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"HN has a dominant point of view"

I have difficulties thinking of HN in the singular - from what I can tell it is a group of people with pretty different views on most things. I don't think people get downvoted for expressing different views - pretty sure the times I have been downvoted it is because I've said something crass, irrelevant or just plain wrong!
Thanks! That's a great idea for our blog.
Finding bias is easy. You recognize patterns and often little cheap shots against only one candidate or only one party. And in tech sites it comes across as arrogant and amateurish or simply out of place. It's not hard to write unbiased copy or provide an overview that doesn't assume a particular political pov is right or wrong. It's also the job of editing chiefs to ensure that the big picture of a publication is providing a collection of unbiased or at least a balance of biased pieces in order to maintain an unbiased reputation.

You can write so as to describe an incident, you can get quotes to balance out a view. And what you choose to EXCLUDE matters just as much as what you include. Even down to how images are cropped. A writer who is self-aware of bias can do an outstanding job by understanding that what they think they know they may not actually know.

For example, a topic such as climate change, I may realize both that I have a bias AND I don't have very good info of the other sides of an argument. If I were being a responsible writer that should mean that I need to study up both on the topic AND on the view points, separate the valid from the invalid and go from there. Taking my own side on faith or from a narrow perspective is my undoing if I'm to be a reliable source as a reporter or journalist to 'inform'.

Also this is the age of clickbait so it's even easier to detect bias because the headlines are begging for scrutiny.
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I've actually stopped shopping at Amazon. I'll pay and extra $10 for high ticket items to avoid that retailer.

I'm sure many of the higher ups there don't have any ill-will, but they have unintentionally (or maybe intentionally; I dunno) become America's new Wal-Mart. That's a bad thing.

Consumerist culture erodes long term sustainability. Laptop/cellphone replacement cycles need to be 10 years, not 2. Old electronics need to be recycled--like actually recycled and not shipped to Africa where teenagers rip out and smelter what components they can.

I'm not saying Amazon is intentionally causing more consumerism, but it is a result of their type of industry. And the effects bleed out in a way you can see in its home city of Seattle.
At ~$100k, a 40-foot sailboat seems like a reasonably affordable option for housing in SF.
Brexit must not risk what Britain is best at
Heh. I've seen someone in a similar situation in a previous organization I worked for. And the problem there was with a slow system admin team. The sysadm team was large, however the truth was most power and responsibility was given to exactly 3 of them. Yes, the 3 were experts and they did great work. However the sysadm team was shared by like 4 product teams (and sometimes also does some work for customer support dept).

From a manager's perspective, the root of his frustration wasn't that easy to solve. To "scale" the team, it was necessary for the 3 guys to take lesser work and train few/more of other sysadms so that they can delegate their work. However, their work was so pressing, they hardly had time/chance to teach others. (Also individual personalities may be different...some people are great at their work, but not so great at teaching others..some don't want to give up some power..some potential successors may not be willing to take up their responsibility etc..all of this increases the problem).

My guess is that your IT dept is in a similar situation. Explain to your manager(s) that they need to clear the traffic jam/bottleneck. Tell them to find and check the IT dept's backlog so that they are convinced. Tell that this inefficiency is potentially losing the company money. Also if your views are backed by some of your colleagues it will add weight to your words. And be patient (complaining too much back-fires, so save it). If nothing works out and the situation is unbearable..then..we'll try to find a different job?
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> Don't get cute

I struggle with this. I don't necessarily write a lot of one-liners, but recently I solved a document parsing problem using regex, list comprehensions, zips, etc; generally what are considered "clever" language features to my peers.

The problem-solving approach seemed straightforward enough: match labels, slice document, destruct into keys and values into separate list, transform into proper formats and eliminate errors, combine into list of tuples. I could repeat this pattern because the document was structured hierarchically.

On one hand, I believe that by using these methods I've written code that is maintainable and less sloppy, and reflects the strongest understanding of the problem. I personally find these language features empowering when I solve the problem.

On the other hand, because these features are not the simplest features, the learning curve for interpreting the code is higher. I didn't use any obfuscation methods to compress the code, but neither did I apologize for the usage of the above.

What I wonder is: if we don't try to leverage higher-level language features, do we end up defaulting to a brute-force approach with is less contained and raise technical debt?

