skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. Of course you could replicate it with dividends as well by saying "I'll be paying X$ per outstanding share as well as offering to swap any option by another with a strike price that's X$ lower". The fact that the buyback does the same thing in a mostly unnoticed way is a very nice hack.
The gender balance is equal for law/medicine mostly at the school level[1].

And with regards to school[2]: "Research finds that men engage in more abstract thinking about many topics—using categories, generalizations—while women are more disposed to context-specific thinking—in terms of concrete situations and relationships. This is evident, for one thing, in how some psychologists contrast the moral reasoning of males and females. Males’ moral judgments tend to be governed by abstract principles of justice, duty, and fairness that apply to all people and situations (e.g., whether a law is broken, whether justice is served). Females’ moral judgments give more weight to specific relationships between people and extenuating circumstances in a given situation; moral judgments are made through subjective feelings (e.g., whether someone feels betrayed or harmed) rather than abstract principles."

And we know from other research, that people who fail in introductory programming classes, fail on that point exactly - they have problems with working with programs that manipulate variables without some meaning.

Add to that that in many fields of study women choose, there's relatively a lot of human interactions, and the goals are towards helping humans,one would see why CS doesn't have the biggest appeal for females ,and why the story of other professions evolved differently.

And that might guide us to some changes in CS curriculum - like maybe teaching in a more concrete way. But one wonders , isn't good CS mostly about abstraction ?

[1]http://onlinelaw.wustl.edu/women-law-infographic/

[2]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-roles-and-seei...
You know what the funny thing is? Those are characteristics of great management, independently of who is being managed. Some companies do it right and foster the right culture, some don't. I've myself been lucky, but I know enough people to realize there's plenty of bad management in the Silicon Valley.
Why are you so angry about her ability to generate revenue? I dont like the values she promotes, but clearly there is a market that really responds to her. Learn from her dont hate.
I knew I was different from most boys when I was very young, too. Naturally, I too grew up to be a programmer.

So I guess programming must be a girl thing, according to this logic.
What the Economy Has Done to the Family
993 is for IMAP, not SMTP. Try 587.
It's hard to explain just how profound safety culture is now. SFAIIK, it started with the IBEW ( 50% fatality in lineman early on... ) and propagated through all industries.

WWII "only" killed 4% of the population, with the Soviet Union bearing the brunt on the Allied side.
Hewlett-Packard ships official HP 15c app for Android
This snark isn't necessary. Many tech companies have trouble hiring qualified candidates of any sex/gender to fill every available role.
What I don't understand is why Tor doesn't bundle their relays with their clients and have a network that scales better naturally, like I2P, and instead relies on people hosting their own, hopefully high bandwidth, relays.
I've seen a lot of those types of things move into dying malls. Seen office spaces, gyms, a radio station, a brewpub, and a for profit college move into dying malls. Doesn't seem to help too much, i don't know why.
>My explanation is a self-reinforcing cycle of privilege

why "privilege"? it is just recently so happened that due to some quirks of human economical and technological organization the job [blue collar job of 21st century really] is relatively well paid today in some geographical areas of well developed countries. Just a sheer luck (if not count for significantly damaged eyesight). May easily be not such luck tomorrow - just ask the guys who held the good paying middle-class jobs in Detroit when it was all the rage.

>accorded unintentionally

well, yes. 25 years ago i didn't see any girl wanting to sneak with us at night into the University datacenter to get some machine time (on USSR clone of IBM-360), smoke cheap unfiltered cigarettes, drink watered down ethanol while gaming or reading through meters of printed out memory hex-dumps ... Definitely the environment wasn't attractive to girls [or to anybody else except us fascinated by computers], and honestly i can't even imagine how it could have been otherwise even theoretically ...

That to me is the reason why there are not much women senior-level engineers around. Because one needs to sow long before one can harvest. You wanna women doing that job 20 years from now - you need to start working toward that goal at least today, if not yesterday, preferably starting at early school.
Awesome work fastmail team. I'll give it a try but, I doubt it'll replace K-9 for me.

Any plans on open sourcing the app(s)?
The Voyager calculator platform, a revered and cherished tool for many a STEM graybeard, has been reincarnated by HP via an official application on the Android platform with the recent release of the "HP 15c Scientific Calulator." The asking price, while high compared to most mobile applications, is in line with the better HP-11/15/16 and (cough) 12c emulators in the Play store, and one-tenth the asking price of used specimens on the open market. During and since their reign, many owners would attest that these units were among the best designed devices of all time. Long live the King!
...and guns to defend.
Thanks for your work on the android app. I've just tried it and it seems great so far.
My mistake, just a typo. The app fills in the port itself depending on what authentication mode is chosen. It's 465/587.
And I had heard of userstyles.org, but not read any of practicaltypography.com. Many thanks for introducing me to a concise, well-presented collection of typography best practices.
No! OP is talking about shareholder dilution, not balance sheet shareholders' equity. Also, dividends reduce shareholder equity so even by your perverse definition they're certainly not "neutral."
>And why does the tech segment even give a crap?

