skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guy could be correct but some of those stats don't look like they relate. Presumably a lot of the people working in tech in SV didn't originate from SV so the proportion of women in the general population of SV is pretty meaningless unless women interested in tech are going to SV then not landing tech jobs but staying in SV.
Posted one day ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10149563
The first movers in programming were women.
They're all about being data-driven until the data shows they're racist and sexist. ;)

However, I'm going to note that this happens with any majority. I'm a white guy that spent much of my life in areas that were controlled by Blacks and one controlled by Hispanics. Whites in those areas experienced everything Blacks describe in areas with white racists: job discrimination; government discrimination; different police treatment; being served second or not at all at a food place; unprovoked beatdowns by black mobs (esp in schools); different punishment in schools; banned from certain "hoods" always or certain times. Ran into one or two places controlled by women that discriminated against men for key positions but most women-run places were more fair.

Anyway, the point is this stuff is an aspect of human nature and group dynamics. It happens any time a majority is in control of an area or situation with minorities pushing into their turf. We need to eliminate it across the board for all parties. The Navy example was a great one. I also once attended a diversity class that suggested methods of trying to eliminate bias. Another time a HR person suggested Topgrading methodology that was results-focused and said it helped her. Each of these apparently reduced the effect of discrimination in hiring, promotion, and firing.

So, I think we should put a bunch of effort into further R&D on such methods. Not to mention, collect a bunch of what's proven to work (partly or fully) into one resource. I see lots of interesting, data-driven methods posted on HN. Add them, too. Maybe keep a forum or blog network going where results of experiments can be posted over time to see where success is trending. All methods focusing on the skills, character, and objective-as-possible results are the best starting point regardless.
Use it through voice. Eg, "Navigate to XXX". Easiest way I've found to use it.
You will be very hard pressed to find religious scientists that are reputable.
Google Ranking Factors: 260+ Facts and Myths
‘Spin a magnet inside a loop of copper and the form of energy you create can provide you with light, heat, food and clean water.’ is my favorite. And the ones about scientific method of course(but I think there should be a way to put it more eloquently and concisely).
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He gave a talk not long after the initial post where he said something to the effect of 'You guys, NBL is obviously JavaScript!" I think I saw it on YouTube at the time, not sure if it is still available.
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The problem with these hypothetical questions is that they all require some form of clairvoyance to ask them.

How do you know the kids would be saved by your sacrifice? How do you know they would die from your selfishness? How do you know that bus isn't actually filled with violent and dangerous felons being transferred to supermax while awaiting execution, and the guards on it aren't also corrupt to the core?

You don't have that extra information at the time the decision would need to be made.

The logical and ethical thing for the computer to do would be to switch over to emergency collision avoidance mode, and try to avoid damage to the one vehicle it can actually control. The authority to instruct a driver to put its passengers at risk would have to be vested in some sort of traffic control program capable of recognizing when the selfish behavior of individual driver programs might result in more damage and injury overall.

And that's a whole new can of worms.
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Eliminating bias in hiring is likely a good thing (with some govt security exceptions) Allowing opportunity to all who meet qualifications is good. What is not settled is what is normal or acceptable for different fields. That's to say, while women are severely underrepresented in high tech, if based on demographics, is the end to have all fields mimic the demographics of a given area radius or a given graduating class? It may be worthwhile, or not. I don't know.

What I would say is people who qualify (credentials, whatever, immigration status, clearance status, etc) should have equal opportunity and should not face discrimination. It may even warrant active recruitment, but I'm unsure if that is good or just on the surface desirable.

Interestingly, and this is anecdotal, but in my experience there is a higher relative ratio of East and south Asian women than women in general in tech. Even more to the point, Asian women are better represented in ee and cs than non Asian who might be in supporting roles like marketing, branding, etc. If the observations hold, it would be interesting to see why.
When working in risk management business development, my firm was pursuing some line of business with Sabre. Most probably know, but they're in the travel logistics business primarily. A spinoff from American Airlines.

Anyway, when I was getting materials together, I reviewed the CEO's summary remarks and looking ahead to the future. Over, and over, and over, and over again he railed at the FAA and government for not enhancing the flight systems nationwide. It would've been funny if he wasn't so right in his passionate pleas.
Because his argument is that even adjusting for the pipeline issue, women and minorities are under-represented. In other words, even if you fixed the pipeline issue, they would still be discriminated against and under-represented because of bias.
This is pretty neat. I just hope no one gets in trouble at work playing poker.
How do users verify keys are correct and not being sent to your server?
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Read the post.
With those you at least have a theoretical chance of making improvements.
ECM is presumably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_countermeasure ...