You could hedge around this through liberal commenting, but I find it difficult to believe that avoiding thinking about the problem as being too "clever" is much better. Somewhere there must be a compromise.
I did a similar analysis in 2008 to determine whether an n% drop in the index could be help inform an investment strategy: https://saffell.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/does-timing-the-mar...
Horribly damaging, but alas, it makes some sense for training aristocrats who will cruelly lord over everyone else and run an empire. But not for a democracy.
It sure is :)
So I don't think that hiding factors that (we think might) influence biased people is the right way to address bias.

Let's say a woman uses this voice modulator in an interview and gets a job that she wouldn't have otherwise. Now she's going to work in the same shitty, sexist environment that would have denied her the job had they known she was a woman. What problem have we actually solved here?

I think that the problem isn't so much that women can't get jobs in tech as that they don't want to work in an industry that is (correctly or not) perceived as being a sexist sausagefest.

We have to change attitudes and culture to address bias, not simply put on blindfolds.
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What this doesn't take into account is the fact that california doesn't require renters to list their income from alimony or child support. There are a ton of beautiful lofts in Santa Monica, for instance, which are over 100% of the maximum allowable income as a section 8 renter. This means that they were only built for rich divorcees or otherwise subsidized women.
No. I believe Twily used to be on /g/ frequently, maybe still is.
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There is Cocktail written Haxe (can compile to C++):

https://github.com/silexlabs/Cocktail
This, many times over. Yes, Seattle's South Lake Union now looks a lot like downtown San Jose. It's a completely different world from 10 years ago, though, and so much better.

We missed out on a chance to have a giant urban park ("Seattle Commons": http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&...), but credit to Paul Allen for executing an unbelievable plan B.

[Bloomberg's article focuses more on Amazon's new HQ in downtown Seattle, but Amazon's impact today is mostly in South Lake Union. Background: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/amazon-will...]

(Source: Born in Seattle and have lived within ~0.5 miles for 10+ years)
Even more accurately, it's a minimalist web browser UI for Electron which is an application UI for Chromium which is a fully-featured web browser UI.

These people don't deserve any more Moore improvements.
Vocal fry isn't gender specific.

Ira Glass (This American Life) has vocal fry and they discuss the gender bias here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/545/i...
Amusing rant. Incidentally the personal attacks are highly amusing because I AM NOT AN AMERICAN.

As for the last paragraph, I am subject to FBAR & FATCA. The burden of them falls disproportionately on those who are not egregious tax evaders. It is extremely expensive and time consuming complying with them when you are doing the right thing. The evaders can afford to hide what they should be declaring by virtue of having more money, and having more to gain. Plus they have more loopholes and other ways of obscuring their money thanks to the same legislatures.

There are many ways things could fairer. For example these little people who are spending lots of time and money on filings could have their costs reimbursed. If living in a country with a mutual tax treaty then the exemption limit could be raised (currently $10k across all accounts). Or perhaps fairest of all is requiring all US tax payers to do the same thing - list all their accounts and all balances everywhere including domestic.
I'd love to know about the work life balance. In an industry where burnouts are common, and your work history being some of the most demanding companies in the industry, how did you handle it?
The problem as I see it is you have a year to create a something that will generate $10K in revenue annually or you will go quickly into the red and have to shut it down.

I'm not sure what you can learn with $10,000 worth of servers that you can't learn with $1,000 worth and an amazon AWS account. If it's just you, you won't need to scale up for a while and AWS is super cheap.

Convert it to as much cash as you can, then spend it more economically on a service with no time restrictions on the use of the resources.
Spend a lot of planning time breaking up the design into separate components/modules/packages/whatever, where each piece exposes a small, well-documented interface. Naturally these pieces will have inter-dependencies, but try to keep that to a minimum. You don't want to have a single module that every other module directly imports. It takes a lot of thought, but this makes it a lot easier to fix bugs and make improvements with minimal fuss.

Another thing that is really helpful is keeping a dev journal: a sort of stream-of-consciousness record of what you're thinking/doing. Include things you thought about trying but decided against, links to blog posts/stack overflow questions, frustrations or pain points with the design, code snippets, just anything really. This can serve as a rough draft for documentation, and forces you to articulate your thought process into words. It takes discipline to keep adding to the journal, and I've fallen out of the habit recently, but it is super helpful.
Wow, that is something of a plot for a Hollywood thriller. I'm at a bit of a loss as I don't have any clear idea of what "MOVA" is. I'm quite familiar with motion capture software and using it with a tagged model (where rotation points are co-tagged with points in a motion capture sequence) because an acquaintance of mine was doing that in the early 2000's but it seems like it would have to be much more than just that to be non-exportable.
Well it's possible, but how many developer would rather make a new type for using the first ten integer instead of just using int?

