skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an industry it is a really important issue that men are not going into teaching.

Disqualifying half the population will reduce the quality of the selection you can make.

The quality of teachers is of critical importance to the effectiveness of education. The effectiveness of education is critical to equality, social cohesion and economic growth.

Actual evidence of sexism in hiring is more persuasive of the presence of sexism, than the ratio of people employed. A standard way to study this is to send out a bunch or resumes in which only the gender changes.

I think there are sexist social pressures on men which reduce their desire to become nurses.
That's awesome! maybe you should invite some more friends to it and collect some more money ;)
Why are optional WebIDL bindings really any different than NPAPI bindings? foo.getDRMStream() is bad, but document.getElementById("drmpluginelement").getDRMStream() is somehow fundamentally better?

Seems like mostly a distinction without a practical difference. Some browser platforms won't be able to ship with the bindings for this, likely the same browser platforms that can't ship the NPAPI plugin.
It is true that it requires a shift to go from AND/OR SQL queries to doing the same thing programatically. I'm not sure anything there has changed in the last 12 months, at least not huge changes.

I've found it to be not a huge problem though, and of course MongoDB is definitely one of the most flexible NoSQL databases in terms of querying.
It's politics and hustling that get you to those positions. You aren't going to be simply granted VP or CEO or lead in a division simply because you participated in a start up for so long. Results will get you there along with some serious hustling.
Another reminder why off-brand soft launches on mobile are key to testing and understanding your potential customer and market.
It is not social good to support unethical things in any way. And needles analogy isn't even proper, since DRM won't become magically more "secure" with EME. EME doesn't remove native DRM code - it just makes the interface with the browser JavaScript based and standard. Black box native DRM code will still be present and will still remain the same security and privacy risk.
The rewards of working on spec (like those of volunteering) have alway been ... speculative. Promises and manufactured illusions can be difficult to distinguish. The ability to listen to your heart and gut may prove invaluable.
Just be yourself. Though you should make an effort to talk to people, shake hands. Join in group conversations. Buy a beer or two to people you find interesting. That's pretty much it. Oh, and have fun.
This is exactly what I'm doing with my own product, I'm not launching it. I'm improving it, batch after batch, till it's good enough for people to come to me, and maybe the press as well, if lucky.
"Start a game company" is definitely not a "secret to success." It's not even a reliable path to joy, as plenty of deathmarch veterans can attest.

It is true that there are ways to succeed other than easing pain. Helping people make more money is one. Creating joy is, indeed, another. But the beauty of targeting pain is that people who have it are not hard to find - they're the ones complaining really loudly - and the ones you find will often pay for relief. Whereas nobody was wandering around five years ago complaining about the lack of a bird-throwing game and offering money to whoever came up with one.
"What about having families makes the world a better place?"

Families are vital. That everybody from Genghis Kahn to Jonas Salk was born into one ought to be the tip-off.
Thanks for your input (and that of your friends)ConceitedCode!

I realize that at this point one of my major faults is the confusion or lack of information in the video. You mentioned that its rare for you to buy an entire outfit at once. Once an outfit is created it is saved and displayed on the website for others to see, comment, and puchase. Each article of clothing could be purchased individually or as a whole. Discounts for purchasing whole outfits come to mind but that's an entirely different topic.
Yes, we will fan out queries when necessary. In a hard core oltp workload this will affect latency across the system by flooding the network (if you send too many of these queries at once) but we expose knobs that let you limit these queries' parallelism to keep the rest of the system really fast.
Consumers don't care about DRM or No-DRM they care about convenience. Large players do not care about technology either they just want control over their market. Under this circumstances the question is what stand should W3C take ?

Should they try to keep web as open as possible or should they play to the tunes of Google and Microsoft and introduce features that benefit them.

As I see it, web standards should be as open as possible.
They did have a string of bad luck, but I actually thought their model of outsourcing the production was going to give them an edge as a start-up. Purchasing and managing a production facility would have been a greater cost and added complexity at this early stage when they could rely on the expertise of others, and (I think) the relationships Henrik Fisker already had.
Apple has 140 billion dollars in cash.

Pray tell what you think they should do with it? Hire 70,000 engineers for ten years? Start an airline? Buy Wyoming?

Before Steve Jobs took over they were doing what you think they should do--supporting every futuristic project that caught some executive's fancy. Spoiler alert: this was a bad strategy. Wasting excess cash is a common anti-pattern for big companies, such that it's a positive sign when they don't spend money.
One one hand you say fashion bloggers are a small market because there are not a lot of them, and on the other hand you say you have to cater them to get to a bigger market; this does not compute.

