skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in Truro, Nova Scotia when two mounties, both men, were wed in Yarmouth, both wearing their red serge dress uniforms.

Most of the wedding guests were also mounties, also in red serge.

They made headlines all over the country for weeks; there was an outpouring of support.

My maternal grandfather was a surgeon in the US Army Air Force Medical Corps during World War II.

He committed suicide in a spectacular way in July 1948, after he was arrested for what at the time was the felony of sodomy. Being quite wealthy, he posted $10,000.00 bail withing the hour - 1948 dollars - then later that day was found dead in a rented rowboat in a lake outside Spokane, Washington.

He made headlines all over the pacific northwest because he totally stymied the medical examiner with the cause of his death. Eventually they somehow figured out that he overdosed with insulin.

My grandmother initiated a legal action to have my grandfather's death ruled a suicide. I don't know how that turned out because my mother refuses to discuss it, she was told he had a heart attack.

I at time puzzle over whether I should initiate a legal action to have it declared a murder.
Can we fix the glaring typo in this article title?
Some easy statistics: Bootstrap confidence intervals
Ever gone through a divorce?
Jobs vs. Passive Income (2012)
I didn't downvote you, but the use of "virulent" instead of "copyleft" is annoying and imprecise.
Long story short: no.
> 1 They remind us that the world is not a fair place, which contradict the Just World hypothesis. Simply said: people want the world to be fair and they happily refute evidence of the contradiction. So if girls in tech say they have less opportunity, we all love to believe they are wrong. The world cannot be unfair, could it? So: they must be wrong. This is, of course, untrue. There are many studies done proving that there is some subtle bias, like the one where resumes with a male name were rated as significantly more competent and hireable than the (identical) female applicant.

I've often wondered how much being Asian-American has contributed to my current life of being a programmer. Throughout school and college, I've never shown any particular passion or innate skill. But I got a lot of subtle encouragement, such as from my immigrant parents who thought majoring in computer engineering would be practical even though I was much more into journalism. After college I didn't even bother looking for programming jobs, but I gradually got moved more and more into programming roles...the engineering degree helped, but I have to guess that some of it was a lot of benefit of the doubt given to me, based on me looking like a computer nerd or having the stereotypical math aptitude attributed to Asians (I'm also pretty average at math). After enough years of this, I'm not a pretty competent and passionate programming...but it seems hardly by active choice. I believe the average young woman probably doesn't get as many chances or benefits of the doubt that I have.
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tl;dr - Yes.

Studying is still very important and valued by a lot of companies. I'd recommend to study in something else "complimentary" that passionate you and learn/improve in software engineering outside school to have a more diversified skillset. That's what I did 4 years ago, landed my first software engineer job and now had the opportunity to move to London because of that!
The article seems to say: "Feminists annoy me because they are right".

This is not why feminists annoy me, though. I don't think they are right at all. So the title of the blog post seems to extrapolate her own views out into a universal truth.

This sort of thinking is especially dangerous:

> With the same high school grades a white person has a 78% higher chance of being admitted to a university than a person of color

I do not know where this stat comes from as she provides a cartoon instead of a reference, but assuming it's not a trivially bogus stat (e.g. because of differences in application rates), it sounds a lot like it could be a Simpson's Paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox

The very same argument was made to suggest a gender bias in admissions at an American university (Berkeley): when you selected just people with the same grades, more men were accepted than women. Sexual discrimination!!!

The problem is, when they tried to figure out which department was discriminating, the bias disappeared (actually became slightly in favour of women). It turned out to be a statistical anomaly caused by the fact that women tended to apply for much more competitive courses than men, like English Lit, so they were rejected more often due to overcapacity - not due to their gender. When you select only application rates and gender, this type of data abuse causes misleading conclusions.

I don't know that the race stat is another example of this, but I find it hard to believe that such a dramatic case of racism across so many institutions could persist for so long without severe legal problems, if it was as open and shut as Felienne suggests.

Final issue I have with this blog post:

> You believe God put dinosaur bones in the earth to test your faith, you think vaccines cause autism? Yes, that’s crazy but also funny haha who cares?

The first is harmless belief that doesn't normally impact other people, the second triggers preventable outbreaks of exceptionally serious diseases. So lots of people care and parents opting out of vaccinations is a very controversial issue right now! It seems very strange to use this as an example!
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Imposter syndrome.
1) Javascript. The ecosystem, libraries and usecases covered now are enormous, from dynamic websites to mobile/desktop apps - everything is doable.

2) Elixir. Distributed systems, embedded software (IoT networks), critical/reliable web services and backends.