I think random testing is a good way to get almost exhaustively tests.
I installed another calendar app just to test this: https://i.imgur.com/nlsHUGr.jpg
I'm always surprised by the strong underlying assumption that removing interviewer/managerial bias will result in a gender ratio of 50%. There's research to suggest that this assumption is flawed: [0]

Moreover, the idea that anatomy and physiology don't condition preferences or behaviors flies in the face of everything we know about human biology and (embodied) cognition. Let's recognize gender/feminist theory for what they are: a sociological theories, not scientific ones.

Equality, in the sense of gender or racial equality, does not mean we're all the same de naturae. It means we should be treated the same de jure.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38061313_Men_and_Th...
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You have heard of server-side validation, right?
Should "we" also try to figure out why large amounts of women have less speed compared to men, and work on that, too?
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For anyone interested, I'm just gonna stick to Safari on my Mac and iOS.
Yeah, also any linguist can tell you that women use language differently than men. Even in written communication you can usually, consciously or not, tell unless someone is very deliberately trying to appear to be the other gender.
This is an important point. Fully generalized, though, and we find idiosyncrasies in every application domain.

Maybe starting with a project like this would help? https://github.com/aosabook/500lines
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Not a ratio per say, but there was this[0] recent controversy

[0]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/03/bbc-criticised-by...
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It sounds like you're hating the player, not the game.
That's exactly what happened in this particular case! (Perhaps not an answer they didn't want to hear, but certainly a different answer than was expected.) And it seems like it led to an interesting new theory worth exploring, and if that pans out, potentially a great area for improvement.
Yes, it sounds quite strong, especially with the media coverage. VC or other funding can be considered a "prize or award" if documented right. Other things you can do:

1. Continue seeking media coverage, the more prestigious the better.

2. Document the specific impacts your product has in making the world a better place. How has it made a dent in the universe? Factual evidence of specific, industry-wide impacts can really skyrocket your chances of success.

These impacts are hard for many applicants to explain and document, so if you can do it, it will really make your petition stand out.

3. Enter some competitions and win some awards (including, but not limited to, funding, admission to prestigious accelerators, etc.).

4. Judge some competitions or submissions: Hackathons, pitch competitions, applications for funding, peer review, anything in your industry.

5. Write and publish some articles, either on technical topics in your industry (better), or general-interest media articles and blog posts (good).

6. If you're making money, think about how to frame your compensation as higher than the norm in your industry. You have to prove, not only that you have high compensation, but that others similarly placed have lower compensation. There are a number of ways to present this, so it's good to start thinking about how to show a "pyramid."

HTH.
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Depends on what you are counting as the "same".

Edge put together a really great visualization of the API surface of all the browsers. - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...
The API surface (and bug surface) is actually pretty different these days.

Internally Blink and WebKit are also diverging reasonably rapidly.
As a specific example here is the project to re-architect how blink does it's painting:
https://www.chromium.org/blink/slimming-paint

EDIT: spelling
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> What if it works perfectly and you still end up hiring more men than women?

It's possible, but also the converse is possible. Shall we find out?
so, no precedent of a judge citing a juror for contempt, then?
Campoes seems to derive policymaking inspiration from Chavez. What I mean is he aims to please and fulfill his constituency not by addressing the root of a problem, but by summoning an issue's boogeyperson.

Unfortunately, they may feel good or vindicate people's frustrations but do little to actually work to alleviate the issue. This is more of that tact.
I remember this from "Earth" by David Brin, published some 26 years ago:

> People bought personalized filter programs to skim a few droplets from that sea and keep the rest out. For some, subjective reality became the selected entertainments and special-interest zines passed through by those tailored shells.

> Here a man watches nothing but detective films from the days of cops and robbers–a limitless supply of formula fiction. Next door a woman hears and reads only opinions that match her own, because other points of view are culled by her loyal guardian software.
> This project is solving the wrong problem

No. This project is solving a different problem. Let it be.
One of the first things I ask potential employers in my current job search is whether they employ open space office or not, and simply refuse to talk further if they want me to sit with 20+ people in one room. I hope more developers will do it to put some pressure on this matter.
50,000 chimps all banging on keyboards will produce good things.
This page on HN has 5 lines of inline JavaScript. It downloaded ~25KB of content, over 5 HTTP requests (HTTP/2 even), 3 of which are images, all of which are GIF images < 100 x 100.

