skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me just say that I of course think there is a difference on average between what men and women report they are interested in but:

1) I don't think it is statistically dominant enough to be important for conversations about nuanced topics like computer science education. That is, just because on average more woman are interested in Gossip Girl than men, has no bearing on the difference between potential interest in computer science (especially given that an interest in computer science is already such a small minority of all people).

2) What people report they are interested in and what they would be interested in absent cultural stereotypes are 2 entirely different things. On big picture topics we are unlikely to change those stereotypes in a reasonable time frame but for something as constrained as CS education, the stereotype can (and potentially has historically) changed. For instance, to use your example, there are many, many women who are not in the least bit interested in babies, but they cannot admit this without an extreme social stigma being attached. Conversely, what would you think about one of your male Facebook cohorts posting an endless parade of baby related content? Those stigmas filter peoples behaviors.

3) social stereo types are extremely compelling minus data. For instance, I find your claim that 95% of woman are passionate about clothing ridiculous and the converse of 5% of men is also idiotic. It also may be extremely dependent on your neighborhood, background, location etc. Without data we can't know which of us is right, but many many people will assume you are.

4) Your sports example is also particularly pernicious. There is this belief that woman aren't interested in sports, yet at the youth level woman participate in sports at nearly the same rates as men. So if woman are interested in sports growing up, but have lower average televised attendance (and if you look that number up I bet it isn't nearly as disparate as you think) we can either assume that woman aren't interested in TV sports due to some inherent "woman-ness" or we can attribute it to sports on TV being targeted at men. If it is the latter that says nothing about differences in interest, only about differences in accommodation. There is at least circumstantial evidence about Sports being interesting for woman when you look at the viewership surrounding the Olympics. Figure skating & gymnastics post dominant TV numbers with high percentages of woman viewership. I'd also say that your data set of women you've dated might also be biasing your world view on this.
Sounds terrible but I have to point out that I don't like the way she described Ajay as an "Indian guy".

I don't know why it rubbed me the wrong way
It reminds me of Pieceable: http://www.pieceable.com/
If a subset of these inferences are shown to be wrong, wouldn't you want to make a conscious effort to stop making them? It would seem that becoming less biased in your evaluation of people would benefit both you and those you're evaluating.
Let's take a simpler situation. Say you tell me that you were with Bob and Jim out on Mill Road last week. Now if a crime has been committed, and a cop is asking questions door to door if anyone knew where you were and who you were with, do you think that the officer should have a signed warrant for me to disclose to them that you said you were out by Mill Road with Bob and Jim? How would the Facebook situation be any different, other than the fact that they make money off you telling them these things?
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This is great! Now these companies can become the new government-granted oligopoly that tries to use regulation to block future "disruptive" competition, and the complaint cycle can start anew!
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The plan is to overcome that by first building a billion dollar company behind forkedcow.
Strictly speaking, incorrect.

Nashville airport was the first in September. They even proactively created a ride share symbol.
Well, I'm still in grad school, so I see and interact with them occasionally. My experience is that many have a cliquish attitude, where if you're not passionately into watching football and drinking beer then you're "some weird quiet person" who is treated with disdain. Many are not like this, but I've had too many bad interactions that I've developed an association in my mind -- one which I try to ignore until I get to know each person individually.
The default tagset that this employs is much more coarse-grained than the Penn tagset. For example, it has only two verb tags, whereas Penn has separate tags for infinitives, gerunds, past forms, etc. On the other hand, it supports the peculiar kinds of lexemes that abound in tweets, having separate tags for hashtags, @-mentions, URLs, emoticons, etc.

Twitterese English is very different from standard English, and by taking the dedicated-tagset approach that embraces this fact, the authors were able to accurately attribute structure even to text that appears gibberish at first sight. To me, this is very impressive.
Compared to other insects, I assume, but I found that statement ambiguous as well. I mean, compared to other creatures with similar brain sizes.
By niche I mean the number of people looking for a solution they can buy for their iphone. Most of those millions are using something already and even with some prominence your app only got 62 downloads, maybe your best case scenario is less than 200 downloads in a day which will be really hard to convert into a business.

You can confirm this by looking closely at other apps in your class to see if there really is a scenario where you could get eg 4 digits of downloads in one day.

I also think it's a weakness that it's not available outside iOS as it would be very hard for any company to standardise around you vs something all their drivers can use. It may also be a drawback that drivers have to pay for you themselves, or are companies able to pay subscriptions for them?
Blame @pmarca, what VC would want to skip a "software eats the world" opportunity? Moreover, one/two of them will still be big successes, which will validate the point in the first place.
> 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.

