skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I don't agree with much of what you've said. Men do have advantages, socially, politically, and economically, that women do not have, and those advantages are far more prevalent in STEM fields than most others. These programs, directed at young women, act as a counter-balance (though a weak one) to the societal pressures that keep them out of technology in the first place. When men (of any age) cry foul, well, I just don't have any sympathy. Even with these programs, the scales still weigh heavily in our favor.

Up to this point, I've not taken a stance on this particular program, but I will not. There's plenty of research that suggests that the impact of public ridicule on young women is different than the impact on young men. While the reasons for this aren't, necessarily, clear, the reaction is different. Allowing young women to develop their skills in a "safe" environment where criticism can be sought from trusted sources prior to making that work public has been shown to be beneficial. So, in the end, I do support the idea of making it easier for young women to to get private github accounts. As I also support "girls only" clubs that help develop their skills, and counter act the social pressures that push young women away from technology in the first place. These programs do exactly as you suggest, they attempt to level the playing field by giving women certain advantages and encouragement to balance the social, political, and economic advantages that men already have. Until such time as we actually have gender equality, these programs are necessary.
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Actually the problem as I experience it is that there is no new housing going up that isn't luxury housing. Developers in NYC only go after the high end so they can get their money back, those that own rent stabilized housing make their money by putting the least into it and taking the most out. I'm in Williamsburg and the only housing going up is luxury housing. And it's been that way as long as I can remember with the exception of special Mitchell-Lama projects which are pretty rare. So allowing more high rise construction will only bring you more luxury housing because that's what developers want.

Also the harsh reality is that the most desirable location is Manhattan, and being an island there is a hard limit on what's available -- so things can only go up.
I wonder if I wrote this post. I didn't but it sounds eerily similar to my condition right now.

I was admitted into one of the most reputed universities in my country. I've failed, year after year 2 times in my junior year & on track for a 3rd year of failure this time.

I was a bright student in school - the top 10 in my grade. But that's where the problem stems from. I thought I was a genius to excel high school without studying whereas everyone around me was pretty mediocre. After all they studied so hard and didn't do as good as I did.

In university everyone told me how brilliant I was and that my marks didn't reflect my potential. Now they're all working, getting promotions, traveling, enjoying their lives and I am no better than I was 3 years ago living with my parents and hardly contributing anything to this world.

PS: Throwaway for obvious reasons.
I'm not really sure why Steve Jobs is your model for code design.
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All this is true, but being wealthy is still not an absolute protection against the law. Even rich people cannot, for example, commit murder with impunity, at least not reliably. But the odds of getting elected to national office (or even state office nowadays) without the support of the wealthy is indistinguishable from zero. That is why I say that democracy is completely dead while the rule of law is only mostly dead.

But your point is well taken.
That makes a lot more sense, I was staring at the example, and then just figured I'd have to try it later.
it's unethical that the OP is financially rewarded for building something?

Considering the affiliate links offer the exact same user experience as if they didn't use affiliate links, I find you comment perplexing.
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I was really wondering where the difference to the normal syntax was. Thanks for the clarification
It doesn't even do that, these days. It's there to let assholes vent their rage while not filling up the queue with useless reports.
You need a larger, and sparser, id space. I found a bunch of "private" albums by just trying numbers manually.

Design is a bit plain and the button images look blurry and out of place on a retina iPad. I also didn't find an obvious way to comment - is that not yet implemented?
Never heard of deadbeef, but it looks promising. I'll have to give it a shot.
How do these compare to VLC? Is VLC not actually a good audio player?
I came from that same time, and I think you are partially right. I think a self-perpetuating cycle has occurred where people know less about sql, so they use it less, so they know less about it.

But I also think that people don't like the boilerplate that comes with direct sql access. I think they don't like the impedance that comes in reading and understanding code. And I think they want to hand off annoying, but critical, things like caching to a lower level they don't have to think about.

SQL is an important tool, and any developer, especially one who is using a framework like Django or Rails, would be wise to learn it, but ORMs still have value and it isn't all about "I don't know sql".
That's not about git. That's about ``Fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out''.
Makes sense.

One thing I'm curious to know is, of that 9-12%, for people hired at the same salary band or experience level[1], would there be differences between men's and women's salaries? And if so, what would they be? In such a case, the comparison would be meaningful.

