skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is there such a clamor to get girls to code?

From the side of people concerned about sex discrimination in society, because the perception that both the source and the effect of the problem is discrimination (on the source side, often subtle and potentially not conscious), which on the effect side leads to poorer range of opportunities and outcomes for females with similar natural abilities.

From the employer side, because programming is a high-cost labor pool and increasing the supply is expected to drive down the market clearing price, and because it is believed that (largely because the employer side sees the source as not too different from the discrimination-concern side) there is a substantial capable workforce for the field that is being pushed out but could be drawn in.

> I never hear anyone say "We need more female lumberjacks|roofers|trash collectors|pilots" despite those being male dominated professions as well.

Do you spend as much time on lumberjack/roofer/trash collector/pilot focussed forums as on places like HN? It may be that what you hear is in part a reflection of what people say -- the factors noted above do not apply equal to all those professions -- but it could also be that what you hear is a product of where you are listening.
"companies that have struggled to build an engineering reputation, like foursquare, can offer." Excuse me? Foursquare has pretty well regarded engineering talent, at least their West Coast office.
The article itself is very baity, but maybe something along the lines of "Ex-CIA officer suggests new intelligence sharing framework"?

IDK, I'm not even sure why OpenBTS gets a mention in there.
>> I disagree with this assertion. To be a software engineer is to be in a constant state of learning.

3 years ago at age 47 I interviewed at a promising game company in Austin, TX. The first thing the smug young guy said after weighing my resume by holding it in the air in the palm of his hand was, "pretty long resume, huh?".

I game every day, I developed a simple game for fun in the 90s'. I get gaming and what gamers like. I can do programming, hold my own with new or old technologies, do front-end, back-end, embedded, you name it and the most important thing he had to say to me was, "pretty long resume, huh?".

Come to think of it, many places I've interviewed at in Austin are like that, I call it the UT attitude.
Sure, and other people have the right to not like reading the negativity.
Continuations. Second only to Monads for having so many bad explanatory articles written about it.
My city is getting more of these and I always check before turning right. But last week I witnessed a car-bike collision that I'm unsure how to ever avoid: traffic in my lane was backed up to a standstill, but oncoming cars were flowing freely and one took a left into a restaurant parking entrance (between two stopped cars in my lane) just as a bike was passing the stopped cars in my lane on the right (NOT in a designated bike lane but even if it was, the left-turning car would have had no way of seeing the bike coming because all cars were stopped and blocking view.) Bike hit side of turning car at full speed. Neither saw each other coming. Bicyclist was seemingly ok and kept riding after 30 seconds. Do you just outlaw left turns in the presence of bike lanes?

As I said in this case there was no bike lane and my understanding is that this is a known danger and the cyclist should not have been passing all the stopped cars on the right. See example #8 on this page:
http://bicyclesafe.com/
Thanks for the info! I try to make at least some of my free time productive with free online courses/material. I have been at this job about three months. The job I was at before I was developing big data systems (actual development), so I can code. Many internships/coops before full-time kicked in as well
I'm with you on the coding comment especially when non-coding people use it to describe programming/coding as a menial, mindless task. I've also had the same thought that maybe I just want my job to sound cooler...
Except there is. It isn't talked about on Hacker News as much as drives to get women into programming (well, except that it gets mentioned every time the women in programming issue comes up because someone inevitably makes a comment like yours -- but its almost never an independent topic on HN) because of HN's particular focus.
It's a catch 22. Less people ride bikes when the infrastructure sucks.

In Washington, DC, 4.1 percent of working residents regularly commuted by bike last year; it was 3.8 percent in San Francisco, 2.3 percent in Philadelphia, 2 percent in Boston, 1.6 percent in Chicago, and 1 percent in NYC. NYC increased from .6 percent to 1 percent over the course of a few years by investing more heavily in bike infrastructure.

One thing to keep in mind is that these numbers are for daily commuters. When you look at casual riders, people running errands, etc, and then hone in on certain neighborhoods the numbers can sky rocket. The Brooklyn chapter of Transportation Alternatives has done mode (of transportation) counts in certain neighborhoods and in many areas count 20-30% of all traffic on the street as being bikes, going over 50% in some neighborhoods for some sprints.
Thanks for writing this. It's important to recognize the downsides of what is often considered only positive. It rings true for me especially.
I can only speak to my own experience, but in both cities I've lived in (Vancouver and Victoria), there's basically no such thing during working hours. Dedicated parking lanes start at 6pm, before that they're normal traffic lanes.
>Most people either don't enjoy thinking, or are bad at it.