This is probably partly confirmation basis and partly insufficient data. I doubt every time you meet a fellow developer you ask them how old they were when they first started programming.

I'm 35 and didn't start coding until about four years ago (when I decided to go back to school and switch careers) - there's another dev on my team that started even later, and I know several that never wrote a line of code before college. So yeah we're out there.
But it's not just GMail and Facebook stuff, right? The government is collecting everything. Specific sites don't matter.
> Nothing could be less cool than calling a startup “cool.com”

cuil.com had its 15 minutes of fame, but I see that Google acquired their patents and domain names:

http://searchengineland.com/googler-killer-cuil-patent-appli...

http://whois.domaintools.com/cuil.com

http://whois.domaintools.com/cuil.net
Doubtful. I got a call from someone about a month after my GF's iPhone was stolen. He'd bought it on eBay and asked if I'd got a new one yet - her phone gave a number to call and was activation locked.

He wanted to know so maybe I'd give the password so "he wouldn't be ripped off, too". I'll give him credit for having the balls to ask. But (as I later found out) he knew he was buying an "activation locked" iPhone.

I said a few things like how do I know you're not the thief, etc. He pointed me to the eBay listing which, sure enough even had the IMEI with two digits transposed (plausible deniability, I'm sure).

He contacted the seller and said "Tell me why I shouldn't give this phone to its rightful owner and then file a fraud complaint with eBay and get a refund?" Unsurprisingly the seller offered to take the phone back. So he sent it (I didn't care, and while I knew the insurance company was about as unlikely to care as the police were, I didn't want to do anything that might trigger insurance fraud questions - "This phone was reported stolen, unlocked using your credentials. Explain.") and got me the seller's home address.

I contacted the insurance company. They didn't care, just told me to file a police report and send them the case number.

Looked at the seller's profile, quite possibly the sketchiest thing I've ever seen.

Bunches of phones, all "activation locked, no charger". Tablets, no charger. Laptops, no accessories or charger. At least 50 or so.

Gave that info to my local PD. Their response, "We won't investigate. He probably bought it from someone and is selling them. Could have gone through a few people first."

I didn't want the original thief caught but this guy was openly selling stolen gear. Hell, the message on my GFs phone said "I don't care about stealing the phone. Will trade cash for it.".

They weren't interested. Bear in mind, this isn't someone complaining about their car at the impound lot in LA, a la Big Lebowski, this is town of about 40,000 with a well-funded PD (I work for Fire in the same town).

The urge to drive to this jokers house in the middle of the night and pour sugar in his gas tank was one I avoided, but only just.
This comment thread discusses the methodology. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7378764#up_7380392
One response: timing attacks. DJB is one of the most knowledgeable researchers on side-channel attacks, and he leverages this knowledge when both designing _and_ implementing his algorithms.
It isn't an acronym for Giraffics Interchange Format, after all. Hard "g" for the win.
Have these systems been completely superseded by digital ones, or do many lawyers continue to use paper-based systems for their research?
Yam, not jam. As in sweet potatoes.
Fraternities are perhaps one of the biggest beneficiaries of these sort of snap judgments.
i did this mistake of making a custom laptop from powernotebooks.com. The laptop by itself was a treat however, it was heavy as shit + battery was poor (9 cell battery). The biggest problem i faced was that the laptop wasn't that portable. Imagine carrying ~9 lbs of laptop + a huge charger.

After this, I decided to buy rMBP and to be honest, i am sitll not sure if i am happy with my decision. the biggest issue i am facing is software compatibilities. There aren't much softwares (that I use) are available. Granted its amazing for prorgrammin, but some leisure tasks take forever to finish.
> ... the realization that there are essentially no enforceable protections for information you store in the cloud, ....

How is the question of enforceability relevant to your argument?
Providing open access to caselaw (and constitutions, statutes, and periodicals, and ...) is wonderful, but there's a lot of room left in the realm of legal-oriented computing and software. The big boys (Westlaw and LexisNexis) and the other guys (FastCase, Bloomberg, etc.) provide a lot more than case text and search capability. Signals/Shepardization provides a quick way to understand treatment and subsequent history. Headnotes provide expert analysis and highlights for a given document.

Other functionality includes citation formatting, which as this article briefly touches on, can be devilishly complex. The ability to generate a formatted pin cite to a case (or other document) in Bluebook or another format, could be a huge time saver.

Non-US legal systems are a whole other can of worms and a huge opportunity.

