skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not an "issue" so much as a pervasive problem. Presuming default-male is bad form, and it has a subtle excluding effect.

Replacing "him" with "the user" might seem inconsequential, but it's a tiny step in the right direction. A few million more like that and we'll be getting somewhere.
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That commit was made in response to this incident. No commit process was previously documented.
Beautiful package. I use it on my personal 13" MBP for R, Python, Go, and C++ development, and I'm impressed. No seams so far and low overhead :)
Here are some very informative articles about ISRO MOM, by Emily Lakdawalla of The Planetary Society:

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/congrat...

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/1122094...

Second link nicely explains the differences between NASA MAVEN and ISRO MOM trajectories.
Seconded. Hands down the most sophisticated hack I've seen in my life. I am absolutely amazed that something like this is possible.
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Don't worry. You'd be better off using a normal text editor anyway. GTK+ is flaky on non Linux/BSD systems.

They should note what some of the OpenDylan folks are doing and write a plugin for Intellij.
There's a bunch of research suggesting that using "he" as a neuter pronoun makes women feel excluded:
- First experiment/study I found: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12...
- Links to more research on the subject: http://alyx.io/educational-resources/gender.html#generic-mas...

Douglas Hofstadter wrote a good piece of satire explaining why it's oppressive by s/man/white, etc: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html

Contrary to what you say, "they" was used as the singular neuter pronoun for a long time, until a concentrated effort to force it out of use in the 1800s. Some examples from a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6824352. Some history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

Given it's possibly (likely) ostracizing and there's nothing categorically wrong about using "they" as a singular neuter pronoun, I think you're on the wrong side of this.

People should certainly stop fighting; the answer is to just roll with "they".
I'm Indian, and would like to start a gallery of "ghastly Indian government websites". If you want to gaze in horrified fascination at the train wreck of execrable blink tags, long scrolling marquees, and millions of unintelligible categories, go look at:

Delhi Govt.: http://delhi.gov.in/

BSNL (a leading public sector telco): http://www.bsnl.co.in/

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre: http://barcrecruit.gov.in/

Nehru Science Centre: http://www.nehrusciencecentre.gov.in/

Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research: http://www.igcar.ernet.in/

This being said, I feel pretty good about the fact that ISRO and others' ramshackle websites don't seem to be too indicative of their technical prowess, though they are undoubtedly embarrassing.

[Possibly jingoistic downvoters -- do you actually think these websites are decent, or even half-decent? Be honest.]
Should I upgrade to VirtualBox 4.3 yet or stick with 4.2? I remember you cautioning about new things not being as stable in 4.3.
Sure. Will follow up. Thanks again.
This report is commonly referred to just as "The First Draft Report", and was widely distributed enough in its 'first draft' form to constitute as a publication in a later patent dispute (that is to say that one of the reasons the patents were invalidated was because they were filed over a year after this report got distributed).
That's unlikely to happen soon. Five years back, on behalf of my company, I went to make a technical presentation on how a CMS could benefit in maintaining the website for one of their centers. To my shock, they wanted the CMS to write to a Compact Disc and the CD would then be inserted on the server for copying the content. All of that to manage security risks.

That said, I am amazed they now maintain a neat Facebook Page and live stream launches
It's true that historically "he" has often been used a generic pronoun, but singular "they" also has a long history. I'd start with this Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

Some object to the usage because:

> Proponents of gender-neutral language argue that the use of gender-specific language often implies male superiority or reflects an unequal state of society. According to The Handbook of English Linguistics, generic masculine pronouns and gender-specific job titles are instances "where English linguistic convention has historically treated men as prototypical of the human species." Words that refer to women often devolve in meaning, frequently taking on sexual overtones.

> These differences in usage are criticized on two grounds: one, that they reflect a biased state of society, and two, that they help to uphold that state. Studies of children, for instance, indicate that the words children hear affect their perceptions of the gender-appropriateness of certain careers. Other research has demonstrated that men and women apply for jobs in more equal proportions when gender-neutral language is used in the advertisement, as opposed to the generic he or man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_language_in_Eng...

Many years ago, I would have agreed with you that using "he" as neuter was correct and therefore preferable to singular "they". I no longer feel that way. I'd attribute that change in opinion to two causes:

One, I'm less concerned with by-the-book "correctness" and pedantry, and more concerned with the real-world effect my words have on people.

Two, I now realize that English is a living, evolving language, and there is no one authority on what is or is not correct usage. What is widely held to be proper English at a given time is a product of who happened to have influence in society at that time, no more, no less.