This tab is consuming 98 MB of RAM. I am in incognito mode, with no plugins.

While crazy site do crazy things with JS and have crazy bad user experiences (TMZ.com makes 700+ requests and takes over 90seconds to load), 98 MB of ram for a HN tab is ridiculous. This has very little to do with JS.
Have you considered that maybe the prices of some products are so low because of planned obsolescence? If you want quality, buy Miele. You have a life time guarantee. And you won't have to use it. People who can't afford the quality can buy Samsung. Or do you think people who don't have $10k for a fridge shouldn't have one?
NetSurf actually looks good.
1. I was pretty clear about not being a DSP-person

2. The module provides infrastructure for other beamformer implementations to be plugged in, my implementation is intended to be a trivial test

3. module-beamformer did not ship (the link points to a branch in my git repository)
Higher education has been getting much more expensive, and in many areas of the country, so has housing.
I believe (from rumours of friends) that most servers actually ban bitcoin mining on their system anyway.
> Unfortunately, I don't know what "wise use" of social media looks like.

No one did. Well, possibly we had a very strong clue when looking at the impact of Television on society, on family, and on the individual. Wisdom, I suggest, would have counseled restraint given the preponderance of evidence that immersive technology had already proven disruptive.

> Another example of what I mean is all the articles that pop up on HN about how the modern internet is destroying attention spans. How do we address that best?

I've found having a narrow timeslot for being on the net works wonders. My schedule is somewhat extreme, usually limited to morning/afternoon email checks and a grab bag of open tabs to filter when disconnected. And of course, my mobile phone is just for that: phone calls. The benfits? In the past 4 years that I've adopted this, I've rediscovered the immense pleasure of being curled up with a book somewhere, etc.

Technology has always been a double edge sword for humanity, starting with Fire ...
This misunderstanding is kind of the core breakdown in these conversations. People don't agree on what the problem is. Is the issue about equal pay, or about equal pay for equal work? In hiring terms, is it about equal hiring or equal hiring for equal ability?

If we don't have equal pay for equal work (and equivalent skill, etc), I think we can agree that's unfair and a problem. But if we do have equal pay for equal work, but still don't have equal pay, then I'd say we may still have a problem. Why aren't women making the same work decisions as men? If social pressure is keeping women from doing equal work, that's bad. If social pressure is forcing men to make shittier sacrifices for pay, that's bad. In the article linked, women churn more. That's probably bad.

If there's inequality without unequal pay or unequal hiring, then the problem isn't the fault of the firms, but it's still a problem.
I didn't see in his post where he wanted a startup. He didn't seem to say anything about anti-startup culture or lack of capital. He didn't seem to be worried about just wanting to make enough runway to start a company. He also appeared to be comparing the U.K to Berlin. He wasn't looking at other places in Europe that had lower taxes, just Berlin.
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Case and point: You're right and also...

"Me too" posts aren't worth posting so if I have nothing to add I'll +1 the comment I agree most with/is most accurate to my knowledge and leave it at that. The result being I have a lot more "You're wrong, here's why..." or "I disagree with [something said]" than I have posts saying "You're right, and also..." since I don't always have something to add. It makes me seem really negative - since nobody can see all the comments I've +1'd. Multiply that by every user on the site and things look more negative than they are.

I use "-1" for "You're horribly wrong and I don't have time to correct you (though sometimes I have time and will)" and "Trolling/Vapid posts". If someone is "a little wrong" I don't -1 them and will just post a minor correction.
> Affirmative action is not only legal, it's required in academia if a university wants federal funding.

Yes, but what many people stereotype "affirmative action" as being, or at least including -- notably, including the upthread suggestion characterized as "let's just hire only women for a while to balance out the numbers" -- is not only not required even in that context, it is quite illegal (and would be equally illegal if, say, "blacks" replaced "women" in the description.)
I fail to see how your quotes discount anything I say.

Do you have evidence that he wasn't deported for being jewish, and that having CIA ties to Tor wouldn't cause him injury?

Do you have evidence that he didn't hack SF infrastructure as hacktivism?
Yandex has its offices in both of the cities you've mentioned

Most of the global companies who dare not to cease their operations in Russia since the infamous events should have an office in St.Pete as it's the second Russian city by population with great universities and relatively low cost of living.
If only there were some kind of survey mechanism on the site to test the various hypotheses. ;-)