skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO that's a knee-jerk reaction to which you shouldn't succumb. The study isn't saying that "one gender is better at programming"; it's saying there's weak evidence that GitHub users of one gender might be slightly more competent.

There are many reasons that might be true without any gender being better programmers in general.
>Our analysis (not in this paper -- we've cut a lot out to keep it crisp) shows that women are harder on other women than they are on men. Men are harder on other men than they are on women.
The type of people who put their gender on their profile could be different from the type of people who don't
Well, his account is 1937 days older than yours.
Ask HN: Does your team do code review? How? Why not?
I'm looking to learn a little more about how different development teams do code review.

Does your team actually do some form of code review? If not, why not? If so, how do you do it? Face to face? GitHub? Other tools or services?
Your summary of the claim is not the same as the claim. "Women on github" are not "women in general."

There is a well established idea that glass ceiling-type barriers require higher competence from women to push through the barriers holding them back than men face.

Though I suspect you'll find the last sentence of this quote off-putting, it's often summarized as the following:

> “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” - Charlotte Whitton.
Why not make one for yourself? ;)

julia> (∘)(f, g) = x -> f(g(x))

∘ (generic function with 1 method)

julia> (sum ∘ rand)(10)

3.397728240035534

Tip: type \circ<tab> to get ∘
"Currently, as long as people are online, there's a certain guarantee that they will see it."

Currently, if your followers scroll through all their tweets, they are guaranteed to see everything you post. The same is true with the new system, as it's described in the blog post, although they might see some other tweets before yours, if the algorithm decides to prioritise them. Perhaps Twitter will later introduce a more Facebook-like system where users have "the option to only see popularly selected tweets", but that's not what they're currently proposing.
Except what I find tends to happen is:

1. You google the problem and find results from stack overflow and some out-of-date blog posts from 4 years ago.

2. You choose stack overflow!

3. The stack overflow question most related to the one you have is closed as a duplicate. The duplicate's answer is: "look at this manual: link" but the link is to some .edu website that doesn't exist anymore, or is for version 0.7 on a unix system and you're working on version 2.5 on windows.

In conclusion:

1. The world changes, so the same question may have different answers depending on when you ask it.

2. Having multiple different representations of a problem makes it easier to search for it correctly the first time, not harder (even if they all just link to one answer.)
Tak!

I'm slowly learning Danish, so I envy Swedish for the nice pronunciation.
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Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, just send us JSON in a line and we'll parse it. You can actually search on that today, we just haven't made a way for you to see the parsed fields yet (coming soon!)

We're fully encrypted end-to-end in transit (but not at rest, currently).

Yeah we need documentation mainly and couldn't get that in time for launch.
Awesome, thanks! That's a great point-- We actually had separated out our site into Function of Beauty: For Him and For Her (with separate loops) but didn't include it in the latest revision. I'll combine that now :)
It's rational when the hindrance means fulfilling self interests.

I've been in competitive workplaces where people would try to get your project shot down because it could compete for resources with their own.
Its the Atlantic, not Science. And its an article about cats as much as it is about science.
I have seen that in smaller companies - especially startups. The closer I get to a large, enterprise environment, the more the PO resembles a sales person who is in meetings all day. Not actively using any PM tooling.
your analogy doesn't make sense... Javascript people don't rewrite a "totally new version of Javascript every year", they create/rewrite framework/lib like in every language ecosystem. The fact that there's A LOT of this happening is just the consequence of the language popularity.
> 6. Women have lower acceptance rates as outsiders when they are identifiable as women.

This is awful - I think it would be good to have some discussion around what we can do as a community to improve this?
Glad it was helpful. Now read the below if you want to understand a bit better what's up with "Middle East" [sic] and what has been going in that area -- "instability" --since the Shah of Iran was forced out.

http://masoudbehnoud.com/weblog/s2.pdf
PR closes can be for a variety of factors besides programmer competence or gender bias. For example, point #4 says that "women's changes are larger", whereas many large projects are particularly wary of large PRs with multiple changes. That's not to say that the large PR would break something, but many times I've seen a PR closed with a request to break it down into multiple smaller PRs that are more easily reviewed and integrated.
This is an awesome solution to a pretty painful problem for me. The way I buy something is I typically spend 90% of my time researching and deciding what to buy and just 10% on actually finding the best place to buy it and pulling the trigger. Most millennials I know do the same and spend a lot of time on researching products, which is definitely time consuming. Pretty cool to see a viable solution here. Giving it a try now!
I should have been more clear. Because of the pervasiveness of instant gratification (and entitlement) in society today, does it seem like those asking questions, strike that, wanting answers just want the answer to their immediate "problem" without having to invest their own time in researching an answer and even minimally writing up what they have already tried/done to find an answer?