These are just a few quick points; again, there's a huge amount of room to innovate in legal-oriented software.
It does have false positive. Remember it stores a fingerprint of the key instead of the real key.
Koum issued the statement as a result of the story. No story, no statement. He didn't come out of the blue and say "hey everyone, 18 years ago - as a teenager - I had a restraining order and now that I'm a billionaire I thought everyone should know. Yep, I want everyone thinking that I am a creep. I'm sending the court documents to Bloomberg to post for all to see as I type this.". They gave him a chance to respond to the story that they were going to publish anyway, and he got in front of it by responding. They knew that if they didn't publish it the way they did, it would make them look far worse.

No one should have to explain 18 year old conduct that resulted in absolutely no arrest or criminal charges and took place when they were 19 years old. It's called a smear campaign. Oh and the high-minded reason they did it? Maybe they were fighting for women's rights? Nope. It was so that they could get a few clicks on their ads. It's the TMZ strategy. It's base, classless nonsense. If there is a single false or inaccurate word in that story, I hope he sends a phalanx of lawyers to go in and sue them into the stone age.
> essentially converting monthly wage jobs back into piecework jobs

People who work these jobs never had a monthly wage job to begin with. If you're fully employed as a house-cleaner, why bother with Handy? If you're a full-time black car driver, why even bother with Uber?

This is lead-gen business for industries that tend to have a large amount of self-employed individuals to begin with.
Tighten the tinfoil!
Why Functional Programming Matters (1989) [pdf]
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What's wrong with "excellent programmer"?

Other fields seem to have managed to solve this problem without resorting to sophomoric faux-titles. It just reeks of childishness and the sort of tomfoolery that tends to get our profession laughed at.

When I see these words, it screams either "bunch of young kiddies" or "a bunch of olds desperately trying to seem cool" and neither are situations that I want to get involved with.

And all of this isn't even getting into the problem that 99.9% of people want rockstars, ninjas, jedi and superheroes but only about 0.1% really need them.
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The question is: why would female participation in CS drop by half from 1985 to today? Why would innate preferences change so dramatically in that time? Certainly, the usual characteristics trotted out for why CS isn't attractive to women were even more true in 1985.
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But he has learned the tool. In fact he betrays his real frustration with Word: it's not with the Platonic model itself, but the fact that it betrays the model and uses some hidden logic (the >50% rule) to decide whether or not to actually apply the formatting indicated by the style. I've used Word for many years and have occasionally been stumped by seemingly non-applying styles. Now I know why.

This hidden rule should be the most heavily discussed 'feature' of Word. MS Office docs should trumpet it as loudly as they can. (Or they could just fix it.)
>> You can confirm this by looking closely at other apps in your class to see if there really is a scenario where you could get eg 4 digits of downloads in one day.

I am not sure how you could confirm this since Apple doesn't publish the number of downloads that an App gets in a day for a particular app or set of apps.

>> I also think it's a weakness that it's not available outside iOS as it would be very hard for any company to standardise around you vs something all their drivers can use.

It is also available on Android.

>> It may also be a drawback that drivers have to pay for you themselves, or are companies able to pay subscriptions for them?

Yeah, I am planning on making more of an offering for companies, however, in initial research it has been very difficult to 1) Find companies that need to do mileage tracking and 2) Find the right person to talk to and (3) actually sell them on a package.
"The reasonable assumption is that ..."

Sometimes these questions are explicitly asked to see if the candidate will check the assumptions when there can be more than one, even if one is fairly obvious.
This looks great and glad HashiCorp keeps releasing Opensource software!

Anyone have a good end to end example of Consul, Docker, Service Discovery? Nginx example is good to get started, but just need some of the basics to point in the right direction.
Finding statistical regularities based on irrelevant data, though, changes with fashion. The face you would trust in 1970 isn't the face you'd trust now, isn't the face you'd trust in the 40s. Whether you grew up in Chicago or Dallas, Germany or India makes a difference. Your race and views on race make a difference.

It's important that we work to not be as stupid, and that we help others to not be as stupid as is natural, easy, and lazy.
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Thanks for the response. I definitely see where you're coming from.

I do feel like there is a flip side to that where if you're into fantasy football and drinking on weekends you're somehow less intelligent. This is evident in terms like "brogrammer" or "bro-science" I see get tossed around HN.

I doubt much of the "bro" culture stays internalized for very long after graduation. Most of it just translates to severe immaturity in the adult world. Still, there's danger in stereotype-based hatred.
Part of it is genuine differences between online conversational language versus standard written English, like emoticons, Twitter-specific discourse markers, and hard-to-segment compounds or clitic constructions (see the Gimpel and Owoputi papers (2011, 2013) linked on the page, and/or the annotation guidelines document too). Part of it is just that it's easier for humans to annotate the coarse-grained POS tagset, and we didn't have many resources for annotation when we did it.

