jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hiring of women in VC will not increase.

Just the opposite.

The jury deliberated for 20 hours after a month long trial. They found nothing to back the claim. And KPCB got dragged through the mud.

There is no gender quota in law. Thus, if it's my fund, I'm not hiring any member of a 'protected class.'

It's not worth the risk -- if you get a really, really unreasonable person like Pao, you're spending million$ and your 43 years of good reputation for, what -- THREE YEARS of doubts in the mind of KPCB limited partners? She filed the lawsuit in 2012. Three years of bad publicity, three years of KPCB clients being wary about investing.

"If I invest a portion of the college endowment fund/pension fund/etc. I am managing into a KPCB round -- and they lose their discrimination lawsuit -- will that hurt my career -- because I invested assets into a predatory firm, and knew about it since 2012?"

There's no WAY I'm risking hiring a person in a 'protected class' -- if they perform poorly and fail to take personal responsibility and 'play the race/gender/sexual harassment/etc. card' and sue -- my firm is being marginalized for three years ?! NOT WORTH IT.

Guess what the only category of person is not a protected class? CAUCASIAN MALES.

Here are 'protected class' types:

- ethnic minority (black, hispanic, asian, etc.) - PROTECTED CLASS ("didn't promote me because they're white and I'm not")

- female of any race: PROTECTED CLASS ("didn't promote me/sexually harassed me/discriminated against me because I'm a girl")

It's in a VC firm's best interest then to HIRE ONLY CAUCASIAN MALES after this farce that put a cloud over KPCB for three years.

There is no enforceable quota, no law, that requires any protected class be hired into a VC fund.

If I'm running a VC fund, I'm hiring caucasian males.

It's not worth the risk KPCB took -- they are the leading VC firm in hiring a broad spectrum of folks, including women, and look what happened to them. BURNED.

I'm also having HR hire resources to check whether the hiree has:

- money problems

- a history of suing others

- a spouse with money problems

- a spouse with a history of suing people

It's my firm and I'm not going out of my way if the 'protected class' can burn me for three years in the media while waiting for a B.S. trial. Three years of bad press; a month-long trial; then it only took TWO DAYS to find out it was a completely frivolous case.

Wow.

If EP really wanted to get more women hired in VC, this was not the way.

Just the opposite.
Say one of your build rules generates a data file by performing some expensive computations. The parallelism is internal to the code (say, it's a Monte-Carlo simulation), so it should run on a lot of cores, but if you're doing it multiple times (with, say, different parameters) in parallel, you don't want the total number of threads spawned to be more than the machine has.
Do they mean that 10% of the original Blaze rules are now open source or that 10% of the Bazel rules they've released are open source?
It seems to me that we need the legal system to recognize computer-processed 'big data' as what it is, which is a totally new kind of information that doesn't fit neatly into our existing privacy framework. I think it's good that this technology exists (especially if my car were to be stolen), but I don't see how it would be harmful to the public interest to require police to get a warrant before looking me up.

Of course there are edge cases, where it's hard to draw the line between automated and semi-automated data collection, but that's why we have judges. However, it is troubling that this new technology is hitting its stride during a time which is not great for privacy rights in general.
I was a bit disappointed that lines for the trips weren't displayed -- just pick-up and drop-off points.
Back when homosexuality was considered really bad, imagine if all this tech had existed. How would history for LGBT rights have been different if we could find and imprison all homosexuals instead of them being able to hide, organize, and fight for their rights?
The GIL absolutely makes it easier to use OS threads in terms of development ease, but the "performance optimization" piece I can't really see, except insofar as the development ease aspect means that developers are less likely to avoid using threads where they would provide a performance benefit.
Can't find a better source but it was announced few months ago:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2838008/javascript/nginx-ha...
I was using "erase" figuratively.
Please define 'close to a break' .. how much progress did your brute force attack make in 70 days?
Seconded. I do this myself. (And I set the gnome panel to autohide as well.)
There was probably less than a week.
Ahh, sorry. QS is QuantifiedSelf (for example http://quantifiedself.com/2010/09/seth-roberts-on-arithmetic...) I was saying that if you were already tracking yourself, we would be interested in that data as well :)

