ML uses a lot of probability and optimization. AI uses graphs and stuff. But then, electronics uses some stuff from solid state physics... but is it physics!? Some fields are inherently more "applied" and detached from what a purist would call "math". In any case, who cares? Those are just labels...
I just finished _The Blank Slate_ a few weeks ago. I had the overriding impression that it could have been 50% shorter had he been a little less defensive. Too much of the book seemed to be pre-emptive explanations to defuse potential criticisms or misinterpretations of some of his arguments. I've never read a book like this before, so maybe that style is common to the genre and I just didn't know to expect it?
Putty is just a ssh client. Terminal is a shell that has access to ssh so you can access your own files or redirect ports easily through a remote ssh session(you can do this with putty but you must go through some hoops, ie. loopback device and setting up some ports in the putty config), etc.... I love the tabbed terminals that terminal provides. I can ssh into a work computer and have my local shell in another tab. Very seamless.
CalTech is 72/28.
Even more helpful, thank you.

With your permission I'll be quoting you to my boss, maybe he'll get into the idea that this Windows Server is the wrong way to go for our purposes.

Of particular use is the SSL/FTP or WebDAV comment, Add/Remove Windows Components, dedicated firewall hardware, %system32%\logfiles and PSloglist. And the more general blurb at the end there.

This might well become instrumental in getting out of the responsibility of doing our custom web-facing database-driven software on the dreaded thing.
It's really simple.

Once the money starts flowing, it's hard for it to stop. Hence, laziness.

Getting it started flowing is the tricky part.
This problems occurs mostly on Mac OS X, with dynamic text fields (text input, when the font is not embedded) : http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=f0...
Ah, ok. That's what I was hoping. As a mac user myself, I can confirm that flash.text.engine has excellent, perhaps perfect kerning.
* Have a co-founder (or founders)

* Have some ideas

* Have some savings (I quit with above 1 year or rent)

* Have equipment, backup drive, laptop, and ec2 (servers)

* Setup some ways to quickly get moving Wiki, Blog, Github, Ticking System

* Have a layer to help you incorporate and deal with anything that comes up.

We quit having a few ideas and not knowing which we would start with. I guess if you aren't in a rush I wouldn't quit until you had the idea you really wanted to start working on.
Many of us enjoy meeting women.
Is flash memory a good long-term backup medium? I have no idea if it degrades over time. It seems that one could design a flash-based "modular media system" (sorry, I have no better words) that would be as dense today as this GE optical disk but have the advantage of sizing up in the future. Say, 500 gigs per unit today, 1 TB a year from now, etc. So, density could improve without changing out media readers. Think about any camera flash card and the density/price improvements.

Also, what if the requirement of 1Mx+ re-writability was removed? It's not like the hospital will re-use the media that many times if its purpose is long-term storage. What other requirements could be removed to improve density, cost, etc. ?
It's funny enough, but it belongs on Reddit, not here.
You are splitting hairs. The logical reasoning underpinning theoretical CS is the same as that of Mathematics. Whether or not this has any bearing on the gender imbalance problem, I don't know, but at the level of this discussion, CS is Math.
The ghetto of the mind
DistMesh: a simple mesh generator in MATLAB
Here is what I always wondered about...we are now on Flash 10...why hasn't Adobe figured out a way to make Flash more native to the main browsers out there? How hard is it really for them to add the right click options that everyone in the world relies on?

Seriously a few lines of code(yeah exaggeration I know), is keeping them from pretty much domineering the interweb design.
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"he problem is with the pipeline. There are fewer girls than guys who explore computing when they're 12."

Is that really the pipeline? If you go in to a 1st year CS/IT class, how many have been tinkering with programming for years? That's a genuine question. I don't know. I just suspect that it's a minority. Possibly as big a minority as business students who have tinkered in business or biology students that have tinkered in biology.
(2) VC - When my firm began, one of our commercial goals was that a specific market leader would want to buy us. We would never, ever sell to them - we just wanted them to want to buy us. Maybe you should treat VC in the same way - have VC firms wanting to invest in you, even if you don't need or want it. You can always make a decision when that's a reality, rather than now.

Cons (1) - It's obviously a generalisation, but if you've had the idea then chances are other businesses have too. TechCrunch50 won't expose your idea to the competition - they've either already had it or it's not relevant to them. Getting the publicity, however, links your business to this idea, which gives you the competitive advantage.

The only other Con I can think of is that you won't be ready, and will present poorly. But I imagine if that's the case, you won't get selected, and the Pros (3) and (4) will outweigh that concerns.