Because tech isn't an industry any more, it's part of mainstream culture, and thus tech "news" has to be watered down or diluted to suit the mainstream audience, hence tech "news" segments being filled with celebrity news and opinion pieces on how evil the industry is because men got into it first.

I attended the Dublin Web Summit[1] recently where talks were given by industry giants including Peter Thiel, John Sculley and many more [2]. It also included a talk by Eva Longoria which amounted to a bizarre and comparatively unsubstantial interview about the life of a celebrity and yet the same tech media reported it as the highlight of the week. Indeed it was the most tweeted about talk of the entire event.

So this is the direction mainstream tech culture is going in, and as tech remains "cool", and being a "geek" remains a quirky attribute people stick on their Twitter profiles, we can expect much more of it to come.

1. http://websummit.net/ If you haven't already heard of it

2. http://websummit.net/speakers Speakers list
Ubuntu, running Unity. Been doing it for about two years. Came from Windows, still do some running on OSX, which I find fairly frustrating.

PROs: unity is wonderful for keyboard shortcuts; opening a terminal and running some commands couldn't be faster or more natural; Inkscape runs like a dream (unusable on Mac); I think the Unity UI couldn't be nicer-- Mac feels like I've got handcuffs on, and Windows gives me headaches. And it being free? I can't imagine it any other way now.

CONS: working with third-party externals (syncing to iPods is frustrating to all hell).
Wearable gesture API
> then turn that into a big PR show

if protecting whistle-blowers requires a PR show, i'll buy a front-row seat and pass me that popcorn. i believe what happened with the snowden request was not the same as other requests, obvious why in retrospect. http://www.wired.com/2013/09/lavabit-snowden-pen-register/

> So, silently comply with warrants and other requests

so are you suggesting, for the purpose of avoiding accusations of hypocrisy, all businesses should either comply unconditionally or close immediately and relocate to another country? what he did was unorthodox and perhaps somewhat PR motivated, but he did ultimately close his primary (only?) source of income on moral grounds. i'm not sure how much shit-slinging he deserves here.

anyhow, i think you took the analogy too literally.
A. Relevance?!

B. “That chick” is quite successful, plus people actually like that game, you know. Even if you really dislike free-to-play what she does is no more morally repugnant than what many startups do.
Belt sander. Also, a sharp burr and very high RPM works OK for me. Just don't inhale the dust!
ultra high bandwidth, but you can only fit a few in a typical server
You sound like the people I've seen on gambling forums postings about their unbeatable roulette system that they've "really won with in the long term".
This is exactly how I read the comment: a) there were more women (but not only women), b) the group as a whole was more social, possibly due to being more diverse -- and/or simply more inclusive.
actually, nevermind. I see (at least on android) that all this bacially is a webview of the default mobile interface. (which works quite nicely by the way...)
Good point. BUT that is a tautology - of course systems that implement it correctly are correct. Unfortunately, there are very few of those things out there... and Zookeeper etcd/Consul are all relatively new, too.

This second point goes back to my statement regarding "strong consistency can be built from eventually consistent systems, but you can't go from a strong system to an eventually consistent system." And this is where and why gun makes sense. Start with an eventually consistent system, because it is far far easier and covers 98% of the use cases out there. And only then, when you need consensus on edge-case data, build it out but make sure you understand what you are doing.
> Say the company does a buy back and spends 50 to buy the other guys share. Now I own the whole company but it's only worth $50. So I'm no better off than before. What am I missing?

You're just looking at yourself and not the entire class of shareholders. Buybacks are positive for shareholders who want to cash out. As well, the additional demand for shares tends to boost the share price.

In a contrived example where a company is totally valued by its cash balance, you have the appearance of a wash. But if a company's worth is determined by revenues exceeding expenses (profit margins) rather than cash balances, you can boost the share price beyond e.g. $50 with the increased demand, where the share price is not a simple function of cash balance but has expected cash flows as a major component.
Thanks, I'll give him a glance (Rob Horning as well).
Shingy Bird
> Your mother's blog post is mostly about salary, which seems to be beside the point. There's more to life than money.

Actually, it's not, it does bring up salary as one point but that's hardly the gist. Some quotes:

> Is the push for everyone to earn a bachelor’s degree so ubiquitous, that we’ve completely lost sight of the outcome of earning the degree?

> "What if what’s really at stake is not choosing which college, but declaring self-sufficiency? What if, instead of teaching young children that if they study hard they’ll have a chance to go the college of their dreams, we taught them that starting today, you will be responsible for your future?"