These things also intersect ... for example, you'd have to figure out how dialectical English verbal auxiliaries like "finna", or the second or so word in "imma", map to PTB tags. It's possible but just takes more work and thinking through the descriptive linguistics and what you want to use it for. Someday I'd like to update the whole thing for a more PTB-like POS tagset, if it can be done well. I feel like Chris Manning's whitepaper on issues in PTB POS data convinced us (well, it convinced me, at least) that it might be a good idea to focus on making high quality tag annotations. (http://nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/CICLing2011-manning-tagging.pdf )
You could have a separate git branch for each machine :-)
Classical malinvestment during a boom period.
Ask HN: Help me plan my learning path
So, after a lot of huff and buff I finally got my job as an developer which I am joining in 40 days exactly. But there exists a twist, I learned Python and attended interview, but since they use Ruby and RoR for production I am tasked to learning them in these days.

I have already started Ruby and RoR a month before and in a comfortable position to understand the code in them. But I still have lots to catch up.. I will have dedicated 8 hours of learning time per day, and below are the technologies that I needed to be proficient with before joining,

Language - Familiarity (/100)
Ruby - 40
RoR - 30
Coffeescript - 0
Javascript - 40
PostgreSQL - 10

I am here and not sure how to plan my 8 hours effectively split on these languages, RoR is dependent on Ruby, same for CS to JS. Anyone could help me here?
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> Finding statistical regularities based on irrelevant data, though, changes with fashion. The face you would trust in 1970 isn't the face you'd trust now, isn't the face you'd trust in the 40s. Whether you grew up in Chicago or Dallas, Germany or India makes a difference. Your race and views on race make a difference.

Does it? I can't find any mention of this in the article.
Conscious inference isn't always less wrong than unconscious inference.

And it's likely that a subset of all perceptions might always be found to not match reality. High availability consciousness would probably require artificial intelligence, and even then there's simply too much data for us to be conscious of everything at all times.
The way companies do forced arbitration now is by providing the employee with an opt out form that they have to fill out and mail to the legal department within 30 days.

Sharp-eyed employees will notice this in their new hire documentation but most will not. The company can then claim that they did not make forced arbitration a condition of employment and did give the employee an opportunity to opt out, which they declined to take. Courts have upheld this as legal:

http://www.dglaw.com/images_user/newsalerts/Litigation_Emplo...
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App store search and ranking is completely broken. My app for HN was updated 3 months ago, another one is getting push out this week. There are 3 other apps above mine that hasn't been updated in over 3 years. Some of them don't even work on retina devices.

The second problem is feedback, but this is with all software in general. Out of 1000 happy users, maybe one will bother taking their time to leave a feedback. Actually I'm just BSing here, I don't actually know the stat of happy users. I've included a contact button, but most never contact me first about problems. They just leave a 1 star review and it stays there -forever-, even though it's because HN changed their markup, even though I scramble to push out an update the next day.

Fortunately, I didn't develop this app with other people's reviews in mind or to get rich. It's serves mostly as an advertisement to attract potential clients and for personal use.

The app store today is mostly a playground for big dev shop. A lot of apps are free and serves as advertisement piece for big corporation. Either that or they work on the zero revenue model like snapchat. So, develop an app, make it free, get buy up by facebook, profit.

Edit: One other problem I didn't mention is the lack of refund policy. This is a serious deterrent to potential buyers that no app preview video will fix.
These inferences are developed over millenia of evolution. They are probably not wrong. Being able to judge trustworthiness, aggression, etc. based on a quick assesment of face is valuable for survival.
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MJPEG is good, but keep in mind that Chrome doesn't support playback of MJPEG streams as a main resource, it has to be in an <img> tag.
Most of the Freemium options seem to be targeted at either (a) mobile apps or (b) enterprises (their homepages clearly target executives/managers, not developers). They seem to want to own your whole stack. We have an existing app, with just a small bit that needs to be realtime. Firebase is the perfect solution, so it's really a shame that their future isn't bright.

As for the open source solutions, I specifically want to pay someone money to solve this for us. We've been running ShareJS, but it's annoying to maintain and fix.
Ask HN: Should I build a open-source code snippeting tool?
A command line tool that saves important code snippets. What do you guys think about this idea? Would you guys use it?
Yes it's true. Most students who are not in the greek system view those who are with some degree of contempt or resentment. It's not surprising you were unaware of this as most greek organizations don't make any effort to participate in campus life outside their circles.
Yeah,same here. Nobody says "american guy". So she definitely wanted to get that fact through.