skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe some people think like that, but prevailing academic feminist thought does not resemble what you're describing.

Modern feminism sees gender as a continuity rather than a boundary, and looks at how social gender constructs support systems of power. For example: why are men often stigmatized for becoming grade school teachers? The modern feminist (at least one with the theoretical bent you're describing) sees this as oppression and tries to come to grips with it by looking at the social constructs of masculinity and femininity, and more specifically in this case of maternity and paternity.

In a society where women are caregivers/mothers and men are builders/leaders, then individuals who do not embody those characteristics are marginalized and oppressed. And the marginalization goes both ways. In a society where men are stigmatized for embodying femininity, it will be true that women will be stigmatized for embodying masculinity.

The problem is discussed in a far more multidimensional fashion than you're describing. Marxism is used as a tool for analysis, as are many other ideologies, but is certainly not the dominant force. A (good) academic paper that uses Marxism for analysis will often say, "I'm using Marxism to analyze this topic because I feel that in spite of shortcomings A, B, and C, that I can use it to tease out this subtlety..."

I would go so far as to say that you are unapologetically building a caricature of what you're describing. Why? Because it's almost never the case that you can take an entire group of people, (in this case, the 'American academy') and apply such a sweeping generalization to their way of thought.

In fact, the modern feminist would suggest that it's your absolutist way of arguing that perpetuates this kind of system. When you say that a certain group thinks in a certain way (especially one so easily problematized), you are promulgating the same type of thinking that leads to, "Men shouldn't be teachers." The idea is that when you look at any crowd of people, do you understand that what you're looking at is not some group entity but in fact a very complex interweaving of social dynamics--personality, class, gender, sexuality, family, culture, race, age, height, weight, and all of the intersections thereof. Or do you think you have that group 'figured out' and pigeonholed? Once you have the group pigeonholed, you've denied the individuality and agency of the people in that group.
I don't think it's wrong to say that reliance on street addresses and USPS is a weak link in the system. I'll repeat it, maybe phrased a little differently: PGP; Tor; Bitcoin. This is all really good stuff to cover your tracks. Writing a street address on an envelope, and sticking it in a mailbox? It sounds absurd compared to what you are doing to protect yourself on the digital side.

And it seems that I am not the only one who sees something there, as according to media reports DPR himself was extorted over the question of revealing the street addresses of users.

You're probably right that the average Joe doesn't have to worry. But for specific individuals like DPR, they should know that being involved in facilitating a large number of illegal transactions, there is much more likelihood that they specifically will be targeted by law enforcement. I would expect then that they would do more to guard access to their address.

(Even if most people are OK, that doesn't mean it's not still a weakness. In the days before SSH became common, I used to log in over telnet all the time and never once to my knowledge got compromised. I suspect many had the same experience. Does that mean I was safe? Of course not.)
So is the marketplace going to be open to developer/designers as well?
I think you've hit the nail on the head with Scala. It feels every conceivable concept in language research has been thrown in. The lack of coherency is sometimes quite jarring.

Coherency/conceptual integrity are things I look for in computing environments they make reasoning things much simpler as logical deductions can be made, I don't find myself doing that with Scala.
Oh the price should increase too. Right now OP is targeting a imaginary customer. Who would pay $15 a month just for 50 mummies?
Nurses make quite good money in certain areas[1]. An old boss of mine quit his contract IT workers for hire company and formed a nurse for hire company. He makes more money for them and him[2] and doesn't have to deal with all the foolishness of IT placement. Hospitals actually like people who can provide nurses on demand.

1) My buddy said their bill rate was from $60+/hour

2) he did a 70 / 30 split if you were W2 and a 90/10 split if you were 1099. He also hired a security company to escort the nurses to and from the parking lot. This is a concern at some hospitals.
That's a great logo.
I think I can extrapolate well in this case, because I've been in the exact same situation, only the geographic location and particular project were different.

There is a huge difference between a critic and a jerk showing up providing unsolicited criticism. If you publish a movie to the public, you should expect to receive criticism. If you're working on something for yourself in your hackerspace, that's not really an invite to tear you apart.
I did quit my Phd
I agree with all the heuristics mentioned except the one about English grammar. Though most people outside the major cities are educated in English medium, it is very common to them graduate without ever having an actual communication in English. I met a lot of Indians who are not very good with respect to grammar but are amazing programmers with enough communication skills to get the job done.
Let's hope you never need to use a screen reader.
Ambrose proposed it and the Clojure core team accepted it.
A while ago I watched a Norwegian documentary questioning various aspects of Norwegian society. One segment dealt with gender equality. One thing the stats found is that as gender opportunities in employment reached parity women largely abandoned traditional male jobs are returned to traditional female jobs. Having enough of a safety net not to worry about going hungry, homeless or without healthcare may be a contributing factor. But it seems as if when people really go by their preferences they gravitate toward professions that match the traditional gender stereotypes. An interesting bit was when they interviewed psychologists and social scientists, and they discounted the idea that there could be a preference difference between genders. They thought that if society were perfect that there would be a 50/50 split in any profession. Phooey.