Elaborate on the definitions and prove that with a scientific study. The arrogance here is outrageous.
That is correct. Typical separated/protected bike lane setup.
Does the bike free for all really work that well on popular routes? In my old bike commute there were a couple spots where lots of cyclists would pile up (draw bridges, stop lights on a bike path) and I can't imagine having that many cyclists having to wait and then crossing each others direction of travel at every intersection.
And? You think the alternative of removing bicycle space in favor of cars works better?
I'm referring to the many, many ST things I mentioned in my posts. Copy and paste is trivial and I'm sure you're aware of what I was referring to.
You could ride a bike from Vancouver to the US. If OP is a US citizen, and getting back to the US is a valuable undertaking, there are several ways to get it done for <$60.
Hell, Hostgator can service that need pretty well. Digital Ocean would be cheaper, but you gotta know how to set things up yourself.
Living in the DC Metro area, so plenty of opportunities and I have a clearance. Part of it is guilt over considering leaving/quitting after only 3 months. It feels like I am giving up. Will try and hold out until I get something else though probably, at least for a bit
I mean, if he'd met me halfway, I probably would have taken the offer. But he didn't. He just basically told me to fuck off. I'm not really sure why he didn't expect negotiation. Maybe I negotiated badly. Sadly, if he'd been polite and said something along the lines of "We just can't afford that salary level. I'm sorry we couldn't work things out," then maybe in a year, when I'm out of a job for whatever reason, I might be willing to come back and take that offer, or at least entertain a new one. But no, he burned that bridge. Either way, I think I dodged a bullet.

But you're right. If he'd made me CTO or some other personal benefit, I would have taken the offer in a heartbeat. For a regular dev salary with regular dev equity, it just wasn't enough. Plus, I already get equity at my current publicly-traded company, which means my equity is worth actual cash. I dunno. The whole thing annoyed me.
Here is an old video about the Dutch system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlApbxLz6pA. Looks pretty similar to me.
What a red herring.

We're in a good future days of "nearly no one should do hard labor".
NSA Reform Gathers Momentum In Congress After Late-Night Vote
what does this offer that command line tools and status line indicators do not?
This. And you could do it both ways, too. "I'm very interested in learning X technology, and my background with Y skillset makes me a good fit. From what I can see, this seems like a cool company. That said, one of your people contacted me first, so I'm here to find out more about the position."
Google Gets Into 5G Game Via Alpental Acquisition
Ok, what I got from that (and to be honest I didn't give it a close read, so its fair to say that this is completely wrong) was that the subject of this article, Robert David Steele (which strangely was the name I took for a fictional secret agent), is an avid reader but not a very discriminating one. And by that I mean there seems to be little in the way of systemic analysis of the validity of what he reads or in the application of various bits toward testable hypothesis in an effort to deduce what is real and what is fanciful. Almost a caricature of the Robert Redford character from "3 Days of the Condor."
I think an analogy to alchemy is very apt in this situation. Prior to the scientific revolution alchemy was always practiced in secrecy. Techniques for finding out about the world were guild secrets and hidden away. Many early scientists would almost certainly have been classified as alchemists in their own times. With the advent of the scientific revolution (which in part necessitated a political change) the 'methods' of the alchemists could now be openly discussed and tested in public. How to measure or name something became a matter of open debate and experimentation, and the rest is history.

Gathering "intelligence" is no different than making any other measurement about the world, economists do it all the time. Right now intelligence agencies are operating in the alchemist mode, hoarding their methods and hiding them from view to protect themselves, in this case form inquisitions that might be led by various governments if they discovered how poorly vetted and reviewed some of these data collection techniques really were ("How do you know that eating this herb will make me better?" "Well...").

I think the argument made by Steele is spot on in the sense that as our world is now monstrously complex, we MUST subject our data gathering methodology to rigorous and public review or we will flounder. Not only that but if we take the analogy to alchemy seriously then perhaps we will see a revolution not unlike the one witnessed around about the latter half of the 1600s.

tl;dr Current intelligence agencies are alchemists and what we need more of is science.
A google search shows a bunch of related articles in the NY Times, Boston Globe, and CNN (for example, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/business/increasingly-men-... http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2008/11/1... http://newsroom.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/21/duncan-black-male-t... - this is not an exhaustive listing or an exhaustive search).

Plenty is written about it, but it's likely that people not focused on those subjects don't notice it.
Yes, it is reasonable for you to quit.

It is smart to wait until you have something else, then to give at least two weeks' notice, then to take two weeks inbetween to normalize. If your new employer reacts positively to someone taking care of themselves, then you'll have set the right new precedent moving forwards; if they react negatively, they might not be the more stable work/life you're looking for.

