skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have your timelines mixed up a bit. In 1995, right before the tech bubble, programming was definitely low prestige and women were definitely already well educated, earning about half of the college degrees.

In fact, there's a direct cause and effect going on--programming became high prestige, which caused the feminist hullabaloo about not having enough women programmers that we see today. If programming was already high prestige this would not be news to us and there would already be more women programmers, just as people in the past were obsessed with having more women doctors and lawyers and now there are lots of them.
"Think how many polite one-liner 'please post this to the mailing list' replies he could have written in the time it took to create this document."

The one liner isn't the expensive part.

First you have to read the mail.
Then play twenty questions long enough to figure out what they're actually asking about.
Then suggest the proper mailing list because you don't know anything about the subject.
Then follow up when they blithely ignore the suggestion, and the note that you don't know anything about the subject, and are suggesting those who know everything about the subject.
Then follow up when they get upset when you in turn get insistent.
And then you answer in good faith when they ask why you won't....

That's the expensive part.

I've written my own rants. Shorter than the linked piece, granted, but the linked piece is still shorter than any of many single conversations I've had trying to explain my position to the more insistent in response to their questions. So many people are completely unfazed by my complete lack of knowledge about whatever they want help with.

A linkable rant is more easily repeated to such people at much less expense of my time. The points don't change much and can be stated more precisely and concisely. Better yet: more obviously a waste of time when it is a waste. If they're not actually interested, then we both win: I won't repeat it, and they won't read it!

Rants like this are useful tools to end those pointless discussions. "If you want my position, here it is. If you don't, then we won't have to waste both our times arguing under the false pretense that you really do."
How do I motivate myself? That's kinda hard to explain. It involves a lot of inner demons and mindsets that date to my childhood growing up dirt-poor in rural southeastern NC. But what it boils down to lately it this: I'm 40. I'm not getting any younger. I haven't yet accomplished my most outlandish dreams. And I have never been crazy about accepting mediocrity. I don't want to live an average, boring, moderately successful life. "Go big or go home", whatever.

So, for the past two years or so, my mindset has been "I'm basically out of 'at bats'. I don't get any more chances to make my dreams come true. I do this now, or I load my car with booze, drive to Vegas, and pull a 'Leaving Las Vegas' routine."

I just hope I can find a girl who looks like Elisabeth Shue. I <3 Elisabeth Shue.

I also draw a lot of inspiration from music. Since Suster started the Eminem references, here's one of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1xXYeNrW9k ('Till I Collapse - Eminem & Nate Dogg)

Along with stuff like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQQcOQsCFnw (Keep Your Eye on the Money - Motley Crue)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gnJ-fQ1uwA (Stick To Your Guns - Bon Jovi)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZKm86wW88 (Never Say Die - Jon Bon Jovi)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3MXiTeH_Pg (Here I Go Again - Whitesnake)

Of course, you have to realize, I grew up in the 80's, in the era of the "80's feel good movie" where the underdog hero has his back to the wall, all the odds against him, and through hard work, dedication, (and a training montage, of course) ultimately perseveres and triumphs over evil. Those are the kind of metaphors that are pretty deeply lodged into my psyche.

It also helps that I simply enjoy the act of creating things, and right now, my goal is to create this company that I have in my head. I see what we're capable of building and where this can go, and I want to make that happen.

Even more difficult. You have an offer to sell your company. Should you? You might net $1 million and that would change your life. But everybody is telling you not to sell and instead to “go for it” and you don’t know whom to listen to.
One. Million. Dollars.
I know it’s not what it used to be, but news flash – it’s still a million dollars!
How can you wake up every day and process that decision. Five million? Ten?

This reminds me of the (in)famous "An acquistion is always a failure" discussion[1]. I said what I have to say[2] about this, in that thread.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5483582

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5483765
Is that bad though? We've democratized starting a company. Not everyone needs to be a $1B exit or even a $10M exit.
At the risk of this coming off pretty damn snarky, it's because volunteering involves work.

