skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plenty of fields have a gender imbalance, but they don't present it as a problem.

Did you look, or are you reacting to a cognitive bias?

(http://www.heatingandventilating.net/news/news.asp?id=6255&t...)

> A successful initiative set up to support women working in the construction sector, has been granted £420,750 further funding to continue.

> The government-funded Women and Work: Sector Pathways Initiative is led by Construction Skills and aims to help get women into construction work and supports women already working in the sector to get further training.

(http://civilconstructioncareers.com/women-in-construction.ph...)

> The Women in Civil Construction Initiative will directly address the skills required for entry to the civil infrastructure sector of the industry. The Civil Contractors Federation (CCF), in collaboration with their funding partners Construction Skills Queensland, is delivering a flexible based program designed to deliver the entry level skills required to participants who wish to pursue a career in the Civil infrastructure sector. The WIC program is already underway within Queensland.

(http://www.build.co.uk/construction_news.asp?newsid=75823)

> ConstructionSkills, the Sector Skills Council for the industry, took part in the government funded Women and Work: Sector Pathways Initiative. In Phase 1, over 2,200 women were helped to access work related training and support initiatives in the construction industry – beating the target of 1,800.

(http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/136592/new-prog...)

> A new program is launched to boost business for minorities and women in the construction industry.

> The New York Association of Hispanics in Real Estate and Construction is helping to finance labor costs for these companies.

(http://www.collegescholarships.org/scholarships/nursing/male...)

(http://aamn.org/scholarships.shtml)
Ask HN: is my PaaS big enough to start publishing 'pages served' numbers? 
I have a PaaS. Right now it's serving about 30 hits per second across all users as a steady state, with frequent spikes to much higher numbers. That's 2.5+ million hits per day. Should I put this number somewhere public to show how large the service is? Or would numbers like that make people feel that we're a very small outfit?
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It's quite common to give women free entrance to nightclubs, too.

Well nobody will admit the real reason "we" want more women in tech. Let's just say it makes for a better atmosphere and more "attractive" work place. (I have nothing against women in tech, btw).
I think the idea is that organizations with a vested interest in the success of this concept are going to help them, such as tourist organization. That could be a win-win.
One requirement is puzzling:

> Have a strong academic background with demonstrated leadership ability

Why the need for "demonstrated leadership ability"? Doesn't that completely rule out CS students and junior workers, as well as senior workers who aren't interested in leadership?
I'll be the first to admit that Chrome does have a pretty big memory footprint, I have not compared it to Firefox recently, but I assume Firefox is better. How ever as others have said using Chrome with over 40 tabs open still works well.

My macbook has 8 GB of RAM and my stationary has 12 GB so in my case the memory footprint is far less important than having tabs separated in processes.
Can someone build something like this but only have it recognize a small set simple gestures? Using it to simply browse the web would be cool. If you could throw in a way to click build in Xcode and IntelliJ then I'm sold.
Let's see - "women only" - check...
Should I build an MVP using a client side framework?
Isn't this just a variant of the known plaintext attack?
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Thanks for the attempt to help :-) I did more or less what you advised, I think...

- a "show HN" 50 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928066); which quickly went off the radar under all the Snowden/NSA stories

- note that previously, I got a lot of interest from HN: one of my users posted the site 300 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4659092 (without me asking, with a very beta page) and I got great feedback out of it

- finally, the thank you coupon (current post)

So I'm not sure what is the right lesson to get out of this. I do not feel very happy of the comment by bjourne, for sure!

Nevertheless I'm happy that I did post here, because some people enjoyed the coupon.

To address your first sentence: I am not closing WiseCash anytime soon, far from it. We're using it for our own needs since Jan 2012, opened to private beta in Jun 2012, and opened to everyone in Jul 2013, and it is growing nicely (and bootstrapped 100%).
This list is amazing. I will offer a counterpoint on the free side of freemium users. Have a plan to cultivate their love and action. Ranking in Google, the app store, etc is a part of your revenue path, so don't ignore your army of likers, linkers, etc. Just don't waste time _disproportionally_ in their favor when you have paying customers to service.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised - or upset - if schools offered such grants to men. There are way more male teachers than female teachers. And I don't think everything should be simply about numbers and "balance". But I do think the educational experience for kids is different - in a good way - when they have both male and females teachers.
I believe that the most amazing part was the last 2 seconds. The rocket landed with no net motion of the entire vehicle - it cut engines almost instantly upon touching down.
"I don't agree with this author at all that Elon Musk's endeavours distract from improving existing technology."

Did we read the same article? I read a rant, sprinkled with lots of verifiable facts that gave strong arguments why this Hyperloop idea won't fly.

