skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem is that, under sexism (and this generalizes to other -isms), males generally don't know they're being jerks. They're not being jerks by the standards of their culture, but the culture is sexist.

For example, I know brogrammers, the kind who use pornographic female imagery in their workplaces and talk slides. The guy who identifies most with brogrammer culture (and makes such slides) is otherwise an incredibly nice guy, everytime I've observed.

Take an extreme, like slaveowners. Does anyone think they were all stereotypical jerks (aside from their institutional role), or grew black mustaches to twirl?

Anyway, I'm in technology, and that's where I can make the most direct impact. So naturally, sexism in tech concerns me.

(And BTW, one insititutional problem on HN is that males outnumber females greatly. I keep that in mind when I see which female voices tend to get upvoted — and which don't. The ones which blame females' attitudes, rather than analyze sexist culture?)
I honestly don't mind the Edinburgh site - I'd rather they focus on content and functionality rather than changing it every year to comply with the latest design fad.
Yes, it's not unheard of.
> So. The first thing on that quest is a low hanging fruit of Virtual Machine Acceleration. Sadly, it is low rewarding too. It barely promotes emulator from being a joke to “unbearably slow”. Not good enough.

Well, he is a mac user.

As a Linux user this is how the original android emulator with the intel image looks like:

https://anonfiles.com/file/cb80d8bd4b46c09c37efd1bd850cc0ed
(may not directly play in all browsers, in midori it does, you may have to "download" it)

I only modified the system partition a bit so that I have the google apps. Google Search for some reason doesn't work, but the rest is ok.

I haven't found a website where intel does provide the latest images, but there it's apparantly all there in that xml file: http://download-software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/android...
They should be if it's cheaper (while still meeting the goals etc).
Remove google analitics and stop telling google club what people is sharing.
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People should also be upset by the lack of Elizabethan English. What is this LULZ you speak of???
The good thing is that it only has to be figured out once, then the information can be spread almost freely ... there is something called “the internet” which excels at this.
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I think she meant egalitarianism, not humanism
Found! Happy to test and spread it around to other puzzlers I know. Email me if interested.
Minecraft is an odd example.

Lots of people say that Minecraft has minimal requirements; but then a lot of people say that Minecraft has terrible performance because it's written in Java and 'Java is slow'.

Many of those people (both groups) are naive users who don't know much about computing or programming or games. Or they're games players so they have a different idea of what "minimal requirements" means. (A dual core 1.8 GHz processor; 3 GB ram; don't feel 'minimal' to me, but perhaps that's my age.)
You are conflating minimal and cheap. A good minimal design takes the same sort of person (who may or may not enjoy milky coffee) as a good design of any other aesthetic.
I drink espressos.
It also renders extremely bad on Opera/Win7x64 (Table Headers totally cut off) and is sluggish to navigate. Looking at the source I got why that is.

Really good idea, but the presentation needs a do-over.
That's not really the fault of the website - as far as I know it's part of the brand for Edinburgh Council.
Unique one!!
The Fed is the #1 individual holder of US debt (for sovereigns or banks). Social Security holds $2.7 trillion. China has about $1.1 trillion, just in front of Japan.

China's holdings are actually not a big deal. If pressed to do so, the Fed could print a trillion dollars tomorrow and buy it all back (with some obvious consequences, but non-the-less).

"The breakout of foreign-held debt shows that China was the largest holder, at $1.161 trillion (as of October 2012, most recent data). Japan came in second, at $1.134 trillion."

http://useconomy.about.com/od/monetarypolicy/f/Who-Owns-US-N...

There's a massive number of sources, but here you go:

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations...
What correlation is there between expensive design and good design?

I've seen projects that haven't cost more than a few hundred dollars and still look absolutely stunning. I've also seen projects developed this year that look like they have been dragged from the 90s, yet cost millions in today's money.
I am really amazed how most of the comments assume that beautiful sites cannot provide the same amount of information as their uglier counterparts.
I'm surprised by the small number of "unusably buggy" headers. Maybe it's due most platforms being reasonably recent.

Otherwise I'd say bringing msvc to c compiler comparison is like bringing knife to gunfight.
I might have to read the source of your implementation, but in what way is it different? I'll grant that Python makes it difficult to wrap it up in a nice DSL.

I'm building a stream-processing system much like Riemann in Python and the user configuration is built on co-routines. The stream is a graph of co-routines essentially (although typically with only one input and many possible buckets). I tend to think of it as data flowing through functions.

It might look like:

stream = when(lambda event: event['metric'] > 2.0,
by(lambda event: (event['host'], event['metric']),
rollup(5, email("example@foo.com")),
every(7200, alert("555-555-5555"))))

Which is a very simple graph of co-routines. And maybe that's what's different from you library (ie: it's not doing anything with intermediate values, but Python has a rich number of libraries providing various executor strategies).

