skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note for anyone ready to dismiss based on title alone:

The big idea is not that girls distract boys and boys distract girls, so they should be apart. The big idea is that boys and girls, especially at high school age learn/are motivated in fundamentally different ways so splitting them and teaching them in different ways could be more effective.

So this is not empirical evidence, but my mom who has been teaching high school for over 30 years strongly agrees with this. In her opinion the average boy just can't sit still and needs to be motivated more competitively, whilst girls benefit from more social engagement.

Of course that analysis is rather crude. There's subtleties there. Of course boys would benefit from being taught to be more social, and girls would benefit from being taught to be more competitive. But it's clear that there's efficiencies to be had here.

For me personally high school felt as a very inefficient time of learning, but I also had much fun and made many friends with both boys and girls. I wonder if the research has shown anything there. Do boys who graduate from boys-only schools work well with girls? What is their opinion on them? And vice versa?

Although I think high school could benefit from efficiency improvements, I also think high school is an important preparation for growing into a broad-minded adult. I hope they keep that in mind when the decisions are made.
I'm not sure if it's an entirely dangerous fallacy. The internet is packed with conspiracy theories and crackpot ideas, and one of the filters that I'd imagine most people develop over time is to try and understand the source of what they're reading. Mainstream news outlets, or fairly well renowned websites, have a well understood bias (I would expect to see arguments for social welfare on the guardian, less so on the telegraph) and the advantages of widespread scrutiny (which acts as a limiter for entirely non-factual stuff). This site has neither. In fact, the only metric that I have to determine whether to believe anything I read in the article is the source. Given that it's clearly a single topic advocacy site, I think not judging it by its domain name would be a mistake.
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Yes, they exist. I Follow people on Twitter who have made me aware of that issue. There's one prominent columnist in particular whose name I can't recall that seems to have it in for trans people and restrooms, for example.
The pattern is obvious, but I don't know why you think there's a conspiracy behind it. People don't need conspiracies to act like that.
Open source technologies that will drive new innovations
> I would like the article to answer this: how well do the kids in the single-sex schools do later on in life ...

A little googling led me to this article about a study which looked at the same:

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/graduates-of-all-girls-...

And what I thought would be of interest to us here:

In an indication of greater, though still low, interest in the field of engineering, alumnae of single-sex independent schools are three times more likely than those from coeducational independent schools to report that they intend to pursue a career in engineering (4.4 percent vs. 1.4 percent).
This article ties in with the recent Block change on Twitter. See all that vile material posted? Now imagine having that tweeted to you on a daily basis from multiple fake accounts. This is why the change to Block mattered. Because of vile driven sociopaths of the type displayed in that article.
The big idea is that boys and girls, especially at high school age learn/are motivated in fundamentally different ways so splitting them and teaching them in different ways could be more effective.

That is all very well, but where do the hermaphrodites go?
The article also talks about having just a few classes single-sex. It's not as black as white as either having total seggretation or not - maybe we can get the good sides of both arrangements.
Isn't that more a has-a than an is-a?
There'll be more like 10,000 doing it at near the end of January (possibly me if my girlfriend manages to drag me in this year).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Game_Jam
>A lawsuit was always an option. Websites aren't liable for what their users do, but it’s possible to subpoena for the identity of your online harasser and haul him or her into court on civil charges like defamation or intentional infliction of emotional distress. But Chen and Hamm didn’t want to spend more time, money or energy on the problem. They just wanted it to go away.

A lawsuit is precisely how you make it "go away". Yes, the police should have pursued the criminal complaint, but lacking official action private action should be taken.
Unless the file itself was saved separately and linked from the email in an app-specific way you still wouldn't be able to open it directly in your spreadsheet app.

That's true. You might be able to find the right mail file using text-based tools, if the mail isn't MIME encoded, but then you still don't have the file. I just found it fun to think of it as the opposite of Unix.

The Nepomuk framework in KDE seems to have similar goals by the way. They kept their database separate from the filesystem, but integrated it in quite a few KDE applications. Nepomuk uses a graph database, so the schema is easily extendable. But apparently they don't even use all features of the current schema, only rating, tagging and comments appear to be consistently implemented in applications.

http://userbase.kde.org/Nepomuk
You as the victim can't see the stuff any more. May help your psyche, but it doesn't stop other twitterers or Google indexing the stuff.
Single sex schools are, quite frankly, unethical.

Teens will find ways to socialize with each other whether or not they're in a single-sex environment. It's not unethical to split based on "this group responds better to these methods of teaching."

