skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what the people of this article found though:

> men were getting advanced to the next round 1.4 times more often than women. Interviewee technical score wasn’t faring that well either — men on the platform had an average technical score of 3 out of 4, as compared to a 2.5 out of 4 for women.
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Systems and methods 4 receiving infrar data w. a camera designed to detect images
Hence saying it was largely debunked from a biological perspective.

aphextron didn't elaborate on the source of the psychological differences. I was pointing out that it wasn't biological and most likely cultural.
Their stated rationale (since we aren't mind readers and we can only go by statements). If they're lying, well, it happens and I guess you might find it in a followup. Frankly, their why is often the least important thing on the list.
> but some of the options for Leave are actually quite appealing ... Norway-style EFTA agreement, join Schengen, negotiate trade agreements with the EU from the outside on a common basis with other EFTA countries

While those are options that Britain could attempt to pursue if it leaves the EU, they aren't things that Britain can just choose to do. They are things that Britain can try to do after it leaves the EU (but may or may not succeed in, even if it tries.)
On a purely compression algorithm front, the recently format-stabilized [1] zstd [2] beats the pants down Brotli, in terms of compression speed, decompression speed, and compression ratio. Zstd isn't some random effort either, but a more flexible (in terms of compression time-for-ratio) effort by the creator of the popular and insanely fast lz4 compressor[3].

[1] http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2016/06/zstandard-reache...

[2] https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd

[3] https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4
Also read the Third Wave (well most of it anyway). Was a very intriguing concept -- the general idea is applicable to any intelligent species -- it will evolve through the Agricultural 1st Wave, the Industrial 2nd Wave and then the Informational 3rd Wave.
Maybe that is what the law happens to say now, but it isn't necessarily what the law should be.

Ideally, manufacturers have a right to sell what they want, under terms that they want. Buyers have a right to choose among the best available options on the market, or to not buy at all. Maybe this wouldn't lead to outcomes that the author wants, but then again, he's free to show that all of the other companies are doing it wrong by starting his own company!

So let's allow other people vote with their dollars, rather trying to suppose what customers want and then forcing everyone to comply.
Press release: http://www.transgaming.com/transgaming-proposes-change-of-bu...

They're going to be a phenomenal "real estate financing" company, what with a current market capitalization of <$3M.
Why would there only be one, perfectly symmetrical, counterparty?
Out of curiosity, how do you automatically(/programatically) "detect" that a project (repo) is open source? The presence of a LICENSE file that contains the text of the BSD|GPL|MIT|... license?
>> "(perceiving a "standard trolling technique" === "preconception")"

You claimed preconception about the topic. Perceiving trolling is a preconception about your rhetorical technique. Don't overlook that important nuance.

>> [SNIP -- attempts to justify]

I don't care whether you are or aren't justified in rejecting the data (I have no dog in this fight.) I'm simply noting that you seem to give off the impression that you're not genuinely interested, or open to being persuaded. This is more than just whether or not you accept the studies; it's in the phraseology you choose. Just as an example, you found the time to be snarky about downvotes, but not to express gratitude toward any of the people who have tried to provide you with data (even if the data is insufficient.)

> "I don't think I am asking for extraordinary proof."

The line I quoted ("this pattern has only been observed with women") was an unreasonable, extraordinary standard of proof. In a vacuum I would have ignored it. But in combination with the snark and dismissiveness, the sum total does fit a pattern that is common to people trolling on all sorts of topics.

Again: I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm just trying to help you understand what about your behavior might be causing people to perceive you as worthy of downvotes. I'm trying to give you insight as to how, if you are interested in genuine dialog, you can make that clear to others. Because your posts thus far create a very different perception than that.
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It got answered in the article for the follow-up thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12003570

"The measure identifies tech companies by the type of tax code they use under the Internal Revenue Service’s North American Industry Classification System. Companies classify themselves. They may face penalties if a government audit finds they are misidentifying themselves."
Was it 2014/2015? Those were particularly nice winters.

I lived in Bellevue for about 21 years, so I've got a bit more perspective.