To the original poster: I don't think you have to market to fashion bloggers at all. It helps if they see value in what you do and they promote it, but they are not your final customer: pay attention to your end customer's needs instead.
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Also, finding out the hard way is not a good approach. It's physically and emotionally draining.
> That seems unnecessarily nasty.

Being unnecessarily nasty to and making fun of people who make misguided legal threats is par for the course for popehat. It's fun to read, but in my opinion not really laudable.
(reply to below). Only if you consider DRM unethical. I don't consider non-free software, or DRM software unethical. I consider it shitty, and I am free to ignore it if I want.

You don't have any "right" to non-DRMed content. I say this as a person who hates DRM and who spent most of my youth cracking copyright disk protection on 8 and 16-bit software. I don't have a single atom of love for it, but software producers are perfectly within their rights to do it and you are perfectly within your rights not to buy or consume their content.
I don't want to be overly mean, but just look at the statistics. Those cases are far and few between. I have myself CPRed more than 50 people in my previous career. For all I know not a single one was able to walk out of the hospital - and the majority was declared dead on the scene.
YMMV based mainly on country (and hence willingness / ability of the general population to deliver quality CPR)

In most cases, when the patient "survives" this means that he is disabled (can not eat, can not walk, can not stand, can not do anything)
I don't see it making much of a difference- if you've proven out your product in a reasonable private beta, your public numbers shouldn't be surprising. You go live, you see a big spike, then after a week your metrics go back to normal. No harm, no foul.

It sounds like they're going about it in a great way with Origami, and, once they have their numbers in good shape, if they were to launch publicly there'd be no downside. That they weren't able to eclipse their launch numbers (5k-ish downloads is normal for a standard TC launch) within a month is just a way of showing that they didn't have a grip on their growth before launching to the App Store.

As a note, there's a slew of reasons not to launch a "beta" app on the App Store- not least of which is that "New and Noteworthy" is really only for "New" apps and "Noteworthy" huge updates. You totally shoot yourself in the foot by taking yourself out of the running for the former.
Hi Michael, I can guarantee you there's no hidden thing going on -- at least as far as we're concerned. We've taken all the feedback even though 90% was negative but I'm sure the people voting it up saw that a lot of people have this problem, maybe even themselves. I don't know how most comments could be negative while it got that many upvotes, but I can only tell we have absolutely nothing to do with it other than posting the Show HN.
> I also enjoy fantastic two way integration with photo management tools, with tagging syncing back.

Which photo management tools do you use? I currently have around 45k photos (~200GB) and Picasa is sometimes just too slow. I am planning to get a DSLR soon, so total size is going to be expanding rapidly. What kind of tools would you suggest? I am on Windows mainly, so Mac-only is not an option. Thanks!
I consider DRM unethical, but even besides that, it by definition implies privacy and security risk. You can't have safe DRM. I'd say producers aren't within their moral rights to push preemptive policing on people. That's where the unethical aspect comes in.
The paper from that article is pay-walled, but there is an author talk here:

http://energyseminar.stanford.edu/node/431

It isn't about the energy returns of panels finally hitting 1 (he actually puts it at about 10 for end to end systems). It is about comparing the growth of the solar panel manufacturing industry and the installed base and doing some analysis of that. One of the conclusions is that installed panels are currently providing more energy than is being used to manufacture new ones. The 2020 number is when all the energy ever used to make solar panels will have been paid back (the talk (and I imagine the paper) makes that claim too, not just PopSci).
> iTunes DRM was why I've bought more songs than I would've pirated.

Which DRM are you talking about? iTunes hasn't had DRM on music for years. Like you said, iTunes being convenient is what makes it good. But iTunes is even better now that the DRM is gone (I can now play the songs I bought on non-Apple devices). I fail to see how you can argue that DRM doesn't make things worse.
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Your buy Wyoming idea is genius.
"My understanding is that a 4 year lock-in for non-execs (techies) is a standard requirement by Google during acquisitions. I've heard of some people negotiating it down to 3. But, almost everyone I know got 4."

Or as one of the people I met at Google related "Sometimes they let you leave early, sort of like time off for good behavior or something." :-)

I've seen retention contracts run the gamut from 12 months to 5 years, and with and without earnout clauses. It really depends on way to many factors like how directly applicable the tech is and how special the people who built it are (intrinsic expertise).
I really liked ReThinkDB. Have you tried it?
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Warren Buffett recommended to buy it several years ago if Steve Jobs believed that the stock was underpriced at the time. Buffett was describing to Jobs the advantages and disadvantages of potential ways to spend extra cash.

I'm re-iterating that this was several years ago!

Warren Buffett also never said anything himself about the stock being underpriced. It was all contingent on Jobs's opinion.

[Edit] Original transcript. Unfortunately pdf. Starts at "No, I've never bought Apple.". Stock was around 200 when Jobs talked to Buffett. http://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/editorial...
Well, I like it and am using it!

