skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be a chicken/egg problem, where society doesn't expect women to gain high professional positions and so they feel less driven to achieve it.
Edit: Apparently it is a 1:1 mapping and unused money rolls over until next month. I was wrong. Thanks cmpb for pointing that out.
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I just heard about this the other day:
http://slicingpie.com

Not sure if it works or not.

I think the current trend of 4 year vesting with a 1 year cliff (and 0.1%-0.5% for very early engineers in startups less than 7 people, as it seems on angel.co job postings) is totally messed up. It seems every startup wants to you take a $40k salary cut at least and isn't giving you equity anywhere close to that value (even optimistically, though it really should be at net present valuation. EG: If your last funding round was an incubator which put in $20k for %5, then your valuation is $400k, and each year that engineer gives up $40k in salary, he should get %10 of the company... until you do another round, at which the $40k will buy less of the company. But nobody is doing that...)

Don't even get me started on the one year cliff. Can you imagine any other investor in a startup taking a one year cliff? "Ok, we'll take your venture capital, but you're going to vest and it's got a cliff. If you act like jackasses in the first year we're going to cut you off and you get nothing"

Here's the magical thinking: Somehow investor dollars are more "real" than employee sweat, or lost salary the employee gave up to come work there.

Hell, if they pay you %60 of a market salary and then give you %40 as deferred salary, you should still get probably %4 of your salaries value in equity to compensate for the risk that the deferred salary will never be paid.

And why don't startups use deferred salary? Just each funding round, pay off some of the deferred salary. Make the interest on deferred salary something like %5. You're gonna grow a lot faster than %5 right?

Oh, that's right... Companies don't use deferred salary because Investors don't want the company to have liabilities-- investors want the first place in line when the company gets liquidated.

More magical thinking-- their dollars contributed by pension funds and tied to "you must pursue the higher risk strategy, we don't care if it destroys the company" pressure is more "real" than the salary employees give up to do the actual work.

I'm far from a unionist, but I blame founders for putting up with this kind of employee hostile thinking. Look to bright lights like Basecamp and Github-- you don't have to sell your soul to start a company. Bootstrap and it will let you treat your employees well. And then if you do want to take VC money, like Github did, you can do it on your own terms, not theirs.

Too many founders seem to come out of an incubator (which is coaching them for demo day- seemingly the whole point of many incubators) thinking that their purpose is to get VC money. IT's not. It is to build a business. VC money is a loan that is an ongoing drag on the business (even more expensive when you consider the advice of VCs.)
It's been updated:

https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/45182228835901...

Someone needs to go update it, you know…
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And

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Related?
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Spacemacs has so much in it that I've been avoiding looking into it. It seems to do everything! I'll try it out, thanks.
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Being from a country where the TV and radio networks are required to stop whatever they are doing to air a presidential speech, this sounds really strange.
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It's one of the coolest AWS service. Android on-device testing just got a whole lot cheaper and easier. We use it extensively to test our SDK cross-device before shipping.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10272556
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> delays due to public outrage, outcry, legal challenge, or general meddling

I think you're confused. He means delays due to engineering/construction issues, not political issues. If you are claiming these do not exist, then you are out to lunch and not talking seriously.

Furthermore, politics is a factor in nuclear safety. Consider that the Fukushima plant life was extended beyond its advisable lifespan. This was almost certainly because the idea looked like the cheaper one at the time, since shutting down a nuclear plant is a lengthy and expensive process. Keeping it running is politically a very tempting option, and such human factors will dominate safety considerations long after anything has been "solved".
It could be argued that affiliate links on thewirecutter.com aren't ads so much as they are content. I realize they are advertising affiliates, but since that's what I go to the site for, I'm definitely not going to want to pay to get rid of them!
I've been accused of having poor social skills, but I think that's a rude enough thing to accuse someone of that it just screams hypocrisy.

I've been told my quietness makes people uncomfortable, but telling people that they are being quiet is... supposed to achieve what? That's not a way to start a conversation, it just puts people into a defensive mode. How graceful!