(if dear reader, like me, had no idea what ECM meant in this context).
I expected more attention to detail for a project this big. They are using the new logos in a few places now. All suffer from various problems. The one on the Google Official Blog (http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/google-update.html) has hinting problems most noticeably on "l" symbol (zoomed version – http://i.imgur.com/1kRZB5o.png). The same with the logo on the Google Translate (https://translate.google.com/) and with the presented Google Logotype on the Google Design blog (https://design.google.com/articles/evolving-the-google-ident..., https://g-design.storage.googleapis.com/production/v5/assets...). The black SVG logo at the bottom of the last page has some unkempt figures and a leftover line.

On a positive note, the logo image (http://googleblog.blogspot.ru/2015/09/google-update.html) is well optimized with Zopfli (https://github.com/google/zopfli). However, I don't see why the new logo is smaller (from here – https://design.google.com/articles/evolving-the-google-ident...). I could bring down the size of the previous one (http://i.imgur.com/lfmoqgP.png) to 8 174 bytes (originally 14 022 bytes) vs 13 804 bytes for the new one. Of course, SVG versions are both much smaller.
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A slight aside: in the first paragraph they mention matching problems. I wish more people in the "sharing economy" world made themselves aware of this.

Most companies in that field seem to behave as if providers are fungible, when instead, the underlying problems they're fixing are matching problems.
They're looking at you http://www.ultimate-guitar.com
> That's driven by screen size - there's simply not enough screen real estate on a phone to label every button with words. It does have a legit discoverability problem, which most folks in UX acknowledge but don't know how to fix, given other constraints of the media.

Some of the most effective solutions to this I've seen require solutions beyond visual representation. They address the problem through dimensions independent of viewport size and space.

For example, LukeW's "Don't Divert the Train" http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1798 moves content from behind navigation and into the user's already-occurring action stream. The button is removed entirely, as is the designer's need to consider how communicative icons are for representing actions.

This requires a broader view of how features relate to each other through a design process that discovers other paths to successful behavior. Approaches like the hamburger menu, in addition to the usability issues you note, solve functional goals but have fallen out of vogue for their ineffectiveness at encouraging specific actions. Label-less icons, while attractive and convenient, suffer similar problems. As getting users successful quickly is generally an important goal (before they've internalized your app's unique visual language), the current trend of putting core functionality behind opaque symbols seems counterproductive.
You aren't paying for it. It's provided my my server provider, DigitalOcean.
In the article linked, they show a multi-way join on integer keys, which is able to leverage accelerated integer comparison (presumably.) I'd imagine a whole range of GIS queries also have the potential to be sped up by GPU offloading.
or in this case, "my nanny"
"I do not have time to get into this new .... thing" is pretty much the kind of thing that leads to problems like the original article.
> "Google has changed a lot over the past 17 years—from the range of our products to the evolution of their look and feel. And today we’re changing things up once again"

My first thought, wait who's talking to me here?
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I'm surprised no one mentioned the source of cataclysm itself. The fact that there was a civilization and despite all its advanced knowledge - it is now gone.

This would be especially important if Cataclysm was man-made.
I don't have one. But I never said Airport is bad. The point I'm trying to make here is that the "profile" of Airport is not very attractive to non apple fans and experienced user. iphone can draw attention by user experience rather than cpu numbers because people care about their phone. But the importance of router is at a position that usually ignored by average user. Take a car as example, cellphone and laptop are like engines and suspensions which draw every car buyers attention. While router is like tire, and non car guys pursuit 4WD instead of good tire when they need traction.
I think I see what you are saying - that gpg blocking, and failing to create a key on a VM, is actually a desired behavior, and that the only real problem is gpg doesn't time out more quickly and say something like, "System not providing sufficient entropy for key generation".

But, if that's the case, then the entire thesis behind, "Use /dev/urandom" is incorrect. We can't rely on /dev/urandom, because it might not generate sufficiently random data. /dev/random may block, but at least it won't provide insecure sequences of data.

This is kind of annoying, because I was hoping that just using /dev/urandom was sufficient, but apparently there are times when /dev/random is the correct choice, right?
The first movers in programming were the military, who assigned the role of 'programmer' to women because it was considered, not to put too fine a point on it, women's work.
Ask HN: Quick business advice on handing out freebies
We worked with a development company on a product design solution. Development company brings major fortune 100 company into the mix and asks us to ship our product design solution to this company.

Its great to be in touch with the major company but there is nothing that stops them from simply copying our design and running with it. So I feel at least they should buy a sample from us.

That's just my ego of course, its not that those 50 bucks make a difference for the major company or us.

