skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By all means, lets ignore the countless incredible, perhaps in some cases average/normal looking women in tech and focus on one who happens to be also gifted in the looks department (as decided by whom? men? women?)

By emphasizing her uniqueness, they're perpetuating the stereotype they claim to abhor.
It seems like the divorce suit was less about his bongo playing than it was his choking her when she interrupted his bongo playing.

Playing the bongos is a quirk. Choking your spouse is assault.

EDIT: that said, Feynman's divorce happened before no-fault divorce existed. At the time, a married couple wanting to divorce would often fabricate a story of spousal abuse, in order to establish grounds for granting one. This could be an instance of that practice.
does this service work for you? My feed never downloads anything.
Have you ever seen benchmarks to suggest that Intel is not the market leader in compilers is actually true?
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Create external-facing events(meetups, hackathons, etc.) that advertise the culture you want to build, then recruit through them. This will also give you experience in thinking about the overall work environment.

I firmly believe that the "bigger 80%" of the problem when discussing equality/diversity issues is in putting together an appropriately inclusive space, one where people can exchange thoughts without feeling like they're in an argument. At the high level this means successfully tapping into groups outside of your personal circles and getting people from those groups into your events. (The easiest way to do this is to find a well-connected co-host to represent the groups unavailable to you.)

The rest is a matter of managing the event so that respectful intent is maintained and it doesn't turn divisive. If the balance is already good, and you've hit on a type of event that is welcoming to everyone, you won't have to fight fires. The troubles appear when you have a definite minority and the format ignores minority concerns. Again, your co-host can help you avoid the problem areas.
> If we want to stop terrorism without trading it for something worse

Terrorism is a political tool. There is no willingness for it to stop. On the contrary. Both the aggressor and the victim will politically benefit from it. The "victim" will push for more State Power and more population control, and the aggressor will use any act of retaliation to recruit more people on their side.
>CNN has a lot of nerve to use a racial slur such as 'pasty-faced'. I believe the correct term is Caucasian.

Please spare us your faux outrage. "Pasty faced" is not a racial slur by any reasonable definition of the term.
Sounds like a toaster where you move the bread away from the element rather than turn the element off. E.g. what happens in thousands of bread/toast factories around the world.
They alluded to it in one scene I believe, while Jobs in the movie is taking to his ex girlfriend on the phone at a banquet, Woz talks tell Jobs that they should give stocks to the early guys.
The world needed both.
Yes for us, stuff like this doesn't matter since it's all about ability.

So why does she matter? Because regardless of the reality, programming is still seen by the masses as a well paid janitorial function that only uncool, socially inept, nerdy males should do. (Notice that I didn't say could but should.) This is why a lot of people have a "I'm too good to stoop down and do this" attitude, when it comes to things like programming. "That guy should do it instead of me." Programming or most technical occupations just don't command the same level of respect in the West like a finance, legal, or medical job does regardless of the pay.

People like Scott give programming a cool and acceptable image for non-techies and people still deciding what they want to be in the future. imo, the main reason females aren't into stuff like programming is because of its negative social perception. LAST EDIT: When I think about it, I'm surprised I haven't read anything addressing this problem when it comes to attracting more females to tech.
An open letter to the Yale Community from Dean Mary Miller
This is a real-world problem. Some warrants are absolutely indistinguishable from a home invasion, and mistakes are well documented in the press (but not reported widely enough, IMO). I remember one in Denver around 2003 that particularly horrendous.
So some people think it's ok and others think something different? Damn, I might have to think for myself soon...
I agree with you. Although I guess there are arguments to be made about covering this to show potential role models from different backgrounds, it still isn't anything particularly noteworthy.

I also have very mixed feelings about the term "geek" being used. It seems to be thrown around for everything nowadays, from people who watch Doctor Who to people who are actually deeply invested in STEM. It's a good and admirable skill to have these days, being able to throw an iOS app, but the term has really lost its weight.
Well, hang on. While I understand your reaction, this is a bit of a strawman:

> without any English professors?

It does feel like we're educating too many English majors for the limited number of English teaching slots. Not to mention that English professors need to be of a certain caliber, and most English majors aren't.
I agree, this is fantastic stuff, and definitely a very good explanation for what things can be. Crypto-currency is a very very interesting space and not many appreciate it. It solves the core problem of how to deal in money, which is needed as the first stage of AI in order to create a machine that can interact with our human world.

Dividends can be distributed just like dividends are distributed in current companies - on a pre-declared date, everyone holding the 'stock' will get the dividend.

