skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No revisionism here:

1) in no possible way "I'd like to propose systemd" can be seen as forcefully "pushing" something

2) please go read (or re-read) the full discussion behind the Debian tech-ctte decision[1] to understand how little the GNOME dependency mattered

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/727708
DjangoGirls is very good at on-boarding women. They provide a non-threatening and positive environment to get over the first hurdles in developing. They focus on that area, they are great at it, and why should we criticize them for this?

I generally think these kinds of "reverse discrimination" arguments are mainly BS. There definitely is discrimination or at least unfavorable biases about gender in technology. Diversity initiatives don't even come close to compensating these disadvantages.
What other people make comes out of the limited budget for all employees. If you deliver twice the value, it is only fair that you should receive twice the pay.
Very impressive.

But I wish journalists would avoid terms like "edge of space" unless the journey actually goes anywhere near the Kármán line. This particular journey will go a mere 30% of the way to space.
How do Uber/Lyft etc. get away without paying Apple's 30% tax on in app purchase? I'll be surprised if Apple don't show up one day asking for a big check, every month, forever...

EDIT: Thanks for the clarity here, external goods and services are excluded from in app purchase. Makes sense, but surely represents a loop hole... that I think something I'm building might be able to exploit :-)
While OS X and Linux both have their problems, being defiantly user-hostile aren't among them.

I can't imagine the mind of the person at MS who decided that making Solitaire pay-to-play was a good idea.

It's fascinating how decisions like this get made, how products like Win 8 and 10 get out the door, and how MS seems to think it can fix the terrible design by downvoting critics on public forums and getting PR companies to write booster posts that are so ham-handed they have no persuasive power.

As a company, MS has a lot of really smart individuals doing really dumb things collectively. I'd be incredibly interested if MS could find its own Rodney Brooks to explain the business processes that make that happen.

Not a hater, btw. Office 365 and Azure both have their good points. But Windows and mobile seem like industry-changing disasters now, and from the outside it seems like the icebergs shouldn't have been that hard to miss.
If they weren't being paid the same before this stunt, they weren't peers.
Hello, Octopress 3.0
The point is that there is evident discrimination, even if we (as men) don't perceive it as such. Many of it is subconscious.
There is a limited budget in the company for salary. A raise for another means a smaller (or no) raise for you.
Republicans Audition for Big Money
> pushed to RHEL and Fedora

It's more like systemd was developed for Fedora/RHEL, given that a good chunk of its developers are from Red Hat.

Also, I doubt that the Fedora/RHEL maintainers are a bunch of loons easily fooled by systemd developers, so I guess they willing adopted it and nothing has been pushed. If instead they are the loons you seem to imply, I wouldn't care much about their decisions.

> Debian lacks strong leadership with vision, and so they simply did what they always do which is to blindly follow RedHat's lead

Ah ah ah, no. Please go re-read https://bugs.debian.org/727708
The point is that the armed forces don't need the PT requirements, and they are mostly a way of selecting recruits.

There are good reasons for increasing diversity, and if that means women, with their naturally lower muscle mass get a lower PT requirement, that is not really favouritism.
F-Secure Router Checker – Is My DNS Hijacked?
I thought the article was about how he fucked his business with this nonsense, was it not?
Actually this is already happening. I wanted to motivate some friends of mine to maybe attend a DjangoGirls workshop and they objected to "Girls" and the girliness.

But in general, women can bear "girliness" even if they don't like it, and it feels a lot less threatening than machoism and more attractive than, say trekki-ism.
And now it is down with db issues.
Apple needs to first launch a competing service or acquire one of them before they'd pull that move I imagine?
> Yes - and this contradicts belorn's theory.

Scientific consensus also disagrees with that theory. We believe that the reason is related to power disparity not simply being a minority group.

> Here is Scott Alexander doing some pretty good regressions (r=-0.82, p=0.0003).

Except that it explains little, as women participation in all fields is rising. So while it may always be the case that you'll find that correlation with mathematical ability, it matters little, as it explains smaller and smaller differences. In fact, a low analytical writing score may correlate better than a high math score. Where things get weird is in CS, and worse: the software industry.

> There is lots of evidence of innate ability playing a significant role in this. Here are some papers...

That's not what the papers show at all. The greatest difference I spotted was twice as many boys as girls over the 99th percentile. We are talking 5x-10x participation gap in software.
Indeed, it was an important security feature. I think Bill is just saying that they should've got PC manfacturers to add a "Log On" key to the keyboard which they could've caught in the OS in the same way as Ctrl+Alt+Del.

I think the only other key that has this low-level trap feature is SysRq (usually Alt+PrintScreen), which, of course, Linux uses for [Magic SysRq](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key).