(So for example: meal spacing, vitamin intake, whole food vs refined vitamin intake, exercise types, chlorinated water vs bottled, type and form of fat, soluble vs insoluble fiber intake, whole food fiber vs refined fibers, stress levels, sleep quantity and quality, pet exposure, social exposure, etc)

If you're not already logging it (and don't find the idea exciting for other reasons) no sweat... I was just trying to say we'd be very interested in surprising correlations here.
The article talks mostly about weight loss as a benefit. There are also suggestions that cold may improve your immune system. Wim Hof (aka the "Ice man") is exploring that idea[1]. Among other things, he runs marathons in the arctic on bare foot and sits in ice cubes for prolonged periods. He also did a ted talk a while ago. http://www.icemanwimhof.com/en-home
Have you tried weinre?
Yup, this is pretty common mistake when people do these timers. Also note in the JS it set the date to `var date = new Date(2015, 01, 01);` i.e New Years Day. So it's not some message that it will be back up in 30 days or anything like that :(
Disagree. A16Z is the exception, not the rule (and I can only see 3 defi protocols in their portfolio: COMP, UNI, MKR). What defi projects has Sequoia invested in?

There are many VCs who are into crypto that have invested in smart contract platforms (i.e. ETH killers), but missed out on investing in the actual applications built on Ethereum (Defi protocols). The applications have heavily outperformed the ETH killers. USV is an example of this, pioneering the fat protocol thesis and completely missing out on actual applications.

While there are SV based crypto companies like Coinbase, the majority of things happening in crypto happens outside of SV. Binance, FTX, Bitfinex, Bitmex, Bitstamp are all non US. Out of the top 10 defi projects, only 2 are SV based and the majority are non US based.

In crypto SV is not the center at all, which is very different to the internet where SV is obviously the center
That kind of attitude is why we have people denying global warming. Terms have meaning, allowing idiots to try to muddy the waters hurts all of mankind. It has nothing to do with "Lisp nerds from MIT".
You aren't aware of their localized .uk, .de, .jp, etc sites for they have for their markets in other countries?
I think we're going to have to disagree about that. To me living above your means is when the equation (monthly expenses > monthly income) is true. As soon as that happens you're on the skids and the longer you take to recognize that the longer it will take you to get back out of it (if you'll manage at all). I've been both fairly wealthy and (for western standards, I hasten to say) fairly poor and the only reason I never went bankrupt or needed assistance in the form of social security or loans is a ruthless cutting of costs when that was a necessity.

To me having two vehicles when you have no income and two children with health issues is absolutely way above your means.

Of course that situation sucks and it sucks even more that this happened in a country where healthcare is anything but free and getting around without a car is difficult but that does not change the cold hard facts. Feel free to shoot the messenger but better heed these words if your life situation ever should change for the worse in a short time, your future depends on your ability to adjust rapidly in situations like that, ignoring it or trying to postpone the inevitable will not help at all.
I have been a web-dev freelancer for 5 years and is now building a small team to make quality websites (mostly webtools).

Some random things I learnt from the transition :

- The most interesting projects rarely (mostly never) relies on a one person "team". Big projects are important for the customer and they need to know they will have someone to contact even if it's holiday time. You want the true customer to buy from you interesting projects : don't be alone.

- Once you have a team, you will look for interesting projects. They are more complicated to get. They often come from medium / large organization. Those orgs. have important inertia. Projects can take weeks of month to start. Chase multiple projects at the same time.

- Once you have bigger project you must learn to make precise time evaluation. It is really complicated. It must be done before the project is sold but you must not spend too much time on it. It is key since you want to earn money (no brainer) but mostly to have a smooth production calendar.

