skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While not gender specific: I think this[1] is the worst case possible consequence of focusing on getting 5 - 7 year olds of any gender involved in programing: it turns into the awful system that is math education many countries.

A musician wakes from a terrible nightmare. In his dream he finds
himself in a society where music education has been made mandatory.
"We are helping our students become more competitive in an increasingly
sound-filled world." Educators, school systems, and the state are put
in charge of this vital project. Studies are commissioned, committees
are formed, and decisions are made — all without the advice or
participation of a single working musician or composer.
...

[1]http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsL...
Reading things like this make me wish that 15-years-ago-me had thought about that, and been making that kind of money.
You also avoid nasty letters from copyright lawyers, which can get you kicked off campus at some universities or even kicked out of school sadly. Of course a vpn also avoids this, or a seedbox, or newsgroups
What do you mean? As far as the forum members, they're as black as you can get. Though, some of them only sell the tools that enable illegal activities or exploits.
Did you know there are places where people don't have regular supply of water or food as well!?

I know, the world is an crazy place.

Edit: For less snark see[0] - Large parts of India, middle east and Asia experience this.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_blackout
That is a horrible mentality.

I don't see how the game has anything to do with it. If a person is capable of physically retaliating to a complete stranger over a game of pong, that person is mentally ill and has serious problem existing in society regardless.
Friends or family don't need to have bought into the Apple ecosystem.
Although I largely agree, I think that line of thinking can be taken too far.

One reason I think that is because syntax helps develop conventions and make them obvious. If everything is an s-expr and you can do absolutely anything with macros anywhere, then two programmers might not really be able to communicate even if they are technically using the same language.
There you go, the same girl. http://azstarnet.com/news/world/perpetual-paintbrush-bike-li...
I guess he assumed that there was power, or no power, but there was no state of "not enough power", just like me.
Either the NSA is trustworthy or they are not. What do you think they are?

I wouldn't believe this statement anymore than I'd believe the one of any other common criminal. Everything they say fits some kind of agenda.
If it was an open source programming project, this would be my first pull request! But it does mean you have to keep a bike connected to it, which is extra equipment which costs more and takes more space.
Gulp-style Stream Piping In Grunt, Or Anywhere Else
How Foradian Tech Took their Product from Kasargod to Latin America
Ask HN: Are Effective People Usually Impatient?
Just a question based on my limited observation. Recently I met up with a coder who has achieved a lot in the past year, and he mentioned to me: "actually I dont have much patience". It kind of triggered the question in me - are effective people usually impatient ? Of course you can find examples in the tech industry easily: Bezos, Jobs, and many more come to mind - so, is it a general trait, or just perception bias ? What is your take on that ?
I understand the ethically shady bit but... how does it weaken the case against DRM? Surely it just continues to demonstrate how useless it is as a strategy?
be cool mate. "pornography is awful stuff" is a statement, it's allright to express what people have in mind. No one force you anything.
May be later this year. Now we focused on best possible iOS app. Engine is written in C++, and relatively easy to port to Android, but app itself also requires lots of work.
Consulting for large organizations, this is a huge aspect of successfully managing your relationship with your clients. The duck technique can work, but moving fast enough to prevent your client from finding trivial things to argue about is probably a more honest and efficient way to go at it.
Do your friends have prior programming knowledge/experience?
You can change the where the servers for your downloaded content is. Just take a look at the settings.

I live in southeast Asia, and there's even Singapore listed on it. So it's very helpful to speed up the download
The core belief is that if it weren't for gender socialization, approximately equal numbers of boys and girls would want to be programmers, but instead the numbers are skewed by how we raise children and steer them toward pursuits along gender lines.

To think otherwise holds an implicit assumption that somehow our gender so radically alters our brains that it determines what professions we pursue as adults - not an unpopular opinion among the internet's legion of armchair evolutionary psychologists. Given your use of the term "inclinations to certain tasks" I assume you are more in this camp, but since you seem genuinely curious I wanted to provide the opposite perspective.

You can also consider how the medical and law professions used to be entirely male dominated, and no doubt many people said this was because women were biologically unsuited to fill these roles, yet now the numbers of graduates in each field are swiftly becoming equal. The goal of promoting women in tech is so that in 20 years we will see similar equal numbers in engineering.
Web design skills and experience musts
As of 2009, 77% of California's water went to agriculture.

Replacing that with desalination of any sort is flat out unworkable.

