skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would women be harassed for blogging about programming, but not for meta-blogging about the experience of being a female programmer (as the OP)? Is one really less dangerous than the other?
Probably to prevent them from doing bad things to the fork graph (eg. Abusive or inflammatory commit messages would come to mind).
blond/blonde

actor/actress

fiancé/fiancée

widower/widow

waiter/waitress
Why can it not be a rational act to rob someone?
For me, this was an exercise in practicing machine learning and I found it very interesting that you could get 80% accuracy with such few features. A look up table works very well, but if a name does not exist in the table, you could possibly use some kind of ML to guess the gender.
Using the SSN baby names data is a staple in my data journalism classes. I like using it as an example of how even a brute force comparison can be decent enough (90%+ or better) to do gender analysis on a wide variety of public datasets, such as campaign finance and public payroll.

Here's one example I've created regarding the Pulitzer board composition: https://github.com/compciv/gendered-pulitzer-board

Note: it was only an example...obviously a little tweaking is needed to put into actual production. Also, obviously has varied effectiveness on datasets with non-traditional American names. Here's one of the more comprehensive efforts by a student, on New Yorker bylines:

https://github.com/alecglassford/compciv-2016/blob/master/pr...

The SSN name data seems almost certainly flawed to a small degree...I.e. It's just hard to believe that there are dozens of boys named Jennifer (and yet, strangely, no boys named Sue!)...but we're talking about infinitesimal rounding errors. The vast, vast majority of names are 99% one way or the other...with a few exceptions such as Leslie...though you can mitigate that by using older years of the SSN database.

And here's a battery of SQL queries relating to baby names and gender analysis: http://2015.padjo.org/tutorials/babynames-and-college-salari...

So I have to strongly disagree with OP that 80% accuracy is something to be astounded by when it comes to gender classification...however, I do agree that in terms of features, doing a simple frequency count of last characters...or number of vowels overall can be a strong indicator of gender for a name, with female names tending for the softer sound. I wonder how much more using Soundex would add to the accuracy? Creating a trained name classifier would be a fun project in service of a tool that could gender classify how masculine or feminine a made-up name sounds like...which would be a slightly useful tool if you were a fantasy fiction writer, though I suppose if you were to be a successful writer, your ear would be trained well enough for he purpose to not delegate it to a computational tool.
Well, why is that constraint interesting?
I'm not exactly an extrovert, but I had a similar problem. I've been working in a co-working space for a few months now, and I regret I haven't been doing it for longer. It's a massive difference.

Btw, which sort of EU funding did you get?
In the United States, most likely female.
The US government has already used last name data to guess ethnicity of persons when sending out notices for a class action lawsuit: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/reports/using-publicly-availa...
Philby wasn't trusted from 1951 onwards, he was sacked from SIS and caught in lies by interrogators - using things like his wife's passport stamps to capture his movements.

Technology these days may enable mass surveillance but historically the same thing happened - because there was much less international traffic. MI5 could "burgle their way across London", open all the international mail it wanted to, read the telegrams sent abroad etc.

The sheer change in volume of international travel and communication is recent.
Then just hide their part of the graph?
Ah! And this ironically relevant 2008 post from Coding Horror about testing your code in the Turkish locale.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-wrong-with-turkey/
It's possible that when women who do write about the tech itself, and don't emphasize the fact that they're women, people tend to not realize they're women. That said, I've definitely seen interesting tech articles by women. But I'm also aware of cases like Kathy Sierra being chased off the internet by trolls like weev.

As much as women would like to focus just on the tech, sometimes the "women in tech" issues are unavoidable.

In any case, this particular article doesn't seem to be about "women in tech" so much as about "how to get into tech when it doesn't come naturally", and I think it's very insightful and inspiring, and relevant for men just as much as it is for women.
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Paywalled. Also, title seems to be 'Big pharma seeks digital solution to productivity problem'; not what the submitter gave.
The labor market exists to turn work into food and shelter not provide money for bored children.

Factually the overwhelming majority of low wage work is done by people who do in fact need to support themselves and their families.

Even so it's entirely possible for special exemptions to be made for kids and the other cases are hardly worth mentioning.
And so is all Github-dependent deployment...
They could tell you to change it to 1234.
You can probably get to 80% accuracy in Italian just using the last letter. If it's A it's most likely a female, if it's O a man.

Counterexamples among the 50 most common male names given in 2014 are:

Andrea 2.46%

Mattia 2.39%

Luca 1.14%

Elia 0.45%

Counterexamples among the 50 most common female names given in 2014 are:

None

There are a handful of names ending with E or a consonant for both genders, which will have to be placed at random.