For a rebuttal, I would expect claims that his sources are incorrect, that his calculations are incorrect, or that the conclusions he draws from those calculations are incorrect. Arguing that the author ranted too much is not sufficient for me.

For example, what's wrong with his claim that people would get seasick in this thing? If there's nothing wrong with that claim, what's wrong with his claim that that is a show stopper? Similarly, wants wrong with his arguments about the low capacity of this design?

Feel free to add some rantiness, but keep the fraction of content as least as high as this article, please.

And, by the way, I do not think this article says Elon Musk does nothing good; it just claims this idea of Elon Musk is not a good one because it is highly unlikely that it is possible to fix all of its problems. For example, one can straighten the trajectory, but then, costs would balloon to be at least on par with the existing high speed rail system.
This is very tactless move, and will more likely do harm than good to gender equality. Compare the following two requirements for a grant and decide which one would be better:

Be a person with female genitalia, who work in computing and technology, and who has leadership ability.

Or:

Be a person whose work is inspiring others for better gender equality in computing and technology.
The information-warfare strategy will be detailed in a defense plan called "OPLAN 3600" that Anderson said will require "unprecedented cooperation with commercial enterprises and other organizations."
Opposite view: building something that already exists is the easiest way to know that there is a market. Then try to steal the market from other players with a better product.
I find the Leap part of BTT (BetterTouchTool) is actually... err.. use-worthy..? Neither useful nor useless.

I've got some really cool (still a big part for me) and useful stuff working, augmenting my mouse/keyboard use. For example, a finger to the left minimises and two fingers to the right opens a list of recently used apps.

Yet I'm very conscious that everything would just be better suited to a keyboard shortcut..

I never bothered with Touchless and mouse emulation things; years of 2D GUI design isn't suited to this kind of interface. "Midnight" is a my favourite Leap app but I think that's just an iPad app that lends itself very well to the leap input too.
Sounds like a marketing problem for these diligent hard workers? But would more attention aid them in their decade long hikes or hinder them by opening them up to more public scrutiny and the possible need to appease that can follow? Certainly don't know myself.
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Expensive. 30 USD shipping for a tiny < 50g light device. Will they send John Travolta delivering these things in person using his jet, or what is up with that?
Actually if you are close enough to the transmitter you can cause issues. I remember at school we went on a tour of the local transmitting station. It was used last century for worldwide transmission of BBC World Service. At the peak of operation in the 80s, it had ten 500 kW transmitters. Anyway, so apparently one of the local farmers decided he wanted to cut his electricity costs. I'm not sure exactly what he did, but it was something like this (on a bigger scale), which did actually cause detectable issues. I think he ended up in prison after they caught him :s
The same content was posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6199050 yesterday - see that URL for previous discussions.
Silly; most coding tools have hove-to-get-API-definition. No, I don't' assume destroy(false) doesn't destroy the object, that's just goofy. It means the 1st argument is false; hover and find out it means (whatever it means).
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this is pretty sexist.... maybe they just don't want to go?

they are allowed to be different last i checked? or are we going to control that freedom away from them?
How is that expensive? You pay more for a good mouse.
I like the look of the Up actually - thanks for the recommendation!
"Hey so LeapMotion is still being developed, I better hurry to write a blog post and complain about it before they improve it".
I'm an old fart too, and object to anything changing. But I suspect in a week I'll have adapted to this and forget why I was annoyed.

The shortcuts we store in our spine/brainstem are the ones that we are most annoyed by when they quit working. But they are reprogrammable.
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It's very easy to re-use C code in most other languages.
Bad luck dude

Both the examples you have given in this case have been discussed in this thread, making me think you are trying to highlight that there are male only grants as well to undermine my argument. I fully accept that there are male only grants, but I also call those sexist. Everyone who replied to your message seems to think that because there are a few instances of this happening that it is now an accepted practice. Basically what people here seem to be saying are saying is that because sexism has happened before (regardless of who is affected) then we can do it again. What i am saying is that should not be the case and in relation to this discussion Google’s moves are sexist and a bad precedent.

Just flip it, what if Google offered only male grants how much rage would there be?
Ooh, interesting tech. Thanks for the link!
Depends upon the system. In my system, it does write to stderr:

$ which abcdasdf 1>/dev/null
which: no abcdasdf in (/usr/lib/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:.....snip)

$ uname -srv
Linux 3.4.47-2.38-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 31 20:17:40 UTC 2013 (3961086)
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30 dollars shipping for a mouse?
If it's still being developed why is it on retail for $80?

Most people make sure their product is useful and working before selling it to people.