The cities will be able to get by (perhaps some lawns will turn brown and pools emptied; oh well). Agriculture, inevitably, is going to have to take the brunt of the hit.

Any innovation must be effective, cost effective, ramp up in production, and be hooked up to infrastructure before it could possibly begin alleviating the problem. You're talking years--probably more like decades--of work even if something existed at this moment that fits the bill.

Simply put, you're not going to innovate your way out of this one unless this turns out to be a 100 year drought.
How does this save bandwidth? Let's say I want to watch a 4gb 720p movie? If I use this, won't I just then be streaming that much data or losing quality? Torrenting generally is better for slow connections than streaming because you can torrent and then play offline instead of having to worry about buffering and a consistent connection.
It's situations like this that make me envy desktop app development. I tried out WPF with XAML the other day and it was so beautifully simple.
Google Chromecast SDK Released and Available for All Developers
Diffusing, or centralizing at put.io? (How are they not shut down yet?)
And the law takes a dim view of conspiracy as well...
I was going to say the same, but the page does talk about media and mp4s in particular.

I'm not sure the set of legal mp4 torrents is very large.
Am I the only one who has noticed that hotel is cheaper than Airbnb? Especially in SE asian countries, you can actually haggle hotel prices if staying for extended amount of time.

Even without that, it's still cheaper in some cases to stay at a hotel and with the added
bonus of room service.
Nor do we program in infix math. But we write languages that use both infix math and bits of English where appropriate, because taking advantage of existing conventions helps a great deal.
>People love to write build system after build system, in every field, a fetish I've never quite understood.

I have a firm suspicion its what writing a framework, cms, or blogging platform used to be.

In time the leader will show itself and people will get the message that this project is no longer fun and trendy.

I have to agree makefiles are pretty much the be all and end all when it comes to building projects. It offers pretty much all the power you could need.

The only plausible reason for makefiles to not be suitable for a culture brought up on shiny macbooks and "GUI's" would be that not many people want to deal with the complexity which comes from having that much power.

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemnet/use/info/make/make_16...

Take this for example. Its pretty hard to look at let alone understand. That scare is probably reason enough alone for a bunch of wheel2.0s to be created. The 183 page plain text manual doesnt help much either. Its too daunting for today's culture.

Its just not about being correct and feature complete anymore, its about having the path of least resistance. Simple makefiles are simple, but nobody upvotes a hacker news article about how amazingly easy makefiles are.
Gulp seems more like a feature and less like a build system. In fact: http://blog.evanyou.me/2013/12/29/gulp-piping/ and https://github.com/wearefractal/vinyl-fs

Grunt works just fine. Make is probably ok once you learn it. It is a shame that we as a community don't take time to create amazing tutorials for our older tools like we do with our newer ones.

I think the main issue ends up being that github has created a double edged sword in open source dev land. You have people creating projects just so they can earn stars and thus resume fodder. This ends up creating packages with no maintainers and multiple projects that do the same thing. I mean really, how many different string parsing npm libraries do you need?
With a world population of seven billion, that seems a little ambitious...
No uploading or torrent protocol overhead?
Yes. You can send Javascript to be evaluated by UIAutomation so it has all the capabilities of that UIAutomation does. There's a PR that adds this natively https://github.com/inkling/Subliminal/pull/118, but you can also just implement it yourself quite easily:

- (void)captureScreenshotWithFilename:(NSString *)filename
{
[[SLTerminal sharedTerminal] evalWithFormat:@"UIATarget.localTarget().captureScreenWithName(\"%@\")",
[filename slStringByEscapingForJavaScriptLiteral]];
}
Agreed. What about all the other professions where women are under represented. I don't see a lot of Teach Girls Construction or Get Girls Sniping in Afghanistan. And I don't mean that in a snarky way. The Soviets actually found that female snipers were superior due to steady hands, better perception at distance and a significantly lower incidence of colour blindess. They even had a complete female sniper platoon.
The inverse of this is interesting too. You don't see anyone saying "There aren't enough men in healthcare" even though it's roughly 80% female. Women are a majority in universities, advertising, human resources and insurance along with a slew of other awesome fields. This imagined lack of opportunity is well intentioned but ultimately like 40 years too late and at this point in time, without merit. If anything needs to be addressed with regards to women's careers, it's that they don't get paid the same as men and that's a real problem. Get worked up about pay parity first. People self select for what THEY WANT to do. Stop blasting your personal definition of equality onto cognizant humans with phrases like "there just aren't enough".
he said "don't have the power required to complete a wash cycle", meaning the power the stay continuously long enough to finish washing.
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=4802:iw...