In my case, we are just a team of two. I spend half time in sales activities and the other developing websites. My coworker is full time dev.

If you want to discuss in details, reply here or email me : paul@agence-donatello.fr

Good luck ! There are freakingly high mountains of demands and needs outside. You can take your piece.
Does the article advocate for these practices or merely report on them? I didn't really pick up on an approving tone myself.
I feel like the lack of CD-ROM dissuaded smaller-budget developers (eg: Moon, Vip Ribbon, etc.) and RPG makers like you mention, but I don't know if lacking a CD-ROM ultimately harmed the Nintendo 64's value proposition. The Resident Evil 2 port from Angel Studios was impressive reuse of the console's RSP, but I don't know if those sort of experiences were what Nintendo was going for or what it's audiences wanted anyway. I do think the PlayStation with it's CD-ROM drive did better with a broadening audience especially as the NES crowd grew older though.
I've worked in technical support in Central America and there's something I noticed with some users. Like those younger than 25 y/o users or older than 65 y/o.

For them, their phone is their first computer and they never really used e-mail.

Some of them can't recall their e-mail addresses or less their e-mail passwords.

This happens even if Android is the most popular phone and requires a GMail account to be properly set up.

They just create a new GMail account when they get a new phone or somtimes just keep using the GMail account from the previous owner instead.
RE the event signature: (If you raise an event from an item within a repeated block then synergy provides the data for that item as the second argument to your event handler function.) If you have a nested loop then you'll get the data item for that particular loop.
Is there nothing to build on top of? A "e-mail" dev framework (open source if possible) with hooks so that you can focus on only front-end, or something similar?
Why compare yourself to unsuccessful people? there are always plenty of them. Almost anyone who can read & do maths can say "i'm smarter than 50% of Earth population" so..
I believe that is the main reason it is labelled as such and more expensive than regular grain fed beef. Same with free range/cage-free eggs.
I'd sell my soul to google for fiber.
You're referring to the impeachment process, the basis for which was a shady phone call during which Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to open an investigation of Joe Biden. That had absolutely nothing to do with the Russian Collusion investigation.
I believe we've seen this here before.
I'm sure GigaOm or TechCrunch would love to hear your story.
I know well that one can't expect 100% uptime. But I have had a few outages since yesterday. Even so, my main problem with prgmr is not the hardware but their almost complete lack of support.
Unfortunately these same ADHD types can't seem to read the webpage they're ordering from. It's said "shipping in 4-6 weeks" forever.
Um, he was talking about a 3GS, not an iPhone 4. Read the rest of his comments.
It has nothing to do with pigment levels, bigotry, racism, or any other ism. There are cultures who will stone you to death for wearing the wrong clothing, or tear you limb from limb on the spur of the moment for practicing witchcraft. They merely remain violent and barbaric when they get oil or diamonds or whatever; the natural resources do not make them that way. (The claim was that the natural resources were what changed Saudi Arabia and the Congo into violent cesspools.)
I think you hit the problem on the head. Skype thrived on its simple user experience, while Joost's overcomplicated and kludgy UX killed it.
What? You're practically sledding down that slope!

Your flagship 'features' are all based on NXDOMAIN poisoning and intentional censorship in your nameserver by default. You're doing more than anyone else to fragment DNS all while having the chutzpah to market it as 'open'.
His was a universal pronoun for almost 200 years until the women's lib movement of the 1960s. Know what? A lot of dumb things happened in the 1960s. It's 2010. Let's not spend our time arguing over pronouns.
It's not athletics; at a large state school those programs bring in a heap more money than they cost to operate.
> Unless you are a female student in physical sciences or math, I don't think you can really understand what its like to be told, implicitly and explicitly, for most of your secondary and college education, that you are inferior to your male peers.

I keep hearing this "inferior to your male peers" bit, but oddly enough, when I was in high school, the higher-level math and science classes were mostly populated by girls. The more respectable the class was, the more female-skewed the sex ratio was. I think I was the only person in my physiology class with a Y chromosome. This was in the American Midwest, in a vaguely lower-middle-class area.