If you bought a car and the brakes mostly worked, would you be happy?
to diagnose a mass download via curl

It wasn't the downloading that was hard to diagnose; they figured out pretty quickly what was being downloaded. What caused the difficulty was the tactics that were used to circumvent the normal controls on downloading and usage of the network. I do find it plausible (though very disappointing) that the MIT administration did not have in-house expertise in the low-level diagnosis necessary to deal with that. How familiar are you with MIT?
Coincidence: Steve Blank just appeared on Hacker News with some article about contacting busy people. He said something similar: offer something in return. In that case it was your expertise in your market, in return for strategizing advice. Here its blog exposure for a guided tour.

I suspect this theme could be expanded upon. Anybody else got a story of creating genuine rapport by offering something first?
The Firewall Paradox
you can arrange john travolta in a jet for 30 USD? that sounds like a bargain. :)
Nothing new under the sun. The 404 trick is useful but usually it makes the code more readable to handle errors in your request handlers. That way you don't have to jump between the error handler and the request handler.
Sexist = discriminating.

Assuming you're male, do you feel discriminated because Google wants more women to attend conferences? I don't.

Now if the site would say that men in general shouldn't bother going to tech conferences, and if the majority of society would agree that men shouldn't bother getting into tech at all, then it would be discriminating. We're quite far from that.
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Well, as kinect already is capable of tracking your fingers, i am not sure the leap would be very useful. rather a slightly better kinect..
Maybe they want they want to ensure that they get women who will go back and ?evangelize? and lead other women to the conference in the future. But I agree - not wild about that requirement. And - not to stereotype - but I would think that women with "demonstrated leadership ability" would already feel comfortable attending the conference.
You don't seem to know a lot about node. The whole philosophy is "small modules that do one thing well and get out of the way for the rest". If what you like are big frameworks that handle these kinds of things for you, e.g. Rails, Grails, Django ...

Don't pick on Node for not doing something it was not created to do, and will never do.
same here. my device reports "bright light detected" even when there's not enough ambient light to see the keys on my keyboard. turning off the monitor seems to help, but...
Wasn't Abel fired for disobedience, rather than violating confidentiality?
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Every so often somebody rediscovers messaging as a cool programming model. This has been going on since the 80s at least. Somebody wrote a paper on the duality of procedural vs message based coding.

Messaging has some cool properties. Static deadlock analysis. Potentially idem-potent design allowing response-less interfaces (e.g. send a state message instead of an incremental update; eventually state will settle). Transparent distributed processing. Queuing and fault tolerance, not for free but pretty easy.

It takes a mental wrench to move to this model, but I think its worth it.
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Clicking around in the T.A.R.D.I.S. reminds me of playing Myst.
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I guess another valuable hidden lesson is that Slava is a lisp lover working in a C++ product.
Fictitious value? Like Dutch tulip bulbs, it depends upon the gullibility of the public.

So he created a bubble. A least he disclosed his position, se he's not liable.
The moment your script needs any more than 10 regular expressions, you should probably take it out and shoot it.
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no, it means knowing the algorithm allows you to infer more information from the encrypted data, because the "real" entropy (as opposed to the apparently now defunct Shannon entropy) will be much smaller than you expect (you have to try less brute force guesses.)
Surely you can if a source of reference is used?
i.e "fact we should" = "fact that most of society believes we should"?
Makes sense, as Microsoft tried to hide the performance of the sales to mislead the public about how successful it is (and in this case, investors, too). Investors should have a say on whether a next-gen Surface should happen, too.

Also I predict Microsoft is going to try to hide the sales performance of Windows 8 licenses, too, in the future, if things start going downhill more, especially now after they've "combined" divisions, and could more easily hide stuff like that.
I would elaborate that, a version control system must assist in code review process by allowing to version control the unverified/reviewed code also in private branches. With RTC, it is hard enough to review the change history in trunk and its capabilities pale in comparison with say Tortoise SVN.

That's why I feel that their first rule of their study is based on the shortcomings in RTC's jazz version control system.

However the code review best practices came out of the study are solid. However they do not touch upon the version control practices.
> attending to conferences does not make a huge difference in the process of becoming a good programmer.

That's probably why it's called "Women in Tech Conference and Travel Grants", and not "Women in Tech Become Better Programmers Grants".

I do see a point here. Going to conferences hasn't made me a better programmer per se, but I think it has made me more passionate about the field, in my early days.
I thought that this was a remarkably informative article! One of the other ways I personally got a sense of the locations of countries was a quite simple yet addictive Windows game called EMPIRE [1]. For instance I now know where Egypt actually is on the world map.