There are over 2,000 records that include various forms of the word "target". Over 3,000 for "apple". Over 3,000 for "windows".

If you use a common word in a trademark you may be able to prevent others from using it for the exact same (or very similar) product, but you don't own the word outright.

Facebook might well be okay with a camera app called Target (though they might not be -- someone else may be using it for that purpose already). They would definitely be in trouble if they started a department store called "Facebook Target", though.
bought membership. Hella fast! Thanks
I've gotten really far with a precedence parser before, and as a bonus they are intrinsically incremental. However, beware of braces to match separately.
I'd clarify my position but that's much less interesting than the point you brought up:

> The goal of promoting women in tech is so that in 20 years we will see similar equal numbers in engineering.

Maybe it's just me, but this feels like a creepy way of manipulating society. It reminds me of how we would create lakes and rivers for practical purposes. Except in this case, the only reasons given are purely philosophical and ideological.
It's not unusual for airbnb to be more
expensive than hotel.

When I was in vietnam, all I had to do was go around to a couple of hotels and ask for the price in person.

Many hotels are not advertised online. And even though the space is smaller, I prefer it over airbnb. More anonymity and room service.
When camping, we used to use a 5 gal. plastic bucket with a hole cut in the lid and a plunger. It actually worked really well if you have 20 minutes to sit around manually washing clothes.
I thinke they meant that they are caching caching stuff on the backend so the downloads "finish" faster if they are other people on the service downloading the same files.
Yep. There was a punching 'wall' I never used full of holes to let out frustration. The school itself had no rules except for the laws of Canada obviously so threats and bribing are illegal anywhere but I never saw anything like that, in my old school I saw threats against teachers. Selling drugs, again illegal in Canada so no however there were kids openly smoking weed in the field and nobody did anything about it. There were no tests to cheat on. Their motto was 'we never give up you' and it wasn't utopian at all, you had to work to graduate which was a gov test taken elsewhere where cheating was monitored. The motivation to graduate for some was to end parole restrictions about going out at night, others the motivation was to not become a failure
Why Toyota's fuel cell play is one big green gamble
I'm sure their customers are enthusiastically paying $5 a month for fast downloads of their 3 TB of personally customized Ubuntu distributions, and that the numerous references to music and video on this page are all to Creative Commons licensed remixes of Jonathan Coulton songs.
Neat. How long does it take to do a wash with that?
Very common in India. Only sure things that go inside the washing machine are dirty clothes and detergent. No guarantees about water and power.

This is the main reason I have gone for top loading machine(Samsung fully automatic?? top loading model), so I can catch water in a bucket and pour and keep it running :p.

My washing machine is intelligent enough to handle the power cuts by itself though. I am from Bangalore by the way and staying in an apartment with diesel generator, but it is not in auto stand by. It has to be manually switched on and the power is supplied only to lower wattage power outlets.

It is more irritating, when adsl modem/wifi router goes off and comes up again with diesel backup. All devices lose IP address and starts DHCP again. Soon going to buy UPS for modem/wifi router.

There are much more things, like HP printers jamming, external HDD going down, getting stuck inside elevator, induction cook tops stop working etc.,
I don't think those numbers are "NSA requests".
"Critical Error
Could not connect to the database"
I believe that instead of messing around with a known standard (username + password fields), it would be better if web services would implement two-factor authentication. Password managers would become useless then, because you would be able to use simple passwords that you may remember, while being even more secure.
Ask HN: How do you apply for a position one step up from your current position?
So lets say you're an architect who wants to become an director of engineering, or a director who wants to become a VP of engineering or CTO, or a senior dev, who wants to become a lead?<p>How do you apply for and interview for such a job, especially if you haven't actually performed in that capacity before?
Map of the internet
Just thought this was neat and someone might enjoy it.
All I could think of was the cost of that copper tube. Wow that is thick.
The Wikipedia article I linked explicitly says it didn't end when Germany was reunited in 1990 ("Sie gelten weiterhin.", last sentence). But you are right in that all sources originate from the historian Josef Foschepoth. If it is one guy trying to sell books or one guy speaking an inconvenient truth, I don't know. If someone can point to an independent source I would be grateful.
Facebook's Paper app Photo Tilt HTML5 Rebuild
Hold on, don't you mean Computer Organization and Design, by the same authors? The one with these pages:

