skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention that with electric motors, you skip having a gearbox! That's another subsystem you no longer have to care about maintaining.
When I am building stuff in AWS, most of the secrets are for entities that are access-controlled by AWS and can be passed in through server roles.
But he talks about GPG directories. And then says he uses drive encryption... To protect his passwords? No, these sentences don't make sense.
None of this means we can't care about how terrible tech culture has become for women.
> Under what calculus are defiance, disrespect, and disconnection, "problems"?

They are not the proper attitudes of those with lesser knowledge, skill and experience to those with greater such. That they are prevalent is indicative of, among other things, bad parenting.

Guess what? Your folks were your age once. They experienced the same emotion-addled thought processes. They believed ludicrous things to be true for the same reasons that you do (and I did, and sometimes still do). And they can look at your situation from a distance and say, 'you know what? relax!' and be right.
It seems that IVR phone systems could benefit. Maybe the state-of-the-art just hasn't had the chance to propagate, but it always strikes me as inelegant when I hear, "Your account has a balance of... ONE, HUN-DRED, DOLLARS... AND... NINETY, FIVE, CENTS. To pay this bill,"
>Other than to attempt to muddy the conversation

Thank you for your charitable interpretation of my statement. I look forward to you having an open mind when entering a discussion of gender equality in the future./s

Unsarcastically, I think it's disingenuous that you would presume to know the intent of my statement and therefore can project whatever intent you wish into it.

>what benefit is there to mentioning it?

The point of mentioning it is that there are some fields that there is a push for gender parity into and others that are not. If we want gender parity in some fields but not others then we need to understand what makes the fields where parity is sought different from fields where parity is not sought. Perhaps we can learn something about these fields that would make achieving gender equality easier.

> Unless everyone at once gets up to right the world, no one should?

Again, this is what happens when you assume intent and project malice into that intent.
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I wrote something similar, but in bash (and it uses the old key to rotate the new key).

I'm half-surprised no one else had written something like this before. It's a common enough problem.

[0] https://github.com/stevenkaras/bashfiles/tree/master/.ssh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10917473

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10918462
With 1.4 billion active android devices out there that still translates into a whopping 200M or so devices.
Yours is a subject that deserves discussion, but not everyone is qualified to give such broad perspectives. The author clearly has a strong history as a woman in STEM, so I don't think it's fair to discount her story outright.

Men and women do face a lot of differing challenges in various industries, and for every anecdotal story of strife there's another anecdotal story of success. The best we can do is look at the statistics, recognize trends, and try to address them as best we can. Clearly there are certain aspects of tech as an industry that aren't entirely conducive to female participation.

Women may be equally qualified, do better in school, etc. but that doesn't mean they don't face challenges that don't deserve our consideration.
I maintain a list of HN hacks here: https://www.are.na/morgan-sutherland/hacker-news. I've seen a couple other book projects over the years including: http://hn-books.com/ and http://hackershelf.com/browse/.
What business model is Signal based on?
They baited "us" with a long term relationship. They have a ton of cash so it seemed rational to take a hit on the effective day rate. So ostensibly they are like perfect for this but the amount they are willing to pay for the type of milestones is pretty low. Like it hurts them.
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Not only that, but where is the fight for gender parity in coal mining or logging?

How do you know that there isn't a fight for parity in those industries? I wouldn't have the first clue, because I don't give a rat's ass. What I do care about, and can influence, is what goes on in the industry in which I work.

A weak effort at derailing the conversation. I'll give it a "2.5".
The most successful software entrepreneur I know (in monetary terms) had none of this. When I met him he was fresh out of the army and not as an officer. He did some web programming for us. The next thing he did was the classic bad idea of consulting his way to a product. A decade later he's worth north of 100 million dollars
He was also mentioned on Torrent Freak recently condoning strong anti-piracy measures. https://torrentfreak.com/dont-terrorize-the-public-over-pira...
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Sorry, I don't get it.

the example you gave is like the following c++ code:

XXX *object = null;

if ((object = anotherpointer) != NULL)

{
...
}

The point is, ! is only useful, when it can detect null pointers during compiling time. but it doesn't.

the way ! is used, as suggested by your example, is also doable in C++, it is just a habit thing.

in c++, with good habit, you won't have problem. in Swift with bad habit, you will have the same problem.

then what good is !,
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I sort of know what you mean, nobody around me growing up thought computers or programming were cool or even useful. My parents were just straight up worried about how much I liked computers until I got out of school and got jobs. And this was America in the late 90s, post Microsoft success.
You're absolutely right if my goal was to get people to post these papers, which reading back can easily be how it is interpreted.

