skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At which point, most men will metaphorically go back to affectionately punching you in the arm like you are one of the guys...

I found this a little troubling. I wish women didn't have to feel like they're "one of the guys" in an online community.
One of the wonderful things about the internet is that no one knows you're a...(something you're not)... unless you tell them.
Yeah, "highly likely" is all fun and games until a college like George Mason comes in a destroys every single bracket.
It's also a great trick for buying domain names.
I've thought about the fluctuation thing. Say I was to misplace $1 ... I probably wouldn't notice. $100 would probably catch my eye, but is that only because my total wealth is a few orders of magnitude above that?

The question is if I commanded say, $10 billion, could I just as carelessly misplace say, $10,000 as I currently can with $1.
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Thoughts on the reasons stated:

1) Attraction: Oh my god, it's a girl and she has a brain
and is interested in some of the same things I am
interested in. Maybe I can get a date!

I wouldn't put it past the majority of my gender.

2) Misguided attempts to encourage women to post more: Oh
my god, it's a girl and we need more girls posting here.
Let's be nice and friendly and make her feel all welcome
and stuff so she will post more (thereby sucking all the
intellectual content out of their posts and killing any
reason you have to post there).

I wouldn't put it past HN.

3) It's not really kid gloves, it's really walking on egg
shells: Oh my god, it's a girl and what if she breaks
down and cries because I argued with her (like my
girlfriend routinely does)

Now that I just can not see.

3b) or what if I make a joke and she takes it all wrong
and everyone will think I am some horrible sexist pig!

People have lost their jobs to that one. Even I'm doing that. You would be crazy not to do that

4) Shyness: A lot of the very intelligent men you find
hanging out in certain types of online forums (like
Hacker News) are very introverted and just awkward around
women and some of them have gotten a lot of rejection, so
they get nervous once they find out it's a girl.

iffy.
I thought of this too but no one at work wanted to spend a bunch of weekends hacking away :/.

I figured it would just be a fun way to learn and apply a bunch of machine learning and pattern recognition concepts.

I'll probably still try to do that.

Signed up though.
It is relevant to the subject of the post. (If nobody looks at usernames, then the issue cited in the post doesn't matter.)

Personally, I at least look at who I am responding to (especially when I disagree with them; sometimes the person you're responding to has readily-apparent expertise that you'd feel foolish disagreeing with.)
i got the same sense from reading the comments/blog.

majority of people dont read into usernames, nor care of your gender.

the only time i see kid gloves being used based on gender is that the lack of that gender in this field may raise some questions about the skillset. applies either way to gender.

i have never seen kid gloves used on here for several years

i think blogposts like this, no i dont think someone is being nice for a date on here because you are female, leads to gender discrimination. attention seekers using gender for cover of seeking attention.
It would put some useful bounds on the behavior. If only 1% of people look at usernames when posting replies, she could conclude it's a very small subset of people generating this nonsense. If everyone does, we don't learn much at all.
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A career manager/mentor would be something I, as someone retraining as a developer, would pay for. Somone knowledgeable about development who helps me find jobs that match my current abilities/interests , training to increase my abilities, selks me on my abilities to companies, and perhaps provides support for things like salary negotiations and benefits.

I suppose I could get some of that from a college, if I went back for a degree in CS, but it seems like school is disconnected from so many aspects of development and industry, the tools you learn are not the tools you use when working, and it is incredibly expensive with no guarantee. I want someone in tune with how things work in the real world to help me with my career, so I can focus on being good at the jobs I get, not at being good at getting jobs.
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Parallel Construction, anyone? They just happened to be executing a search of his gmail account and certainly hadn't looked over this trove of emails from people trying to be secretive?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feminists

I would say all of these women have accomplished something of merit while talking about gender inequality.
No one else has said this yet. Probably most relevant thing ITT.
How can you have a war without a clear definition on who the enemy is, what goals the war has, and at what point victory can be declared. Perpetual hostile activity is not a war, its a order of existence similar to that of an religion.

The time when the US declare peace will not be because of dead terrorists. It won't be because somewhere its more safer. It won't be because some goals has been achieved. It will be because sooner or later, people will get tired of war.

I can say this with 100% certainty based on a concept made two thousand years ago:

The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the
formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy
cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it."
-- Sun Tzu, "The Art of War", Datalinks

So long the conflict itself remains formless, there will be no way to actually fight it and end it.
Yes. The most likely outcome is still very unlikely.
Of course Buffett isn't getting paid directly, but if you look at the 2010 SEC filing[0] he owns 32.4% of the voting shares and 23.3% of the value of those shares. In my book Buffett and Berkshire are synonymous.