Now that I think of it, "Press 'System Request' to log on" has a nice ring to it. A shame it was it in the shifted position on IBM PC keyboards.
It's funny how blind people are to the same thing happening today. Most employers openly refuse people based on their nationality and we are perfectly accepting of that, even enforcing it with the law!

I wonder if people in another 100 years will think it's wrong to discriminate against people because of who their parents were.
It is good to see a respected teacher and theorist of the agile movement making the point that good judgement is preferred over dogmatic adherence to a set of principles.
If you think about the methods of farming worldwide etc, they also use a lot of human labor etc because there's not enough sophisticated industry to run everything on solar charged battery powered robot tractors...
So you have to accept a local optimum.

Reading for half an hour per day could have large payoff, compared to reading very little ever, because it's too dark.
Ok, I confess to not reading the article, I was just reacting to the comment.
That actually starts making a lot of sense.
You should research feminism in general and diversity movements in technology some more. Also Lynn Root's talk at EuroPython was a good recapitulation of current diversity trends.

There is evidence which prooves discrimination and unfavorable bias against women in technology. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with creating organisations for women.

Fact is, several DjangoGirls "graduates" who have never done any programming have gotten programming jobs within a year. So apparently, there is some benefit to their on-boarding and motivational efforts.
The Serval WS from System76 has nice specs. If the build quality is reasonably solid, and it works well with other distros, then that could be my next laptop.

Then of course there's the Eurocom Panther 5SE: Xeon E5-2600 v2 series processors and 32GB of DDR3 1600MHz RAM. Weighs 12lbs :)

Eventually I think the low-power server movement could end up yielding more high end laptops... hopefully some that are lighter than 5kg!
Can you point out where the links are?
This is the 1999 I remember as well, with the addition of visual clutter (see present-day excite.com for a reminder), JavaScript everywhere (DHTML, not AJAX), and pop-up and pop-under ads making the Flash ads of today look tame and gentle--those that don't autoplay video, at least. I've heard OP's tale before, but it was certainly no more than a tale by the late 90s.

And "blazing fast" is definitely a relative term. I remember the feeling of liberation when we got rid of dial-up, but there were still plenty of seconds-long load times just to see the main content--only to find it scrunched between two fixed-width sidebars (arranged in a table). And it was quite possible that the page would do its utmost to slow your browser down with custom scrollbars and cursors.

Image maps for site navigation, font size=1, and precious little free hosting of user content without ads pasted at the top and bottom of the page, more prominent than ever.
Then don't use the standard themes, it's not hard to find minimal themes.

http://qrohlf.com/posts/5-best-jekyll-designs/
I feel it's not about sexism or men versus women.

IT simply attracts too many people of one kind and interest, and it's detrimental to the industry's output. For instance, we can't attract or keep people with creative design or artistic skills in the industry because of the mono-culture in many workplaces. It doesn't matter if those people are men or women; there are a lot of men who also get tired of working in a hardcore IT environment.

I have a friend who's a nurse; that sector simply can't attract men, even though there's a clear need for male power in some of the more physical demanding jobs. It's not about "equality" or "political correctness"; we need their skills.

I have no problem finding Python developers; but I can't find anybody who can do the design, usable interface and graphics while still having enough coding skills to support the project. We need more diverse skill sets and hence, a more diverse group of people. Not because they are women or black or gay or loopy artists; but simply because we could produce something better.

Projects like these might attract a more diverse group of people than stereotypical coders.
I've written a series of articles on some of the changes I'd like to see.

http://jimkeener.com/posts/alt-login

http://jimkeener.com/posts/barcode-html-tag

http://jimkeener.com/posts/http

I also created a got repo to help merge and coordinate ideas. Contributions are always welcome.

https://github.com/jimktrains/http_ng
It's a BS argument. A lot less than 50% of programmers are women, so there is no way 50% of open source projects (as a sign of merit, as I understand you) could be started by women.
zooming in on Android 4.4.4 browser prevents scrolling for me
> imperative chunk of simple and straightforward C is far better than arcane declarative CSS based

Nope, consider yourself lucky if you have never heard the horror stories about the old theming code (and even more lucky from the fact that you never had to poke at it). :)

P.S. Me too, I worked at a small studio developing web apps for a few year, then moved to optimizing HTML/JS/CSS3 apps running on a custom WebKit enviroment with animations, transitions and whatnot on a embedded (and horribly low-powered) platform and now I have the pleasure of trying to make WebKit work well on the Raspberry Pi.