Just one thing: what's with the roast beef?
But someone might see that profile an think that I'm a 'yahoo!'
At Watson, my office was on the same floor as
Fran's, and we talked a few times. She had
a heck of a nice smile. She played a role in
a math subroutine library that could take
special advantage of several processors, and
I asked her about some of that. I mentioned
that it was easy enough just to start some
tasks. She explained, as I recall, how her work also did
careful things about data alignment in interleaved
memory or some such, etc.! That was really getting into the
details!

She was one of the very few women I ever saw in
a STEM subject and good at it.

Her husband was Jack Schwartz of the fundamental
'Linear Operators' with Nelson Dunford, as I
recall, at Yale. Schwartz was long at Courant
and did a programming language SETL, 'set language',
for allowing programming via essentially set
theory notation.
Many great companies have purchased their own stock when it has become cheap. A stock buyback often signals that a company thinks that the best investment there is for its cash is its own stock.
I believe that if actually bank were left to run unchecked, specially having no help from government, more of them would fail... Yes, it would be quite painful in short term, but long term that sort of crap would stop.

The regulation that exist right now, and that people keep trying to expand, has the end result that ties the government too tighly with banks, and bailouts and other help from government become a necessity.
Apparently, you are unfamiliar with the economics of architectural practice. Six figure salaries are for senior licensed staff. The typical age these days for completing licensure requirements is about 33 based on the few states which have made such data available...and new graduates, well New York City has a long tradition of unpaid internships ( graduates are interns in the licensure process). In the heady days of the boom, an intern from a top school at a big firm might make 60k - for 70 hours a week and holding a degree which takes at least five years to complete.

To put it in perspective, Frank Gehry was unknown until his mid-forties, and only came to the national spotlight for work he did on his own house. How many programmers do you know who are still running a company in their 80's?

Edit: Mathew Arnold did the study which extracted the age at which licensure is achieved. It is presented here: http://www.di.net/blog/tag/ncarb/

Matt is a Cooper Union Alum. I played a minor role in the data collection phase - I egged him on.
I am going to need more than this to give you my email; there's not enough here to keep me intrigued.

What's so special about photab that I would want to sign up? In the current state I am not feeling enough of a compulsion to sign up.
I wish there were more details of the brain activity in those 3 days where she 'came back from the dead' and if there are, I wish the article had shared them. Cooling seems to be a driving factor, but was there anything else going on in her brain during that time (subconsciously perhaps) that can be seen through scans or such? Hopefully the practice of trying to revive people for longer periods of time becomes standard throughout medical practices--it'd hopefully save many lives and also perhaps reveal what is actually happening (in not just the brain, but the entire body) throughout the process and how to truly revive an individual if possible--and maybe when it is appropriate.

I've heard of this general concept several times before (coming back from the dead) as there are countless stories of people seemingly dying but becoming fully conscious after varying periods of time; however, this is the first time I heard about cooling being a considerable factor. It fascinates me because it must mean there are several unearthed factors that could potentially save millions of lives.
>What sane woman would get into tech, when being a lawyer or MBA is so much more lucrative?

I would assume that a rational woman would go into tech for the same reason a man would; because those jobs depend on social skills in a way the tech jobs do not.

I mean, this is changing, some; there are a lot of unemployed lawyers right now, but yeah; the set of people who could be both a good programmer and a good MBA? yeah... uh, that's a small (and very well-paid) set of people. (I mean, sure, most good businesspeople can and probably should learn a little bit of programming... just like most programmers should learn a little business. But for most of us? we can only be really good at one or the other.)

Most of us? we're lopsided. We were born with traits that make it easier to succeed in one are than the other and/or we've been putting effort into one area rather than the other for most of our lives.

This is true of most of the nerds I know, male and female. If you are good at everything? yeah, you get to write your own very expensive ticket. But most of us? well, we chose to focus on one or the other, or we don't and we end up being well-rounded but mediocre.

The thing about this? we make this decision before we are old enough to understand the implications. If you are in college before you decide you want to work with computers, well, I've already spent half my life up to that time practicing. I mean, if you are that much better than me (and really hard working) you can catch up, but I've got a hell of a lead.

This is my personal pet theory to explain the difference in interest; from an early age, boys are taught that they will be valued, mostly, based on what they can do; what they can make happen. I knew that if I could make myself useful, there would be a place for me, society would value me, even if nobody really liked me very much on a personal level, even if I was ugly or unpleasant to be around. Now, I wasn't a girl, so I don't know, but my impression is that this isn't what little girls are taught.