This is a very common thing with young professionals. Don't take it hard. Read around; you'll find nine million other people who faced the same thing.
It depends on the country. For instance in France a cyclist as no business alongside pedestrians : you either share the road with cars, use a dedicated line or get off your bicyle and walk alongside pedestrians. So I can definitely understand the feeling that bikers are appearing out of nowhere when crossing as if they were pedestrians, just very very fast ones.

Here (Japan) bikes have a complete disregard for the rule of law, other bikes, pedestrians and cars. I bike everyday to work (30 minutes each way), and the most frightening are in order : cyclists, pedestrians and cars. Cars mostly follow the rules, so they are highly predictable. Bicycles just storms from anywhere at any time, crossing red lights without braking or even checking if something/someone is incoming... terrifying.
s/onramps/killer app/

But I guess the latter is overused and diluted, and the former is the new cool term.
So if they are any good, someone should stand up and say, we should pay this person what they want, if they want to work remote and there are no specific restrictions placed upon them by their job requirements; let them. Keep them. That must not be happening in those cases though or they wouldn't be jumping, that's the point of the article.
It is, but not all real roads have that.
Yes. You didn't? Because frankly I feel they get really inaccurate just two days out. No idea why there's 10 day forecasts. If you look at them every day you'll notice that 10 day forecasts change every day.
Your mindset for all of those questions is mistaken. You're thinking that we all live in vast urban sprawl. A lot of us don't live there. Come see what life is like in a functioning city with good planning and density, like Manhattan.

1. Take your kids to school on a bike?

If you're living in a dense metro area, your school in within walking distance. So yes. You could bike there, but more likely you'll walk with them. If they go to a further away school, they'll take the subway or a bus.

2. Ride in a business suit?

Yes, I see it all the time with Citibikes. Even on Wall Street.

3. Go to Ikea or Costco?

Sure you'll go there, but you'll have your items delivered like any sane person who doesn't live in BFE.

4. Going to ride in from the suburbs?

People do it every day. You'd be surprised how many showers and locker rooms are right next to corporate bike rooms.

Just because you can't imagine something doesn't mean it isn't normal in another part of the country.
> Or the reasoning applied to research in astrophysics, where at the end of a chain of tortuous logic there always should be something like "this could help us understand whether we are alone in the Universe"

I went to the NSF grant database and searched for "astrophysics":

http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/simpleSearchResult?queryText=...

> Result 1. Deliverable: a terabyte-scale real-time data exchange and correlation platform. Ultimate purpose: expediate collection & analysis process for data sourced from multiple observatories.

> Result 2. Deliverable: "the coordinated observation of nearby supernovae with optical and near-infrared spectrographs on 4m and 8m class telescope..." Ultimate Purpose: The study of thermonuclear supernovae ... [which] have played a central role in the discovery of the acceleration of the expansion of the universe and have a key role in attempts to constrain the nature of dark energy.

> Result 3. Deliverable: "an underground accelerator laboratory" Ultimate Purpose: " address three long-standing fundamental problems in nuclear astrophysics: solar neutrino sources and the core metallicity of the sun; carbon-based nucleosynthesis; and neutron sources for the production of trans-iron elements in stars."

> ... that's all I care to summarize

Where is the tortuous logic and bullshit justification you keep going on about? It looks to me like the grants are going towards funding legitimate scientific inquiries into legitimate scientific questions.
If you want a general VPS:

Digital Ocean, Linode, Rackspace, Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine

Digital Ocean lets you provision the lowest spec servers of all those, for $5/mo.

edit: if you just want Wordpress, check out https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/ although I've never tried that service. They give you a VPS with various apps pre-installed, e.g., https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results/?page=1&se...
> best way to get payrise to to show a offer and then they will struggle matching and then say you can expect a substantial payrise over the next few years, or some other excuse.

No, the best way is to keep abreast of what new hires are getting paid, and make sure you are staying ahead.
How does this move the cyclist where they are less likely to be seen? The video addresses this point directly, and claims that moving the bicyclists one car length ahead of the stopped cars and requiring a tight turning radius for cars will increase their visibility.
What does the red vs green boxes mean?
June 4th. Any reason in particular why this 2+ week old version of SQLite popped up?
Google Street Art Project
Hack education at Clever (YC S12)
Steve Jobs described education as one of the final frontiers still untouched by modern technology. Clever (YC S12 - https://clever.com) is building the data platform needed for great software to make its way into the classroom. Just like Stripe has made it simple for developers to build payment processing into their apps, Clever has made it easy for developers to build applications for schools using student data.

We're a small, highly technical team with deep experience in education. In under two years, 1 in 6 schools in America has begun using our APIs, meaning that Clever moves data for eight million students every day.

