skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One might ask if there is a clear line between female and male brains (like genitals for example) or differences are more like height - statistically men are higher than women, but there's much overlap.

I believe that it is the second case - which means you really shouldn't base decisions on the sex of person and brain "wiring" you believe she or he has.
In my previous company there was a guy who used to run a tea stall. The entire stall was a extreme model of furniture hacking.

Not sure where he got his ideas from. His front door could be turned into a cash register + counter + door at the same time.

The store was full of furniture hacks.
This is a wonderful idea and an upstanding social service, in the same vein of giving heroin addicts access to free clean needles, pure heroin, and a safe place to shoot up.

There is no perfect solution -- in the ideal world, everyone would use safe healthy programming languages, and nobody would be addicted to shell scripting.

But in the real world, many people still choose to use shell scripting as a quick and easy short term solution to their problems.

Like the unhealthy temptation to use regexps for parsing html, shell scripting just causes more problems, which snowball out of control until you have the dire situation we're in today, with a whole generation of urban hipsters who learned cargo-cult cut-n-paste shell scripting by typing "more ./configure".

So it's much better to treat shell scripting as a health problem rather than a criminal problem.

My only suggestion is that you should sponsor links to "recovery programs," where people can learn to solve their problems with safe healthy programming languages instead of shell scripts. For the popular rube-goldbergesque shell incantations, you could show how to accomplish the same thing more comprehensibly in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Lisp, Forth, Mathematica, Quartz Composer, etc. ;)
Exactly: "Male and female brains showed few differences in connectivity up to the age of 13, but became more differentiated in 14- to 17-year-olds.”

Which can be hormonal, can be cultural, can be both.
+1 to this. The least work for uploader, the least work for the downloader to get them all.
I have to agree with Yegge, good tools are a big problem (http://googlehow.com/2013/10/09/stanford-seminar-googles-ste...). His project becomes more important as more compilers are written - I hope it exists outside Google someday.
How Spotify pays artists. Royalties, rates and payouts.
It's understandable why it's an issue to use heuristics based on a person's gender, race or upbringing are an issue. However, there are likely instances where it's useful. I honestly don't know how to separate my logic from emotions on this one, especially when it comes to things like racial profiling or hiring practices based on gender. I am ethically opposed to each, despite the fact that I know that they can often be useful.
I'd love to see this turnkey style hosting support php, databases and more

What kind of things are you looking for?
So as i understand it the 'use case' is for coercing 3rd party types into your own type hierarchy. Suppose you had:

trait Foo {
def bar(): Int
}

and 3rd party library had

final class FooBar extends java.lang.Object {
public int bar() { /** **/ }
}

you could simply define your methods to take in a:

type BarAble = { def bar():Int }

But obviously if the library class is not final, you can simply do:

type ThirdPartyFoo = FooBar with Foo
ThirdPartyFoo <: Foo
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Anonymous functions?
I needed some stiches in Croatia, it came to about 40 euros.
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The Internet really isnt all that omnipresent
Please read Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender, because it goes into exactly why things like this are bogus science.
Waitsourcing, approaches to low-effort crowdsourcing
Yeah, while we probably don't need a multitude of threads, the complaining is warranted. I spent 20s there until deciding to check the comments so someone can tell me what it is.
2. All the best games like GTA, metal gear solid is out on the first of the days when the console is out. Marketing. I remember those days my friends played GTA 4. I first played it on PC and later on xbox 2. I had a lot of fun and yes i get them almost FREE or very cheap.

4. Piracy is wrong. I agree. Im sad for the developers that depends from the big companies like MS and PS. But what is the point to buy a 4 games for the price of the console? And after you must spend money for unnecessary addons and maps that costs no so cheap. This is not my fault that i don't buy a games. (almost addons and maps that i wanted are free now or cheaper) And those poor people who buy the game and cant refund it, because they cant test it. I dont mention disk scratches, the whole box with a lot of CDS that no one needs and i cant even sell. Year i know about cloud games.

9. The high tech industry never stops and even if you buy a console now, tomorrow someone like Steam will release a new one, so i dont see a difference, Yeah i prefer be the last guy that the mass of sheeps. Like those you see killing people and fighting to buy a new console.

6. New features to the old game ? I doubt. 11. A few, even Fable was released on PC.

12. A consuming world. Its so sad.

ps: i just wanted to share my style of life about console games. My last console was playstation (i sell it in 2001 ) and now im on xbox 2 for 3 years and i will do the same with the new ones.
A 100% proper controlled experiment with double blinding etc. is not possible, perhaps, but there are transgender children who often are raised as if they were of their physical sex, which obviously causes them to suffer.

