skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"For every two students that U.S. colleges graduate with STEM degrees, only one is hired into a STEM job." As if everyone who graduates is actually capable of doing the job. As if all the colleges are equal.
Oh man, one letter character variables. :(
That was actually my inspiration for this. Added support for stuffing multiple different assets in a single svg file, and did it with JS to avoid redundant image requests and keep it easy to use.
Yes, sadly it's true, I'm an MBA Student right now, and I feel I don't have enough time for launching/producing anything!

That being said, I don't drop the MBA because of the insights I'm getting from so many different industries. As a full time programmer, it's being really helpful to have this extra knowledge.
Congrats david, teng, dafeng!
All in all, I think (well, hope) this is a Good Thing. To the extent that (some?) women face different (or more severe) problems in getting started in programming and contributing to F/OSS projects, if this helps ease that process, then it's a win for the world.

Now, I can understand some of the reactions, from both men and women. On the one hand, I can see why guys might say "isn't this just a different form of sexism?" and I can see how even some women might be offended (the same kind of women who freak out if a man holds a door open for them, probably). But despite all that, this has a chance to get more people involved in, and contributing to, the F/OSS world. For that, I think we can accept a small measure of "reverse sexism", given the context, and I think the radfem types can like it or leave it, while their female peers are busy writing code.

Yeah, it would be nice to live in a world which is more or less totally gender-blind, but we're not there yet and this move may at least help level the playing field a little bit.
I'm really starting to wonder if The Ada Initiative is making more enemies than progress. Are they trying to promote equality, or female privilege?
Really, dude? You're going to sass saurik on the subject of jailbreaking? Know your history.
And the bug just went away?
White House Tumblr says it's GIF, with a 'hard G'
To add to claudius's reply to your post, in the Netherlands we like to differentiate students around age 12 into levels: about 60 percent go to the vocational level, 25 percent to the general level, and about 15 percent to the academic level. Basically, all smart people are put together for up to six years of secondary education, after which they go on to university, meeting other smart people.
I don't know anything about Glass, but I believe, usually, if one can reflash the device, one should generally be able to dump any MTD partition contents, too. If that is the case, rooting is as simple as getting to the bootloader, asking it to dump the root partition, unpacking (in case of cramfs, SquashFS or alikes), modifying, repacking (if necessary) and flashing back.

At least, this was the possible with D-Link and TP-Link routers (using pre-flashed u-boot) and Tegra-based Android tablet (using nvflash).
..are good if they are descriptive/intuitive. It's idiomatic Go--long variable names most certainly are not.
> Not every computer problem is a hardware problem, even though the software is running on some hardware.

Well, there is a level on which it is, in that "software" is just hardware writ small. That is, all software that exists and actually runs on a computer exists in the form of physical configuration of states of matter, not as some non-physical entity. This was obvious in the case of some early computers where "programs" were macroscopic wiring configurations, but it is no less true of modern computers.

The artificial distinction between hardware and software can be a very useful tool in thinking about computer issues, but it isn't really true in the fundamental sense.
The amazing thing is that he was more optimistic than most astronomers at the time with regards to extrasolar planets. It's a funny thing, prior to the mid-1990s there had only been extremely incomplete searches for exoplanets, and they all came up negative. But if you looked at the search space of those studies you see right away that they were really quite pitiful. I suppose this is one of those "effort trumps reason" situations, as a lot of effort were put into searches though they had almost no hope of finding planets. And yet those efforts led to a bias against the idea that planet formation could be common, and a bias against the scientific value of looking for planets.

At the onset of the great exoplanet discovery breakthrough in the mid '90s only a few very meagerly funded teams working were actually searching. Once they started to find planets then the astronomical community started paying attention, and funding as well as access to the best observatories in the world started pouring in.

Also, an interesting point of fact is that Sagan was actually hugely excessively optimistic. The two techniques for exoplanet discovery he describes are direct observation through occultation or deep nulling of stellar light and astrometry. As it turns out, these techniques are very, very difficult to use and we have not actually built any special-purpose spacecraft that use either method. To date only one planet has been detected through astrometry, for example. But there are methods which work rather well (doppler radial velocity and transit detection) though they were not familiar to Sagan.
Arm locks can work for much more than "a second or two." Watch Brazilian jiu jitsu, submission grappling, or even MMA competitions. But, in order to maintain the control of an arm lock, you often have to go to the ground. When standing, people have too much freedom of movement.
What could be the possible technologies behind "Jarvis" in Iron Man 3?
I'm a paying github user, and I love github but I can't believe github allowed this. Firstly they are not helping open source if the code is private and secondly it should be for everyone. We hear a lot of people women nowadays complain about inequality and shit, if they are honest they should know this is utterly wrong and should do something to change it, else it's a bit hypocritical. no?
Agree. And I might also add that the "early adopters" of the Model S (current owners and those on the waiting list) would likely have the means to easily take advantage of a buyback program like this (and even jump at the opportunity to do so).
Last night me and my buddy were talking about the future of personal transportation and how when cars (or helicopters) start flying themselves people will resort to jailbreaking them to take back control.
I'd like to tweak your final question (with the assumption that this sort of thing could, someday, provide value).