Anyway I wasn't suggesting Graph was somehow trivial or something. The OP claims to be a Python programmer and I was suggesting Python options.
MacOS X

- SublimeText2

- virtualenv

- django-devserver
It's a bit unfortunate that the term for gender equality is so gender biased.
On the good side, one reason I think the Valley is overrated today is that what the Valley was has gone airborne. I see more innovation in more places.
It would be possible consentually--Google could design in a protocol whereby, say, getting in range of a certain recognized Bluetooth class turns off recording features until you leave.
My comment could also be paraphrased as "Why was this link submitted to HN?"
How secure/stable is this? I'd like to run it as a Dropbox alternative to synchronize files between my computers, and love the fact that it's just an executable.
The US is known to have used ECHELON for industrial espionage. This was for aerospace.

While avoiding hyperbole of the parent comment let's not imagine that any country is immune from industrial espionage and industrial corruption. (The UK which has relatively little political corruption has some astounding examples of industrial corruption.)
How do we know recruiting more women will be more effective? Are women intimidated by the fact that IT is male-dominated or simply genuinely not interested in the field?

One could look at statistics from App Store developers (are there any?). App stores by nature do not discriminate on gender so they provide an ideal controlled environment in contrast to corporations where there are politics etc. How many women app developers are there?

My guess is it's not a cultural thing, women may be less interested in tech and that's completely fine and nothing to feel uneasy about. This view might not be de rigueur, but it seems to me that rationality is better than political correctness.
Have you got any evidence that it's actively being replaced?

All the most popular links on gov.uk take me to a very nice landing page with an overview, but if I actually want to do something they all link out to the existing web apps. Some of which I've used and are not terrible, but not likely to win many design awards either.

It's great that the UK government is no longer consistently failing at the simple task of putting information online, but anything past the 20th century web still seems beyond them. Hopefully it's the next step, I don't really envy the people that need to make that cultural change happen. I do however feel it's more likely to happen sooner if we don't pretend that it'll just happen magically by itself.
https://www.gov.uk/ looks like a better example.
Looking past the knee-jerk reaction to "this design looks expensive", would love to see how the Manchester Council site performs from a service design perspective. How do local residents use the site? Can they find what they need quickly and easily, from both a desktop and a mobile?

I'm betting yes, and the cost saved (in terms of time, frustration and maybe money) over a poorly designed yet inexpensive-looking site will be worthwhile.

Side note: Would love to see a blog post about the thought behind the design, either from the design agency or the web manager at Manchester...
Holy hell, I've been going through accountants and the HMRC and things for years and nobody has been able to answer me and tell me what this page told me in two clicks!

https://www.gov.uk/running-a-limited-company/taking-money-ou...

That is brilliant, thank you very much for this.
True but nobody's saying they should - it's just a good example of a cluttered and disorganised website
I think I actually prefer http://www.gateshead.gov.uk, which is a lot less "in your face".

If I go to a .gov.uk site it's because a need a specific piece of information, I don't need the design getting in the way.
There is virtually no distinction between the government and these private companies where national security is concerned, hence the term "military-industrial complex".

National security is a profit machine.
If there were more sites like this, I'd visit them by pure pleasure from time to time
Does Google really index 0.04% of the Internet? Really?
"Google estimates that the Internet today contains about 5 million terabytes of data (1TB = 1,000GB), and claims it has only indexed a paltry 0.04% of it all! You could fit the whole Internet on just 200 million Blu-Ray disks." I saw this on makeuseof.com but cant verify it.
I believe the "/ home / ... " toolbar should be on every pages first page included.
If you’re solving a problem, that’s validation enough
Worst website hoster ever: http://www.fcbayern.telekom.de/de/splash.php
"the internet" also excels at spreading misinformation or retaining information that once was correct but no longer is for extended periods of time.
>Why exactly do you think that men are worse than women at >child care?

Me? I don't think so. Women do. My uncle owns a few child care centers in the North-East. He never hires male employees. Why? Because the one he did a few years back was very soon accused of pheadophilia by one of the mothers. She didn't like the way he changed diapers on her daughter. Then my uncle learned it happens all the time with the child care centers. The mothers will sue as soon as they realize a male is hired. They accuse of peadophilia hoping to get good ROI on their action. That's why you'll never see a male in a child care center in the US, my friend. Because the mothers apparently are sexist. Or the courts. Or you tell me.

>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.

The problem is that the most people are not you. Most people will sue. Rightfully or not.

>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?).