In the US I think it's likely that men just don't want to be nurses. Some men do want that and there are male nurses, but it's rare. It doesn't have to be because they're afraid of perceptions. It can be because they don't desire to do that job.
Mutability and inheritance are good solutions to certain classes of problems, and it's valuable to have them in your toolbelt.

What's scala designed for? Programming - not just highly concurrent programming, not just quick scripts to do some text manipulation, not just web services for millions of requests, but all these things and more. It's the most generally applicable language I've ever seen, and there's real value in being able to write your whole platform in a single language which is nevertheless a good fit for a very wide range of problems.

I don't think it's fair to say each feature is piled on to plug a specific hole; rather, a lot of the power of scala comes from the interaction of several features that are individually quite simple. E.g. unlike Haskell's typeclasses which have to be built into the language, in scala that's simply a pattern that you write in regular code. Unlike Erlang's built-in notion of actors, in scala Akka is "just" a library.
Having used noscript for a while, I've gotten into the habit of letting it block everything at first and only allowing what seems necessary for that site.

I'm perfectly okay with the 'broken until enabled' model... I used to use "Request Policy" in Firefox - the most granular control of script and XSS accesses I've ever seen. Miss it in Chrome.
Culture Shock: Programming for the Enterprise
Given a sequence of N hashes, you could select any hash A as the initial hash, any hash B as the key, and the successor of B (C) as the key to the key.

After choosing B and C, choose an A whose distance to B and C is proportional to the amount of work you wish to require.
Many daycare will not hire males[1] and insurance companies (although never officially) tend to hike rates for those that do hire males.

1) if you're fine with the female workers changing your son/daughter's diaper, but not fine with the male teacher then you are part of the problem.
Meanwhile in India,

+ A guy who thinks programming is about taking a course and passing a certification exam, gets hired in iGate as a software engineer along with a bunch of other mechanical engineers

+ An OS class staff thinks real world softwares are created by drawing logic in Rational Rose and clicking 'generate code' button.

+ A guy who's good in cracking maths puzzles because college told them to get good at it, for cracking interviews, gets placement orders from five different software companies.

+ A guy who convinces his staff to build a cross platform app development framework for his final year project gets put off, because the staff wants a 'big' multipage project with a close button on the right top.

+ And finally a bunch of hackers, give shit about the rest of the country and is either trying or helping to build the next big thing in coffee shops and tech startups.
What Web services are you using in the back-end (that may potentially shut down)? I need my data accessible for low number of decades.
nice timing of the events going on in Egypt or clever marketing?
So build unicode routines on top. Don't make me put all my data in a non-standard datatype where another type already exists and is more common.

Users of C++ already have to deal with std::string and char * and possibly PWSTR if they are on Windows, why throw yet another type at them?

This reminds me of a joke I used to tell, it starts with a problem that there are too many string types, and the solution, somehow, always ends up being another string type...
Indeed. This is something I considered. But Rails support is growing more ubiquitous, particularly with the rise of VPSs. And even if a hosting provider doesn't explicitly support Rails, it's often possible to install Rails nonetheless.

The biggest missing ingredient is a one-liner installer for all the dependencies. Installing Rails, the MySQL gem, and Passenger on a fresh server is not terribly hard for an experienced Unix user, but it is quite intimidating for casual users. So one of my goals for the project is to create a "worse is better" Rails installer. I.e. a really quick-and-dirty script, bundled with the CMS, which gives you a minimal Rails/Passenger/MySQL environment. It would be optimized for issue-free installation on a variety of hosts, rather than for bleeding edge features or maximum performance.
Fixing Making
This is an interesting post. I worry though that Odersky's point can make people think that there are only two kinds of type: static, or dynamic.

James Iry did an amazing overview of the nuances of various kinds of type systems on his Types à la Chart.

[1] http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2010/05/types-la-chart.html
Europe Weighs Regulations for Cloud Computing
You're forgetting that I get to pick the Turing machine to use. Kolmogorov complexity is the shortest possible description relative to a particular Turing machine. Re-read my previous post with that in mind.
Big Data Confidence: The Growing Need for Accurate, Secure, and Visual Data
OK, dumb question time. How are front-end and back-end defined?

