skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll have to partially disagree here. In Brazil you have warranty that your product will be functional. Yes, customer sevice normally sucks, and you normally can't just ask for your money back, but not fixing a deffective product is serious matter here.
I really don't see how you are countering or disproving anything I said, you aren't bringing forth any own arguments for a meaningful discussion, which you yourself admit.

2. If you would supply an argument or article or lines of reasoning to what exactly "sexism" is in the tech field and how this hampers the individual in pursuing ones interested I would be thankful. In my view only the law dictates what you can and can't do, anything else is choice.

3a. I recognize that people want to belong to a group, but I personally find it weak and ultimate foolish to let ones life be dictated by groups. I guess it is more important in the US were you have hundreds of school student groups for every interest available.
I find the word "hacker" to be a childish Anglo-Saxon world word used for group identifying and I would never call myself a hacker, I am nordic country based.

3b. Well if you would consider someone who grew up out of the city with one parent working at factories as privileged I let you stand for that definition.
The bias is also that I work professionally with Erlang.
Note this is relevant to the "X Protocol Security" talk given a few days ago that was mentioned here and at /r/programming.
#9 - mix business with friends. :/
Google is just researching and trying out new products that can potentially help their bottom line - so what if some may not explode in popularity.

Their bottom line is to get more exposure to their ads, and I'm not arguing if that's good or bad. Driverless cars would mean that passengers have more time to be exposed to web ads on their phones and tablets (I'm not saying that's the primary motivation or benefit, but it certainly is a factor in Google's involvement). Expanding Internet access in cities through Google Fiber means more people can be exposed to their ads. Sharing Android freely with anyone means increased access to the web and thus Google ads. It's not too difficult to see what the motivation for developing Google Glass is - you would potentially be exposed to ads all day long, not just when you whip out your phone or when you are using your computer.
I didn't realise this. Is this really enforceable? One of the tools that Moz sells is their PR proxy, opensiteexplorer. I wonder how they're able to replicate PR without running afoul of this?

Also, is PR really the best, only way to do this? Seems like there are all kinds of better (more modern) signals we could use other than links, which were kind of the only game in town 10ish years ago.
Icebergs (https://icebergs.com/) is one of the prettier ones I've seen. Not really an avid user myself, but then again I'm not using Evernote either. Sublime+Dropbox does it for me at the moment, but would love to find a better alternative.
You get some interesting box patterns if you use bitwise operators.
Nothing new for Microsoft: There is a reason, they had to drop Office 95 and completely re-implemented it. I guess, the day will come, that the current implementation must be abandoned too.

The trouble with today's computing is: Just to much complexity around (starting from the OS, and that is also valid for Linux, I must say!) and to few really good programmers that make things better (and not worse). I see also in the Linux world to much complexity and to few real professionals.

Real professionals don't try to handle complexity -- they try to minimize it!
This is a 11 year old knowledge base article for a bug in a product (Excel 97) that saw the light in 1997, that is 17 years ago. Yes, the second workaround is kind of hilarious, but let's not draw too many far-fetching conclusions from it. I believe many of us have seen crazier bugs.
Off-topic, but

> "To save a drowning man, he must first give you his hand"

is very wrong from anything I ever read about the topic. Drowning leads to involuntary reactions that cannot be controlled, like trying to climb on the person trying to save you, endangering them as well. That's why approaching and grabbing a drowning person from behind is suggested, and maybe even knocking them out if need be. (unless you can throw them a lifesaver or something else they can grab safely, of course)
Microsoft agrees that it's broken, which is why they're trying to get rid of the windows desktop and its legacy API's.
The main quote that sticks out for me is 'Sure, and the flood of educated, successful women will eventually take care of that.'

The plural of anecdote isnt data, because some people have managed to find success doesnt change the fact that women are leaving this fairly hostile field in droves.
My point about acceptance isn't about social acceptance, but acceptance based on merit and potential. When I was a young woman, I was discouraged not because hacking felt socially alienating, but because authority figures went out of their way to discourage me, despite my enthusiasm, aptitude, and desire for more.

I don't care that I don't dress like the "hacker" stereotype--if I really did, I'd have stopped wearing dresses already. What I find frustrating there is that other people judge "hacker" merit upon the stereotype, such as in http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/dress.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639740. In my life, this clothing stereotype has caused a bit of confusion: while not everyone is surprised a girl in heels can speak with technical merit, many have been. The clothing issue is hardly the end all and be all of the "hacker" stereotype--a stereotype which, like many other stereotypes, has some basis in reality but doesn't paint the full picture of the people who play around with difficult problems in clever ways.
I wish more people would use and/or improve YaCy[0]. It's a decentralized search engine. Client is written in java. With the power of decentralisation hardware shouldn't really be an issue. It's just that the search result somewhat sucked the last time I tried it.

