skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great list of big data 2.0 companies
You need to find a way to package your message in a more appealing manner.

My oldest son dragged me into playing Master of Magic by telling me "It is like SimCity (my favorite game)." and helping me play it to emphasize the civilization building aspects. :-)

(Edit: I'm his mom.)
Then they would be so far above market rate they would never be considered.
Yes its been shown in monkey studies, so its actually deeper than human nature.
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The term "SJW" was in fact coined, unironically, by its supporters. Stack Exchange seems to confirm this: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/202080/origin-of...

That it backfired on them does not retroactively invalidate it. The same happened with the Tea Party and "teabagger".
The point is not that one needs to be a teenager ("child") to break into systems. None of what I have said is incompatible with the assertion that older coders have more skills, a point with which I agree. However it is not a contradiction to say that innovation does not require huge experience, and indeed is sometimes hampered by it.
For me a portion of this problem is caused by religion as well, particularly those with sexist ideologies (for example islam see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Islam). Though, this is a subject that I rarely if ever hear brought up in the media, even in european irreligious countries like sweden. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_by_country)

If you cross reference the countries by religion and their rating on gender equality, you will notice the most religious countries are some of the most inequal.(http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2014/ran...,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#...) This doesnt mean both are related of course, but if you think beliefs about moral affect behavior you would expect to see this type of correlation.

Im prepared to get downvoted for my opinion on the detriments of religion here so have at me :)

EDIT: If you downvote please say why? Id like to see good counter argument.
Surprisingly that might work - "Several animal studies have shown that hormonal manipulation can reverse sex-typed behavior. When researchers exposed female rhesus monkeys to male hormones prenatally, these females later displayed male-like levels of rough-and-tumble play."

http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/12/you-can-giv...
> As mentioned by nickff upthread...

linksbro has a reply to that comment that you seem to have missed. It's pretty direct: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10439553

Additionally:

The FCC is obligated to determine if a telecommunications service is required to file tariffs:

"Tariffs contain the rates, terms and conditions of certain services provided by telecommunications carriers. The most common tariff filed at the FCC is for interstate local access service. These tariffs are filed by local exchange carriers, or LECs.

Long-distance companies and others pay the rates set out in these tariffs to LECs for access to local networks at the originating and/or terminating ends of a long-distance call. Access services include:

* End User access, which mainly recovers the Subscriber Line Charge, the Access Recovery Charge, and the Universal Service Fund Charge. ...

Except in very limited circumstances, long-distance companies are not permitted to file tariffs for long-distance service because the FCC has determined that the long-distance market is competitive. Like long-distance service, many broadband services have been detariffed. ...

Tariffs must be just and reasonable and may not be unreasonably discriminatory under Sections 201(a) and 202(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended." [0]

(Emphasis mine.)

If the long-distance market for prisoners is not competitive, the FCC is well within its remit to demand that rates for those services be just, reasonable, and not unreasonably discriminatory.

> Given that not even the 13th amendment applies to prisoners...

Rights and privileges are severable. This means that loss of one does not imply loss of others.

[0] https://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/tariffs
The House science committee is worse than the Benghazi committee
>>In the eyes of some, Asians in America are, Lee writes, “perpetual foreigners at worst, or probationary Americans at best.” If Asians sometimes remain silent in the face of racism, and if some seem to work unusually hard in the face of this difficult history, it is not because they want to be part of a “model minority” but because they have often had no other choice.

A racial epithet was thrown at me and my family in parting by a homeless person last year while crossing the intersection in my neighborhood, which we shrugged off. This quote prompted the memory again, and I think that Asians in Western countries may remain silent also because causing a scene is, in general, considered "unseemly" when little is perceived to be gained. I originally felt this to be a rather rational response for anybody else (regardless of their race), but when placed against the backdrop of the Immigration and Nationality Act of '65 mentioned in the article, I'm considering a different response the next time, although I sincerely hopefully there won't be a next time.

Makes one almost laugh good-naturedly at serious and systematic Canadian Québécois policies devoted to keeping the French language alive in Canada. I much rather prefer intense debates around language over race.

EDIT: I grew up in the Middle East, where racism is overt. In Saudi Arabia (for example), your salary for the exact same job is to a large extent determined by your passport nationality. I grew up expecting it there; but it always give me pause when encountering racism in a Western country.
Is it working for http://www.angieslist.com/ (assuming thats their model)?
Before someone jumps in with the notion that monkeys have culture too, it should be noted that monkeys have not developed the wheel. Thus, they are unlikely to have defined gender roles for wheeled toys.
I moved to the US in 1992 at the age of 9. It took me more than a decade to feel like an American. To feel like I belonged. Took just a few racist comments from my co workers to take that feeling away. Yup, probationary American at best.
Plus, at that temperature, you can easily keep the conductor cooled with frozen CO2, which is pretty easy to produce / readily available.
Race is an interesting one in IT. I have seen many indian programers but hardly any black ones. I never see any Asian techies in europe, but I hear there are a fair number in the states.
> The entire thing rests on the assumption that there's a class of investments that people would refuse to invest in if left to their own devices, but which suddenly become attractive only if their savings are shrivelled by a few percent a year. Such a class of investments certainly does exist: they're called bad investments!

