skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the "gendering" of computers affects everyone, regardless of how or when they get to the table. I've known many women who found themselves regularly condescended to and even verbally abused by their CS professors, and many of them just dropped out entirely rather than face an academic discipline that quite vocally didn't want them involved. (Is this the norm? I hope not. Is it common? I fear so.) And once they get into the industry, they continue to face scorn and opprobrium, although some sub-disciplines (particularly database administration, ETL and data modeling) seem to fare better than others. Not distinct to the comp-sci field, as any female executive or high-grade salesperson will attest, but I'd like to think we're better than them.
What does 'not interested' connote? And how do you frame it?

Consider these two statements:
1) The female sex is intrinsically(biologically) uninterested in Computer Science.
2) Girl's are raised in an environment that pushes their interest away from Computer Science.

In each statement, girls are not interested in Computer Science. But the first statement carries a tremendous amount of baggage with it, and comments on significantly more than cultural interest. It is, to put it lightly, a fantastic claim. And fantastic claims require fantastic evidence.

I don't think anyone is afraid of admitting that girls have been less interested in pursuing Computer Science than men. That's not really at issue. What's at issue is the cause and context guiding the group's interest.
I'm so glad Markdown exists; it has replaced Word for me.
Not to take anything away from consul-template, but that has been a feature of confd for a while:

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/confd/blob/master/docs/te...
Pretty sure nicotine is substantially more addictive than diet soda.
That's too bad. I wish things were easy for you, like they were for me, when my peers were cheering me on to learn how to program and I was super popular because of it. Everything was a cake walk, and I learned that if society is in the slightest way against what you are doing, it's impossible to accomplish, so I'm really glad I wasn't driven out of the field that interested me.
journald's Forward Secure Sealing is an easy to use integrity mechanism that was previously unavailable in text-based syslog implementations... of course it cannot prevent your adversary from deleting all the logs, but at least that can be reliably detected.

http://lwn.net/Articles/512895/

And rsyslog can cryptographically sign logs too nowadays:

http://blog.gerhards.net/2013/05/rsyslogs-first-signature-pr...
UNIX itself started because Ken Thompson wanted to port his game Space Travel to the PDP-7: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/spacetravel.html
All of Google's cloud offerings are available independently.

You can use Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Datastore, Compute Engine, App Engine, BigQuery, DNS, and all the APIs á la cart, and I'm sure the same will be true of Firebase.

In case you don't know, the APIs that used to be bundled with App Engine back when it was the only cloud product, like Datastore, have been unbundled over time. I assume remaining App Engine-only APIs like cron are under consideration for unbundling, but there's no precedence for an already unbundled API being bundled to App Engine.
But why is tinkering almost exclusively for men?
So your two piddly links trump their two piddly links?

Less flippantly, the larger point they were making rings true to me -- speaking as someone who, like one of the interviewees, got the initial push toward computers by hanging out at Radio Shack in the late '70s. Hobbyist electronics was mostly guys, and companies knew that. Microcomputers, back in the day we actually called them "microcomputers," came out of the hobbyist movement. And as for the part video games played, which was also a big point they made, well. If you grew up going to arcades in the early '80s, then you probably don't remember them as having a particularly balanced gender distribution. I sure don't. From very early on the basic plot of most video games was "shoot all the bad things," and that's a kind of play that boys engaged in far more often than girls. (Girls had dolls, boys had action figures, don't you know.)

Sure, computer companies occasionally put out ads trying to demonstrate that computers were for more than just playing video games and doing business work, and that they were Fun For The Whole Family! (tm). But I think it's quite a stretch to suggest that this disproves their whole thesis. They didn't just "link to two piddly commercials," they talked to men and women who went to school at the time and researchers studying this, and noted that when Carnegie Mellon added a class which was more or less "Basic Computer 101" -- teaching the stuff that they theorized boys were getting before they got to college and girls weren't -- the number of women who stayed with their CS program rose dramatically. This would seem to be fairly compelling evidence that there's something to this thesis.
>That's a pretty big risk to take as a startup that fully depends on Firebase for their data storage.

Fully depending on any third party for any important part of your business is a risky strategy. If you're contracting out something as core as data storage, you'd better have a good plan B regardless of the provider's economic situation.
I did Mathematics and Computation at Oxford starting in 1986. There were four women on the course (something like a total intake of 30). Three of the four switched to mathematics at the end of the first year.

I don't have any real explanation why.
Your generalizations about Michigan are misinformed.

There are many people in Michigan that think that companies that sell things should be able to sell them to people that want to buy them. There are also many people that can afford a Tesla.
Thank you for the feedback.