Conclusion - Virtue, good luck, kick ass.
1) Forget about it, chances are you suck at doing diligence and there is a startup doing EXACTLY what you are doing. If not, there are a dozen other startups doing the same exact thing. If not, the second you go live someone will start copying you anyways.

2) Publicity, you think you just throw up a page and you suddenly get a million users? TC50 will get you that first million or so users to try your thing out, and who knows maybe some of them will come back. Then a lot of other publications tend to copy paste ideas, so if you get covered by Techcrunch for TC50, you'll get a few dozen other mainstream articles to cover you.

I'd say the main con for techcrunch 50, is that there are 50 other startups being covered at the same time. So while you may have some awesome product, it will get ignored since everyone will be covering and talking about the new Mint.
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My first instinct is to agree with you, but I find myself asking whether there might be some room for humor that is clearly aimed at an audience of hackers.

If the consensus is that there shouldn't be any humor at all then I could sort of understand that. However if we are going to have any humor at all I think I'd like it to be programmer humor.
Go outside, or to a coffee shop, or the beach, or...you get the idea.
I totally agree!!! But let us NOT forget that the topic being discussed is the lack of women in programming & IT, not in CS or Math!

I said there's no math in programming, which is not entirely accurate because some algorithms and stuff can be considered math. But still, let us keep in mind that HN is populated with über-hackers, the kind of people who are genuinely intelectually curious and learn stuff on their own. Thus, we discuss AI, ML and NLP here on HN often. But let us keep in mind that 90% or more of the programmers in this world are coding monkeys who don't care about elegant code and intellectual pursuits, they care about a pay check and going home before 19:00. Am I wrong?
AFAIK, there is nothing exclusive about City of Wilson's network.

Why would you be stuck on the city's network? Consumers could freely switch to the telco's network whenever they wanted.

If the telcos want to upgrade and beat the city on speed, that's fine. Either way the consumer wins.
Now that's a nice idea - you're basically just selling a CMS, but targeted at the music industry. Given the licenses don't seem to be recurring, you must have a fairly popular product to be able to live off it. Good work.
in lieu of evidence that women are innately worse programmers, it suggests a systemic bias keeping women out

It might simply mean that women enjoy a comparative advantage

http://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/Details/comparativeadv...

at doing something else, whatever the something else is, and they are happy to live in a world in which they trade their ability to do what they do to enjoy the benefits of modern computer technology developed mostly by males.

Philip Greenspun's comments on women in science

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

may not be completely apropos, because programming as a career isn't exactly the same as research science as a career, but those comments illustrate that simple guesses about what the problem is just might be mistaken.
"I don’t price by project or by hour. I price by OODA loop units."
That article is about a career in academia as a scientist specifically. It is irrelevant to programming as a career.
Congratulations, and good luck with selling it. How/where do you advertise or market it? Or are you just hoping people will stumble across it and buy it?
An animated one would be even more interesting. I'm polling for updates to the feed every few minutes and saving unique versions, so if no one else does it maybe I'll throw something together.
On Noam Wasserman's blog, http://founderresearch.blogspot.com/, he finds that the idea guy typically gets about 5-10% for the idea. IIRC. I cannot find the URL right now.

You should really negotiate with the rest of the team members based upon a) how replaceable they are and b) how much effort they are putting in.

Milestone-based vesting may also be appropriate in certain circumstances.
One way to do this is to create your own job. For instance, I'm a web developer living in the Philippines. One of the advantages of a place like the Philippines is that you need just a small fraction of income to get by as opposed to someone doing the same thing in New York City. I can even get a maid to cook and clean while I focus on development for less than $100 / month. The disadvantage is that you are relatively isolated from other developers but since you are looking to travel, that may not be a big problem for you.

Looking for actual employment might remove some options from the table. In the Philippines, you would have a difficult time landing a job which would provide a decent income. You may be able to get a good income by the local standards, but horrible by U.S. standards. With freelance work, you have much more control over your income and where you can live.

Good luck!
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582289
While this is pretty funny, I feel I should point out they're only using half the scpecification of Intelligent Design. There are two parts:
1. The less likely a pattern is, the more likely it is to have been designed by an intelligent agent. If the lists used in the example were randomly generated, they would all have equal likelihood, so this criterion is useless for the example given.
2. The more closely a pattern matches an external, independently-specified pattern, the more likely it is to have been designed by an intelligent agent. This is the same principle used in SETI searches, which look for sequences of primes etc. to identify signals with intelligent sources.

IIRC, the total likelihood of intelligence is the product of the two parts.
You should also try asking your question on thefund.com.
Their forums are more geared towards term sheets and negotiation nitty gritty details.
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Oh dear. Top of the front page. This is not good at all. Is HN turning into Reddit? Alas.

