skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I want to be edified as well. I have not found another way to get organic traffic.
What swampangel already said, essentially.

It's not about having somebody you look up to all the time, but just knowing you're not alone. It might not sound like a big deal, but believe me, when you're the only woman on a 20-person team, it gets lonely.

But I'd argue that you're correct in your judgment of famous role models, specifically. What's needed is not the few famous ones, but knowledge that an average person of your minority can succeed. That others like you have travelled the path before. And famous people really don't evoke "just like me" images for most people :)

Sidenote: please let's not have tutorials that are "targeted at doing things that tend to be more popular with certain demographics". The intent is good, but it inevitably leads to pinkwashing. As it turns out, women are, like men, pretty diverse in their interests. I would assume that's true for other minorities, too.

As for tools & self-learning: That's orthogonal to having representation/role models. We should neglect neither. Nor traditional learning, and many other tools to ensure success.
If yes then you'd better really try to understand this cartoon: http://xkcd.com/1138/
OT, but does anyone else have wild zooming issues with the "new" Google Maps on OS X with a scroll-wheel mouse? It borders on unusable as the zoom seems to completely have a mind of its own.

Edit: This seems to be the issue I'm experiencing: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/6D072fsK...
You say "meaningless" as if a 20 year standard that has been at the heart of the internet infrastructure since day one is "meaningless."

Yet, finally we have a meaningful .ninja extension.

I think it will be worthless just like the rest of these shit scams that profit off naive people like you who don't understand the word meaningless.
It doesn't matter if you have zoning or intermingled commercial/residential.

I work at Industrial Widgets, it's in an intermingled commercial/residential building, there's an apartment free on the three floors up from the very office.

My wife currently works at Consolidated Sprockets across town. There's an apartment across the street. However, it's just an internship at she hopes to get a job at Conglomerated Weevils in a few months. It's located in a third location.

Where should we live?
The film just won an award at Cannes. http://www.ampav.com/index.php/student-programs/cannes-emerg...
I'm curious to know the thinking behind the original Mac purchases. The same reasons used to justify buying "premium" computers like a Mac seem to no longer be valid. Was it simply an expectation of the type of use that never materialized, or was the decision to buy Macs based on the brand or something else entirely?

Chromebooks may not have been around, but there were many lower cost Windows based laptops to choose from. Just wondering why they thought every student needed a Mac, and why they decided now that they no longer need a fully-fledged computer/Mac and instead a "web" device.
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No, more like weak inferences

Indeed, quite weak; weak to the point of being useless. In ten years of programming, I've only worked with two developers who were comfortable with the use of regular expressions, both were women... what does that tell me about women?

Nothing.

Similarly, whatever experiences you've had with female programmers who are "worse than the average male" programmer is pretty clearly worthless (for the purpose of drawing conclusions about female programmers), especially when one considers that your definition of average is, at best, a nebulous amalgamation of your own subjective impressions.
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Meh, another PHP library using lengthy static methods making it impossible to extend.
I've used a bit TideSDK [1]. I'm afraid the project might be on hold though since there has been no activity on their github repository [2]. Some explanations can be found on their blog [3]

[1] http://www.tidesdk.org/
[2] https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK
[3] http://www.tidesdk.org/blog/
Battlefield 3 is free for a few days
Dragon V2 unveil tonight
Firefox Nightly gets TokBox WebRTC video and voice communications feature
Isn't a canary something that is 'removed', not 'added'? As in, the canary warns by being absent.
Linus excels at communication. He makes it crystal clear what he's trying to convey and the standard he's setting, and has coordinated the development of the most widely-deployed kernel on earth entirely via email for decades. He communicates perfectly well.

He's an asshole on occasion, but that's not the same as communicating poorly.
It tells you something about the group as a whole (not any individual member of the group) IF you are able to gather enough data to have a representative sample of the population. If you were only able to get the net worth of 20% of the people in the above room, the vast majority of the time you'd conclude that the average net worth of the room is $0.

There are some 3.5 billion women on the planet. Do you think you've reviewed the programming work of enough of them to constitute a representative sample?

> You have to work with what you know

Yes, what I'm pointing out is that you don't have enough information to claim to know anything.
Iranian hackers ran an elaborate social media campaign to steal state secrets
Why did ordinary people commit atrocities in the Holocaust?
Certain churches are 'Körperschaften des öffentlichen Rechts' as such they fall under state church law and get priviledges that historically were granted to the catholic and protestant church after they had lost their territorial holdings and financial independence in the 'Reichsdeputationshauptschluss' 1803.
As he mentions in the talk early JDK7 implementations had a number of bugs (especially round class lookup and MethodHandles), but Java 7 update 40 introduced the Java 8 implementation and that is much more stable, though has somewhat different performance characteristics.

