skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a success of women, that's just a sexist (and common) law.

Yet when was the last time you saw feminist and women's organizations actively campaigning for more females to register in the military and fight in the battlefield? Practically never, from my experience. Last time I saw it mentioned was an activist who was insisting on diluting military training to make it more accessible to women, which... is not a solution, I hope you realize that.

But for the most part, it's never discussed. After all, war is hell. If women are not encouraged to go out and die, that's a big advantage, even if a technically sexist one. It's an example of sexism that is actually beneficial to the group that experiences it. Why would they want to fix it?

Because they don't commit nearly as much crime? I don't understand this at all.

That or they get more lenient sentencing: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/ap:10:0::NO:10:P10_ETD_SUBID:49114

Also: "Interestingly, among women, white female defendants receive more severe sentence outcomes than black females."

Yup. More would be even better.

I guess they would if you value short-term hacks that give specific advantages to a group over actual long-term solutions.
This has the problem of "where does the first hacker come from?" Then I realized the first hacker is almost certainly Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first computer program for Babbage's Analytical Engine.
"Google has gotten so rich, entrenched and popular that IMHO no competitor can dislodge it."

Isn't this the definition of a monopoly? And if so, isn't that reason enough to consider search as a public good or a publicly regulated means of accessing information?
Regarding homelessness: http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/who.html

GENDER

Most studies show that single homeless adults are more likely to be male than female. In 2007, a survey by the U.S. Conference of Mayors found that of the population surveyed 35% of the homeless people who are members of households with children are male while 65% of these people are females. However, 67.5% of the single homeless population is male, and it is this single population that makes up 76% of the homeless populations surveyed (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2007).

EDIT: Another: http://www.societyhealth.vcu.edu/Page.aspx?nav=29&scope=0&so...

Most homeless adults are men, but most homeless adults with children are women.
And there is more. UX is woefully absent. Getting married sometime this year? How do you add your spouse to your policy? Having a baby? Same.
Not really beyond a) they both died and b) they both worked in the field of security. Any further comparison is a little contrived.

Gareth Williams was never a hacker - he was an academic mathematician who later became employed by GCHQ. Unlike Barnaby's death, neither alcohol or drugs played any part in his death.

The circumstances around William's passing is legitimately suspicious, however, given the 'ritualistic placing of sim cards' and the fact that no one has been able to prove it is possible to lock oneself in the sports holdal from the inside.
> Their rules are very clear and succinct.

If I think of a lot of things my users would search for and try to create valuable information for them concerning those queries... is that valuable content or are those doorway pages?

If I give when someone few months of my service for free when they write a nice article with a link to my site... is that good customer service or a link scheme?

If I create a press release on PR Web and link to my service with an appropriate keyword ... is that participating in a link scheme?

None of these cases are all that clear cut and I for one am not comfortable with Google being the judge, jury and executioner.

> It approaches conspiracy thinking.

That's not the point. The point is that Google is a massive company wielding massive power.

When it comes to fighting a penalization their position is that they don't need to defend their decisions, implying that they can be trusted not to abuse their position and hence deserve to have the final say, legally, over these decisions.

I don't buy that and think it's about time that contesting Google penalties in court becomes a regular thing.
Courts decide legal issues. If you give your word that you'll refrain from doing something, and then you do it, then you've broken your word, regardless of legalities.
When I was working in my college IT department, I had a computer come in once that was refusing to load things. I started up firefox and nothing was really moving, then I started moving the mouse around and all of a sudden it worked. I took a look at some other things and noticed even the system clock didn't move until I moved the mouse. Never did find out what the cause was, just reimaged it and called it a day.
Oh we did. Several.

The one who said "Oh, it's probably just hiccups - I just changed something here so next month will work for you." was one of them. Pretty sure he just "turned it off and on again", praying the problem would go away or that I'd give up.

And in a way - I did. At a loss to them. What I pay in additional metered power for the floodlights is peanuts compared to what we were being charged every other month.

Honestly I couldn't be happier with the final result.

But that's also why I complimented the author of the original content who stuck to it long enough to (possibly) get the broken system fixed.
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or: We need an inclusionist wikipedia - where every possible search term starts with an empty page/any possible search term would have an entry, even if it's just for redirecting a spelling mistake. Eventually every search term would grow its own little community of experts. Unfortunately, as pg said, "Deletionists rule Wikipedia."
I would guess Now I understand what your saying.
Another word-for-word echo of the top comment in this thread.

Seriously? I'm not blaming MIT. What did I say that indicated this? I'm arguing about "suicide is a choice." It's not. Choice has something to do with it, but to say it is choice is asinine. To say that is to never have been depressed or truly known another person who was depressed or suffering from another mental illness.