Source (in Italian): http://www.istat.it/it/prodotti/contenuti-interattivi/calcol...
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KYC = Know Your Customer

As the name implies, this law only applies to (financial) businesses and their customers. Most Bitcoin transactions are P2P and hence there is no business/customer relationship and hence there is no KYC law applicable.
Kim Philby was also mixed race - his mother was Indian. In British society at the time that very much didn't make him part of the Establishment, and he did face prejudice from senior officials because of it.
Why would women be harassed for blogging about programming

There are a great many total dickheads on the internet. Really. It's hard to comprehend just how many utter dickheads are running around out here. The exact reasons why? I've never really understood all of it. Some of it is because it makes them feel like big men, showing off to their dickhead friends; I've seen them come back to crow about it and they seem to get some kind of approval from their peers.
My impression is that some men (trolls, MRAs, you know the type) are uncomfortable with women talking about technical topics, but have no problem as long as they restrict themselves to "women's issues", which would probably includes "women in tech".
Gosh, don't even get me started. Some laws here in germany are basically hostile towards web-development projects. At least the ones where you either have: user generated content or aggregated content from other services, sites or sources. Not that it would be illegal per se, but you would have to take care of so many things, that you would always wander on a very small grate grate between legal and illegal.

The "Leistungsschutzrecht" is really only the tip of the Scheißberg.
Here's the BBC Radio programme about the tape: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b076v1zq

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00lfylv

The BBC have had many interesting programmes about Philby and the Cambridge spies. It's really hard to search the BBC website to find these programmes, and many of them are no longer available to listen to. It's odd that the BBC missed the opportunity to have a meta page of all the Philby coverage, linking to the programmes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076y5w or this one
If you don't want people to be able to use your work how they wish, don't license it as free software. Or trademark the name if the naming is an issue. Blocking someone from being able to use your code is anti-software-freedom and goes against the spirit of the licenses most likely used by 99% of github repositories.
Everywhere except Italy most likely female, in Italy, mostly male.
True. Although showing how unprofessionally the data is kept makes a good point, too.
For a real treat, try replacing a curve that is fundamentally linear (say, optimizing your salary as an employee) with one that is fundamentally exponential but with a much smaller constant factor (say, founding a startup). Not only will you be below the Y-intercept for a considerable period of time, but you will also have a slope that is indistinguishable from zero.

This is probably the biggest killer of startups: it doesn't feel like you're making any progress at all, until you have a sufficiently deep picture of your marketplace to know exactly where to hit it that your competitors aren't, and a sufficiently solid product that your customers realize this.
This would be my only concern. "Uhh, do you mind if I just switch off Find my iPhone and reset the phone for you first?"
I'd say 200 is reasonable. 140-160 is jogging/running, which is not that fast. When you're about to die and fight-or-flight reactions kick in (i.e. your whole entire body shifts to "OH SHIT" mode), I'd expect your HR to be through the roof.
I think that by 'biological sex' they are saying it is identifying the gender of the person as it was assigned to them at birth, which is usually based on visible biological sex characteristics.
What's their justification? I've heard that too, but it sounds too stupid to be true. "Here's an amazing feature built in to all our CPUs. Except you can't use it."
If you think it does, then I assume you also want to ban cash?

By the way, that is a valid opinion to have - it's just that not everyone agrees that it optimal in the long run for all personal information to be auditable by a government in real time.
Note that the statistics may depend on birth year for certain names.
No, but it's written in JavaScript so.. ALL YAY!

Why are people wasting time on such "IDEs"?
It does matter a lot since it brings a solid foundation to build on, and that foundation is well tested, gets regular updates and makes it easy to create a super extensible application.

Most of users that look for such self hosted solution will know that using a framework is better than "pure php" because they get well tested code.
If a project on Github blocks you for something you said on Twitter, why do you want to contribute to that project anyway?
You can also follow githubstatus on twitter: https://twitter.com/githubstatus
Mailwizz is active developed and the UI is going to change at some point too ;)
> I immediately imagine targeting women with makeup and celebrities and men with cars and sports.

Then it is your imagination being nefarious.
You did say that because you said that using a Bitcoin mixer is equivalent to money laundering.

On the Bitcoin network all transactions are public and can be linked to an individual. Without mixers it quite possible that the details of all of your financial transactions will be public.
As a counterpoint, I've become far more worried about life in general since I realised that medical and legal professionals are just winging it too.
""Other MVCC implementations have their own drawbacks of course.""

Thanks for the info, can you elaborate on the drawbacks of other technics ?
That seems far more Heath-Robinson than even the old days of plugging a computer into the TV and saving programs on tape.