Crypto-currencies are really backed by the value of services that they provide.
Fwiw, the author of the API is a co-worker and I checked with him first, he says it’s all fine. Or put another way, if it’s not fine I’ll hear about it. :)
AMC movie theatre calls FBI to investigate a Google glass wearer
> except on BBC channels

Mmmm... Isn't Top Gear all about product placement?
Have you ever had a reason to read just part of a book? Pages 236-241 of Moby Dick, with no intention to ever read the rest? That seems to be a crucial difference between the two activities.
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Startup failure post-mortems
Good naming practice. Either pull each line of non-trivial code out into it's own method, or assign the output of the code to a variable that tells you what it's doing.

If you find yourself repeating an assignment, pull it out into a function and remove the duplication.

Rinse and repeat until everything in the file is assigned to a descriptive function or variable. Doing this with someone else's code gives you a feel for how to do it with your own.
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I was recently watching the first season of Homeland, and that's true, it had very obvious Windows/Microsoft product placement. A bit toooo much.
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http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/04/18/get-rich-with-bike...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/business/12heart-web.html?...

It says right there there are already Internet connected pacemakers.

>But device makers have begun designing them to connect to the Internet, which allows doctors to monitor patients from remote locations.

What's the benefit of wireless communication on pacemakers? Oh I don't know, how about having the ability to make a minor adjustment without having to go through a major surgery.
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She's not any old model, she's a "supermodel" (gasp!) so of course everything she does is special and newsworthy...
I think articles like this help to "normalize" programming as a career for people that aren't nerdy white dudes. The hypothesis goes, a lot of [women,minorities] don't go into [programming,finance,etc] because they don't see it as a career that people like themselves can or do choose. Puff pieces about "this person who is like you or who you aspire to be like is also into [programming,finance,etc]" help them visualize themselves choosing this career.

You may not agree, but I think having more women and minorities in programming would be a good thing. Because I think that articles like this are a way to help get young women and minorities interested in programming, I like that this article exists, even though it wasn't written for me.
Asked on twitter what he meant by 'swell', @pmarca replied "I mean personality change - ego, hubris. Stop listening. Start feeling entitled."

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/425378431283384320
I agree, it's great to be able to fix problems with open source projects. But there's not always one tool to rule them all

Fact is, people want different things from their tools.
So does this mean that if you cross in at a border they can confiscate your google glasses, which may be prescription, for an indefinite period?

And what happens when google's diabetes blood sugar monitoring contact lenses increase their capability, and glass gets merged into those?
The statistical likelihood of something happening isn't super relevant to how we as human beings deal with things. Fear is a huge motivating factor. While we do not live in a perfect world, police, by design, decrease fear while terrorists increase it. That's why we commit money and resources.

A nice analogy is the difference between flying and driving. I know many people that have a fear of flying and refuse to get on a plane, but are perfectly comfortable behind the wheel even though it's statistically much less safe. How people feel about things is important.
I've been around about the same time as the OP. I've had ups and downs, but honestly this is a GREAT time to be a software developer.

I can't remember a time where there has been such a large number of truly interesting technologies around. And there are open source solutions to everything.

You can pretty much pick a new thing every week and you'd be still learning something new next year.

And with the way the job market is these days, you don't have to settle for that boring tech job either. Get out there, get yourself into a job that lets you work with exciting stuff.
Only 8?! With so many police officers? That's an amazing performance if true. But I suspect that police-caused fatalities are just being underreported here.
Introducing Snapchat Stories
> like the current SEO one

What tool are you talking about?
Unless you happen to be in the same room with a police officer and terrorist.

Also, Domino's pizza delivery drivers a much more considerable threat to Americans than all the terrorists in Afghanistan. You could go on all day with such comparisons. I'll bet popcorn kills more people than Al Qaeda. And through asphyxiation!
+1 on minimizing the commute. I switched jobs some time ago in large part because my commute was slowly killing me. I couldn't be happier.
How This Startup Redeemed Itself After Founder's Comments About BayArea Homeless
And there is the scene where Woz tells Jobs that he'd given them some of his own stocks (or similar). I was watching "Jobs", and was shocked that it was not in there. Very poor portrayal. Pirates was much more balanced.
> “So we can tell their competitors, and they can call those companies, and the sales rep can say: “I see you’re checking out our competitor’s solution right now … why don’t you try ours as well?” That’s pure marketing magic.