[1] for example, comparing within salary bands or job titles: Associate SE, SE, Senior SE, Principal SE.
He didn't say he wouldn't pay more than $200 - he said that $200 seemed to be the price that nearly everyone he talked to would buy a pair.
If anyone here is qualified to facilitate testing milk powder, please get in touch and I'll send samples from China. email milktrust@hushmail.com

I'm not going to publicly list my HN id or email. I would like to participate in getting useful information to the public. Not just milk. If you have other food products you can help test, I'll see what I can do to get samples.
Yep they do. My dad is 61 and had surgery on his right eye a few years back (so it's even weaker than normal) and he said he was able to read the screen. He did say he would have preferred a left eye version however.

Can't say about astigmatism.

I guess they could be, you can remote wipe them though.

Agreed on price, luckily I didn't even have to pay the $1500. And there was a Googler wearing a prototype prescription version at the pickup.
Looks like gprof2dot: https://code.google.com/p/jrfonseca/wiki/Gprof2Dot
Another anecdote: ICQ was the very, or at least one of the first instant messaging applications, and acquired by AOL in the late 90s "for US$287 million in cash up front and $120 million in additional payments over three years"[1]. It was a huge story in Israel at the time. The company is still there, but I don't know a single person who still uses it today.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ
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Put, that coffee, down. Coffee is for closers.
In addition to what everyone else has mentioned, the amount of libraries written for Django is staggering. You almost never need to roll your own app -- someone has already done it!

Also, geodjango.
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Obviously. Everyone would.

But I do not want AAA games to not exist. They can do things that indie games cannot. It’s as simple as that.
First, use whatever popular formatting is used in whatever language you are in (i.e. in PHP - UPPERCASE for constants, camelCase for functions, etc.) Benefit is your code is just compatible with most of the other code out there.

then for me - be as descriptive and terse as possible in naming:

function validateScheduleArray($schedulearray) {...

For database fields I include the referencing table in the fieldname, (foreign keys may have the other table's name):

i.e. contact table:

contact_id
customer_id
contact_type
contact_description
contact_info

or for more specific if you have similar tables in a large database:

videocontact_id
videocustomer_id
videocontact_type
videocontact_description
videocontact_info

with that you always have an idea where something originated from.

Also I tend to go with singular terms for names in tables and fields. (contact instead of contacts) for fields with multiple values I use something like: contact_statlist

The more your source reads like psuedocode the easier it is to understand and maintain.
Yeah, I have them. You can definitely watch videos you've taken, hangouts, etc. Even the navigation maps are realtime updated, rather than still photos.
I'm somewhat bemused that The Social Network isn't on there somehow, despite the movie's misgivings.
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Because he oversaw the creation of 3 of the most successful operating systems of all time? I know he didn't design them, but he was involved in managing the projects. Just playing devil's advocate.
People are paying for a status symbol + fashion accessory. Whether Glass is a status symbol will depend on what kind of circles you travel in, but they're certainly less fashionable than high-end sunglasses.
Apple has/had a history of re-writing code over the years. The first iPods and their iterations were code re-writes, IIRC. Many of the onboard applications were completely re-written for the iPad.
Hey alt_, and thank you for your comment.

The system was initially designed for Android, so most of the features (including the comments) are currently available only for Android based devices.

Regarding the blurriness of the buttons - will fix it - thanks.

Thank you for you help.
You know, I'm really happy to know that I'm not alone. I experience the _exact_ same cycle and problems mentioned in the article.

I started crossfit last fall, and I felt great. I finally kicked my perma-funk and I was LIVING life. Unfortunately, I was injured (not related to going to the gym) and I haven't been able to workout except for pushups and situps. Now I'm stuck in a hard place: I physically cannot work out, and I absolutely need it to maintain a healthy mental state.

My friends don't understand my behavior and why I'm happy, then when I need to hide from them so they don't run into my 'down' state. I had a wonderful relationship with a beautiful girl, which ended with her leaving me, partly because communication broke down when my pendulum swung between metal states. I try really hard to not put my friends through my issues, but you can't be close to anyone without them eventually learning who you actually are. Like the guy in the article, I've developed the same defense mechanisms to appear normal.

One thing I'm starting to observe is that this condition of anxiety, which when not managed leads to despair/depression, kinda runs with the territory of being a software developer. I guess maybe it's just how our brains are wired.

I wish there was just an easier way to manage this, or at least explain to 'normal' people that I won't always be normal, and it's ok.
Sorry, fixed that.
A quick google found this which probably means that women tend to rise into middle management quite easily - that's not unusual in most areas. I think the numbers look better than they are because there are not massively larger salaries for programmers as there are for attorneys etc.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/average-2012-us-dev-salary-8400...

