skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of your research is from 20 years ago. Cultural norms play a huge part in this and norms have been changing (compare what you'd read about the roles of women in the 1950's vs today).

My mother built one business after another even though my grandfather was forcing her to be a math teacher. She started 4+ businesses and each one carried the name of a guy in my family (even my brother, as soon as he turned 18) because businesses weren't supposed to be led by women.

I am female. At 8 I was hit on as the only girl hanging out in a robotics lab. At 13 I was mocked for writing code. At 15 I was asked to quit school to work at a tech firm, but instead I kept working on my own freelance business in parallel. At 18 I ranked second among peers in my country. I moved to the US, kept working, and continue to grow my skills and tech startup in the valley today. There are many more like me. Wait 10 more years and see what happens to the statistics and attitudes. In the mean time, my job is to keep proving those that bet against me and other female hacker-founders wrong through the product of my work.
I've termed this type of development "Maintenance Driven Development" (http://taylodl.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/maintenance-driven-d...)

Yes, it's a good idea to write unit tests for the existing code base, though be careful with setting unrealistic expectations with regards to test coverage. The goal is to better understand the existing code base and have tests around the most critical parts of functionality to provide evidence they haven't been negatively impacted by the code changes.
I agree, nonetheless it's something the mixlr team will learn from and adjust their sails accordingly.
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They also asking for word Doc so they could put their logo on top of the CV.

I dont even own word anymore.
I think you've got a few options. Route 1 is to spread it by hand, post it on 4chan /v/ or on Neogaf and ask for advice there, as you did here.

Second option is to buy actual ads on those same sites, Facebook, Twitter.

But the best option, though the hardest, is for you to begin making the game show off your personality a bit more. Make it more unique. Think Kingdom of Loathing or Candy Box: both have totally unique writing and worlds, and aren't just the standard orcs and goblins. What are you into, personally? What's some private joke you have with yourself you can spread across this game like a layer of butter?

Finally, giving people more ownership of the game world will encourage them to invite friends. Perhaps an "invite 5 friends, get your own house in the game" type thing. Growing it via social networks is half of that, but the other half is allowing players to have something in the world they'd want to show to someone else.

Good luck! You're already doing a great job. Watch player growth religiously. It's your guide to where advertising works.
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But why do they get such jobs? Because of rigid gender roles that force them to be a certain way.

What’s your alternative explanation?
Plausible deniability and forward security (why not to use PGP)
>I tend to think of it as the same reason minorities are not prevalent in these places either

Except that they are. Do Chinese and Indian people cease to be minorities when discussing tech?
I don't believe (note: no statistics were examined in the making of this answer) "Waldo" is a particularly American name. "Wally" has at least some traction, if not particularly recently.
Didn't I just see a story about quadcopter design, and how helicopters were actually more efficient due to the single large rotor?

Here it is:
http://www.geek.com/science/weve-been-designing-quadcopters-...
Ah yes. Andrew wiles preferred to work on his own and he 'disappeared' for years before he came up with his proof.
On the one hand, I agree with the ideas here. On the other hand, it really worries me when I find out that some server doesn't delete the data when I tell it to delete it. For example, when you delete your Facebook profile or your mails on GMail, wouldn't you like that data to be utterly destroyed?

What would be the correct solution, the one that balances out both of these needs?
This a node knockout entrant (not by me) that I found super-fascinating, particularly because of its pitch as a monetization alternative to advertising.

There are a lot of issues the creators haven't addressed yet: opt-in, preventing user experience / performance from suffering, what's the actual amount of money you're making from traffic compared to ad revenue, etc.

But I think the concept has potential, and wanted to show HN.
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Giving notice is a totally antiquated concept altogether.
Newspaper lobbies (they exist, right?) have to be focused on keeping this around...
Only a very tiny number of people would argue that.
As patio11 mentioned, moving off the CookieStore is a step in the right direction, with the understanding of course that you guard whatever you move to with your life. That means the db with the ActiveRecord store, or memcached if you're putting it in the cache store with the cache set to memcached. With memcached, be careful not to leave the port open to the internet if you're managing it on your own (it's designed to be used inside a trusted network, just like redis).

In theory, an additional precaution one could take: change the default session serializer to `JSON`. By using `JSON` instead of `Marshal`, you're limited to storing strings, hashes and arrays in the session, but that's a good thing. The remote code execution vulnerability takes advantage of `Marshal` deserializing the session and loading objects deep within the Rails process in order to run arbitrary code. Take away that ability by using `JSON` instead of `Marshal` and you should no longer have to worry about this particular attack vector.