As far as I can tell, CSS is several orders of magnitude better than poking at C code for those purposes.
Shen is executable sequent calculus. It's data types are sequents, the conditions specified as arbitrary lisp (shen). Wikipedia seems to classify Shen as having algebraic data types, although it's type system isn't derived from ML or Cateogry Theory.
> almost nobody used SSL

Sad part is that this wasn't an issue back then.
The Apple commission is for in-app purchases that are mostly digital goods.
Thinner air produces less drag. You can travel faster over air that is less dense. Meaning the total volume of air flowing over the wing still remains high enough to provide lift. A 400mph glider would get torn apart at normal pressures, but at 90k it won't.

Relatively 'normal' gliders have been over Mt. Everest.
Author of the post here. Thanks for posting it, it's little out of date in terms of the references in there but I stand by the sentiment.

Since I wrote the article I feel like I've seen something of a drop in usage of the kinds of techniques described, total anecdata though.

Patreon posted below looks very interesting. Thanks for the heads up.
A remake of Blast Corps for the Nintendo 64: http://youtu.be/_N51L5h37VQ

It plays to the strengths of the engine: explosions and terrain deformation are key, and huge draw distance is not needed the way they placed the camera (likely needed back in the N64 days).
Solitaire is pay-to-play now? Thats insane.
Because you're not buying features or consuming what you're buying through the app.

Is Amazon supposed to give 30% of all purchases made through the Amazon app? ofcourse not. If Amazon made additional search features an optional upgrade for the app, I'd imagine Apple would want a piece of that.
Any SF Bay: Startup Founders want to meet up this week?
Im in nob hill, but happy to meet elsewhere in SF
Gates provides an odd answer, and somewhat shifting blame.

He's essentially saying he would have preferred a single "Reboot" key on the keyboard, then would have used that to begin the login sequence?
I think it has to do with the fact that customer's are paying for an offline service, not something that happens inside the application.

Likewise, I don't think e-commerce apps have to hand Apple a 30% cut of everything they sell.
As far as I understand it, there is a misconception that women are bad at programming, or don't like it, or whatever. So yes, motivating women to learn Django is a necessary task if diversity is to be increase.
Sure. Does any work that complies with current US law meet that bar though?

Children working on tobacco farms maybe do count. (And even if they're not slaves it's still a big problem).

But to suggest that domestic cleaners working for Holejoy os pretty insulting to the people who are working in illegal slave like conditions in the US.
Indeed. That is exactly the example that popped into my head as well. It would not surprise me at all if there were even a few holocaust deniers with PhDs in history.
MSG-theater, not the arena. :/
How can you entirely discount marketplace dynamics? If Uber has all of the drivers signed up then the users try switching to Lyft but no drivers are available then they will go right back to Uber. Uber has raised billions and are seemingly making a lot of money so they can easily afford to fight legal battles around the world.
Apiwave: Tracking Java APIs Popularity and Migration
There's actually no justification for charging for this.

The "cost" of making the transaction includes development costs, which you've had $18m to pay for (isn't that enough?) and computer cycles, which are distributed anyway.

So what you're actually doing is adding a commercial chokehold and red tape into a system designed for the open distribution of value and information.

You're simply aiming to become an alternative monopoly.

Thiel approves, of course. I think the idea is a very bad one, because I believe in removing all friction and cost of entry to the absolute maximum extent possible - not in automating red tape with contract code.
Given that

malicious: intending or intended to do harm.

bigoted: having prejudiced intolerance of the opinions of others.

I was only merely pointing out that reporting an atheist page is simply the result of intolerance and not of an intention to harm.
Mozilla Firefox ships as the default browser with almost every Linux distro. Why is this not a problem? Is that hypocrisy really lost on everyone but me?
I can't really picture a system where 20% of teacher are absent on any given day... and since I can't picture it I feel like I'm not really getting the whole picture. The article just gives a single paragraph to blame the unions and doesn't really dive into the issue. So I looked into it:

http://r4d.dfid.gov.uk/pdf/outputs/systematicreviews/Q39Teac...

The primary reasons for absenteeism seem to be personal/family health (which, granted, that could be bullshit if it was self-reported) and work related requirements (training, etc.)

Several studies showed correlation between poverty and absenteeism, which suggests to me that teachers who have less financial resources to deal with personal issues are going to miss work more often to go deal with those issues.

It was also noted that administrators were absent more often than teachers and the author suggested this as being a factor in teacher absenteeism.
He's referring to parsing the JavaScript on page load.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/30/windows-10-now-wants-you-to-p...
I had a no pickup with Uber recently, despite the car circling around our spot at a metro park and ride for five minutes. We messaged the driver to try to help, but he simply didn't respond. Because he waited to cancel, we were initially charged $5 for the driver's inability to find us. Uber ultimately reversed the charge, so that's the silver lining, but it was annoying to have wasted about 20 minutes of our time and then assume we wanted to pay $5 for the privilege.