But I guess now is a good time to install it again, help scraping the internet, and maybe hack at the code.

[0] http://yacy.net/en/
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Why is 6 months a more reasonable warranty? If my phone breaks down for any reason that is not my fault after 8 months, I'd expect to get a new one or it to be fixed for free.

Politically, Norway is very left/socialistic. So that this "forces everyone" to pay for it is generally looked upon as OK, because one is not punished for getting a randomly faulty device. And it's great as a consumer, I get what I pay for, a functioning device.
>I believe many of us have seen crazier bugs.

Might be, but is it a good sign for computer industry as a whole?
"Cocaine can be injected. As well as any other substance"

Yes, because coroners can't check for shot marks

Oh wait they can and do check for any possible injection marks and their type
Oh, so this actually works? How wrong I was all those times I scoffed at people moving their mouse around while waiting for a program.

On a related note: isn't it interesting how this meme (mostly a placebo) traveled to the majority of computer users in a pre-internet age?
Go compiles so fast, would be nice to have it available as a scripting language in the browser. But that's me superficially thinking, there is probably a lot of various complications and security issues.
here is good article on our discusion topic http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-isnt-evil-what-gives-value/
They still vary widely on parts selection and, for portables, mechanical design.
Posted separately:
"In another report, in 2013, 41% of college seniors that elected majors in Physical Science were women. Yet, only 18% of those who chose computer science or engineering were women. It seems they'd be equally capable in chemistry and physics as in computer science and engineering. But their major choices indicate it is not about ability and something else is going on:
http://www.directemployers.org/2012/08/16/the-college-class-.... "

This indicates that women want to take computer science and engineering to a lesser degree than the other physical sciences. And it appears to be a matter of choice.
Your second paragraph is the answer to the first. The issue isn't nutritional balance - a good multivitamin pill costs ten cents per day if that's what you're worried about. The issue is that fast food is designed to exploit security flaws in your motivation system. That's one of the reasons Americans in particular are suffering so badly from the obesity epidemic despite food being available in effectively unlimited quantity in every developed country. Doubtless given another few thousand years, evolution would patch some of the security flaws, but that doesn't do you any good right now. All you can do as an individual to protect yourself is stay away from fast food.
saying on average implies you have some sort of statistic, which you don't.
Ehh, the story is the double standard google is showcasing. The earlier story about Expedia and this outcome tell it well.

This is rapgenius. If it had to cross the line why on something so materially insignificant.
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Google pays Mozilla hundreds of millions a year to keep its default status in the search bar. Perhaps being able to use PR was part of the deal, or perhaps Mozilla is rich enough to pay royalties to Stanford. Or perhaps Google doesn't mind because Mozilla doesn't seek to directly compete with Google on text search.

Edit: Woops. So none of this is true.
You're misreading it, it's actually a clever bit of self-deprecation that I'm going to steal the next time people are looking at me enviously.
Well, since we are trying to eat healthily, it just means that we'll have to eat less fat (by mass), compared to lean meat, to consume the same amount of calories. Which also means that we will need to buy less meat, which will save money, which was our initial goal. Win-win!
income inequality is a myth, people with the same job and same amount of experience make the same amount of money on average.
Anybody remembers the same used to happen with youtube? Sometimes you had to keep moving the pointer in order to load the video correctly...
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Central banks operate provide real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems. This allows transfers to settle in real time.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_gross_settlement

Domestic banks have accounts with the central bank and can move money using RTGS. If the central banks allowed individuals and non-bank companies to open accounts then they could use the RTGS to transfer money instantly.

There would be no blockchain, the central bank acts as a trusted third party. The central bank can see all transactions.
Maybe he doesn't live in a modern liberal society. I doubt it though.
I think you give yourself a hard time - part of the reason you're older is because you're doing a post-graduate program and not everyone does that immediately after their under-grad.

So I actually have an open req for such an intern at WP Engine (http://jobvite.com/m?3aIqcgwf) and I think a post-grad intern with your experience would be ideal. So there's no way age would be a factor, (and legally, it can't/shouldn't anyway)

On your side, I agree with other commenters that you want a clear definition of work to ensure you get the experience you actually want. You probably want to lean towards more established startups who can create a program of work that really needs your skills. We're almost 4 years old and I don't think we'd have been placed to capitalize on your skills and in return offer a meaningful experience 12-18 months ago just because the type of work your doing is probably not relevant during the 'scrappy years' of a startup.