Also, is it not selfish of a family to expect a person with mental illness (or other serious problems) to suffer for the rest of his/her life just so they can delay the loss?
Tolerance isn't psychological. People may be using drugs of unknown strength or may be preparing them in different ways but they don't have heart attacks from psychological tolerance.

I agree that suspicion of foul play is premature. Hope he gets a good autopsy.
Workflowy is one of the best I've come across and one I use personally for text. The interface is super productive and the degree of depth possible with that simplicity is just stunning.

The real downside for me is that my notes are on their server. I really hate that. So .. I keep getting back to org mode .. which isn't available everywhere.
Sure, but what are you saying the implications of this be? Is handicapping the best options for search really whats best for consumers?
https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification is by far the best starting point for the base protocol. Roughly, you can make certain short-cuts to get running quickly:

Don't cache anything. Write data directly to disk and use seeks. Request pieces at random and don't think about getting the rarest first. Skimp on the choking strategy and don't do anything clever, but pick a simple algorithm. Skip all the extensions until the other parts work.

Get the wire-protocol and bencoder up and running first. Then handle tracking. Then handle connections to peers. Then handle storage.
If Google wants to send Glass my way, I'd wear it every day.
Does sync really work well for you? I had crazy problems syncing Tomboy in the past, but that was ~4 years ago.
Because computer science is a lonely pursuit, with long hours, requiring an obsessive focus on abstract problems. I saw women consistently self-select into biomedical applications and chemical engineering, away from the hard theoretical work like physics and comp sci.

On top of that, engineering is one of the fields which has the largest attrition rate amongst its students. It's clear that just thinking you want to be an engineer is not enough to succeed at it.

Add to that the fact that women are inundated with the message that they absolutely should go into STEM, and I think you have a recipe for disillusionment that merely shifts the attrition further down the pipeline. Which is exactly what we find: after 10 years, many more women leave the field than men.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for any woman that does make it in the field, but they've pretty much all been the kind of atypical go-getter personalities that other, more girly women, feel intimidated by.
Whenever I am waiting for something to happen, I tend to move my mouse pointer around in circles on the screen - this always caught peoples attention and I've been asked plenty of times over the years if there was a reason for it. I always joked that it helped make things go faster by making the computer know I was still there and waiting - I guess I wasn't lying.
Choosing a language or framework? (This is the answer/list) - 2013 + 2014 lag
1. Men run everything.

Gross generalization. Clearly not true.

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

Another gross generalization, and your support for this is that a long time ago women couldn't vote, therefore often men don't think of women as human? By that twisted logic the statement Germany wants to invade France would still be true.

3. Women are under attack by men.

Laughably histrionic. Is that like the war on Christmas?
I guess it sounds like you're pretending not to understand what is a fairly simple linguistic ambiguity, in order to start and then win a boring argument.

Sorry if this sounds mean, but you did ask.
A few years ago I had to look at two Excel spreadsheets fullscreen side by side each open in their own window (two monitor setup) and this was...not easy!!! I eventually found some hack online to open up multiple instances of Excel at once. Still was bizarre that is a simple use.
> "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."

Wow, so it's not just me then - I was describing my exact same feeling to someone (perhaps less eloquently than you!) just three days ago!

Even when I go and set it to 'Verbatim' search (which is well hidden), it still often gives me useless results for these kinds of technical queries...
The complaint seems to boil down to how Google deals with spammers. The question is, how is competition going to make it better? If we instead had five search engines that each had 20% market share, would people stop trying to game them? Would false positives in efforts to thwart spammers be eliminated? How?

The problem isn't even one that responds to market forces -- the "victims" (sites that should rank highly in organic results) are no one's customers. If you want to flip the script, they're the product. They have no leverage, and having more search engines leaves them with still no leverage. Only the users of the search engine have leverage because they can switch to another search engine -- but they can do that today. The problem is the alternatives are no better.

What we need is a cost-effective accurate way to identify spammers and exclude them from high rankings in search results. Someone who could do that more effectively could challenge Google, because there is a market for spam-free search results. But if that was an easy problem to solve then why hasn't Google solved it? They have the right incentives. It's just not easy, because spammers adapt. Whenever a search engine does something to thwart spammers, the spammers do something different.

Having more search engines doesn't make it easier, it makes it harder because each search engine has less resources to dedicate to it and they have to duplicate each other's work, and the cost to sites of legitimate optimization for a larger number of search engines increases which creates an even larger advantage for major institutions over small timers who can't afford the higher cost.

