skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a CS grad at CSUEB in the Bay Area (I was also an undergrad there previously), and this "women are absent" nonsense is very much the opposite of what I see in my classes.

Most of my classes are comprised of roughly 25-30 students. Of those, roughly 20+ students are Indian, and of those 20+, 15+ are females, and I assure you they're really good!

Now, it may not be Stanford or Berkeley or whichever high-horse university some of you would like to use to dismiss this information, but in my experience there are women in CS, lots of them. It seems folks are just looking at the "bigger buzzfeed" schools or where they want for these "ohh.. I'm a girl in CS and I'm not recognized". Take a look outside these prestigious schools and the gender demographics will change. I'm not saying these don't exist, I'm just saying look around a little more.

Now, I can't speak for female presence in IT in the professional world, but with regard to those feeling belittled or taken advantage of, women are unfortunately targeted by unsolicited/creepy advances all the time, everywhere. It's not a tech industry thing, it an unfortunate all-over-the-world problem.

If when asked where one person did an internship the answer is "facebook", then yeah maybe some surprise, I guess it would be nice to intern at facebook. If the following 1,2,3 people also answer "facebook", then I too would probably think to myself "oh, I should have probably applied then". At this point, I'll just have to take Lea's word that the reaction was truly because she was a girl?!
Try it here: https://demo.sandstorm.io/appdemo/zx9d3pt0fjh4uqrprjftgpqfwg...

Read about it here: https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2015-01-21-gitweb-and-gitlab....
If you'd 'love it', why don't you marry it?
What's with the pics in the comments? I'm a bit confused. Is this something about that site?
Sorry if I’m not quite answering the question. But you can also try consulting, continue what you’re doing now, and rebalance the three things that factor into this: time, income and expenses. So if you want to increase your discretionary time, you’ll need to charge clients more and/or reduce your expenses.

Unless you were seeking the novelty factor of trying out a new field, and assuming you’re a hacker, it seems you’d hit the ground running faster if you’d just switch how you earned your income or spend your money.
9 Ways to Lose Your Data
Social ineptitude is not restricted by gender.
Thanks, I found that to be a really good summary of a lot of possible explanations.
There is an imitation[0] of this idea in which many Cantonese proverbs are illustrated.

0.https://writecantonese8.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/cantonese-p...
Auckland NZ checking in. Ex-state-houses (our term for the homes that the government provides to welfare recipients who cannot afford market rents) in desirable areas are now reaching $1 million. Homes at auction frequently sell for way way over the reserve price and registered valuation.

My brother and his wife purchased a house there for around $500k several years ago, and 18 months later sold it for $750k+.
> The last issue with Perl was that it was never a favorite of computer science programs

It's funny, it found a home for a long time in various linguistic programs.
Have there been data loss stories about Google Drive?

(I'm a google employee, but I'm interested as a recent heavy user of Drive.)
Straight Talk for White Men (on 'privilege')
> not a typesetting system.

I like that groff is a typesetting system, it means that I can generate pretty postscript versions of manpages from the command-line and print them off, all in one go. It's really handy that way.
Okay, I didn't know all that. Perhaps groff is a better language than I was aware of and there is sure something to say for keeping it available.

But is it really all used? I have never heard of searching man pages by e.g. return type (in section 2 or 3 I assume this would be), nor does hyperlinking work (perhaps due to the pager, but still). If only 1% of the people use it, then either it's up to them to maintain it or we just deprecate it in favor of a new system.

And by the way, the new system doesn't have to be only one language, it can be some generic language that other languages can "compile" to if you have the right packages (just like markdown can be parsed to the current man page language).
Your local network is airgapped, then?

Because otherwise it's still internet-connected. If nothing else, the first person connecting to it with a cell phone is enough.
JustUnfollow is now Crowdfire
Snowzilla vs. winter’s fury
Unzip the APK and find out.
Heck, I would. If your hands aren't so large the G19 feels too small, there's almost no point having both the G17 and G19 unless you like collecting Glocks. (I'm biased: I like the size of the G19 more, so take that as you will!)

I will probably get myself a G17 in the future (maybe), but probably not before I get a Glock chambered for .45ACP.

Given your comments, I'm starting to wonder if one can't have too many 1911s... ;)
Eh, most languages and tools nowadays reduce the risk of indenting incorrectly or not matching braces to near zero, so in practice there is little cognitive load either way.

Only serious cognitive load for me writing code is whether to add new line at 80 or less chars. That's about it.
Nice to read some actual technical details on one of the biggest hacks to date.
While I like the venerable look they have, those books aren't what you use daily to document yourself on how your machine works. I was speaking about those manpages we use when we don't know what the letters are for in the itemized output of rsync, for instance.
Perl 6 feels dynamic but aiui its functional pieces are statically typed checked and statically call resolved unless a dynamic constraint is used. (See another of my comments in this thread for more on that.)

