skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the commentary at Hacker News, I would say that the author has done a disservice to the topic by ignoring the minority status of East Asians, South Asians, and Latinos.

With very minor changes, they could have used the correct words to cover the topic they really wanted to cover: that there are fewer black programmers in SV than is desired/expected/needed. And that is a topic that deserves discussion. But because the author minimized the experiences of a huge number of other minority groups rather than focusing on the concerns at hand, we are now squabbling about essentially irrelevant material.

95% of the article could remain intact. By cutting the 5% which is both fluff and offensive to other groups, the rest of the article would be much stronger.
I'm playing around with React & React Router and it works like a charm.

First I set it up to render on the server, so it works like a classic PHP app. I have a few issues to get the client-React take over the markup (I need to pass the data I already rendered into markup on the server again), but if this works it should let my app gracefully keep to server-side rendering if no JS is available on the client.
African Americans have as an group on average lower IQ, HEY don't call be racist it's an fact.
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This is where shallow discussion of racism can be damaging. If someone receives enough messages indicating that they will be mistreated due to race it is likely to have a major impact on their psyche, then on their behaviour, then on the way they're treated... because of their race.
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The key, then, is to gain that valuable bedrock experience outside the academic environment. This can obviously be hit-or-miss, and we shouldn't be surprised if we see someone miss.
Haven't you heard that racism = power + prejudice, so black people by definition can't be racist because they don't have power?

(This is not an opinion that I agree with, but a lot of people actually think that way).
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And it does not even manage to keep its formatting intact if you resize text. Why JS then?!
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It's not that surprising. Howard University is 95% black (source: <a href="http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl...) and is one of the lowest ranked colleges in terms of diversity. Coming from such a culturally closed-off environment to a different one comprised mostly of whites and Asians of different ethnicities and nationalities would definitely result in culture shock.
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..or healthy food, or stability in their home to do homework, or have parents with time to help...

All of it ends up affecting their hireability.
even in a third world country like brazil, every single person i know (from lower to high classes) has access to a computer AND a smartphone (even the poorest person has one, it's quite interesting).
But that's not what she says, her problem isn't that she doesn't like Marvel Cinematic Universe but that she feels that she doesn't have much in common with people of other races.
You might want research chelation and heavy metal detoxification.

Mercury was known to cause mental illness since 500 B.C. [1][2][3]

It's an electrical conductor and a radio conductor (heavy metal), some people say its a superconductor.

Mercury given to people since 1920, it discovered in 1930 the brain works via electricity[4], it could cause a classical electrical short circuit of the brain: http://imgur.com/vvh7AoP

I can roughly describe a possibility of what it would look like to a patient. If you think of when you use your brain to "grab" your toes and make them move, possibly instead of seeing light and toes, you might see grey metallic sludge dripping down the "screen" (screen is the vision). perhaps his brain "grabbed" the mercury instead of the nerves. (because of shortcircuit?). Something like this pic, but more contrast white and black hotspots and silver: https://webdesign.org/img_articles/10450/_metalfinishu.jpg (Maybe you can simply ask him if he sees that)

[1] 500 BC: Dartmouth.edu http://www.dartmouth.edu/~toxmetal/mercury/history.html

[2] 1800: London Wikipedia: Mad as a hatter disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_as_a_hatter

[3] 1908: Japan Wikipedia: Minimata Disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_diseaser

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axon

The rest of my mercury research is @ https://voat.co/v/politics/comments/171588

Theres some more data @ https://medium.com/@bananaguy80/the-great-filter-theory-are-...

Best of luck to you.
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The text by the New Scientist, now retold by the Daily Mail (why now? just the "content spam" I guess), is from July 2014 (!):

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329802-300-pigeon-p...

It would be surprising that DM covers such a subject first?

The PDF of the work:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3194

The first and the third listed authors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakir_Aharonov