My wife and I do a lot of volunteer work, actually; mostly with animal shelters. I also do a good amount of open source work in my spare time. As a geek, I find programming fun. Even if I'm swearing up a storm wrestling with a bug, I'm having the time of my life. I'm so lucky to be able to do this as a job and a hobby, and to enjoy both.

And while I enjoy working with homeless cats, there's dirty litter boxes to clean, wild cats to be socialized and tame cats to be medicated (both of which usually involve me getting clawed somewhere on my body), and members of the public to be educated about our shelter's cats and cat ownership in general. I enjoy knowing I'm doing good, but it's a different kind of enjoyment. I enjoy the outcome, not so much the journey to get there.

Speaking of "the journey", I did an outreach event a couple Sundays ago. It was an hour drive each way. Great chance to promote the shelter in front of animal owners and other rescue groups. But I was beat by the time I got home, and I gave up half my weekend to be there.

In contrast, I can work on open source in my favorite chair, with my feet up, watching TV while sipping on an adult beverage. Totally different experience, and one that probably sounds much more attractive to most people. It doesn't feel like work to me.
Heck it's barely worth getting out of bed for only a million dollars.
If you want to download all the PDFs to your current working directory:

wget -rH -nd -Dubm-us.net -Apdf http://gdcvault.com/gdmag

Edit: for the curious, the flags are:

-r recursively retrieve all the links on the page
-H span hosts (default would stay with gdcvault.com only)
-nd don't replicate directory hierarchy, just download the files to cwd
-D only download from ubm-us.net
-A pdf extensions only
Pet Pluto? Disney's Latest Creation Brings the sense of Feeling To Touchscreens
Would be nice if I could search the contents.
Stormpath does your app's user management for you
It isn't even a rumor really, based on the conference they held Mantle was actually more like the opposite, a port of console style API to all platforms.
Not having foreign keys to your profile all over the place would be a vast improvement though
Only on machines with SoC's though ("APU"). Discrete graphics, the most common gaming configuration, will always require bussing data across PCI.

The real ray of sunlight is that huma (heterogeneous unified memory access?) might close some of the gap.
I was just working on this: wget -r -A.pdf http://twvideo01.ubm-us.net/o1/vault/GD_Mag_Archives/

but getting a 403 (forbidden). Now I see I should have tried http://gdcvault.com/gdmag instead of copying the link from right clicking and saying "Save As"

You do have a few more flags than I do. I should look those up.

Edit: Thanks for expanding your post to explain all the flags. Very helpful.
I'm writing a RM app right now and believe these concerns to be overblown. They're overblown in the same way "Rails doesn't scale" is nonsense. The addition of WeakRef to RM helps significantly. And you just have to look out for gotchas.

If you want to be really convinced, check out RMQ: https://github.com/infinitered/rmq. Has made my life so easy.
>flush with urine smells, mentally ill homeless, an embarrassing public transportation system

urine: no worse than London, where I moved form.
mentally-ill: more than London, and it doesnt bother me
transportation: bad enough that (as in London) I ride a bike everywhere
weather: better
start-up friendliness: much better (than when i left in '06)

Not liking SF is fine. Besmuding the judgement of its residents to fit your own tastes: not so fine :p
You just said in the start of this thread that you use flipboard and only flipboard for your news. If that is true, he loses absolutely nothing by you not reading his content on flipboard.
Melbourne Remote Control Tourist
Lets sleep in the lion's den because could be tigers outside. Basically that is what they are proposing us.
Today is Launch Day -- Sort of.
Starting off by saying a bunch of vague things and then mentioning quantum mechanics is a really good way of turning away most readers. Do you want to have a constructive conversation, where you communicate concrete and meaningful things, or do you want to just give off the appearance of sophistication?
Well, I see you've had this on your mind a bit.

On a side note: Ive found San Francisco to be quite nice, just about as nice as most other cities ive been in. NYC was nice (though a bit less friendly than most), DC was nice (except for the politicians), San Francisco was nice (though surprisingly cold), Seattle was nice (and just as rainy as expected), and Portland was nice (very beautiful each time I've been there).

