skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth clarifying: I'm not saying you should ignore the issue of balance, I'm just saying you should ignore the issue of "sexism in technology".

Making efforts to hire a team with some male-female balance is just as worthwhile as making efforts to hire a team that's balanced long other criteria. No one wants to work for an all-male company, just as no one wants to work for an all-female company. There's not even really a need to look at the market opportunities side of things. Balance is just more comfortable for everyone.

If you're creating a company and planning you're hiring, and you're not a jerk, you probably are worried about keeping some kind of balance.
You're right that it's not specific to technology at all. It's better to think of it as the subset of sexism which occurs in the technology industry.

Before downplaying the significance of this it's probably good to keep in mind though that if you're a straight, white, western male, there's a good chance you underestimate the effects of being on the 'losing side' of any one of those axes.

As for the article, I can imagine that being labeled this way can be annoying, but it's important to keep in mind that these events are there for the women that do have trouble with these issues and/or for when you do run into trouble.

What many people often forget is that while these issues you hear about may not be present in your life at the moment, it's fairly easy for some new arrivals in your company to change the atmosphere into something hostile and hurtful to you. Just imagine how it feels when the suits start taking over and amp that up an order of magnitude or two.

It's for those moments that having these groups is so important.
Looks like even this link is having problems
Postmark?

I wonder what would happen if an international postcard arrive after the winner has been declared with a postmark dated before the winner's date.
'Sheldenbot' from Big Bang theory recreated by UK university student
And how do you plan on recruiting more women if the percentage of male students enrolling in STEM classes is still far above 50% (with a few exceptions, notably biology/chemistry)?

Of course, you could hire all women graduating from such classes, but if you did that while continuing to hire only the top n% of males, you’d create an environment were women are, on average, less capable than men, which doesn’t sound all that great to me, either.
Perhaps that's to do with general trends in the country rather than anything to do with technology, then...
This is not supposed to replace torrents although it just might.
I don't think there's a bright-line answer for when having groups dedicated to specific issues or points of identity is useful and when it isn't useful. Some women find meetups specifically aimed at discussing issues related to women in technology useful, and others don't. The woman who wrote this article doesn't, and appears to be generalizing, based on a rather limited understanding of feminism and not having even attended the event in question, to argue that no other woman should either.

You find some similar splits of opinion relating to LGBT organizations: some people join them, attend events, etc., while others studiously avoid them and sometimes even resent their existence or any implication that they should attend.
1RMB notes are an abomination, and considering that there is a coin of that denomination I'm surprised they haven't been abolished. In my wallet now I have a couple of them dating from 1999. Dirty.
It is a little hateful, I must admit, but makes total sense based on the panic against rebasing that the original post was trying to spread.
What does G signify? I'm a bit confused as to why taking its eigenvector gives you the pagerank vector.
It looks lovely. But it's hard to find things. Consequently it's not how a government website should be designed.

Try finding, for example, the cost of a planning application. It's a few clicks away from the home page, which is fine given that it's reasonably logical if you can spot the initial starting point on the homepage ... but the search is poor. For the terms "cost of planning", a link to http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/200074/planning/5865/plann... is hidden at the 6th result in a page of links that's essentially a wall of text. Search results are likely to be a very important part of a large data driven site, so they should be much better.
There is more value to programming than what it puts in your bank account though. If you wish to build and be part of a truly engaging product, you have to engage for the long haul with a codebase, on the order of years. That means either (A) you make your own product (and are responsible for your own business strategy, accounting and sales), or (B) you get into a fixed contract with some employer (where due to the long term relationship they will be careful to restrict what they pay).

In scenario (A) you will not spend all your day programming. You will have to care about the business parts. If you're not cut out for those parts, even if you end up making lots of money, you will probably not be happy.

In scenario (B) you are more likely to be able to spend more time programming, with less overhead to worry about, but this depends heavily on the employer, so you may end up performing several false starts or walking away from an employer/employee relationship. If an employer accepts you, you will most likely not be paid what your time is worth, but this is a willing exchange for not having to care about the non-technical parts of the story.

Is there a scenario C? If there is I've not yet discovered it.
Most companies have roles other than just development...

Even development teams have roles other than just developers. In large companies, there are testers, managers, business analysts, etc...
I think this takes mobile first a bit too far. On my desktop with a high resolution this feels a bit odd. That said, it's really refreshing to see government sites properly designed and UX and mobile friendly.
Yup, I was agreeing with you -- I probably should've made it clearer.