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/physics/people/sandu-popescu/
Actually, due to increasing traffing from Switzerland to Munich, Deutsch Bahn decided last year to upgrade and electrify the connection from Lindau up to ( I think ) Geltendorf.
I'm amazed at the replies that think if you didn't start programming since you were young, then you are seen as worthless.
Majority of my fellow CS grads didn't write their first line of code until college and after a few semesters, most of them caught up with or surpassed the ones who learned programming since they were young. Almost all of us now work in great companies and some went on to do PhD's. I honestly hope I never have to work with people are arrogant and ignorant as you.
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And my question is - why are there so few white players in NBA? This is racist! Protest that!
Exactly! In Texas, Austin County, back in 2005 I got pulled over for no front license plate. I was passing through on my way to Austin (which is not in Austin county). In Austin lots of people do not have front plates and it was never an issue so I didn't think anything about it. The ticket for the violation had a list of fines, 'no front plate' was the only item listed as "warning" instead of a dollar value. The only reason they did this was to pull you over and look for paper violations, it was so obvious since there was no monetary value associated with the missing plate.
How about not assuming racism in the first place? It may just be that you are new and people are not accustomed to having you as a part of their group. I'm sure that even if some of them have prejudices, they will accept you as soon as you show them what you are made of and that you are trustworthy. I'm sure everyone knows at least one shhole from their race, so they can accept a decent person from another one when given the opportunity.

If despite your best efforts, nobody accepts you, and some even make openly racist remarks towards you, then you ring that bell.
Um, no. 29.4 is > 26.9 no matter what the average earnings are.
I vote for LiGNUx. (Always add one more option when there is already a lot of confusion).
I don't think this is true, I went to a very small not well known college in Canada and a classmate of mine went straight to Google after finishing his CS degree.

Good companies generally hire off of provable skills not "how early" you started learning.
What do you mean by the French try to assimilate people more? I'm confused because France is notoriously horrendous to tourists. I've seen polls rate it as the worst place for customer service with tourists and my own brother's experience got him nearly in a fight with some French guys bullying him.

Furthermore, this is just a cultural thing. I'm white and was in a team with a bunch of white engineers that loved cars and things. Our discussions at lunch bored me to tears and I came to realize I had to leave the mega corp to pursue my dreams in the start-up world.

When I arrived at the start-up world, I found people like myself -- people who didn't care so much about things but about ideas and imaginations. I was a lot happier because I found people who thought alike.

It never had anything to do with color and presenting this problem as purely color-based is just being intentionally provocative.
"There are a lot of black people, and I'm white, so that's kind of unwelcoming".

I wouldn't have used that argument in any discussion...
And of course that's what you jump to. I certainly do think there should be affirmative action in the medical profession, and there is.

I don't for a minute believe it is necessary to have been coding since you were 12 in order to do most jobs in Silicon Valley. But if companies decide to discount people because of it, then you will absolutely filter out people who come from lower economic backgrounds.

This is a great example of institutional racism.
AP, Reuters, etc, are news gatherings orgs and are different from the NPRs huffpos, WSJs, etc.

NPR, huffpo, WSJ all have their biases and a narrative they want to present for their core audience, otherwise, why would they diverge on how they present the same topic and why do the topics they cover differ?

NPR is always the underdog. They also make good use of techniques to put things in whatever perspective they want. Softball questions to sympathizers, leading questions, etc. If you study propaganda, they use pretty much all the techniques. Obviously this is why they and Glenn beck and co sound the same.

You don't need a cabal, you need a head of news, producers and journalists who share the same interests. Just make it all line up organizationally.
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So the top comment on a thread regarding dropping community representation from a preeminent OSS project, at the time posting this reply, spends its ink sharing the authors opinion about a single individual and lays the blame at the feet of this individual for causing an entire foundation to run out of money, despite having backing from organizations like Google and Mozilla, and then further insinuates that it was all due to poorly executed and questionably justified minority outreach programs. All this is then followed up by a personal dig at another individual, again bringing up "feminist activist" issues as though that is reason or rational enough for us all to nod our head in agreement with them.

A single individual is rarely ever the reason an entire organization runs out of money or implements bad policy. Others must sign on and implement and sign off and not object.

Let's not have personal attacks on character; let's keep the thread focused on the issue. To direct attacks on an individual's character in order to make one's argument borders on bigotry and almost always qualifies as a bad argument.
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I think what people are missing here is what's left on the table, at the end of a day, for your normal, low to mid level employee, after having paid taxes, insurances and transport to and from work. Swiss pay on average around 300 USD per month for full health coverage and have an average salary of somewhere around 5800 USD, at the low end it starts around 3800 USD. Pension system is in the single digit percentages, as is the few other social insurances we have. Cars are expensive to run, around USD 10k a year. A yearly all-included general public transport subscription (public and private operators of bus, train, ships, mountain cable cars, street cars in all of Switzerland) costs around USD 3000 per year. If you live close to a city it's only around USD 700 a year. So all in all even an average worker can still feed a family of 3-4 people on a single job from 8 to 5 if he takes the public transport and lives somewhere a bit less expensive.
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but how would they know if they werent even coming to the college to meet them?
I've only visited Japan twice but I have to agree that it's pretty yellow.
The topic at hand is "why Silicon Valley companies do not hire black people." Connect the dots?
Imputing racism on high-status institutions is a politically useful tool; one can even extract rents through the purification ritual of diversity training - modern opinions on race are best modelled as sacred beliefs. Disproportionately succesful minorities such as East Asian and Indian immigrants are considered functionally white for propaganda purposes, as their success in these institutions is significant evidence that they are not discriminating in favour of whites.
This is either very good sarcasm or...
no, they're considered model minorities and become the poster kids for 'if you put down your head and work hard you could overcome the all-encompassing structural racism that defines this society'