My point was more that, as a 'consumer' of this product without any background knowledge, their contests seem extremely convincing to the point of being slightly ridiculous. A 300,000 dollar bounty, while participants get quite some more access than they would normally get while attacking this system, gives me that feeling of it being actually quite secure, besides some possible attacks. If they're possible, if there are complaints, why can't they be made real and substantiated?

My first post is indeed not delivering the message I intended, hope this one shows it better.
The main difference is that in the examples you mention there is a significant disparity in remuneration when compared to software engineering.

If there are societal reasons which encourage women to pursue industries other than STEM, these then effect the participation rate in high-earning industries creating income inequality.

This is why this matters.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10916273
Well, I can understand that having a business model which actually is stable and makes around FLOSS is hard, so I can tolerate a lot of wiggling around the edges of freedom. However, what I cannot tolerate is freedom of my data. Our IT guys are uneasy to installing supported version of GitLab internally (aside from the small question of money), because they are afraid that once we install EE version, we are locked into it. Is there a supported way how to get from EE to the true opensource version of GitLab and not to loose any data (aside from functionality not available in CE)?
That's pretty amazing.

It's also pretty amazing that we're so far into the AI curve that there are budget AIs.
To answer a few of your points,

1) Math nerdery was indeed easily identifiable through classes. In addition, I went to schools with math teams, and was recruited in junior high/high school, because the team leaders wanted to win (and win we did).

2) Computer "talent" wasn't selected for. Using the computer lab in high school if you were not in the programming class was about being friends with a certain social group and being friends with the guy who ran the lab -- it was a social construct. I was quite shy at the time, painfully honest, and sensitive to rejection or dislike rather than oblivious to it. A brusque "Why do you need to use the lab?" would be enough to get me to say, "Well, I don't need to use the lab.....??...." (exit)

3) In the end, it was made clear that I belonged in math, while when it came to computers the guys were showing each other how to find the naked dancing girls in the computer games and glancing guiltily at each other when I saw. It didn't offend me, I want you to understand, but I just didn't really felt like I was part of the group, bonded by common interests. And I wasn't. I think the majority of these guys were there because their friends were in the computer lab, not because they loved hacking. In college I met guys who really did like making frankencomputers and we had fun together, as we really did have a common interest and were a bit more mature.

I'll make one last point: I had a very traumatic (to a junior high girl) summer class in math. The 7 other boys knew each other and wouldn't talk to me and wouldn't eat lunch with me, even though I did demonstrate that I loved math (skipped to 2nd year of program) and was good with computers (configured email system for myself fixing teachers mistakes). Were they discriminating? Were they sexist? They were not nice, or welcoming, and I don't have a single good memory of a conversation with a single one of those boys, but I liked the teacher. But at the same time, your previous comment puts this emphasis on discrimination/sexism/etc. Those are bad habits that come out of unexamined behavior that result from social fallacies we carry around. In particular, seventh graders are just awkward, for so many reasons. I don't find it useful to think that those 7th grade boys were just male chauvinists. They were awkward 7th graders who were afraid to talk to a girl. That unremarkable fear had an unfortunate interaction with a class in which I was outnumbered and "other", in a field with historical baggage. As a mathematician, I know that rules and patterns make outcomes of a certain shape, and intent is largely irrelevant as we filter through time and society.
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"we don't have enough boys going into fashion, elementary school education, communications, nutrition, nursing, or human resources."

And, yet, look who are in leadership roles even in those female dominated industries. Somehow, the majority of the wealthy fashion designers are white men. Somehow, the majority of principals in elementary education are white men. The executives that nurses answer to? Once again, predominantly white men.

There's a useful discussion to be had about why more boys or girls don't go into certain fields...and, feminists have been having those conversations for many years (yes, talking about the boys, too, because it often comes down to the same core problem). And, it's too complicated to sum up with statistics about who goes into what industry. But, there are a variety of real problems that come from these imbalances and these inequalities, so it's useful to try to sort them out and figure out root causes, without simplifying it down to gender essentialist arguments (i.e. that "women go into caregiver fields because women like that sort of thing" and "boys are big and tough and like machines so they go into STEM fields and shoot guns").

