skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a very similar experience when I entered one of the best universities of Iran in 2000. Although the number of female students were almost as much as males, every professor assumed that students should at least know one programming language and be familiar with all the basic concepts of computers. and many students, especially female ones did not have that knowledge prior to university which was a great turn off as they realised they would be easily judged by their lack of knowledge. The sad thing is that all of these students were great in their high school in order to get in in the first place.
Very cool, what lead you to develop this?
> We're missing out on talented developers.

As a sought after developer in a niche area I appreciate the lack of competition.

But then again I am a selfish, cynical bastard.
Customising Mercurial: Expert Mode
Michigan Governer bans Tesla direct sales
Exactly. Why would a movie theater, fast food chain, restaurant, or other place offer water as a default when they could sell you something with a 90% profit margin?
Reflections on lessons from randomized trials of newborn infants, 1951-1967
Romantic story telling for a line graph, but really it is more like the profession of computer operators, originally drawn from the largely female secretary pool, disappeared as computers evolved from big buildings where you submitted decks of punched cards to their modern form.

Nowadays we have IT, EE, CS, etc. but these are really different professions than what was originally mostly women. The first crop of nearest equivalent computer scientists usually majored in mechanical engineering, simply because there were no computer majors yet and the computers were much more mechanical, and had the same gender imbalance we see today.
Metabolic costs and evolutionary implications of human brain development [pdf]
Hervé This: The world's weirdest chef, building food molecule by molecule
Rewrite history much? They brought it into the classroom through politicians. When it went to court it was thrown out as junk science.
Yeah, sic the Internet mobs on him, that'll show 'em!
Why the pay in scrip?
A brief, opinionated history of the API
Absurdism is something quite different...
From what I've heard, low salt is bad, but there is still an ideal potassium to salt ratio.
Since we're all talking about it...

I keep my dotfiles in a sub-directory (doesn't matter where) and use the following Rakefile to manage it:

https://github.com/tvon/dotfiles/blob/master/Rakefile

Then it's just `rake status` or `rake link` to symlink everything. I've only been using this for a few years but I haven't run into any problems yet.
I started when I was 21. So at least you can feel that you're better than me.
Arse-Sum! (x900+)
I think these guys are either very naive (comparing apple and google this way) and making such a significant business decision based on such shaky arguments. or this is a PR stunt, in which case who are they targeting, HN?
If there's nothing queued it starts almost immediately. In some cases while testing the job finished right after queuing it and showed as completed right away. Right now it uses rabbitmq for the queue but even if I replace it I want to keep it like that.
I don't have data on this, but I'd imagine the popularity of computers in the home in the 1980s was outshining that of chemistry sets. In the NPR piece they talk about how computers were marketed to boys for playing games.

And chemistry is also taught in high schools, so both male and female students interested in it would've had some experience before attending college. The same is not true for computing.
I work 100% in javascript at the moment, but it's only because I happen to like it and find it interesting right now. Not because of any inherent advantage to the frameworks/runtimes.

Do what you enjoy. That will change over time, and so should your tool-chest. As long as you keep learning and stay true to yourself, you'll progress naturally through different languages, frameworks, etc. Try not to box yourself in, there's really no advantage to limiting yourself.
I was curious about this myself recently and a conversation with my wife managed to clarify it a bit for me. She's very technically proficient but is not a hacker. She also uses Word for almost everything, which drives me crazy, but I think I understand why now.

To her content and presentation are not separate entities. Font choice, heading size, margins and spacing, and colors are secondary to the text and the document structure, but they're still semantic elements and carry meaning above and beyond the structure they present. Presenting a sentence in red, for example, conveys a different meaning than making the same sentence bold, even if in theory they're simply alternate ways of conveying importance. She judges the extra expressiveness to be worth the extra complexity, even for informal documents and notes to herself.
Perhaps this is a non-sequitur, but if you want something like an IDE for writing, Scrivener does a decent job. Its designed to help you marshal research (links, text, media) as well as to organize your writing. Plus it appears to be quite customizable. People have made document templates for screenwriting, research proposals, comicbook scripts, novel writing, etc. Its my preferred tool for longer prose.
If Smith stands for straw man, then it's even stronger today.

From the horses mouth:

First, we doubt that people in general entertain any actual expectation of privacy in the numbers they dial. All telephone users realize that they must "convey" phone numbers to the telephone company, since it is through telephone company switching equipment that their calls are completed.

People dial phone numbers, they don't dial cell towers or GPS location data, and there are of course infinitely many other examples.

Second, even if petitioner did harbor some subjective expectation that the phone numbers he dialed would remain private, this expectation is not "one that society is prepared to recognize as 'reasonable.'