Aiui method calls are statically type-checked and run-time resolved with a couple exceptions. If a method name (not a method object) is in a variable, type-checking is run-time. If a class is finalized (not yet implemented), method calls are resolved at compile-time.

This is pretty sketchy info because I'm still trying to figure it all out but I'll be trying to confirm it tonight or next week and will post back here if I find out mistakes I've made or more useful info.
> How about we replace them because there is something better? Or because they no longer fill a need?

I would be interested to know your opinions on GNU info/Texinfo, and the possibility/difficulty of rewriting all the existing manpages in Texinfo format.
What's the best way to go about getting them released to you?
> What exactly are each of these private companies doing that can't be automated and consolidated?

After dealing with government for various healthcare services I can think of absolutely nothing more horrific or dreadful.

Capitalism works, because people compete for customers. I've very happy to have lots of insurance companies competing.

I think it was Mitt Romney (not sure) that had the idea of just giving everyone a lump sum to buy insurance and let them buy it where ever they please.

A healthcare voucher system I guess.
Show HN: Using d3's attrTween to animate Bezier curves in family tree viz
I'm curious as well, although I don't own a smart phone and can't find out for myself.
I also try to pay in plastic as often as possible for travel and cashback rewards. Assuming you pay your card on-time, we’re the minority. For most a credit card is just a debt machine and if those same people had to pay with tangible cash they’d probably think twice about spending more than they earn (which I assume is the sentiment of the OP).
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Stripe doesn't let you send money to cards.
You're talking about the same Windows XP which people are currently paying for and receiving support for?

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/07/uk-governm...
but decriminalization does, at least it has had stunning results in Portugal. But thugs are going to be thugs and most people seem to like to have the local thugs in blue do their shit.
This would help a lot in case where you have multiple calls chained together.

foo.bar().fiz().buz()

What's undefined, bar, fiz, or buz? Then you have to set a breakpoint to find out. Most people I know try to avoid writing code like this, but Knockout ViewModels are a common place where this bites me.
Perhaps you'll be interested in this discussion of markup format and tool chain alternatives to GNU info (in the context of Emacs):

http://lwn.net/Articles/625072/

(It got no interest on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8911625)
> You're right about my numbers being off - I was killing time on a long flight and it's been a while since I've shot a .45 (mostly because I have small hands.) But the general principle remains: the slide shoots backwards with equal force to the projectile.

Eh, it doesn't really matter, IMO!

Realistically, no matter what the math might say, felt recoil is still a subjective spectrum (within reason, obviously too much force is going to hurt), because two people can fire the same gun and have different reactions.

Although, you definitely wouldn't catch me with a .500S&W ;) There comes a point when it's too much gun to be enjoyable.

My father had a .454 Casull once. He sold it because he could only go through a couple cylinders before a blister would wear on his hand through gloves. I've since borrowed his philosophy: If a gun hurts a bit too much to be fun, there's no point owning it!
Couldn't programmers from major GNU/Linux distributions be signed up for this duty? They compile new OSes and if they want man pages (heck, who doesn't want man pages?) then it's also up to them to make it work in the new OS. Security bugs can be forwarded to those people by Gnu (assuming they support and host the project).

This may not work for everything, they're not going to maintain any old system, but things that we want to keep around but for which there are not necessarily dedicated maintainers to keep it up...
Maybe this step is a necessary evil on the way to true universal coverage, but if the goal was to stop people from seeking health care they seem to be succeeding.

We used to have coverage that would let you see a Dr. when you needed to -- now deductibles are so high and office visits so expensive I'm not going unless I'm desperate.
The interface to this tool is far nicer to work with. Can you replicate that interface with your command?

Serious question - I actually would like to see how you'd do it.
"If rent reflected current building sale trends in my neighborhood, my rent would be increasing >60% year over year."

OK, sure that would suck for you, but it's what the market is doing. Artificial price ceilings restrict supply and create arbitrage opportunities. Living in Manhattan is not a human right.
Reverse stupidity is not intelligence. Not shooting someone in the head does not cure cancer is not an argument for shooting someone in the head.
Indeed it does, although not directly. From the RFC:

> TEXTDATA = %x20-21 / %x23-2B / %x2D-7E

So, it is a subset of ASCII whose hex codes must lie in the ranges given above. Basically, any printable ASCII character with the exception of 0x22 (= double quote) and 0x2C (=comma) which serve other purposes.
NYC has a strong history of rent regulations. It's part of the reason it's so absurdly difficult to find housing.
What Would Darwin Think about Clean-Slate Architectures? [pdf]
I partially agree with the spirit of your comment, but I disagree that this doesn't solve real problems. If you think critically about all the little innovations out there that add convenience, it adds up to a lot more leisure time. I'm sure people thought car washes were decadent at one point.