I always wondered - if it's purely a social construct that boys play with trucks and girls play with dolls etc., then why in most stories about a girl trapped in a boy's body we hear her say "I wanted to play with girls" (contrary to society's expectations), "I wanted to play with dolls" etc.?

I googled it up just now - http://prospect.org/article/transgender-candidate

The story of Bindaya Rana (from Pakistani), who was born as a male:

"Bindiya Rana, one of Pakistan’s first transgender candidates [...] “I used to wear my sister’s clothes,” she said. “And use lipstick and powder and nail polish. I wanted to play with dolls and be in the kitchen.” Her parents disapproved when they found her in makeup, beating her."

It's a gaping hole in the theory that we are wired differently "as we grow up due to the different experiences and upbringing men and women are subject to".

If one's self-identified gender could be overriden so easily, there would me much less personal tragedies in this world.
Note that the article cleverly omits any numerical data, likely not to scare of the numberophobic readers. Nowhere does it say whether female brains where 0.1% more connected, 1%, 10%, 100% or 1000% across hemispheres. It just says "more connected." So, if you want to calibrate your gender difference prejudices those numbers are very important -- without them the article doesn't say very much.
What we see in Clojure (like other Lisps) is minimal syntax directed at the idea of homoiconicity. This means that the program's structure is similar to its syntax. It also means that we can represent the program as a data structure in the language itself.

So (1) Simple syntax, and (2) being able to represent the program structure in the language easily, both lead to making it easy to build compilers, interpreters and bytecode compilers. The barrier to entry for these tasks is lower in Clojure.

Many would also say that (1) and (2) make Clojure a joy to program in, but I'll leave that to the reader to judge for themselves.
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Reminds me of a project I built this spring:

http://imgur.com/a/HLbWF
I'm sure "Gender Studies" will find a way to discredit such findings.. ;)
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The audience is self-selected. The ones that don't know any better see only a condescend tone instead of the material. They don't get the difference between "lines spent" and "lines produced" and they don't know that computers were used to "compute" and thus the formalism was absolutely necessary to trust the result.

What we write today is WoW and stuff we don't need formalism to prove they don't crash - because, you know, who cares about that?

Dijkstra comes from a time were you could reuse a piece of software and build upon it because you could understand it. Today nobody does it because the software is "disposable". Who cares about proving a piece of future garbage?
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I sometimes like to do early stage design documents with felt-tip pens or wax crayons, because it prevents you from writing fiddly details and encourages you to sketch broad structures.

I think this is more of a designer concept but you can apply it to engineering as well.
That sounds like Java alright. Or maybe that's C++.
That's Penny Arcade you're thinking of.
Seems likely that a large chunk of this is hormonally affected - seeing as the changes kick in at the start of puberty.

In which case it's worth remembering that hormonal levels vary dramatically for both men and women, and I'd expect that over a large sample size you'd see a fair amount of crossover.
Wouldn't that indicate an effect caused by puberty instead? Not that nurture can't affect puberty, but I don't think having a beard was caused by how my parents raised me ;)
F1 2014: All aboard the 'power train' - new rules explained
This is truly inspirational. You could have added the photo of the genius along with this post.
Before you ask: I didn't include the original article because this doesn't benefit my friend and colleague.
Can you elaborate? What kind of issues you had with GApps and Adwords and what kind of support you got from them?
The fact is that in a lot of European countries, they don't even have AT&T.
No, you are not getting the point. When you do millions of 10000 coin flips, the chance that one of them will be 8000 heads is not 50:50. Look up 'birthday paradox'.
Thank you! American(?) writing style where letters do not connect is just too wierd.
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I'm not talking about $50 a month (and that won't get you very far)

I'm talking about $1k to $10k (in orders of magnitude) which, yes, it's not top tier but it's not cheap as well
Where it would come into play is:

Two Candidates, identical qualifications, identical experience, both interview well, I'm going to go with my 'intuition' to make the final call, whatever it is that goes into that is between myself and my concience.
Yep, augmented + wearable tech seems like the future
What can a parent do to help the child with ADHD?
TBH, i don't see so many Scala rants on the HN frontpage (surely not every week).
It's kind of amazing how people take some little blog rant of some random stranger so personal and a whole community debates about it..
While I agree that its horrible for agencies to be doing this, I must also say - if it is breakable, then it is not good enough. We shouldn't have to worry about whether someone can break encryption or not. We shouldn't have to guard the guards. The factors of morality and ethics and trust needs to be removed from the equation entirely, because there will always be parties that are not moral, ethical, or trustworthy. This is happening at a good time in history. There are people who are doing what they can to make sure it doesn't happen again. We've only had the internet for 30 years. Lets patch it now.
I'm positively surprised.

Given the headline, the cause for that thread, I expected a heated debate, laying blame everywhere. Instead I found a reasonable (if a bit defensive - if Martin is the creator of Scala I can totally understand that) poll for ways to improve Scala's flaws and image problems.