Time to start looking for a new hangout, perhaps.
With 13347 karma, 2190 comments and 1245 submissions! :-)
It's probably defensive because most folks in the sociology / humanities departments _hate_ evolutionary psychology, sociobiology etc. and call it fascist, racist, elitist. Trust me on this, I know their reactions on such topics.
Wow, I didn't realize it looked so bad. I thought it was easy to see what the program was about, how to download it, etc, and looked clean, but I guess not.

I appreciate the feedback, and I'll definitely be working out a redesign of the site soon.
The problem with this is not the humor value, but that it is based on ridicule. We really don't need that at HN.
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EE uses no math? Since when?
This bloody topic keeps reappearing, and the results look the same. As I (and others) have written previously, if you're capable of being successful in many fields (medicine, law, ...), why on $GOD's green earth would you pick this one??

The working conditions aren't the best, the weeks tend to run long and the tanning possibilities under fluorescent lights just isn't great. Throw in a couple examples of, umm, undersocialized folks and I know how I'd vote if I get a do-over.
Before you quit your job?

Enough paying customers and savings that it isn't financial suicide.

Sorry, I know it was about legal stuff :)
Even older dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=578961
If you carefully read my post, you'll note that females employ different strategies when it comes to spatial rotation.

Here's an article that illuminates how stereotype threat may cause most differences:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi...

And, here's a fun fact, although I think IQ is a worthless measure beyond a few standard deviations, the person with the highest measured IQ is a woman. (Although, she famously misinterpreted the mechanics of the Monty Hall problem, but that's normal human statistical fallibility. See Steven Pinker et al for more on that.)
Exactly.

City councils are definitely going to be more responsive to their own neighbors than AT&T is going to be to some complaints from a podunk town.
http://xkcd.com/385/
Thanks for the follow up - it's appreciated. Jamroom was one of the very first CMS's (at the time we called it a Media CMS) that supported audio/video - most CMS systems back in 2003 were focusing on blogging and text handling, so it helped to be one of the first systems handling media. The shutdown of mp3.com sent a lot of users in our direction looking to handle things on their own, and we've been organically growing ever since ;)
Well said. I can already envision the "technical leaders" who are passengers on the web 2.0 bandwagon reassuring themselves that there architecture decision was the correct one based off of the first 3 articles that popped up on their Google search. It's sad but true the blissful ignorance of some folks making strategic development decisions...I see it all the time in my company.
Control Systems, Communications and Signal Processing is quite Math-intensive. But is Electronics and Photonics Math? I doubt it. I would say that EE is either Applied Math or Applied Physics. For instance, in coding one uses Galois theory, but that is Math. The goal of an EE is not to prove theorems but to build systems and circuits. Sometimes one needs to prove theorems, but then one is doing Math, not EE.

By the way, I am a graduate student in EE. Feel free to bash me ;-)
For us as semi-finalist (Tc40) it helped get the ball rolling; press, other public opportunities and people talking about our product, as well landing seed money!

You have nothing to lose and if selected or invited you should go without much hesitation, especially if such will be your first experience dealing with Silicon Valley world!
Its the tools, stupid.

We're an arts and crafts "industry". Only a fraction of our time is spent thinking about the problem in the abstract. A great deal of it is spent wrestling with our primitive tool kit to realize the concept.

When programming becomes entirely an intellectual field, you will see the same gender ratios as you see in other mature sciences.
Your brain really is forgetting... a lot
if you offer the freedom of not going to school that you seem to advocate, and if the parents don't care about their kids' education, you have a major problem.

If parents cannot raise their kids properly, well, you have a major problem. Fortunately, parents evolved to care about their kids more than anyone else, and they are also much closer to the problem than any government. The parents that are so incompetent that they cannot ensure their children have basic economic survival skills are very rare.

In order for your plan to work, it assumes that either the kid is bright or the parents place a high value on education.

What percent of jobs in the economy need more than reading, writing, arithmetic, and apprenticeship? 10%? 15%? In my observations its much lower than people think. And learning the basics was never a problem in the United States. The U.S. had near universal literacy since 1800(1), long before the modern educational complex was created. The baseline requires two or three years to teach max. So how does that justify a compulsory 12-16 year educational track?

In fact, part of the reason that so many parents do not care about their kids academic education, is that the kids academic education does not matter. Neither the kids nor the parent is part of the cognitive elite, so they are never going the game in striving for cognitive elite jobs. The parents are right, the government is wrong. The idea that 100% of the population needs to stars in the academic fields is a lie ( or more politely, marketing).