That makes so much sense. The main argument against inflation is that if people see the value of their money increase, they will stop spending it and instead hold onto with the expectation that the value will rise further. That's certainly true of investors, who tend to panic sell anything that fails to outperform the dollar. But most people don't see their money as a commodity - they will only notice that the price of consumer goods is falling, and use that as a justification to spend more. So deflation is only really bad for Wall Street. Inflation subsidizes the stock market.
[off topic: Im on the New Yorker tech team]

We just launched a feature called "remind to read", that lets users send themselves a reminder email about content. Depending on where you trigger the service, the reminder email will send you back to where you were.

To see it while reading, scroll up. A module appears in the bottom righthand corner.

It launched last Thursday. I'd love to hear everyones thoughts!
Here is another quote from Hayek: "I agree with Milton Friedman that once the Crash had occurred, the Federal Reserve System pursued a silly deflationary policy. I am not only against inflation but I am also against deflation. So, once again, a badly programmed monetary policy prolonged the depression."
Those are fair points, but use of simulated training programs is on the rise. I sincerely doubt that there is absolutely no link between virtual skill and real world skill.
What an embarrassment to live in a country where one political party is focused on undermining scientists because their grant titles sound funny.
>"It was crazy we were going to pay one person more for less skills because the color of his skin made him have higher salary expectations!"

Let's not bring race into this. Not unless said employee was making comments/opinions such as "I'm white, therefore I deserve more" or "I expect more because I'm white".

At the very least, you would have no idea to the motives behind his higher expectations (or the other person's lower expectations).
I don't think they would make that distinction and let it by. They wouldn't let any kind of meat be cast in bad light as it would affect them by association.
Well, actually my anecdotal experience kinda aligns with what the article says in that part: I know a few people -- all of them women -- who would look at an ad saying "X,Y,Z,and T", and say "sure I am comfortable with X, Y and T, but I don't know much Z, so it's clearly not for me".
> Why is it that so many people (such as this author) use participation rates as an indicator of equity?

It's easier to chase metrics than fix problems. Any many are deaf to the possibility that equal treatment would not yield equal participation.
0. Get a Linux.

1. Read LARTC [http://www.lartc.org/].

2. Get a virtual machine hypervisor, a one that can work with a Linux bridge.
KVM/libvirt should do, as should LXC on libvirt or lxc tools (lxc-create,
lxc-start and the like). Avoid Docker, as its networking is not supposed to be
understood by operator.

2.5. Setup several Linux guests. Three or four should be enough to see
necessary bits.

3. Try to setup different networks by hand (avoid using ifup/ifdown and their
equivalents; use /(s)bin/ip, /sbin/ifconfig, and /sbin/route).

3.5 Learn how to use tcpdump (pay attention to -i option). Try understanding
why some packets show up duplicated.

4. Profit.

Note that in 2. you may easily replace VMs with physical machines with several
network cards, but I guess it would be easier to go with VMs.
This seems like bullshit, tbh.
There are a lot of little thing that remind women they don't belong. Apparently badges are one of the minor peeves. A guy can just clip them on their belt loops. That doesn't always work for women.
Is there source code for this somewhere? I wonder what it's written in. 6502 assembler?
I'm also interested in knowing how a badge on a lanyard or clip could be unfriendly for women.
The member states have different interests.
I am not sure of the point here. I think we have to help those that need help first, I mean what are we going to do start pushing for increased aid for those of Irish descent.
My last wokplace was a genome sequencing centre. Half wet lab and half computer people (bioinformatics and software devs). The wet lab was almost exclusivley female, while the bioinformaticians were mainly male.
Who's Driving K12 CS Education
Deleting genes could boost lifespan by 60%
On my browser, it pops up and immediately down. I can't ever use it.

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Google will get to apex predator if I search

"what predator is at the top of the food chain?" or
"what type of animal is at the top of the food chain?"

but it fails to do so if I ask "what consumer is at the top of the food chain?"

It seems like "consumer" is too ambiguous to work in this example.
I'm reminded by a simple but powerful message one of my professors delivered to my MBA class a few years ago.

"You can't just look for a gap in the market. You also need
to verify there's a market in the gap."