School isn't the epicenter of all social interaction during a person's youth, nor should it be. Taking this view leads to teen suicide, because if teens are convinced that all of life is just like cruel highschool then they'd rather not live at all. (If your highschool years weren't cruel, then I'd imagine it's hard to understand why this is true. Take it from someone who was hunted.)
Why do the autopilots/autothrottles control speed by throttle and altitude by elevators, even in aircraft that have AP and AT?
You get a choice between univalence and excluded middle. The whole argument is that univalence is more useful in practice.

Briefly, in Martin-Löf type theory equalities are very strong, but you do not have many tools for proving new equalities. Univalence is one answer to this problem. So the choice is roughly between "having more equalities" (univalence) or "making everything decidable" (excluded middle).

Additionally, in HoTT you can embed classical set theory at "h-level 1". Basically, you get a slightly weaker form of excluded middle + choice, which is nevertheless sufficient for building a model of classical ZFC. The reverse is not possible, as far as I know.
I get what you're trying to say, but the people were discussing self identify as feminists. And IMO poison the well for actual feminists.
Unreliable witnesses can be right, indeed, but being correct doesn't make evidence a reliable source - you can be right for the wrong reasons.

Having a stated belief upfront puts your work in obvious danger of confirmation bias[0]. It can and should be assumed that you will promote results which support your belief and ignore results that don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
"Well that's not feminism"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_scotsman
How about liquid cooling? Assuming it brings a length of hosing. A motor draws the water away from the device, far enough for it to cool, but not to freeze. We would use a liquid that does not easily freeze but can get very cool. We shield the hosing away from the sun.
The ISS uses water cooling no? /edit, liquid ammonia cooling to be precise. And :
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/HeatRejectionRadia...

hmm hardware costs go up a bit
Cleaning up X server warnings
Does Grapher share any source with Graphing Calculator?

I guess it might, given that Apple shipped Graphing Calculator with Mac OS before, and given Graphing Calculator's interesting early history (http://www.pacifict.com/Story/)

(I wonder how Apple negotiated that deal originally. I guess some lawyers spent quite some time arguing whose intellectual property it originally was. The programmers weren't paid by Apple, but worked at Infinite Loop)
"Underachievers"?

My college GPA ended up at 3.1. During the last two years, I got into a pattern of signing up for a full-time courseload and then completely ignoring (and failing) one of the classes (if this happens to you, I can only advise formally shifting to part-time status). I can provide some observations on particular things that got me through some classes:

One class I failed because I showed up on the first day, determined accurately that the subject material was quite easy, and stopped going for a while. I showed up again in the fourth week of class, and learned that I had already managed a failing grade for myself -- one component of the course grade was a series of four pop quizzes, of which two had already happened, and to pass the course overall it was necessary to pass each component.

Since that class was required for a CS degree, I had to retake it. Having failed it on a technicality pissed me off, so I showed up regularly and was quite vocal in class, and the professor (not the same one) became very familiar with me. When late in the term I finally flaked on a homework assignment, I felt enough of a connection to him that I spoke to him after class, saying I had been a little busier than usual and hadn't done the assignment (I made no offer to get it in late). He whacked me on the arm with the papers he was holding and said "do you need more time? Take another day!", at which point, obviously, I had to complete the assignment. I never missed another one.

So one lesson is: you will do work for a personal connection that your work ethic would not have motivated you to do. Wounded pride helps too.

I had a class in which I was one of four students. No real problems there either; it would have been too embarrassing.

Lesson: close oversight can keep you working.

In one class, I was already established in a flaking pattern when a girl in the class came to me and asked to be my partner (our university encouraged pair programming). From that point on, I had nothing better to do with my time than work on the class assignments. Impressing a professor didn't register with me, but impressing a girl did.

This one is kind of a special case of the first "lesson", so I'll say it helps if the reason you're working is something you find compelling.

This last point is something I have no personal experience with, but I imagine having friends who thought working on something potentially productive was a fun way to spend time would help me a lot. "Hey, let's take a udacity course together!" "Hey, let's learn rails and set up a website!" That kind of thing. Peer group matters too. :/
That's what was my take from the article as well, it focused on performance base on single-sex vs. coed school education. Would this be an issue as well, if we had mandatory clubs and after school (coed) activities as well. Are we not confusing two things here? On the one hand, because the mandatory institution we have is school, and we consider getting to know the other sex an important part while growing up, we conclude that school should be coed, so to force the latter intent? Also, isn't interest in the other sex somewhere natural and could result in a higher after school coed activity (clubs, sports, ...) in those going to single-sex schools?
I initially felt the same, but the paper linked makes the relevant claims in its abstract (although I'm not paying up to get the full text).