It's silly to say "why doesn't Google do X" and list some abstract thing you think would solve it which they've already considered and declined to do. There is probably a reason. Maybe manually curating every website is too expensive. Maybe arbitration proceedings would be overrun with spammers trying to challenge legitimate removals of their spam. And if they're wrong, don't speculate about it on a blog, prove it by building a better search engine. So far no one has been able to do it.
Yup, I read an article yesterday pointing out that in addition to those changes, it doesn't support easy edits for change in income, etc. Right now Healthcare.gov essentially assumes every enrollee will have the same exact plan from now until...infinity?
Short answer: Yes, LMTGFY

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-onenote-for-iphone...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-onenote-for-ipad/i...
I can't upvote this enough!
Snowden Lied About China Contacts
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is similar. It's not true in an absolute sense, but it is a convenient scaffolding for understandable explanations at a knowledge appropriate level, and that has a value beyond simple truth.
3D Mid-Air Acoustic Manipulation
The internet is now littered with badly written content linking to more badly written content, all in an attempt to increase inbound links and ultimately rank higher in Google. And since Google can't tell the difference between badly written and well written content companies continue to pump this crap out. A lot of problems might be solved with some healthy competition but I don't think this particular problem would be. It would require a new way of ranking that severely devalued inbound links and that seems like a really, really hard nut to crack.
This is amusing in /r/TumblrInAction, but HN is best when the discussion is slightly above the level of watching monkeys fling poo at each other.
I filed a support ticket over behavior that appeared to be a bug. Specifically, disconnecting a bluetooth keyboard while connected to an Android device in the Evernote editor would delete all bullet indentation instantly.

They confirmed that this should not be happening, and said that they filed a ticket on the internal bug tracker. The bug still exists in the Android version to date, unfixed, even though the solution (overriding the event Android calls when it disconnects a bluetooth keyboard) is somewhat trivial to implement.

Their response: http://puu.sh/69msM.png
My report: http://puu.sh/69mu1.png
The point I was trying to make is that in the times many of those companies were created, sexism WAS a legitimate issue, which means that most of these companies are run by men. Nowadays, it is not nearly as big an issue as it is made out to be, but that does not magically infuse the old companies with 50% women. This is why using this statistic is inherently flawed, as the companies were simply created in a different time (if you don't believe me, check http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/. Very few of those companies are what you would call nouveau riche).
Technology creates options for blind in India
Poll: How many programming languages do you command fluently?
I once heard that the record for natural languages is 104 and wondered how many programming languages it's possible to command fluently.
Well, records aside, it would be interesting to know the distribution for the HN clientele.

How many programming languages are you able to use effortlessly to produce nontrivial programs?
Here's an idea... how about instead of using just one search engine website, browsers will have a functionality that allows you to search for something and have it query to 3 different search engine at the same time? Users can configure which 3 search engine he/she wants to use. That way, website owners won't be so affected when one search engine screwed him up.
LOL. I needed a laugh, thanks. :)
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Clever trick. However, the bots will eventually catch on.
Friendly request: would you mind taking your irrational comments back to Youtube?

They don't belong here.
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>Women earn the majority of bachelors, masters and doctorates

Wonderful. Its good that the efforts that were made to help women in education have borne so much fruit that we're starting (or were starting in the 90s) to worry about boys falling behind. That's a sign that the supports might eventually be alright to take away.

>Women live longer than men:

Since the stone age. Is this a discussion of jealousy, or sexism?

>Women choose safer jobs than men (which may explain some income gap differences):

>And a study that suggests that men and women are paid the same:

For the same jobs. Probably. I believe these studies and hate the X cents on a dollar deceptive statistic. The fact is, women don't have the same jobs as men, they have lower level ones due to prejudice and childbearing. I'd also argue that there are many high-skill jobs that are traditionally dominated by women, and due to that domination are less respected and paid less. Even within female-dominated professions, management still somehow ends up dominated by men due to the "glass elevator."
The key word there is "IMHO"

Judging from the various anti-trust cases that have been brought on against Google around the world it's clear that proving that is nearly impossible too. More so because Google operates in a sector (Internet software) that is theoretically open to infinite competition and zero switching costs.
I don't think anything can compete with Google when it comes to search in English. I almost feel like Google can read my mind. With the adequate query you can find anything you've ever read on the internet if it's still online. Yesterday night I wanted to re-read a blog post about a guy that made a few bucks with QNX, but I didn't remember much I tried a few queries and I got the expected blog post with this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=netherlands+blog+qnx+a+few+b...

http://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-make-a-quick-buck

I just tried the same query with DDG and Bing and they don't even come close to giving me the link I want.
If you're into this stuff here's a great video of someone making Daft Punks' Robot Rock as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SOmZibK57M

It's got more detail explaining how to do things and shows all the keys he presses too. Shout out to the people who made Ableton, it's great software.
The PageRank patent is owned by Stanford; anyone can buy a license. And BTW, it isn't necessary or even that useful these days to compute it.
This seems to be the horrible Schreiner book. IIRC, he tries to do OO in C by using a special pre-processor. Sorry, this approach has never been relevant.
What a burden I have to read a 400 page document to understand your point. But sure I will bite.