"Pure marketing magic."

I'm in marketing and I understand why that might be a useful followup, but if you step out of your marketing shoes - I think I would simply find that creepy.
To take two examples, Blackboard costs at least in the hundreds of thousands (maybe a few orders of magnitude more) while an individual license of matlab is 3000, so perhaps with a group purchase it's more like 1000 per student? Schools also tend to spend a great deal on their course registration systems and perhaps hire external consultants to develop and maintain them. Those are just two examples, the list goes on for all the services the university provides.

I also want to note that often the administrators have to ok so many contracts (which they have no expertise in) and there are so many options, that inevitably the university ends up paying for stuff that nobody uses. At least in my last school, it was apparent that there were many sources of waste.
They have set a goal of raising $150,000 for 2014 so if you haven't already, please consider donating

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...he said on _hacker_ news.
As I noted in the edit to my comment in another sub-thread, their divorce happened before "no-fault" divorce was created. At that time, couples wishing to divorce would often concoct stories of abuse or adultery to give the courts grounds on which to grant their request.

It's doubtful anyone alive today could say definitively, but this could be an instance of that practice. I certainly hope it was.
Yeah, but they're recent (segmented stacks).

How stacks work in something like STG are very different from a language like Rust or C.
What's really interesting to me is the trend that all these OEMs just don't fear Microsoft anymore. That coupled with the fact that people are using all kinds of non-MS mobile devices mean that they don't tie their very survival to the whims of Redmond, so they feel emboldened to really try things that would be unheard of in the past.

Things like Linux laptops that they actually promote, and actually acknowledging that Windows 8 is A UI pile of poo publicly, these are all moves they wouldn't have made back in the day when MS was the scary juggernaught and Windows was the only option anyone even considered.
Please don't singly use cloud backups. Your first line should be a local backup solution like a Time Capsule or other NAS device. Blind trust in a black box backup is not prudent.
Computer Security Expert Claims he Hacked the ObamaCare Website in 4 Minutes
Top Gear are pretty aggressive about not shilling for manufacturers (c.f. their frequent off-color jokes associated with certain brands, rigged Tesla and Leaf reviews, etc.)

Obviously some manufacturers get a preferential treatment (Land Rover!) in order to keep the presenters in character, but given both the show's success without promotional money and the certain scandal and cancellation of the show (BBC especially is definitely not allowed to do that kind of product placement) if the producers were to be paid off I highly doubt there's any product placement going on.
I think term supermodel has some meaning. Model is like mom & pap shop or lifestyle business. Supermodel is like Bezos or Zukerberg.

So far she is a supermodel who codes, not a ninja coder that models.
Why not Piwik[1]?

[1]: http://www.piwik.org
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How much longer? NY Times' Tesla test drive saw loss of over 55 miles in range just sitting overnight, which was backed up by the data in Elon Musk's rebuttal [1] (yet ignored by him...)

Anyway, my experience with blizzards is that it's not unusual for the power to commercial districts and gas stations to be restored within a day, yet for some residential areas to remain without power a week later. Plus, more gas stations are installing generators. [2]

[1] http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/r...

[2] http://www.ny1.com/content/news/201898/fema-funds-to-help-ny...
Precisely the point I'm making. It was hubris and laziness and I'm surprised that I let myself go that long. In a follow-up article I discuss an overview of what I'll be doing going forward: http://www.seankilleen.com/2014/01/my-newest-backup-system-p...
One can live comfortably in the city on ~ 95K. Perhaps one would have to make $200K on Wall Street, if only because turnover tends to be high.
This is an iirelevancy. You'll never see this type of speed in the real world, since to do it they're combining 3-channels. Meaning 1 tower, servicing 1 person per antenna sector will manage it, but that'll be it.
Ya, that all makes sense. My wife is in the academy and she's got some stories too.

No competition -> bad management -> all kinds of waste. It's sad. I don't know how to fix it though.
I just started reading The Laundry Files two hours ago, the first of his books I've read. I never would have noticed the username there if you hadn't pointed it out!
Android does not use sysv init, it uses its own init program (keeping the name, but completely different).
There is nothing wrong with trusting online backup providers provided your data is backed up on two or more of them and there not both using the same back-end (aka Amazon s3).
Opening the Charms bar.
Matt, if that's the case, then perhaps you should clarify the original blog post. Guest posting is something I would do even if Google didn't consider links at all in their ranking.