I just wanted to point out that people sometimes confuse "sexism" and "imbalance" -- a poor gender ratio doesn't imply sexism, and a good ratio doesn't get rid of sexism.
North Korea sentences US citizen to 15 years' hard labour
Germany is downgrading
Yes, I agree. At least when/if the technology becomes ubiquitous.
If I'd had to answer this poll in 1995, and it had said "mobile phone" rather than "3d printer", I'd have said "never". I didn't (and don't) particularly need one, but it's almost assumed these days that everybody has one (at least where I live), so I got one.
I can easily see a future where simple parts are not bought, but printed, and every household is expected to have a 3d printer, much like how they're expected to have a phone or a TV today. If that day comes, I'll probably get one - but it may be far off, or never happen at all.
Interesting thoughts. Perhaps I should change the interface so that it is drop in replacement for scp?
If you search for "cost of planning application" it's on the first result - in the context of a council website "cost of planning" could mean lots of things (e.g. how much do they spend on managing planning across the entire organisation).
Jeremy Kun's "Math ∩ Programming" blog has two great primers on probability theory:

http://jeremykun.com/2013/01/04/probability-theory-a-primer/

http://jeremykun.com/2013/03/28/conditional-partitioned-prob...

His next post in the series is supposed to be on Bayes' theorem.
:) as far as I remember, Java was (is?) the most popular language on SF.

Java devs are not too vocal on HN lists, but this is the nature of HN, which is not a fair reflection of the state of things in the industry....
I started with one. I have 23 now.
Hello.

This is really nice, I just have one question, ( maybe I have overlooked it), where is the test-suite for gathering the data?´, as to which headerfiles are workable or not?
Is there a configure script there?
I mean, I am on Snow Leopard, and I have no trouble using unistd.h which is marked as flawed on the graph.
The women who are beating their "bosoms" to get more attention, probably come off as irritating to some people. But the matter of the fact is, IT "is" a male dominated field. It's not just about women equality in the sense that they should be treated "equally" and not "fairly". As long as the balance of representation is tipped towards men, these women, however loud and tangential they might be, are needed. They are like lightning bolts attracting debate. If everyone just shuts up, there is danger of passively moving back to an even more male dominated sector.
See the second paragraph, where it states..

https://github.com/zackw/header-survey/
I personally think the redesigned site for my county (Wake County, NC) is far, far superior. It looks nice -- not quite as "modern startup" as the Manchester site -- but is so much easier to use.

http://www.wakegov.com/
Click "text only", at the top-right corner. The Google Cache version loads the original images, and this sometimes makes it stall as well.
Here is the question and results:

http://news.sky.com/story/1084991/britons-trust-google-as-mu...

As you can see any conclusions you can draw about Google are pointless since it was specifically benchmarked against politicians, banks etc which are universally disliked.
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Honestly, I don't have the problem with the commodification of my data - if they can make money from it and provide me with things that are useful, so be it. However, I don't think many people really understand what's happening.
"[...] and a good ratio doesn't get rid of sexism"

I'm not so sure, I think diversity in general takes away a lot of lazy discriminatory behavior in the long run.
I would definitely leave the --squash part out. Commits should be atomic, simple, small, easy to read. If you squash whole features together you end up with huge commits, which makes harder to spot bugs if you later have to re-review them.
Nielsen for the Real World. McDonald's most visited business in the US.
This comes at the right time.
I started a similar thing yesterday night ^^.

Seems like I won't need it after all
It is obviously a broad based study. So here are a few of the other questions:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/personal-finance/future-britai...
Hakitzu: the app teaching kids to code - video
Mysterious Avatar rootkit with API, SDK, and Yahoo Groups for C&C communication
Intel’s “Iris” wants to change how you feel about integrated graphics
I am not necessarily taking a stance for or against New Compose here, but I am taking the stance that your advice is somewhat near-sighted.

Here's a little experiment that demonstrates why: name "Revert to Previous Behavior" modes in any major webapp that has been around more than 6 months after the new behavior was rolled out to everyone.
I'm sure everyone else is aware of how local government websites look in their own parts of the world - but for a similar-sized UK city Edinburgh City Council's website is a good (i.e. bad) example for comparison: http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk
Probably the worst URL scheme ever
[english version] http://www.bvb.de/?Z%1B%E4%F4%9D

Can anyone point to any advantage to have unreadable URLs like on the linked page?
Ah yes, thanks that worked.
Over 90% of children whose parents went through divorce end up with mother. Somehow we came to believe that women can be as good employees as men and we enforce it by law. At the same time we're still in middle-ages thinking that a male can't be as a good parent as a female. It's all very one-sided. As long as women get what they want. It definitely is not about equal places in the society. Women got more in the past 50 years, men lost their natural advantage in the workforce but still are destined to fullfil typical, stereotypical roles in their families (a.k.a 'providers'). I'm sorry, but it just doesn't add up.
This could be really useful for me but the presentation breaks (at least on Chrome). By the time you're halfway down the list it's hard to tell which header's row belongs to which compiler's column.
I'm not a big fan of the huge menus, but every time I've had to use the Wake site I've been able to find what I need pretty quickly.