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-012-0157-1

Also, posted by another commenter in this thread:

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/graduates-of-all-girls-...

It's enough for me not to dismiss the idea.
> School is not, and should not be, the epicenter of all social interaction during a person's youth.

How can it not be the epicenter of social interaction for young people when it's where they spend the majority of their waking hours? How many people did you meet in high school vs. how many in extracurricular activities?
What if single-race schools led to somewhat better outcomes, sometimes, according to some metrics, highly contingent on the skill of the instructor and highly variable depending on location?

What about schools segregated by political party or religion?
What lesson would you draw from numbers like divorce rates anyway?

Say children from single-sex schools grow up to be in relationships that have lower divorce rates. Does that mean that single-sex schools better prepared them for marriage? Or are they just in unhappy relationships that children that grew up in coed schools would know to end earlier since they've more inter-sex socialization experience?
Cool idea and everything, although all that "IDE FTW" comments are partly true. But nevertheless it's cool to read code from different projects while practising at typing.

But, pricing, really? I guess I'll write such an app for myself. Not that $5/month is a lot, but the idea of paying for that is just ridiculous to me.
Someone asked how I implemented the video chat. It's a P2P technology called RTMFP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Media_Flow_Protocol), built-in into Flash. My server does not transmit the video.
The internet is relentless, and as soon as you hit foreign jurisdictions, you're bound to fail. Governments, the MAFIAA and dozens other organizations have tried and failed for over a decade to shut down TPB - do you really think a mere human stands the chance to ever stop the Internet from trolling her?!
I see. Silly me for suspecting it has something to do with discrimination. That explains why there are so few women on leadership positions -- they are on average 10-20 cm shorter than men so they are both much dumber and much less charismatic than guys. It doesn't explain why the tall and hyper-charismatic smart Dutch men aren't dominating the world. But I guess it's only a matter of time. Perhaps we should export some of our geniuses to the short and Asian countries, they obviously suffer from a severe lack of tallintellect there.
EDIT: The lack of compassion for outliers is an alarming indication of the general attitude toward education at large. Outliers are who advance the world.[1] If you don't help them, then you'll live in a poorer country. If splitting by gender is the most basic thing we can do toward that end with proven results, and "... But socialization! (except for those I don't care about)" is standing in the way, then the situation is pretty grim.

I'm going to bow out of this conversation now.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/wisdom.html
in many ways hg is superior, but you can't win with Linus blessing.
Option bid/ask spread is much wider because 1) notional value is 100 shares as opposed to 1 share of stock, 2) has an additional mysterious value, volatility in the option pricing formula, 3) for OTM options, has volatility simile aka "black swan" properties that elevates the pricing and spread higher.

It's not as easy to make money being a options marketmaker because you have to realize not all of your trades will be someone taking your bid/ask. Even so, you'll have delta-hedge your position with the underlying which is a imperfect hedge that is subject to jump risk. Typically a AAPL options marketmaker is taking orders from traders and has up to couple hundred of these AAPL with long name positions, and they have to balance out the greeks, delta and gamma. They may even have to buy some options themselves to hedge themselves and pay the market price.
I know that we are already very well capable of doing succinct proofs in interactive theorem proving systems like Isabelle that have a strong resemblance to "human" proofs. None of the proofs displayed in HoTT or the accompanying sources look shorter or more succinct than stuff I could do without HoTT.

So HoTT might solve a problem for constructivists working with Coq. Problems you can entirely avoid by not working constructively (or with Coq, for that matter). Therefore, at this point, there is no evidence at all that HoTT might improve the state of the art in interactive theorem proving.

That does not mean that this evidence might not come up at some point.

How can I be sure in my judgement? Well, I don't have to understand string theory to be sure at this point that it is not relevant to interactive theorem proving. I would change my mind if somebody points out evidence that string theory is actually of major relevance to interactive theorem proving.

Edit: I would even start learning string theory then.
An amusing satire. Not much more than that. And certainly not something that should be banned - GitHub made a severe error in bowing to the pressure of a host of noisy 'progressives'.

However, it would be interesting to see if this actually led to any useful innovations in programming languages.
If that was sarcasm directed at him with the implication that he should try to fix it by editing it himself, I'm not sure how much experience you've had trying to edit a Wikipedia article. It can be a horrid experience.
What can I say. All I have is a stack of dictionaries to check. Your beloved Wikipedia itself begins its feminism article "Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights" which agrees with the dictionaries I have and also with the simple definition I used above. If you think that using that definition means I'm guilty of No True Scotsman, our methods of rationality are so far apart that we are literally incapable of communicating.
This is a dangerous idea. Why? Because it starts with the idea that single-sex schools are better, then proceed to attempt to prove that point with studies that show single-sex classrooms get on average better grades and are more likely to attend college.