Also, although this is not what changed my opinion, I find it interesting to note that many of the same people who call the matter trivial will also expend considerable time and effort defending generic "he". If you find it so trivial, why not humor the people who think gender-neutral language is important?
awesome! Fun example to teach arbitrary code exploitation!
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Hi HN
We have developed a google chrome extension that does product price comparison across 47 stores in India and also can help you set price drop alerts when the price of a product changes. The product can be found here http://compare.buyhatke.com/extension.php?utm_source=hn. I would love to know feedback from community on how can we improve it further. We would like to know globally how much it would be appreciated if we launch it for amazon, bestbuy like major stores.

We would love to know if a price graph for major stores like amazon, flipkart etc would be valuable information for the user ?
I don't use Vagrant, but it is on my radar. I have a manual virtualbox setup and a few shell aliases that enable me to quickly boot/shutdown virtual environments I need. To anyone who wants to do the same, read a bit about VBoxManage [0]. You can do a lot to manage virtual machines on virtualbox through it.

That said, the nice thing Vagrant brings to the table is it supports multiple providers. I can't seem to see a solid listing of which in their documentation, but they mention by name at least virtualbox, vmware, and AWS. The use of a Vagrant file to configure a new machine is also nice. You can get similar behaviour with Chef/Puppet, or as I do scp in a shell script file and run it.

So, what excites me most about projects like Vagrant and Docker getting popular is that I hate flailing around with build dependencies. I was amazed with apt-get build-dep the first time I used it, but even that has let me down a few times in the past. It's much better than it used to be, but all I want for Christmas is every project to provide a easy to access environment I can grab and build their project with. We seem to be getting closer and closer to this being provided by default, instead of an exceptional circumstance.

[0] http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html
Some of my countrymen feel it is a universal language -- just a matter of volume. If you yell English loudly enough, people will understand.
It is highly debatable whether 'he' remains a gender-neutral pronoun. I would say that is certainly not the case in the UK.
Seems cool. You will have to cover a variety of stores here in the states.
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unrelated comment triggered by looking at the link, why are Indian websites at large so crappy and appear to be from 1990s? Just like with the insane lawless vehicle traffic, people have become used to crappy websites in India.
1) Seeing HN I feel like SF is the best place for Technocrats to flourish. You get to attend best in the class events. All world famous startup office can be found here, etc.

2) I am permanent resident of India. I do not mind in permanently shifting to SF.
Thanks for your reply.

> Yeah for sure the english language couldn't possibly itself be influenced by sexism. That's just how it works. We should just accept it.

That was not my point, nor do I believe I implied that. I acknowledge that the original reason why English's nonspecific/neuter pronoun is the same as the masculine is almost certainly because of ages-old sexism and masculo-normativity.

> The pronoun itself isn't sexist it's the reason behind it's use.

I completely agree. Do you think sexism was intended in the original code comment? If not, then by your logic there was nothing sexist about using "he" and "him".

> Beyond indicating (possible) differences in biological sex, what purpose does using a gendered pronoun serve? It doesn't add information, it merely reinforces gender norms.

I agree, from a 21st century perspective it seems absurd to not have a neutral/neuter/nonspecific pronoun. But it is an established point of English grammar and language that the masculine pronoun is because there does not exist a neutral/neuter/nonspecific one. Using "they" and "them" and those forms is a relatively recent development of modern language. Personally, I tend to use them very often because I don't want to offend anyone, and I think their usage as an "official unofficial" neutral/neuter/nonspecific pronoun is well on its way to becoming the de-facto way of referring to non-gender-specific people.

My point was, and still is, that it is neither wrong nor sexist to use "he" or "his". Unless of course, the sentence you are writing is incorrect or sexist.
It is interesting following this particular discussion about gender pronouns in Node.js. I am curious how other, more mature, products have handled similar. GitHub and easily viewed pull requests make some of this much more visible than say in the old days of sites like sourceforge.
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> FYI, not having "prescription drug coverage" does not mean insurance does not cover any medication. It is a pharmacy benefit, in other words, over-the-counter medication.

Am I parsing that incorrectly?

"Prescription drug coverage" has always covered prescription drugs, in my experience. I've never had a policy that would (to my knowledge) cover OTC meds.
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"Your weight is determined"
No. If at all, they are only a part of the problem and you have the chicken - egg problem. Do you have different bacteria because you are fat or are you fat because you have different bacteria?

Causes are:
-genetic
-epigenetic
-life style
-nutrition (cabrs!)
-viruses (no kidding, obesity may be infectious)
etc.
We use Vagrant/Chef as part of our production and development workflows at Conspire. Anyone can trivially spin up a complete dev environment—DB, frontend and backend—on their local machine or log in to our staging machine (an EC2 instance) and interact with our production cluster using Vagrant.