You are right that he is having fun with this, who wouldn't?

[0] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/315090/00011931251015...
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I'm sure many people don't notice. I'm sure some people do notice but don't talk down to female users.

But not everyone is like that. When people complain about sexism in the tech industry, they aren't saying that everyone in the industry is sexist. I'm sure that at least some of the time people would treat you differently online if your username was stephanieburleson.
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Noone ever seems to bring up the fact that sex and gender are NOT the same thing.

sex - either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and many other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.

gender - the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones).
Huh, I read lots of comment threads, but I can't say I've noticed anyone using kid gloves to each other around here.

Any stories that had enough instances of this occurring that linking to it wouldn't be unfair?
My parents had no programming jobs. My father must have learned a bit of programming along the way, in support of his work, but I never saw evidence of that. My mother did not program, and I don't believe that my stepmother ever learned. When I think about friends who program or have programmed for a living, I come up with (fathers' work here): coal miner; taxi dispatcher; engineer; technician; construction estimator.

I should say that I and most of my friends were born at a time when there were mighty few programming jobs.

[edit: corrected a typo]
My favorite was at a party where the (verbal) quiz question was what a "yamikah" is. I had absolutely no idea. Then they told me what it was, and I said - as if the quiz question had gotten it wrong - "Ohhhhh! You mean a YAR-MULK."
It's true that the discussion quality isn't at some zenith, but it's still far beyond the vast majority of the web. There's plenty of expert commentary and educated comments to be found, despite the general drop.

I haven't really seen that much "weird conspiracy theorists", though.
At the bottom of the page it says:

(Originally posted elsewhere on 2010/12/25.)

I am moving a few things from an old personal blog to a new one. This was previously posted on HN under the old url. I did not expect it to be upvoted this much or get any traction. I just thought a few people might be interested in knowing where it got moved.
Yeah. If I could get people to see me differently in real life without actually having to change anything about myself to do it, that'd be the real Jedi mind trick. ;-) As to the original topic, I worry everything I say is going to be taken the wrong way on HN: gender or otherwise -- HN's mods have touchy trigger fingers. :)
Yes, this is the myth that people tell themselves in order to ignore the fact that they had to work less to get to the same place because of their advantages in race, sex, economic or educational background, etc. Well illustrated.

EDIT: Perhaps more constructively, you have demonstrated exactly why "this again" -- because many people still don't understand that tech is not exceptional and is not a "meritocracy". The same biases that exist in all other walks of life exhibit themselves in the tech world but are often more insidious because people refuse to acknowledge them.
The current top tax bracket in the US is 39.6% so if you took the 500M all at once (instead of paid out over 40 years) you'd end up with just over 300M after taxes.
Haven't seen this. Could you give some examples?
All of them is quite a stretch, frankly. Especially ones like Luce Irigaray.
Sorry, to clarify: I mean accomplished something outside the area of feminism and gender equality.
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Did you just change it? I personally liked the look with the transparent black with white text. Didn't look all that bad to me.
I agree entirely! You can't. The 2001 AUMF is scary.
Don't feed the troll. "Controversial" is clearly not trying to have a legitimate discussion, which is probably why they felt the need to register a new user name.
From the most recent post:

"I basically think "dating" -- ie men spending money on women in hopes of getting laid -- is a form of socially sanctioned prostitution."

Why are we wasting time discussing this author?
That's exactly what Assembly does (https://assemblymade.com/ideas). We enable everyone to openly collaborate on real products and then share the upside. Every month there is revenue Assembly transparently pays the bills and splits the remaining proceeds with everyone that built the app.

disclosure: one of the founders of Assembly
Eh, while on most sites I completely ignore usernames, I actually do read usernames habitually on HN. The community is small enough and there are enough frequent users that I find recognizing usernames to be helpful in understanding where somebody is coming from.
Q&A with Shane Legg [DeepMind cofounder] on risks from AI (2011)
It is not that simple. I have a little problem with finding comprehensive definition of Turing completeness - in order to decide if certain machine is turing complete does one have to prove that it can also simulate infinite, not halting algorithms?

If yes, then not being able to re-enter old states disqualifies C preprocessor as a turing complete machine by considering simple machine that goes left and right till the end of time. However, is it really an algorithm? If there is no output one could simply replace that with just empty machine that halts for sure, therefore it can be simulated in C preprocessor.