He is right that making giant guardWithTest chains will not be very optimal, normally creating a PIC of 1 or 2 tests and then falling back to other lookup and caching mechanism s is generally a good plan, but most callsites only get one or two types going through them anyway.
Right, but the comment I was referring to wasn't about distribution. It was about the limitations of the method of production, which, obviously are real and inherent (imho). What caught my eye was the offhand comment about not having found a "better" way to produce content (even going so far as to note that collaborations don't necessarily lead to greater efficiencies).
*2007

Only noticed when I saw the reference to Windows Vista.
Map of scientific collaboration between researchers (2011)
Iranian hackers use fake Facebook accounts to spy on U.S., others
> Honestly, it annoys me not so much because it's sexist, or misogynistic, or bigoted or whatever, but rather because it's fucking stupid.

Well, obviously. Sexism is an irrational bigotry; you'd expect them to come across stupid when it comes to this sort of thing.

> I've never seen any reason to believe that female programmers are in any way less competent than their male counterparts.

Ah, but you see, sexists just KNOW. It stands to reason. Anyone saying otherwise is clearly just being POLITICALLY CORRECT. And so forth.

These people don't think women are no good at computers based on evidence, they think it because they hold irrational preconceived ideas about women.
> I've been in and out of a lot of organizations and never witnessed female colleagues being given a hard time.

Liberally stolen from Anil Dash, consider this sentence and how it compares to yours:

> I'm an iPhone user, and I've been in and out of a lot of organizations where I also work with Android users, and they're always complaining about bugs. I can't ever reproduce their bugs on iOS.
This is pretty much why I said "If you want to hang a conspiracy theory on this news[1], find some hook besides Lavabit."

Linking an abuse like you describe to Lavabit only harms developers, who if they were to receive such an illegal demand might remember "wait, Lavabit was required to install back doors, right? I guess I have to, as well!"
I enjoyed the game ! thanks
Apple is starting to get excited again
> "There is nothing "Lavabit-style" about "distribute a back door or else." You would need explicit legislation to allow that."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullrun_(decryption_program)

No legislastion authorizes that program, among many others. I think what the parent was referring to as "Lavabit-style" was the "compromise your users or face legal action" move. Turning over customer data or introducing a backdoor are both means to the same end, as far as the NSA is concerned.
Again, how do you know that? That seems to be wishful thinking. Also, the end result is the same, either way. The intent doesn’t really matter all that much, if only because the mindset of someone going to sexism or racism to be cruel is seriously fucked up.

I’m certainly not racist or sexist when I want to be cruel to other people, even if I’m extremely angry and willing to say a lot to hurt the other person. Going there wouldn’t even cross my mind. (I tend to go for age, I think. That exposes my own ageism, something I still have to deal with. I don’t think that’s ok, either, and I also think being ageist is not ok.)
They're real-life trolls. They may not actually believe the things they say, but they say them because they know it will upset you.

In some ways these people scare me more than actual sexists/racists/whateverists, because they're not ignorant, they just take joy in suffering, and actively manipulate people in such a way that maximizes chaos and pain. That mindset concerns me much more than someone who actually believes women/blacks/minority_group are inferior.
I'd use www.bounce.ninja instead. People strongly associate www with websites, and it looks nicer too. Set it up to forward to bounce.ninja and people might catch on to the new TLDs in a decade or two.
TrueCrypt turmoil latest: Bruce Schneier reveals what he'll use instead
Any kind of algorithmic classifier will have false positives for a given level of confidence. The lower the threshold at which you start banning sites the more false positives you will have, there is no silver bullet here.

So when Google decided to crack down on a class of sites sites that share enough traits with the sites that were being axed came into the danger zone and a number of those ended up being penalized enough that they are no longer viable / interesting enough to maintain.

This appears to be one of those cases.

Being dependent on a single entity your hosting, for the traffic you are receiving as well as the service you are directly promoting (in this case maps) makes you an add-on to their eco-system.

I wonder how many small but viable websites are still in this position and how many of them will give up after finding their traffic decimated because they ended up being a false positive in some filter.

It might be more productive to try to figure out what exactly caused the penalty, but I fully understand if the owner of the site just wants to move on and become as independent of this as he can.

Let's hope that 'pointing go google maps' versus 'pointing to open streetmaps' won't trigger another penalty because then he might lose what is still there or a good sized fraction of that.
Everyone has a gender-related story to tell. I don't know how I'd feel about these women-related posts were I a woman but frankly, there are way too many "men should do X" posts. I got enough shit to do. For what it's worth, I hire and work with women who I find competent and I always keep some in mind for future projects, but if anyone told me I "had" to do so, I'd very impolitely ask them to leave.