is a person's worth to you determined by how successful they are? that's like the argument about steve jobs: 'we should let in syrian refugees because they might end up fathering a brilliant tech entrepeneur' - no, we should let in syrian refugees because it's the right thing to do.
This source, referenced in the above article describes the potential of semiconductor based biosensors (see https://goo.gl/RBtE1o)
Perhaps, but since you have more than enough candidates who did start way before college, it's not unreasonable to priorities hiring them.
I would do the good ol' "so, tell me about yourself."
Plenty of fresh grads get hired out of ivy league and higher end schools, so I'm going to go with yes.
I am a non-minority, CS graduate of a HBCU. There were amazing hackers in my program. I believe there were around 200-300 declared CS majors across all levels when I graduated. Numbers are down from those peaks now.

My institution was heavily recruited by big corps, government labs, and east coast companies.

The "best" students, by GPA, were in high-demand for all of the above. Many were heavily recruited into management tracks for non-IT companies. A large number of government institutions and defense contractors were also eager to land new grads from our school. The "best" students, by hacking skills were (maybe stereo-typically for hackers) less interested in classes that didn't involve slinging code, but also all landed programming gigs. Less committed students, from either metric, seemed to still be getting jobs but I can't generalize as to the job type.

I think it is fair to say that my undergrad course-work was not as demanding as (guessing a bit here) Stanford, MIT, or CMU. But my GPA and GRE scores landed me multiple job and graduate school offers.

One aspect of hiring from (or at least my) HBCUs is that there is very strong network effect - alumni come back to the school and recruit interns and fulltime positions for their companies, help prep students for the process, and students looked to those alumni as trusted sources.

If Silicon Valley really wants to hire from HBCUs, that is the path I would recommend. Hire a few alums from the HBCUs and make recruiting and grooming candidates a priority for those alums.
Can someone else please write up a substantial comment so that the top comment is not a bigoted feminist bashing, logical fallacy ridden comment. It's embarrassing.
How much CS knowledge do you need to hack on a simple CRUD app?
You say this, and I hate to point out the obvious, but look there has to be a cut off point for Affirmative Action somewhere... and it turns out to win an Oscar you have to be the best. Just like companies want the best coders. The best isn't a quota.

If you want a quota for black / female / 8-finger coders... have a quota, but the market has yet to make a business case for this being beneficial. (The case could be made in preventing PR gaffes like how Facebook banned all the people with "ethnic" names a few years ago by mistake... but I think these instances are somewhat few and far between.)

I'd guess this has more to do with:

1) black people not having the same access to computers / technology early on (much of what we learn as technologists comes far before college starts),

2) black students often get into college through Affirmative Action, so they may not have been as strong to start with, and

3) black students don't tend to graduate with the same rates / grades others do -- which makes it harder to get interviews / offers.

I don't know what the solution is here, but when you find it we can also use it to get equal white guys in the NBA.
This article is a clumsy and self-centered retelling of "Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design" from 40 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams#Dieter_Rams:_ten_p...
What's wrong with OneNote? I quite like it. The only thing that I'm not psyched about is the fact that I have at least three different Microsoft accounts, and all three have separate notebooks that aren't always easy to sync and switch between. But this is a common problem across everything that uses Microsoft account authentication.
The biggest issue I have with the article is that it presents SV as the only place you can go to be successful with a CS degree.

It very well could be that the article misrepresents the efforts of Prof. Burge and the Howard staff since the article is focused on SV.

But if SV is turning away energetic, engaged, intelligent and capable new recruits, then please send them to NYC, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, Triangle Park, LA, or anywhere else where companies are looking to hire.

It might not give you a "direct impact" on SV itself, but it does get your people into good paying jobs where they can further develop their skills and experience (especially for those without a long childhood of working with computers). It's a small industry. Soon enough these graduates will be attending conferences and making an impact on this culture.

