skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things:

The author could have simply contacted any insurance company directly and under the new laws, applications are very short and easy to do (no preconditions allowed, so they don't ask). A rep told me that it takes 5 to 10 days to get coverage this way.

So, take advantage of the new laws, but don't necessarily use healthcare.gov site.

A bit anecdotal: I did use healthcare.gov a couple of months ago, and things worked for me, eventually.

Give the new system a year, and people will wonder how we ever did without healthcare.gov and the new laws.
Personally, I still think this is the most parsimonious solution to the question. Its only flaw is that it doesn't give anybody any reason to self-flagellate, or at least not much of one.

People keep trying to have this discussion in the context of the 1950s, but we're in 2014, where women are, among other things, the majority of college graduates (and increasing). It is a obvious fact that in the past 20-30 years, every discipline has made a huge push to attract more women, with great success. The real problem today is that computer science/programming needs to attract women in a world of incredibly stiff competition.

Why is enrollment declining? Is it that unreasonable to suspect that the answer is "because computer science is being outcompeted by the dozens upon dozens of other disciplines making women better offers"?

I deliberately phrase this as "computer science" and not "computer scientists" because I'm unconvinced the problem is in the people. "But sometimes, there are misogynists in the computer world"... how is that unique? Every field had that problem. Today, computer scientists have been damn near actively begging for women, to the point that the solicitousness itself is becoming offensive, as the author points out. There gets to be a point where advocacy turns into trying to tell women what to do.

Unless both genders are precisely equally drawn to every single discipline, an idea which I think is itself rather offensively insensitive ("feminism" shouldn't be defined as "women are just funny-looking men" but my goodness is that a popular version if you really look at what people believe), there's going to be unbalanced disciplines.

This goes against some of the doctrines, and so I think people tend to put this argument when I make in the wrong bucket, but personally I think the question of whether we're trying to tell women what to like and how to like it is itself a feminist question. "So we should just stop trying because it's hopeless, huh?" No, I don't think that. Roll the carpet out, with all due honesty and openness, sure... but if nobody chooses to walk on it, that may very well simply be their decision (in aggregate). We have no right to run up to them and tell them they are wrong.

Might I also add that by sp332's own statistic, that the ratio has been falling since 2001, the idea that the field has been getting more misogynistic in the past 12 years is just patently absurd, and that is itself evidence that what's happening here isn't about the people.
I love the idea of this stuff but I'm so scared things like this install a backdoor to our PCs. Is there any way to mitigate this? Run YaCy in a VM on VirtualBox?
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I never really understood the reason behind driverless cars until I saw that they create 3D models of the environment they drive through. If everybody would drive a google car that would mean google has the potential of mapping the outside world in 3D in real time or atleast any place where cars can be used. The possibilities with this kind of data are pretty crazy and also a little scary.
>Unfortunately, as Evernote has expanded, it's gotten less and less useful for me.

This has been my main complaint with Evernote. When I first found the software it was merely a way to capture notes, URLs, etc. As it keeps expanding its feature set and trying to make the tools more useful it keeps getting worse and worse.
People don't usually get fired for just one reason, unless it is for something egregious like stealing.

However, lots of good people get fired all the time so you can't assume one of the other reasons he got fired-- besides being generalist-- was something very bad.
I think you are jumping to too many conclusions here, or maybe just not being precise about what "it" refers to. It may surprise you that it will still be possible to write poorly coupled code and create bugs with the WinRT APIs.
For page 33:

"
struct Circle { const struct Point _; int rad; };
We let the derived structure start with a copy of the base structure that we are
extending. Information hiding demands that we should never reach into the base
structure directly; therefore, we use an almost invisible underscore as its name and
we declare it to be constto ward off careless assignments.
"

This looks so manual that reminds me "C with classes". It is a very pedagogic read though.
And by far the majority of PHDs and professors are men. Even in women dominated fields the the professorships are dominated by men.

What exactly is your point?
It'll be thrown out on "National Security" concerns which says everything that needs to be said.
I would say that Bing already is a viable alternative. Having used it for several months now, there aren't too many queries that it doesn't handle well, and usually when I check Google's results for those queries, they are equally bad.
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Agree or no?
Why does no one care how many men are in hairdressing, finger nail painting, child care, teaching and so on?
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Women who own businesses are on average higher educated than there male counterparts yet they earn significantly lower salaries.

I remember reading this I wish I had the link but it showed female business owners tended to take more time off than male counterparts and had a nicer work/life balance over money/growth/profit.