I've been told I don't smile enough. I would be a poor comedian indeed if I went on stage demanding that people laugh simply because they paid for the seats like it's an obligation.

I have perfectly fine social skills. I just know what my priorities are, and I'm not willing to pretend you are one just because you'd like me to. I don't value that inconsistency.
The reality is that few people will do this as long as it's optional. The masses are short-sighted. For anything like this to work, a publisher needs to block the display of their content if ad-blocking is in place. They could bring up something that says "you have one of two choices: go to <Google contributor-like network> and pay, or disable your adblocker". If people run into this enough, they'll do one or the other.
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Thanks for posting, very interesting writeup
I don't know who this "we" is. But certainly a significant portion of the young adult demographic loves Buzzfeed and their like.
Seems interesting. Now, how can I check the correctness of the implementation?
>ads stopped being pay-per-impression around 2001 or so.

Care to back that up with some proof. Cuz I have a pretty clear picture of ad spending and this is not true at all.
So why on earth are you going to those sites?

I'm not. But 95% of web sites out there are replicating content one way or the other.

That's literally what this is.

No it's not. That's a different model and I have no objections against it. This is a model where Google decides to give money to sites, and that is any site that's running AdSense not just the ones with original content. My argument is about why some of us like to use ad blocking mechanisms.
> or much of the web I know and love will cease to exist

I get what you are saying, but I don't buy it.

Much of the web is noise and regurgitation. The reason that publications have started to churn out poorly thought out crap is that they have to get their pagerank up and stay relevant. The reason they have to do that is because if they don't do it, there are ad revenue dependent content generators out there that will do it for them. If you get rid of the ad revenue, you reduce the velocity of the crap engine, and then good content can again be successful on a subscription model.

Google is great. I think in many ways they've made the world a better place. Google is very ad revenue dependent. Ad revenue sponsored all of the great television shows and radio shows from the beginning. I don't think that advertising should go away because it makes great things by Google and media companies possible.

However, I see absolutely no problem whatsoever in blocking ads on my own without paying Google. Tivo allows ad blocking. DVRs allow ad blocking. I shouldn't need to pay every network or affiliate just to block ads.
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This is definitely a question I have especially since in my experience sometimes you had trade-offs due to other restrictions so every functional item needed to have value and new functionality may require removing/changing/disabling other functionality.
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It does, just not by default, and only on save – not while typing.

> Enable goimports to automatically insert import paths instead of gofmt:

> let g:go_fmt_command = "goimports"
I mean, I think I'm pretty chill? I didn't mean to offend you if that's what happened, I was just pointing out that the distinction may be important in the context of this conversation.

If someone is proposing a solution for or discussing a problem that affects the entire Internet, it's important to realize that there are several parties who think differently, and in fact only a very small minority feel the same way you or me or the majority of HN does about things.
> Or do we try to create the necessary conditions so that women feel safer walking alone?

Taking this thought experiment a step further -- did we create the necessary conditions so that men feel safer walking alone? Or did we insist men should just feel more comfortable walking alone?

Now, it's obvious the later is what transformed into our social norm; to the point where a man expressing apprehension about walking alone is often ridiculed.

It's interesting that we've built a social norm where women are often apprehensive about walking alone, often citing fears of conflict, harassment, rape, or worse - when in reality these events are about as likely to occur as someone getting hit by a bus, or a man experiencing the same events. It's almost an artificial frailty thrust upon women in our society.
From: https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/45182228835901...

"A Facebook-wide issue means the Facebook Graph API is temporarily unavailable. We're working with our core infrastructure teams to identify the issue and will update you when we have more information."

I'm posting it here since it's loading intermittently.
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Never ever take a salary cut when moving from established company to a startup. In fact engineers should also take into account bonus, 401k match that will not be typically offered at a startup.
No wonder most friends I speak to are more attracted to tech unicorns that have higher probability of success than early stage startups and can match or offer higher base salary than established big companies.
So which part of simonh's comment were you saying couldn't be further from the truth? I didn't see anything in his comment about the latest and greatest or "best tech".
Reminds me of the SMPY results: even extremely capable women don't desire professional advancement as much as their male counterparts but value other things like a work-life balance http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2014/11/gender-differences-in-p...
Well, it's not really Amish science fiction, but it comes from someone who lives a lifestyle with strong similarities to the Amish lifestyle. It's an interesting read nonetheless.

