skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree that repeated attempts to ask out a woman who is clearly not interested in you can come across as creepy, and I'm not really insinuating that it's not a problem. People that do that will earn their association with that term.

I can only comment from personal experience, but many of my female friends will call ANY interaction with an unattractive male 'creepy', regardless of how polite or nonthreatening that person has been. An ugly male will warn them that their car tires are low, or that they dropped something, or ask them about their volunteer organization (that they are promoting via a t-shirt), and these women will either give a quick response and leave, or give no response and actually physically flee the scene. Afterwards, they will ALWAYS say "some creepy guy tried to tell me that my tires were flat", or "some creeper was trying to find out where I worked. Is he going to be stalking me in my parking lot?" And I will have been there, observed the same individual, and say "what's wrong with you? He was just trying to help you out", etc.

I realize that the above is just anecdotal evidence, and that the normal/typical behavior of women could be completely different in most/all other situations, but can I really help that my observations shape my worldview?
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Ummm.... no.

At least not with the data points that I have. 1) Former boss, who is now managing over 100 people at Intel. Smart engineer and totally into the technology. I loved working for her. 2) Former female employees and coworkers that are every bit as much into the technology and every bit as capable as male engineers. 3) Friend and female no-nonsense CEO of startup who has had to fight jack-asses like you for her entire career and would very quickly plant her boot up your ass for talking that way. 4) My own daughter, headed off to MIT this fall, who is very capable of doing the bench work and has been instructed in no uncertain terms that if some lab partner displays your attitude and says something like: "Let me do the measurements and you can just write them down for me, sweetheart." that she is to grab the multi-meter probes and poke the bastard's eyes out.

Wake up and grow up, dude. The world has changed.
My wife, PhD in engineering, finds interesting and challenging work fun.

Lucky for her, I guess, that she is usually the only one of her level of expertise at a company because no one else can typically do the work she is capable of.
More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Jesus%27_Wife

It certainly sounds like it's a fake.
This study doesn't seem to be attempting to address the issue of a lack of women 'entering' engineering fields.. but the lack of women 'staying' in engineering fields long term.
You may want to consider these posts by Gayle Laakman McDowell (who write "Cracking the Coding Interview") on possible problems with take-home exams:

http://www.gayle.com/blog/2013/09/18/companies-who-give-cand...

From her blog post on general interviews and take-homes:

http://www.gayle.com/blog/2015/6/10/developer-interviews-are...

"Be fair to candidates. Balance the demand on their time with the utility you get from it. If you're giving a longer project, these should largely replace your interviews. Be aware that this means losing candidates who have other responsibilities."

(in the context of github and other outside contributions, but applicable in my opinion to take home exams as well):
"You may really struggle with female developers here. They're more likely to have substantial family responsibilities (and thus can't do as much out of work)."
Prior to the P85D, one could have said "if a 2-motor idea really made sense, somebody would have done that". One would have been wrong to say it doesn't make sense.

Prior to the Prius, one could have said the same about hybrids. Prior to Tesla, once could have said the same about electric cars -- and at the time it was true, with nobody wanting what little was offered.

There are numerous city dwellers with plenty of money and no place to charge. Often they live in historical neighborhoods that are all the rage these days. There are also homeowners without garages, and with garages full of stuff like boats and model railroads and other cars.

Also, range anxiety is real. No, I don't want to drive along a route defined by Tesla's superchargers.

That third option for motors probably requires an animation to explain. Never mind; there are at least two other ways that work fine without the unsprung weight problem.
>"Because they wanted/didn't want to do it" isn't where the trail of inquiry ends, btw.

Absolutely this. I think a lot of educators today understand that they should encourage diverse students, but they still exhibit a variation on the old "X hours of homework isn't that bad" where they ignore that their class isn't your whole academic life.

Socrates may be a fantastic ally himself, but it's very likely some of his students' other teachers aren't, so it's completely reasonable for them to fall out of STEM "despite the support."
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Part of the difficulty women face with these problems is that there definitely are multiple different strands of issues all wrapped up in this. But it's important to realize that just because there could be some explanation for one strand (bias against quieter people), doesn't mean that some people don't face one of the other strands (sexism). Dismissing a woman's problems could be due to sexism because another explanation exists is one of the most crazy-making parts of this mess.

I've come to learn it's a much more complicated problem than I initially thought.
Is it possible that the 100C was based on iPhone 6 mock ups that leaked and the Chinese company copied it to get it to market first?

This would not be the first time this happened:

http://www.androidauthority.com/goophone-sue-apple-china-112...
I've timed it at the WF next door and it is ~13s. Not "tens", but significantly more than your "max" of 10.
Prediction markets already widely exist and have been around for ages, just not in America. You can bet on all kinds of real world events, not just sports, in many countries.