Our newest project is essentially Facebook Connect for education: one identity to tie together all of a student’s learning applications into a cohesive experience. We’re making that happen with our Instant Login service, which allows students to log in once and immediately get access to all their apps: https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-05-14-no-more-passwords-clever-shows-off-instant-login

And while we have all the startup perks (a beautiful loft office in SoMa, free lunch, unlimited Amazon credits for learning..) – hands down the best part of the job are the calls and emails from schools describing how much Clever helps them.

As an education company, we’re all about learning personally too – it’s practically a prerequisite to work here. In the past few weeks we’ve done tech talks on things like exoplanets, set theory, and kitesurfing. (We also love a good round of bughouse chess – just ask Magnus Carlsen http://screencast.com/t/xD7umWfo)

We’re looking for full-stack engineers who can hack in Node, Go, and Python (or are willing to learn), but more importantly, we’re looking for people who share our passion for improving education. If you’re interested, check out what we're doing at http://engineering.clever.com/ or drop us a line - we’d love to hear from you.

https://clever.com/about/jobs

At Clever, we want to work with the best people - applicants of all backgrounds and beliefs are welcome to come improve education with us. We're committed to making our office a safe and comfortable environment for all employees.
> Young developers should save 50% of their after tax income.

As someone who travels overseas once or twice a year, goes out all the time, I still manage to save>50% of my income. I don't have a car, cycle everywhere, live in a great share house, always look for deals (for traveling and eating out), and stay in the cheaper hotels/bus it around.
Take another look at the video's "before" and "after" scenes -- no lanes are removed.
Who said it wouldn't be difficult?
So why not just ban all cars, and use the existing road infrastructure for bikes? The answer, of course, is that cars are vital to making city life feasible in most cities.
Most US cities aren't like that. (Regrettably.)
Not Erlang? Facebook? Whatsapp? Leave alone all that Ericsson GSM hardware..
Oh I get it now. Got confused between 1s and 0s.
that's what's at the end, but you skipped the beginning juicy bit: don't try to multitask. make a clear and concrete to-do list, and chunk out time to focus only on completing one item at a time. not answering your emails/texts and having your boss help eliminate distractions are just two small but helpful ways to stay on-task.
Well most of the time it does. Whether to go for a free for all or more "complex" strategies depends upon the complexity of the intersection.

For a lot of the less popular intersections, free for alls work good enough and trying to be clever would be a premature optimization. In other situations, there are generally two approaches:

* implement a more complex routing strategy that can route both cyclists and cars concurrently; an example would be [1], where the blue line is how the cyclist should travel.

* avoid the intersection al together with tunnels[2] or bridges[3] -- this is the most desirable strategy, but probably the most expensive one. It is used fairly often in popular-by-cycle cities such as Utrecht and Amsterdam.

[1] http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/3652/kruispunt2pz8.jpg

[2] http://www.n246.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/4398.jpg

[3] http://www.provincie.drenthe.nl/publish/pages/72918/afbeeldi...
Robert David Steele has been talking about the value of open source intelligence for many years, and has given several fascinating talks at hacker conferences.

Hackers on Planet Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txugDFRVbeQ

Gnomedex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afb8H-1fcYU
I saw it happen to someone two days ago crossing the Caltrain tracks and going over Alma on Meadow in Palo Alto. White van went past the cyclist and then turned right into him -- luckily he just hit his front wheel (though the van drove off, ignorant of everything).

It happens all the time and it's a function of poor design. I'm not sure what the right fix is (preventing right turns on some Alma crossings? Forced right turn lane to the right of a green lane?). With this intersection at least the cyclists start out ahead of the traffic when waiting on a red -- but if the light is green and a cyclist is at the speed of traffic then this design does nothing to prevent right hooks...
If things are configured correctly the 'end' key on the keyboard will do that too.

Also, less has build in help if you press 'h'.
I'd love to see something like this paired with a project like this that takes parks and parklets and treats them like nodes in a graph and converting part of the streets into dedicated park lanes forming green edges between the green nodes. Taken all together, this turns the city into a veritable park.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/12588351@N02/sets/721576231926...
It seems pretty obvious to me that capital can't continue to concentrate indefinitely. And there is a limit to what people will tolerate from those in power. Is this guy right and we are about at the limits and ready to make real changes? I don't know. But... interesting take on the situation.
Most right-hooks happen when the light is already green, not when starting from a stop. So imagine that the car and bike are moving at the same speed and the driver doesn't check their mirror or doesn't notice the bike before they turn right.
Merchants very very rarely win chargebacks. They can represent all they want with proper documentation, and they may even win the first chargeback, but that win can easily be reversed by the credit card company, if the customer is persistent enough, with no explanation to the merchant. I know this because I've worked in credit card processing.

So any time you run into an issue with a merchant, if they look like they are acting in bad faith, you should just chargeback and stop wasting your time.