However, you cannot qualify anyone for participation in a discussion, nor should you try and move the discussion elsewhere. The fact that this discussion happens on HN is relevant: there is a cross-section of tech people here. The extremists, the moderates, the neutrals. That is what makes this format work.
got the same problem, it only works with a https address !
They are humans, not all of which are objectivists. In fact Matthew Green himself has mentioned the possibility of insulting the developers:

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/10/lets-audit-t...

Aren't you worried you'll insult the Truecrypt developers?

I sure hope not, since we're all after the same thing.
Remember, our goal isn't to find some mythical back door
in Truecrypt, but rather, to wipe away any doubt people
have about the security of this tool.

But perhaps this will tick people off. And if you're one
of the developers and you find that you're ticked, I'll
tell you exactly how to get back at us. Up your game.
Beat us to the punch and make us all look like fools.
We'll thank you for it.

The sad state of OSS is that it's much more profitable to find security holes, fork existing good code bases, write articles, write blogs, teach, go on stage in conferences than to do some original work.

I wonder what would happen if all original workers united and did the same as the Truecrypt people...
I’m honestly not willing to make that distinction. I don’t care about intent, I care about what someone says.
Right now hiring women is a competitive advantage. If you're not an asshole and make sure that the work environment is sane, you get an employee who is grateful for the opportunity to do her job in a nice environment and who is more likely to advertise her job...
It's not necessarily indicative of being "dependent" on Google organic traffic. Even if organic search drives just 10% of your revenue, that 10% may still be big enough to warrant plenty of attention on the organic search channel. Enough to warrant paying attention to algorithm changes and versions.

I'll never disagree with the idea that you should diversify your marketing and not become dependent on a single channel, especially a channel you cannot control, but to ignore or neglect that channel when it actually matters is not a better or noble solution.

So far in my experience with the new Panda update is that it's actually correcting some sites it probably shouldn't have previously penalized in other Panda iterations.
Im sure im not the first to have done something like this for logging or buffering in general, but im not aware of any writeups.

Information on lock free data structures and the caveats (they are extremely difficult to get right) is freely available though:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410-s05/lectures/L31_LockFree.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA_problem
One thing has multiple names. Welcome to the wonderful world of human language!
1. Software testing.

I really struggle to find good information at improving in this field
I thought that UPPER_CASE variables were a bad idea? Doesn't the bash world generally accept that you should use uppercase only for enviornment variables, and lowercase for variables in the script's context?
Thanks for catching that; fixed!
That's ridiculous. Of course intent matters. I would hope you take someone's intent into account anytime you perceive some slight. Otherwise you're just making the problem worse, elevating everything to a 10. The end result of not caring about intent are ridiculous "zero tolerance" policies.
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Wrong. Applying basic statistic controls would eliminate Gates from the pool as an outlier. The outlier would then be listed aside the mean. That is... unless you mean median, or range. Then those are terribly different numbers.
And worked with limitations sufficiently strong that they had to extract every ounce of functionality out of the hardware they had at their disposal.
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It would be great to add an elective course for Growth Hacking where you can assume the knowledge of data analysis and provide a survey/use cases of effective examples of using analysis and other methods to inform product development and/or design.
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It depends on options set. There is one that causes word splitting only to happen when explicitly asked for.
Hope he's right or there goes my job :/
Is there a good way to mount an encrypted 7z archive as a filesystem, for interactive usage?

That was the advantage of TrueCrypt, IMO. Not for FDE (I'm not a huge fan of FDE anyway), but because it created an interactive partition rather than forcing you to decrypt an entire archive to storage, work on it, and then re-encrypt the whole thing and cleanse the storage device you decrypted to.

It seems like putting something together that does that (which is really decrypt-to-RAM) wouldn't be that hard, but there are like a million file encryption tools but very few ones that allow for interactivity.
Ask HN: Good, balanced, fair policies on use of social networks?
Folks, I'm looking for examples of good company policies on the use of social networks. Notice the judgement-laden word, "good": I'm hoping for policies that much of the HN crowd would respect, policies that respect the line between work life and personal life, between being asked to do things in accordance with one's principles and preferences and being directed to do things that may violate those principles and preferences, etc.

We'd like our employees to promote us, at least by keeping their LinkedIn, et al, accounts up to date - and that might be about it. We also want clear principles and guidelines that our HR and admin staff can follow when doing their work, so that they don't step over the line in an enthusiastic and well-meant moment - and we don't want detailed rules, because those constrain rather than inform.