I guess the times they are a changin'.
Show HN: Graphs bouncing around, making random music
The experience of this CSR candidate is obviously the lede of the piece, but my problem with businesses like this is deeper: I think all these companies that put a pretty UI over a bunch of low-skill 1099 workers are exploitative.

Reread the section about Lupe's attempt to reach the client in time.

I feel like companies in these markets will eventually reap the whirlwind when the USG decides not to allow people filling these roles to be classified as 1099s, and the whole segment falls apart. Or maybe I just hope it.
If you really love programming, it does not matter what other people do. You learn more alone in front of a computer, solving things, than in a classroom. Youn do not need a degree to hack.
I spent an inordinate amount of time as a kid using ResEdit to make cheat plugins for EV:Override.
In this case, a drop off needs to be compared to a peak value which 1984 is not. 1984 is before the 1986 peak. I'm not saying they're exactly identical but it's clear that there are similar patterns. Perhaps not "nearly" identical, but similar enough.
If all compliant compilers implement undefined behavior as an attempt to format the hard drive, it's not exactly undefined behavior any more, right? The behavior has been defined as "format the hard drive".

The HTML5 spec is a good example of the pros and cons of defining everything. On one hand, you can be sure that every compliant parser will parse the document the same way, including incredibly malformed documents. On the other, it significantly increases the complexity of the implementation, and it eliminates certain optimization opportunities. On the third hand - it doesn't seem to have discouraged page authors from writing incredibly malformed HTML. If it had discouraged page authors from writing incredibly malformed HTML, then a significant portion of the web would break.
Involuntary unemployment does happen. And it's nice, when it does happen, that there are some companies around that will provide you with a day's labor for a day's wages, when you've got to put food on your family.

I wouldn't want to see all, or even most, companies do this. But for those of us not living in the Valley who need to support families, it's nice to know there are sources of employment out there if/when the poo hits the fan.
Yes. There are obstacles, we agree.

If you wanted to learn something, say, plumbing, and found that fellow plumbers viewed you as an effete nerd, would you just lay down your wrench, or would you resolve to be the best plumber possible and soldier on? Which course of action do you think would be the most rewarding?
It's also interesting legally: most works of the federal government are born into the public domain. So how is the Army keeping copyright, or are they just mistaken?
Yeah, wow, thanks for the correction.. Can you tell that the Myth of Sisyphus is on my bedside table right now?
That argument makes no sense in this context. The claim put forward is perfectly falsifiable.
I agree with you, but this also doesn't seem (in my totally amateur reading) to actually be covered by the 4th amendment. If we really want this sort of privacy enshrined, we could really use a new amendment. It should be unsurprising that huge changes in society, like those of the internet age, would require fundamental changes to the Constitution - this is what amendments are for. This idea is laughably impractical though, which either suggests that amendments were made too difficult to achieve, or that the system is working well by making us wait for overwhelming consensus on the question.
Maybe it's not a 1099 situation then. You can, for example, hire an electrician and require they work only at night, or on the weekends, or whenever. It's clearly not outside the realm of possibility to pay someone to work in your office for a day. I have a hard time believing a Harvard MBA, McKinsey consultant couldn't wrap their head around the concept of contract work, not to mention labor laws.
Early iPad Air 2 benchmark suggests tri-core CPU, 2GB of RAM
Mr. Snowden's revelations prove that "a smell of conspiracy theory" is not a strong enough argument. Obviously Red Hat is interested in widespread systemd adoption, and that message might offer an explanation as to why debian only considered 3 alternatives and unprecedentedly rushed the adoption process. So this angle is definitively constructive.
Mathematically, isn't this a guaranteed result?

The article said that the share of women in other programs kept rising. So doesn't the share of women in different programs need fall to balance? If more women become lawyers, aren't there fewer women left for other programs?

I really wish these types of articles would show absolute numbers. Percentages can be so misleading.
I know I'll get banned and cursed for years for that but here you go:

Oh stop it, those are gender differences and girls also enjoy their differences, even if they're unfortunately imprinted by culture. They're untouchable, they are given what they ask (which is: often dolls), they're social. And the few that are in IT, they don't show up at the Java User Group, even if it's their job, even if it's free, even if it's at the same time as for boys.

They do show up more often at higher-class networking parties where they may make connections with product managers and be promoted, rather than stay programmers like us for a bit longer.

Of course there will be counter-examples, but I see girls in IT getting promoted MUCH faster than boys. In my 14-people office? 4 women-project-managers, 1 woman-architect (who doesn't know GIT), 1 female programmer (with 2 years of experience) and 8 male programmers. Yes, I'm making this observation about my team to imply that women have better jobs, sooner than boys, and it does imply that males don't get promoted as easily as women, at least in the world around me, and I'm saying an IT career is an excellent path for a girl.

