skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's exhausting and completely unproductive.

And completely accurate. You know what's more exhausting than seeing someone point out that correlation!=causation? Being whiplashed by a dozen different studies, or correlation after correlation failing when subjected to a randomized test.

In this case, all you have to do is look at how they tried to defend against the universal healthy user bias (you know, the same thing that led to such epic fails as hormone therapy?), and see that all they did was adjust for weight and some self-reports. Bzzt. On top of that, note the anomalies:

> Only the sugary, bubbly stuff showed this effect. Epel didn’t see any association between telomere length and diet soda intake. “The extremely high dose of sugar that we can put into our body within seconds by drinking sugared beverages is uniquely toxic to metabolism,” she says. She also didn’t see a significant link between non-carbonated sugary beverages, like fruit juice, which Epel says surprised her.

You know what sugar-juice and diet soda have in common? People think they're healthier than regular soda.
Author is right in suspecting that he have not seen any good DSLs yet. Let me point them out, for starters: regular expressions, Yacc, LINQ.

And, no, not a single case where I use DSLs (and I use literally dozens of them, many per single project) would benefit from XML. Not a single one. Just imagine, say, Yacc in XML.

And DSLs are absolutely essential for programmers. There is no better way to deal with complex abstractions. Any complex abstraction can be represented as a language. And it is incredibly stupid to try to represent those complex abstractions in terms of some alien, unfit, "universal" model, like OOP or FP.
Harassment isn't about "desire." It's about being a sociopath, and feeling entitled to control and humiliate others.
Fucking men, man. What an egotistical, useless bunch. /s
Just thought may be an autoplay video/gif screenshot would fit there well. Thank you for pointing that out.
> Call Detail Records Don’t Actually Identify People

This is one of the best videos I have ever seen countering this argument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM0PmwOlifE
Could it be the operating systems or the UI? There are fewer choices nowadays you know. At least one person I know completely lost interest in the field because of the switch from DOS to Win 3.1.
Then why the drop off in the 80s? Did the female genome change at some point?
I think it's a little late in history to say that very few people care about open-source software.

PS: Where did I ask for a timetable?
Ask HN: How do you handle failed charges for your SaaS?
Aside from restricting a users account when the charge fails, and attempting to retry the card multiple times, how do you try to recover the charge? Especially if someone is being rebilled and hasn't used the service in months?
I tried random search, trying random prices and calculating the number of chickens that each buyer would need to sell to meet $35. The result that is closest to an integer for every seller and meets the other constraints:

before: $3.75, after: 1.25

code: http://pastebin.com/gLtg2P9d
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180593
I completely agree. I had never programmed before my first college course, and while I had a lot of fun in intro programming courses, I always felt way behind everyone else and didn't do particularly well. Those first couple of classes filtered me out of any chance at getting into the CS major, and I ended up transferring schools to study it.
Why not just let her to pursue her interests, not yours?
Hashicorp continues to kickass.

However, I wonder why this isn't built into consul directly?
They've responded on Twitter. They don't really mention what they're talking about so you won't understand unless you've read the story. I guess to purposely not connect others to the story

> This is disturbing and in no way represents working at Handy. Companies go through growing pains and these facts have no bearing on us today

> When Amanda says she applied 1.5 yrs ago, our company was newer, smaller and still figuring out best practices. Things have changed since.

> We do not stand for racism or sexism of any kind. That kind of behavior is not tolerated and never will be.

> We understand that our employees and professionals are the lifeblood of our business and we work every day to ensure their happiness.

They don't seem to deny what Amanda is saying. And I don't see how they can say they've changed if some of those same people still remain...
Looks like its the carbonation?
The field was too small at the time to draw any useful conclusions.
If you guys enjoyed this, you'll love the Ranger Handbook.
Still have mine from when I went through :)

[0] http://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/ranger.pdf
I think it was a joke, so not something that should be taken literally.
This turned out to be very controversial.

I was not around in those days. Can someone who studied computer science in the 70s comment on whether data entry/data process was indeed an important sub-field of data science?

As another commenter pointed out, Data entry and data processing are indeed counted towards computer science. Although there is no data on the relative weight

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/pdf/tabb1.pdf
Encourage her to build and create things. If she chooses the computer as her tool, all the better, but provide her with as many avenues of creation as possible (paper, sound, words, images, code, wood, ideas, etc) and she will find the one that's right for her.

She is a teenager, I believe you are not her guide anymore, but you can (and should) be an amazing facilitator and her #1 fan.
BLE is a superior radio protocol compared to NFC on almost every axis, with the only exception of battery; having a higher range is a feature, since you can estimate the range with a decent precision.