Good luck!
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Woman that wants to study computer science or like coding will have no trouble to go to study it. However, if a girl is not sure what she wants to do, she will almost certainly NOT pick up computer science, because it is thought about as a boy major.

Conversely, if a boy does not know what he wants to do, he is likely to go for CS, because that is the "usual" decision.

Not every boy who went to study CS was dreaming in code since elementary school. Most of them learned to code in college. However, CS girls I knew usually picked it up because they really wanted to do it.
:) My email address is in my profile in case you did not already find it...
1. Men run everything.

2. Men often don't think of women as human.

3. Women are under attack by men.

I don't think these points are controversial.

1. Women are 50% of the workforce, but 4.5% of fortune 1000 CEO positions.

2. Women didn't get the right to vote in America until 50 years after black people, who were officially only partially human.

3. Is a characterization.
Most people have a weight that's not obvious to others. One person runs with their 50 pound sexist society weight. Another runs with their 50 pound tormented in school and has no one to turn to for help in moving past it weight. Another has a 50 pound echoes of institutional racism weight. I could go on, but I think you get the point.

Everyone could do with programs to help unload their weights. No one needs or deserves more weight.
There's a lot of data on this page http://www.womenintechnology.org/witef/resources It's a bit scattered but here are some parts I found interesting:

Women in the mathematics, and engineering have long been underrepresented in tenured and full professor positions but overrepresented in untenured and junior faculty positions, even after controlling for publication productivity and institutional affiliation... Today, women faculty in science and engineering are still promoted more slowly and receive fewer honors and leadership positions.

77 percent say significant numbers of women and underrepresented minorities are missing from the U.S. STEM workforce today because they were not identified, encouraged or nurtured to pursue STEM studies early on.

"Persistent stereotypes that say STEM isn’t for girls or minorities" is one of the top causes of under-representation in STEM.
Yeah, so what? It was just to say that you don't have to force an unconscious man to "ingest" cocaine to cause an overdose. Come on.
Steam is down.
Any particular point to object to, or just a general speculation about who I am?
> You're a hacker when a hacker calls you a hacker. All that "being able to self-identify" is narcissism.

Hackers have called me a hacker, therefore I'm a hacker. I now declare that every human being is a hacker if they self-identify as one.
Use potatoes. 10lb bags are like 3.99. Rice, beans, corn, what'd do you think people in third world countries survive on? My grandma used it spent Saturday morning making ten loaves of bread for the week, very cheap to do.
I didnt even know who my professors where or would be when I enrolled in university, are you suggesting women dont enroll in IT because there arent female professors?
"a way that ads value"

Intentional, or typo? I imagine that "a billboard on your face" would be highly valued.
I'd like to see a bittorrent sync style app for note taking. Any syncing design that necessitates a central server is flawed.
The goal of women oriented initiatives isn't to tell women they aren't as capable. The author may be perfectly capable and she may be treated on her merit alone, but in aggregate women are not treated like that.

From http://www.oecd.org/inclusive-growth/Closing%20the%20Gender%...

"They reveal considerable gender differences among the self-employed,
particularly those who are also employers. Figure 22.1 shows that across the 27 EU countries only 25% of business owners with employees are women (for definitions, see Annex IV.A1). The low share of women has only marginally grown over the last decade in the EU27, Canada and United States"

Let's not kid ourselves. Women face serious hurdles in entrepreneurship. They have less access to credit when starting new businesses for one. Women who own businesses are on average higher educated than there male counterparts yet they earn significantly lower salaries.

I will end by pointing out that women focused initiatives help everyone, not just women. There is a positive correlation between gender equality and GDP per capita, everyone wins in an equitable society.
keep in mind the common man hasnt been able to vote much longer than that either, before that it was just the aristocracy in power.
It's only reasonable to expect free repair or replacement if the reason your phone broke was a manufacturing defect. If something is going to break because of a manufacturing defect, it will usually do so within the first six months and almost always within the first twelve months. If it breaks after two years, that's not the manufacturer's fault. Now as a socialist, you could say who cares about right and wrong, isn't it great for you as a consumer that you can take money from the manufacturer? But the truth is that the money comes out of your pocket in the end, because the manufacturer has to charge a higher price to make it worthwhile to be in business in Norway. The forced excessive warranty just creates bad incentives and takes away choice.
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In practice, people do whatever they want and then just apologise later if they get in trouble.