Reading this makes me think: if women make more in the programming sector than any other field, why do we feel so downtrodden? To be honest, aside from a few experiences when I was young I've not experienced any misogyny from my peers, but I do almost daily from customers. I think I may be really happy because I'm with an amazing team who care about each other. I take the time to build my team's character and it pays off when I need the extra support.
Seems Bitcoin exchanges are ahead of the pack:

Harvard Business School estimates 95 percent of new businesses fail
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Hey bhauer, and thank you for your comments.

We will consider them for our next version.

many thanks for you inputs.

Sharon.
In neither of those cases would the comment be welcome, as both would be targeted at a participant in the discussion and not the ideas in their comment.
It's actually:
t.primary_key :id, :uuid
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i've been reading this blog for a few years, and this guy is the real deal. I think this post encapsulates his philosophy:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/02/what-is-stoicism-a...
A couple years ago, AOL sold ICQ to the Russian firm Digital Sky Technologies for around $187.6 mil. I believe it's still popular in Eastern Europe, Russia and a few other areas.
I have focusing problem and I figured out that working multiple projects at the same time is better for me than focusing only a project. Although, it's hard to finish one of them completely, it's good to know there's a different project I can work when am bored one of them. Just find an area that you like, you don't have to be good every class you take. It's enough be good at one area to be successful.
Even more ironically, you're engaging in approximately the same behavior I wrote about downthread.

What's especially telling is that 5 (admittedly short) grafs, you've failed to address a single point I actually made, but rather tried to summon a gestalt of all my comments so you could tackle them in the abstract.

Want to take another stab at responding? I'm all ears.
Iconfinder. They are profitable? They have business requirements? Joel wrote about the problems of a rewrite when you need to earn money, implement money making features, heavy competition while at the same time maintaining two plattform where one is a moving target. I don't think Iconfinder fits in any of these constraints.
+100 for using "leaking abstraction" in a slide deck "defying Joel Spolsky"
I also use Django without any ORM and with Jinja2 and I'm taking baby steps towards completely abandoning Django and moving to Flask. For me, the primary benefit is that Flask being so much smaller and simpler than Django means you can understand the entire codebase without an extraordinary amount of effort.

I'm curious as to why you stick with Django (other than having projects already begun relying on it)? Without the ORM and with the templates, there's is not much I get out of Django.
CLSQL has a functional interface which can do this (http://clsql.b9.com/manual/).
SQLAlchemy lets you do precisely that. Give it a try, I haven't written a line of SQL since I've been using it.
Well, it doesn't mean he evaluated at the code level and decided that rewriting is better than refactoring...
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I didn't understand why ORMs are stupid. Can someone enlighten me?
Anyone remembers MusicMatch Jukebox? The first versions where quite good. Specially the capability of ripping to MP3.

Today, two media players I like in Windows is: MusicBee ( http://getmusicbee.com/ , quite fast last time I tried) and MediaMonkey (previous versions where good, current versions became bloated).
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it's because the stored procedure development model lacks the tools in order to make integrating with an application-level domain model simple. You end up needing to write not just one persistence layer, that of marshaling your object model to and from SQL statements, but two - all the SQL statements behind your stored procedure layer, and a second to move all the data between the SPs and your object model. To make matters worse, the stored procedures must be written completely by hand without the benefit of any in-application schemas to help compose statements.

One reason for the variety of opinion on this is that different developers make more or less use of domain models in the first place. Those who are accustomed to writing all SQL completely by hand with no helpers at all, and not working with a domain model tend to view the stored procedure approach as equivalent. Those who are accustomed to having at least some simple marshaling layers like a construct that generates an INSERT statement given a list of column names see the SP approach as more tedious since simple techniques like that are usually not easily available, at least in more old school SP languages like TRANSACT-SQL and PL/SQL.

All of that said, I do think this is a problem that can possibly be solved. Postgresql allows SPs to be written in many languages, including Python. I have an ongoing curiousity about the potential to integrate a Python-based object relational system into a stored procedure system. But it might end up looking like EJBs.
Does he disclose how much he currently makes from the blog and credit card offers? Because it's pretty easy to "retire" when you make a decent living off a low effort job.
It's annoying when someone glances at their wristwatch while you're talking to them, but I think that overall, wristwatches are a net benefit to society. Perhaps it will be the same with Glass.
Obviously you haven't seen the lisp ads from the 80's :) Lisp was surely hyped then. Not to mention all the hype from people like ESR and PG. Even clojure owes part of it's success to the great presentation skills of Rick Hickey and the other early clojure adopters. Languages DO succeed mostly because of marketing, if it was features, then smalltalk would have won, and C++ and Java never would have existed, Lisp would have won and python, ruby and perl would have been forgotten. Even other technologies works that way too, NeXT and the other Unixes would have won, and windows would have never had a chance if what you are saying is true.