Mind you, I learnt to program BASIC before I had reliable access to a computer too, so I programmed on paper. I wouldn't reccomend it for any but the most determined student.
Maybe if we make it a secret boys' club and let them "invade" it and act all shocked when they do, they'll get it out of their systems and we'll be able to go on?
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Another interesting factoid... The British government tried to stop publication of Spycatcher in Australia also, but was defeated in court by the man who is now our Prime Minister.
Phone memories
I think the unfortunate truth is that they'll get harassed either way.

But, if you restrict your blogging to the arcane aspects of database replication or whatever, then you can "pass" as a man.

This option isn't really available if you are blogging your experience "as a woman in tech" so this self-selects for people who can cope with abuse, are already receiving so much they won't notice any extra, or that think it's worth it to be a visible example to others.
How is this different from functional programming with memoization?

I cannot believe this concept has never been applied to build systems before.
> If it's A it's most likely a female

Same in polish. If 'a' is last you get like 98% probability it's female name and if last is not 'a' then 98% it's a male name.
Isn't it the other way around? The name (birthname or assumed) reflects a person's social identity and thus is related primarily to their gender. It is only indirectly correlated to their sex (biological makeup), which you cannot directly infer from the name they specify. So I'd say this guesses a person's gender.

Somewhat orthogonal is the issue that the guess is binary (m/f). But the thing is, as long as the accurracy is ~80%, the total mismatch rate is much larger than the rate of people that are mismatched because there is no category for them.

Obviously, you shouldn't guess someone's sex and or gender and present it to them or others. But this can be used for a lot of other things:

- If you have a large dataset of names and other information, but no gender info, and want to see if e.g. women are underrepresented. Even with a weak classifier, you can set bounds.

- If you have a real-name, real-data policy, you can use this as a pre-screening to see if the information entered is plausible. It's of course up to you to then do something responsible with that information. I'd prefer to allow pseudonyms or assumed identites in most cases, but sometimes it's not possible (e.g. if this is a egovernment or insurance project).
Electrons and fish follow the exact same mathematics
Emoji: how do you get from U+1F355 to Slice of Pizza?
I don't understand this. The federal minimum wage (7.25 USD) in US is higher than Czech average wage (~6.78 USD), yet things generally aren't any cheaper here. Taxing crippling. I thought the minimum wage at its current height is unsustainable, and they want to raise it even more?

By the way, what are the "leaked documents" in the title? The public survey and the public research?
Got here because of that haha, can't deploy. EDIT: Why downvote fellas?
https://youtu.be/P_KmFJ2gGzw

Why do we need an app for that? The lady could simply point left and right...

Well ... yea, developers needs job too!
Mailgun restricts features unless you pay more money, which increases as your plan increases. I prefer SendGrid's model. They're just different pricing models.
I can't find any references as to why learning styles are a myth in that article.
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I'm pretty sure they get harrassed for both, but it's possible to write a tech blog in a gender neutral way, while it is not possible to write a "my gendered experience in tech" post in a gender neutral way.
If only we had a version control system that didn't rely on a central hub...
Approximately 99% of biologically male people identify with a (predominantly) male gender identity, and approximately 99% of biologically female people identify with a (predominantly) female gender identity. Of the remainder, approximately 99% identify as the opposite gender (born male, identifying female, or vice versa). Those people will usually prefer change their name to reflect their gender.

Unless you are specifically targeting liberal arts college students or Tumblr's otherkin community, Gender: Male/Female is going to cover the vast majority of your users. Unless you are running an adult dating website, there's no reason to ask your users' biological sex ever.

All that being said, I do agree that if you want to know a user's gender you should be asking them rather than trying to guess. And since it doesn't cost anything extra you might as well throw "other" in there as an option.
Dirty stuff, this still wont allow you to load modules that use unsafe-eval, on pages with strict CORS policies.

Biggest road-block was a communication channel between the `content_script`, and the actual scope of the page (this was initially made to not have a GUI, and just have a console API.)

Maybe someone can shed some light on alternative way of doing this. At the moment I append an element to the page, grab a reference in the `content_script` and listen for a change event on it. Then in the actual scope of the page i trigger change events, and update the elements value with the message. FAR FROM IDEAL.
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We do. It's called Git.
Also personally I prefer detailed articles that are well-investigated instead of quick, unverified news shots.
Take a look at Cerberus [1], it has a lot of very helpful features that I haven't seen on other similar apps. Eg take silent photos on incorrect login attempts and email them to you, disable power-off, survive factory reset. I used it once successfully to recover my lost phone. It automatically sent photos to me of the person who found it, and I made my phone speak out a voice message asking them to please stay there while I came to collect it. The guy who found it was looking stunned when I arrived there a few minutes later.