3 some systems level language (either Rust or C, Go is too laughable as a language for me and google stuff in general isn't something I can recommend any longer)
So what did you stick with? Im having the same dilemna...I think PHP, Java, JavaScript and C# are the way to go. So far focusing on just js and php has shown noticeable improvements...
> As the paper outlines, a Plan 9 network needed at least a CPU server, file server and one or more terminals, plus possibly an authentication server (the CPU server might have been able to do this too).

... which can just be run on the same machine.

> Without this investment in hardware it was like trying to understand how NFS or web infrastructure works with only a single machine to work with.

Network transparency is an important feature, but not the only one. You are saying running X makes no sense because your X server and client are on the same machine.
> No rational actor wants equal rights, only increased rights.

Really? Aren't you making some kind of sweeping implicit assumption about the ethics/goals/aspirations of this hypothetical rational actor?

What about highly altruistic hypothetical rational actors?
This post is weird. There are a lot of reasons to be annoyed and most of those have nothing to do with the cause, but the means employed.

Riddle me this: Let's say some tech company has to match a man/woman quota of at least 40% on a CS position. (This is a pretty common theme in various places)

Going by the numbers in this post, there's a 1.6% ratio in the author's class. Let's be extremely generous and say there's a 9:1 male/female ratio in CS.

With those numbers, there's a 30% skew in favour of female employees. In a sector with a 9:1 male ratio, that means one in three male employee is rejected because of numbers. The real ratio is actually MUCH higher, remember. And on the other side of the equation, female employees would be very aggressively sought after because positions are not actually easy to fill and just because you can find the bodies doesn't mean the employees are good. Is this where we want to end up?

End sidetrack. There's a lot of causes out there. Discrimination, everything. But feminism, I think, annoys more than others because it promotes unhealthy "fixes" such as this one above. You don't want to force people into a new belief system, you want to change their belief system. The former is super awkward for places where discrimination doesn't happen, and imho just perpetuates the issue.

You want more women in CS? Make technology look like less of a boy's club at an early age (and leading into tech education) and wait 15 years for the results. I think the Minecraft kids generation will yield some pretty fantastic surprises on that level.
It could be that white people with the same grades as people of color have higher SAT scores or any other factor that is not being stated.

Or it COULD BE that people of color includes East Asians that actually get discriminated against BECAUSE they're so successful in college.

I'd like to see the actual sources on the claim because it's too vague for me to comment on.
- C
- Python
- JavaScript

This is, of course, only based off of what I know so far and what I would find most useful. I could probably trade JS for a SQL, though, if I was thinking purely in terms of work that I'm into now. I don't use C at all, except to look at Python bindings occasionally...but all the concepts I've learned from learning C are vital, even when working with high-level languages. Plus, it'd be nice to switch to iOS development at some point.
Most companies use MSDN subscriptions.

Home users don't give a damm about source code and just pirate what they cannot buy.

They see little value in using less functional software (on their eyes) vs what the commercial products offer.
9.5 was supposed to get "parallel sequential scan" (which is a big deal performance-wise), but I don't see it on the "what's new in pg 9.5" page. Anyone know what's up with that?
HPX and PVS-Studio
In the united states, it is unlawful for employers to discriminate for reasons of age against people over forty. Even so, software engineers become unemployable in their late thirties.

I am fifty-one.

Also in the united states, it is illegal for employers to discriminate against the mentally ill, as well as those who are simply perceived as mentally ill.

I have quite sever bipolar-type schizoaffective disorder. I link to my essays "Living with Schizoaffective Disorder" and "My Deepest Fear" at the top of every single page of my website, including my resume:

http://www.warplife.com/mdc/books/schizoaffective-disorder/

http://www.warplife.com/mdc/books/vancouver-diaries/thought-...

"My Deepest Fear" concerns my vividly paranoid visual hallucinations. The specific reason I work as a coder rather than as a physicist is that I still write good code when I am hallucinating. I first realized that to be the case in 1988, I wrote LwSD in 2003 and now I can't get a job.

How often do discussions of diversity include the mentally ill or the middle-aged?

Among my deepest concerns is that I see many younger engineers - startup founders are the worst, as well as the people who they employ - making many of the same stupid mistake I did when I was their age, or the mistakes of my young colleagues.

My aim these days is to find a job where I can teach the children not to fuck up. Unfortunately I cannot get a job because all the young people think I am incapable of writing code.

I did the storage and firewire for a wireless audio recorder that won a technical academy award.
Really agree with this as developers usually sit at their desks and do not get much time to interact with other people. They can exchange ideas with colleagues while grabbing the food.
Because it was left to rotten?