American cities are on the whole all at least pretty nice.
Nope. You can attach a handler to window.onerror manually that pushes its error to the notifier, but errors handled this way won't have a stack trace.
Why I Think Go Package Management Is Important
Tanay Jacksons "In the Spotlight video Promo is AMAZING
Tanay Jackson, Neice of Pop Superstar Michael Jackson released a promo video for her single "In the Spotlight" and it is Amazing.
The Company That Makes Viagra Has More Cash on Hand Than the U.S. Government
A couple of key flaws here:

* There isn't a market failure. There's plenty of market incentive to stop DDOS attacks, network intrusions, etc., and there are many well-paid cyber-security firms as a result of it. It's unclear how NSA or military involvement would be a net improvement to security, given their own inability to secure their networks.

* The NSA's offensive operations can undermine it's defense roles. I suppose there's a chance that introducing a backdoor into an encryption standard ultimately helps cybersecurity -- e.g. you intercept a message from the Prime Minister of Country X detailing its plans to hack a particular target -- but it seems MUCH MORE likely those backdoors will simply be used against us.
How to work with remote developers and be more productive than in an office
They're not dead though. Gd, at least, has been set free and given perpetual life rather than locked away by its temporary owner. Temporary if you still believe the "limited time" clause has any legal weight.
Many MySQL applications expect results to be delivered in primary key order if no "order by" clause is supplied
The Freakonomics guys and Jared Diamond are more or less scientists. Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist. There's a difference.

Both Steven Levitt and Jared Diamond devote a lot of ink over whether or not their theories are testable, while Malcolm Gladwell tends to just find anecdotes which seem to back his theories up.
Red Lobster Waitress Gets $10K Tip After Racist Receipt
Fun Fact for Hipster Youth:

Zooey Deschanel's parents are both involved in the film. Her father Caleb Deschanel was cinematographer and her mother Mary Jo played Annie Glenn (her role is remarkable because she portrays Annie Glenn with a severe stutter.)
Sorry, but when I hear a question like this, I can't help but hear a subtle hint of "you're doing it wrong" embedded in the question. As though somebody is saying "You have your priorities wrong, and you should be prioritizing the same things I am." But, at the end of the day, we all have different motivations, and different approaches to how we want to impact the world.

I'm relying more on "second order effects" on my current trajectory. I think I can do more to make the world a better place, by building a kickass company, and being in a position to create jobs and donate money to worthy causes, than by spending my time planting trees, or cleaning the beach or whatever. shrug

Maybe the webapp that Joe Coder hacks on, winds up being adopted by Greenpeace or somebody, and they use it to optimize their operations and that frees up a couple of million dollars for $WHATEVER. I don't know, it's a made up example, but like I said, sometimes you have to consider the second (or nth) order effects of your actions.
Okay so hipsters are a problem in Berlin, but it is not like this is not a problem in other cities. Hipsters are a problem everywhere.

IMHO a place with 1€ falafel sandwiches and 1€ beers is a pretty good place in terms of runway ;)
Comedy option:

- (NSString *)format:(id)first, ... {
NSUInteger argCount = 0;
BOOL prevPercent = NO;
for (NSUInteger i = 0; i < [self length]; ++i) {
unichar c = [self characterAtIndex:i];
if (prevPercent && c != '%')
++argCount;
prevPercent = c == '%';
}

NSMutableArray *argArr = [NSMutableArray new];
va_list args;
va_start(args, first);
for (NSUInteger i = 0; i < argCount; ++i)
[argArr addObject:va_arg(args, id)];
va_end(args);

switch (argCount) {
case 0: return [NSString stringWithFormat:self, first];
case 1: return [NSString stringWithFormat:self, first, argArr[0]];
case 2: return [NSString stringWithFormat:self, first, argArr[0], argArr[1]];
// ...
}
}

Only supports NSObject arguments, obviously. If you actually wanted to do this approach you'd want to do a better job of parsing the format string and use a more cleverer way of storing the args.