Why to stop with gender quota there? Why not to have a gender quota in divorce rulings? 50% cases kids go to the mother, 50% cases kids go to the father? Or maybe you praise gender equality only in the workforce and not in the social life in general?
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And most importantly the raw data and methodology...
This is awesome! Two features I would love to see are:

1) A calendar, so you could plan out meals for more than one day
2) A way to enter your own meals, so that the generated meals could be planned around the ones you entered (ie. if I had X for breakfast and lunch, what should I make for dinner?)
Somewhere between 32,000 and 70,000 consumer 3D printers have been sold to the end of 2012 -- http://reprage.com/post/35354576225/how-many-consumer-3d-pri...
I'm not sure of that all. First of all, is the contect well indexed for search engines? At first glance, doesn't look like it is.

When I need information related to goverment services, first thing where I look are search engines.
Ask HN: Which view is most popular: list view, column view, or cover flow view?
I'm interested in knowing/understanding which type of folder view is the most popular. Based on what MacOS provides: List view, column view and cover flow view (also has a list view).
Astounding example #1:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Yamamah_arms_deal
Have you considered using Open Recipes? https://github.com/fictivekin/openrecipes

I saw it on HN a couple weeks ago and it's basically one big project to scrape and index food blog recipes. It doesn't include preparation instructions but it uses schema.org's recipe format, which includes ingredients and other useful things: http://schema.org/Recipe
Is there possibly a mixup between hosts and guests/patrons in the last-but-two paragraph?
> simply genuinely not interested in the field?

In the year 2013 this question is so lazy, or ignorant, it is effectively biggotry. Or perhaps trolling. And that's a shame because you're not a bigot or a troll, you're just asking a question. Unfortunately this question has been asked for many years. (Women just don't want to have the vote. Politics is too complicated for them. etc.)

> App stores by nature do not discriminate on gender so they provide an ideal controlled environment in contrast to corporations where there are politics etc. How many women app developers are there?

The problem starts in schools where girls drop out of math and other technology classes. This is not related to ability.
Can anyone tell the advantages of having unreadable URLs like this? The only thing I can think of is reducing bandwidth usage through short URLs :)
Yeah, this is definitely a header problem with the header on the table about header problems.
So, this page is named
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? How does that even begin to make sense?
I wasn't aware that ECHELON existed in 1850 or 1920 or 1947.

The parent claimed the US primarily stole technology to fuel its way to economic power. The facts do not support that.
I'm glad you linked that because the second example, not shown at the ZDNet article, is actually a much better demonstration of improvement IMO.
The problem with passwords (infographic)
It's not necessarily what google expects you to think, but rather what you are most likely to be searching for.

Sometimes people search for content that they might not agree with, because they want to see what is being said there out of curiosity. Not every search is someone submitting their opinion to google, I'd expect that most are not.
You want government websites to look like a domain-squatter's page: https://www.gov.uk/ ?
The only wat this is true is if 17% of people hold stock in Google. Corporations are I believe legally obliged to only have their stock holders interests at heart.

If this survey measures anythings it's just how much goodwill exists toward various organizations.
I pay taxes and I want government sites that are easy to navigate and efficiently designed. Black text on white background does not meet my requirements. This design - which I bet puts over 50% of user requirements in those eight simple pictures at the top - meets my requirements.

A page full of black text on a white background? Sounds like you're on some kind of ideological trip.
Ask HN: How do you keep up with current trends?
Its been now close to a decade and half since I have been working with software development and I feel like there are new trends that while I have heard of, I dont have a working knowledge of. A decade ago, when I was starting out and when I met older people in technology, I saw that they held on to what they learned early on and there was a gap in their working knowledge - of things they knew in their early years and things that were current at that time (when I was a young buck). 15 years later, While I think I am not quite there, I do feel this may be the start of something like that. I come 3 tier web application structure world, the world of html, servlets, jsps web/app server, dbs; and while they are still around, lots of new technologies have arrived and it seems overwhelming. heavy use HTML5 & CSS, Rise of the .JS frameworks - almost a new one everyday it seems like, change in the fundamental structure of applications - introduction of specialized server caches, server side JS frameworks and database that are no longer tied to SQL. I think learning everything is not a sustainable idea, it does make sense to know them enough to keep things in perspective, which ultimately brings me to my questions -

* How do you keep up ?
* How do you strike a balance between depth of knowledge vs breadth of knowledge ?
* How do you view the IT/Technology/Software landscape ?

Thanks for pitching in!
It certainly appeared that way to me as well. Although I don't really use ATMs much today, it used to be a fairly regular occurrence to arrive at an ATM then have to find the "next closest ATM" due to the machine having connectivity problems.
MSVC isn't a C compiler. It's a compiler for The Language Formerly Known As C.
I think one of the problems I'm having is figuring out where the product would fit in my workflow.

Are you looking for people with dedicated backup and recovery?