Before anyone says "Women get promoted quicker because they're just better at their job", I'd note they turn over this exact argument when it's directed to boys, by suggesting they didn't get the education, incentive, support or opportunity. It's not about anyone being better. It's about how we reach fairness.

I do see that some of the world is different for girls, but unfairness is reported more often than advantages.

Edit: "Why are there less girls at the JUG, is it because they're uncomfortable with 95% men?" > Or that they aren't involved much and reserve their evening time for their social life. The only way to be sure would be to ask them, and they'll probably remark they'll be promoted whether or not they attend the JUG, if you've followed the story of my team.
The unspoken D word that eats you from the inside
The bigger question is, why isn't this a concern when investing in a company? Certainly if I were to open a b2c smb (small business) and have a horrible track record, banks and private investors would think twice. If I am a startup? Who cares?
> Highly evolved Apes like us, are simply to big and evolutionarily advanced to be killed by such a small dose of poison.

I don't know about 'advanced'; my understanding was that our protein were simply slightly different, enough to make nicotine not a potent poison, but just another substance you don't want to take too much of.
I've been reasonably happy with my solution to this, which is https://github.com/staticshock/seashell

It's a fully contained Makefile that gives my dotfiles repo `make && make install` semantics. `make` initializes whatever needs to initialize locally on that system, and `make install` creates all the necessary symlinks in the $HOME directory.
My bad, I misspoke.
“I am no longer allowed to be a Google user”
I believe that's why they were originally added, to protect the disk in the event of a drop.
My early 2013 13" MBPr definitely has both an SSD and accelerometers, though I don't know if they kept them for later models.
Cool app/idea btw!
yes. Along with milk, canned carbonated water (Talking Rain), and canned fruit juice.

The salad bars are fairly low cost too and feature stuff from local producers in Washington State, so A+ for that.

... but that's not going to stop you from filling your plate with cheese, fried chicken strips, ranch dressing, and then calling it a salad.
70% of People Worldwide Pronounce 'GIF' with a Hard 'G'
Android needs App Ops back. We can't rely on shady for-profit companies to protect our anonymity and privacy. Same for other operating systems, of course.
Naming the startup gave this article extra teeth for me.
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter – Issue 101
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Mich...

Also, while Michigan has a lot of hydroelectric stations, they don't account for more than a few percent of the state's electricity.
> Male nerd here. My god, I couldn't get along with 90% of my class. They all seemed to be disagreeable in a "technically correct is the best kind of correct" way

You got off easy.

I went to a top engineering school out of high school, and can't tell you how many times I was berated, called names, and cursed at for being an "idiot" who didn't know things like the resolution of certain VGA modes by heart (except in that particular case, the other guy was wrong.)

I do understand that this would be more intimidating were I a woman, but still.
The concept of a 'program' exists outside computer circles. One easy example is the program for a theatre show. Or a TV channel.

And even within computer programming, a given program is inflexible for most users; only a blessed few are able to alter it, and then only under certain circumstances (access to source code or debugging tools are one of those). Good luck changing the program on your local ATM, for example, even if you are a talented programmer.
Disruptive Marketplace Greentoe Changes the Way People Shop
I don't usually bother watching videos, I don't have the time to waste especially when it's something that isn't a pressing need / major paint point for me.

I just want to figure out what the service is about and whether it's worth my time as soon as possible so I can bounce / explore further.

So IMO the screenshot would be much better and less expensive / difficult for you to produce!
It's also illegal to require employees to use their own devices and not compensate them for that use.
How about "Computer Science field has innate properties that discourage the female sex (biologically) from it"?

Why is it fantastic? Because last time I've checked, women were also less interested in recreational fishing than men.
That's a good solution to start off with, but given the current costs, it's not the most optimal one. A lot of time is wasted by sending C and D to cross independently. If you manage to get them to cross together at one point, you will ultimately save some time.
There is one thing I don't get with your product actually, why would a team need it instead of keeping using whatever chat or messaging system they are currently using and putting links to google docs or shared drive on it?

Maybe I am not getting what your app is about after all...
In the real world, a light source has a useful radius of illumination. This could be exploited. If the useful radius is greater than half the span of the bridge, everyone can cross the bridge in exactly 10 minutes.

If the useful radius of the torch is 25% the bridge length, the bridge can be crossed in 15 minutes.

So the correct answer to the puzzle question is "how much of the bridge does the torch illuminate?"

Then the questioner gets flustered, and you can suggest, "Maybe you should have given them one set of night-vision goggles instead."

If you solve the puzzle as written, you can only be as clever as the puzzle-maker. If you can break the puzzle and then fix it, you must be cleverer.
This site is literally talking about the entire planet being forced to rotate 90 degrees due to a rogue planet passing nearby. This sudden rotation would supposedly cause the crust of the planet itself to slip and rotate due to inertia.