I thought it was quite a good post. To possible readers, don't avoid clicking based on this dismissive comment.
It is possible they chose not to encrypt things with public/private keys (asymmetric crypto) because generally that is slow and computationally intensive, as compared to using symmetric crypto. If the goal was to be as stealthy as possible then creating asymmetrically encrypted blobs on the victims machines may have been too obvious. They couldn't have used symmetric crypto because the key would need to have been kept on the machine performing the crypto, thereby rendering it useless.

My guess is they figured stealth would provide the protection they needed and the possibility that errors/corruption during encryption, storage, and transmission was an unacceptable risk at the time. Another possibility is that large blobs of encrypted data on the victim machines would be obvious and possibly flagged, thereby compromising the stealth of the operation. Or the devs simply didn't have time.
This attitude makes me crazy.

Women dominate PR, Nursing, Child care and Therapy? No problem, women are better at these jobs anyway

Men dominate engineering? Patriarchy!
Yes that's true
I have been using fastmail for a month now after switching from gmail. I quite like it, but the two drawbacks are that it's just a little bit more likely to let spam in than gmail, even with aggressive spam options enabled, and with fastmail I'm missing out on the growing gmail ecosystem (Streak, Dropbox mailbox app, others).

It's fine though, I really am happy to be paying for an email service instead of depending on Google. I am quite happy with everything else. Really easy to set up and integrate. Works well with Android's email app and Mail.app. The webmail isn't terrible but I just use it to report spam. Having an Android app now is super exciting.
Actually the bittorrent DHT has been extended to support storing arbitrary data[1]. This extension is supported by uTorrent and libtorrent-rasterbar which constitute a majority of the bittorrent DHT nodes.

[1] http://www.libtorrent.org/dht_store.html
There's more in there than just the webview: all the push channel and notification stuff, a JMAP client, a Gravatar client and cache, sharing stuff, smartwatch hooks, etc. That said, none of it is particularly interesting or difficult.

No plans to open source it at the moment, but we might if there was sufficient demand.
Easier to read than Feersum Endjinn, at least!

A Feersum Endjinn reading tip/hack: from what I recall (having done it, years ago), you can save time (and annoyance) by simply skipping the chapters with the phonetically-spelled journal of the mentally-challenged character, Bascule the Teller, and the story still seems to work just fine.

You'll just want to remember that Bascule exists, though, so when he shows up -- way later, in the third-person -- you'll know who it is.
Duh. Common. Describe me just one automated strategy for which $130k would not be a phenomenal outlier. And you were talking multiple strategies...
Personally, I had a nearly identical experience to grandfather post during my college years.
These are both excellent replies. I hadn't thought of that - thank you. Appreciate the input from both of you.
Thank you. I'm absolutely going to check it out.
\\Music Festivals Lovers// New festival startup looking for beta testers~
From reading the release notes, it looks like the current 1.0.0 release doesn't work with the latest stable docker 1.3.1 due to incompatibilities with the tls layer?

https://github.com/deis/deis/releases
https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/issues/571
https://github.com/deis/deis/issues/2230

Why not wait until that is resolved before announcing production ready? :-(
The Cake Thief
Mint with Mate. VM for multiple Windows/Office versions (service business).

Runtime between boots is at least a week (heavy use of Flash eats at resources).

Much of my time is in the browser, the rest is in VIM.
That's how the AS/400 works.
Show HN: Android app for wifi calling with your own cell number
Can't find anything cite-able on it unfortunately.
I love ideas that are popular topics, that are have a null intersection with things programmers care about. It is much easier for me to be successful as a mediocre programmer.

When I was learning to code iOS, my learning project was Kim Kardashian themed app called "Tap a Dash". I gave up because I wasn't really skilled enough, but became skilled enough to make progress on an actual work project.
I've went more or less a similar route as you. I've met people who swear by going to university. Many who went and dropped out. Others like myself who didn't go.

We're all in roughly the same spots not far from some imaginary standard deviation.

Best of luck with this interesting idea. How do you vet the people you intend to meet? Do you get any spam or trolls?
Ask HN: Software companies that build products, based in Perth Australia?
Looking to get out of consulting, I want to find a stable company that makes actual software products and sells these products.
Not going to college was the best decision I ever made. It lead me down a path of international travel, professional skydiving and web development. Had I gone to college none of those things would have happened and I'd have been saddled with debt.

Also, you say don't get a credit card, but then talk about grad school. I'd rather ring up $5000 of debt traveling than $200000 getting through head school.
Currently on Ubuntu running Unity. Was a long time KDE user running various distros with KDE environment.
For someone who cannot afford a Mac and needs a -nix based system for day to day development activities, Ubuntu seems to provide the right set of features.
I might have tried to use a Mac had it been cheaper, but now moving away from Linux would be worth some thought for me.
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I'm not trolling when I say this, nor am I some sort of hater...