More importantly, they'll also be representatives in their local communities, helping to inspire the next generation of students who don't see themselves or their experience reflected in this industry. And perhaps that next generation will be more likely to pick up programming in middle school.
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Switzerland also spends 0.7% of it's annual GDP on defense spending, vs. 3-5% for the US. If we redirected that towards infrastructure we'd rival the best public transit systems in the world.
Thank god Obama isn't really black.

Sarcasm aside, a lot of people believe whatever serves them better. When they realised that "racism = discrimination" wan't enough to let them achieve their goals, they changed the definition to "racism = discrimination + power". Or, us geeks only became "patriarchal opressors of minorities" when non-geeks realized that the smart kids that got bullied at school were becoming really rich.
It'd be an irony if part of the reason students at HBCUs don't "mesh" with Silicon Valley is that they're not comfortable with diverse environments. Looking at a list of the "whitest" universities, their graduates seem similarly unrepresented in the places I've worked.

A flawed but interesting test: do black CS graduates from Stanford and MIT fit better into SV than black CS graduates from Howard?
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Great post. Thanks for sharing. The same way a great song sounds familiar the first time you hear it, good design feels comfortable and effortless from the first second.
This might sound weird, but you might try seeing a therapist as you begin your new journey. It sounds like this long time of being unfulfilled might have left you with a touch of depression, or at the very least demotivated. It's kind of amazing what a few good conversations with a pro can do for your motivation.

Second, I'm not sure what your current stack is, but it sounds like it's old enough that you may need to retrain yourself some, depending on your area of focus. Whether it's through a legitimate course, or self taught, the evolution of a 10 year old product has likely left you in the cold.

Of course, it depends on exactly what you'd like to do, which is the most important thing (and something a therapist can help with). If it were me, I would note down everything about my current situation I really don't want to or can't give up (remote work, low stress, good salary, etc) and what I'd like to or need to find in the next job (a welcoming team, new and shiny tech, learning every day) and then prune the list to your satisfaction between negotiable and non-negotiable for a new situation. But you have to be realistic, if you want something like $200k/yr in Iowa working for a low stress agency, you're never going to get it.

After that, just start looking, maybe even put yourself out to a recruiting agency if you don't know how to begin the search. It's not really hard to find new positions with a lot of experience, it gets harder to find the ones you want.

You've got a lot of experience under your belt, hopefully you made the best of it, because it could make employers quite interested in you.
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Totally unrelated to the issue. There is very likely to be some bias on behalf of people making investment decisions, your level of access has significant impact on likelihood of getting funded. On the other hand there are strong diversity programs at universities that article mentions (MIT etc.) and SE are generally hired based on their abilities.
I have a friend, ex-military, very clean cut, pretty 'normal' guy. His brother is a cop. We both grew up in the same rural area. I used to be a punk kid, crazy hair and clothes, but a good kid, definitely not a criminal. I was constantly harassed by police, even had to file charges once against a cop who assaulted me on private property at my father's place of employment. My view of the cops is very different from him. He gets absolutely offended if I talk bad about cops. He really sees them as noble people with only a few bad apples. He says people like me just like to talk up the bad cops to make the rest look bad. Or it was my own fault for being so outside societal norms that of course I would be the target of constant suspicion.
I read it and the title really says it all with a clickbait premise like that. You'd think at Bloomburg they'd have someone who at least has an introductory knowledge of statistics because the claimed 1% is to be expected considering how small the black community really is and how there just aren't a lot of black CS majors.
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I hope this brings Unikernels adoption forward, and boosts a little more OCaml's adoption as well.
Can't agree more with your last paragraph! Summed up pretty much everything I was trying to say above.
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I have a few minor issues with this article/approach at Haward. First of all, it makes it appear that companies like Google and Facebook are the end-all-be-all. There are more companies than the top tier. In fact, there are also companies outside Silicon Valley. Not only are they setting up students with potential failure, but they are painting a different view of what the industry looks like and where it is located. They are even discounting NYC, which is just a train ride away.

Also, the problem with Howard not being a top tier school applies to every school that is not in the top tier. Many do not even get the same access to recruiters that Howard does.

I also believe schools should be teaching fundamentals and theory and not be used as job training.

That said, the assimilation problem, "cultural fit", is real, but is often neglected. Many programs trying to fix the minority inbalance simply focus on outreach, the recruiting pipeline.
those are basically the same thing

to put it another way: if your white friends grew up watching spongebob squarepants and you grew up without cable, that could certainly make a cultural difference