I suspect that Amish science fiction would look different than this, not because of their style of life, but because of their religion and outlook on the world. An actual Amish person might not even choose write science fiction because such an activity may not fit within their concept of a plain, simple life.
Well good for them. I'm not starting a crusade against Buzzfeed and similar sites. But when I can I advise people to block ads to avoid been tracked.
> But in my reading of the paper's conclusion, women have less desire for promotions and power, but it's because they see those things as causing them strife.

Actually, the paper does not draw such a conclusion. They explicitly say that both "powerful positions have more negative consequences for women" and "women have less intrinsic desire for power and related privileges" are viable, possibly complimentary theories, and that distinguishing between these theories goes beyond this paper.

> Identifying the origin of the differences between men’s and
women’s professional aspirations is beyond the scope of the
current research. Our findings may be the result of biological gender differences, learned preferences that have developed in response to cultural norms and gender-based discrimination, or both. In addition, supply-side factors (e.g., personal goals) and demand-side factors (e.g., gender-based backlash and discrimination) are inextricably linked.
I was on board until I got down to that figure. No way am I going to whitelist google's ads, pay $15/mo just so I can see 75% more ads!

Just cut out 100% of the ads and divide the $15 among the sites a viewed. If that comes out to a couple of cents for each that's still better than nothing.
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Wow... It's funny, but I always used FB as the example of a large, distributed application that is mostly available all the time... This is the first instance of FB being truly down that I can think of.

I'm guessing it's a federation/network issue more than at the application level, but that's just my own opinion without insight into their systems. I don't have FB access from where I am so no idea what the real issues are.
Like in any industry there are good teams and bad teams. Working in finance verses working in say social does not automatically make you a bad developer.

Culturally there are two things make finance different. One is that it is a hideously conservative and risk adverse. AS/400's are used because they are well understood, very reliable, and supported by someone other than an attention deficit teenager in a bedroom.

Second is that mainstream finance doesn't see itself as a technology industry. There are areas like quant investment and high frequency trading that are, but most finance companies still look at technology as a line item on the budget rather than the foundation that their business is based on. This is changing slowly (see one) but will mostly likely require an external disruption to push change through any quicker.
While true, I thought in QM you had to evaluate all probabilities, even those where the speed is > C.
Why would anyone choose to run broken software that betrays their interests in such a way?

Being an extension of one's mind, a computer should legally function as an ideal Lawyer/Doctor/Priest. It acts as the owner's agent, and should never cease representing their interests.
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Any unused money rolls over to the next month, according to Google [1]. I've been using it for months at $15/month and I've never seen it not use all of the money. I do use the internet constantly at work, though, and see many websites.

[1] https://support.google.com/contributor/answer/6182619?hl=en&...
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I really appreciate well-curated and organized task lists for this. I know its unreasonable to be updated on every single project update, but if I can manually comb through updates and progress, I find it to be the best of both worlds.

Of course, then you need the whole team to be on board and diligent about task tracking, but that's a different ballgame.
That's not correct. Unused money rolls over. See https://support.google.com/contributor/answer/6182619?hl=en&...
Perhaps I'm biased (Googler), but I'm not so worried about rent. If Contributor is successful enough, it proves the market, competitors will become interested, and other micropayment schemes probably have a better chance.

If it fails then we're back to square one where most large websites get most of their revenue from ads.
We know very little about these things. You are begging the question. Assuming every difference in outcome is the result of discrimination or perverse socialization until proven otherwise is not a rational mindset, though it seems to be the prevailing one.
Really cool. Think they'll start farming some iPhones anytime soon?
Absolutely. I'm a co-founder of an less than 10 employee company. I make sure to make it clear that our offered restricted stock grants (that are between 0.1 - 0.25% at this point) are not replacements for compensation. They are instead bonus/retention plans that act as a bite of the apple if the company were to sell and they are still employed by us. Otherwise, salaries are intended to be at or above market.