https://books.google.com/books?id=RXARim9cNBIC&pg=PA288&dq=b...
Researchers develop first single-molecule LED
The battery life of the Macbooks may skew the number of machines seen in open public spaces. I see a lot of coworkers with windows notebooks lugging their power cable everywhere they go and getting the computer out only if they secure a power outlet.
I am not religious but that does not mean I think its fine to watch porn. Much of the porn out there is absolutely disturbing (rape and what not) and the people who produce that grabage are the worest of the worest. Not all of it is that way of course but even the "classy" stuff is unhealthy in my opinion. I don't think the goverment should ban porn or anything but I have zero problems private companies banning it on their platforms.
You are clearly taking one side of a debate, whether you admit it or not, cunt.
These Guys Battled BlackPOS at a Retailer
Not everyone is barring total catastrophe.
I don't care about S-expr vs. infix syntax.

I use Haskell and Clojure happily.

Sounds like petty nonsense to me.
Also, broke people have kids who have miserable lives all the time.
The argument you may hear in response is that many don't have an opportunity to self-select because of gender biases which prevent them from being aware that they have the power to.
> It's debatable. I know two languages with significant whitespace, that's Python and Haskell. And Haskell's rules are a pain.

But it's optional in Haskell's case.
It saves bandwidth because a lot of ISPs track upload and download towards your bandwidth limit. This removes the upload component completely.
As far as I know, they're SIMD, not VLIW. In VLIW, each ALU can be executing a different opcode. In SIMD, each ALU is executing the same opcode, but with a different operand.
God is perfectly just.

C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

ighteth to honour.

6:10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and
the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that
sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast
spoken.

6:11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai,
and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and
proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the
king delighteth to honour.

6:12 And Mordecai came again to the king's

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Retire to a (parked) RV to live on rice and lentils and not get medical care or have children. Such an inspiring way to live...
I think its a trait that you can find in successful people, but I've met tons of effective people who were very very patient.

In my experience impatience doesn't scale, unless you have the kind of pull that people like Bezos or Jobs did, and they could only accomplish that because they're founders, not just founders, but brilliant founders at that. If you work in an organization of any sort of size, you will quickly run into problems with people because of your "attitude", if you adopt this tack, even if you're brilliant (thought you'll get much further before running into trouble).

What I think you'll find is that being firm and constant but pleasant will get you far. Something is due next week? check in the week before, then check in 3 days before, then check in the day before. When you check in, ask about their day, ask about their kid's recital, ask about their sick dog. Its might feel weird, but it works.

Want something done? keep tabs on all the moving pieces and make sure you're doing everything in your power to make sure people you need to accomplish your goal have what they need to finish what they're doing.

I went into an organization thinking I could pull the Steve Jobs act and "get shit done", I almost got fired. I found that asking about someone's day and listening attentively for a few minutes is more likely to get them to help you accomplish big things, than telling people their ideas are "shit" and that they should listen to your brilliant idea :)

Just my 2c.
PS: Read Dale Carnegie's 'How to win friends and influence people", its a bit corny now, but the central ideas still hold very true
Good question. I'm pretty much the same way. Tons of ideas, tons of awesome projects, limited resources and ability for execution. I think the biggest factors you have to consider when trying to answer this question are viability, difficulty, and ROI.

When evaluating viability you want to ask yourself questions like "Is there really a market for this?", "Would this substantially improve the process of doing X?", "Am I creating a new market here?", "Is this an incremental improvement to an existing product or process or am I adding exponential value?", "Are there companies currently in a position to compete?", "Could an established player in this space do this easily and push me out of the market?", and ultimately: "Would I use this? Regularly?".

Difficulty is fairly obvious and deals with the question of energy in, and whether it's truly feasible for you to pull something like this off in a reasonable timeframe, given your resources at hand.

ROI is the ultimate question that asks "What's the upside?", "Is it really going to be worth my time to solve this problem?", "For the time (money) I invest in building this, is it going to pay out more than the other projects I could have been working on?" (opportunity costs).

Good luck!
Yes, passports for 4 of us cost more than our budget for a holiday. We could of course buy on credit ...
I recently moved from a MacBook Air (running OS X, not Windows) to a Samsung Ultrabook and haven't seen any noticeable difference in battery life pro or con. That's with it driving a 3200x1800 display and a Core i7 processor too.

There are definitely $400 PC laptops out there that just suck from start to finish (including battery life), but good Wintel laptops are pretty easy to find these days.