It's safe to assume that Apple was forced to add NFC for compatibility with the existent contactless POS (especially in Europe, where they've got a widespread adoption already). The same applies for the Secure Element, which is a functional duplicate of the Secure Enclave, but runs Java Card and was probably required by CC networks to reuse existing infrastructure.
Data source here - http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/
That's great, but we're talking about a very small fraction of engineers who write DB systems. I have used some of AWS's DB offerings, and I didn't have to write complex algorithms to do it.
It seems to me that you are considering only symptoms of more underlying driving forces here. For example: Why is it that they don't show up at the Java User Group? Maybe they feel uncomfortable in a room with 95% men? Then you would have to explain why there are 95% men in that room in the first place.

Women probably get promoted relatively earlier for reasons like token women and the fact that they less commonly have computer experience since early on.
>I can't quite articulate the feelings of isolation and frustration I felt in that class...

Right. And there's the difference. Many of your classmates were feeling the exact same thing, but for whatever reason they decided to stick with it.
Absolute numbers here - http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/
On first glance I wasn't entirely sure if it was an integration (into gmail, for example) or a standalone product.

As I scrolled down the page I started to think it was a standalone product, but then there seemed to be this chat-centric layout which just confused me (as I'm used to dropbox where most of the real-estate is occupied by the files and their meta data). And then my mind went back to "wait...why am I logging with a google account?... maybe it is just a plugin for Gchat or something...thus the unbranded chat-centric layout...

Then I kept scrolling and the next section clarified things. But then I left the page thinking "My team shares gigabyes of files, thousands of them...how could I possibly store all that stuff this way, with a chat log that goes on for miles?" So I lost interest.

Hope that helps.
I was one of those boys who bought a TRS-80. The thing is, I don't remember it as a peer accepted pursuit for me either. This was before anyone noticed, let alone Hollywood recast it as their version of Revenge of the Nerds. This was when being a nerd was not nice.

While I did get some quasi support from people who thought it might help in a career someday, the much more common response in those days was "who needs a home computer?"

Update: I agree that we should encourage everyone with an aptitude now to go into higher ROI fields (of which CS is one), I do think it is a bit reconstructed history to make TRS-80s actually "cool" and "non-cool kids excluded."

Indeed, the TRS-80 was not even a game machine. PCs as game machines came a bit later, and as price effective ones, much later.
I used to agree but I recently read this old quote from PG which nails it I think:

"A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup."

http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Are you speaking of COBOL or C++?
Soda has addictive properties. Caffeine being one but I would argue there's carb/sugar addiction potential in there too (look up carb withdrawal).

Now I'm NOT saying it's even close to being as addictive as nicotine, but you get my point.
I don't see MongoDB. Is that on purpose ?
This reminds me of the all-too-true joke.

Question: How do you know somebody has an MBA?
Answer: They tell you.

Full disclosure... I have an MBA!
As the Clang/LLVM toolchain removes "FSF lawsuits" from possible things that could happen.

That toolchain nonetheless appears to be open sourced, so I'm not convinced it stands as evidence that Apple won't open source Swift. (Not that it stands as evidence that they will, either.)

Wikipedia's telling of GNU and Objective-C's history sounds somewhat less combative than yours. According to Richard Stallman, "NeXT proposed to distribute a modified GCC in two parts and let the user link them. Jobs asked me whether this was lawful. It seemed to me at the time that it was, but since the result was very undesirable for free software, I said I would have to ask the lawyer. What the lawyer said surprised me; he said that judges would consider such schemes to be 'subterfuges' and would be very harsh toward them. So I went back to Jobs and said we believed his plan was not allowed by the GPL." There's no suggestion that the FSF ever sued NeXT; Stallman's own description boils down to "We told them they couldn't do that, and they said okay and made it free."
You might want to check out Syncano for real-time apps/data storage. If you're looking just to do just push notifications, check out PubNub. I believe both are independently owned. And yeah, bummer about the whole Google thing.
Bayes Impact Hackathon at OpenDNS HQ
Users surely realize that every gmail they send and every Facebook message is both mined for information and also accessible to hundreds of people at these companies. At least, they realize that as much as they ever realized that the phone numbers you dial don't just sit in your phone but have to go out through the wires to the phone company.

As for the second part--the test is whether a subjective expectation of privacy is objectively reasonable. That is to say--it's what a reasonable person would expect knowing the facts, not what the average person subjectively believes. It's possible for your average person to have a subjective expectation of privacy that is not objectively reasonable if your average person is confused about the objective facts.

Looking at the objective facts: cloud data is mined and processed and accessible to many people at cloud companies, it's hard to say that any subjective belief that cloud data is private is objectively supportable. It might be widely held, though I think that's changing with every news story of iCloud leaks, but that doesn't make it objectively reasonable.
> All that these studies really tell us, Olivola said, is "'I've managed to fool you into thinking I'm extroverted, because that's how I like to be seen.'