Plus, deploying to production is just a matter of a quick "git pull && ./build.sh && vagrant provision" and checking that everything came back up correctly.

Setting all this up took a long time but it was worth it in the end. At the moment we're just using Chef Solo because we only have four machines to deal with. I imagine we'll move to Chef Server at some point in the future.
Teaching is important, but in science, very few people do a PhD with the primary intention to teach. It's about the research, yo, and prestige that is mostly somewhere between your head and the literature.
Any support coming for Salt, Ansible, and/or Docker?
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Anyone with experience setting up a win7 under vagrant? All the instructions I found online were cumbersome to the point of not offering much above a basic VirtuaBox setup (E.g. They require you to activate your windows and then re-image).
So much yes. This is why I installed bartender yesterday and now my menu bar only has: CPU meter, battery, time. At the very end is a "..." that I can click to expand out to everything else, should I need it. So nice.

EDIT: link for bartender http://www.macbartender.com/
Thanks for your comment and for the information. I definitely agree with your point that the singular "they" is, at this point in time, as correct or more correct than the neuter "he".

I also totally agree with your point about humoring people who actually care passionately about this — that's precisely my issue with this whole debacle. I wasn't taking the position that "he" is the only correct option, and other phrasings must be attacked. Rather, that the entire matter is a bikeshed, and that people should not assume that just because someone used "he" as neuter that he (see what I did there?) is sexist.
Work at a small but growing startup and take any project you can reasonably complete. If they grow you'll grow with them.
This is easily in my top five, but the hack that had me buzzing all night with its cleverness when I read about it is Nils Schneider's method of extracting the ipod bootloader:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7085
Hate to be "that guy", but why bother showing up to the game if you're going to be distracted most of the time?
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It's going to be interesting, from a security standpoint. One of the original cracks on the PS3 was via the USB stack. I'd not go plugging my computers or phones into jacks that I don't necessarily control.

I can see a market for buffering devices that allow power through, and perhaps do power negotiation for you, but that do not allow data traffic. I believe these devices already exist. though I don't know how sophisticated they are.
It isn't exactly controversial that frequent sugar consumption exacerbates oral microbial growth. My mouth health got drastically better after giving up soda, and more so again after giving up grains.
I also find deodorant to be useless.

I can anecdotally attest to my own strategy. I buy rubbing alcohol. Have a shower, clean the problem areas. Shortly after I get out I apply the alcohol to my arm pits, and if I think I'm going to really be sweating I spray some over my upper back, chest etc. Nothing close to the amount one would use if they were spraying deodorant. The result is that I can go several days without any bad odor, even when I sweat so much that my shirts are saturated, they don't even smell, to me or anyone else.

The side effect of doing this is that I am far more sensitive to perfumes and deodorants people use, and they just aren't at all pleasant in the quantities people feel they need to use to smell "nice".
>>> The government should provide Apple a list of acceptable, competent attorneys who can do this work and let Apple work out the details.

That seems like it would create an obvious conflict of interest. The attorney in question is responsible for ensuring that Apple is complying with the anti-trust ruling. If Apple could directly choose the attorney, there would be an incentive for the attorney to be lax with ensuring compliance.
Seems not: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/commit/804d40ee14dc0f82c482d...

Ultimately, it looks like Ben was fairly impartial about the whole thing - he didn't accept it because it wasn't a significant enough change to merit accepting. He tried to revert the acceptance because the acceptance had been done without approval.
Stable API (an example of non stable look at Rust between version with its breaking changes) and a standard library.
Thanks for all those links — I wasn't aware of those studies (especially not about the deliberate effort to force the singular "they" out of use) and I think they have definitely influenced my conscious personal writing style (I do tend to avoid gendered pronouns anyway).

I will agree that I was on the wrong side of this in the sense that "he" is more or equally preferable to "they", but I made another point too — that this entire topic is a giant bikeshed.

You say "people should certainly stop fighting", but do you then imply that fighting for "they" is justified? Personally, I don't think it is.
Vagrant mounts a filesystem at /vagrant on the guest vm with the contents of the folder where your Vagrantfile is. Typically this means you include a Vagrantfile in the root dir of your project, and then your entire project folder is available on the guest box.

I strongly suggest investigating the NFS mount option for this feature if you're using Virtualbox, as the performance difference is substantial over Virtualbox shared folders (which is the default for the /vagrant mount).

Edit: typo
Way to throw your people under the bus. I wouldn't work for a company like this -- not to mention Joyent, after that bit of libel they call a blog post.
I have Vagrant running on my laptop. I don't require an Internet connection to work.
I guess I'm surprised not everyone is already using Vagrant.

