skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> men do hobby programming and women don't.

This is also something I have observed in my job. I am in a typical enterprise software shop and I feel like women are more likely to see programming as "just a job", while men are more likely to put more passion into it. But most people in general see it as "just a job", so maybe hobbyist female programmers are just rare because female programmers in general are rare.

Who knows.
Expected LibGen. Was not disappointed.
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Older post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107658
> You can't move a finite number of something around and change a percentage.

I'm not so sure if the number of people from a minority available for hire is fixed. It might be possible to target people who are currently not part of the workforce.

I'm thinking of things like offering part time positions. If you offer part time positions, you might reach mothers that might otherwise stay at home with their kids.

I have no clue if this specific measure would help, but I do believe that as a company you could do more to encourage diversity than just wait for someone else to fix the pipeline.
It's called GovCloud. AWS has obtained FISMA certification for use as a government provider.

AFAIK, the CIA uses a hybrid setup with the government hosting very large data centers of their own for data and AWS being used to build front-ends that access that data.

It's important to consider the sheer scale of government resources. They run at least one of their own private cloud providers. They're just not accessible to the 'outside' world.
I don't use slack, I don't even like the idea of slack, but boy, are they killing it when it comes to trying to make the tech industry a better place. They also gave their employees MLK day off. Excellent work all around.

This is especially important given that only 3% of San Francisco's black population remains in the city, as economic pressure, along with intentional malfeasance on the part of the city government, has pushed most of them out over the last few decades.

It's neat that lots of high paying jobs are available in the Bay Area, but it won't really mean anything until the people who suffered through the hard times here are able to take part in the good times instead of being forced out of the way of progress.

So, thanks slack, it's a hard time to live in this part of the world right now but it seems like you all are really making an effort.
I assumed there was an implicit than the US there. So you are correct that its the spread that matters.

The article was about lower Japanese rates as compared to the US, which has relatively high interest rates.
Implications of Tech Stack Complexity for Executives
Would you accept an award on behalf of your Red Cross organization for its work in Palestine, purely because you're Jewish and your organization thinks it would be good for other Palestinians to see Jewish people in a humane light?
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> Happy Birthday will DEFINITELY be in the public domain in 2030

Copyright will be extended again before that time due to a certain mouse-eared corporation.
I see and enjoy how it asks the student to really reflect upon the steps. The mixture between clear instructions and animations help trains to visualize outcomes while coding instructions.
There are absolutely underprivileged people of every race! I happened to grow up around poor hispanics and whites. I would say on average that the hispanics have actually faired a bit better due to (imho) a stronger family culture that offered a bit of a support net.

A lot of the poor white people I know ended up in legal trouble or worse, actually dead.

The solution that I would advocate for is one of individual responsibility and confidence to make your own choices. Nearly everyone I grew up around (regardless of race) thought it was "lame" that I was into technology. Having the strength to follow your passions in the face of that pressure is key. In fact I would say pressure from people of my own background to continue their lifestyle was much harder to overcome than the small amount of discrimination I've faced in the professional world.

It sounds almost too good to be true, but in the tech industry, if you can write great code you will succeed.
It's the american notion that in politics there can only be liberals and conservatives.

In my opinion, it's a more liberal notion to actually choose people based on their skills and knowledge rather than skin color or in the interest of "diversity", even if it only yields in a 100% white or 100% negroe or 100% asian team.

I could even understand the notion of those who propose "diversity" if they wouldn't shut up when a team is devoid of white people. I won't recite the extremist clause that "Anti-Racism" means "Anti-white", however, judging from what I've heard in my years of experience as a software developer and entrepreneur, we're getting closer and closer to that if we keep on shutting those people up who question this.
I posted this comment in Julia's blog 5 hours ago, currently pending. I'm not sure if it will be accepted, but I'm reporting it here:

Hello Julia, the kind of skew that is a problem for Redlock, or other algorithms that would rely on the same clock assumptions, is not when the computer "logical" clocks skew, for example by getting a wrong time from NTP. By using the monotonically increasing clock API we only need to care about failures that cause the clock to go faster / slower even if never modified. Also note that there is no issues with clocks of different processes to be at a totally different absolute times, as long as they continue to count the time approximately at the same speed. If you restrict the failures to this class of issues, then to see it in the practice becomes not impossible but extremely rare. Most real world systems out there using proven algorithms, have to do the same assumptions on the fact that the system works in a mostly expected way. For example disk corruptions or network packets corruptions can cause the same issues, even if they are rarely checksummed at application level, or checked with a checksum length that does not make collisions impossible in the long run. Btw kudos for trying to reason with your head instead of trusting other people's or my words.
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Honestly, its kinda disgusting. Its like they are showing them off as a prize or something...
I'm South Asian. Asians certainly do deal with racism, but the stereotypes and artificial ceilings doesn't sound right to me. Where do you feel that any non-Muslim Asian minority is dealing with those things today?