If a site author accepts high quality guest posts, should they no-follow the outbound links? That appears to be the message in your blog post.
I think the biggest difference is that BuiltWith cannot tell when somebody started to use your competitor YESTERDAY. By the time they report it, it's already too late.

Another thing is Datanyze is more enterprise oriented (Salesforce integration, People/Company information, etc)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
This is from a rather dubious (Fox 'News') source originally, but as it appeared on Zero Hedge it will get a fair amount of views. I guess it is a tossup between Fox's 'reporting' and the incompetence of the ObamaCare web site programmers. A tough call.
Where did this same origin fixation you have come from? You keep mentioning it, but stripe.js or checkout.js would normally be loaded directly from a subdomain of stripe.com over HTTPS, and the pages that load that JS, which really are coming from the vendor's own domain, are also required to be served via HTTPS according to Stripe's guidance.

To compromise that set-up without compromising the communications infrastructure or Stripe itself, an attacker would need to be able to modify the files served from the vendor's system. Anyone who can do that can just as easily serve a page that puts a form up asking for card details but then simply e-mails anything submitted to the accountant of their favourite Nigerian prince, never going anywhere near Stripe. So what is it you're concerned about here and how do you think anything in PCI DSS actually makes it better?
Interview with Raffi Krikorian on Twitter's Infrastructure
You don't need to swipe, you just move the mouse to the corner of the screen (or use the keyboard shortcut.)
Using a Lisp does not necessarily preclude static anlysis.
I know it's a sample size of one, but every time I click a Mailchimp button, I immediately receive the confirmation email, and immediately confirm.

I don't see the big deal.
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Because to encourage women to become programmers would require them to understand it's not just for the overweight 30-something males.

But yes, the article wasn't great, CNN as you say.
Your comment reeks of elitism (though much of the ones in this article do as well). I'm pretty sure that this article wasn't written with HN mind as the audience. Your reaction seemed a bit strong to me.

Can you tell me what you find to be a reputable news source? I'm not saying CNN is the best news source but they have to at least be in the top ten of news networks in the U.S. Maybe even in the top five?

And if you haven't noticed the general public does like "human interest" news. IMHO this is a step up from the local news in LA. It is at least positive rather than the overwhelmingly negative news that I seem to come across.

Anything that possibly encourages more young people (women) to get into programming should be encouraged (again IMHO).

TLDR...don't hate.
After reading the doc and paying close attention to that section, it's not clear to me what the Stripe problem is. I didn't see anywhere that the Stripe approach would not comply.
Wired or wireless connection? I would always do bit sensitive data over a wired connection.

This goes without saying.
On one hand you are kind of right that when you care about software or creations in general it does't matter if it was created by a supermodelor a dog. But the article is about real world. And in real world your creation has different value depending on whether you are Jackson Pollock or Johnny, age 5.

She as a black female supermodel can have much more impact on the world with her coding that overweight white guy that does exactly the same.
common law vs civil law - https://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/robbins/CommonLawCivilL...

It's mostly how you describe (for better or worse) in countries following civil law, the US follows common law.
I agree, and I would add to that: "as long as you also have a local source." That was my failure here. Had I backed up to a local source, the slow restore times / issues would be marginal at best. So there are two lessons from my perspective: Backblaze needs to get its restore scenarios fixed for folks like me, and I need to get my shit together as far as a back up strategy. Good lessons to be learned for all I think.
What the Baidu object recognition team thinks of PHP...
I've wondered if Microsoft adopts a sort of "golden path" (a la Dune) strategy... intentionally make every other operating system unpopular in order to set the stage for their next version.

You need bad in order to see good.
Not how you estimate long-tail risks!

"The U.S. Department of State reports that only 17 U.S. citizens were killed worldwide as a result of terrorism in 2011. That figure includes deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq and all other theaters of war."

Since 2011, there's been no major tsunami, nuclear meltdown, or global financial crisis... so the probability of any those things happening must be zero.
If a blog owner wants to place a small ad (say via guest post) in their blog why should they be penalized when the same blog is not penalized when they place an ad via Google ad network? (Referring to near spam text ad placements in between content that you see in many sites).
Wired connection during both attempts (even on the laptop). But you're right and it does go without saying.
> Okay, I’m calling it: if you’re using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop.

Matt, are you saying guest posting is penalty-worthy or simply "not useful"? It sort of sounds like you're threatening to penalize anyone who is, plans on or has done guest posting. If so, it seems strange that google would retroactively penalize people for a practice that it previously endorsed.

Can you clarify that at all?