Adding a prediction market to ethereum or some other crypto coin isn't going to revolutionise anything.
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Thanks, English is not my first language. After looking at the first few Google hits for "transaction volume" it seems to be confusingly used with both meanings but it's best to be unambiguous.
I dislike sms since the most likely device I own to get stolen is my phone. Also, the codes aren't sent to your locked secured phone, they are sent to your SIM card.

Paper codes are the same as having a second device with TOTP, you probably won't carry them with you everywhere (both should be an offsite backup).
http://i.imgur.com/reUNxYu.png Other engineering fields are not having this much trouble with it.
A typical process using a chip card:

1) Swipe card (out of habit)

2) Machine says use chip card reader.

3) Insert card in reader.

4) Machine freezes.

5) Get support - reset machine quickly.

6) Plan to swipe but luckily remembered. Inserts in slot.

7) Wait for what feels like hours to get it going.

8) Enter code

9) Approved! Takes card out.

Blah. I am sure in few years things will get better though. Or maybe just go with Apple Pay (or that type).
I did this, because I'm crazy. Ask me anything.
> Google is so far ahead that there would be little interest in the contest.

Sounds like EXACTLY the motivation a contest would help to foster.
Are you sure that's not 3% and 2%? When you consider the banks are on the hook for fradulent charges the interchange fee is their buffer to cover this (plus the myriad reward programs most banks offer).
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Hi HN,

Do you know any one man SaaS app that are profitable?

I'm asking this because I'm considering starting a SaaS app as a side project, and I'm looking for some inspiration.

Thanks!
uh, why begrudge someone for trying to maximize? it's a system there to use for people willing to put the effort in
I don't consider my risks to be 100% covered. I don't have to pay for fraudulent charges, but I still incur substantial costs in terms of time and hassle when a card is compromised and I have to get a new one. Time on the phone with the bank outlining which charges are legitimate. Time getting them to send me a new card (more complicated if I'm traveling). Time updating all of the automated payments or other accounts where the card number is stored. Hassle when my card is declined in the grocery store because the number was compromised and I didn't know yet. Hassle getting a late fee refunded (or service reinstated) because I forgot to update the card on one account and the automated montly charge failed. Hassle when the card is declined because the bank THINKS it's been compromised (theoretically less likely in a more secure system). And so on.

I've had cards compromised probably a dozen times (most in the forms of "mass compromise," where the bank shuts down my account and sends me a new card even though there were no fraudulent charges on my specific account). I'm glad I didn't have to pay any cash, but it has cost me a lot nonetheless.
I've been doing this with a MasterCard Paypass-based card for probably close to ten years? Now I have a Visa card that's payWave based, which is essentially the same thing.

The whole Android Pay/Apple Pay thing has been nice from a "more people have the terminal now" thing. But the card's tap function works so well, I can't imagine using my phone.
What is the case to be made along those lines--a case based on evidence and not rank speculation?

I loved building software. Like nearly everyone here on HN, I put up with the drudgery of debugging race conditions in other peoples' code in return for the opportunity to work on the fun parts. Why should we credit an argument that presupposes that women wouldn't feel the same way? In particular, why should we credit that argument over the article's argument: that women leave the profession in greater numbers because men give them more of the drudgery and less of the fun stuff?
"Move fast and break things."

In all seriousness though, when it comes to cryptography, cryptocurrency, and smart contracts, people are playing with fire, and they don't realize it. You can't fix a smart contract the same way you can fix a website. The fact that it's function is not good enough to push it out to the public.

Most software projects don't have that problem. Most software projects, it is okay to push buggy beta code out to the public. Because most software projects don't steward large amounts of money in an irreversible payment system.
By this statement, it appears you don't have any first hand experience with federal employment or the intelligence community.
Yes. That's the conclusion of Valerie Coffman, who works in the industry and read the study, at the end of the article.
Single letters for iteration values are a common convention in a number of languages. In the case of user/users, I'm likely to miss the distinction when scanning the code.

If I've got a bunch of little lambdas, short loops (under 10 lines, perhaps), or list comprehensions, I'm not going to use longer names in them, because the context is clear and limited in scope.

If the variable's got to stick around longer (like throughout a function/method), it'll get a more descriptive name. As the scope grows, the variable loses the context that it came from, and it's more likely to need a longer name to make its meaning clear.
Did you really? What disease(s) were you treating with the helminths? What were the results? What previous treatments did you try?
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Lawyers? Male dominated field, especially higher paying/partner fields. [0]

Doctors? Depends on the field. Pediatrics, gynecology, and a few other fields are female-dominated while surgeons (especially neurosurgeons), orthopedics, and a few other fields are male-dominated. [1]

With roughly 20/80 F/M ratios those fields fair about as poorly as the programming field.