As for the name, if clojure was named anything that had the word "lisp" in it, like "foo lisp" or the like, it would have been dead already. Even racket had to get rid of the word "scheme" from their name for marketing reasons.
Its a historical artifact. The US is the one country iced tea is consumed more than hot tea. This dates back to the revolution and the resentment of tea taxes that lead to coffee being the "patriot's drink". Iced tea became popular in the 1900's.
Consider the fact that misframer hosting the image on imgur and posting it made me very happy. The best way to read a document or look at an image is to let people see the document/image without ~160px worth of horizontal space taken up by unnecessarily large headers/footers/controls (download, report, etc..)

Look at how most browsers create the experience of reading a pdf or something. Chrome provides useful controls at the bottom-right that are invisible until you mouse into the area. Make it about the content, not getting people to use your service. Get them to use the service without making the core service bad or they certainly won't use it.
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The problem with stored procedures is managing it. You have to maintain another, separate codebase. You need to make sure those procedures are "installed" and up to date. Plus, DBMSs don't have a concept of "versions", and those procedures are treated as data. In short, it's hell.

That's one of the pain points RethinkDB is trying to solve, since you write your queries in whatever application language you use and it's parsed and executed in the cluster.
Intentionally ironic, in that I held myself to the same standards as your comment: ad hominems mixed with personal insight and no content.
It's amazing the economic value Ana created by posting this. It's gorgeous, and every single web designer can (and where appropriate, should) now use this to make themselves look SO much better.

I wonder if the people who have posted the flagship answers on Stack Overflow know what heroes they are.
The blogger doesn't understand enterprise issues and does not seem to have any large-scale deployment experience, and this makes the blog entry next to useless. It's just the opinion of yet another blogger.
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No really, there's actually people who prefer more basic players.
Incorrect. We fit in all of those constraints at the point where a rewrite was decided ;)
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SQLAlchemy has several explicit layers of abstraction, the first of which is an AST for all of SQL. The ORM is entirely optional.
If Glass is successful, what makes you think the technology won't one day be available as an add-on to just about any pair of glasses?
Something like "PrimeCoin" (where the miners are continually finding bigger primes) would be awesome, but we would need to wait a few years between confirmations. Also you have no way of knowing when or where or even IF the next prime number will show it's face.
>Is there enough space for two cypto currencies?

Check out btc-e.com and vircurex.com

There are about 8 alternative currencies that I track daily at the moment.
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You're right in that they are largely the same action, but consider this case:

An Owner is deleted without setting the pets.owner_id to NULL. So now there's a row in Pets with an owner_id referring to an Owner that doesn't exist.

These two queries will (rightfully) return different things in this case.

One will return The Pets who have null for an owner_id.
The other will return the Pets whose owner_id is NULL AND those who do have an owner_id, but it doesn't reference an existing row in Owner.
Poor tool integration, nonexistent library ecosystem, and the advantages of a single-language codebase.
I guess his point is that they sometimes create huge ugly and inefficient SQL queries. (Reminds me of the 90s sentiment of C compilers creating ugly assembly.)
Why should TPB care about Bitcoin?

TPB cares about donations.
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There is also btc-e.com and vircurex.com
OSEF? What's that stand for?
We have had those for a while. Same prices on mass health connector.
I could come up with specifics but that would basically be me trying to make myself look smarter than I am, so instead: why not go track down what Matt Yglesias said about the piece he wrote before this most recent one, or what Felix Salmon wrote about the parking meter story, or what Kevin Drum wrote about the vampire squid piece, or Tim Fernholz at TAP wrote about the Obama piece, or Dan Primack's takedown of the Bain Capital piece? Most of these writers, by the way, are political allies of Matt Taibbi, who said in his Reddit AMA that he checks in with Zero Hedge regularly.
If baseless, non-scientific fears were enough to kill a product, nobody would ever ride in an airplane.
It was funny to see the movie "Riot On!" on the list about the first start up I worked for. Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQwoLYcbVmg
The advantages aren't really in using Flask, but being able to use a better ORM (or no ORM at all, just SQL abstraction) and template engine.

After working with Django ORM for a large project, I started to rethink the usefulness of models. It turns out just treating data as sets lends to a functional style and is simpler down the road.