We personally use Staply together with other instant messengers/chats and use it more like a shared folder. So like i share files(and discuss them a bit) in Staply but discuss daily routine in IM.
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I wish programming culture didn't scare away people who enjoy athletics. I love playing basketball and sometimes it's hard to find other programmers who enjoy the same.

When I see "Ninja", "rockstar", etc. I run. Can't stand that.
I am planning to put a video there :)
I was there. Home computers were a new thing, so the marketing was a little clunky, but print advertisement usually had both boys and girls in them, as did the Atari 2600 commercials. "Bits and Bytes" was one of my favorite TV shows as a kid. In it, the male actor played someone approaching a computer for the first time, and the female actor played the mentor who showed him how to do things with it, including programming.
Call the New York Department of Labor at 1-888-4NYSDOL (469-7365).
My back-of-the-envelope calculation, if covering an entire car with solar panels... Assumptions: car width is 5 ft, hood is 5 ft, roof is 3 ft, and trunk is 4 ft makes 60 square feet for the whole car. (Note, this isn't the dimensions from a Tesla, but from the older cars that I remember). High output solar panels are 15 watts per sq ft. So 900 watts output max (lets round it off to 1 kilowatt to make the math easy).

Now taking the rated specs from a Model S, a 60 kWh battery gets you 200 miles. So .3 kWh per mile. Therefore, leaving you car to recharge in the sun for 8 hours while you are at work, will get you home if you live within 25 miles. Assuming maximum efficiency of course. Note, that you can't put 60 sq feet of solar panels on the Model S, due to the long slope of the front and back windows, and redesigning it so that it has the non-window surface areas of my old 85 Chevy would make it less aerodynamic. But this gives you a good upper bound if I did my math right.
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You should do this on the browser of an iPhone. :-)
Hmm.. I wonder if that's true of younger programmers, but I don't think I've met a single one around my age (early 30's, late 20's) who didn't start when they were young. I got my start near the end of high school and I felt _impossibly_ late. I still do, frankly.
Did you not actually read the comment you replied to? The entire point was that they haven't even said "We intend to open-source Swift once we're ready." The last we heard, they hadn't even considered open-sourcing it, like, ever.

(To clarify for people who like to misread things, I did not just say "They expressly intend to never open-source it." I said that, last we heard, they had not even talked about ever open-sourcing it.)
In the Eastern Bloc countries nobody bothered to market computers, for many reasons including closed off markets and economical disasters. They also valued gender equality a lot. But the end result was absolute the same - massive male domination in everything computer-related.

So i's not marketing.
|it doesn't really make sense to generalize about more than half the population.

It does in the context of gender. Sure there are outliers but men and women are generally interested in different things. To deny this is to fail to realise a huge aspect of human behaviour.
> As a heavy Angular user, I wonder how much of a role the Angular team played in driving this acquisition.

Probably none. Angular is part of Ads, they're not in the Cloud group.
They're taking a hammering on glassdoor:

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Handy-Reviews-E680570.htm

The positive reviews seem fairly obvious fakes too.

And self reported income is often bullshit income. The figure is probably triple their best week which itself was a one off, before cancellations and charge backs.
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> I can't quite articulate the feelings of isolation and frustration I felt in that class,

Probably a feeling many nerds have had at some point in their life.
I remember a company selling furniture with free shipping during the first dot-bomb. (I think they had the furniture.com domain.) Only after they started getting orders did they realize that UPS and FedEx (at that time) wouldn't even ship that stuff for any cost.
I can't add much more than just curious guesses into this discussion but someone else mentioned the idea of video games attracting people towards programming. I'm pretty sure there is a strong male sexual preference towards video games as children and teens. I wonder if the rise of popularity of video games could coincide with this change? It doesn't have to be that women became less interested, it is possible that a new demographic of people (which happened to skew heavily male) became interested in programming. But anyway, I have nothing to back that up, just spitballin. :p
> If your paper doesn't conform to certain constraints you end up dealing with the presentation domain anyway.

After having read some of Edward Tufte's material, this struck me. I think the main point is: "make it legible" and (Tufte) "as informative as possible". If its not maximally aesthetically pleasing, then so be it.

EDIT: I apologize if this is trite, but I think that's really the whole philosophy of (La)TeX.
See if you can find squash/cordial, lemon flavour is usually best: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_%28drink%29

When my parents took us on holiday to America my little brother refused to drink either plain water or fizzy drinks, but we found orange squash in the British section of a large supermarket.

As Wikipedia says, it's the default drink for British children. Adults who drink it probably pick a nicer product; my manager keeps a bottle of elderflower cordial in the cupboard.

I don't like making generalisations about Europe, but carbonated water is sold in every shop in Europe that sells bottled water. In some countries (e.g. Georgia), in smaller shops, you will only find carbonated water. In Germany it's what you get if you order "mineral water", you have to specify "still mineral water".
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... which will hopefully explain why Lego markets the normal* range to boys. Or not.