[0] http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/uncategorized/201...

[1] http://www.journalacs.org/article/S1072-7515(13)01215-5/abst...

E:

Better choice of adverb: well -> poorly
> The whole rest of the world uses this without a problem.

Not really true. The rest of the world has had it and moved on, and this is a main reason why.

In my country at least, we're now on to tap-to-pay credit and debit cards in recent years, which is faster than the old school swipe and sign and much faster than the chip.
Some people may be willing to take less pay in order to have more control/freedom in a small startup, rather than just being a cog in the machine at Google or Microsoft.
I agree, but why?

My take is that the advice in those books is great advice for those seeking to gain and hold power in organizations. All else being equal, you should want the person running your organization to have mastered those ideas and be able to apply them productively for your organization.

That said, having an organization full of people who want to gain and hold power is a very, very bad thing. While you want the people at the top to do so, you don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry with a big ego doing so. So you are going to see an anti-pattern where a bunch of people who have no business trying to play Machiavellian games, attempt to do so. And part of the the reason why they should not do so is that they are not suited by temperament or competence.
Neither of those statements are true. Read up on payment network tokenization.
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2016/03/denying-the-cl...
I don't understand about the contractual requirement for no price differences. Gas stations do it everywhere ... a different price for cash vs cards.
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> If the women have to push back because the men got better assignments to begin with

That is quite the assumption. What if we consider the possibility that they were initially given assignments equally? Then, because some pushed back more than others, they ended up getting better assignments the next time around (and the next, and the next).
More info here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4374592/

It looks like it was for Crohn's.
The information added is the fact that it's frequent here to see disses just because an upvoted post refers a JavaScript/Electron project. That's useful information for newcomers to the forum.
The flaw in your model is, that it still takes too long (or too much money) to deliver the dress.
>The alarmism comes from reputable scientific research saying that the outcome will be terrifying catastrophy.

Just to be clear, the reputable scientific research is around the issue of climate change's impact on the environment, not on the effects to society. In other words, what that statement means is that we are capable of using the scientific method to make reliable predictions about how much the earth's temperature will rise, how much ocean levels will rise, etc.

The problem I see here is that the 'reputable scientific research' is being stretched to include outcomes to society: 'reputable scientific research says the outcome will be terrifying catastrophy.' That is not science: no one has a scientific experiment that can scientifically prove how many people will die or experience hardship due to climate change, let alone that outcome is terrifying catastrophe. By the way, what is 'terrifying catastrophe?' We can only produce simulations, models, guesses and conjecture, all of which are notoriously fallible devices, to predict what will happen.

Look, and I'm in agreement that the outcome of not acting on climate change will probably be terrible. My post clearly lays out that I am an advocate of climate change progress.

The extreme alarmism is not an indisputable part of the science, it is an indisputable part of the politics. The is something which has become worth questioning.

There are a lot of people shouting up and down about climate change without doing anything serious. Some of the most capable to help others are buying into a market of products and services that appear to have questionable benefit to human welfare. For example, hybrid cars that weigh over 2 tons and get 20mpg. Those investments in extremely marginal improvements in CO2 emissions, without directing effort to make improvements in other peoples lives in very obvious, relatively low-cost, and direct ways, especially in their communities, calls into question the value of the political movements impact on our resource allocation: is $20,000 better spent on a hybrid powertrain that improves fuel economy marginally on an over-bloated car, or is it better spent on other methods of saving lives, improving education, civil rights, individual freedoms, access to food and healthcare? We do have the capability to make the world a better place, and there is still a lot of low-hanging fruit as a means to that end. For example, we live in a world where more than enough food is produced to feed everyone, yet malnutrition is still a problem. Some estimate enough food is currently produced to feed the world twice over.

What I want to say is: it is worth questioning the politics. The climate change movement has become so political, so important and so untouchable of questioning that it raises concerns.

Why is it worth questioning the politics. One reason: are we spending our resources efficiently? I don't think we are.

I commend you for your efforts. For a period, I also biked to work and ate vegetarian.
That could be a communication problem between card terminal and network, not representing the average case.
Also love vue - pretty much gets stuff done without any extra hassle, and yes - dev experience is a blast.

There's keen-ui (https://josephuspaye.github.io/Keen-UI/) for a materialize look, looks quite solid. Used it and found it quite straightforward.
I'm not sure this is actually a gender problem. I'm a woman, who has worked in big tech. Having done 12+ years, I've seen that you need to work on the right projects to get noticed and promoted.