Last time I checked it, in 2010, it didn't had any commits.
In the US and other western countries, women clearly have de-facto more rights than men. They are much more leniently punished for the same crimes, they are much more rarely homeless, they do get more attention (and money) from social services. In divorce cases they more or less automatically get the children and half of the husband's money. They commit suicide much less often, way fewer workplace deaths.
They are allowed to vote but not subject to the draft.
All file notification systems tend to be somewhat race condition prone, or to lose events under some circumstances. Linux has a lot of different subsystems, none of which always work https://lwn.net/Articles/604686/
What's Wrong with Lean Startup Methodology
In order to get a job, you have to get an interview. You are way more likely to get an interview with a CS degree, then without. It really doesn't matter how good of a self-taught programmer you are, because no one will take you seriously. In my experience, side projects and code tinkering are discounted during the interview and hiring process - I agree, this is dumb.

I don't like or agree with any of the above, but that's how most of the world works. Put in the time, get it done. 10 years from now you will be very happy you did.
Actually, no, it turns out this is in fact false.

http://douglasernstblog.com/2014/01/17/white-privilege-artis...

TLDR; a 4.0 GPA is not equal everywhere. Also, affirmative action means that you actually get a bonus for being a PoC, and if you are Caucasian or Asian, you are discriminated against as a matter of admitted policy.

But hey, just world hypothesis makes people ignore that little tidbit too.

Quelle surprise.
Most interestingly, the widgets from Windows Vista and 7 are just normal webpages, very similar to chrome extensions, actually.
That's not what the parent was saying at all. Would you be so kind as to explain how you came to this interpretation?
Great if are allowed to use it at work. Many of us are not.
I watched https://youtu.be/pPcMZX8OCP8 before reading the article and I find the video to be a very appropriate response.
Those from Paypal are the most influential in my opinion. They have dived into the frontier of different fields of the IT world and lead the change of the world.
Some will, some won't - concentrate on smaller companies, and have a portfolio of your achievements. Try to target a niche. Don't be put off by rejections, you only need one yes and you get infinite lives.
Small Tube; Big Problem
That's one classic "pro-social justice" blogpost written in a didactic tone, touting some anecdotes, making a point of a statistic without any references and conflating all sort of social issues (women in IT? college admissions? bachelor degrees?). Funny thing is, the post itself if a perfect answer for why feminists are so annoying.
http://jobdensity.com/QueryGrid.aspx?q=945&t=javascript&qt=7...
Viral licensing is a standard, established, and widely used term, which also has the property of using real words rather than invented neologisms which have imprecise and incorrect definitions (from POV of real-world usage in OSS) in dictionaries: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/buzzword/entries/copyl...

Inventing new words for concepts properly described by old words is what's annoying, and it's really imprecise when people outside the specialized field start to have different opinions about what the neologisms mean than the people inside the field who actually use them.
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Could you give an example of where a certain framework would break under large amounts of data?
Going against established scientific fact does hurt other people. What if you have kids and turn them into young-earth creationists as well?
No, feminists are annoying because the most vocal ones take a simplistic rather literal view of equality, which is a distortion of the more nuanced truth behind the ideology.

Men and women have clear differences which should be celebrated. This means men and women can never be literally equal.

It so happens that women are significantly over represented in nursing. It is not obvious that fighting this imbalance is worth the effort.
I'm from Moscow. I found feminists a bit annoying too. I worked for the second largest tech company in Russia. Everybody complain about Russia. But I have to say, that in my unit, there was many girls who works as developers. These girls are good software developers and I didn't see any issues working with them. Our HR and my team lead had no bias at all against women. It's ridiculous to think that there are bias against women. If she is a good candidate, she will be hired even in Russia. It's just a business, only skills are important, nobody give a .... about your gender. Shareholders interested in net profit, that's all.

By the way, I see curious little correlation between leftists and feminists (hello to USA). I'm not leftist.

Girls usually care much less about career (at lest in Russia) that's why they earn less in average. But those who care, do well (not only in tech).

P.S. I love this video about feminists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oqyrflOQFc And this right-wing channel too.
I'm not very familiar with OSX so not sure if we mean the same thing - but how is the first of those an innovation in OSX?
There are two kinds of debt claims relating to WWII. One is war reparations. We didn’t received any from Germany and chances are we never will. I assume you have no idea to the extent of damages done by Germans in Greece during the war. They destroyed 80% of our infrastructure. Besides Poland, Greece suffered the most damages during the war. But given that all that happened 70 years ago we should bury the hatchets and stop making claims.

The second debt relates to an official loan that Hitler took in gold from our central bank. It is documented and is considered a state loan. We have every fucking right to claim it. It is somewhere between 8 and 12 billion Euros by today standards.