(1) outside of slaves, who were actively barred from reading
And those "OSX is great" talking points annoyed me a lot.

http://www.dieblinkenlights.com/blog_en/five-reasons-why-thi...
This is completely tangential, but Hackety Hack was mentioned. HetyH was apparently supposed to be "released" on March 7th; whatever happened to that? I'm sure it was delivered at Art & Code; why wasn't it put online?
That why I install Cygwin on every Windows box I touch.
Yeah, considering that the evolutionary psychologists don't actually understand evolution, their defensiveness is expected: http://www.slate.com/id/2124503/
Usually I find that there's plenty of non-programming, semicognitive work to do that hits another part of the brain. E.g. testing strategies, good ways to properly document a system, etc.

Coding's just one part of the brain. Other parts are still ready to go.
I think you're mistaken in expecting similar ratios. Everybody has a computer, but not a set of Erlenmeyer flasks.
but are you sure that there weren't two different types of people? That some people inherently need to study 40 hours, while others can party them away?

Your observation matches my own, but I'm not at all certain that it's not due to differences in learning style.
You know, this is probably the most insightful comment I have ever seen on this topic, and I wish I could give you 100 karma for it alone.

I'm even in favor of municipal broadband, because I'm sick of having the same speed of DSL that I had seven years ago, but I had never considered the absurdity of the idea (that companies can constrain a city's actions) itself. An altogether startling wakeup call.
With your permission I'll be quoting you to my boss

Sure, please do.
Ayn Rand is right
Get a few years of real experience before trying to find work abroad. CS degrees are irrelevant for most of the good jobs.
I used to believe this but now I think the opposite. Technology obviates the needs to learn many skills. Some 18th century skills I no longer need to know: sewing, soap making, farming, canning, penmanship, spelling, using a slide rule, long division. I work in software, but I no longer have to learn assembly or C. I don't actually need to learn anything more than my dad did, because I stand on his shoulders. I just learn different things. In fact, the definition of technological process is when a process becomes so good you can use it as an abstraction layer to build the next process on top of it.

You can also took at the most technically skilled people from the 18th century - architects, civil engineers, mechanical engineers. Their jobs were just as complex as the modern equivalents. Yet probably half of them entered their profession with no education beyond grade school. They learned on the job.

Schooling might not be the best means to train them, but until an viable alternative is implemented, we still need those extra years.

Schooling does not provide any training at all for 95% of the jobs in the market. Most people learn everything on the job.
Are you a US Citizen? You could look for US Government jobs that have the work done in field locations.
It's worth noting that Clang is being primarily used with the Mach kernel which is heavily influenced by BSD. I don't know enough of the specifics to say whether or not this would make compiling FreBSD easier than the Linux kernel, but I suspect it might.
I make about a starting programmer's salary (for this neck of the woods) with Bingo Card Creator.

90% of the value is not created in the IDE. If you really understand that, you'll do fine.
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I encourage folks to consider the global market for their talents -- that's how I ended up behind a desk in Nagoya. That being said, I have previously found that people who self-describe as "pretty proficient at a lot of languages" are inclined to describe "I can comfortably order a meal and ask directions to the nearest park" as proficiency. They do not always respond so well to being shown a design document and asked to spot the bug.

(God save me from having to interview one more person who thinks "I have watched subbed anime. Booyah!" counts as Japanese proficiency.)
The colors were fine for me, but I had a few other problems.
I don't know if this is intentional, but it seems as if the data of this map is somewhat inaccurate.
'8 cases in Queens high school' is reported at least 4 times (others seem like copy/pastes from different news stories about the same instance), in significantly different places. At best, less useful for prediction/comprehension of issue, at worst, alarmist.
Thanks!

Great pointers. I especially liked your first one.

"Getting the publicity links your business to the idea" -- also a great point.
Good point -- it doesn't remove the verbs entirely. However, it removes them from their natural place in the sentence and puts them somewhere where they're likely to be missed entirely. By front-loading the headline with only the nouns, he puts what is arguably the most important part--what _happened_--at the end.

But you are right that the awkwardness is mostly due to a lack of prepositions.
hah this thread has tons of testosterone in it... I'm waiting for the word "bro"...
> Women are taught not to go for math

> men are taught to forgo sociology

> We train children from very young ages to go into certain roles

I don't want to argue about this, because it will just end up being an anecdote battle. But, for the record, my anecdotes are the opposite of yours. I've never observed a teacher discouraging a female student from going into mathematics. I've never seen anyone discourage a male student from going into sociology. And as far as I can tell, in the US, there is very little specialization before ~11th grade. Obviously your anecdotes are different. Is there any reliable data on the subject? (What would even constitute reliable data...?)