Eg: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151547332313143&se...

which is apologising for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnigNbYVQJE

(This was a massive tune last summer, getting loads of radio airplay and all over the clubs. Hence the apology. Really, by these standards he should apologise to Mr Fingers as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmz3SVuHPhs)

See also: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug11/articles/classic-track...
Not really bad SEO practice, just inflexible software.
In 2010-11, there were more female (55%) than male fulltime undergraduates (45%) enrolled at university – a trend which shows no sign of shrinking

http://www.theguardian.com/education/datablog/2013/jan/29/ho...

This sort of thing is happening in most western societies, majority of university students are women, but what we are most concerned about is which degrees they are choosing.
The mentality of the world as a competition between different groups of people, where either men win and women lose, or men lose and women win, doesn't seem particularly helpful either. A race implies winners and losers, so I think this is a bad analogy. An idea of "let's treat men worse for a while as revenge for years of male-dominated history" isn't very sophisticated, no particular offense intended. Also, giving special privileges to all the known groups will just disenfranchise the people not associated with any particular groups (in this case, one might consider trans people). Human equality (or even including non-human-persons equality) would seem a better ideal than just male-female equality.

If we're actually intelligent creatures, let's try and fix the underlying problems instead of just pushing them around for someone else to suffer from.
No you don't, doing so only breeds more animosity. There's a reason why men get touchy over female hires and promotions that are framed in the context of diversity and women's rights. Hiring or promoting someone primarily for being female, especially if they aren't the best candidate, is stupid.
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It isn't. You can run it in virtualization though...
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>Apart from evidence that seems to be pointing towards this already happening;

Please provide this evidence. I am getting a bit tired of this misinformation. Organic search and paid search are silo'd. To say that Google favors advertisers in the organic results or the other way round, is simply not true. It would destroy Google's credibility.

>how tempting do you think it would be for Google

It approaches conspiracy thinking. I love that, but I think HN is not the place. You are basically accusing a company of a very evil act, without proper evidence. Do you realize that many Googlers frequent this site? It would be a shame if all they get to read are conspiracy theories and baseless accusations.

>Especially when considering that the rules are so vague that almost every site is guaranteed to break some

Hogwash. Their rules are very clear and succinct.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en

Maybe if you want to spam or manipulate, then these rules are vague. Maybe when you don't read the guidelines then they are vague. I bet that if you can point to a rule that almost every site breaks, without them knowing, then Google will adjust that rule to be more clear.

You can not please them all.

>Penalize them using a generic message and refuse on principle to answer any inquiries as to why.

You can certainly not please the spammers that were caught with their hands in the cookie jar and then take to the internet to say that Google is unfair, and that the big brands get away with anything.
Yes, this. It's the equivalent of red state/blue state culture war politics in the USA, turned up to 8 or 9 (if not 11). It's also destroying research libraries that provide exhaustive raw data going back decades or centuries on the natural environment.

If you view Harper's constituents as the resource extraction industries, the destruction of this information is useful to them insofar as it deprives their opponents (the science-backed environmental lobby) of ammunition with which to oppose environment-degrading policies. With these libraries gone, much information is forever lost that could otherwise be used to build a coherent policy case opposing, e.g. tar sand extraction or other resource extraction businesses on environmental grounds.

Note that Stephen Harper is a member of an evangelical fundamentalist church that opposes environmentalism and denies anthropogenic climate change:

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/03/26/Harper-Evangelical-Miss...

Whether what's at work is misguided tribalism, business-centric anti-environmentalism, religious fundamentalism, or something else, I hope everyone on HN can agree that destroying research libraries isn't a good foundation for evidence-based policy making in governance.
Much longer than since 1920? That's just not true.
I had to use ehealthinsurance to get a plan to cover a gap period this August. It's not beautiful, but it worked perfectly fine. I think it's proof positive that a central marketplace for healthcare could work.

The problems with Healthcare.gov are that it's a badly designed morass of barely functional independent systems that need to get data from other government departments (which probably don't even have real APIs) and requirements full of 'bureaucrat enhanced' logic.

I'm fairly confident that at some point it will be at least as dead annoying as Treasury Direct, though at least be functional.

Ultimately I don't view the idea as wrong, so much as I view major reforms of how the government uses and builds software as necessary.
Whoever downvoted this, I suggest they look into the criticism of "colorblindness" in regards to racism, and consider if an analogy can be made here as well.
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We had an intern last summer that used to have his own interns before he moved to software - people will definitely look.
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This is very interesting and actually seemed like a fair comparison of the two languages.

Say I wanted to write my own bittorrent client for fun and to learn a new language, is there a good guide on bittorrent I can read?
Well atleast now AH partners can get back to posting rap lyrics on twitter. We wouldn't want anything to stop that bit of entertainment.