Of course there's the Lego Friends range targetting girls, but it is once again about houses, cooking, flowers and rainbow poneys, and not at all as educative as Lego Technics.

*Such as the Lego City and Lego Creator ranges which must be the legos we encounter the most.
Cheers. Party with a Local is already launched and is indeed the more serious startup http://partywithalocal.com
OK, well it wasn't really clear by the parent comment whether they were referring to nature, nurture, or both. And I don't think it really matters. He just said

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[the] "women just aren't as interested in programming" trope rings hollow
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To me the comment implies he is "afraid of admitting that girls have been less interested in pursuing Computer Science than men".
"Regulate interstate commerce" was sent to hallucinogenic new levels with the Supreme Court ruling in the Raich case. TL;DR - feds can "regulate" (via SWAT-type police raid) a terminally ill old lady's doctor-prescribed-and-monitored state-legal for-personal-use-only marijuana plants because her doing so decreased demand in an illegal interstate market.
I've been running publications and notes through this. My notes are often very unstructured. The categories and relevant words the platform's returning are helping home in on the points.

The synopses have been 70%+ of the way to self-sufficient Cliffs Notes of my meanderings -- certainly tight enough that I'll give them another read.

Nice work - thanks for making it available.

Pre-release Asks:
I believe I know what the numbers next to the categories and stems in the sidebar represent -- some tool tips, help docs, or a legend would be of use.

A "copy to clipboard" from Synopsis would make it more straightforward take my Cliffs Notes to a text editor.
Dr. Lustig's views are not consistent with mainstream scientific opinions on the subject.[1] I would be careful about using his work to justify things.

[1] http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/does-the-movie-fed-up-ma...
That is simply not true. We do have a President but he/she is just a titular head, or a namesake. He cannot exercise his powers at will. Prime Minister is the executive head for all purposes but in no way is there monarchy/dictatorship. Anyone who says so just wants to bash Indian legislative system and democracy.
Less fear of being blackballed when you're an industry outsider.
As the others have said, Coke Zero contains aspartame. However, it also contains acesulfame potassium which is another sweetener, so it may have a little less aspartame than Diet Coke. (The effect of multiple sweeteners is generally greater than an equivalent larger dose of one... or so I have... read. Maybe. In something somewhere. No promises.)
This solution got me thinking about something which I found interesting enough to feel the need to share.

I can imagine my Dad using this geometric method to solve the problem at hand. He's a very intelligent guy who has worked in the building industry doing manual labor all of his life.

I can guess that my sister, who is a medical doctor, would have solved it using the same process as the (current) top rated response here; stepping through the equations.

My immediate response would be to hack up a script and brute force the answer.

My Mother would tell me to go ask Dad.
For those interested, a more detailed analysis on the history of Smith can be found in this EFF blog post:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/smith-v-maryland-turns...

I'm by no means a lawyer, but I'd respond by saying that the judges responsible for the original decision likely didn't realize the consequences the Smith decision would have in the Internet age. So much of the digital content we produce ends up in the cloud, whether in an online backup service, SaaS, email, or otherwise. To say that sharing information with a cloud provider eliminates your expectation of privacy is almost the same as saying that it's not really possible to have any sort of private digital records whatsoever.

The exception to that would be in cases where end to end encryption is implemented, and only the user holds the key. That seems to be where we're increasingly moving in a world where Smith stands, and it's certainly not optimal for law enforcement, who won't be able to access that information even with a warrant.
> And besides, who says a "bro" can't science? ;)

Very fair point. I guess I've been exposed to too many paleo "all sugar is equally evil" bros lately. They can certainly science with the rest of them.

Hell, Kary Mullis won a Nobel for inventing PCR which he practically did from his surf board. Although his later absurdity^ re: AIDS / Astrology / Climate Change might give some more credence to keeping the bros out of science ;-)

^Absurdity not absurdism
"They were marketed almost exclusively to boys"

Back before anyone was really marketing computers in any mainstream way, I remember gathering around the few that were available in the school library or in a math teacher's classroom.

The only people interested EVER were boys.

It had nothing to do with marketing.
This seems like a feedback loop without a clear beginning or cause. Marketing affects behavior. Behavior affects marketing. Repeat.

Does Hasbro market GI Joes to boys because boys tend to like GI Joes or do boys like GI Joes because Hasbro markets them to boys?