Or, for the completely insane approach that probably doesn't actually work (on top of being entirely unportable):

- (NSString *)format:(id)first, ... {
NSUInteger argCount = ...;

va_list args;
va_start(args, first);
void *argList = malloc(sizeof(id) * (argCount + 1));
memcpy(argList, (void*)&first, sizeof(id));
memcpy(argList + sizeof(id), &va_arg(args, void *), sizeof(id) * argCount);
va_end(args);

NSString *ret = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:self arguments:argList];
free(argList);
return ret;
}
Microsoft Wants to Embed Windows Phone into Every Android Device
Free and posted in its entirety online, and you're still not happy eh?
I grew up, live in, and currently study in the Bay Area. If I am talking to someone, or if someone is talking to me, most references to "the city" will be clearly understood to mean San Francisco. Ex: I'm going up to the city. How was the city? I don't make it into the city that often. There's a concert in the city.

And the fact remains that the majority of the tech ecosystem is centered around the Bay Area, and hence the majority of TechCrunch's target audience.
MapR M7: HBase Simplified and Fixed for Online Systems
File this under "fun facts", and I can certainly understand not knowing, but the singular of "mores" is "mos". I seem to remember that it might have different meanings (in Latin) in the singular and plural, but that could easily be a false memory or a transference from vis/vires.
pretty cool. nice idea and the interface they've built is really well done.
Why can't Java new() use a plank to allocate objects in an array, just like C++ new() can?
Somewhat odd because some of the most valuable enterprise ventures recently have begun as consumer plays with a path to the enterprise. Dropbox is one example. The iPhone was consumer before enterprise. Github focused on individual debs before it made its enterprise play. I'd argue that AirBnB kind shows the same because I've noticed an uptick in the number of business travelers requesting to stay with us (i.e. they expense they Airbnb stay).

The enterprise is increasingly consumerized so any play that offers that opportunity should be interesting.
I agree with everything you said, except that there is one thing missing from Peninsula/South Bay that SF has: lots of choice of bars and nightclubs. That appeals to the single twentysomething demographic that startups are trying to hire from. Hence the demand.

If you want to stay out late drinking and whatnot, public transportation isn't really an option because it doesn't run very late or very frequent. And if you're drinking, you shouldn't be driving so... you live in SF.

To answer the grandfather post, if bars/clubs aren't your thing, no, you're not missing anything.
I can upload them all if people think it is helpful.
Non-profits are subject to the same restrictions, it would seem. The red cross cannot sell fake designer goods to raise money "for charity" (and the $1MM CEO salary), etc. Nor can they use the likeness of Rihanna or Beyonce to further their ad campaigns without writen permission.
The numbers are already working.

Crave just raised $2.5M on AL - see http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/09/19/50-shades-of-...

Crave is showing lots of fit - market or otherwise.

With AL syndicates, getting to $5M for a hot startup on AL will be a cake walk. All you need is for a few of the top syndicators to get excited about you and you're at serious money. In fact, some of them are actively contemplating that possibility: see http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130928204536-24...
I really like ML. It is simple at face value, but with pattern matching and lambdas becomes very powerful.

I haven't done any big projects with it though, so ymmv. I did a course early this year that used it to introduce functional programming.
HackerRank's data science contest starting today
Come, Let's Play (2003)
I've been very happy with all the open sourced WordPress tools coming out..

WP-CLI has been a huge time saver for me.. Use it on dev and production environments

I recently revisited the Roots theme and have been using it on all projects.

About to try Genesis out. I've been having trouble keeping track of dev/production DB's so I'm hoping this will help solve this problem
I have a couple of questions:

1a. Why are you going to jail?

1b. Why should I care?

2. What state of mind were you in when you were tweeting "Seriously, come get me fuckers?"
I am currently in Charlottesville, VA (it is kind of like a suburb). It has a lot of hills, which affects the reception. Every carrier other than T-Mobile has signal boosters placed throughout the city to counteract spotty coverage.

I've noticed that I only have issues when I go into a building that's not made mostly out of wood. At McDonalds or something, I get great reception, but when I step into a lecture hall or a federal building, the reception drops to 0 bars. Immediately outside of it, the reception is fine.