Finally, to pretend our industry is not overtly hostile to women is to ignore thousands of women who have told their stories of being made to feel unwelcome, disrespected, and even harassed and abused, because of their gender, when working in technical fields.
The difference is that men don't face barriers to entering and progressing within woman dominated industries or positions. Their skills, motivations, competence, etc are called into question because of their gender. They don't face sexism or harassment in the workplace. They aren't passed up for promotion or pay raise that go to their less qualified colleagues of the opposite gender. When your peers start telling you there's a problem in the industry, don't try to derail the conversation by bringing up other industries or saying that women just are choosing to join other industries.
They have more video demos here: http://blog.creolabs.com

Congrats on shipping the beta! It looks like a well thought out prototype/simple app creator. Can u give any idea on pricing?
> Right, but the familial bond isn't expressed by formal, ritualistic practice.

Seems like human society has for millennia worked by having formal rituals, and it's bound people together pretty well. I'm more than a little cautious about throwing all that out.

> That only creates a relationship of command.

What's wrong with that? A 'relationship of command' is exactly what the relationship between a parent and a three-year-old must be: when the parent shouts, 'don't touch that stove!' the kid must immediately shrink back; there's no time for inner reflection or external debate on the merits and demerits of stove-touching. As the child grows, the relationship becomes less and less commanding, but a wise adult will always listen to his parents (because they really do have more experience) and a wise adult will not command his grown child except as a last resort (because it's the only thing with a chance of getting through).
The bug is in the compiler, not OpenSSH. The OpenSSH developers explicitly erased memory with memset. GCC decided to remove those lines without any warning. There's the bug. (Here come the language lawyers...)

What's the difference between GCC deleting parts of your code, and an attacker hacking into the source code repository and deleting those parts of the code?

The C standards committee addressed the problem in 2009 with memset_s. [0] The GNU developers reject patches and state they hope this feature is never implemented. [1]

The bug fix is to stop using GCC for sensitive code. Use CompCert instead. https://github.com/AbsInt/CompCert

[0] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1381.pdf

[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-12/threads.html#00...
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It's not an appropriate comparison. Mining and logging are extremely dangerous, hard physical labor.

Computer programming is at the complete opposite end of the safety spectrum, the biggest health risks being RSI from typing and other chronic issues from prolonged sitting, and there are effective countermeasures against both of these risks. There is no valid reason why more women should not be able to do it.
Yeah, can someone explain the exact problem of "statistical parametric speech synthesis," since I can't find a general overview of the problem itself.
2016 and we Finally have another option to gift wine
It's funny I love giving wine as a gift! Valentines day, Christmas, Birthdays but wine can also be an in personable gift as well.

Its awkward to wrap for the most gifted wrapper and lets face it those wine gift bags are ugly "clunky" and obvious.

Finally we have a greeting card label for wine it's a gift wrap and card it one where you simply write your personal message on the provided space (Like a greeting card) wrap around any 750ml bottle of wine and then it can be removed and kept.

I can't believe its taken this long to come up with this clever product, what do you think about them? How do you gift wine?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2030725370/cellarwraps-finally-a-new-way-to-gift-wine
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Of course it matters to Netflix. They want to spend their money efficiently. It's possible spending on original content doesn't have a positive return on value.
This may be relevant:

"I'm hearing a lot about how Uber uses MySQL at web scale but not about their migration away from PostgreSQL."
https://twitter.com/xaprb/status/688149033991340033
When I very recently started using WhatsApp, the client displayed a link to a blog post[0] they wrote about why charging subscription fees was important and a good thing:

"At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data, upgrading the servers that hold all the data and making sure it's all being logged and collated and sliced and packaged and shipped out... And at the end of the day the result of it all is a slightly different advertising banner in your browser or on your mobile screen.

"Remember, when advertising is involved you the user are the product.

...

"When people ask us why we charge for WhatsApp, we say 'Have you considered the alternative?'"

Given that this new blog post carefully talks about not introducing "third-party ads", presumably first-party ads are still on the table? Which would make this new model the alternative that they warned us about earlier.

[0] https://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads
Please don't take HN threads on ideological flamewar tangents. They're always the same and always degrade the discussion in the same way.

The OP is a fine article by a specific person about specific experiences and it deserves specific responses. If you don't want to engage with what's interesting about a particular article, please don't post in its thread.
I agree, I am straying away from the author's main point. Which is clearly that the programming work place has become a worse place for women. As far as that thesis is concerned, I think it's far more likely that her transition to the younger, more hipster Ruby on Rails ecosystem is far more likely the culprit than her, "the world is going to shit" hypothesis. Her arguments are also wildly up for interpretation: "you did surprisingly well on that programming test" or flak for not "stepping up". These things may have absolutely nothing to do with her gender for all we know. Maybe events in her life or simply the process of aging has made her shift towards a more gender sensitive mindset. We have no way of separating her bias from the events, or using time as an accurate measurement when she admits she switched to a new ecosystem. In short, I think her actual argument is so weak, it wasn't even worth having a discourse about.