But attending college and getting better grades is not the goal. In fact, one of the biggest employment and political problems in the United States is due to so many middle class parents conditioning their kids into thinking that going to college will solve their future and guarantee them employment. But, let's toss that aside for the moment.

The argument on this site begins with a study of South Korea, which randomly assigns students to coed or same-sex schools (we don't REALLY know how random this is), and shows data which these students are more likely to get higher grades and attend college.

But the real question is NOT can they get better grades - the question is whether there are educational systems that can better prepare students to be a success in LIFE, not just get to college. Do students who attend same-sex schools fare better in relationships, do they push society forward in the underlying principals of a better civilization? Do they make the world better, and are they happy?

The real result? South Korea is ranked 111th in the world in gender equality. (For comparison, the United States is ranked 22nd).

So let's ask something that SingleSexSchools.org will NEVER want to answer - are opportunities for girls in South Korea as good as those offered by men? Is the education of girls in South Korea equal to the education offered to boys?

The reality is that South Korea is not just a bad environment for women and girls - it's bad and getting worse. Their rankings in these categories were some of the lowest just a few years ago and have steadily declined each year.

I don't really have time for a point-by-point rebuttal, but the basic point is this: removing diversity never makes society stronger. Are there benefits for single-sex activities and education? Of course. Is it 'better' to reduce students interaction with the opposite sex to almost none in day-to-day education? The evidence says otherwise.

The issue is always when someone argues for widespread, radical change based on the wrong goals.
The goal for some self-proclaimed feminists is not gender equality, but raising women above men. They still call themselves feminists for political reasons, so some deserve the hate.

The problem is real feminism got stained.
The Mastering Web Application Development book is pretty good I felt.
Hah! This is very interesting.

I am a programmer from India. I somehow prefer programmer over software engineer. I turned 23 on 11th. And for me 22 was complicated enough. Interestingly, I am not from any IIT, NIT or whatever that you mention and neither do I have a job in the big brand firm.

But still I think the situation is somewhat better than what you have mentioned in your post. Maybe its a difference between where we are located but I don't get that much heat anymore as far as job and stuff are related. Also I do not think everyone should care about your open source contributions or code quality, unless by nobody you meant people who code next to you.

Also its great that you finally are doing what you like. It is pretty guaranteed that there would be people out complaining about something in your life even if you were working at some big company. It is difficult enough to be bothered with what we are doing, that we should care about what others thing. ;-)
Oh btw, Happy Birthday!
You need to distinguish between democracy and populism. Democracy isn't simply majority rule but a voice for everybody.
IIRC Google does not index Twitter.
Heh. As a recently graduated 23yo, I feel you brah. Based on a few of my friends' experiences, I'm determined to stay away from the "outsourcing industry", where engineering quality is secondary to things like seniority, management etc. I was lucky to get an Internship with an up and coming startup and learned the ropes. :)
This is really cool. I love the UI and the idea and the execution. I actually learned a lot of Objective-C without Xcode and no autocomplete so it was interesting to see how I've learned to work with Xcode/AC since then, ha.
The first one - thinking that all prostitution is inherently bad for the women and that there cannot be anyone working in prostitution out of his/her own will - is basically a mandatory part of being feminist here in the UK. Essentially every major feminist activist organisation thinks this way, and they refuse to accept groups or individuals who disagree as feminists. If you go looking for a feminist group near you, you'll find a list set up by UK Feminista, a joint effort between all the major feminist organisations which refuses to list any group which doesn't think this way. Oh, and they're the feminists who have all the contacts in the press, which they use to smear women who disagree with them.

Interestingly, I've basically never seen anyone refuse to accept feminists who think this way as feminists, except when it's inconvenient for some argument they're making about feminism being all sunshine and roses and equality. The net effect of this is that nominally reasonable feminists - like presumably yourself - are actually supporting these extremists by protecting them from criticism.
Perhaps the best course of action would be to go through local job listings and see what interests you / seems possible in 5-6 months given her acumen. Different people have a knack for different things.
Thanks, there are some cool gadgets there :)
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Autoland isn't a matter of simply pressing 'land'. The airport and aircraft have to be specially equipped, and the pilots properly certified. Very new, and older very large aircraft (Boeing/Airbus) are equipped with Autoland.
It is biased in the sense of choosing to publicize and comment on a research study that agrees with its premise. That doesn't make the research study biased.