I'm not so sure how useful wondering about finding the "Cause" of this. It isn't that simple.
Fair enough. But if we're trying to stay relevant to the argument, it would be best to avoid attacks on (perhaps questionable) character.
They don't need to intend to keep Swift closed forever in order for it to be kept closed forever. It takes an active intention for them to open it up, but not to keep it closed. If they put off making a final decision until the heat death of the universe, it will still never be open-sourced without them ever specifically intending not to.
The graph you linked to. I'm comparing the 1984 numbers to latest available, since 1984 is what the linked piece talks about (and which I mentioned in the original comment)

> drop off was nearly identical for men

> women did seem to drop off more

These two statements cannot be both true at the same time.
That you know about. The article shows a drop-off starting in the 1980s, which was when the home computer revolution happened. Computer games magazines at the time printed out programs for users to type in themselves, because for the first generation or two of hardware there wasn't a whole lot of software to buy. Also, pre-built home computers were heavily marketed for their education potential.
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The simplest argument against your position is that users did not password protect access to information, as well as require their data to be transmitted via 'https' in 1979. These measures provide at least some evidence of the private nature of the information, which is as well secured as that which the citizen 'saves' on their home computer.
How about tea?

Twice the caffeine of cola, but half the caffeine of coffee.
If I wanted to get involved with making games, it would probably be in order to design games. Not coding per se.
> Post "the Fappening" and the realization that there are essentially no enforceable protections for information you store in the cloud

I don't think that is a fair statement. I've got financial/billing information for many people that moves across the internet. We haven't had any serious breaches that compromise that information.

A fair statement would be "Apple et al. do not find it cost effective to secure such data while simultaneously pleasing shareholders and law enforcement."

The moment Apple, etc. wants to try to secure it more, the Government complains about it publicly and trots out bullshit about catching pedophiles. The Government's methods are actually more dangerous to children since making that data insecurable guarantees people who are willing to break the law can get to it.

The Government doesn't want the data secured because it would complicate things for them yet the Government simultaneously says they have the right to all such data.

It is really evidence of a systemic bias in how the system works. Sure, the Judge can't really do anything [without being accused of activism and likely overturned by appeal] but that doesn't make this 'less bad'.

If it wasn't a general Government position that this was true, they should have muzzled their people and/or issued statements stating it was the position of those people and not the Government as a whole.
There's also a delightful two-step whereby the government can

1) require the disclosure or retention of data for some regulatory purpose (taxing, telecom regs, "just because", etc.), and then

2) require warrantless access to the data, since after all it was turned over to a third party.
If customer demand for electricity grows high enough, there's no reason oil-fired electrical plants won't arise on a large scale. Efficiency issues can be addressed much better when implemented on a scale much larger than a car engine.
Which came first, tool-toy companies interested in boys, or boys interested in them?
I'm don't know that any real explanation is gonna be much more than speculation but it certainly is an interesting graph. I'm actually really surprised by the percentage of women in the physical sciences. I studied physics and sadly, I'm afraid that if you split out physics from the other branches it would be significantly lower than the other physical sciences. My own anecdotal experience (undergraduate and graduate school) would put it at 10%. But that is just two snapshots in time at two schools. I would guess the average HAS to be higher, but still below 40%.
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Yes, but logic errors have this wonderful property of no longer being relevant when we're knowingly doing them for a good cause. /s
The HR guy in the sexual harassment videos you had to watch every two years at Microsoft was fired for sexual harassment. No amount of training seems to overcome base desire.
I thought that bubble had come and gone. About five years ago I was talking to a group of friends looking to do a side project for money, and the consensus was there's no money in mobile apps beyond the "struck by lightning" stuff like Minecraft and Angry Birds.
Nice to see someone else viewing pledges as a potential solution.

Something I think would make this even better, is if the pledges were standardised, so they followed some mutually agreeable guidelines. I had a go at doing this here:

https://github.com/jamesisaac/pledges

I have it in place on my app (https://nachapp.com), and plan it include some/all of the pledges on future products I launch. Haven't yet come in contact with any other founders who are up for including it on their product... but if you like the idea and want to help improve the draft (even if it's just for the "long-term service" pledge), feel free to get in touch.
|There's definitely a sense of "startups are the new banking."

We need a new word. "Startup" has essentially become as meaningless as "agile". Semantically, "startup" is now just an umbrella under which the same paper-pushers and conference-call-bros we were trying to escape from are convening.
That's not really viable. Otherwise all compiler vendors would have already implemented a "error-on-all-undefined-behavior" switch. (See other poster.)

Compiler vendors are trying to implement sanity checks and such, but there's only so much they can do given that whether something is "undefined behavior" may depend on run-time values.

EDIT: Btw, this is what happens if you ever have a language with "undefined behavior". On the upside it can probably perform (given a correct program) like nobody's business on any given architecture (from x86 to DSPs with 10-bit chars).
ack. not too surprised given all of the other issues that have come up re: misogyny x tech in 2014.