In other words, I care more about getting good talent with those "realistic worldviews" than attempting to pull the wool over the eyes of those that get caught up in the type of thinking of planning purchases when they win the lotto because they bought a ticket once.

If only more startups worked that way, instead of leveraging those types of individuals to get more hours at below-market pay because everyone is an "owner." It's almost criminal...
Nice read.
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To me the most interesting part of this study is the equality of potential advancement. I cannot imagine that 10 years ago that would have been the case and goes to show some serious progress. Also, I appreciate the fact that this study approaches the discussion from an opportunity perspective. Taking a end-result perspective when discussing equality generally leads to false theses and confusion.
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> Contributor doesn't work like an ad blocker, which makes ads just "disappear." Instead, you see a big empty block (that is apparently customizable in some way) that says "Thank you for being a contributor. The ad space is still there, it's just blank. So if half of your page used to be covered in ads, now half your page is covered in little blocks that say, "Thank you for being a contributor."

The demo images/gifs make it seem like you can make the ad space disappear. Is this achieveable by replacing the placeholder with a custom 1x1px image?

https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/ (The 'or even this' image)
Dan's story about making a wallet with the laser is amusing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=292&v=0R3mMUsHFvU

"No, I have a laser!"
That's a really interesting reason - now I can actually justify ad blocker and not just praise affiliate and content marketing.
> You can call it a scare tactic...

I can, because that's exactly what the software development analogy is: a scare tactic that relies on ignorance of how the alternatives would work if looked at the same way.

There is no method available for crop development that is analogous, in the manner that things were framed upthread, to good software development. (And there won't ever be, unless, through experience with the use of the gene editing tools we have now, we develop much better tools.)

> but with GMOs we're doing things that would be impossible to try with traditional methods.

With "traditional" (which mostly means non-GMO -- the methods that fall under that label now are often as new, or newer, than the GMO methods) methods we are also doing things which would be impossible with the traditional methods available before the time when we started doing GMO.

That's not really surprising, the advance of technology usually involves doing things impossible with earlier technology.
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> We hate shitty content creators (like Buzzfeed)

So because there are bad content creators, that means the good ones should not get paid?

I'm not quite following your logic.
FWIW, some credit cards (at least in the US) have loss protection for recent purchases made on them. Might be worth checking into.
Actually you just need to hold down the refresh button to be able to reload with content blockers temporarily disabled.
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I know from Joe Beda's talk [1] they run vm's inside containers for scenarios where they need a managed os. And that those containers run on bare metal. But I can't speak to the reverse not being an employee or authority on Google's internals.

1. https://speakerdeck.com/jbeda/containers-at-scale
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Apple Pay is much simpler. They only need install NFC terminals and not worry about any software.
There's a difference between "pull" and "initiate."
NAT traversal is getting better over time, not worse.
(Says data from gaming platforms)
You only /really/ need more than one IP if you want to expose more than 65000 different services from a single physical place.
But, instead of solving this through economics and ingenuity (which we knew could, and had to be done 10 or even 20 years ago) we let device vendors and academics run the show into IPv6.
Which doesn't solve the /real/ problem we're /actually/ having: devices change connectivity every 5 minutes and move continents in a few hours. IPv6 just doesn't have an answer.
Yeah, it is. But that's a hell of a lot of real estate for a single vendor whose not even providing significant network services.
Attacking the source rather than the content is usually the mark of a poor debating position. If the content is good, the source doesn't matter. If the content is bad, the source's badness will be self-evident.
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Not sure where my Dad appropriated / paraphrased this saying before passing it along to me, but I think it relates to the "attitude" component with respect to career success and priorities in life:

"The C students run the world because the A students don't want the hassle."
If there is a successful attack politicians will be questioned about why they did not do more, no conspiracy needed. Is it dangerous to have encryption keys stored? Of course, but the danger is mostly that they will be stolen not used by the government, although that is still a risk but smaller.