After a brief spelunk of the Rails codebase (and not getting very far, my laptop bricked itself today) there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this, apart from finding the instance of `ActiveSupport::MessageVerifier` in your rails process and then running something like `verifier.instance_variable_set(:@serializer, JSON)`.
Before the 1970's most professionals and union workers had fixed-benefit pensions run by large corporations, supervised by accountants with very serious looks on their faces. As 401(k)'s became common for normal workers, instead of just perks for C*O's, all of a sudden their was a massive influx of money into the DJIA and NASDAQ, just as the baby boomers "save for retirement", mostly influenced by people like Jim Cramer and other dancing-finance-clowns.

Also notice that the housing crash happened just as all the baby boomers' children go off to college and they decide to down-size from their McMansions since they are empty-nesters now.

Thirdly notice how now medical expenditures nationwide are climbing greatly now that they are all becoming old and sickly. The next 10-15 years are a great time to be in the medical field, even with ObamaCare. But then as they die off it will be a horrible place to try to get a job.
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>The world at large isn't ready to hear these statistics

Not the "world at large". Just (provincial) middle/upper class America.

>We shouldn't accept these disparities as driven by natural forces until we've tried everything we can imagine to try to bring the differences in line.

Shouldn't we in fact try to understand what's going on, instead of trying to change it because of a priori notion that there shouldn't be disparities (which, if disparities exist due to natural forces will be unatural and unjust).

Disparity (e.g less women in Tech) is NOT a problem in itself.

Obstacles to access is a problem (e.g a woman not being let to work Tech -- eg not being hired because she is a woman).

Also, why is IT somewhat different? I don't see much push for more female fishermen or male nurses, to name two random professions with similar disparities.
Arbitrary top-down usability guidelines from the early web aren't the unquestionable gospel you think they are.
> The nation-state is a relatively new concept in social history

The nation-state is relatively new as the dominant high-level model of government, and as a named concept, sure; but government isn't new, and the issue wasn't nation-states but government (and, heck, many modern governments only conform very loosely to the idea of a nation-state.)

> National governments are neither necessary nor a proven good thing.

Prior to the dominance nation-state, governments, with many of the same institutional forms found in nation states, had existed for quite some time. The only unique thing about national governments or nation-states is the alignment of the boundaries of the government's jurisdiction (the domain of the state) with scope of a shared national identity (the domain of the nation).
Looking bad over History, many groups have been denied the right to vote, denied basic human rights, and killed, because it was decided they were different, and therefore this treatment was reasonable.

I am unaware of any reasonable comparisons of where trying to ignore natural differences has caused anything resembling the same level of suffering. I would be interested in some examples you could provide.
pretty much every genocide ever?
yep. but python after a while you dont consult it for basic stuff.. with php... even after a decade... im still going there to remember if a method is all words glued, or with underscore... and the argument orders, etc.

hint php.net/method will take you direct to the docs to check that argument ordering
The official announce email ( https://lwn.net/Articles/574273/ ) provides a bit more detail, including a link to the Jailhouse presentation at this year's KVM Forum for the differences between KVM and Jailhouse:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6HTUUWSPdd-Zl93MVhlMnRJRjg
"Coworkers have gotten used to pinging me or waving to get my attention" . One of my coworker is just like you. We have to ping him to have small discussions.
Or "Walter", which seems more common in the U.S.

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I think the issue comes across pretty clearly in the initial conversations. If you're dealing with a client looking for the cheapest possible website, he's going to force the issue of price early on. If you're dealing with a solution-oriented one, there's some understanding of the cost to value relationship.

To me, that's the key. Value. A $10,000 website is a bargain if it allows them to bring in much more than that in new business or save more than that in costs. But to get that message across, you have to quantify and drive home the potential payoff.
That's the approach I'll be taking when writing a future side project. Fully API driven with go. Angular/Grunt/Bower for frontend, perhaps served by go or possibly on a separate machine serving just HTML, just to see how it performs.

I've even considered Github pages for the HTML. But probably not for production :)
Trousseau: an encrypted and networked key-value database
Trousseau is a gpg encrypted key-value store designed to be a simple, safe and relient place for your data. It stores data in a single multi-recipients encrypted file and can supports both local and remote storage sources (S3 and ssh so far) import/export.

Create a trousseau store, specify which gpg recipients are allowed to open and modify it, and adding some key-value pairs to, export it to s3 for example, and re-import it on another device. As simple as that.

Whether you're a devops, a paranoid guy living in a bunker, or the random user who seek a simple way to store it's critical data in safe maneer. Trousseau can do something for you.
Hmm. This would require a representation of the complete state history in resource urls, wouldn't it? I can only come up with something like /image/edit1/edit2/edit3/edit4 where going back would bring you to /image/edit1/edit2/edit3.