I'm not affiliated with Cerberus in any way, just a happy customer.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lsdroid.ce...
Well, I live in a country where cash is very uncommon. I can't even remember the last time I saw cash in real life so banning it wouldn't make much difference for me personally.
Is there a, say, ballpark figure on the volume you need to send before switching to a SaaS becomes an interesting option? E.g., i have a newsletter with about 300 subscribers that i'd like to host somewhere else, and i don't think will ever reach more than maybe a couple of thousand readers.
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The Web UI is still accessible for me, just extremely slow.
Well, if you do want to send all-your-emails-since-ever to all-your-contacts, I bet it's a lot harder to do in Gmail. Perhaps that's where Mutt shines!
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GitKraken – data kraken – Yet another application that tracks you?
Yeah, for men, 220 - age is your max heart rate, in theory. And "going to die suddenly" = max heart rate.

The other thing that's bullshit about the graph is that there are only 4 evenly spaced data points for what sounds like a 5-10 minute encounter. Don't believe it at all, why wouldn't you show real data? Or talk more about the data if that was the point of it?
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> The SSN name data seems almost certainly flawed to a small degree...I.e. It's just hard to believe that there are dozens of boys named Jennifer (and yet, strangely, no boys named Sue!)...but we're talking about infinitesimal rounding errors. The vast, vast majority of names are 99% one way or the other...with a few exceptions such as Leslie...though you can mitigate that by using older years of the SSN database.

I agree that the SSN data has flaws, but I only took names with at least 20 people. But the classification is probably iffy, as some names are classified as male and female.

> So I have to strongly disagree with OP that 80% accuracy is something to be astounded by when it comes to gender classification...

I originally hypothesized, I could reach 90% accuracy, but I could only get up to 82% max. As stated in the blog, 80% is the accuracy of a mammogram detecting cancer in a 40-45 year old woman which is pretty good for 3 features!

> I wonder how much more using Soundex would add to the accuracy? Creating a trained name classifier would be a fun project in service of a tool that could gender classify how masculine or feminine a made-up name sounds like...which would be a slightly useful tool if you were a fantasy fiction writer, though I suppose if you were to be a successful writer, your ear would be trained well enough for he purpose to not delegate it to a computational tool.

This would be very interesting to see!
The Economist had a lucid interview with someone who ran a cleaning business in London not long after the minimum wage was introduced there. Abbreviating: "Now that I know what my competitors pay, there's no point in trying to beat my own labour costs below that point, and I spend my time in ways that benefit my business more."

He didn't say "I felt like a soulcrusher when I beat down the wages of people who earned very little, and now I spend that time on positive improvements instead". Maybe it was in his mind though. Managers are people too.
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Nope, this is my fourth job. I've been fired from 2/3 jobs for underperformance.
It's also illegal to wire in your own ethernet jacks. Crazy.
for a lot of companies doing that would be a big no-no security wise
Everyone's heart rate is different and I don't think with any certainty you can expect to predict what someone's HR is in any particular situation. Personally my absolute max HR I've seen in my whole life is 166 yet I regularly cycle with guys in their 50s that can reach 180-190. The only way to find your max HR is by measuring it.
> working together to bring down an empire.

Profitable work.

Though perhaps not for most of the people affected (T.E. Lawrence included), but screw them.

P.S. curiously, I do own a copy of Lawrence's book. I even read it, long ago, and from my recollection I'm not inclined to re-read it.
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It depends on the type of plasmid I believe. Bacteria cells will share certain plasmids with one another; this is how they learn quickly and spread resistance information. Some plasmids are even shared with different cell types such as yeast. I'm curious if they have thought about how to control how the 'software' will spread.
But Kuba is a male name :)
While they don't have a single rule similiar to fair use they do have a long list of exceptions to copyright, including educational use, technical necessity, written and spoken political commentary, citations, and private use. In some cases more usuable than fair use, in some cases not.

Before the recent introduction of the Leistungsschutzrecht, Google News was completely legal to operate.
This is interesting because using only last 2 letters of a name and the position of a's, and throwing away all the other information, you can guess the gender of a name with 80% accuracy.
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> in MSSQL to tempdb (or you can just disable MVCC)

In fact you have to explicitly turn it on in MS SQL Server. Twice: enabling ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION at the database level and setting transaction isolation level to READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT for your connection/transaction.

In MS SQL Server it is an optional enhancement (added in MSSQL2008 IIRC) that you chose to use if your use case fits it, rather than being the primary method as it is in postgres. A great many developers using MS SQL Server don't even know the option exists.
You'd think by now GH would have a more resilient system in place ... I mean it isn't like it is the first time it happens to them.

Thanks for the downvote, my hearts goes to you. :/