It's not really that rainy, but it's grey 9 months out of the year for sure.
Alphabet Should Pay No More Than $1.1B for Twitter
This is insanely cool. I've often vaguely fantasized about stuff like this but this guy takes it all the way. He deserves a huge budget. Can we fund this somehow?
Get started with Angular 2 and Electron (quickstart project)
It's worth noting that the law is not only about messengers, it covers all "data handlers". So, include Google, Microsoft and all others in that list of companies too.
Here's a nice overview of what this legislation is about: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2016/06/22/irina-yarovaya-s-ant...
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July 5 is the first day of summer. Every year on the 4th you'd be biting your nails wondering if it was gonna stop raining so you could set off fireworks when it got dark at 10pm.
I'd have thought the same thing, but it looks like they went with their IRS designation. Odd choice, really.
Thanks! That's a great tip.
https://github.com/lord/slate
While not scientific, I heard a pre-recorded interview done with interview.io's gender masking where both sounded like men (in reality one was a man and one was a woman). I got the genders wrong when prompted to guess, so it was pretty damn convincing from my POV.
I'll just point out that white males are very well represented in Tech.
It's because we all know the 70c number is a lie when you actually compare experience, education, job role, and more stuff like that. I mean, don't try to bring it up with an SJW, but we all know the flaws of the study. the 70/77c number only compares all men to all women -- this includes part-time workers, moms who work easier jobs for more time flexibility (with accompanying pay decrease/stagnation), etc. Given the societal norm of women staying at home with kids, and being the ones to sacrifice for family life, this shouldn't be surprising.

If we want to fix that number, we need to give Dads more leeway, more flexibility, and importantly, no gruff, about taking care of their families. This will likely result in a net productivity drop of men as a whole across all industries. But it'll probably fix the perceived pay gap.

If women were universally paid 20-30% less than men for the exact same job, and possess exactly the same qualifications, quality of work, time put in, education, experience, etc., there would literally be swaths of companies only hiring women. It's a no-brainer decision. The fact that we don't see these companies is proof that the gap is a myth.
or D. A female who is not in the top 30% in terms of facial attractiveness (or is socially impaired for other reasons).
There's always money in it.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-content-calendar-lite/ - A simple content calendar for WordPress. 1 year old. Def didn't get the traction I was expecting. :)
Because it sold out in 4 hours from their mailing-list-only announcement. So from a purely supply and demand perspective, it seems they could have gone higher.
It can be even cheaper than that. If you buy VOO, the ETF equivalent of VFINX (Vanguard's ETFs hold the same portfolio as their corresponding funds), the expense ratio will be only 0.05%. If you buy this ETF through Vanguard, you will not pay any commissions. It's very close to being free, and definitely the cheapest way to invest in the S&P 500.
To be fair, the article was complaining about Amazon advancing towards the real downtown, not the Mercer St wasteland Amazon's development fixed.

OTOH they're talking about having space for 50k employees at SLU so I'm not sure why the author thinks Amazon is advancing downtonw...
While I'm around, I've been looking for a good compressor for an embedded scenario, where compression time and memory is near-irrelevant (it's done offline), but streaming decompression time and memory use (both in code and scratch memory) is primordial. By memory use, I'm talking a system with single-digit megabyte RAM, and decompressor scratch memory usage in the dozens of kilobytes.

Right now, we're using LZSS because the decompressor code is tiny (hundreds of bytes), and scratch memory is in the single-digit kilobytes.

Any suggestions? All benchmarks I can find online are focused on desktop usage (where comp/decomp memory use is either not mentioned or in the megabyte range) or web streaming usage (where total comp+decomp time is important. I don't care (within reason) about comp time)
We must go deeper.
The Third Wave is probably my favorite, especially in the way it accurate anticipates the information age

E. M. Forster predicted YouTube in the early 20th century Sci-Fi novella, The Machine Stops.

begins with the invention of the barcode

The original Internet of Things.
There is limited JS support now too, which will likely get better over time.
Try without the underscores?
What do you mean by better code? Good design is totally different than small tweaks and style changes. I'd argue putting in the effort to learn how to create good designs is the best way to write better code but it takes a lot more time and effort but more than pays off in the long run.

And there is no silver bullet. Advice like "Strong typing" or "functional programming" are not always going to be the best code for the task at hand.
This is really solid advice. Small bankers are interested in actually banking. I know that sounds silly but the larger "big name" banks are answering to a different master (no I'm not sure who that is, but it certainly isn't the small to medium business customer!)
Gender roles exist because they are adaptive. They are inseparable from actual average differences in characteristics.
Listen to him talk, once. That's how he's behaving unacceptably. And it's unacceptable to myself and everyone I've ever met in polite society. I've never met someone who would tolerate a child who throws tantrums the way he does.

I'm sure there are places in the world where it's acceptable behavior. I'm not interested in living there.
It's hard to break through a crowd where any feature is a near monopoly... when _all_ your colleagues are men then it's hard for a woman to feel completely comfortable and like they belong. Some will, many won't -- you can't definitively negate feeling of being an 'other.'
Buy her a copy of David Swensen's book for individual investors, "Unconventional Success." Anyone who still believes in market timing after reading that just can't be helped.
Lol, if we switch the tech industry to text-only interviews, get ready for the full-day programming problems to come back.

