skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because some women think they are ostracized because of their gender only, and not because of their skills (or lack of?). It's always funny to see these kind of gender kind of statements, you don't see the same thing with races at all like "I am Asian and I code" - I just find this line of reasonning by separating people with one criteria (gender/race/eye color/hair color/whatever) really preposterous, yet some women insist on seeing things this way.
As an outsider (London, UK based) I keep wondering why SF isn't building skywards?

By which, rent prices reflect supply and demand (and some other things, but mostly basic supply and demand), there is water on three sides and a park to the South.

The only thing to relieve pressure on prices will be more floor space for residential, and the only space for that is above the existing floor space.

For a long while there will be a lot of profit in supplying the additional demand, so I don't get why profiteering by developers hasn't led to enormous swathes of existing housing being knocked down and 8+ story buildings being laid in their place. And if this is happening, why it doesn't happen at a far more rapid pace.

Is there something preventing developers from doing this?

Are there local NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard!) groups who resist the building of additional residential units?

Are there city disincentives to doing this?

Or is this more a case of waiting for the "big one" and starting over when that happens?

To an outsider, can the question be answered: Why not build up?
Woz wrote that it was the board's decision and not Job's. But if you take a depiction of Jobs , Zuckerberg and Gates who are the most prominent examples of tech entrepreneurship, you get back-stabbing friends, socially unacceptable behaviors,a huge ego, etc. Given the fact that most of the times we get the sugar version of the story via Hollywood or books... I wonder if you have to be like that in order to get so high and what example all these important people had set for the ones who will come.

Were/Are Twitter's, FourSquare's, Google's, Paypall's, etc. Owners like that?
And you think it's by putting every message under the "I am a woman, look, I can code too!" will actually change whatever gender bias there may be in a positive way ? On the contrary, I think it goes in the wrong way, by highlighting the wrong differences instead of the common points no matter the genders.
Yes explain to me how keeping things the way they are will fix the situation.
Every female would have had to get over the constant systematic assumption that they didnt belong in this field, from the culture being the only girl in the room / on the team / to the constant assumptions that they are in marketing at meetups and generally just reminded at ever step that they 'dont belong'

You are right, it is not the level of oppression as seen in North Korea, but it is severe and blindlingly obvious, and by making that statement you are helping increase that hostility towards one gender, that isnt nice.
Yes exactly.

I'm a bit fed up with people advocating more women in <insert male dominated industry here>.

As far as I can tell these same people don't complain that teachers and nurses jobs are mainly occupied by women.

Everybody seem to agree that a nursing job is not attractive for most men. Maybe the reason that women are few in tech is because these professions are not attractive to them.
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I am currently a senior in CS at SJSU and I'm looking for an internship for my last year that will hopefully turn into a job once I graduate in the fall. So are any of you looking for a hardworking intern? You can email me at ryan.eager@gmail.com or leave something below.

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> As the engineer, it is your right to quit if you don't want to play by the rules.

I think you mean that it is okay to quit if the rules change by someone else's accord...
What "new features" exactly, and how do they have a "positive impact" on the end user?

I disagree with the sentiment that somehow using new features is obligatory and directly related with how much "better" a website is; in fact the most informative and most visited sites I use, are also the ones that tend to be the oldest and not use any of these new features- often hand-written HTML4 or even 3.2.
As much as respect and often agree with Ebert, he has an annoying tendency towards absolutes, just like the video games and art thing. I'm in full agreement with him on this at the current level of technology, but "never" is a long time and I'm certainly not willing to bet on what's going to happen 50-75 years down the road.
Indeed. I run OpenBSD on an i386 router, and I honestly don't care about supporting the other platforms. If they want me to donate a Soekris device and pay for the power, I will. At my residential utility rate, one of those things uses $8 in electricity a year. Hell, the twice-yearly OpenBSD releases cost me $100, so I almost think I've done my part.
Holywood story-makers don't believe that reality is good for the crowds. So you get a sugar version, of what it could be.

Some times you go so far as making movies like 'Argo' where a total fiasco which led to the demise of a president, is pictured in totally different set-up and served as a success.

And here is the beauty of the Internet. We wouldn't know that, if information wasn't freely flowing online.
Just my personal thoughts as a hiker; not a hacker, HNer or what ever.

Firstly: Dont be disheartened by my criticism which will follow. Its a decent first attempt, the idea is absolutely worth working on, and could become a valuable resource for a lot of people. On to the criticism....

What goes in the search? Are hikes named? Do I need to know the name to search for? Search for a location? From the first page, what do I expect from the site?

I click discover. Nice pictures. Click one. A description. I expected a map and what not. Not a big blob of text. Why not trail mini map?