Sure, sure, I could spend some crafting just the right words, but being of the "lazy developer school", I'd rather stand on the shoulders of giants, as it were: If your company has a social networks policy or statement of principles or code of conduct, etc., that you like and respect, and that you can share, please do.

If this isn't clear, please do let me know. Also, please note that I'm not looking for a lawyer, we have a good one, but lawyers help you do legally that which you've already decided to do (good ones, anyway :->). Once we have something close to what we think we want, we'll run it past the legal folks, but we're not starting there.

Thanks!
This is one person who states his opinion, saying that "HN is irredeemably sexist" because of one person is irredeemably stupid.
When I lived in an apartment in a university town I'd have to grab my keys, go downstairs, drive to the store, decide what sandwich I want and what I want on it, wait for them to make it, eat it, drive back.

Costs $5, 45 - 60 minutes of my time, and is probably less nutritious than the $3 Soylent. And I have to do something similar at least twice a day every day. I don't understand how people don't see the improvement here.
> No, the market is "consumers of mobile devices, upon which apps can be distributed or installed."

Let me see if I can explain why that's wrong.

> What you're proposing could easily be said about any supply of any good or service owned by anybody or any company. If each company's product distribution constitutes a monopoly of "Product X Market", then "monopoly" has been redefined.

Technically a trademark is a monopoly, albeit a legally granted one. But that's not what I'm talking about.

For example, Exxon 87 unleaded gasoline is completely fungible with BP 87 unleaded gasoline. They're for all practical purposes the same product, so they're in the same market even though they're different brands. An iPhone is less fungible with, say, a Samsung phone. They're still close enough substitutes to be plausibly considered the same market (although, for example, in the Microsoft case Windows and MacOS were found not to be in the same market). But that's still not the market I'm talking about. I'm talking about distribution of apps for these devices.

Let's start with a preliminary issue. Are iPhone apps in the same market as Android apps? Can they be used as substitutes for one another? The answer is clearly no. You can't run an Android app on an iPhone. This is substantially why Windows and MacOS were found not to be in the same market, but again that's not the market I'm interested in here. The point is that iOS apps and Android apps are not substitutes. And that doesn't even necessarily separate the markets for the devices -- because even though Angry Birds for iOS is a different product sold to different customers than Angry Birds for Android, the fact that the quantity and quality of apps available for each platform is comparable means that the platforms themselves are still reasonable substitutes for one another. But you can imagine how that could change if app developers stopped developing for one platform or the other, which reinforces the point.

So back to the apps. Is there competition for the production of iOS apps? Of course there is. There are thousands of developers; that's not at issue. But distribution is different than production. General Electric is not Walmart. Is there competition for distribution? No. No one is allowed to distribute iOS apps but Apple. There are no substitutes, Apple has a distribution monopoly in that market.

That is not how most "brands" work. You don't have to buy cars through Exxon. You don't have to buy gasoline through Ford. You don't even have to buy Android apps through Google Play. Apple is doing something unusual which results in the monopoly.
that's the point: by recommending BitLocker, they are communicating a message to us that they are under duress.
Thanks, that does explain a lot of your reasoning more clearly. I'm not sure I can change my assessment of the situation though, as the relative timings of these events, which I think matter greatly, aren't known to me, and the Rakudo interpretation of these circumstances isn't known to me either. I believe the Rakudo response can be explained by their belief that the special relationship between projects was unsalvageable, and the was forward was no longer in Parrot. In that case I try to fall back on my default, which is to assume people will act in their best interests while also trying to minimize damage and discomfort to others unless given cause.

Whether the actions of the Rakudo developers indeed did cause a major Parrot exodus is something I'll easily cede at this point. Whether that was intended, unintended or the opposite of what was intended seems to be what we are really talking about here (because I believe intention can matter, not in assignment of blame, but as possible mitigation of scale).

The irony of this is that Parrot seems to now well and truly be a P6 focused VM, as the only work done on it (besides rurban and util) is by Rakudo devs to fix bugs or make small changes to new Rakudo stuff works. Why rurban still bothers is beyond me, AIUI he's still got p2 to work on.

In any case, you've been more than a good sport in humoring me in all this; you put up with more from me than I would have imagined. Thanks!
How are you guys doing the window management today on FirefoxOS? Is it Gaia? If so, how do you perform windowing in Gaia? The reason I ask is because that's one capability the framework I work on (famo.us) is particularly good at. I know some people at Mozilla have worked with it on Firefox OS devices (speaking of which, we do need to get some of the newly released dev phones).
is an interesting link not interesting anymore if you add a tracking bug?
Well the first levels are trivial, right click "inspect element" and adding a onClick="alert();" on a random button and tadaa. I'm not sure you can qualify this as XSS attack though, can you?
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