Homejoy most likely saw opportunity in the first sentence, but it appears they may not have spent time thinking about the second (or didn't research a broad enough segment of the market).

'Disrupting' a market isn't simply about creating a mobile app, or a 'marketplace' for service X after all. That's just a game of buzzword bingo.
Why bother with this Cultural Marxism? Women have equality of opportunity so an enforced "equality of outcome" is authoritarian and fascist.

Most women don't want to code, so leave them alone; the real victims are the men who have to lower their performance standards because of affirmative action. And for the women who want to code, let them code and give them some dignity.
Why are there so few male manicures? Why so few male babysitters? Why so few female NASCAR drivers? Why so few female in the army? Why so few male in the wedding dress business?

We MUST to do something about this! People of a certain gender cannot prefer some activities over others!

This is ridiculous.
From the comments, he wrote it in C using cc65.
It seems to me that they focused really hard on the consumers, but perhaps it was the cleaners who were their true customers? Of course that becomes a niche business model which isn't that desirable for investors.
That was Nixon's "Madman Theory":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
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I'm reading a book on that era and this is pretty fascinating to read. Archeology seems like a science of studying small bits and trying to understand the big picture from them. I bet you have to be really patient to be an archeologist.
Monkey v1.6.4 is out
> Box-sizing should be border-box by default.

Didn't older versions of IE do precisely that, leading to endless frustration? I hate to say it but MS did something right for once.
I recall a relatively recent find of a large viking cache in a long farmed field in Britain. The discovery mentioned with wonder thinking about how many time a plow had been just a few inches from it for nearly a thousand years.
had totally forgotten those! wow, the memories...

:)
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thanks for the feedback, I just wasn't sure about tone in docs, it's the first time I've really had to document something like this for public consumption. I will redo it.
I think the key point is that it is 'impossible to know it all'

I don't think I have ever looked at code I have written more than a few months ago and NOT found a bunch of things I could have done much simpler if I had just known about some feature or trick. I have stopped feeling bad when that happens; now, I figure that the day I stop experiencing that is the day I am no longer getting better as a programmer.
The road capacity is not already there, and to meet the increased capacity needed will be quite expensive. The cost avoided in terms of road load was a major justification for HSR.
It's also a very busy and noisy video which ends up just being a generic PowerPoint-like presentation on autoplay.

Within seconds of the video's awful soundtrack blaring out I just closed the entire tab, and lost full interest in the project.
> Then why complain that ANSI C compiler gets confused by it?

Because I didn't ask for an ANSI C-and-not-a-penny-more compiler. Nobody wants that. Back in the day the GNU project made a point of going against standards when the standardized behaviour was user-unfriendly (POSIX_ME_HARDER etc.)

> No, the code does not work on every other compiler.

In many of these cases it does work on all other major compilers, or all other relevant platforms for that particular codebase.

> And if it is, there's no guarantee it will stay like that.

So what? That doesn't make it better to break it now.

> one of the points of ANSI C (and POSIX) is to define global guarantees, not per-platform ones.

Which is why it's GCC's (or any other compiler's) responsibility to define the per-platform guarantees.
The part about Homejoy needing to keep up with Handy's flood of Groupon 'deals' just further drove home how destructive Groupon has been for businesses, except Groupon, which still has a multi-billion dollar public market valuation. Groupon should really be called Pandora's Box.
As a male WASP, why would you bother with what a homeless person thinks of you? I too ignore the angry hateful ones. They hate me too, though they may lack epithets for me. It's a pointless unwinnable argument, and you'll never look like the good guy, yelling at a homeless person
Will fix!

Thank you
"Quality" in that case meant, "their ingredient claims matched reality, and they had no adulterations".
Author of post and aws-vault tool here. There is absolutely a short window of time when it's possible to steal an unlocked machine and have full access to the unlocked keychain. The same issue exists for Keychain itself and things like ssh-agent. The idea is to reduce the attack surface, as you said, and to practice principle of lease privilege. Create roles for specific use cases with just the required permissions, and assume them as needed, based on credentials stored encrypted at rest. It's doesn't solve everything, but it's considerably better than the alternatives

AWS offers the concept of Power Users, which have access to everything except IAM. We use them for most things, which mitigates the risk of an attacker escalating temporary access into long term access. They can still cause a lot of damage, but it's time limited.
This is just the Marxist dialectic applied to social issues. If there is a difference in outcome it can only be because of discrimination.
The best way to improve gender equity in tech (and fight just about every other form of discrimination at the same time) is to put an end to Silicon Valley's ridiculous culture of overwork. I don't know how everyone fell into this trap - it leads to terrible code, developer burnout, and eventually drives out anyone who has or wants any semblance of a life outside of work, which in practice is anyone who isn't a male in their twenties.