To this day, I still don't know what was up with that.
Lost me at the moment he said "You can connect to your social networks ... "
I think it would actually be fine if they didn't sanction it, and had it violate the warranty (at least), but allowed it (and hid the setting somewhere).
Here's the original article. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1007137.

The study is impressively well done, as are most articles in the New England Journal. Other researchers will be studying their methods as much as their results.

> Without a comprehensive listing of specific meals

Actually, they did better and developed local indexes for all foods for each center and had the patients keep food diaries.

> Further, gaining a pound of fat over a period of 6 months works out to less than 20 extra calories per day. This is essentially noise.

First, this is why we enroll more than one patient. The noise averages out. Two: the unit of measure was kilograms, the average arm gained more than 1 kg. Three, see figure 2B in the article: they quite nicely demonstrate sufficient granularity to appreciate signal.

> Keeping your blood sugar in check is a major factor in preventing binge eating and fat storage

> people engaged in sustained cardiovascular exercise must eat high-GI foods or their performance drops

Your liver has glycogen stores on board that will keep your blood sugar rock steady for the first 20 miles of a marathon. Unless you are exercising at a heart rate of 160-180 for 2.5 or more hours, this is useless trivia.

> Riders in the Tour de France chow down on every sugary snack and drink known

> Michael Phelps eats 12,000 calories a day while training.

Some of the most over-cited factoids on the Internet. I swam competitively for 7 years and raced bikes competitively for four, and still ride. I'm also a doctor who spent a fair amount of a surgical internship with the bariatrics unit. These facts about elite athletes do not bear on anyone who has a BMI of 34 (Patients are generally ineligible for bariatric surgery below a BMI of 35)), the average human, or, almost certainly, you. A far more useful factoid is that your glycogen stores are depleted overnight, so a 2-3 hour cardio session in the morning will force you to burn fat. The body has no other choice. (No, it won't burn muscle).

> if you are completely sedentary, if you are engaged in a mentally taxing task, your brain is burning through a lot of glucose

Normal adult human brain uses, 120 g to, maybe, 220 g of glucose per day. At the outside, that's 750 Calories.

> sucrose means half glucose and half fructose, and only the glucose can be metabolized immediately. Fructose can be stored by the liver and converted, but if the liver reserves are full (e.g. late in the day, as opposed to waking up from fasting during sleep), fructose will end up as fat. Fructose has a low glycemic index,

True. Unfortunately, your implicit conclusion . . .

> guess which sugar is more likely to be included in a low-GI diet

Is what? Are you saying they loaded these cats with fructose? If they did, then these results are even more impressive, because we would expect a high fructose diet to promote fat gain. Are you saying they loaded them with glucose? That would make no sense, because glycemic index measures "blood glucose".

> Finally, without body composition analysis, they haven't shown anything about fat loss.

See Table 2 of the study.
What about "myusername has not listed any skills."?
If I may, do you still medicate in the same way, use something different, or has your depression improved, or what?
You may disagree with the use of "Paleo" nomenclature, but the pillars of the diet are sound - and a 1,000% improvement on the USDA food pyramid.
Very nice work. Now that you have a platform, you can start on the next mountain: making a fun game. =)

Here's an old presentation I did on designing the MONOPOLY pinball machine for Stern back in 2001. (so old I had to dig it out of the Internet Archive)