Aside from getting a phone with a really strong antenna, I'm not sure what to do about this.
But consider using --limit-rate <some rate> or -w <some number of seconds> to add a delay so as not to bomb the server.
Definitely. For Everpix, sharing to email is 25x as popular as sharing to Facebook.
To me it reads like a slightly different model- they make plenty of money in their primary business on Windows, and had no quarrel with Microsoft for many years. Now as they feel threatened by Microsoft, they are attempting to grow into a new market space- somewhat of a "blue ocean" strategy- namely, people who already like consoles but have always found PCs too intimidating or too much work. I doubt they want to cannibalize Windows; growing into a new market provides them additional revenue and security in the event Microsoft starts to take over some of Valve's old market share.

It's not quite "red ocean" and not quite "blue ocean" because they are targeting the gap between the two markets, and many customers will probably own both a console and a Steambox, or a PC and a Steambox, but of course some may forgo all but the Steambox.
Ask HN: Experiences using Payoneer?
This is a question mostly for non US folks, has anyone used Payoneer US Payment Service to sell paid apps on the Play Store or to charge with Paypal, Amazon, etc...?

I've been thinking about giving it a try, but wanted to check if anyone has some good advice about it. Thanks!
Not if you go by investment returns...
Wikileaks internal memo on "The Fifth Estate"
eh, what about eg:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://twvideo01.ubm-us...
9 ways to kick start your content marketing
> AMD's Linux drivers are complete and utter crap.

<Shrug> ... worksforme...

I have AMD Radeon cards on my machines at work. Work fine with Linux drivers, even have a 3 monitor setup going.
Good way to find a passionate early stage startup looking for innovation help?
The last few years I've been working for a major Silicon Valley software company, but have become frustrated by the relatively slow pace of innovation and lack of passion among co-workers. I'm itching to get back in at the ground floor at a startup (I've had previous success), but not sure where to start as most of the "small" company opportunities that come my way are pre-IPO companies that are already hundreds of employees deep. Due to previous career success, I am in a position where immediate compensation is not as important to me as finding an opportunity I am passionate about. I want to be given a mandate to help shape innovation strategy at a very early stage.

What I have to offer is three-fold:

1. Nearly fifteen years of technology Product Management experience, including the perspective and lessons that come from helping build a successful startup in the past, as well as managing successful enterprise products and most recently a $2 billion dollar Consumer software business.

2. I'm really interested in innovation as a discipline and would like to put into practice a framework for discovering the hidden underlying needs that can catapult an 'ok' technology into a world-class success. Net-net, if given the mandate, I believe that I can save a startup from going through years of costly 'fail-fast' pivots.

3. Because of previous startup success, I'm in a position that I can accept some ownership in lieu of initial salary, if the situation is right: i.e. focus on innovation is a major priority and I believe in the cause.

How might I find early stage startups in the Bay Area who'd be interested in exploring a potential relationship?
Indeed, but it's not quite the same. Thanks for the reminder though -- every once in a while I remember to stop by, and there are always a few new interesting articles.
How Harvey Mudd Transformed Its CS Program And Nearly Closed Its Gender Gap
The picture of a cannabis bud on the linked blog post could potentially answer two of these three questions (maybe all three, depending on your POV).
Moron alert.
When a lot of my friends say "privacy" they really mean: "the barriers I put up around my content, which is of course online".

Then there's "privacy" in the sense of being a private person: you don't want your photos and conversations widely seen or read in the first place.

If Facebook and all the other data brokers could choose one of these definitions of "privacy" to lodge foremost in your brain, which would they pick?

Which definition would you call industrial, and which one cultural?

It sounds like you're just a private person, ancarda. By all means, carry on.
They are not trying to introduce a console, IMO. It's a play for the gap between consoles and PCs. Some of the console "plug-n-play", some of the PC "performance-price-spectrum".
My community college still had us writing C on huge tablets of that IBM grid paper in the late 90s. I can't imagine writing huge amounts of production-worthy code that way.
Indeed -- there's some very good craft brewers or other speciality places, but in terms of bars and cocktail lounges, SF is hard to beat even compared to other cities (except perhaps Portland and NYC!)

That said Bay Area in general is hard to beat when it comes to food and drink.