"How would you feel if every single service provider you were interested in finding were to favorite all of your tweets to get your attention."

I'm not suggesting that the technology is there yet, but the future is a big place.
Sorry forgot to answer about why we chose appcelerator, I think its really about the amount of built in features. It allows you to get the ball rolling quicker, plus if you want custom it also has node.js custom server code capability.
Your concern trolling would be much more effective if you read the linked article.
Incorrect, Facebook can and does do this, and I've personally worked with them on it while being at other companies. Furthermore, the opposite is even true - they have a legal obligation to disclose most breaches. There is no basis for any part of your claim and it's not consistent with how Facebook is actually doing security today. Without CISPA.

What they can't do, is give someone like me private info from user accounts. And they don't need to. And that's the way it should be. Do you really want me reading your private messages with impunity because I'm investigating a security incident? And do you want me to then share it with all of the other companies involved in the breach? Do you care if I leave dirty messages between you and your wife on an unencrypted hard drive somewhere, and people read it? Under current laws, I'd be liable for that (if I actually needed it in the first place).

You shouldn't.

Under CISPA, I can't be charged or sued for any action taken in good faith. I'll just say "oops, sorry, it was an honest mistake while investigating a security incident".

(Not that this use case has anything to do with what is actually motivating CISPA anyway, but I will refrain from repeating myself)

Also, for what it's worth, I've worked with AV industry groups and they all share not only hashes, but actual samples as well. Every single one of them. I'm not talking passing around an interesting sample or two, but full, multi-gigabyte feeds. I don't know where people get the idea that they can get sued for this; it's silly and it's not true.
Could this be another Linode that misleads the public as to what was actually hacked in an attempt to save their public image?
>Calling your disagreement with the author a "misconception" on the author's part is implying a hard factual accuracy on your side - and here you are both wrong and disingenuous.

The first paragraph of the article is a pretty clear statement that a calculation such as the Drake equation [1] must result in a large number of intelligent alien races and that only lack of understanding for large numbers prevents people from realizing this:

> it's nearly comical to believe we're the only intelligent life in the universe. It's easy to get lost in the numbers thrown around - there are billions of stars and planets in our galaxy and billions of galaxies. Humans are rather bad at fully understanding such large numbers.

To restate my point, this is wrong on two counts:

1. The Drake equation can be understood by anyone with a pre-calc background, which is by no means rare these days.

2. Different scientists have plugged in different numbers, with the most pessimistic estimates being of under one civilization in the observable universe.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
Had the same experience, found it easier to just read the code .
Living Social Hacked
Since "the point" is a PR stunt for a "problem" that has at least one other solution, I don't blame him.
> If you took 100,000 years that would be a speed of 0.00014c. That is pretty pessimistic - we have put objects into space that are travelling away from earth faster than that already!

Citation needed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1 travels now at 17 km/s which is cca 6e-5 of c, twice slower than your 1.4e-4. However the bigger the object, the inertia is bigger too, so it is harder to speed up the bigger things, especially anything that would sustain life long enough for more generations. Then don't forget, as much as you speed up something, you have to speed it down too and you need the same amount of energy for that.
I was at the rules meeting for an amateur MMA competition one time. (Someone I trained with was fighting, not me.) Someone asked if pressure points were legal, and the entire room rolled their eyes. The official paused for a second and said, yes, you can use "pressure points."

I don't remember what happened to that fighter, but I know he didn't win through pressure points.
I think you're missing segiotapia's point.
This is customizable, two examples:

https://github.com/Yaco-Sistemas/django-inplaceedit/blob/mas...

If you think that is more logical sense with is_staff you can customize it very very easy
Dressing down, ubiquitously known as “being comfortable”, says that you don’t care about how you look, as if your appearance were an entirely private matter that has nothing to do with anyone else. It’s the exact opposite: what you wear is part of the visible environment, as relevant as the architecture, the decor, [and everything else in that environment]. - L. Grant
It's not as commonly used to demean men, so that's not an excuse. Besides, you're not a Ferengi. Stop talking like you are.
Congrats to the team!!!!
Does anyone know why Google bought Motorola?
"I thought of Sam Harris as being 'anti-theistic'"

There are gnostic/agnostic atheists.
It comes from the benefit of gaining 10 over the risk of losing one. There exist people who vehemently hate receiving email but for some reason refuse to just opt out, and you will lose them. But they are not the common case. Remember that unless your target market is "a handful of people on HN," you should not place much faith in a self-selected sample of vocal HN users expressing their personal feelings.