1. http://www.classicempire.com/
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This is an interesting and important result. I was fascinated by the Shannon entropy when I first heard of it in undergrad, and I'm now very tempted to go read all the other entropys people came up with too :)
Bullet trains, maglev, airplanes were all a joke until they worked.
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Yes, Python is obviously used for web development. But it's very short-sighted, and even absurd, to claim that the "bulk of all the Python out there is web code".

It's even more absurd to claim that "Django, Twisted and Zope is all the Python code there is." That's utter nonsense, in fact.

There are numerous non-web applications that use Python extensively, whether they're partially or fully implemented in Python, or whether they can be scripted using Python.

Then there are the numerous libraries and frameworks for Python, from GUI toolkits through to scientific computation packages.

Many, many organizations use Python internally for a very wide variety of tasks and systems, without broadcasting such use loudly, if at all. This ranges from one-off scripts up to entire multi-million-line software systems.

I sure hope that you're joking, but it just isn't coming across as a joke. Nobody can seriously claim that "Python will likely never be a very successful scripting language" when it has undoubtedly been one of the most successful, and versatile, programming and scripting languages around for many years now.
The law doesn't work by individual consent, it works by hitting individuals with sticks or locking them in closets until they comply.
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This sounds like the start of VC goose chase. They'll never say no but instead just keep you busy on the off chance that you'll hit on something. The only thing that snaps them out of it is the serious prospect of actually making a ton of money with managed risk.
TLDR: Bloch doubts that the failure of the uniformity assumption means that cryptographic systems in wide use today are fundamentally insecure. “My guess is that it will show that some of them are slightly less secure than we had hoped, but usually in the process, we’ll also figure out a way of patching them.”
Does it still work well? I am very interested in this. I really like Chicken Scheme because it compiles to portable C, and I was wondering why there has not yet been a Scheme shell this morning.

Guess I was naive to think there was not without a proper Google-fu session.

UPDATE: I take that back, it appears some still works on it. That page just seems outdated, by a while now.

https://github.com/scheme/scsh/commits/master
The basic issue the hyperloop overcomes is the energy waste in train transportation, especially at high speeds. This is primarily about aerodynamics, and secondarily about carrying with you the propulsion system. Third, it overcomes the "chunkiness" of the rail system, where passangers needs to be assembled and grouped into train-sized lots for transportation, rather than being able to depart continuously. You get superior energy economics, speed and convenience. I cannot see how that would be disappointing.
If it's technologically possible, economically profitable, and people want it, then. Flying cars have difficulties this doesn't (seem to) on all three counts.
Just like with any generated code, you are not supposed to read the code bison and flex generate (except maybe if you are a flex/bison developer). 'Impenetrable' is neither an advantage nor a disadvantage of generated code.

Do you often read the output of some library macros that the C pre-compiler generates?
it's not a marketing problem. people outside a given field will, by virtue of their inexperience, be prone to more hubristic ideas they don't understand the impossibility of. combined w/ the tech scene's natural credulity - as demonstrated by the Soylent debacle - & there you go.

the problem w/ casually describing it as a "marketing problem" is it completely excuses both entrepreneurial excess & the whole Valley hype thing. sure, there should be an onus on people to present/market their ideas well, but also on the public to be a little more skeptical of wild & unfounded claims.
Two points on that
1) Are these grants on the same order as tech-industry grants? I don't think the implication was there there are literally no grants in the world, but that the scale differs considerably.

2) people on a tech forum are likely to be far more familiar with the issues and grant available within the tech industry. It does seem this issue is discussed a lot though.

On another note, your message is v. condescending.
> not very good developers

Probably this judging by how many years the UI ignored the GPU on that platform.
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Read anything by Felix Dennis, and you'll be able to see the meta: it's a mind game and quite fun when you can step back a bit. Also, he's comes off as wickeder than Ben Franklin if that were possible.
Obvious engineering issues for further investigation. I would just point out that fatal failure mechanisms can be pointed out in any transportation system. The acceptance criterion is a sufficiently low fatality rate.
This monrity report concept has been vetted on HN for years and the consensus is that nobody believed that this felt natural. I was watching a steve jobs interview about the ipad and he spoke about how natural it was for people to point to stuff, even as little kids. This is so intutive that we now see two year old kids controlling iphones to view youtube. The minority report interface for now is not natural maybe as the design of the world and tech morph, this may become useful but as of now it is not. The tech is really cool and i rather see these guys take a crack at this and see if people like it, than seeing another snapchat valued at 800mill. The advancement i am excited about right now is a mix between chromecast and Mircosoft's Illumiroom, http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/01/is-microsofts-illumir....