You get so much from speech cues, filler words, etc. To try to completely eliminate that and still make rational hiring decisions is a fool's errand.
But my point is that I'd call it less urban than SF.
Should we release a free developer version of Ottemo, our ecommerce platform?
We have spent 3 years building out our ecommerce platform and are successfully selling into the mid-market space where we charge enterprise prices.

We just finished a round of performance and scalability tests where we can support up to 500 concurrent shoppers on 2 T2.small instances and easily handle 100 concurrent shoppers on the free tier using a single T2.micro instance.

This has us thinking of trying to break into the SMB Market where Shopify and Big Commerce dominate. We know we cannot compete with their marketing budgets so we are contemplating releasing a free developer version limited to use of only SQLite for the database, (we support mongodb, mysql or postgresql in production) and pulling out some of our more enterprise-like integrations. Ottemo is built in golang for the API server and our current stores are built in AngularJS 1.x

We would provide binaries of our API server which will include SQLite and Open Source our demo store code to allow customization and creation of themes.

Will this dilute our value to our mid-market customers paying enterprise prices? Will this block potential investment from VCs if we expand down market into the SMB space with a free version?
It's not the CPU as much as the drivers. I have an 6yr old laptop which runs Windows 7 just fine but the graphics drivers are blacklisted and crash the machine if used.
A Piano as a Controller for Doom
Oops, let me check that out. Thanks for letting me know.
> You are clearly completely incorrect... Like so obviously incorrect I'm almost shocked to see such a comment here on HN.

Your first line is terrible. Remove it and your comment would be a valuable contribution to the discussion.

> Making discrimination illegal sends a social signal that the behavior is bad and shouldn't be tolerated.

Does it? It only signals that the government doesn't like said behavior.
>That doesn't mean that there are NO genders though.

The study isn't saying that there are no genders - specifically it is saying:

Our results demonstrate that regardless of the cause of observed sex/gender differences in brain and behavior (nature or nurture), human brains cannot be categorized into two distinct classes: male brain/female brain.
Failing is also how you succeed. You learn all the ways to fail, then try to avoid that. You can't fail unless you try. You won't be willing to try if you are terrified of failure.

The key thing is stop treating failure like some sort of personal fault (or to stop teaching kids or women to internalize it as a fault). It's why stuff like telling kids you're proud of how hard they worked is generally better than telling them how smart they are. Reward the work, the risk taking, even the failing. It's how you get stronger.
Watch Matt Trifiro Explain the Difference Between Mesos and Mesosphere
Clearly. But they were considering investment strategies (buy&hold vs alternatives). My point was that few if any investment policies would hedge you against market extinction events.
Why Theoretical Physicists Reflect Pre-Socratic Philosphers
Or maybe just a little higher. Their mailing list is comprised of the people most likely to buy this sort of thing. Selling to the general public might not result in many more sales than the mailing list alone, especially considering that the purpose/use of Urbit is so opaque.
I'm curious how frequently this will be updated. It'd be nice to set up weekly/monthly queries which show updated information.
If people want to deploy that way, I suppose that using rsync to update a local clone, and running from that, would minimize this problem.
I hear 10,000 hours of deliberate practice does wonders.
Now that Urbit is not entirely vaporware any more they regret this, but reverting the decision is not worth the trouble:

https://www.reddit.com/r/urbit/comments/4okcm6/were_the_core...

There are more interesting insights in that thread about Urbit’s unorthodox decisions.
Blame yourself, not Facebook. If you don't have any friends with opposite points of view that's not Facebook's fault.
he's a creationist. i don't trust anything science-based he has to say.
> This represents an interesting arbitrage opportunity. This could end up like PHYS or SBT/CGT where they tend to trade at a discount to NAV.

It should trade at a discount to NAV. Bitcoin held indirectly through fractional ownership of an entity that can be defrauded or bankrupted is worth less than Bitcoin I can hold securely myself.

But since traders can short the Trust, there's a real possibility that a short squeeze could drive the price of shares much higher than NAV.

For example, see what happened to Volkswagen stock when there weren't enough shares for short sellers to cover.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-idUSTRE49R3I920...

If the Trust stays small, that's a real risk/opportunity.

If the Trust gets large, then it could have a dramatic effect on the price of Bitcoin itself.
Weekly for now (fingers crossed)
This project is reinventing a bunch of stuff that's completely orthogonal to the goal of a decentralized app platform. They've written an OS, a filesystem, a networking layer -- all in a completely new language that looks incomprehensible (https://github.com/urbit/arvo/blob/master/arvo/clay.hoon).