The fact is that being black is the US is very different from being anything else. Black people were slaves from the 1500s to the 1800s, and the US government was actively discriminating against black people (and preventing them from building family wealth) as recently as the 1960s. That simply isn't true for Asians.

I recently met someone who went to Stanford and was arguing that black people are genetically less intelligent than white people, even though the entire concept of race has no objective reality. I guarantee you don't have to deal with anything like that. I could think of a million other examples.
It's amazing that at age 22 I've already seemingly "aged-out" of being an early adopter/power user of new social media (not that Snapchat is new, but I use it maybe once or twice a day and I've never even heard of "Triller" and "VSCO"). My 15 year old sister is always rolling her eyes telling me how to "correctly" use my existing social media apps and I've never heard of most of the new apps she's into.
>Please stop pushing these crazy leftist agendas everywhere

This is simple math. Personally, after reading this bit of your post, I am starting to believe your posts deserve to be downvoted. I do pity you though.
The post you reference also mentions that the resulting free publicity is boosting Nick's sales of his existing books. So, at least there's some upside to his current situation.
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While this is indeed the most rational and emotionally intelligent course of action in the wake of your recent professional disappointment, have you accounted for the possibility that you're too stupid to pull it off?
Other than the post by their founder above, I'm not really familiar with them. But overall, the 3 points I mentioned in my opening comment is generally similar. But to really find out if you'll like us, you should just try installing us. We have a working live demo on https://logdna.com
I'm currently using Sumo Logic. I'm pretty happy with the features, but their pricing is pretty frustrating and limits what I can get out of it without multiplying the cost.

Scalyr looks interesting, how does it compare to Sumo Logic feature-wise? For reference, this video has made me switch to them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5yWfYDQz2Q
I checked your example with solar system. Since it's calling directly document.getElementById, it would not be some valid Python code that I could run independently. Isn't that defeating the purpose of coding in Python first?
You know essentially nothing about the situation, but you're willing to shit on it. That's gross, that's gutless, and that's lame. IOW: it's exactly what passes for 'top comment' on HN.

saltman: you're not an asshole. Why do you take steps to enable and perpetuate a culture of assholes?
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I've never had this happen to me. I use Slack for OS X daily on a 2015 MBP and a 2012 Air.
“Happy Birthday” is public domain, former owner Warner/Chapell to pay $14M
What a cool project! I'm working with UCSF cardiology on various projects involving Apple Watch's heart rate sensor, and here are a few applications you might consider for your technology:

1. Atrial fibrillation (you mentioned arrhythmias—this is probably the highest-impact heart arrhythmia since it causes about a quarter of strokes and is frequently undiagnosed)

2. Sleep apnea (if you can also measure oxygen saturation)

3. Heart rate variability for stress reduction or mindfulness.

4. Tracking tachycardias from Adderall usage.

5. Heart failure exacerbations (probably if paired with a scale)

6. (Perhaps) other arrhythmias like supraventricular tachycardia or atrial flutter.

7. Irritable bowel syndrome. Believe it or not, IBS is connected to heart rate variability via the action of the vagus nerve.

There are also all sorts of non-medical, but fun, applications you could pursue. For example, rating which scenes in Game of Thrones get your heart pumping the most:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/08/13/what-game-of-thrones-...
Well, that was eye-opening. I honestly thought Snapchat was only used to sext off pics of naughty bits.
I tried to use it, but I realized a core component was taking out my phone and snapping a pic in public. Using my phone in public makes me socially anxious (feel like I'm "part of the problem"), so I don't see a world where I can really snapchat.
Diversity is so in right now. This is the just another way for white high-status individuals to show that's they're not just rich BUT also MORALLY better than you.

I can just see the execs at Slack, sitting back in their chair in some posh SF restaurant, recounting to their friends how they got four BLACK WOMEN to accept an award for them.
> Additionally, there are plenty of efforts using this principle to include men in traditionally female dominated fields like nursing and teaching.

That's very interesting. Can you point me to somewhere I could find more information regarding this?

The best I could find on Google was this:
http://www.academia.edu/1838697/The_Dilemmas_of_Male_Element...

It does mention that, but I couldn't find much about the efforts themselves, just research.
> How can I quickly build a friendly relationship with my coworkers in a relatively short amount of time (2-3 weeks)?