What I think is far more important is this idea that's being perpetuated that tech is this special place that scares away women. When the reality is that other fields just have more to offer.
X-ray breakthrough 'opens door' to controlled nuclear fusion
Part 1 of the article said: "Our new solution needed to be able to linearly add capacity by adding more servers, a property our Postgres setup lacked."

From that, I think we can presume that it was more straightforward to go with MySQL multimaster replication rather than the 3rd-party solutions required for PostGreSQL which are not as mature.
Sadly signal uses your number too.
Michael Bloomberg also advises to spend less time in the bathroom.

"Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg ticked off a few of his tips for success: arrive early, stay late, eat lunch at your desk.

Oh, and don’t go to the bathroom so much."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/nyregion/bloomberg-shares-...
Amazon reveals details about its drone delivery program
I didn't mean to suggest to were outraged. But the internet was for a while.
This is just blatantly false.
Unfortunately, Google has stated no intention to support or secure any device running an OS released more than 18 months ago. There's many dozens of CVEs that involve owning devices pre-5.1 that will never be fixed by Google or the OEMs.
And for those who didn't read the link, the punchline at the end of that post is:

"When people ask us why we charge for WhatsApp, we say 'Have you considered the alternative?'"

The (implied) alternative here is advertising; the author just spent the previous 8 paragraphs discussing all the unpleasantness and creepiness that that entails.
Can't wait to fiddle with the landing source code after they release it in 10 to 20 years time :D
> The point of mentioning it is that there are some fields that there is a push for gender parity into and others that are not

I think the main point of the article isn't gender parity, but equal treatment in the workplace. The focus of the article wasn't about increasing women participation in tech, but stopping gender discrimination in the workplace.
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When I signed up for WhatsApp in 2012, the iOS app cost 0.79 € (I believe it was a promotion, usually 1.79 €) and gave me a free lifetime license. I think the Android app already asked for a yearly fee after one year at that time, at least in theory.
This was my attempt to use a browser with a mini Org Mode. It has been sleeping for a year. A new job that sucks my marrow out. :-)

https://github.com/berntb/attorg
So I know internal figures from facebook regarding whatsapp. A large majority of our users are never actually charged a subscription fee.

The app is facing stiff competition in some markets against apps that don't have any subscription model. Even though whatsapp won't actually charge those users the presence of a subscription feature seems to be causing a growth hinderance.

Not sure how it will compete in these markets now given the entrenched nature of social platforms and how hard it is to convince people to switch but that remains to be seen.

Also, until recently whatsapp/facebook couldn't actually read any message sent by users to other users/groups because of the end to end encryption in place. Not sure why they would change that just to get a data mined revenue source, metadata is quite sufficient for that. Even with NSLs on fb in place, the impossibility of of us to read the messages in whatsapp is sufficient reason to deny a NSL request.

Zuck doesn't really interfere with whatsapp, but like with some other things this seems like a bid to increase DAUs and retention instead of any new source of revenue.
> [Gary Newman] also said that the numbers were “within the mid- to upper level of cable dramas and within the ballpark of what I’d expect.”

So the agencies that are paid to do research / competitive intelligence and rate a competitor's viewership numbers using a highly biased sample pool using a method (audio sampling) that is highly unreliable and wildly inaccurate (so much so, that for all intents and purposes, it should be classified a divining rod), has reported exactly the numbers that the TV Network execs expect -- numbers that color network TV as still favorable for advertisers? Well, I'm amazed.
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Can you please stop? Postgres is great and all. But people use MySQL for valid reasons, web scale is one. And InnoDB is a very very good DB engine for that task.
As a subset of the 2nd category, I think ad-supported mobile apps are going to suffer, i.e. games, since most of them seem to be advertising for each other.
On one hand I am glad that graduates are getting education and opportunities without subjecting themselves to mainstream educational institutions.

On the other hand, it does concern me that this is one step closer in the race to the bottom for developers.

It won't be long before being a developer is just another poorly paying job.
Note that point 3 was an answer to the question

> What features of EE belong in CE in your opinion?

which means rcarmo knows they're in EE, but thinks they belong in CE.
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I've messed around with Api.ai (https://docs.api.ai/docs/tts) and it is quite impressive. Full-featured, amazing pricing (free), and goes way beyond just TTS.
amazed that nobody talks about W. Richard Stevens anymore. i am getting old

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens
Sorry about my kinda harsh comment, good to see you fixed it!
I couldn't resist to smile. Back on topic, it would be great if WhatsApp clarifies which data they share with Facebook and how that data is being used.
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