But, isn't Google the same company that we're always reading about, the one shaping up to be one of the most evil entities humanity has ever seen? After all, they pretend to protect net neutrality until it's their turn to play ball. They pretend to be pro-freedom, anti-big-brother (maybe you should read a bit about what Julian Assange has to say about Larry Page and Google in general, in case you missed all that), and anything else that will help them gain traction in the minds of the public, especially the techy youth.

They always just want to help, don't they. They're so thoughtful... Now, Google wants to put tiny electronics in our blood... what's next?

My point is, why would anyone want to support such a company? I suppose humanity had supported many bad things. Maybe my convictions don't match up well with the rest of the US anymore.
Also, maybe split "C, C++"? C is one of my favorite languages, C++ not so much.

Not serious, but I think it would produce interesting results.
> and, strangely, a Sears that just hasn't moved yet

I believe Sears owns most of its real estate, so maybe moving isn't so easy.
Argentina raids banks and financial houses
In my experience you need to wait until you get older. People in their 20's don't seem to have much of a problem, people in their 30's find they lose out on jobs which seem like a great fit, people in their 40's find they don't even get an onsite interview. Sometimes it is a salary thing (capping out regardless of years of experience). I know of three people who are or were in their 40s and went back to school to get their bachelor degrees just so that they can check that box, and like people who realize getting married actually is different than committed living together, so far they have found what they are learning about the process of thinking quite different than what they expected.
ah hell, why not list them all:

foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud
Dividends reduce shareholder equity and give shareholders the same amount of cash so they are indeed neutral if you ignore taxes. The same is true for the market value of a company. If a company has a market cap of Y and pays out X in cash the market cap will tend to reduce by roughly X in any normally functioning market.
No.

The market is saying one thing. You believe another. So you bet against the market and the end result is... no change that affects shareholders?

If that were true, why would a corporation do this?
It would help if you described the problem. I recorded and mixed a couple of (non-electronic music) albums with ardour under Linux and it was pretty straightforward. (As an aside, for electronic music, Renoise works very well under Linux.)

I don't think the FLOSS tools are uniformly great, but the situation isn't hopeless, and is certainly much better than it was when I started trying to record under Linux.
Using Trilateration to Find Red Bull
Why does it have to be a hormone?
I was talking about 130k in any one strategy. I'm sorry you misunderstood me.

A single strategy is easily capable of losing that much. Any bond futures or cash bond strategy post-FOMC. Any equity index futures strategy during Twitter "flash crash". Any strategy taking large size in a big future during early-mid October this year. Any strategy taking large size in a big future during August 2011. Any Nikkei futures strategy right after the recent QE announcement from Japan.

All of those are easily capable of dropping 130k in a day.
Sweet. Is it available for the iPhone?
>There's no other time in life you're allowed to do whatever you want

I'm going to go ahead and dispute that. You don't have to buy in to the rat race
Or were you using GNU Units the whole time?

http://revealingerrors.com/google_miscalculator
I'm interested in seeing pictures of this. Got an example?
I'm guessing that hosting relays could get people in trouble in some jurisdictions, even if they're just middle relays and not exit nodes.

Since the goal of Tor is to let people use the internet safely in such jurisdictions -- in fact, especially in such jurisdictions -- some might consider the loss of relay bandwidth an acceptable compromise.
I don't think so. It's (almost) like saying law firms had female secretaries. AFAIK most places have trouble recruiting enough male nurses (and probably secretaries?) -- so it's not like the gender balance is uniform across "legal" or "health".
Yes. You can download it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/youroam-free-calls-texts-usi...
Thanks!
Why would any site agree to pay for faster connections when there are competitors that don't force them to pay? Just make a note on your site saying that ISP A slows us down because we won't pay them their ransom. Then the user would go find a better provider.

Basically, a decent market would make the whole issue go away.

> On the other hand, that kind of universe presents some troubling social issues (only those who can afford a neutral internet will have access to it).

Um, if you want the best service, you pay for it. That's reality. Internet service is not unlimited. Anything that isn't unlimited is subject to supply and demand. That's why costs vary. So, I don't think that scenario qualifies as a social issue.
Sub-microsecond transactions seem impossible unless you're physically jacked in to the trading datacenter's network. If you try to transfer a message (like a string buffer) as quickly as possible from program A running on core 0 to program B running on core 5 on your server-grade computer, the best benchmarks I could achieve were "99% of measurements executed in fewer than 150 nanoseconds." And I worked hard on this problem. It seems like maybe you could execute a trade in ~400 nanoseconds at best, if you have a server that's connected with 10GigE directly to a NASDAQ (or whoever) box and you're bypassing how Linux normally does packet handling, but I wouldn't be surprised if the overhead of the other party's server pushes that to at least 1 microsecond in all cases.

But... now that I've examined the facts, I admit what you say may be true. Are HFTs really operating in sub-microsecond time for trades nowadays?