>For me, it also shows motivation on the person asking the question (and vice versa). It's not effective to help someone who isn't going to do anything with the information.

Amen! My in-laws keep talking about listing some items for sale on Craigslist. They usually ask me how much they think they could/should sell things for. I usually stand mute. The implication is that they want me to list the items for them. If they aren't motivated to minimally research or determine an asking price themselves I figure they aren't motivated enough to actually sell the thing. (Not to mention their motivation tends to be "what's the most I can get for this" while mine in the situation would be "what's the highest price I can ask and still ensure this thing is gone with in 2 weeks". Additionally, if I list the thing, I'll probably have to deal with the communications and exchanging the goods... no thanks.)
Google cloud functions
Wim Hoff [1] is a great example of someone who can turn a lot of the knobs on his metabolism that aren't available to most of us. Apparently, he says it's something you can learn to do. If these researchers got more concrete about how patients can learn to do this and to get physiologically measurable effects, it would actually certainly lower health care costs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof
Your point about whether doping is inherent in cycling is a good discussion point, but the research that the article describes shows how "Winners turn to cheating" even in cases where drugs aren't part of the equation.
Meet the Robin Hood of Science
This is absolutely false. All US citizens (who are otherwise eligible) living abroad can vote.
> Prices fluctuate all the time, sometimes daily, sometimes hourly.

Right, the problem comes when the stores inflate prices artificially just before a sale event so that they can display a bigger discount percent on the day of the sale. This in turn makes the consumers think they're getting a better deal than they're actually getting, it's also a bigger incentive for them to spend their money.

The problem is that it's a fake incentive. While this is not a crime it's certainly deceptive and shady.
Of course they are. But if there is significant discrimination against women, maybe women either get really good or leave OSS/programming altogether. Leading to the remaining women (the sample) being "more competent".
No one is disputing whether or not he crossed the finish line first, here. Doping didn't make it easy for him to win, but it surely made it much easier. That in itself is unsportsmanlike and deserving of the ire he's received.
> If I was just now learning to program, an abrasive comment on SO would not turn me off to programming, but it would make me dislike certain types of people more, and in the future I would steer clear of that particular website.

This actually describes me fairly well. I began seriously pursuing programming as both a hobby and profession about 6 years ago. I was turned off by SO's somewhat prickly community, and to this day only use it as a search engine.

That's just it, though : SO is just SO. As valuable as it is, it's still only one resource among many. That was true then, and is even more true now. What your comment helped me internalize was that one of my principle objections with the OP is that the scope is overly broad. It's not so much about "beginners vs professionals" as it is about "Stack Overflow vs the uninitiated". It's perfectly legitimate to write about how to correctly ask questions on SO, but framing it as some sort of macro issue concerning the programming community at large feels wrong headed to me.
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Perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox ?
Yeah, sorry. I was editing that comment as I initially skimmed it. I added in their final summaries and they do include that fact which you mentioned.

I'm not proud of that statistic. I used to be firmly on the fence regarding the subject of women being discriminated against in tech. With facts like that, there's no denying it whatsoever. We have a big problem.
We'll parse your JSON if you send it in one line. And you can search on it like this: fieldname:keyword

I think we're pretty good on our UI/UX. Give us a try!
"Overcharging" is not necessarily as easy to identify as you might think. We sell some niche items that happen to also be available on eBay for less. People pay us more, willingly, because they know we'll be around in the future for help, warranty issues, etc.
Comcast has a 300GB data cap... Google Fiber offers 2Gbps service. If Comcast had Google Fiber's speed you could hit your data cap in 20 minutes.
Sean Penn and “El Chapo”: OPSEC Errors (Pt. 2) – Travel, Meetings and Surveillance
Mainly in our storage/retention offerings and automatic parsing of fields from common log formats (web logs, mongo/postgres/etc) and json.
We monitored the products that were sold and fulfilled by Amazon.com, not the stuff from resellers.
Apple mulling iMessage port to Android, sending encrypted messaging mainstream
A good start is to call out misogyny when you see it, online or anywhere else.

This is disappointingly rare, in my experience.

Edit: what a shotgun blast of downvotes and straw men. People are lining up to say all sorts of utter bullshit. For example:

* "Where does this indicate misogyny?"

* "The paper is about GitHub, which has a reputation for the opposite."

* "A good start is to stop calling things misogyny just because you're bad at reading statistics."

* "Of course it's important to recognize when it's actual misogyny and not just disagreement with the code."