I doubt very much this project will get much traction due to the enormous conceptual overhead of working within its ecosystem. There's a huge learning curve approaching something like this from the Unix/C ecosystem, and I don't think it's merited.
I believe that you know a lot about signal processing, but please don't express it in a snarky, dismissive way. If you can't post civilly and substantively, please don't post at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Actually, upon further inspection mine has more or less the same features
SendBird (YC W16) Is Hiring an Account Executive
Do you think it's related to the display? I'm on a 15 inch rMBP.
GitHub licenses API

https://developer.github.com/v3/licenses/
Oovaide – Clang-based C++ and Java analysis to maximize productivity
Down to the Wire for Moore’s Law
> Most of the logic behind git2-rs (as far as I know) is written in C.

True, but the Rust bindings necessarily contain tons of unsafe FFI code, and those bindings enforces many required safety properties. Even without checking the underlying C code, running AFL to check for any unsafe holes in the bindings would help.

That said, yes, for best results you'd want to check the combination of C and Rust to find new paths and full coverage on both.
I'm disheartened but not surprised to have learned that what HN is today conforms to your vision of a robust, multi-faceted debate. I, and nobody I know, would hold up HN as an example of vibrant debate, unless the subject of the debate is purely technical.

Frankly, I think you discount the extent to which people avoid or abandon comments out of an expectation that they'll be downvoted. If you don't already have them in place, analytics would go a long way in letting you know how often that happens.

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Edit: might've been unnecessarily personal
The Knights Landing Effect
Well, that's what I mean, we need something similar but for different languages than just Swift.
It's a nice correlation, but are you sure there aren't important confounding variables?

Primarily: the youngest person auditioning for a top orchestra in 1970 was a teenager in the late 50's, when the female role model was the stay-at-home mother. A person first auditioning ten years later was a teenager in the late '60s, when the female role model was going through a revolution.
An embedded implementation of the C time conversion functions
Very cool project, but - and I mean no offense by this - these views are taught in basic finance! There are similar graphs in standard finance texts. So it surprises me that so many people here seem to be caught off guard.

I look forward to seeing where the project will be heading next. In fact it is inspiring me to do similar analyses.
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Did you even read the article? Nowhere does the author blame the tech industry. In fact, at the end, she is basically claiming that women tend to have less self-esteem when it comes to evaluating their performance.
The notion that speaking Ukrainian is pertinent to the opinion on Putin, the very existence of two sides and a certain annexed region, all indicate that yes the western opinion is quite correct.
You're absolutely right re controls. Re your suggestion, totally agree, and please stay tuned :)
You would need to bring out three thousands, per month, before you break even with rent in SF :).
If they cared enough, and can't offer skills (time), they could always offer money.
Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance
Strawman argument.

The article delved into whether or not there was systemic bias against women in tech interviews, given that interviewing.io's data showed that men continued onto next rounds 1.4x more often.

The conclusion based on the experiment, that it wasn't due to bias, but because women were more likely to not continue to refine their skills by continuing to interview.

> When you do meet the rare American born female developer she is either: A. a designer who realized that there are no design jobs so she became a front-end dev; B. a first-generation Asian-American (B/C Asian parents steer their children into STEM); or C. it's a woman with blue hair and a pierced face who is there to "shake up the patriarchy" and make a statement about gender.

This is a sexist comment (and borderline racist).
An Australian Startup Creates the World's First AI-Powered Business Advisor
What sort of hardware are you talking about? Just curious.

I can youtube+[Witcher3|DarkSouls3|Skyrim+10GBMods] just fine with my 4k series i7, 16GB, GTX970.
"If it flies, floats, or fucks you should rent it" is the common advice passed around by jaded and wealthy divorced men that I know.
p2.constructor = Person;

Without that, the object also doesn't have the right prototype.
Blink has diverged a fair amount. There are different new features, bug fixes and optimizations.

Most things based on Chromium also use more components of the Chromium stack than just Blink. For example, in WebKit multiprocess support and sandboxing is provided at a batteries-included level. But Blink just has the hooks for it, while the actual implementation of the process architecture is done by other aspects of Chromium.

This is not to say one way is better or worse, but rather that there's significant differences between being WebKit-based vs Chromium-based.
If he were to say "vote for Hillary", then I would think that would be wrong of him. Hillary is a hawk who supported the Iraq war and the intervention in Libya. The same person whose campaign is partly funded to a considerable degree by Wall Street. So, he shouldn't say "vote for Hillary".

Also, you're not exactly saying how these free trade agreements are working out, and he's been consistent with why the trade agreements don't work, like TPP. The economy is not working for a lot of people, unemployment isn't too high in the US, but underemployment is high. People without access to health care is high. The number of people unable to afford higher education is growing.

Sure, for you (possibly) and myself, it's probably work pretty well. But there are a lot of people that it's not working for. When corporations have the influence they do on politicians, we end up with policies that favor them and not the people.
I wonder if you actually read the article. The author concludes that masking the gender of the voice has no effect on performance.
you are not a fiduciary*

you could easily be a financial advisor