Look for points of connection, express an interest in your new colleagues one-on-one.

What kind of things are important to them? What do they care about? What do they like to do in their free-time? How can you help them personally/professionally?

On this subject, Larry Benet has great advice > http://www.superfastbusiness.com/business/larry-benet-shares...
Today I learned that headset manufacturers could simply NOT blow the "engineering" QFuse and their devices would suddenly be FOSS compatible hardware.

This is the sort of thing Senators are for.
Please show me evidence to these delusions.
And why white men are so underrepresented in sports? Should we somehow change that?
For me, the "while you were away" feature shows me things I don't care about. I do indicate so by clicking the "X" to train their engine - but it hasn't shown me anything worth caring about.

For example, I really care about funny cats. My timeline is 85% cats, and I retweet funny cat pictures 65% of the time. However, the while you were away feature shows me things like opinions about voting, or holidays, or what co-workers are doing and saying, etc - Yah - it's in my feed, but I literally don't care. I spend 8 hours a day with my co-workers and hear all their tweets first hand. All I want are fun cat pictures from places that I haven't seen before to make the day easier to pass and to ward off depression... and it'd be great if twitter can make me a cat picture search engine. But for now they haven't done that for me yet.

Maybe they can allow a user to curate the "while you are away" algorithm so I can have a core set of twitter accounts that I really want to keep track of while I'm away ( https://twitter.com/cuteemergency and https://twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens ) and/or weigh explicitly which accounts I want to train my personal preference algorithms ... It would be pretty easy too since the lists feature already exists - just make it so the algorithm only pulls from an indicated list.

Until such a function exists I think i'll keep it off and just enjoy the cats.

Anecdotal, but I can see how this feature might or might not hit the target. All I can say is I hope they keep it an option that can be disabled or enabled and they don't take away the option box for this.
While I have probably faced what I would consider to be very minor discrimination, I would say that if you're good at what you do people will accept you and you can succeed.

I mention it in another comment, but the pressure I faced to stay in the culture I was brought up in was much more of a deterrent to success than any headwinds I faced in the professional world for being "different".
This comment breaks the HN guidelines by calling names and being uncivil. Please (re)read them and don't do this in the future:

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Among other things, that will make your comments more persuasive, since incivility in comments tends to discredit them.
Tarifa (ES), has some small 'digital nomad' scene and nature, sea and mountains. Other option is Granada (ES), some of the highest mountains of Europe, good weather but nature/mountains a bit dry compared to Switzerland

Brasov (RO), fast internet (faster than UK), good food, friendly people and more nature and mountains (Carpates) than you can hope for (and bears for bonus points). Also good priced vs Switzerland and nature wise looking very similar, Brasov and surroundings being more unspoiled. With what you would spend in Switzerland you'll be able to live 3-4 months in Brasov in the same conditions.
It turns out options parsing is fundamentally hard. It looks simple at first, but then it turns out that if you want to support everything anybody could possible want, you end up with some too complicated to use. Nor is it obvious which "middle ground" is correct. It's a perfect environment to produce exactly what we get, which is a bajillion options parsers for every halfway mature language in the world.

Also, that's not 400 lines of parsing code, that intermixes "parsing" and generation all together.

Mind you Go is not a good language for writing parsers in. (It isn't especially bad, like, say, C, but it lacks almost every conceivable feature that could make parsing code anything other than very, very verbose.)
If you want a high level overview, this preso is the place to start
https://dartino.org/downloads/Dartino-Modern-Embedded-Progra...
fascinating video. love the IDE and the great convenient it offers.
I'm sitting at SaaStr Annual, a conference with predominantly SaaS founders, sales & marketing types, and VCs. There's a lot of talk about the recent motion, especially among VCs.

One of the things I'm struck by is not that the wiggles actually matter, but sentiment matters. Because it's a frequent topic of conversation, it's an easy thing to bring up, and without some knowledge and context, it's a strike against you. Does that matter to your business or your clients? No. Does it matter to the person you're talking to right then? A little. And if you're trying to get them as a customer or advisor or mentor or whatever, you're a bit more in the hole, because you chose to ignore the fact they're thinking about the wiggle. It's not important to you, but it's important to them.

So don't focus on the wiggle, but don't ignore it. Internalize what has changed, respond appropriately, and know that you can move past it.
Socrates criticized writing and reading because to him it atrophied the ability to remember things. I wonder what will happen to your brain if you use technology to filter things you don't like. Will you become more sensitive to annoyances you haven't yet blocked?

But maybe you're in too deep, and a filter might be good for you, because you seem to be unable to ignore my noisy and precious-time-wasting posts on your own.
> The news media has their own agenda, we shouldn't use "what they choose to write about" as a barometer.