As after a few click I didn't see anything useful, I gave up.

I don't initially see what the site is doing or offering. First think I think of looking for hikes is a map of the hike, where it is and the route itself. That tells me a hell of a lot in one go. Where it is, the terrain, length, and so on. Having seen that, then I want information.

I would add a defined difficulty level. Family hike? Casual hike? Hike for the experienced? What kit level? Do I need more than boots? And so on.

UI. Now, I don't like the flat design thing. Thats me. But, I was relieved to see you didn't got the the awful for ever scrolling down thing. So, this "asshole" (I was called that here for not liking those sites) is happy about that!!! But, on a serious note, in my experience, hikers tend to be older, and it might be that a more traditional site would be better suited. I dont know, but it might be worth trying to understand who is likely to use your site and find out what sort of UI they like to use. Or maybe offer a couple of skins ot layouts, one for trendy people and one for us old crusties.

Personally, I think the whole thing need a fundamental re-think, from landing page onwards. It is great idea. Hiking is an area which could do with a damn good info source. IMHO, there are a lot of problems. But, like I said, keep working on it. Its worth it, and I can see you do seem to have the skills to make it work.

Personally, I look forward to V2. Best of luck. It is a good idea, had huge potential, and I'd like to see it progress.
Does that actually matter?

The way i understand it, Bob wants to send 1 BTC to Alice, and Charlie wants to send 1 BTC to Dave, and everyone wishes to do so anonymously. Through the wonder of mixing Bob's coin actually ends up with Dave. Unfortunately for Dave, Alice was a drug dealer and Dave gets arrested for receiving stolen property or proceeds from crime or some such.

Except in reality the mixing is done with smaller parcels, and a larger number of users. Whether or not the feds want to go after you for receiving 27c worth of drug money is another matter entirely, but i can quickly see there being some negatives to using a mixing service.
When I was younger I used to hate bitter tastes, I used to shiver when I tasted some. But at some point the only thing to drink at our office was the tea, and sugar ran out quickly so I adjusted. I barely feel bitter taste now and only if I put a tea bag in cup of hot water and drink it after a while without taking out the bag or stirring it.
The site is beautiful, and I really appreciate the open sourcing of the code. I teach high school kids how to develop websites with Angular and Ruby on Rails, and will point them to your git repo.

Quick question - how do you prevent spam?
I think for a long time programming has been presented as very hostile to work life balance, I had read about examples in high school like horror stories of crunch time. I think this does a lot to discourage women and men. My brother in law is doing programming at the same University that I did and the class sizes are 1/5th what they were when I was there.
I believe (so don't quote me) that city ordinances ban buildings higher than 3 floors. I'm sure it makes the city look nice.
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You click the delete link under the submission. If it is not there you are too late.
No, the risk costs $500 and the hedge fund has that. They can't book the $500 before the loan has been repaid in full. The problem is what happens if the default risk (1%) turns out to be 2% instead. See: The subprime crisis.
I've never heard of anything other than using boiling water to make tea. And I'm British.
You don't even need a microcontroller for PID - it can be done entirely in the analogue domain.
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To the author of this blog and all ladies reading this:

I'm sorry, but just like stories around racial diversity in tech you're about to see a bunch of HN comments making _EVERY EXCUSE CONCEIVABLE_, and then some, to dismiss your concerns and/or say this blog is doing damage instead of helping. I think they're all wrong, but I can't argue against all of them. All I can do is upvote your supporters and downvote the detractors.

Please just keep on keeping on. I have a daughter here who will benefit from the path you're creating. You won't see it in the comments of HackerNews, but there are men in tech who can actually see the glass walls & ceilings women run into in this field starting back to at least high-school and won't deny it with pedantic arguments that go nowhere & prove/disprove nothing.

That is all.
Would be funnier if his name had been Steve Pozniak, but I still give it points for geek cred.
Your comment is fairly disgusting, it admits that women are ostracized in the industry but then implies its because they ... as a gender ... lack the skill to code.

But the rest of the statement was ironic given recent popular story about the topic - http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/01/...
I respect your idealism and definitely did not want to sound sexist or hostile with my comment. I completely agree that segregating by gender doesn't do much good when it comes to lifelong skills of working with the opposite gender, but at the age group levels that we deal with, it becomes incredibly difficult to handle the disparity in average maturity levels between genders.

I merely wanted to point out a practical experience and was not trying to advocate gender segregation.
Its not about programming. Or anything to do with the profession. Its has much to do with the culture.