The paper's findings are clear as a fucking bell: women have equal acceptance of pull requests, except when the pull request obviously comes from a woman. Fucking TEXTBOOK misogyny, and you're an idiotic trog if you don't think so. (Looking RIGHT AT YOU here, pluma.)
"Women on GitHub" != "women". Nobody is suggesting women are better at programming. The results are showing that women who submit GitHub PRs are more competent. There could be any number of reasons for that:

- women are more timid, so they don't even try submitting a PR until they're sure their work is good

- less determined women (who would perhaps also be less competent) are turned off by the culture of the industry

- women in the industry hide behind gender-neutral profiles until they have more experience
- leaseweb

- 1andone

Vote against linode here, yes, they're large but they are also not all that good.
I think that is data from outsider (or first-time-contribution) pull requests.
There is absolutely no productive discourse to be had on this subject from the viewpoint of gun owners.

That is point is hammered home by your harping on my mild rhetoric compared to your ""Mah cold, dead hands!" crowd reflexively vilifies today", without addressing a single one of my points about how you were wrong on every claimed fact in your posting I was replying to.
You must be easily offended. I did not find it hostile.
It doesn't claim that. You're conflating "women on GitHub vs men on github" with "a random sampling of men and women".

Given that in the above study there seems to be dramatically fewer women than men contributing to GitHub, take the assumption that in the general population men and women have similar distributions of programming competence, and it seems women are more strongly selected against to contribute on GitHub than men. It seems reasonable that the women who push would have traits associated with greater competence. Thus men and women have equal ability, but women on GitHub can on average be more competent than men on GitHub.
People like you are why companies like Enron happen.
About tipping the scales: In my view, as someone who is a criminal defense attorney who litigates cases every day, yes. But I imagine that is not the view of a well meaning principled privacy advocate.

Before 180 days, you need a warrant. After 180 days, you need a (d) order. Can the defense can get it using a 18 U.S. Code § 2703(d) order? In my view, the answer is no. The statute specifically refers to a "governmental entity" being able to seek the order. I don't believe that includes criminal defendants.

See: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2703

"A court order for disclosure under subsection (b) or (c) may be issued by any court that is a court of competent jurisdiction and shall issue only if the governmental entity offers specific and articulable facts showing that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the contents of a wire or electronic communication, or the records or other information sought, are relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation."
Lance is a great athlete but he also took doping to the next level with many blood transfusions and pressure on his teammates to dope as well.
Are you from the Mozilla team ?
The argument seems to be mathematical, not categorical, this is what I think is being claimed -- "there are many more men on github than women, thus there is stronger selection pressures on the women who are on github. Whether men are more or less competent than women IN GENERAL is a separate question from which is, on average the more competent sub-population on github."
It's confined to outsiders, I assume to negate the effect of "It's a woman, but I already know them".
You mean the 2013 budget sequestration never happened?

Tell that to the departments that are getting $1.1T less over an 8 year period.

Between the sequestration and the lack of budget increases, the US has been going through a period of federal austerity.
The wealth stayed in America. Also don't forget the prior free labour.
What would a chrome extension do differently than the existing job forums? Analyze my browsing behaviour? How does it work? Does it work in USA, only? Home page doesn't answer those questions.
You have a good point, but you've used the format of a middlebrow dismissal to express it—i.e. acting like others don't know something well-known, and snarking about it. That makes it a bad HN comment even if you're right. A better HN comment would bring up the issue neutrally and then either examine the OP to see how it deals with it, or ask a question about how it does.
Thanks for the comments! See my responses below :)

1) Essential oils correlates to the "unscented" option-- we use a variety of essential oils in our bases and nothing artificial is added. Similarly, the "yellow" color option is actually uncolored. We should specify that!

2) We're trying to make a cool feature in the account page and a follow-on e-mail to mention some of the active ingredients at work in each formulation.

3) The oil level is a bit tougher to estimate but the easiest way is if you wash your hair with shampoo/conditioner in the evening, how does your scalp feel in the morning? If you dab it with a paper towel, would there be no oil (dry), a little oil (normal), or a lot of oil (oily). We are trying to make this process easier in hair lab: https://functionofbeauty.com/hair_lab/

4) Thanks!! We think so too.
I look forward to seeing this paper cited for decades to come as experimental proof of the misogyny of the tech community.
Shashi Tharoor, MP explains Indian situation at Oxford Union:

Britain Does Owe Reparations https://youtu.be/f7CW7S0zxv4
Damn, this is _exactly_ what I just started building... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh well, It looks really nice!
I think your "Features" page could use some work. I don't consider syntax highlighting themes to be much of a feature. What I want to hear about is how you can take logs from all of these <dozens> of applications and intelligently parse them and deliver analytics and alerting on them.
We figured it out and it should work on Firefox now. Thanks for reporting the issue! :)
297KB (114KB minified) seems a bit much for a client library, given its feature set.
The summary seems to be all positive regarding women's contributions except for the last one:

"Women have lower acceptance rates as outsiders when they are identifiable as women.".