On the other side, usually when a manager wants to get rid of someone, they just give them the crap work. It doesn't matter if they are a man or woman. It's part of the process of showing "we don't like you, so start looking for a job."
Sure, but when you have a culture that punishes women for not being quiet by labeling them as aggressive, b*tchy, etc (after all, a certain presidential candidate often demeans his female opponent for "yelling" and so forth, despite that behaviour being perfectly acceptable in a man), you have now sown the seeds for gender bias.
Not that I know the entire implementation but I believe the phone has secure-element hardware that decouples sensitive material from the rest of the device. Therefore, in theory, attacking “the phone” gives you no access to (say) a credit card number. This should be a relatively small attack surface.
You can still get contactless cards from Amex at least (I'm not sure about Chase). But you have to specifically request them (and hope you can find a CS rep who knows what you're asking for). I think it's a bit of a chicken and egg thing - it's hard to get a true measure of demand when people don't even know it's a possibility...
And how well does your carrier verify your identity?
Yes, but cash back and incentive rates are much higher in the US.
In both cases, the key must be unique for the site. In both cases, key reusing would be very dangerous.

But in both cases, you can have a single published key you can use to sign the site-specific shared keys.
It would be nice if hacker news did not accept links to pay-walled sites
I wish your change was reflected in the IEEE article's title. :)
On my iPhone, the vue version is much slower than the standard page. But I love the ability to fold threads and may use it for that reason alone.
Foul language aside, I believe it's possible to make my previously mentioned assertion in either an offensive, or a non-offensive manner.
Everybody's criticizing the study but nobody has actually linked to it and the link isn't in the article. What's up with that (and airline food)?

http://m.wox.sagepub.com/content/43/2/178

The thing that really bugs me isn't that they read undergrad students' diaries, it's that they didn't quantify their findings in a way which could be represented in the abstract, which probably means they weren't quantified well at all. As such we're left with scare quotes (like the diary bits in the article) and the researchers' impression of their findings.

This isn't an unfixable limitation -- one wonders, how much room is there for algorithmic natural language processing in the data analysis here?
Is that the right link? There are no other engineering fields on that graph.
I so hope this service won't be abused by creeps.
Parent was referring to cards not phones.
conversations.im requires either entering your credit card into Google Play, or installing from F-Droid. That's already too much.

I'll set up the server, I'll put time and money into it, but it needs to be a one-step process to add each of my friends or it won't work.
Europe has a common market, so practically every card works everywhere else in the EU.
Well, there are two things to consider here. First, as you called out, your friends' behavior is anecdotal and may not be representative. Second, there is a big difference between work colleagues and strangers. If someone at work does something like complement my shoes, I'm much less likely to see that as weird/creepy than if a stranger does it.

Certainly, there are interactions that get labelled as "creepy" when they really shouldn't. But there are also plenty of legitimately creepy people making others uncomfortable at work.
And revealed intent. Only thing better would be if the algo could reveal truth. Then it would read:

"you're going to this".
Thank you for the history lesson.

I have found a lot of bang for the buck in software development comes from "the schema". I can use them to automatically enforce the runtime contracts between my code and my consumers'. As a communication mechanism between myself and other developers, the well-annotated schema builds an unambiguous picture for everyone of the entities, relationships w/ restrictions, and cardinalities in our systems.

At the boundaries of our microservices, we JSON Schema validate messages before they are sent on the service and upon receipt by the client (at least in the non-production environments.) We use the schema to guarantee the services and clients are always "speaking the same language" even when teams are releasing versions of their code at different times.
That candidate (and especially his vocal supporters) attack beta males with as much vitriol as women.

No intention of conflating "beta" with introvert. They aren't the same but I'm sure you get my point.
OK, but if that fails and your phone gets wet... how will you pay for the new phone? With a soggy broken phone?
In RST you must have a blank line between parent bullet and child bullet. This really discourages adding small child bullets.

In RST you must indent child bullets exactly to the indentation level where the text starts in the parent bullet.
Yeah now that I read it, it's got some red flags for sure. Nonetheless, nothing struck me as outright scientifically fubar.
My question: Are they exiting engineering because of brogrammers or are they becoming leaders because of their higher empathy?
Then, after spending 4+ years in college studying surface friction losses or CRDT applications without tombstones, and n+ years in industry trying to debug someone else's too-clever binary-flag-in-ruby code, a large number of them ... realize they really don't enjoy this work

So... on average you believe men just like engineering more than women?

Because of... what... genetics or something?
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Poor Ethereum now gets the bad press for TheDAO's hasty mistakes.