The discussion was mostly a very good read as well. I haven't written a single line of Scala in my life (I'm a fan of Clojure and F# to some degrees), but this thread looks gives me the impression the Scala community is mature and open.

Basically that thread managed to offset a number of "Scala's not working for me" reports by itself.
Except it's free.
That sounds very liberal and open minded, but it really isn't. Us native speakers of minor languages speak that minor language because it is the only communications tool that allows us to fully understand and to be fully understood, not just to provide you normal people a little extra insight.

Many people think of language as part of their group identity, but in a very real way it is just a tool that makes it possible for multiple people to be a group. A minor language confines you to a smaller group, and is therefor a less useful tool.

This is why minority children don't want to preserve the language of their grandparents. It confines you to a lower level of understanding and being understood, to a less successful education and career, and worst of all, to being a quaint object of study and marvel for the likes of you.
I seriously doubt preferences for lipstick and nail polish are genetic. For most of human evolution, there were no such things around.
It does make far more sense that this is the results of what the people in question have been practicing.
The quality of the original "1-star" blog post was extremely low. Odersky sums it up well with:

This week-end's edition is called "Scala - 1 Star - would not program again", and it's by someone who from reading his post seems to have written Scala all of two weeks after coming form Javascript. I think the interesting bit is not so much that these posts are written, but that they are upvoted so much.

I was also very surprised to see such a low-quality blog post being voted up with such enthusiasm on HN and elsewhere.
> To this day the level of denial around Samsung blatant imitation of the iPhone is staggering.

The problem is that I can't think of any other design that a modern smartphone would have other than "piece of glass encased in plastic/metal, with maybe a button underneath". As far as I can see the screen is the phone, and given that constraint there isn't really anywhere else to go.
I just canceled Dropbox as their stupid app now asks for control over my contact lists. Absolute no-go -> uninstall and cancel acoount.
It would have been far more interesting if the study was on the brains of mathematicians (everyone has the same career), in more than one country (help removes one cultures influence).
I don't know, and certainly the brain seems to be very amendable (ie taxi drivers have enlarged regions for dealing with maps).

However, I'd like to point out that there apparently is a genetic difference in male and female bodies. While women can become very strong and develop "body builder" physiques, it's certainly not the norm (also not sure how much hormone pills play a role in the women who turn out like that).

Of course from that it doesn't follow that differences in the brain are genetic, but imo it makes it seem possible. Clearly the physique is optimized for different ways of living, so why not the brain.
Removing structural typing wouldn't be an improvement to my mind. It's the sort of thing you use maybe once a year, but when you do it's extremely useful to have around. It's a bit like saying that removing the ternary conditional operator in Java would make a big difference to developers' lives.
Calling your opponents names like "Libertardians" makes it hard to take you seriously.
At least you didn't try to do that in bash! ;)

One suggestion though: If there are no command line parameters, then read a line from stdin, so you don't have to play the game of trying to properly escape all of your punctuation in the command line to get it into sys.argv[1:] without any corruption, and can just copy and paste it into stdin.

Hmm, that raises the question of what should happen if you pipe an entire shell script into it, like "./configure"? That might be considered a denial of service attack on explainshell.com.
The article is written in highly manipulative way. It uses statements "it's fact", "it's known", "it's true" to express author's opinion.
Goodman has since responded to this allegation (it's in the story): "I did not review the data in the Séralini study, nor did I have anything to do with the determination that the paper should be withdrawn from or retained by the journal." The decision was already made by the previous editor. Indeed, despite peer review, papers are withdrawn every day. That's because peer review isn't perfect but the best possible system that's available.
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I always wondered - if it's purely a social construct that boys play with trucks and girls play with dolls etc., then why in most stories about a girl trapped in a boy's body we hear her say "I wanted to play with girls" (contrary to society's expectations), "I wanted to play with dolls" etc.?

Possibly because they identify themselves with other girls, and are more susceptible to the same influences? If society expects a certain gender as a whole to behave in a certain way, and an individual identifies with that gender, then it's not odd that it may be influenced as well.