One improvement would be an auto-complete feature on the main search box, but I think I'm in a pretty small minority that would benefit from that.
But by implementing a company-wide balance, you hardly gain anything in particular teams. Even worse, if you let the ‘actual’ development teams be all-male and the women to take care of the rest (management, secretaries, people drawing up trivial PowerPoint presentations to impress equally trivial people), you might well reinforce stereotypes.
No. There's a problem with a few people who only ever submit articles that they've written (which are hosted on ad heavy websites) and who make no other contribution to HN. I don't want another set of people who only ever contribute to the threads that they've created to discuss some bit of blogspam.

If anything I think names of people commenting should be hidden for 24 hours, so that you don't know if you're responding to the same person within a thread or not. That might help to cut down snark. (And it avoids the problems we have of toxic-anonymity).

I also don't think that HN should do this stuff, but should have a nice interface to allow people to create extensions and plugins and user scripts. (There are very many such already. Someone creating a nice curated list with screen shots and user reviews would get huge amounts of karma.)
You can remember this with following mnemonic: Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring.
But finding the right patches and settings is hard.
True Beliebers
That actually looks like a domain holding page when you glance at it...

My http://glasgow.gov.uk isn't any better
It's not about envy, there are many indie small scale entrepreneurs, hopefully their social insurance can cover such costs.
child care employee? Or you'd be fine with regulation that 50% of all child care employees have to be men?
Republican tech chief could come from Facebook, Google or Twitter
I love some of the new gov sites. Yes, there are some problems, but compared to the god-awful mess we had before they're amazing.

It's important to have good machines for development. But I wonder how many people have terrible machines for testing.

As for local government: Here's an example. Gloucestershire (http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/resident) - imagine you want to report a child at risk. The search gives you useful results, but also sends you to the Safeguarding children website. (http://www.gscb.org.uk/)

The Gloucestershire site is good[1] and the GSCB site is terrible.

[1] for some values of good, including 'you should have seen it a few years ago'.
Bashtweet.sh - tweet from a terminal with Bash and cURL
No. Goverment web sites should be minimal design & content - black text on white background, no extra graphics. I don't want to pay taxes so that these latte-sipping designers can create cool projects.
Google Glass app takes photos with just a theatrical wink
Therefore, I say, no more molecules in the brain! Atoms either!
there are some bugs that are annoying, if you let the system choose a customize diet based on your profile it ignores your exclusions. Example, I provided weight, age, height, sex, and desire to lose weight. Now recipes offered have items I have not checked.

Does this hold true if your registered? It becomes quite useless if one segment of the site overrides another.
Honestly, it's probably worth it. Even if we are a little late on some news sometimes.
In The Netherlands these two sites score very high every year: http://www.capelleaandenijssel.nl/ http://cms.dordrecht.nl/
They contain a lot more useful information above the fold than the linked one.

Good design involves a lot more than eye candy.
Best football club in the world with word URL scheme in the world?
The Problem with Airbnb
> I am not a "3 cheers for dynamically typed languages" person, but for Java I am willing to concede that the type system comes with the drawbacks but little benefit. In C++, and D you can pull the gloves off when required. And please dont get me started on JINI.

I expect you mean JNI and not Apache JINI...

That probably highlights the difference between Java and other languages you like to mention, it may use more memory and be marginally slower computationally, but when you take that the most interesting applications these days are distributed the ability to sort an array and save a few clock cycles fades into insignificance compared to network latency and connection times.

Not to mention also, you can optimize your CPU's workload or you can optimize your personal workload. Java lets you pick great libraries off the shelf. Or you can choose to manually do your own array bounds checking and pick up your own garbage.
Who did the US steal the transistor, cell phone, modern operating system, microprocessor, router and Internet from?

Did the US steal all the oil in Titusville (which instigated a massive economic boom) from Britain? How about all the chemistry work and exploration work that the US did to make oil useful and plentiful? Standard Oil had one of the most advanced R&D labs on the planet. I guess all the advanced technology out of Xerox PARC and Bell Labs was stolen from... Madagascar?

Who did Tesla steal his inventions from while he was in America? How about George Westinghouse? Edison invented a few things that you might have heard of.