In my first project near impossible work conditions and deadlines were placed on us. Most of us had to make extreme sacrifices(health wise, socially and in many aspects)- The other option was being out of the job. The problem is you need a supporting family. Here in India, its difficult for women at least socially and even in your own family to justify working whole nights, weekends and late hours consistently. You can try to fight that when you are single, it gets near impossible to do that after marriage and kids. Plus women have to take breaks in their 20's and 30's for maternity reasons.

At the other end, super success in software depends on all this start up culture which is very hard on most women.
While I agree with what your saying, the common man has only very recently and in most places 50 years more than the common woman been able to vote. It is a relatively new invention.
I will do that as soon as you explain how treating female coders as if they were freaks, segregating them in their own class, decreases the problem of integration of more female coders in tech.

Perhaps the issue of "feeling alien to the community" would be improved by, you know, not alienating females from the community, with sexist behavior such as this.
Point appreciated, but on my http://www.typematrix.com/ , Return is in the middle, on the home row. :-)
As a smoker who is constantly in the 'I'm quitting..' phase, is there a reason that cigarettes are so bad? Is the burning of tobacco itself lethal or are the additives the principal killers?
All offer a generally monolithic "cathedral" style development approach to the OS as a whole (kernel, libraries, utilities, applications), rather than the more piecemeal "bazaar" style favored by most GNU/Linux distros.

This has gotten a bit less true, though not entirely. The classic Unix model really did develop the entire system in the unified development model: kernel, userland, servers, major application software, etc. You could then also install third-party packages for specific application software (e.g. Matlab), but it wasn't the norm, and didn't handle core functionality.

But some components have gotten to be big enough that they're entire projects in themselves, usually cross-platform and not integrated with any one OS's development. Some of these are adopted into the BSD core respositories and customized so they form part of the integrated offering, but a number are just left in ports and run mostly unmodified. Webserving is one example: when used as a webserver, the BSDs, just like Linux, depend for a core part of the functionality on Apache or nginx. A few of the commercial unixes do follow the more traditional "everything included" model, e.g. Oracle and IBM have in-house customized versions of Apache as Oracle HTTP Server and IBM HTTP Server respectively. But the free BSDs generally run this kind of software un- or very lightly modified. The compiler is another example; the BSDs all ship basically a stock GCC or LLVM, rather than having an in-house compiler developed with the system, like the old commercial Unixes did.

Windows Server might be the purest descendent of the old Unix cathedral model, shipping integrated, Microsoft-developed software for all core functionality: kernel, userland, windowing system, webserver, compiler, etc. GNU also had such ambitions at one point, which explains some of their integration-oriented policies (some of which are disliked, and some of which have been dropped). For example, a unified style of command-line options (now packaged into getopt), a standard in-house-developed configuration/scripting/extension language that all applications were supposed to use (Guile), a unified compiler suite handling all languages (GCC), etc.
I like Europe's privacy laws in theory, but who's to say that the company is actually going to tell you the full story, and not just lie?

For all we know, their sensitive "customer analytics" fields are not dumped when you make an information request, so you might only get a sanitized response?
From what I've seen most British people are way behind on their hard core tea nerding. For most of my British friends tea is something you drink large quantities of, not obsess over.
One of the biggest "why" answers is software distribution. I distribute my code in source form and users expect to ./configure && make && make install. I feel like there's far too much manual intervention in "the Go way" that I'd be asking my non-Go-savvy users to embark upon.
I'm surprised that someone can simultaneously acknowledge how neat the solution for the $10 kettle is, and then say that "the magic is gone". Seeing this increases the magic for me.
Unfortunately I believe there are gender stereo types in our culture which make many men view women as inferior coders (both in the workplace situation and an interview environment) simply because they are female.

A situation where I have experienced this first hand is where a fellow SDE (female) colleague by chance happened to sit at a desk next to one of the VPs at our organization. Many people instinctively thought she was the VP's assistant and spoke to her as such. She was a fantastic coder, had a PhD, but because she sat next to a man in a position of power was assumed to be an assistant.

Not trying to sound like a feminist (I am far from one) but I believe what women are being robbed of is 'equality'. It is a real problem in our industry.
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How long will it be until we can definitive statements about e-cigarettes? I hate being in a bar or club, or fucking anywhere really, and seeing people smoking those things indoors. But if asked whether that smoke is actually harming me, I couldn't say.
Only a distorted, rightist mindset interprets ``free healthcare'' as meaning ``healthcare magically appears from the sky'' rather than ``you can walk into a hospital and get treatment without having to pay a bill afterwards''.
> A grounding issue would trip the main switch. If water came into the electric circuit causing a grounding of the current, then the main switch would trip.

No it wouldn't.

You could stick the bare wires of a branch circuit in water and it wouldn't trip the main breaker.