To me the distinction was about the location of execution. "Front-end" meant "in a browser" and back-end meant "anywhere else with some surface addressable via HTTP".

Now it seems that "front-end" means "View and Controller" and "back-end" means "Model", except ... not quite. Sometimes.

On the other hand, perhaps I protest too much. It's not as though there's a High Court of Internet Nomenclature for this.
THANK YOU. I was going to point this out. Waaay out of date :)
I know GnuPG-2 is preferred over GnuPG-1 now but I only see 1.x binaries available for Windows. Do they provide official 2.x binaries as well?
It would be nice if there were at least more options for people who actually want to forgo some energy usage to do so. Back when I lived in the U.S., I had to have a car and drive everywhere, because everything was laid out in such a car-oriented manner, and the transit was so bad. I didn't find it enjoyable or convenient, more of a kind of pain. I would've happily taken some of my energy consumption off the road, if there had been a decent alternative, but it was expected that I would burn this gas daily whether I wanted to or not, if I wanted a job anyway.
Isn't the sample size too small for such generalizations?

The so-called "senior" guy just comes across as a bully. Nothing more. Nothing less.

It also indicates that the indian side did not have a good filtering system in place to keep such folks out.

It also shows that the project management was not quick to spot this trouble and try to correct the senior developer's behavioral issues.

But drawing conclusions about the culture of a billion plus people based on that seems a bit extreme.
what if you get a DMCA notice to take down the mummify link because they told you so? If you don't provide a guarantee against such political oppression, what good is paying for this?
I suspect that the NSA would be aware of weaknesses in Chinese ciphers as much as in American ciphers, so I doubt that this would help much...
One solution to the problem. If that's the best one is debatable, but in any case it's fair. Go lobby for that.
Airbnb definitely isn't as host focused as something like couchsurfing.org but it also definitely isn't as purely property focused as your traditional hotel chain.

To me the property focused listings are a way for Airbnb to attract people who are too nervous to try the real couch surfing community by making Airbnb appear more like a property first hotel system. You can't blame them for this, because the subset of people who are willing to try this kind of thing if it was purely host based would be quite a bit smaller.

But the problem is that Airbnb obviously isn't a normal hotel system, and so some people who go into the experience expecting a hotel experience can be turned off by it when it doesn't meet their expectations.

On the other hand people like me who enjoy the chance to meet new people enjoy the social aspect but also like the slightly added safety of the reviews, pictures, and the payment system. Of course it depends on the host, but I've had some amazing experiences with hosts during some Airbnb stays: going to rock concerts, restaurants and bars, eating meals that they've cooked, and of course just talking to them and learning about their lives. My favorite experience was getting to stay with a couple who were aerialists for Cirque du Soleil, and months later returning to NYC to see an amazing opening performance by their own troupe of performers.

So to me Airbnb seems on the surface to be property based like you said, but underneath has a strong host ecosystem like couchsurfing.org The problem is that Airbnb is using properties to attract guests instead of the host experience. Of course this attracts people who are more demanding about the property and when the property falls short people are naturally unsatisfied.
> Now that everyone sees they can be confiscated just like real currency, though, the price is half what it was

This event didn't cause the price to be halved. It actually didn't effect the price at all. The article makes a strange mention of some $230 number, which might have been the price like a year ago, but it's been pretty constant around 110-120 for a while now.

EDIT: Sorry, this was supposed to be a response to lnanek2, mis-clicked.
Ah, wow, this was my side project I'd been hacking on and off for the last couple months. However I'm glad to see there's a site like this out now, and that it doesn't charge any man-in-the-middle fees. Would be especially interested to know how they beat the chicken-egg...
Twitter's $47.5MM datamining business
Dwolla realtime payments
Yes, in sectoral balance, government deficits go towards net private saving:

http://pragcap.com/understanding-the-modern-monetary-system-...
Rant: I absolutely hate when someone posts an answer in Stack Overflow and it points to their blog, which then stops working at some point. What if Wikipedia was just a collection of links to blogs or other datasources (citations aside). Put your damn answers in Stack Overflow people!
Abraham Nemeth, Creator of a Braille Code for Math, Is Dead at 94
Nativity in UIs is over-rated imho. Tons of apps I'm regularly using do not have native UIs and still fare quite well. Heck, I'm not even sure what the native toolkit for my platform (Windows 7) would be. I guess WPF would be the closest thing?