I suppose you can also do something state-based
like /image/state4 going back to /image/state3. This would push the storage of the edit stack to the server.

Is this what you mean?
It could be the butterfly effect. It starts with children. Better at math -> more interested in math -> better at math -> ... by they time young adults start seeking jobs, a small initial bias has turned into a large gap.

Personally, I don't think that's the whole story (according to my observations, it's also upbringing, girls socialize more than boys, who are more likely to keep to themselves, and differences in topics of interest, which I have no idea what they come from).
This is the most exciting kind of virtualization I've seen. I wish it was ready for prime time so I could use it for real!
As someone who likes photography, I have to disagree about your reasoning. The clarity of your subject is as much about how much it is in focus as how much irrelevant things are out of focus. Portrait photos are often beautiful when the lens has good bokeh characteristics.
The site keeps failing to load or shows me a facebook banner with no close button. So I mirrored the photos and captions: http://imgur.com/a/JdZ7A

I'm very interested in North Korea and this is a fascinating album.
> has been a paying Mixlr subscriber for the last 4 months and broadcast more than 20 times

> On Friday, one of their representatives dropped us an email
So just in case the site goes down again (because when I went there, it appeared to be down, and then recovered):

* http://instagram.com/dguttenfelder (n.b. more recent photos are Philippines, not NK)

* http://davidguttenfelder.com/
It is open source though.
IT is different because that's where the money and the power is (compared to fisherman and male nurses).
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Documentation was originally the reason why I started working on php all those years ago, and that set the bar for every other language that i've working on since!
Normally businesses don't disclose who their customers are without prior approval.
>Over the course of history, far more bad has been wrought by assuming differences were innate than assuming they were the result of bias.

An obvious counterexample would be sexual orientation: believing that being gay is a choice is used by many as an argument to justify discrimination.
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Here is a linked brushing example in the IPython notebook.
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/ContinuumIO/...
Right click, then inspect, find the element and delete right on the page.

I do this all the time on website that do this cover trick.
Huh. A bug should be filed..
> Slightly off-topic, but I don't understand how a deflationary currency could be practical.

It can't.
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and make it work for Android.
same opnions.

also, remember 1st time i went to php.net. it was a screenfull design (no scroll) with a curved navigation on the side (probably images cut in a table) and everywhere you moused over that navigation a popup with transparent ballon showed... i didnt even read the site content and dismissed it as a dhtml-for-cms fad and contied to use only apache as my backend framework
* Sends every pageview to Google.

you mean it has analytics, like every other page on the internet.

* Fixed header takes away screen real estate.

it's modern, you know, where people have screens larger than VGA. This isn't 1998 anymore.

* Search does not work without javascript.

Very hard to be a nice guy with this sort of comment. Javascript is part of the web fabric, if you switch it off much of the web breaks. Switch off CSS and you'll notice the page doesn't look very good either. javascript is to behaviour what css is to appearance. I'm really tired of people who switch off js and then complain. Get with the program! Saying something as utterly stupid as this negates any other potentially valid point you might have had.

* I do not like it.

http://weknowmemes.com/2011/05/and-not-a-single-fuck-was-giv...
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Very interesting! Hacker School seems like something I'd like to do once I get my coding chops above absolute beginner level, it's nice to read a personal account of someone's experience. Hopefully I'll be applying sooner than later!
"If you look at the profiles of Twitter’s board members, you'll notice that all of them either have educational backgrounds in Computer Science and/or have spent decades in the Silicon Valley tech trenches, clearly developing a deep understanding of technology."

I looked at all of the board members, and only 1 out of 7 has a CS background. 4 out of 7 have B.As/MBAs from elite schools, and immediately stepped into executive positions. I guess that's called "the trenches" these days. Their background literally screams "Old Boy's network." Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey have no education information mentioned and I don't think they did much coding on their way up.

So whatever the merits of this article, I don't see how the argument that the cause of this is in any way that not enough women go into STEM fields is a valid one.
...and they were different, culturally, philosophically, in every case I can think of.
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If you do regular meditation ( Seven Pranayams ), then you can concentrate on your work easily. Little chat and your surrounding will not be able to disturb you any more. That may sound unbelievable but I do this and I know this is one of the many benefits I got from meditation.
Excellent link. Exactly why I read the comments here on HN.
> Disparity (e.g less women in Tech) is NOT a problem in itself.

Sure it is. Lack of diversity means lack of understanding about other uses. It also means that biases can go unchecked, and can develop into accepted wisdom.