Sci-fi fans might actually get some enjoyment from this!
http://pssurvival.com/PS/2-Pole_Shift/0-Pole_Shift_Descripti...
Wait until you get the people using spreadsheets as word processors.

I knew someone who used the spreadsheet of Microsoft Works (incompatible with Word or Excel) for almost all work - fax cover sheets; letters to clients; posters and notes.
Love the screenshots!

You've heard of MVC? This is it. The original implementation. The one that was demoed to Steve Jobs at Xerox PARC.
GM/Ford/Chrysler have a symbiotic relationship with their dealers - they both need each other to survive. Neither wants to see a new upstart that might someday eat their lunch.

Presumably if the makers had a do-over, they might try direct to the consumer themselves, but the present conditions make that impossible.
> Playing with tools and machines is not so much sexist as it is anti-social more broadly speaking.

Asocial is a better term. Unless you're talking about the "mad scientist" (mad engineer is a better term...) that builds machines in order to take over the world.
I assume the sign-up form is just an e-mail list for updates? Why isn't there any information on the website?
The National Science Foundation study that this is all based on has the raw numbers, as it were, for each degree (at each level Bachelor, Masters, PhD), for each year.

If you want to do some digging on your own, it's in XLS and PDF formats here-

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/
Your generalizations about Michigan are misinformed.

Not really. I lived in Michigan for several years.
This story just isn't convincing. If anything, the legal field has always been more hostile to women, and now it is becoming dominated by women. The same was true of advertising, PR work, sales, and any number of other fields previously dominated by men, and now slowly being taken over by women.

More than 50% of my law school class (top ten law school) were women. In law school the know-it-all assholes were still mostly men. And that didn't seem to dissuade the women one bit from pursuing a career in law. In my first legal job, more than 50% of the first year associates were women. In my wife's firm, 70% of the first year associates were women.

When I was an undergrad (early 90s) there were about 40-50% women in the CS introductory classes, but by the 200 level classes, there were only about 10-15% women. I was pre-med for a time. Pre-med classes were just as hard ... the attrition did not change the sex ratio in the pre-med classes.

Why do people insist on making up all kinds of just-so stories to explain the discrepancy in numbers of women and men programmers. Isn't it possible that women might not be interested in programming in the same numbers as men. Even within the male population, those genuinely interested in programming seem to be a pretty small number.

Most of my classmates in the CS program did not stay programmers. Many of them went to work for places like Goldman, McKinsey, etc. In fact, those were the preferred jobs in those days. Only a very small number of us wanted to actually program for a living.
Maybe today that's the case. I doubt it was true in the 80s or even the 90s. I think the "Gold Rush" mentality in programming is a post-1999 phenomenon.
Arduino-based stuff is fun because you can tie it in to what you're already doing, and there are derivative platforms for other uses, e.g. Lilypad.

Obviously suggest, not force.
Hebbian learning is the little idea we do have. We don't know much more: how memories are represented by neurons, control, consciousness, vision, and almost anything.
I highly doubt that the very few people who root their phones are the focus of Google's business plan regarding smart phones.
Yes, and so is sending a space craft to mars. Was there a point to saying it is learn-able?

Lots of things are learn-able skills, different people will require different amounts of time to learn different skills. It is up to them to make rational decisions on whether its worth it for them to continue learning those skills.

At some point I realized making friends male or female was not a skill worth the unknown further amount of time it would take me to learn. I was not going to fall for a sunk cost fallacy, just because I had spent years trying to make friends and failing.
It always amazes me when groups post stats but never post the source statistics? Where did they get the data, etc. Also why is it by Major and not by Degree?
The author is writing for a non-technical audience so he uses terms like "active & progressive" to describe WordPerfect and "Platonism" to describe Microsoft Word.

For the HN crowd, I think it's clearer to explain the difference between WordPerfect vs MSWord as "stream oriented" vs "object containers". See links describing and contrasting the mental models: [1],[2]

In other words, WordPerfect formatting was more like HTML inserting <b> and </b> tags to toggle things like bold font on & off. That's why WordPerfect's "reveal codes" was prominently assigned to a function key.

MSWord formatting is more analogous to CSS where "styles" and "templates" are more heavily relied on. There is more conceptual separation between text and its formatting.

So yes, if you carry WordPefect's mental model into MS Word, it will seem like the software is fighting you.

[1]http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/wordvswordperfect.htm

[2]http://wptoolbox.com/tips/MSWordToWP.html
> This site is powered by AngularJS and jQuery running on the Express framework for node.js and deployed on Heroku, generated using generator-fullstack for the Yeoman workflow automator.

Why not just put a few HTML files on a server and achieve the same thing? I don't even notice any JavaScript on your site.