For better or for worse, modern Western life is built on a thousand now-invisible time-saving innovations. I think we're at a transitional time in our culture. All this leisure time has historically mostly served to allow us to fill up our lives with increased complexity, but I think we've hit the point where that no longer scales, because it's simply too much to track. What Magic gets right, in my mind, is that it's part of a trend of abstracting away that new complexity. It gives you a single entry point through which to leverage a bunch of innovations that you don't even have to know about.

Where I think services like this can really win is if they can use economy of scale to improve upon the individual's own ability to optimize value for cost. This is possible, if say, they maintain a knowledge base of the best deals.
In fact there is, check Alisey's excellent answer. I think this thread highlights perfectly the difference between pedantic overengineering and clear thinking.
Thanks Douwe. If people want a CI Saas they can also use Magnum CI that supports GitLab or ci.gitlab.com. The latter is completely free, even for private projects, as long as you bring your own runner to execute the tests.
Me too! I love Coffeescript, so glad we can finally build things with ecmascript 6!
I'd add

- allows exporting all the data

- allows taking handwritten notes and drawings with a decent Android client
Women are leaving the tech industry in droves
Interesting idea, and nicely coined. As long as teams or individuals set modular and attainable (hard, but attainable) goals, one-dayers put a constraint on participants, and stimulates the subconscious to strive for better focus and communication. Reaching the predefined goal in a day is its own reward. I can imagine myself working with more zeal for that satisfaction at the end of the day. One-dayers can also be used for scoping/investigative work: they are short enough in duration to not be crippling in the larger scheme of things.
I've always lived this way and vastly prefer it, but it was a big problem this year when I applied to rent a new apartment.

No credit history? denied. Apparently the cars I've purchased have expired from my credit report, I didnt know that happens after 10 years, but it does. Shameful, to push people to credit... any ideas how to solve this issue?
Watsi = inspiring. Thanks for this jolt. I needed it to kick me in the ass when whining about funding.
Don’t back out of anything – shy of walking into a dark alley in downtown Winnipeg at night – just because it scares you. Your ability to take risks and just shrug off the bad results will diminish with age.

So use this time to do the stupid shit that scares or embarrasses you. You’ll think you can keep that youthful, playful and joking spirit you now have throughout life because that’s what you believe you are. But society will shape you into its dull, conforming image and it’s hard not to let it happen. So fight to mitigate it now by experience as much as you can.
Binary files (large or not) generally can't be merged, and thus working with them in a version control system effectively requires support for exclusive locking. Is this supported (I don't think it is) and/or in the radar?
except science never says the step one part. They do one study and the media reports on it as a fact. furthermore, you're dumb if you don't understand how science works enough to realize it can change. science always says this what we believe based on the current evidence. if evidence changes of course the belief will.
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I once tried Sails and didn't find it easy (or was it even not possible at all) to configure relations for my models found on a PostgreSQL db. Do you have any plans to open-source the "foundation"? I'd be interested to see how you structured it.
> While I like the venerable look they have, those books aren't what you use daily to document yourself on how your machine works.

But you can create pretty hard-copy versions of the manpages on your system with groff, the same way these books were created with troff (which groff is a replacement for.)
I thought fuel cells were debunked 10 years ago? The sad part is that power distribution and storage for wind isn't keeping up. Here in Minnesota, Buffalo Ridge Power (BR is one of the windiest places in the nation), many of the multi-megawatt turbines are forced to idle down because there's no place for the power to go. A logical place to put this power is in fuel cells.
> as if infrequent commits or no commits in years suggests there is something wrong with the software.

I would be reluctant to start using a package that wasn't actively developed. Libraries, APIs and even languages evolve, and I don't want to be stuck relying on old versions of other things because of one package that isn't being updated. You might say that all the other pieces should take version compatibility much more seriously, to avoid this problem, but that's not the world we're in.

More importantly, since all non trivial software has bugs, if there have been no commits for years, either no-one's using it and finding the bugs, or the maintainer isn't merging people's patches. Both options sound bad for me as a user.

I understand that a program could theoretically be 'done', not requiring any further changes, but I think there's hardly any software that could conceivably be so 'done' it wouldn't have any commits in months or years. I've just looked up a few of the most stable major projects I can think of: the Linux kernel, Apache and Subversion all have multiple commits within the last day. GNU coreutils only has five in the last week.
The Making of Neon Signs [video]
Much to my surprise, it doesn't seem to say anything really meaty about the role women play in terms of bearing and rearing children. Surprisingly, the header "Biological explanations" talks about spatial ability, not reproduction. Having read quite a lot about women's issues in order to figure out where my own life went wrong, I think failure to mention the burden women bear in this regard and how it impacts their careers is a substantial oversight.
Why would that drive AirBnB prices up? If anything, I'd expect it to drive rental prices down because there would be fewer owner-occupied units and more rental units as investors rent out.