Are you suggesting that consumers are buying/consuming products/services from female run businesses?
My biggest concern with Google is the phenomenal amount of data they track and record about users. They have no self-restraint when it comes to tracking the online behaviour of users. Now they can track across devices (phone, desktop, tablet) giving them unprecedented knowledge of your online activity.

Companies are collecting more data about online behaviour than ever before. And no-one has the same online reach as Google. From analytics, to apps, to fonts to jquery - there's barely a site that doesn't link in one form or another back to Google in some way. Google's digital fingerprints reach into every corner of the web.

I've said this before, but I was hoping that 2014 would be the year we become more privacy-conscious, but I don't actually think that will be the case. Google get an incredibly easy ride on the subject of privacy and online tracking from the tech community. They're probably salivating at the prospect of capturing even more precise user behaviour through an OS (Chrome) that potentially captures everything you do online. Google aren't capturing this data anonymously either. The tech community's response to this seems largely to be - so what? For anyone who cares about privacy, that's pretty depressing.
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So those pitiful statistics on Vista usage were -- inflated?
It's not impossible, but the absence of evidence should lead us to accept the facts at face value

What facts?
Such as the girlfriend stating that he took drugs. Would you by any chance know the girlfriend's name and how long they had been together?

What kind of genuine girlfriend is so ready to confirm that her dead boyfriend took drugs, and apparently failed to discourage him from his alleged habit?

Doesn't his good name matter to her?

Where do people such as yourself come from anyway? Count me out of 'us'
I think the issue is that it got away from doing one thing really well: capturing ideas. Now it tries to be a catch all for everything. While the core idea still remains the inclusion of so many extra features has made it less and less enjoyable to use.
This is so stupid on so many levels, its actually a work of genius.

Im impressed.
As you said the PageRank is just one of the many features used by the ranking algorithm. I highly doubt that there is any patent issue here (it's "just" an eigenvector computation), and there is a ton of literature and practical evidence that you can build very good web-search ranking technologies without PageRank.
It would seem very surprising to me that one can patent a feature used in an algorithm for commercial purpose...
Oh wow the multiplication one is cool
If "you're awarded legal fees", it only happens as a result of a trial/hearing. The cost to prepare + present at trial might be very substantial.
You're relying on absolutes and binaries, which has always been a very flawed method of determining any situation, as it ignores all forms of context, nuances and culture. The world isn't as simple as "Men prosper, women suffer." Not at all.

1. A group of men run most things.

2. A group of men often don't think of women as completely human.

3. I don't even know how to fix this.
Income inequality generally just means that different people make different amounts of money. It's quite obviously true, and has increased quite a lot in the U.S. in recent decades.

You mean to be dismissive of the wage gap or pay gap, or maybe more specifically the gender wage gap, or male-female income disparity.

Wikipedia seems to indicate that there is a healthy body of research on the topic, with researchers reaching different conclusions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap_in_the_United_St...
Second the vote for Simplenote. Super fast native Mac & iOS apps. Search is lightening quick too. Decent web app as well if you need it.
When I acquire a mutex inside my callback, it deadlocks. Microsoft wrote the calling function and the mutex implementation! Stupid Microsoft!

Never mind that my callback violated the caller's threading model and that mutices introduce deadlocks when used incorrectly... They should fix the bug!

Edit: I guess what I was trying to say is that this part needs a huge "citation needed":

> was almost certainly built ... according to Microsoft guidelines

We don't know that at all. When you insert your code into another process, bugs in your code have the potential to destabilize that process. This discussion is extremely light on details but we cannot assume that the caller, rather than the callee, is at fault. If it's working correctly with another driver, I say, look at the suspicious driver, it's likely got a bug.
1. I can just as easily claim that most of those companies are owned by old people. Does this mean we, as a society, discriminate against young people? I'm not arguing that sexism used to be a big issue back when most of the companies you're using as an example were created. I'm saying that nowadays, it is an issue that I doubt is as legitimate as women groups and similar make it out to be.

2. Same reasoning as above. This used to be true, and is not anymore. Yes, not giving women the right to vote was bad. But now, they have the right to vote. The problem was solved.

3. Not sure what the merit of it is.
DDG is good enough most of the time: What's the formula for the volume of a tetrahedron? What's a "Cleveland Steamer"? When it's not, there's a Google link right at the bottom of the page, so you can turn on private browsing and click on that.
Here is a history lesson, this one is the UK.

In 1800, the right to vote was based on wealth and gender (male). Less that 3 adults out of every 100 could vote. Since then, there have been some significant changes to the voting regulations:

1832 Reform Act. Extended the right to vote to certain leaseholders and householders. 5 adults out of every 100 could vote.

1867 Second Reform Act. Further extension of the voting regulations in counties and boroughs. 13 adults out of every 100 could vote, but still based on wealth.