Of course, because who wouldn't like to be seen as an extrovert? They're just Better People..
Ah, now that is an interesting belief. Is it based on anything you can share?
GUI lived alongside with keyboard-based text UIs for most of 90-s here. Actually it was women who stick to Norton Commander lookalikes for many years. I still don't think it made any gender-balance difference.
Yup. I started programming at 13 because I wanted to make my own better (obviously) StarCraft. Poking around in existing games and trying to make my own during my teens is the sole reason I work as a programmer today.
I'm pretty computer literate and I like the idea of separating presentation and content, but I've yet to find a really great implementation of it. HTML/CSS is a mess, and LaTeX is nice but very difficult to use.

Markdown seems to be the best, but isn't exactly wonderful. I wouldn't ever try to convince everybody I know to use Markdown for everything instead of Word!
There's a small triangle for that right next to the GP's username. This comment adds nothing to this conversation.
I think Linux has an edge in driver support, and corp vendors -- especially for gaming with things like Steam.

I really like some of the things the pc-bsd folks are doing though. Lumina seems to be coming along nicely.
There is a difference of several orders of magnitude in size and scope between the GTK+ API and the logind DBus interface.
The other little-known company that Bill Gates founded
It would have never occurred to me that:

for (i = 0; i <= N; ++i) { ... }

Has a potential bug in it depending on compiler optimizations (where N=INT_MAX, and the results of ++i may or may not be defined - with the compiler using the "UNDEFINED" behavior to ensure that the above loop runs N+1 times.)
I agree. We need something inbetween Markdown and LaTex. Markdown is not powerful enough and LaTex is just a pain to get started with.
Point well taken, but it's a bit of a red herring, isn't it? The government isn't forcing Google to sift through your email, or forcing Facebook to figure out who your friends are, or forcing Apple to track your movements via GPS. I think there is a lot of room in Smith to treat that data differently than data the government requires you to disclose.
Talk about tone-deaf. If they are violating Glassdoor's TOU, he should tell Glassdoor directly, not say "you aren't following the rules, we have rules!"

EDIT: Here's something from the CEO a month ago, in response to "dude/bro" culture:

> Dude / bro / elitism - As a leadership team we have been guilty of focusing on high performers and not giving enough coaching / support to under performing team members. We need to work on this.
What about something like carbonated cranberry juice? I mix 1 part low-carb Trader Joe's cranberry juice and 4 parts carbonated water, and drink about 20 oz a day. When I first started, it tasted tart and not sweet. I don't think there's much sugar in it.

If it's as harmful, I'd definitely give it up.
The Nexus 6:hands-on with Google's phablet
Huge Kobani blast Massive smoke cloud over town after anti-ISIS airstrike
Is it this[1] form? If so, I'll find the owner and file a bug.

[1]: https://support.google.com/adsense/contact/contactsales?hl=e...
> It just doesn't seem like a very Apple-ey thing to do.

Well, clang...
I'm going to SF next week. What's the best way to get to the centre? I have a Uber account for London.
You probably mean 0.9m^2. 9m^2 is a decent size bedroom.
Awesome, checking it out now. I'm going to convert it to english for analysis and see what happens. :D That said, supporting additional languages is a longer-term goal. Thanks again for your kind words!!!
There's only one <blah>HatSec I know of, and unfortunately my organization uses them. :(

Oh well, I'm sure they must not all be idiots.
I guess because the Go creators didn't study much (or cared about) the last decades of language research. Heck, the major language they were involved and associated with, C, wasn't that "current" even at the time when it appeared, just pragmatic in a "worse is better" way and readily available. They were every influencial systems guys, with C, Unix, Plan 9, etc, but not really big PL/Compiler guys.

Now, Swift is pragmatic too, and far from cutting edge, but still ways ahead of Go in that area, and its creator is a very strong player in the field of compilers (he also did LLVM).

Here's a link that shows how much hasn't changed:

http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
I talked to some Amazon product managers, they said the narrative was closer to "we had to learn how to scale to meet the holiday shopping season" than "we had a bunch of extra capacity laying around". It's not a big leap of faith, look at how much business retail chains do over the holiday season, and imagine operating an e-commerce platform of Amazon's scale - you learn how to do elastic infrastructure pretty quickly, esp. with Bezos's legendary cheapness (doors for desks, etc.)
I'm curious to know:

* Rates of women in Computer Science jobs.

* The number (not just %) of women studying computer science. Did those numbers fall, or stay the same? Was it just that more men entered the field of Computer Science?

My hunch (clearly not backed by any data) is that prior to the mid 80's, Computer Science was a niche field, so there weren't many people who went into CS.

As CS jobs became more mainstream (given the advent of the personal computer) more men went into Studying CS, instead of other fields they had been in. With more men studying CS, more men ended up in CS jobs, and eventually you end up with male dominance.