As one example, Vancouver, notorious for huge amounts of international money buying up property, has relatively cheap AirBnb units
I had a previous relationship with the founder and thought kronism would help.. It didn't. But by the grace of God we were able to build enough momentum over 2 weeks to hit the indiegogo newsletter, which brought us about $5k in 36 hours. We are now at about $8k with 10 days to go.

Also, the flexible funding gave me some sense of sanity as I knew I could produce the product at lower quantities, just wouldn't make any profit.
> I think the only way to get rid of police harassment like this and in many other cases is to remove reasonable suspicion as a cause for stopping and searching people.

As a driver, if you see someone erratically accelerating and decelerating, do you not wonder about the state of their mind as it relates to their ability to drive, and in particular how their erratic behavior may cause an accident? While I go out of my way to avoid being near such drivers, I do still hope they get pulled over. I don't care if the reason for their erratic driving is due to being on the phone (illegal in several states), a bee flying around the vehicle (distracted driving; although I certainly hope the officer wouldn't give a ticket), or the poor person was having a heart attack (hopefully the officer can call for medical assistance and in the meantime provide CPR). In other words, there are good reasons to enable stopping someone when officers do have a reasonable suspicion.

The counter-point is that there is frequently conscious discrimination or implicit bias, as illustrated in the article. One way to deal with this, that was being used over 20 years ago on a military base where I was stationed, was a no-go parameter around the bars on base. Except when explicitly dispatched, the military police were not allowed to be within the no-go perimeter (about 1/2 mile if memory serves) around the bar around closing time (like 30 minutes before and after). There's no reason a similar policy couldn't be put into place around methadone clinics.

From the sounds of the article, in addition to dealing with discriminatory reasonable suspicion, there's also a desperate need to more fully educate police officers and judicial officials. For example, just having methadone shouldn't qualify as a DUI and the case discussed in the article indicates there was a systemic failure.
very impressive, but it feeds history so much, and breaks back forwards buttons
When that was on the frontpage I posted a link in the comments to the Bruegel painting :P
The reason Toyota and Lexus share most things is because Lexus is a Toyota-car (just another name/brand).
I'd hasten to note that his statements aren't a legal opinion or site license.
Chicago police department victims of ransomware; pay 500$ to hacker
Is it? Driven is a strong word. It suggests significant causality.
Stored in any way, it's cheap compared to batteries.

Also many places don't have reservoirs and mountains for pumped storage.

I'm not a big believer in the hydrogen economy, but at least incorrect notions should be corrected ("no source of hydrogen besides natural gas to be seen").
> I have never heard of searching man pages by e.g. return type (in section 2 or 3 I assume this would be).

I'm not sure what you mean by return type, but if you want to, I think you can section your manpages however you want; i.e. you can have section 1 be 'games' instead of 6 if you want to, it just makes installing manpages more difficult.
Depends on what you're doing. In some cases Elm.Native will take care of browser differences.

In general, Elm's replacement for the concept of undefined is Maybe, and the compiler will tell you if you forgot to handle something properly:

http://elm-lang.org/edit/examples/Functional/Maybe.elm
I always thought that the theory behind Buzzfeed was to use a mountain of linkbait to fund actual journalism...?

Of course, that doesn't help much to sort the bullshit from the pony, but it's not the worst idea.
The "timeline" trend is what really throws me off.
Although an algorithmically generated timeline seems like a useful feature, it's not long before it becomes saturated with irrelevant content. To add to your example of Facebook, Soundcloud also suffers a similar, although milder problem.
Tracks are unfairly ordered and prioritized, which leads to a lot of big names again and again, with the other users left behind.

Twitter's choice to follow in these footsteps may be an easy one, but surely not the best.
Connecting your fire alarms to the internet will, at some point, result in someone setting all your alarms off at 2am just to fuck with you.

Or, perhaps more sinisterly, someone remotely disabling all your alarms before committing arson.
>There is no debt involved

Can you provide an executed contract to confirm?

YC appears to have moved away from convertible notes (ie. debt) [1], but if you read closely it appears that PG said the reason was to avoid debt term limits and interest rate limits....so it's an even more extreme version of debt, just not 'debt' according to CA regulations.

[1] http://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-the-safe-a-replacemen...
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How much additional cost is incurred by converting the hydrogen to methane (combining with atmospheric CO2), then utilizing existing gas infrastructure?
But coffeescript doesn't even look like JavaScript. How could you confuse them?