1872 Secret Ballot Act. Introduced voting by secret ballot.

1884 Representation of the People Act. Any male occupying land or property with an annual rateable value of £10 could vote. 24 adults out of every 100 could vote.

1918 Representation of the People Act. All males over the age of 21 were given the vote. Women over 30 got the vote. Women could sit in the House of Commons as MPs. 75 adults out of every 100 could vote.

1928 Representation of the People Act. Uniform voting rights were extended to all men and women over the age of 21. 99 adults out of every 100 could vote.

1969 Representation of the People Act. The voting age was reduced to all men and women over the age of 18.

1985 Representation of the People Act. Voters who, at the time of an election, are abroad, either working or on holiday, may apply for a postal vote.

2000 Representation of the People Act. Introduced changes to electoral registration and extended postal vote provisions.

In terms of the US you will probably find something similar that for the most part it was land owners only who could vote.
I agree with the article. I wrote last week (http://markwatson.com/blog/2013-12/practical-internet-securi...) about using two browsers. Chrome with default security settings: used only for gmail, google search, facebook, and twitter; Firefox with ghostery: all normal web browsing, search using duckduckgo and bing.

My setup encourages me to at least use duckduckgo and/or bing when I am using firefox.
>1. Google is making arbitrary rules on how sites should behave, because they have a monopoly.

How are rules against paid linking scams or procedure generated content farms considered arbitrary? It's clearly trying to game the system, and the rules are explicitly laid out to tell you NOT to do it.

>2. Google needs these rules, because Google’s rankings are apparently trivial to game.

If this were true, you can make millions executing your plan for any number of websites. It's not.
Funny. I use DDG as my default. Frankly, I think it's results are way better than Google's. Yes, they are more simple-minded and less "intelligent", but then they are much more predictable as well. As such, it took some getting used to, but now I feel like I search more precisely than I ever would with Google.

Way too often, Google will try to be "smart", and search for some "intelligent" interpretation of my search, where no such thing was called for. Especially for technical, precise searches for "strange" strings, this can get really annoying.

Also, those bang-searches are just genius. I regularly search Wikipedia, programming language docs, or maps using those. And yes, sometimes Google as well, mostly for fuzzy "how do I" searches or searches that I don't know precise keywords for.
What exactly are the mental differences between men and women that lead you to think it'd be a "really bad idea" if women didn't have any role at all in steering the future? (Last time we let a woman try to steer the future, we wound up with COBOL! (Joke alert.))

Is some force actually "leaving out" women in creating the future? Is there some force that's going to lay the smackdown on people like Jeri Ellsworth so that they never go anywhere?

You've shifted the goal posts a bit with the emphasis on having more women in positions of creating the future. Personally, I'd rather humanity had more people willing and capable of creating a better future, period, regardless of the other details of their identity. I think there's a shortage, and I regret that my own contributions will if anything likely only be financial to those doing the hard work. Anyway, why would the tech field, as a whole, be better off with more women, when most people in the tech field, male or female, actually don't actively contribute to steering the future?

(On your earlier point about income inequality, you might benefit from reading PG's views about that: http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html)
As a guy, I wonder how one can miss this. I certainly had and have my fair share of WTF moments... at some point I even vowed to make a documentary with a hidden cam about the shit some men say about women behind their back, who act completely different to their faces, but I never got around to it. And frankly, I think some women don't really want to know. Stockholm syndrome comes to mind. So my heart jumps for joy about the strong women who do point (and cuss) this stuff out. I wouldn't know how to prove it to anyone else, but maybe they can prove the opposite to me... ?
Amazon is making it harder to sell Bigfoot porn ebooks
>they're still out the cash they paid and left with empty hands.

Not if they have it on their mac/windows pc they sync with
Nitpicking, but that comment in the closing paragraph is jarring: "Anyone can put a urinal on the wall and call it art". It's clearly a reference to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain - a key work in the argument of what is and isn't art. However, that urinal, and its reproductions, were pointedly never mounted on a wall, but flat on a pedestal where it couldn't be used. It's like the author had heard the phrase but didn't know what it was about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
The data isn't about when you enroll but when you graduate.
I have read Object oriented programming with ANSI-C and implemented my own class system in C with inheritance and polymorphism.

Taking a look at Writing Bug-free C Code the chapter about class is really just an example how to use structs with pointers that don't expose the underlying implementation.