On the other hand, if this is not requirement then we know that every algorithm we have to simulate to prove turing completeness halts eventually, there is no ability to re-enter old states but if algorithm halts we could just add enough more states (finitely many) that allows it to finish.
Exactly. I show this flow in the Screenshots. I see a merged view of one individual and it says "text fred" or "skype fred" or "tweet fred." Clean. Any app can enlist with their verb.
Heh, a buddy of mine always picks a female username when on freenode IRC looking for help with a technical problem. He says sometimes dudes fight over who has the better solution. Don't fight over me boys!
Faces?
Here he is in the 60s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REhg_bv7srM), clearly his Bruce-Wayne-like cover identity. /s
Incidentally for functions like that, if you have an environment that supports a tool like QuickCheck[1], it's a great thing to use. "The programmer provides a specification of the program, in the form of properties which functions should satisfy, and QuickCheck then tests that the properties hold in a large number of randomly generated cases."

1: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/QuickCheck/
My first instinct is that you're right- at least, I don't think it can be any more powerful than an LBA: if there's a finite number of state transitions it can make, then it can only actually "get to" a certain distance along the tape, and you can just chop the tape at that point.
That was a great phone. Wasn't saying it was invented by Win8, just that no one is using it.
The retired mold bit happens quite a lot with carbon fiber bicycle frames. A couple companies have gotten quite upset with Chinese manufacturers in the past.
fair enough. Do you think TDD and OOP are mutually exclusive practices?
Yeah, something keeps scrolling off screen (probably the flying Kerbal) and the side nav floats into the middle of the text.
This story loaded right above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7131231 (the Bitcoin exchange arrests). Kind of ironic.
Heads up: mobile stylesheet makes the text black on black. Can't read this easily in Chrome mobile
The comparison to Paypal is funny. Paypal has decided that I don't exist, or, if I do, that I'm somehow ineligible to buy things through Paypal using my credit card.

Buy. Things.

If your site does payment processing through Paypal then, through some accident of account processing or technology or the history of my account, I can't use any of my 3 payment cards to buy what you're selling, because Paypal believes it needs to (for reasons passing understanding) link directly to my bank account before any card with my name on it can be used through Paypal.
> A lot of the very intelligent men you find
hanging out in certain types of online forums (like
Hacker News) are very introverted and just awkward around
women and some of them have gotten a lot of rejection, so
they get nervous once they find out it's a girl

Imagine if man posted a similar statement about some female community, he would be called sexist right away...
I find that I try and avoid certain topics on HN, they tend to be clustered around:

1) discussions of gender
2) discussions of gentrification in the bay area
3) financial or political ideology (anything especially randian, for instance)

Interactions / discussion tend to not be as factual or informative as other discussions.

The poster makes great points on how to engage, sometimes, however, good posts are lost within a bunch of noise.
Cross platform, knows what you have seen already on any device.
I went to a no name community college and learned everything pretty much outside of school. I have found it not to be such a problem. People are more interested in what you have created or what you are capable of building.
Add an email address to your profile. I'll bet that won't be pretty.
Between this and the recent credit card and identity leaks by Target and others, I really wish people would connect the dots. If companies are grabbing and storing incredible amounts of information about millions of people, that information will inevitably get the attention of spammers, scammers, stalkers, criminals, governments, and anyone else who could possibly put it to use. The solution is to limit what companies collect in the first place.
Seems legitimate to me. You're the one not trying to have a legitimate discussion. That's why you would attack my username and not the content of my post.
Here's the DOS COM version. Copy this into HELLO.COM with a hex editor of your choice. It will run in dosbox (that's what I tested on) and should run in Windows COMMAND.COM on a 32-bit system.

b409ba0d01cd21b44cb05dcd2148454c4c4f20574f524c442124

Here's the breakdown:

b409 MOV AH, 09h ; OUTPUT string
ba0d01 MOV DX, 010Dh ; address of output buffer (remember we're loaded into 0100h)
cd21 INT 21h

b44c MOV AH, 4Ch ; TERMINATE with return code
b05d MOV AL, 5Dh ; return code
cd21 INT 21h

48454c4c4f20574f524c442124 "HELLO WORLD$" ; DOS strings are $ terminated

Back in the day we used to do this with the DEBUG.COM command. It's actually not that bad to do this. The thing that sucks is hand assembling and going back to fixup your addresses. It starts to get hairy if you need to flip around the CS and DS registers to shift in different segments.

As an exercise for the reader use the RET instruction instead of doing the return code stuff. If you want to really get into you you can look up how to read from the console and then display that string back to the user.
Does changing the security level in Java Settings change anything, or is this directly related to protocols being removed?
Yes, I did just change it. But I am logging off now. So no more fiddling. (I did not expect this to make the front page. It is a repost. I figured it would be completely ignored, or I would not have done it late in the day before logging off.)