We could be here all night.
After Outsourcing … Info-comms?
The pains people come through to avoid Linux.
Build and Deploy a Django Project on OSX from Scratch
For convenience.

Question: "To what extent do the following have your best interests at heart?"

NHS: 37%

Police: 26%

Charities: 21%

Supermarkets: 19%

Google: 17%

Religious institutions: 17%

Building societies: 15%

Local authorities: 10%

Private healthcare firms: 9%

Facebook: 9%

Lawyers: 8%

Banks: 7%

Media: 6%

Utility companies: 6%

Insurance companies: 5%

Politicians: 3%
Hello.

All I see that is that it is a survey, I wonder what kind of tests that are used to draw the conclusions. I also see for instances that the regexp.h file is absent for OS X Lion, which is reworked to work wide wide characters. But, the header files may fail in ways I don't know about, that is why I ask for the tests that makes up for the results.
Why exactly do you think that men are worse than women at child care?

And no, ideally, I would want the law to be gender-blind and personally I couldn’t care less about the gender of the person one day taking care of my child.

However, if we want to introduce gender quota, I expect them to apply to every profession and every position from childcare to firefighter (and ideally to membership in private associations/clubs as well…hell, why not also to school/university classes?).
I personally don't like this. 1) I don't like this style even when web startups do it... too much vertical scrolling, empty space, giant images, and icons; and 2) it just looks weird for a serious site to look like a web startup.

This is a modern government website design I like better: http://www.kk.dk
What Could Be Next in iOS and OS X For App Entrepreneurs?
Well, I did say "maybe"... I guess what I was trying to get at is that before I would enthusiastically recommend their products to other people. Now I don't use them, so I never mention them to anyone.

I don't seem to have a problem using separate installers for something like Blender, but the activation energy seems too high for installing "small" utilities[1].

That said, if I could get larger applications from Ninite, I'd pull from there in a heartbeat!

[1] Utilities may not /actually/ be small.
I don't have one personally, but the hacker space I frequent has one. So I guess having easy access is enough for saying I already have one
I really dislike the archaic/gothic use of 'V' rather than 'U' - it looks pretentious and always makes me read it twice before remembering the usage.
If I could make a perfect copy of a car out of thin air, without depriving anyone of anything, I would "steal it". So would absolutely everyone, and the motor industry would have to change their business model.
While i don't generally buy into Thiel's arguments, There are many big barriers between great scientific discovery and massively deployed product:

1. Unneeded regulation.

2. Power structures in industry.

3. Complex and expensive commercialization processes.

4. Lack of funding, lack of long term funding.

5. Market acceptance.

6. Lack of entrepreneurial talent and general talent in the relevant field.

In this context, small sustaining innovations tend to produced more than radical innovations.
It's good to hear that governments start to pay attention to the UX. Their webpages are just the first step to making the govt services better.
> Jerks should be shunned

Now, I might not understand what specifically you mean by "jerk", but I assume you mean "someone who says things that might hurt other people's feelings", i.e. "someone who is not always politically correct (PC)". Personally, I don't have a problem with such people. I don't care what people say, or how they say it; if it's the truth, bring it on, if it's a joke, I won't laugh if I don't understand it, but I prefer a (work) environment where people are free to speak their minds, however controversial and "inappropriate" their thoughts might be, to an environment where everyone is supposed to be PC all the time. In general, I prefer to judge people by what they do (I should improve in this area) not by what they say. For example, I would prefer spending time with a well-meaning jerk, that with a gentleman murderer.

Or maybe it's just that I'm a jerk and as such don't mind other jerks. It's true that I'm totally annoyed when people don't tell me something that they think might hurt me (but most likely wouldn't). I consider all feedback as potentially constructive and try to improve based on it.
> I for one think the whole "sexism in technology" is an issue that isn't worth sparing time to think about.

A rigorous, peer reviewed study [1] demonstrated the existence of sexism in orchestra auditions: more women were selected with curtains, so that the reviewers could hear but not see the performers.

This is sexism by any definition, presumably perpetrated mostly or entirely accidentally, and not by "jerks".

Is the existence of this study compatible with your thesis?

[1]: http://public.econ.duke.edu/~hf14/teaching/povertydisc/readi...
Boston bomber's friends allegedly destroyed evidence for him
That's less of an issue for Go as aside interface{}, fundamental types can't be nil. Plus the instance we're talking about here is with named returns, so the variables are already initialised.

From a personal perspective, I find having to include "return" a pain as there's times when it's completely unnecessary. eg in switch statements or if else where each condition has it's own return. While it's an easy fix for if else (just drop the else / default case), it makes the code look a little less pretty in my opinion.
Why should public services be ugly?