Looking at the data, they say that the acceptance rate for female outsiders is 62.5%, but they don't say what it is for men. Looking at the chart it looks like ~63.5%. And acceptance rates for both genders drop by >=10% going from non-gendered to gendered. Can we infer then that the bias is somewhat across the board for pull requests from easily gendered users?
Is Germany really as convoluted, or more convoluted, than the US case law, the patchwork of local tax legislation in the US, or the US tax code, for example? I never understood how those things could ever be navigated by one person.
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Good grief. You'd think, considering the near constant criticism of men in technology for gender bias, that fact might have warranted a mention as an aside at least.
You're the one calling people "data scientists", OP didn't even use the word "science" anywhere in the article.
Except the trick of saying you're moving countries doesn't work anymore.
Does anyone know if they plan to release any of this stuff as open source?
I think we're targeting different audiences. We're only really for logging.
So we currently ship around 10GB a month, and it costs us $75 a month from Papertrail. Cost is really a non factor, wouldn't matter if is cost us $200. The ability to search and grep older documents is a bit slow on Papertrail though. Additionally, sending deeply nested JSON, and being able to search on props would be huge.

Does LogDNA have a shipper from syslog? Do you have a node.js client lib?

Finally can you talk about security? Is traffic encrypted over the wire? Do you encrypted disks at rest?
Wow, thanks, I thought it was a question regarding that topic.

Thanks a lot!

Manuel
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You're wrong about voting: americans living abroad register in their last state of residence, and can vote in those elections. It's not illegal to do so. Most states have programs specifically to assist overseas voters, and the federal government provides overseas voting support to americans living abroad through the FPCA program. No fraud is committed.
Did you just completely ignore the other half of my post?

GNU Social is free speech. It is federated across servers. No one of the instances can ban you from the network completely.

quitter.se /is not unmoderated and does not advertise as such/. It is one instance in the GNU Social network. It can ban you for posting hatespeech, and the owner (and the nonprofit company that it's under) has no obligation to host people's vitriol if he doesn't want to.

I'm not going to try and defend quitter.se's terms of service because I don't believe in them /nor are they relevant to the network on a whole/. Take it up with @hannes2peer@quitter.se, but there's really no reason to when you can host your own instance and just pretend his censorship doesn't happen.

It's more analogous to email than twitter: you can post to other email servers. People from other email servers can post to you. But your email server is free to kick you off or blacklist all emails from another one if it wants to, while you can move to any other server if your host is being abusive.
You are right. That said, diversion of water for agriculture is also a confounding factor in the case of Lake Poopó.
Given that it seems like they analysed real-world data rather than producing synthetic experiments, I wouldn't put too much stock in the findings. For instance, in a hypothetical world where all businesses contributing to Github projects are perfectly sexist, only ever assign male coders to core engineering and only ever assign female coders to UX design, UX design is intrinsically more controversial and Github maintainerers accept patches purely on the degree of public support for their contents, one would expect a far lower degree of acceptance for patches from identifiable (as businesses presumably make their workers operate under real-name accounts) female accounts without this containing any signal about sexism on the Github side.

A better methodology for a study like this would be to identify a number of people planning to make sporadic contributions to projects they have no connection to and making them submit the pull requests under fresh fictional profiles with randomised gender. This way, any irrelevant correlations between the kind of pull request being made and the requesting party being identifiable as female would be eliminated.
That may happen, but like the "cadillac welfare queen" is an exception, not the rule. For most departments, they run out of money before the end of the fiscal year.
It's diluting (and once the opt-in option goes away, removing) the important and unique aspect of Twitter. There's no way that removing what makes Twitter unique will make it a better or more successful product outside of the short term.

"The Verge spoke to two users who have been testing the new timeline for a few months. Neither particularly liked it. "I started to get used to it but I still think that it is a terrible idea," Twitter user Robin Bonny told me. "It tears conversations apart, and it's really confusing when some people have been live-tweeting an event and those things get scattered all across my timeline. It makes it extremely hard to follow events, and destroys one of the core values of Twitter, in my opinion." Another user, Coady DiBiase, was only slightly more positive. "It's definitely nice in terms of catching up on things I might've missed, but it's a departure from the core idea of Twitter, so overall it complicates things.""

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/6/10927874/twitter-algorithmi...
Are beta testing only focused on select group of users? Signed up for beta and told there is a waiting line for it.
I was trying to find a way to articulate this and failing. This was my intended meaning.