If you want to learn oop read the Oop with Ansi-C, where classes similar to c++ with certain limitations are possible. The book explains everything in detail with including source code[http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/books/ooc-14.01.03.tar.gz].
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In the US, I'd argue that the declining ratios are due to a larger proportion of foreign students (now a majority). Different cultures have much lower focus on female education.
It's also a massively profitable industry. It would do for the car industry what android previously has done for them in mobile.
God this pisses me off to no end. So my site is targeted by negative SEO. (Yeah, I know, I know, negative SEO doesn't exist. Fuck off.) So who do I call? I've been penalized for months and there is nothing I can do about it. Nobody can help. But these fuckers are able to make a call and recover from a SELF INFLICTED wound in less than a week. I am being targeted by crap that is COMPLETELY OUT OF MY CONTROL and it's tough luck little buddy. The double standard here is fucking sickening.
> The only thing he didn't like about the app was that when he reflashed the phone he had to re-register it.

Lots of apps require you flash a new ROM actually. Dropbox and Gmail to name a couple.
No, I'm not hypothesizing a reason for this. I'm simply describing the end effect, which is women being paid less.

When you control for working hours women entrepreneurs still earn less.
Exactly. In this case there's no point in being distributed. You have to trust the central bank anyways, so just let them handle the servers instead of wasting a colossal computing effort in verifying transactions or waiting whole minutes versus milliseconds to confirm transactions. You also get invulnerability to the likes of 51% attacks or "selfish mining" and ability to revert frauds or big blunders.

But I guess this is a good example of a new tech that reminds people that the basics are still not out of place.

I proposed a semi-centralized crypto currency with the same things in mind but based on existing fiat some time ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/altcoin/comments/1t6nu0/altcoin_prop...
I use duck duck go as my default in my search bar, but I rarely actually use it to search the web directly. Instead, I use the !bang features to get where I need to go faster without taking my hands off the keyboard. Some examples:

ctrl-t !w cyclocross

ctrl-t !g site:ohio.gov filetype:pdf economic development

ctrl-t !image sad reaction gif
So I went to the Simplenote website to check it out, and there's nothing there. You have to register to see anything?
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Excel codebase is very old, most is still in recent versions.

Excel 2010 still relies on WinAPI's Fibers [1] (lightweight threads). In recent years the idea got popular again with Lua's co-routines and GO's goroutines.

So it is manually scheduled by the application, instead of relying on the OS.

In 2014, there is a lot of code in Excel that dates back to Excel 3 (1990). Excel 2010 still relied on the outdated MDI concept [2] that had been introduced with Win 3 and only one Excel instance/main window can run.

One can embed the Excel OLE component in one app [3]. As soon as the component get the focus it replaces the traditional menu bar with the custom drawn "ribbon bar". It looks weird out of place (Win9x style OLE app with ribbon bar). Office apps started with custom drawn UI objects with Office 97. It had these fancy toolbars and a italic window title [4] instead of the boring Win95 look that WinAPI provided.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms68... ; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms68...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface

[3] e.g. using the sample apps that come "Inside OLE 2nd" book.

[4] http://www.cheresources.com/economics.shtml
If you're outside of the US the results are left wanting for day to day searches.

That said, the little helper widgets are brilliant. I find them more useful more often than the Google result widgets.

I've already switched back to G on pretty much all my machines.
PageRank is almost certainly only a signal used in a learned model. An important signal, but probably one feature in hundreds, if not thousands. It was a critical algorithm to helping them overcome Yahoo in the 90's, but I doubt it is as essential these days.

What is the most important signal? Click-throughs. This is why any new search engine is at a massive disadvantage.
How can this be? Are you suggesting that women run less profitable businesses?
The garbage man and the bus driver see little benefit from the latest SV IPO. How about a program to encourage people to move into higher potential roles and keep an eye out for implementors giving unfair benefit to one gender/class/whatever.
> paid linking scams

One man's advertising is another man's paid linking scam. Do you know where to draw the line? Google doesn't - or at least they can't create an algorithm that knows the difference, even after significant investment in the problem.
And just like that this post went from #3 to off the front page in 5 minutes. Is sexism to controversial of a subject to discuss so it's just going to be ignored?
Great tour of the problems, but I felt my sympathy with the writer deflate quite a bit when he said that (at one point) he hadn't updated in a while. As a software developer, it's irking to see people bitterly complaining about bugs that were fixed and made available as free updates a long time ago.
Just a wild guess given a post describing why the problem happens, but this being windows 95, you use the alt key to bring up the window management drop down, choose move, and just move around the modal window with the keys. You cause the window refresh event to fire, and the conflicting threads continue to fire properly.
What do professors have to do with the work force?
Can I use it on my Android phone and sync the notes to my Windows machine and my iPad?
Seems like a fun course. Just not an OS course.
In other words- "They just wouldn't!"