Page 280. Work-life balance is a motive for starting their business for more women than men

It is also very suspect that the study does not include any data for credit for women enterprises started in the US.
Rainy didn't exist 4 years ago. I had some occasional problems with notes losing their categories or causing conflicts for no good reason but it has worked relatively well.
That doesn't answer the question. Why should more of the people being added to tech be female?
You can never be too old.
True, but back then there was no "CPU power saving" mode. The CPU was slow and it always run at full speed (power was cheap back then).

In the Windows NT series (4, 2000, XP, etc.) the sheduler gives the forground application an higher priority. It runs a longer CPU time than all other applications. This was probably also similar with Win 3 and 9x series but probably with many hacks and glue code on top of DOS.

Moving the mouse also prevented the screensaver, an application that would "save" the screen by drawing fancy graphics to prevent static phosphore burns on CRT monitor and slowed down the system
> I’m kind of amazed at how fast Javascript executes

I'm a little surprised by the author's surprise. I am on an old 1GHz laptop right now, and on both firefox and chrome it runs so fast there is no noticeable delay between clicking and seeing a result.

Which seems reasonable because it's doing a pretty small computational loop that browsers are quite good at optimizing these days. Browsers have been competing on exactly these things for years.
I actually had my entire workspace in Dropbox for the fear of losing data, and Dropbox handled git fine. As long as the files are small enough, Dropbox does a great job of getting the file up as fast as possible so that conflicts generally don't happen.

Still risky though.
Sure, but wouldn't it be better if it's actually used? A tumblr clone is probably too much work for an eventual ghost town. You can pick more focussed projects that solve a small problem really well - in that way, you have a chance that's actually used. For e.g. a chrome extension for something that has always bothered you.
Simplenote reminds me of ZimWiki an Open Source not taking app with tags, search etc: http://zim-wiki.org/screenshots.html
So much talk about games and making an appearance. I assure you that I don't care either way what your opinion is of me.

It is always choice to handle your reaction.
Also you are strawmanning, it is a far cry from that society didn't actively shove a computer and a programming book to you as a child and people behaving negatively towards you.
Is PageRank really the indomitable tech of our generation? Nobody can do better algorithmically, or integrate some kind of crowd sourced feedback, or measure browsing time and habits, or simply hand tune some of the most competitive key phrases? I’m sure I’m oversimplifying, but I wonder if we haven’t all been hypnotised by the complexity, much of which is marketing hype...

Actually, the tech is extremely complex, and PageRank is only a tiny part of that. Try building a search engine sometime. To hackers inspired by this article: here be dragons.

DuckDuckGo took the only sane approach and aggregated results from existing search engine apis, then gradually mixed in some secret sauce. Even then, is DDG viable competition for Google? Will it ever be?

All the same, I join you in wishing for some Innovators Dilemma-style disruption here. A "toy" service comes along one day that's a substitute for Google search, but only within a tiny niche. Google doesn't take it seriously enough until it's too late...and we have a real ballgame on our hands again.

Thought experiment: what could that disruptive niche be?
Haiku Project Needs Donations (was: Happy Contract Extensions)
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HN currently slow in Europe?
Hackernews loads somewhere between 5 and 20 seconds for me currently. Testing on Pingdom, it first gave a few results in the order of 200ms. Then I choose the Amsterdam server on Pingdom, and the test result jumped to 17 seconds.

Something to look into, admins? Or are there others experiencing slowness?
So instead of an entrenched monopolist, I’m supposed to choose… Microsoft?

That just feels wrong.
I actually had a similar problem installing a copy of windows 2000 years ago - the only way to get the install to complete was to sit there moving the mouse.
I'm not sure if the pastebin link is showing, so here it is again: http://pastebin.com/Q80WcazP

I wanted to write everything here on HN itself, but I was restricted to a 2000-character limit, so my next best option was pastebin (sad, I know) but I was eager to share this, which I spent a bit of time writing.

Enjoy (or not).
I'm also a paying customer and have lost an important note recently. Spent weeks of back-and-forth with support (including the anxiety-inducing handover of my Activity Log) until they concluded that my note was lost for good, without even an apology.