I don't care what your personal politics on gender equality are - if you're making your employees work sixty-hour weeks you're functionally identical to Pat Buchanan.
>I never see any Asian techies in europe, but I hear there are a fair number in the states.

Wow really?
That's supposedly the thing about Nextdoor, and then rest of the social network ecosystem out there. Unfortunately, more and more people are ditching social network or disallowing apps sharing data, so what do you say?
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Consider the single largest market for limousine services: businesspeople traveling to and from airports. These people absolutely will pay extra for a reliable, no-surprises ride from a person they know, plus they know in advance exactly when they will travel. Uber offers little to no advantage for this group.

Uber's advantage comes from catering really well to ad-hoc, short-hop travel, but this is a different market.
So, for example, if all of a judges rulings were turned over on appeal based on ignorance of common facts nothing would happen unless Congress chose to impeach them? Or are judicial rulings based on ignorance of common knowledge not considered problematic in law.
I operate my business on such a tight budget it seems almost criminal for a business to fail with $40 million to work with. I could spend many lifetimes growing my business with that kind of money.

IMO you don't force a market to grow. You accept what the market gives you and then you grow into the market as it allows you to grow. Not the other way around.

This is one of the biggest flaws in how investors expect their businesses to grow. I would argue that having a small business that one day will be a big one (perhaps 10-20 years later) is far better than shoving a ton of money at a problem and if it doesn't grow fast enough then pull the rug from beneath them.

I think it's also a sign that investors who are actually in SV are not dictating how things are run. While this may be common knowledge, I'm unaware of precisely where money is flowing in from. But if I had to guess, I'm almost certain it's big money coming in from all over the world who expect VCs to treat startups like they would treat stocks and bonds.
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oooh! "TFA". I had to google that. TIL.
You must be a master of UD scrabble.
The downside of comments first on HN.
The problem with this issue is noted by another commenter below: you just started your own business, why pay another middleman?
Aldi's isn't everywhere. Costco is more ubiquitous than Aldi, hence small.
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Are we looking at the same thing?
The year (2016) refers to the calendar year in which Microsoft's fiscal year ends (Jun 2016). Many, but not all, companies use a standard fiscal year of Jul-Jun rather than a calendar year of Jan-Dec for financial reporting and tax purposes.

Thus, Q1 2016 means the quarter ending Sep 30, 2015, for Microsoft's fiscal year ending Jun 30, 2016 (which began Jul 1, 2015).
Perhaps one reason is that jobs in Computing are typically not all that attractive? My current freelance project sees me working in a room with 20 people, lined up on long desks (not even Cubicles). After a while, it can get a bit smelly. There are 4 women and 16 men working in the room, and to be honest I wonder why the women put up with it (they are not developers, either).

That kind of setup is not uncommon. I have been asked to work in windowless rooms, which I rejected. I have worked in ugly industrial areas and ugly buildings. I have worked in the basement that wasn't officially suitable for human use (only legal for storage).

After 6 hours, my eyes hurt from the strain of looking at HTML and Javascript all day, trying to find tiny mistakes in the source code. But I have at least 2 more hours to go.
Human interaction is minimal - yes there are meetings, but that is not the same as human interaction that for example a doctor sees.

Sure, jobs at Google or Facebook might be fancy. But even at big companies (including Google) I have seen those big open plan offices. They just had more colorful toys lying around at Google. And most devs won't work for Facebook or Google.

Why do I put up with it? Because I need the money to feed my family, and I can not easily switch to another profession. This is probably controversial and will give me downvotes, but most women don't need to work to feed their family - their husbands do that. So they are not forced to put up with smelly, crowded, windowless rooms for years and years on end. And women can easily switch profession, too: they can simply become mothers, which 40% choose to do (become fulltime moms, that is - more women become mothers of course).

I enjoy programming for my own projects, but most dev jobs I did for money were gruesome.

Note that this gruesomeness affects women and men in the same way. There are no offensive Star Wars posters or other Geeky things lining the walls. The environments just tend to be less comfy, because devs only stare into their computers anyway.

The notion always seems to be that the women who shy away from tech end up leading "wasted", brainless lives as housewives. Not so. They become doctors, or journalists, or liberal arts people (and btw., housewive and spending time with your kids is not all that bad either).

I understand if companies want to lure women into tech, because it gives them a greater talent pool and lower wages (because of greater supply). But it is not an issue of equality.
There's a second problem with a centrally planned economy: when you put all the power in one place, corruption can occur; even if the central planner knows the globally optimal decision, they may be incentivized to choose a solution that is suboptimal, but favors some individuals.
A correctly predicted branch is almost free, the compiler could check for that case.

The real problem of course is that C requires the programmer to obscure their intent by messing with a counter variable. Is there really no "loop exactly N times" construct in the language?