By the way, back in 1954 the Greek government agreed to write off a big part of the German debt owed to us [1]. Those are state loans completely independent to war reparations. So while we did it for them they deny it to us. And we did it while our economy was in a far worse state than German economy is today.

The problem we have with Germans is that they’re ungrateful pricks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Agreement_on_German_Ext...
The last few versions of OS X have been free if you have 10.6 or higher. The last hardware that was dropped from support was sold between 2007 and early 2008.
Indeed, and there are entire musical genres where there is little or no pedagogy, and very little sheet music. You'd be hard pressed to find sheet music for the typical rock 'n' roll song. Tunes -- often quite elaborate -- are developed or learned by ear, and played from memory.

But it's not just for pedagogy. It's a practical tool for musicians, because it lets you throw people together to make coherent music quickly. This could be just playing string quartets in somebody's living room, or running a large performing ensemble. The size of one band that I'm in virtually ensures that there will be at least one new member or substitute at every performance. The ability of players who can read the stuff influences what can be composed.

And a lot of this music isn't even commercially viable for the people who play it (such as in my case), but there's just the enjoyment of exploring the world of written music.
95,476 jobs posted
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5,308 jobs posted
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I maximise windows to eliminate distraction. I'd rather finish reading the article I'm reading, for example, and then Cmd-Tab to something else, rather than obsessively glancing at a Gmail window a dozen times through the article.

More the multitasking, the more stressed I get. One thing at a time is relaxing, and more productive. Feeling frantic doesn't result in any more work, or higher quality work, being done, after all.

I maximise windows even on my 30-inch monitor. Recently, I've switched to full-screen. I wish I could tell OS X to launch apps full-screen by default. Windows should, for me, be the exception, not the norm. This is one aspect where mobile OSs are superior, for me.
Where's the sexism in e-sports? I don't really have a position here, I just wanted to know.

My gut feeling is that there will be a very high percentage of e-sports players who are men because the majority of competitive video game players are men.
Dash is great. I bought Dash 2 a few days before Dash 3 was announced. I emailed Bogdan, and he replied within minutes with a licence for Dash 3. That's customer service!
In the United States women are born with extra rights such as:

1. Intact genitalia - males don't have this right

2. The right to vote and receive financial aid - males only receive these benefits if they sign up for Selective Service

3. The right to choose parenthood - males have to pay for a child even if they don't want to. Women can choose to give up their child for adoption. A male can not choose not to be a parent.
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> A male can not choose not to be a parent.

How about getting a vasectomy? That'd probably do the trick.
And since we always require scientific proof, here's the relevant study regarding "mindful meditation" and its benefits:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to...
Python lists are so “leaky”
Yeah but they didn't change the logo to Kfc.
Ah are you looking for the UI to have UI elements for addons visible? In that case click the hamburger menu and then customize at the bottom of the menu. This should allow you to add UI buttons offered by the different addons you have installed next to you bookmarks etc button.
And don't forget that Java can call Groovy code ;-)
To be fair, Windows 8+ does that too.
UPDATE

Due to much gnashing of teeth http://demo.mongolar.org, no longer requires a login. Content gets reset at 50 minutes past every hour.
> Right so French and German defense contractors bribed previous Greek politicians to buy weapons systems on credit. And the ECB etc are dead set that that part of the Greek budget continue as usual.

There are no "previous Greek politicians": Greece is a sovereign state that elects its own leadership. That sovereignity comes with responsibility, too. So, in the end, people should think more when voting, not blame others...
Vasectomy is not 100%	reliable. Even after a successful vasectomy
about 1 in 2,000 men will become fertile again at some point in the
future.

Moreover, having to engage in genital mutilation so as to avoid being tricked/lied/forced into fatherhood is hardly progressive.
This happens all over Europe. All unionized and high profile workers successfully demand earlier and earlier retirements.
Check the numbers. Greece' average retirement age is above the EU average age.
If you're looking for a REPL for Java, try the Groovy shell (comes standard with an install of Groovy).

Meant, as the name implies, for Groovy, but since Java is a subset of Groovy, works fine for any Java code, too.

It's great for quickly trying out an API or library. Also makes it easy to just drop a bunch of jar files onto the classpath.
If you're using Debian Jessie (what I'm running right now) or later, don't use rEFInd; EFI install goes beautifully. If you want to dual boot OS X you can just make a boot option that runs

exit

and call it OS X or whatever. I'm using debian and i3 and I couldn't be happier with my setup (okay, I could, but it's a lot better than OS X!). I don't know how well GRUB EFI works with Mint but I used their live CD for the install and it seems to boot pretty smoothly.