Most notorious example would be Microsoft Office which afaik never has used native widgets, being always one step ahead of Windows UI design. Other examples out of my head are the whole Adobe suite (which is arguably a mess UI wise), both Firefox and Chrome, Spotify, Steam, Blender. iirc the Open/LibreOffice widgets are custom too. And of course GIMP has its own toolkit, even if it is spread bit beyond GIMP itself.
> This is by far the most common attitude on HN but would be one of the least common in the reality based community. Does this sort of view come from too much science fiction or something?This is by far the most common attitude on HN but would be one of the least common in the reality based community. Does this sort of view come from too much science fiction or something?

Probably because HN audience tends to be less bound by conventional wisdom and all kinds of irrationality. As far as politics go, I'm anarcho-communist (thus anti-capitalist), but on HN I often find comments (although this account is just a few days old, I've been reading HN for years) on economic and political issues from people who are very pro-capitalist with which I can agree (although we would probably disagree on motives and goals). For example in this discussion. It's very hard to find this in general population.

> So working for money is the most sadistic thing imaginable because there is some imaginary machine that could do the work? Torturing people is sadistic, paying people to work is not.

This is a strawman. First, I did not say it's the most sadistic thing imaginable. But yes, it is sadistic because that kind of work typically brings significant distress and because it's unnecessary. It doesn't matter how good or bad the wage is. This kind of dreadful work ties a person's mental and physical potential which could be otherwise used to add great value to society and the individual. Having a base income would efficiently untie a lot of reasons for this deadlock which is overwhelmingly of political nature. Do I think it's likely to happen, even though it's stupid and harmful not to? No, but why would that stop me from contemplating it and doing whatever I can to help bring about some change?

> On the one hand we have some strange indignation that seems to be rooted in the idea that we no longer have scarcity or something another.

We don't have scarcity in a lot of areas. The problem lies in not having political will to rationally distribute unscarce resources.

> The other seems to be, ironically, a lack of realization of where technology is currently at

It is certainly at a sufficient level to eliminate a huge number of distressful jobs. That it can't, at this moment, eliminate all such jobs is no reason to dismiss possible solutions. From a slightly different technological domain: just because not all long haul travel is via space, doesn't mean we should dismiss all other forms of transport and just stay put until space planes become reality.
Monkey Patching in Scala
Yeah, I'm right there with you.

Rubygems is a wonderful and powerful tool for getting libraries set up and adding new code. It's not really suited for putting things into production, especially when people think pulling old versions (for whatever reason) is acceptable behavior.

At work we install and set up libraries on development machines using bundler/rubygems, then go in and version lock everything after we know we'll be using it. Building a release-worthy version involves repackaging all of the gems as rpms so they can be installed along with all of our other software when building the new (virtual) server.

It's a pain in the ass, yes, but we have never had library issues crop up in production. I know exactly what is on the system, and fixing anything is an obvious and straightforward process.

You don't have to make things this formal/official, but it's pretty easy to achieve library version updates and know that what's on your server will work correctly at the same time.
Let me put on my armchair psychologist hat and say:

I think it's due to the fact that in our society, men aren't socialized to think about feelings, and in fact, men are socialized to not have them. So it's not a surprise that these professions that require some form of feeling caring for one another lack men. For example teaching (sympathizing and empathizing with students and caring about their future), nursing (caring about patients well being and health), and PR (caring about the success of your customers) all require feeling.
Seems like a fair trade for the discounted price. Their normal program rates are about 5-10x more than the OMSCS program.
Randian perspectives are pretty common here.
There already is an open source analog:

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wget_with_WARC_ou... + http://archive.org/web/web.php
What is a non-relational object-relational mapping framework?
9th Grade Science Project Finds Plants Don’t Grow Near Wi-Fi
Five ninth-grade young women from Denmark recently created a science experiment that is causing a stir in the scientific community. They found that when garden cress seeds are placed near Wi-Fi, they simply will not grow.
He was probably venting.

Sadly, outsourcing is here to stay and is decided upon by CxO level folks with little to no input from the tech staff.
I would be happy with 1000 per month. Typically 10 from HN everyday and 10 from elsewhere. But I would not pay $50 per month for this.
by telling everyone that STEM is the place to be, isn't America doing just the same - creating people who are uninterested in what they are doing, but doing it anyway because it is the most likely way to stay employed in a field where the skills are in demand!
Writing & Communication and The Impact of Digital Technology
Am I misunderstanding, or are you suggesting that it would be exceptional for the U.S. to keep diplomatic negotiations private? ISTM that it's just the opposite: International discussions are almost always held in private. Why should what the USTR does be any different from, say, negotiation with an ally over a Status of Forces agreement?
Google as patent troll. Fancy that.