Not that I have no idea if this is true or not, I just find that an unconvincing argument against the social construct theory.
That doesn't stop people trying to figure it out, and being consistently wrong on every turn doing so. HR stands as a shining example here, hiding behind "personality tests".
It depends on whether upper management gives special projects the importance they need or not. Almost every large company has a research division, but in most, it is the playground where they keep the guys that are too smart and competent to fire, but that have ideas too radical for main divisions' heads to accept.
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In the beginning of this year, I was setting up Dutchstartupjobs, together with Pól O’Conaill, a designer from Ireland. The website was addressing a quite intensive market need – there seemed to be a whole in the market – at least that was what we thought. We possessed the idealistic passion and basic skills to make it happen and create this idea; we knew the market was asking for it
mmmmh have you check the chinese constitution, or chinese laws ?

yep.
Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
We are out of 4 letter .com domains
For some it's old news, but it's good to remind ourselves.
I think the kind of features you use maybe once a year are a bad thing to have in programming languages - ease of reading is more important than ease of writing.
vpenis.sh also has trouble explaining. It's a bit of a challenge for anyone, though.

echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.up \([0-9]\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat \
/proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4"/30 +";}';free|grep \
'^Mem'|awk '{print $3"/1024/3+"}'; df -P -k -x nfs | grep -v \
1k | awk '{if ($1 ~ "/dev/(scsi|sd|md)"){ s+= $2} s+= $2;} END \
{print s/1024/50"/15+70";}'`|bc|sed 's/\(.$\)/.\1cm/
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Seems like a mistake, not a criminal offense.
Im actually referencing this incident I read about on reddit:

http://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1qjg3s/we_make_the_game...
Really no idea? Maybe it's that glowing pink target you have taped on your back that reads "300bps"? :)
Well, one could have genetic differences that lead to those preferences; it doesn't have to be an encoded preference for a particular type of object.

For example, a genetic predisposition towards competition and physical activity could lead to a general preference for certain kinds of sports, even if those didn't exist for most of human evolution.

In case you haven't noticed, I'm talking out of my ass here, I have no idea if this is true, it just seems a reasonable possibility.
No it's not. The correct analogy would be "it's useless to have a sword because my enemy has a magic shield that is easy to use, impossible to detect and will hurt me if I hit it". If such shields existed, then certainly, they would make swords useless.

Likewise, it's reasonable to deduce that certain kinds of intelligence gathering are useless if you start from the premise that counter intelligence is easy to generate and difficult to detect. If you disagree with that conclusion, then I think you probably disagree with the premise rather than the logical argument. I don't know anything about spying, but if you can share some insight into whether or not the premise holds water, that would be interesting. The article specifically talks about examples where counter intelligence would be hard to generate or easy to detect. What did you think of those examples? Do you have more? Do you have insight into why counter intelligence would be harder to generate or easier to detect in general?
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Simple PHP Algorithm to Get Wikipedia Hits
<?php
//Algorithm for WikiStats

while(1)
{
echo "Welcome to Wikistats\n";
echo "Enter the Keyword ....\n";
$var = fgets(STDIN);
//echo $var;
$var=str_replace(' ','_',$var);
$day=date("d");
$rurl="curl 'http://stats.grok.se/en/".date("Y").date("m")."/".$var."' | grep 'has been'";
//$data=system("curl 'http://stats.grok.se/en/201312/india' | grep 'has been'");
$data=system($rurl);
$split = explode(" ", $data);
$rcount=$split[count($split)-1];

echo "\n\n-------------------------------------------";
echo "\nWiki Statasticts for Keyword :: ".$var;
echo "\nPresentMonthHits -> ".$rcount."\n\n";
echo "AverageDayHits -> ".$rcount/$day."\n\n";
echo "-------------------------------------------\n";
}
?>
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I am more than eager to see all the beautiful programs you inferred using predicate transformers and hear about your experiences doing software engineering this way in teams of size more than 1.
Interesting theory you have there on these 'beards'...
Can someone with more ZIP-algorithm knowledge than me explain why a difference in word length of 5 characters can result in a difference of compressed result length of 50 characters? I mean, a reference to a 1000-character word takes as much space as a reference to a 1-character word?
But is that a woman as society has created, or a woman as they are born?
I should also point out that it's a feature which I don't believe detracts from readability. It's pretty clear from looking at code which uses ST what it does. There are examples in this thread.

It's a feature that you will use directly maybe once a year when adding it to a library, but I then use that library (and indirectly that feature) virtually every day. YMMV but we've found it very useful.
"Internet security is hard," he says with emphasis. "All systems have undiscovered holes in them, and it's only a question of how fast the bad guys can discover the holes compared with how fast the good guys can patch them up."

The internet should be thought of as something that transcends the notion of governments and nations; it's a tool for all of humanity regardless of who they are and where they live. The NSA should be considered just another "bad guy" in this scenario - a well-funded arm of a group of people who don't necessarily have the good of humanity as a whole at heart. Literally anyone who wants to manipulate the way the internet works away from an open tool for communication and sharing, to subvert it and break it for their personal gain, or that of their corporation, organisation, government or nation, is the bad guy.
um... brace.io anyone?? They jsut sent me their free invite. Seems oretty cool to me. Anyone know any reasons why this is better?
Bloomberg did not have Chinese state secrets in their possession.