Thanks for such an awesome piece of software.
This made sense until you tagged on the last paragraph. Drug use over a long time certainly builds tolerance and forms of addiction. You offer no proof that people affected in this way 'never work' in real life though.
I've had vagrant pop up, but have yet to explore it. That said, I have many fabric scripts for setting environments up. The link has little detail (first page) on how it would benefit me with an existing toolset.

Are there examples where vagrant compares to something like an existing fabric script?
I googled. It appears bad breath is (mainly?) due to the presence of hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan [1]. These are mostly not produced by s.mutans but instead by gram-negative bacteria. otoh, S. salivarius K12 appears (and it being studied) to produce substances which inhibit s. mutans and the gram-negative bacteria [same article].

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=beat-bad-br...
Sweet inflammatory title, dude!

People really want those tenure spots at prestigious universities. Or those starting slots on NBA teams. Or CEO roles at exploding tech companies. Or the starring role in the summer blockbuster. Or that #1 slot on the NYTimes best-seller list. And such.

There will always be plum jobs out there that people are willing to compete and even suffer to get. And in situations where there's a ton of demand and not much supply. Well. Things get really unbalanced in favor of the supplier. I'm not sure what targeting academia in particular proves except that, yes, it also happens there. It's yet another situation in life where if you really, really want one of these jobs then you need to learn to realistically assess yourself, the market, and what paths you have to get where you want to go. If there's no clear path to the position you want, you either need to switch gears or prepare for some serious struggle that might never bear fruit. Thoughtfulness and being realistic with oneself are key to staying out of exploitative situations. That's the thing to avoid.

The average person with a college degree has options the drug dealer in Levitt's example probably doesn't have. As do your average Hacker News readers, I'm sure.

Also: I'm an adjunct professor at two universities. But it's a great side-gig and not at all a core part of my income, which makes it great, to be honest. There's a lot of university-related stuff I don't have any interest in. But being an adjunct means I've got real-world experiences that are completely fresh that I can use in the classroom. It's the kind of information that a full-time professor would have a difficult time keeping on top of, I would think.
Interesting to know. Thanks.

Though does this have anything to do with culture? I honestly don't know. I use that as an example to ask myself whether sexism is conditional or not. You can use "it" or "she" to refer to a country (or a land if you enjoy poem hahaha), but I supposed most people will not find that sexist. So sexism is condition and has to do with the story (the context in which the pronoun is used).
Anyone know how this standard actually works? I think right now Android phones tend to short the data lines and Apple uses some system of voltages to communicate that it's high power, which means that the other device usually gets stuck pulling 0.2 amps. How does this new standard tell the device it can supply 100 watts? And does this mean that iOS and Android will be stuck on 0.2 amps? Can you plug a legacy device on at all?
Too late to edit my original post, but as you suspect, I'm trying to differentiate between prescription drugs like birth control, anti-depressants, statins, etc. which you buy at a pharmacy with a prescription, and medication administered in an inpatient/outpatient setting, which is also prescribed of course, but covered by the medical benefit not the pharmacy benefit.
actually, there is a related phenomenon called "Beyond Shampoo" or "nopoo" (the website seems to be down). There is a huge movement around giving up soap and shampoo permanently to avoid and cure stuff like dandruff, acne, etc.

I personally had HUGE successes with it in improving my overall hygiene - but be warned that it takes upto six months for your body to "reboot". during that time, your hygiene grows worse - before getting extremely better. I suspect it is the same case with the brushing thing : it will take quite some time before the flora and fauna of your mouth reboots.

[1] http://freetheanimal.com/2010/12/a-most-successful-self-expe...
[2] http://paleohacks.com/questions/17060/no-poo-and-dandruff.ht...
I think that sort of thing should be written up as a blog post and the blog post submitted to HN. If the information doesn't justify that much effort and cannot earn sufficient upvotes to make the first few pages, then it isn't really worth posting.
(I'm not an engineer). I a similar article; iirc android phones could be owned by plugging them into a hostile usb connection. I wonder, though, if you couldn't produce a simple adapter that just drops some of the pins? Maybe I don't know enough about usb.
I made something like this for MongoDB and even improved the api a bit.

https://github.com/TylerBrock/mongo-hacker

I found that adding color to the JSON output helped newcomers differentiate the data types and understand the structure of the data models more easily.
One problem with low-voltage DC is that according to Watt, to achieve equivalent power (watts) at a low voltage, current is higher. And heat is proportionate to current squared. So you can't send a lot of power at low voltage because you lose a lot to heat. That means low-voltage runs have to be kept fairly short, or very low power, limiting their usefulness.
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