I don't like this logic. It presumes that there's some dark cabal of web journalists conspiring to change the world.

Unfortunately their agenda is typically, 'will we get advertising revenue from our target demographic by publishing this?'

Nothing more sinister than that.

And given this was published to, uh, a _news site for and about POC_ and not a tech news site.... (take a look at the domain, maybe?) what nefarious agenda could they POSSIBLY be running? Maybe one that promotes POC, and responds positively to a company that celebrates its diversity?
That is a very good point. It's easy to cite studies to support one's position. I could easily find studies which show that diversity actually decreases the mean IQ of the population.

Now, evaluating these studies, we might then rightfully say, that IQ evaluation is erroneous and discourages minorities, and that social status has a huge impact on the IQ.
However, when diversity leads to a lower social status and poverty, doesn't this defeat the purpose of arguing for more diversity?
Just to give you an insight into my thought process on this.

Another point is: Did the lack of diversity really hinder the creative minds of the last millenia?
On an semi-related note:

Some of this sounds exactly like Gary Shteyngart's "Super Sad True Love Story".

The way the girls talk to themselves and about other people, it's incredible a 40-year-old Russian male to capture female American teenagers so well.
Or maybe you would embrace the reasoning behind it. Who here is really strong enough to deny an award?
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when the stereotype is "you're good at math and science" overcoming the stereotype would mean proving that you're not good at math and science: i.e. you don't need to overcome that stereotype. I don't need to overcome any stereotypes about tall people being successful! (Even though my height is good.) That would mean "no.... see I'm totally unsuccessful, I've had to overcome a lot of prejudice owing to my height but I've done it."

I'm smart and I'm white. If I were Asian it would be objectively easier for me to get funded in silicon valley. If I were black it would be objectively harder. (All other things being equal, i.e. if tomorrow I woke up with just those phenotype physical features and skin color but remained completely the same in every other way.)

This is just a physical fact, it's an aspect of reality. I don't know how else to put this. If tomorrow I woke up looking like a woman, I'd be more likely to be raped in the following 900 days, because women are more likely to be raped. If tomorrow I woke up and was Asian I'd be more likely to be funded in the following 900 days, because asians are more likely to be funded.

It's just a simple fact. Even though it's a simple fact that shouldn't be too controversial I obviously feel some risk that this will blow up, hence the throwaway. Please interpret this comment liberally, but if multiple people absolutely must feel the need to downvote it I can remove it.

I wouldn't mind being asian whenever it comes to being judged in tech. It would help me achieve my goals. I mean that absolutely literally: I wouldn't mind if the people judging me in tech thought I was asian. It would help me.
Re: pipeline, if a tech company really wanted to do well by minorities-in-tech, probably the best thing they could do would be to sponsor and support high-school-level education in tech in their own community.

Basically: privileged kids have the free time and structure to just end up "picking up" programming and other tech subjects on their own, as a hobby. Because of this, there's relatively little top-down structure supporting introduction to technical subjects at the age where kids' minds are most malleable to thinking in new mindsets.

If you want diversity in tech, you have to ensure that even the kids that will never think "oh, reading this C manual in my spare time sounds like fun" will still get introduced to the concepts, and to thinking analytically, while they're still forming a self-image. Because—if you miss that window—they end up—even in college, even if they were a straight-A student—as the type who thinks "oh, I can't go into [CS/math/engineering], that's not the type of person I am, I'd never be able to do it as well as the people who love that." (I.e., the people who define themselves in those terms, because it became part of their self-image at the right time.)

So, for example:

• Volunteer engineers' time at local schools (especially schools in lower-income areas) to give introductory-level talks. Get kids interested.

• Set up after-school clubs for e.g. game development (or any other tech-related subject that kids usually get fascinated by.) If those clubs already exist, donate to them.

• Lobby school boards and PTAs for initiatives to ensure 'equal encouragement' for minorities—none of this "counsellor discourages women from tech; says they'd do better in the arts" business.

There's probably tons more I'm not thinking of, too.
I switched to Colemak to reduce strain and found it to be effective. The only issue I have with it, is I sometimes forget to press ctrl-space before I pass my Mac to a coworker. Then I have to explain out-loud that I use Colemak, which is hard to do without sounding like a total hipster.
But does it mean that companies in SF don't hire them even if they have the appropriate skills or because those people lack those skills?
I take it back. There have been studies. Common sense and science are in line in this case. The amount of people who admit to operating outside of gender norms is <4% according to certain studies.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-22/americ...
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Please stop trolling Hacker News.

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