> Also, why is IT somewhat different?

Because the (false) reasons given for other occupations don't apply at all for tech. "Men are stronger, that's why you don't get women in construction"; "women are nurturing, that's why they make good nurses".

> I don't see much push for more female fishermen or male nurses, to name two random professions with similar disparities.

Have you looked? I'm not sure about fishermen, but there are many programmes to increase the number of men in nursing, or women in construction.
Just picking some random favorites, I looked at "Symphony X", and then flipped over to "Least Likely". There are several artists there -- Adele, The Offspring, Johnny Cash -- that I quite enjoy.

IMHO, it doesn't seem correct to ask people for their "favorite bands". It would seem more accurate to ask them "when you're in a given mood, what bands will you most enjoy hearing?". At the right times, I'd be equally happy to hear Symphony X or Johnny Cash. But at any given time, I'm going to prefer one or the other. So why not just let the contributors spell out those similarity sets for you?

It seems to me that you're grouping things that are similar in some stronger sense than that they're the favorites of some people. And conversely, the way you're getting the data -- asking for favorites you'd be missing out on a bunch of minor bands that aren't anyone's favorite, but still enjoyed by people.
This is how you've obtained all of your data? When did the site launch? There was no original set of data that you started with?
I thought bokeh was the aesthetic quality of the out of focus area, not the area itself.
I will have to check that video out. I'm aware that Haskell's run-time support is written in C and I don't believe that is a mistake.

Right tool for the job after all. For many use cases in my experience though, you don't want undefined behavior.
My story is very similar. After high school I went to study computer science in college. Then, just before I got my bachelor's degree, I decided to apply to a programme in molecular biology instead of further pursuing master's degree in computer science.

Switching gears was the best decision of my life. I've never had so much fun as I had while attending the introductory lectures in cell or molecular biology. So many mind-blowing things I never would've imagine...

Now I'm hoping to get into a PhD programme in genetics. Can't wait to learn about other amazing stuff waiting out there. :)
"When Apple sold the original iPod, they weren't selling an MP3 player (those were already on the market), they were selling 5,000 songs in your pocket. The simple shift in value statements changed the game. The net result was that Apple's product not only cost a lot more, but it became one of the first devices to be sold worldwide with universal love."

Uh, I feel like there was a lot more to this than mentioned
It's the IRS rule, not a company rule. I'm not super-clear what motivated IRS decision

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> Now our refrigerators are going to be linked to some smart grid that will let utilities shape our electricity demand.

This is already happening[1] in Ontario: homes are encouraged to have smart meters manage your central air/central heating. You may adjust the internal temperature to your liking, however there is no guarantee that it will truthfully report the temperature.

I've personally experienced such deception where I would adjust the settings and the internal temperature would move to the new target without any air-con/heating being activated. It's quite frustrating because then I would further fiddle with the temperature, and then it would be too hot/too cold.

[1] http://www.energy.gov.on.ca/en/smart-meters-and-tou-prices/
> A secret collection of mass meta-data collection being examined by people without security clearance is unlikely to find any benefit because no-one is going to tell them what happens with the data. "We see no evidence of benefit" could mean "there is no benefit, and thus we haven't seen any evidence" or it could mean "there is plenty of benefit, but that's all secret, and no-one will tell us about it, and thus we've seen no evidence of benefit".

I'm sure you are aware but Sen. Wyden is on the Select Committee on Intelligence. He is hardly a random guy with no security clearance. If he hasn't seen any evidence that the bulk surveillance has any benefit, then the NSA is withholding critical information from the people that are supposed to be performing oversight over them.
"started selling his time for $1 per hour, increasing the price by another dollar each time an hour was sold."

So I'm very confused by the methodology. That description (which seems to be taken from onehour.me) seems to indicate that the price is unbounded and monotonic.
Actual, bokeh is about the quality of the blur. Yes, blur can have quality. If you simply removed everything that was not in focus, you lose context and texture about the subject. If you use a pinhole camera and present everything in sharp focus, you lose the insight.

This is actually mentioned in the documentation:
http://bokeh.pydata.org/#technical-vision

"""
Photographers use the Japanese word “bokeh” to describe the blurring of the out-of-focus parts of an image. Its aesthetic quality can greatly enhance a photograph, and photographers artfully use focus to draw attention to subjects of interest. “Good bokeh” contributes visual interest to a photograph and places its subjects in context.

In this vein of focusing on high-impact subjects while always maintaining a relationship to the data background, the Bokeh project attempts to address fundamental challenges of large dataset visualization...
"""