So should I just hand them freebies and hope they work with us, even though they could easily contract another company to manufacture our solution?

I ask here for more general advice. Is handing out freebies to major players a good strategy even if they might just take your design and run with it?
This is probably a side effect of startup founders not actually having lives outside of work.
I disagree. Business is hard. People are what matter.

I started a business in my garage with $5,000. I had the right ideas, market and product. I grew it to a pretty good size, employed lots of people and sold it.

Years later, I started another business with $325,000 of my own cash. I still had the right ideas, market and product. It failed miserably. Why? I didn't know enough about the industry and lost focus. I eventually restarted it (with more money) and got it going nicely.

Money couple with the right people, product and market AT THE RIGHT TIME can light things up in a major way. Money by itself is useless. And not, money does not shift the curve towards success. That's just not a sensible conclusion.

Money does nothing other than allow you to push on the accelerator once you have a formula that is ready for success. This is how money should be used. That's why the mantra in tech circles is to test an MVP with a few thousand dollars (or less if possible). Why? Because if you throw money at something that has no engagement you'll just burn it. It doesn't shift the curve toward success. The curve already has to be shifted in that direction AND THEN you throw money at it.

That's is precisely why so many people with easy access in capital fail. They think exactly as you are proposing: If we just throw money at XYZ we improve our probability to succeed. And then they fail.
MPEG4 trough part 13 (IPMP was also backported into MPEG2) http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_...

http://www.w3.org/2000/12/drm-ws/pp/koenen.pdf

H.264 (trough IPMP), H.265 also implement in-bistream DRM interfaces directly into the decoder...
Their brand is having a very good search engine. Ever think that the marketing guy is good at persuading you that the marketing guy is the most important thing?
Did you read the article though, it's arguing that the rent control is causing the very thing you're complaining about, that it it discourages from building new housing. So less housing is built which makes the existing housing more scarce and drives up the price.
I hope they also stop serving adverts that redirect from Safari to the App Store too
That's interesting. What studies do you have backing up the results rather than just bias elimination?

Most posts I see on hiring are about assessing the person as much as the person's skills. Character and personality matter a lot. How do you blind hire on that?
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Made me look!

Screenshotting the doodle, the counters are 24×26 pixels. Not perfect circles, and not tilted.
Ugh, you definitely do not use more multiple google services if you think that.

Even today, years afterwards, I was on the phone checking my calendar and I totally lost the train of the conversation as I was hunting in that dumbass thing for the calendar.

The worst part is that, yes, the top was getting stuffed, but instead of letting you choose what you wanted in your menu, they added that navigation monstrosity instead.
I have never used slack. How is it different than IRC?
This is important! Thanks for asking!

For non-technical users, we offer the ability to generate a key pair for you. But for more advanced (or more privacy-conscious) users, we offer the ability to upload your public key (which is used to encrypt the form data).

As far as decryption goes, form data is stored in our backend and you can decrypt it via the web app if you trust that we don't upload your private keys. We don't upload them—they're all stored in your browser's localstorage—but if you want to use the web app, you still have to trust us (if you're unable to verify that we don't upload them).

The nice thing though, is that you don't need to use our web app to decrypt the messages—you can use any PGP-enabled email app, or the command line. We send all encrypted forms to you, via email, so you can choose how to decrypt them using your private keys.

So, you can use PrivateForms in a way that you don't need to trust us at all. It's all "host-proof" in the way described here: https://www.passpack.com/blog/2008/03/host-proof-hosting/
> Call me a simpleton but I am happy with better package management and config systems.

Fundamentally (in terms of process, not technical implementation) that's all containers really are.

Run this, with this config file, and everything is pre-packaged for you in a bundle you can ship to your prod server if you like (or not, run it locally, whatever).

It's quite nice. I shared the skepticism ("so.. it's just VM's then? So what?") but having switched to a dev toolchain using it - it's actually a LOT simpler than developing locally normally.
Maybe it's biology that allows men to lead less balanced lives

It can't be ignored. Males are nature's crapshoot. In many measures when comparing men against women, we'll see more men at the extremities. Most bay area CEOs are men. But so are most prisoners.

This essay helped to shape my views around the topic:
http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm
This article is disingenuous. 'Science' has nothing to do with being an engineer in Silicon Valley. I know lots of women in science; they do research in pharmaceuticals and academia, not program social networks for dogs.

Computer science and math at my school (which has the largest faculty of Mathematics in the world) was something like 20% female.
What about sites that prompt you to enable push notifications?
And when will they punish advertisements that redirect to app stores? or even worse, websites that activate WAP subscriptions...