(Now, obviously, I have limited perspective here. This is just what I observe in myself, and what I observe in my peers of both genders. Most nerds seem socially... a little bit broken. It seems to get better with age, but man, the socially optimized have a hell of a head start. I'm sure there are many other factors, but this is how I personally rationalized the decision to become a nerd.)
So I just set this up on my home machine and a work machine..

I got caught out with the pre-defined host config because I didn't realise I needed to allow both tcp AND udp through the firewall, so my work machine was unable to access my privately shared folder on the home machine (tracker server/relay server/dht options all disabled)

Once that was sorted, I have a perfectly good replication system working amonst all my machines, just like dropbox, without the centralised control, this is awesome
If she had been able to run a business, now would be a good time to own property in Bushwick. Seems to be quickly gentrifying and rents are increasing.
Teaching and nursing are both fields where you need a degree to start participating. And if you look at the discussions in those fields, there's certainly strong concern about lack of males in teaching and mild concern about lack of males in nursing.

Tech doesn't require a degree - it's a field anyone with a free evening can pick up. It also bears a significantly broader scope than nursing or teaching.
I think this is a reaction to textbook Wall Street game-playing. A nice network of hedge managers went 5-6x on aapl, they sell it and bring the price down while "analysts" come up with all this bs about how Apple's record setting quarter doesn't meet their "expectations".

At the same time, I think Tim Cook has to be a little more vocal. It may not be the Steve Jobs way, but I think its ok talk to the press solely for the purpose of inspiring confidence in your company as opposed to waiting for product releases .
The mother of a friend of my sister's was a programmer in the '60s (for some large company, IBM or the like), and to hear her tell it, the stereotypical programmer back then was more like traditional stereotypes of newspaper reporters than anything else: hard-drinking, chain-smoking, wise-cracking, cynical, etc.

It was pretty funny imagining her—a petite artsy (actually she was a full-time artist at that point) grandmother type when I talked to her—knocking back shots of whisky with the boys but apparently that's what they all did...
Then don't watch their content, if you're morally opposed to how they're distributing it.
If you assume Tim Cook is a smart and competent CEO, jacking up a share repurchase program signals one thing: him and his advisors think that the most effective deployment of that capital for shareholders is to repurchase Apple shares. This could mean they are just shrugging and have no ideas of what they could possibly work on next, or it could mean that they see the market price of Apple stock as attractive enough to warrant a $100 billion purchase of it. One of these is an absurd proposition, one is backed by countless evidence. What do you think? :)
Here's a question: If 8 hour work days get maximal productivity out of a worker (according to several studies I've read through links made available on this board), and startups are all about getting the most out of their employees and getting ahead quickly, why are they all described as having long hours (one of the reasons it "sucks" to work at a startup)

??

I can understand if a very large organization has so much organizational overhead you somehow work really long hours, but for a smaller team that shouldn't be a factor ... right?
Maybe offer an option to have the email sent to me too. That way I know that even if I don't get a reply I still have a record/copy of the email.
Cool. It does seem like a good base to build upon. Good luck.
Maybe they should build a superhuman army to take over the world, but then they'd have competition with Google! ;-)
Maybe in 1996. MBA and lawyers are now in oversupply, have high debt load, family unfriendly hours, flat salaries since 2007 and nobody is hiring.
Whether or not the US equities market generally or the Dow Jones Index stocks specifically are an efficient market is a topic best left for another forum. That said, your entire argument seems to miss a central tenant of the EMH in any of its forms. That is, that there is no LONG TERM informational advantage in the markets.

There is no mention in any of the forms of the EMH that I know of, that short term information asymmetry cannot be used for short term gain. Only that information asymmetry is unsustainable in an efficient market. If anyone had proposed otherwise they would be laughed out of the trading floor.

Further, no one claimed that market confidence isn't eroded by insider trading, only that market confidence should not, and will not be eroded by the events of today. An oddity, that corrected itself and left the vast majority of portfolios un-impacted.

Further, I posit that the fact that the market corrected itself without outside intervention, no circuit breakers, no governmental control, should be seen as a sign of stability, not as a sign of weakness. If you are a long term investor, nothing that happened today should concern you, rather you should be happy that hackers pulling pranks cannot impact your portfolio for more than minutes.
That fact that can happen sometimes implies that it is possible to create paramedic equipment to determine the correct rate to do the CPR and apply cooling in order to get optimal results.

I would not want to be the one that has to procure the ethical clearances for the development though!
To play to devils advocate - because that other unethical junk requires additional downloads and poses multiple security vulnerabilities. Right? Why wouldn't a sort of 'native plugin' be better in every sense of the word for the end user?
I hope the entire board that approved the gambling scheme has been removed.

If not the state attorney general, who is responsible for supervising non-profit boards, should open an investigation.
Steam has changed my habits too, but it's due to the convenience, not the DRM.