The main breaker will trip if there is a short inside the panel (which is all but impossible unless you are working on it live - which is sometimes done). Or if you used so much electricity you simply overloaded it, but if you did that you have the wrong panel for your house (or you are running some crazy equipment - arc furnace, maybe).
I heard tons of people complain about that, though for other reasons - it would be really good for boys (and their social and academic performance) to have male rolemodels, the argument goes.

Consider the reasons for non-attractiveness. In the case of nursing, it's bad pay as well, presumably. In the case of IT, the general unfriendliness is one reason, though there might be others. Shouldn't we just remove the removable ones?

(I don't first-up reject the theory that there might be 'biological' reasons that apply to the majority of people, but we won't really find out until we try. And there will always be outliers.)

(Why, you ask? So that when I walk into a room, I could be the boss too, and not automatically be tagged with 'secretary'. It's about status and power in the end, maybe?)
> This isn't a fight over whether someone gets to keep land, regardless of whether they own it or are renting, this is a fight to defend what they've worked for.

This sounds ridiculous. If they (the renters) don't own it, the owner decides who lives there (that's the essence of property). Why should renters get a say in what happens to someone else's property?
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...worth noting that Nissan had a 2 year lead on deliveries.
Anti-development attitudes are endemic to the Bay Area.
So, let me see if I have your position right: because some people will abuse a system that will improve things for many more people, we should not implement said system? Is that right? I think it is telling that you would rather not have one "type" of person benefit unjustly in the face of all of society benefiting greatly. Says more about your feelings about "types" of people than your willingness to participate in the heterogeneous society of modern civilization.

Remember, the perfect is the enemy of the good.
Programming probably seems boring to the author; it's sad he/she generalizes like this (the article link didn't work for me, so I don't know who wrote it).
I would say it depends a lot on the country as well.

In many European countries those conditions would suffice for a class action against the employer.
Since when did this become an issue? Tired of hearing that company X or company Y should hire more females.

We have way more serious problems to solve, really.
Why would one choose one of those over Linux:

The biggest difference for the user, in my opinion, is that the BSDs serves both as OS and distribution, in Linux parlance.

It comes with a base system that is fully operational, whereas Linux is a kernel that someone needs to pack up with gazillion userland utilities to provide you something bootable/usable -> Debian, RedHat etc.. (or 2nd, 3rd level distributions that are based on these).

A result of this, from this Linux using guy here, is that BSDs often feel more consistent and well thought out (people often speak about the great documentation for example). You get everything from one 'vendor'.
Most likely the automated system that determines who to send college/back-to-school oriented mailings to failed in a bad way.
"Woz" movie. It would love to see the story centered around Steve Wozniak. Inspiration for everybody who wants to build something from scratch before business kicks in.
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I'm skeptical that drawing special attention to female founders who are coders will reduce gender-biased behaviors. The most effective way of combating gender bias is for the people who run companies to stop tolerating that kind of behavior in their employees. Do you have an employee who makes disparaging remarks to another employee based on their sex? Then tell them to cut it out, and if they don't, fire them. Do your hire "brogrammers" who behave like frat boys at work? Then start hiring people who can behave in a civilized manner in professional environments. That's the only way that real progress will be made.
Your condescending attitude just makes you sound like a tool, not a hero
The ugliness of it is the whole point. You care so much about the environment that you don't even care about silly superficial things like aesthetic design. If it looked desirable then there is a risk that people might assume you bought it for its looks rather than it environmental credentials and your smugness potential takes a serious hit.
I'm not sure I'd call Google a "welfare state". They're not really tolerant of slackers, if you stop pulling your weight then you're out in the street.
The question is not how that text got to be on the envelope, the question is why a retail company had collected that piece of information about a customer in the first place!
Would it help to know that it isn't smoke? There is no reason at this point to assume there is harm from them (i.e. give them the benefit of the doubt). The vapor is propylene glycol, which is the same thing used to generate 'fog' at concerts, etc.

It's too bad they are calling them e-cigarettes because it triggers responses like yours where people apply their notions of regular cigarettes to them. The only thing they actually have in common is nicotine, which is not the harmful part of regular tobacco products.
I would never consider a female coder to be any different from a male one. I am merely giving anecdotal evidence that female students of the 11 - 17 age group learn significantly better when they are amongst their peers. My decision to make a few of our classes into girls-only ones was to allow the girls who felt uncomfortable in a male-dominated setting to still have an opportunity to learn in a setting they found comfortable. My underlying motivation was not to segregate them, but to give them another option - we still have girls attending our regular classes, and this is hardly the issue that some of the commenters here are making it out to be.
While my electric kettle here is only 1kW compared to a standard 3kW in the UK, how else should one boil water for tea? It's still as fast as heating on a hob.