Are you looking for people without BaR but uses a lot of VMs?

Should I backup anything with this, or just my VMs and DBs? If so, how does it compare to [existing VM or DB backup system]

How does it compare to using rsync with hpn-ssh? Using hpn-ssh significantly improves rsync speeds, though I don't know how it works with sparse files since I use dedicated SAN backups for my VMs.
Thoughts On Work/Life Balance at Microsoft
Awesome links!
> I am on Snow Leopard, and I have no trouble using unistd.h which is marked as flawed on the graph.

The whole row for `unistd.h` is green (except for MSVC, of course) -- why would you think it's flawed on OS X?
Better not use SELinux either then! Or Linux in general for that matter!

Nonsense.
List view for me, it provides the most useful information in a compact size.
Just in case someone finds $10 too little, I will add 1 bitcoin to the pot for anyone who finds the identity.

Of course the details are a bit tricky. I will accept voidnull's judgement as to whether the reward is due (which begs the question of which identity is voidnull in a philosophically interesting way). Also voidnull could claim this reward, but then I would have unmasked her by simply buying her off (a perfectly valid offensive security technique).
Why do they put large categories such as 'Supermarkets' and 'Banks' next to specific companies like 'Google' or 'Facebook'. Surely 'Search engines' or 'Social media sites' would be more appropriate?
Even easier, SDF accept bitcoins.
This is nitpicking, but the worst URL scheme is actually smb:
Is there / will there be a recording available online?
I believe most of that industrial espionage was done to counter the effect of European companies paying bribes.
Well, searching videos, for one, seems like a significant challenge (not video titles, not video comments: video content). Incidentally, video also takes a lot of space...
It's depressing that many governments simply don't understand that providing high speed cheap internet should be the number 1 priority for encouraging growth in technology sectors.
All tags list and count of keys per tag. Count of keys per share & info if R or RW. I think RW don't belong here...
World's *Smallest* Movie By IBM
Great design.

I don't know the rules in the UK, but shouldn't the site work without JavaScript enabled (For the visually impaired)?
Well, the GDS team are pretty open and transparent. Why not go take a look a their blog where they go into quite a lot of detail about their plans?
What I typically go to a council website to do: find out the cost of council tax in band D in 2013-14.

I am still clicking around... can anyone find it, I wonder?
So, does this mean that text on web-pages is going to have inconsistent rasterisation depending on whether the font happens to represent its glyphs with TrueType, PostScript, or CFF outlines?
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Never underestimate the competition between municipalities, which are also fought on the web.
I'm not sure the accessibility is 100% correct. I think you should be able to use the tab key to get to the links but tabbing skips the top row of icons... Which aren't technically hyperlinks I suppose..
That's not being a jerk. By definition a jerk can't be 'well-meaning'. I would classify 'Jerk' behavior as behavior that is totally inappropriate for a given context/situation. For example, a man speaking to a woman in a professional context (workplace, tech conference) and making lewd comments about her appearance.
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No, it couldn't. if that was your intent, flag the submission.

Or set aside your bias and take a look at what the GDS team is doing.
Why do people insist that services which exist purely for quick searching of information have to be design-orientated and pretty?

I hear the same arguments about developer sites (eg PHP manual) but frankly I prefer layouts with an emphasis on conveying content rather than watering down that content behind a wall of epic sized fonts, fading effects and huge scrollable areas.

There's a time and place for each design choice, but government sites aren't there to look pretty, they're there for reference. And while it's entirely possible to have a such a layout that isn't ugly, in this instance I think the site has gone the other way (form over function) - so I'd sooner see be faced with an ugly site.

NB this is coming from a dyslexic who equally hates being presented with walls of text.
Thanks for such an innovative news.
For DataKit: https://github.com/eaigner/DataKit/
Look! Another fixed-width, left-aligned German website. Brimming with nostalgia here.
> I keep that in mind when I see which female voices tend to get upvoted — and which don't. The ones which blame females' attitudes, rather than analyze sexist culture?

With 95% of the usernames here I have a hard time telling whether the writer is male or female, so how could this be the basis of an up-/downvote bias that is greater than the usual noise?
Thats true. Also, link spam might have something to do with this low number of 0.04% (if it is indeed true)
The German government DOES understand this and has already announced to Telekom that they will thoroughly investigate the plans, implying that they may find a way to prevent this.
Have you seen the state of some government websites today? Sure they're "minimal" (often not, sometimes they're just plain ugly) but almost always difficult to navigate. You underestimate how difficult it is to organize information-dense government websites. I think people will ultimately get more value out of a well designed site.
And some of the images don't have alt text. I think that's important as well
Because for most people, 'search engine' means Google; 'social media' means Facebook and Twitter.