Later.
This is probably being brought up due to the Bropages post from yesterday which resulted in hundreds of comments stating that a rubygem with the simple name of 'bro' is somehow going to totally devastate the fragile psyche of all women in IT.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7121268
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TDD as I practice it does, but I think OOP as it's traditionally taught encourages developers to tangle mutable application state and behavior, which leads to all sorts of problems. The more I practice, the more I learn that life is better when I separate whatever holds the state from whatever has the behavior
You can purchase through Paypal without logging in, there's a little text link at the bottom of the purchase page under the "sign in" box. They'll also taunt you if you enter a [mandatory] email address that matches a known account, but this is also skippable.
The product sounds really useful and good, but I almost got a seizure from watching the demo video.
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No sir. You are wrong.

"Going short" a security has a very specific meaning in the equities market. Same with "going long".

And buying puts is NOT the same thing. You've completely forgotten about the concept of premium and time value when pricing an option. For one thing, options are sold at MANY price levels (strike prices) and expiration dates.

Seriously man, with all due respect, you're so mistaken its scary. One of my colleagues designed the NYSE trading network and back-office trade clearing systems. This is how I earn my living. I'll bet you your 401(k) you can't get a floor trader to endorse that explanation you just gave. It's so wrong that I'm only commenting to give other people a chance to learn from your mistake.

Guys like you are how guys like me make money.
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How's that relevant? The problem that the op is presumably attempting to solve is: "I want customers to pay me using a credit card".
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weird. PayPal actually suspended my account the first time I sold something, but I just called them and they fixed it. That's why I said PayPal > Square.
I almost skipped this based on the title, thinking it would be another shortisghted diatribe. I'm glad I didn't.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who sees that the way out of these discrimination scenarios is looking to the future, at what we can do differently, not just at what wrongs have been or are being committed. Those are important to recognize, but there's very little we can do about them. I was shocked at her account of being accused of being complicit in her own oppression by recounting her own positive experiences. Who does that help?

Edit: what I'm trying to say is that this person seems to get it, and as a nice benefit phrased it in a way that balances sympathy with the need to change, which is probably more than can be said for my comment.
Docker itself isn't production ready.
Do you mean that not all of them have accomplished something of merit in the sense that their contributions to feminism were unimportant? Or do you mean that some of them detracted from the discussion?

I have to admit that I know very little about feminism, so I'm honestly all ears here.
I currently work at bootstrapped, distributed and profitable startup.

This year we did appx $15mm in rev.

http://www.inc.com/profile/buysellads (member of the Inc. 500)
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True. I also tend to look at usernames when a commenter annoys me, just to see if it's a troll who is camping out on a thread waiting to say the same things again. But... By then I've made up my mind what I'm going to say, and whether the troll's name is Jack or Jane isn't going to change that.
Not sure what this is trying to prove, but it has been ruled long ago that metadata (the phonecall records your carrier generates on your behalf while you voluntarily use their service), which the NSA is collecting have never belonged to you and are legally available to be collected by a 3rd party.
I wonder how well that would mix with the "assert some thing that you know is wrong, and wait for the corrections to pour in" technique.
I have to admit, I am kind of a python hater, but this makes me think...
"Show me a woman who has actually accomplished something of merit who also writes about gender inequality."

You're kidding, right? I know many of the following extremely successful and intelligent women have written about gender inequality:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2013/05/22/the-wo...

Yes, there do exist some people who "complain" about gender inequality in instances when that is not quite the fundamental issue, but you're ignoring the entire picture. These are serious issues that actually do exist and that people are trying to change. Some people aren't as constructive as others, but ignoring the reality and weight of the issue is certainly not productive.
From the fine print on the linked Identity Verification Service page [1]:

>Due to the nature of the origin of public record information, the public records and commercially available data sources used in reports may contain errors. Source data is sometimes reported or entered inaccurately, processed poorly or incorrectly, and is generally not free from defect. This product or service aggregates and reports data, as provided by the public records and commercially available data sources, and is not the source of the data, nor is it a comprehensive compilation of the data. Before relying on any data, it should be independently verified.

I'd guess the failure rate of using this service was deemed an acceptable trade off to implementing an independently verified service.

[1]http://www.lexisnexis.com/risk/solutions/instantid-qa.aspx
Paypal demands a login when I use any of my cards. Then, when I log in, it demands that I verify my bank account.