Many people here will also tell you that $100 a month is an outrageous price for a service that saves time for software engineers. It is true that they feel that way, but it's a mathematically false statement.
There's a difference between HN believing that businesses should legally be allowed to do all of the above, and HN believing that it's socially / morally wrong to do any of the above.

(Note that this is merely a reply to your comment in a vacuum, and shouldn't be construed as me supporting either "side" in this thread.)
I don't agree with that either, even in the languages I am well versed in not having to guess intentions or deduce variables is much easier. I think the tradeoff is really just keystrokes and laziness.

Even if I'm wrong, how often is it an expert, that is not yourself, left to maintain your old code?
Welcome. Cheers!
Don't respond to e-mail via your phone in the bathroom
Wait, isn't this a public declaration of breaking some law or other? A few years ago I'd be impressed but not worried. Now? I'm impressed and worried.
Source?

Right now that's just reading like a baseless claim and it sounds ridiculous to me that "females" is derogatory. I've never heard of such a claim before in my entire life.
People are also free to criticize Github for any reason they want to.

Personally, I think the Ada Initiative is doing far more harm than good. They're pushing a strange brand of coddling and gender privilege.
Show HN: I made a flashcard app to help you learn Ruby
There's no strong reason to suggest that this difference is due to anything other than social pressure.

The fact that such social pressure to enforce gender roles exists and the fact that such pressure independently arose in every advanced civilization to ever exist overwhelmingly suggests it is an intrinsic feature of the human race. Certainly, this would suggest the only way to overthrow the gender roles you despise is for some governing apparatus to coerce behaviour (which we already do to some extent); organically, humans will organize themselves in what you would call a "sexist" way.

Of course, even then, the shelf life on the sexless world you envision is short. American hegemony is waning and none of the candidates to fill the power vacuum will have much time for the 'isms that so occupy your mind.
You've never worn a made to measure suit :)
Amazing work, thanks for sharing. Any hint on how it behaves on big datasets ? Over time I've found that scaling up to real world (and industry) datasets requires going custom (or distributed, a-la-mr / hadoop).
Why should they measure how pissed off you are? Why is that data point interesting to them if it doesn't affect any of the metrics they're actually interested in, such as making more money and satisfying a higher percentage of users?

It doesn't feel great to be told you're unimportant, and no company owner will say that to their own customer, but really — you and I are not that important. I do not expect McDonald's to abolish all their meat products because they offend me as a vegetarian — the rest of their customers manifestly do not share that opinion, so it would be a dumb choice if they killed the Big Mac. Similarly, it is not in a company's best interests to terminate an objectively successful email campaign just because some random guy got pissed off but was unwilling to click Unsubscribe. Successful companies lose customers all the time for all kinds of reasons — they would never get anything done if they tried to personally appeal to every single person on earth.
LivingSocial has thousands of employees, many in sales and other non-technical roles. That first sentence reminds them "this affects you, it's not just for the engineers." That seems prudent to me.
Yeah, I could have worded my objection better. I'm not doubting that the rather brutal nature of OSS is a problem for both men and women. I'm just skeptical that it affects women disproportionately.

If you say "getting your code ripped to shreds in public sucks," I'd wholeheartedly agree with you. If you say "getting your code ripped to shreds in public as a woman sucks more," that's where I get skeptical. And if that's the case, why is it a bigger problem for women?

Note that I'm not arguing against GitHub giving private repos to whomever they please. They can sponsor who they like. I was just looking for some explanation of that "women are more affected by this than men" claim.
Obligatory Malcolm Tucker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5iRmPBve80
Pretty much only creeps refer to women as females.
And don't forget the other side - the knowledge of what NOT to work on. Otherwise your todo list will be a mile long. Focus is about knowing what not to work on. Identify your core constraint and then work it until something else becomes the constraint.
Gangsters
I really think that MBAs ruin good companies, especially when they hold all the top executive positions and the engineers are relegated to the lower ranks. You get big and all those people smell the money, as push those who built it below them. It's a really struggle to keep them in check. You can look to Wall St. for a very clear example to see what happens when they run everything.

That being said, many engineers tend to alienate customers and make bad business decisions. I know quite a few, and the idea of them interacting with our clients scares the crap out of me.

The key is balance, I think. Here's a tell: if your CTO can't code and only has a educational background in business, be worried.
Note that nothing in the article actually supports the sensational suggestion in the lede that there is a likelihood of separate Google experiences in Europe vs. the Google experience for "everyone else".