I would love to compare these rates, with what were the top engineering/science jobs in those times, and see of there is a correlation between the decrease in manufacturing/engineering, and the increase in Computer Science jobs.

Perhaps it's also cause and effect. There were more medical and legal jobs, so women entered those professions, and were able to fight to get equality. Since CS was relatively new, the barriers that women face hadn't been knocked down. As time goes on, there were more female doctors and lawyers for girls to have as role models, leading to more women studying in those fields.
And they were the first to ban and harass the companies too. Kind of silly they are trying to sound friendly now when other places have always just let them be.
They are going to be bitterly disappointed by attempting to use Homeopathy in a trauma situation!
Staply is not made for teams :) It is more for freelancers/student/speakers/... for all kinds of their use cases when they need to share several files and links with a group of people and have a context of who shared what when and why.

Nowadays they get a link in some cloud storage send it via email that you loose it and if you want to add one more person into the discussion it becomes messy. Or they use FB chat that doesn't work in many cases. etc.
Could be any number of things including a correlated behavior that they were unable to account for.
It's unlikely that anything anyone has to say using "Mailgun" needs much security. It's basically for spamming, after all.

Yeah, I read the "transactional email" bullshit. That usually means spamming to somebody who at some time in the past had some vague connection with you. The fact that Mailgun touts their own API as a means to send more email fast means they're marketing to spammers. Most businesses don't do enough transactions per second to have this as a problem. Amazon and eBay do, and they don't use Mailgun.
Land at SFO. Get on the BART subway. That's it. You are done, it goes right from SFO to the center of the city. Some people are too lazy to walk around the circle of the airport and use the AirBART train to get to the BART stop at the airport, although personally I find it easier and quicker to just walk.
Definitely not. Not because of my partner, but because I wouldn't be comfortable joining that kind of venture as an employee.

In fact I've walked away from job-offers in the past when I found out that it was a husband-and-wife team running the show. As an employee I need decisiveness and absolute objectivity in my leadership. I need to know that there are no other factors at play when they make decisions that affect the company and staff.

It is certainly possible to run that kind of mom-and-pop shop (one where there is a wall between business hours and home-life)...but as the leaders of that company you two will be the only ones who know you're really being objective. Everyone else will need to take this claim on blind faith, and that's just too much to ask in most cases.
What about Washington Redskins?
> MSWord formatting is more analogous to CSS where "styles" and "templates" are more heavily relied on.

... and this model scales much better. Once you assign a style to 250 different headers and you want to change its font, is one change versus 250. This is never addressed by what is, at times, a very erudite UI critique, but unfortunately smells like the usual sour grapes of somebody who refuses to learn new tools.
>He obviously means something not like Ubuntu (or at least Unity in particular) that does not do the same thing.

You'd be surprised:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/09/ubuntu-bakes-amazon-...
If you are going downtown, take the BART. It costs about USD $9 to take from the airport, runs frequently, picks up inside the airport, and takes you straight in to downtown.
"Nominology is my neologism for the study of naming things!"

It's called onomastics, son. Now get off my lawn.
Except for its concurrency model (and it's an open question whether having a concurrency model built right into a language is even a good thing; it's certainly not a no-caveats win), Go is really, really conservative in design. Swift, by contrast, has adopted concepts left right and centre; there's nothing particularly novel, but it's certainly far more adventurous.
So, in each case, you get to decide the rules you want to play with, by going with the OS that satisfies you.
I give my data to Facebook. Facebook tells me what they're going to do with it, and provide me with service in return. This doesn't mean I've given Facebook permission to sell my data to anyone. While Facebook makes extensive use of my data -more than is needed to present a wall to me- that doesn't mean I lose expectations of privacy.

I'd want Facebook to fire people who were looking through my photos without operational reason, as one example.

Perhaps it's a European thing: Companies should only ask for the data they need; they should only keep it for as long as they need it; they need to protect it against loss.

I strongly believe that law enforcement and intelligence agencies should be using validly formed legal documents to get access to cloud (and other) data.
Too long, didn't read.
"If you eat a live frog in the morning, nothing worse will happen to either of you for the rest of the day."
They want to be the population control
Caffeine addiction is a thing, too.
It's probably not the case with this manual, but I suspect the classification system could be invoked in many cases.
If anyone is curious, my old analysis ( http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns ) gives an estimate of 70% for Firebase surviving another 5 years:

R> firebase <- data.frame(Product="Firebase", Dead=FALSE, Started=Sys.Date(), Ended=NA, Type="program", Profit=TRUE, FLOSS=FALSE, Acquisition=TRUE, Social=FALSE, Days=1, AvgHits=NA, DeflatedHits=mean(google$DeflatedHits), AvgDeflatedHits=NA, EarlyGoogle=FALSE)
R> conditionalProbability(firebase, 5*365.25)
[1] 0.693911886