I've also had great service with Uber too. I'd like to see each each company publish their missed connections numbers, see the data on which has more confused no shows.
> Let me make one last point and then I promise I will shut up and give you the last word if you want it. You began this conversation by stating that the article “did not claim to find a single window sign anywhere in the USA.” I think we now agree at least that this is not correct. Many are specifically listed.

Ouch. That's a serious burn.
Argumentative takedowns like this pretty common. I wonder if an account diversity algo could help identify legitimate reports?
The Kármán line isn't the "edge of space" either.
That's 60 seconds I'll never get back.
> but how do I assign a number to "magnitude in the change of behavior"?

You don't. Read what I wrote.

> You've not defined a "hegemonic group" either.

If you're interested, look it up. I feel a strong sense of deja-vu.

> maybe you can clearly state a hypothetical observation which would prove your theory incorrect

I think I've done it twice in the past when talking to you, so I'll only provide a short abstract here (and again, it's not my theory but the consensus theory): If groups with power were not to resist social mobility (i.e. for less powerful groups to obtain more power) we'd see a constant shift in power distribution, which would be very fluid, while what we observe is the complete opposite: a very stable power structure that then breaks and gets restructured relatively very rapidly during revolutions that are rare. So the pattern is long periods of stability and then quick changes brought about by some explosive event or a demonstrable pattern of slow power acquisition through many struggles. When it comes to women, the pattern is often the latter (there's a simple explanation for that), but you can see how women gain access to politics, law, medicine etc. only after very long fights against very strong opposition (that invariably cite innate ability as the barrier).

> For example, to disprove my "more math less women" theory, you should find a broad category of similar careers, run linear regression on math content vs % female, and find a flat or upward sloping line. I.e., the same analysis as was done on Scott Alexander's post (see my link), but with the opposite result.

Two problems with that. First, yours is not a theory but a description. Second, it is not a very relevant one because it doesn't explain the constant change in participation, nor the gender-gap in the software industry. Finally, while "more math less women" may have always held on average, the slope has changed. I don't think anybody minds if the gender distribution in physics is 60-40%, even if that difference is entirely due to innate ability. So your description does not even compete with mine because it doesn't even try to explain the same phenomenon, which is the one we care the most to explain.

That has little to do with the 4:1 or even 10:1 difference we see in the software industry.
I think you, and those below, have misunderstood this quote, in the usual knee-jerk liberal ("fuck off") fascist manner. She is complaining about the lack of productive use of the land. She is saying that the native Americans didn't have rights to keep the land from being used productively. She is saying that they are maintaining a way life that is not progressing - she is not saying they should be excluded from progressing.
Part and parcel of the new Apple/IBM cooperation deal. I wonder if IBM is pushing iOS as well for their employees?
The correct link: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/01/still-wo...
Hacked Molecular Machine Could Pump Out Custom Chemicals
> Most employers openly refuse people based on their nationality and we are perfectly accepting of that, even enforcing it with the law!

I assume you're talking about the H-1B visas, etc?
Article seems correct to me. Even diehard thinkpad fans say the product line has degraded. Have you actually compared recent ones to older ones or are you just complaining without data points?
Fossil fuel is a solar battery; charged in a couple hundred million years, humans will drain it in ~500.

No wonder we're seeing exponential growth with that injection of stored energy into society. The industrial revolution is a coal-powered nitro.
The Metropolitan Man
historians have not discovered reports of any in the United States, Canada or Australia.

Oh really? Australia, 1862:

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/115763711?searchTerm...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9985664
Yes, a single hardware SAK would have been much preferable. Given Microsoft's predilection for adding buttons for all other sorts of things in the 90's, I don't understand why this never happened.
If you could update the references, who's doing it right today?
If this is a veiled reference to affirmative action, at least show the courage to say what you really mean.
What Science Says about Kids and Tech
> he didn't look deeply enough, and once he drew the initial wrong conclusion, he invented a totally wrong theory to explain it.

My reading is the opposite. He started with a theory and then did a shallow search to bolster his pre-conceived theory, ignoring or discounting any findings that didn't fit.
Why would you use this instead of Cucumber?
Yeah. It’s note-worthy that as foreigner, I can’t use Lyft at all currently, even when I’m in the states, as none of their payment methods work: they don’t accept credit cards outside the US/canada, they don’t accept Google Wallet if your account is non-US and their PayPal payment option just said “Server error”.
AFAIK Cyclone was a major inspiration for Rust, so you could say its legacy lives on.

https://twitter.com/rustlang/status/528221679961399296
As the density of the air falls with altitude, an airplane's stalling speed (true, not indicated) rises. Conversely, as the temperature falls, so does the speed of sound. The convergence of these two values puts a practical upper limit on the altitude of a subsonic airplane. The glider's edge here is in having a low stalling speed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_corner_(aerodynamics)