Yes, Google is likely to make changes in response to the European anti-trust concerns that it did not need to make to satisfy the recent US investigation. Nothing in the article identifies any source for any indication that either Google's proposed deal or any other changes would be applied only to users accessing Google from Europe.
Annnnnnd we've gone full Godwin in less than an hour! Nice work, HN. Hit the showers.
Yes, I too am offended that an organization would dare donate anything to the Ada Initiative. Since we obviously live in a post-sexist egalitarian society, any sort of donation to one organization is clearly discriminatory against those not part of or benefitting from the organization!

</sarcasm>

I'm pretty damn sure GitHub can't affect the salaries of women that aren't direct employees of them. In what way does GitHub doing what it can do, which is donate to an organization like the Ada Initiative, cause offense?
Tesla offers idiot-proof battery warranty
In a conversation that's already quite likely to run off the rails, playing a one-sided vocabulary shaming game is unlikely to improve the dialogue.
An advocacy group for other minorities in tech probably just got a great idea of something they can lobby for themselves, and are very thankful to the Ada Initiative for the idea.
Snake arms and crystal legs: Artificial limbs push boundaries of art
My statement isn't actually supporting either side of this thread either, just pointing out that their behaviour seems quite consistent with the things HN has vocally defended with all the zeal of a college freshman who has just discovered "Atlas Shrugged."
I fully support GitHub's right to do whatever they want, but I can't help but find this slightly distasteful. This is affirmative action, which I disagree with in principle.
No I have no problem with it, the costs are miniscule compared to the results. There is no hedging here unless you mean a rational weighing up of costs and benefits.

It is entirely ethical to rule out the worse risks in society, because fundamentally it makes it better for all of us. Particularly the vulnerable in whatever form they take. Not everyone is even capable of rational risk assessment, and many of the rest of us don't want to have to be constantly on guard. I'm sorry if this offends you.

I'm glad you admit the outcome doesn't matter to you, only your ideals.
Depends where he lives and if Google would pursuit it.
http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=shibboleth
you are angry? lol. how dare they make you angry? take a breathe, turn-off your computer and get out. come back when you grow up.
This seems to be a great example of how one-character variable names can be done well. 'p' for Prefix's, 'c' for Chains's, 's' for string's... it all works very well with this level of consistency, and this level of code complexity and length. Anything longer would be needlessly verbose.
I wouldn't count on the violent worldwide revolution. History has not been kind to the massive number of people who consistently predict it while saying "this time its different!"

As far as your first question... who knows? One thing I know for certain, it doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, there will be trade-offs, always. As a much older than you... 30 year old, I've come to sort of just enjoy what I can and brush off the unpleasant stuff while I keep up with a rigorous search for knowledge and improved skills.

I'm certain that opportunities will present themselves, and I'm positioning to always be ready to take advantage of them. Fulfillment for me partially comes from the knowledge and skills gained. I know that I will have a high level of achievement over my career and because I am confident it will all work out, I am relaxed while I push myself.

In 2 years, maybe I'll have a totally different outlook? I guess that is the fun of the whole thing.
Something more reliable than hearing "from a totally trusted individual, why would they lie?"

People repeat untrue things a million times a day for varied reasons. In this case, people who don't read up on Yelp's FAQs are frustrated by the yelp filter on both a consumer and business-level and want to subvert them, so they regurgitate a story they heard from someone else as fact.

An email or bill for review promotion/deletion services rendered would be perfectly acceptable, otherwise less credulous persons will file them away with the rest of the bitter cranks.
Your experience mirrors mine working at a DOE lab on the US side of a LHC dectector's data taking team.

Can't get fired, but no where to grow. Oh, and you worked your ass off? Here's a $500/raise for the year. My boss (who had worked at the lab his entire career) was verbally abusive to a female subordinate, and HR told me nothing could be done about that.

Fark government work.
The questions and answers came from here: https://github.com/gregstallings/ruby-interview-questions
This would be equivalent to "Where's the chicken?" (Wendy's "Where's the beef?"), right?

Couldn't it just be classified as a parody? It seems silly to not allow them to use something because it's similar.
As I understand it's the miles on the loaner car that matter, not yours. So if you want to keep it, it will cost

(base price - mileage) * (1 - months of age / 100)
You haven't demonstrated sexism, simply numbers. This is like saying child and youth workers (or any other female dominated roll) is sexist towards men.
Nothing will ever be cured so long as Big Pharma can profit from it.
Here's a good reason: your entire comment is judgmental and assuming. It's not about hearing "hey, good job girl! Have a cookie!" It's about not hearing "your code is badly formatted, didn't you go to CS school?" instead of "that was a good refactor there, but you'll find it easier to read and share if you indent". Women have just grown up in different kind of group dynamics - and while women can be horribly nasty to each other in artificial groups, it's usually not the case when they choose to work together independently.