https://web.archive.org/web/20040806155145/http://www.patlaw...
Dunno how tongue-in-cheek you're being, but as a Minnesotan my perspective is that people in warmer parts of the country truly cannot fathom enduring our winters. Which is a point of view that many of us here actively encourage, but even so, its deterrence value is puzzling considering the other quality-of-life arguments.
I'm using Reflux for now, though I'm tempted to switch to something more FRP like Bacon, f, or RxJS. I find that I end up making stores for both AllThings and CurrentThing, and it should be easier to express that relationship with FRP.
super expensive!
Thanks for the kind words. Still so much to do!
In case you’re not aware, Pinkerton was a prominent security company which gained a reputation for literally murdering labor organizers. For context.
Oh yeah very recognizable (I'm a professional software dev now for over 20 years too ;)). It's indeed key to have the dev of the software used to do support as well, at least for some time. I try to do support for my own work as well to stay in touch with what customers have to deal with so I can improve it. Has worked well over the years even though it's not always the greatest work.
Since their initial Chromecast support, Plex has won out in my home thanks to its better metadata support and sharing libraries through their website.

Does anyone with OpenELEC/Kodi experience if this is still the case? Should I switch?
Not to mention, Nim still doesn't have a Wikipedia article because it is "not significant". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_(disambiguation)
I agree. As a veteran myself, I often wondered about the decisions to move from the proven 7.62 to the not-so-effective 5.56. Back in WWII, if a German soldier took at .30-06 in the chest from an M1, he wasn't getting up from it. Even the British Enfield and Vickers guns using the venerable old .303 (7mm) would put a man down reliably with a solid hit.

I personally know troops who have shot insurgents several times with M4s at lethal ranges (less than 200') and they took the hits and kept fighting long enough to return fire. Those same insurgents hit with a 7.62 slug would be DRT. Full stop. There is a reason quite a few Marines and soldiers carried .357 revolvers in Vietnam. The reason was the stopping power. The 125 grain .357 traveling at 1400 FPS boasts 96% one shot stops on human torsos that are not armoured. The .357 is still the gold standard for handgun stopping power. Like you with your 1911, I'm a .357 guy. If I cannot do it with six, I need something belt fed. Plus, like a lot of guys I know, I favour a New York reload anyway.

Stay safe.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't SpaceX benefit from the knowledge gained from (the failures of) NASA projects?

Knowledge doesn't start from scratch each time one starts a new project. I find it hard to argue that that money was a waste. It's a slippery slope to claiming that science shouldn't be funded, which we know is wrong; knowledge needs a space where it can fail without repercussions, this is how most modern technologies were invented [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jTCBirELDU
You're right about "technically possible but probably not gonna happen." The part you're missing is - although the market might have access (and be able to) parse data in an "informed" way, that doesn't mean all market participants will react to that data in the same, rational manner.
That's still really insecure, because it means that as soon as someone manages to gain any access to that network or any of the services on that network has a security issue your database is wide open.

That means that if someone manages to get access to the. I'd say public internet with proper (encrypted) password auth is more secure than that.
Olivetti
There are, but they're accounted for and explicitly called out and noted as situations that aren't covered. I don't know if it generalizes to all of their plans (employers can customize them to an extent), but for the two companies I've had it through:

- The employer can't see individual usage. It's effectively structured as an insurance plan, and all they can see is aggregate utilization levels for the group plan as a whole.

- Engagements are covered by all of the same client-lawyer confidentiality you'd have if you retained the lawyer personally. There's no shenanigans that rope your employer into that circle of privilege.

- Any suit/legal issue involving your company (the plan sponsor) is automatically not a covered situation you can use them for. That way they avoid the conflict of interest.

- Business-related issues aren't covered. So, for example, your plan may include all of the legal aspects of (document/title review, presence during closing, etc) during buying a house. But only if the house is for personal use. Houses bought as an investment property rather than a residence to live in would be excluded. Same with stuff like freelancing contracts and whatnot.
If you're not interested in debating their intentions then why frame it as a donation? That by itself is a normative judgement in this context, and the reason I brought up framing, since normally two primary characteristics of a donation are that it can be refused and that it is being offered in good faith.

This is the same general point that the original comment you had replied to was making which itself was an explanation of why people are distrustful of P0 even if the brass tax is positive for the end user. It's fine if you don't find that political side of it interesting but it's not as simple as just being a donation.