skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's long, but unsubstantiated and generally factually wrong, including its characterizations of my comment: I don't say most of the things you allege.

I don't divide the world into groups of people based on skin color, and then assign group achievements and faults as if they are a team, and imagine there is some competition or racial Olympics. That premise is the root of the problem. I see individuals and mutual benefit when they do better, not a zero sum competition. The fact - not speculation - is that many of those individuals are suffering from racism.
female construction worker and FOSS hobbyist here.
I've been to tech conferences and do residential construction for a living. I'm a member of the local VFD. I'm familiar with predominantly male environments. I wish there were more women doing the things I love to do, but oh well.

Predominantly male environments are much more verbally and physically confrontational than mixed ones, in my experience. So my presence is really awkward. No one feels comfortable ripping on the new guy if the new guy is a new girl who's a bit shy. Sometimes the awkwardness dissipates, other times it doesn't. If it doesn't, I leave. So I suppose that this is one reason why predominantly male environments tend to stay that way.

It's always felt like more of a group dynamics thing than pointed sexism when I've experienced it.

One more thing: just because a job is physical doesn't mean that men are better at it. This attitude is extremely annoying to me as it directly affects my day-to-day life. I train 10-15 hours a week, and I'm stronger than the out-of-shape old guys. This doesn't matter. They know so many tricks to make the work go faster. Work smarter, you know?

I'm not sure if there's any data on female construction workers and danger/workplace accidents, but I'm actually confused by your assertion that men are better able to handle danger. Like, I don't understand what that even means.
+1 for making family important!
> rather than to garner the social benefits of sympathy

Alternately, an anonymous declaration is very hard to fact-check or put claims in context.
As a straight male I've asked plenty of people, both male and female to grab a cup of coffee. So far no one seems to have been confused. They all understood it was just getting coffee and chatting.
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Oh gosh, this is totally true.

I honestly find it almost disrespectful when you feel some company is putting you through a pipeline. They set up an interview day, line everyone up, grind through them one by one.

The other thing is the technical interview which is unreflective of the job itself. In one recently, I was told before going in I had to code on a whiteboard. I ask, "Can I have I use a text editor, not an IDE or anything, just a text editor?" I get told, no (for nonsensical reasons I won't list here). That sort of arbitrariness and inflexibility turn me off, not to mention the standoffishness of having people stare over your shoulder and judge you rather than work as collaborators.

So I walked away from the interview. I'm happy where I am and you're gonna have to woo me, just a little bit, to get me to care.

Sometimes I wish we were unionized so we could set some standards (for many other things, but this as well).
In case anyone is wondering, the technique is called linear predictive coding.
At the company I work for, most of the employers were hired based on the strength of referrals from existing employees. The very first employees were people that the founders knew personally and thought highly of. I never had an interview because several of the employees had worked with me before and knew me. My first contact with the company was when they told me they wanted to hire me and extended an offer. I was very surprised by that because they hadn't even seen my resume or anything. That method of hiring seems to have worked out pretty well so far for employee hiring and retention. The employees we've been getting seem to be quite competent and stick around.

At the time I was interviewing with another company who seemed interested in me, but expressed a deep suspicion of new hires after having been burned in the past, and told me outright that they were skeptical of me, and that I could very well turn out to be lazy and unproductive. After three interviews in three weeks, they still hadn't made any offer. So when another company comes along unsolicited and asks me to join them because they know I'm good at what I do, I took their offer. When a company demonstrates that they value you, you're going want to work for them instead of the one that doesn't.

There are a few people at my current company that were hired with an interview based on the company needing skills that weren't available from referrals from employees, but that's uncommon. I don't even know if our company has any sort of standard interview process.
Do you have a source for the gender split among STEM and liberal arts professors?
Apogee used to also be a compiler company, it's where the domain apogee.com has pointed as long as I can remember. They used to have a link to the shareware company iirc. Now it looks like they provide Java runtimes for embedded devices
Every single person who had rights on the sources for audio you used.

For the same reason, Google training neural networks with userdata is very legally doubtful – they changed the ToS, but also used data collected before the ToS change for that.
Most definitely. It being common makes it much less likely to be misinterpreted, for sure.
Gender in the Substance of Chemistry, Part 1: The Ideal Gas [pdf]
Aside from companies working on electric cars and solar projects, who else is working on large-scale projects to ameliorate climate change? Any truly massive projects akin to putting a man on the moon?
>> If it were a genuine attempt to maturely discuss gender issues in the workplace from a male point of view, the world would probably be okay with it.

This is genuine. Thanks!
Are you the author of the amVim project as its GitHub handle implies?

If so, isn't a "full disclosure" needed when speaking of a "competitive" project?
social networks are a natural monopoly, you want everybody to be on the same one. So if you want to avoid the centralized authority problem, you need to define it as a network of many nodes communicating via open protocols. Sort of like email. This is how Diaspora and GNU Social work.
I hate physical metaphors for digital things. They always seem so succinct, and without possible counter argument.

You're absolutely right that if this happened in someone's living room, their rules should apply.

However, there are 1.3 billion people in "Mark's living room". Is it still his?
Don't miss the footnote: "I’m always terrified of misspelling “Dunning-Kruger” and not double-checking it because of overconfidence in my own spelling abilities."
I don't see where anyone is discarding integrity. Not all content is appropriate for all sites. Beyond that, while this is a famous picture, what most people think they know about it is wrong, so it's not really adding much to the public discourse.
For anyone interested in this topic I would recommend reading "The moral case for fossil fuels". It gives a big picture look of this problem in the context of human flourishing. As someone who had only ever been exposed to the gloom and doom predictions like this article it was a refreashingly clearly thought and precisely structured counter argument.
What do people mention in their Tinder profiles?
Funny texting scene
Articles about the Lightning headphone spec from a couple of years ago suggest that it only includes digital audio. They even specify a DAC that should be used.

https://9to5mac.com/2014/06/03/apple-introduces-mfi-specs-fo...
All the examples you cite are essentially one-to-many communication channels, where you expect to hear one viewpoint from the getgo. Whereas Facebook dishonestly promises many-to-many, but all you get is the same old one-to-many.
You can create a propaganda campaign about how delightful voting is and all the cool kids are doing it, here's some dank memes, and by the way if you don't you're letting your country down. Like this one.

https://www.voteplz.org/why/

My first question remains. Why is more people voting a good thing?
> That's basically quibbling, though the OP did err in his history a bit. AOO existed before that point too, it just wasn't called AOO and it wasn't part of Apache; it was run by Oracle, and before that, Sun.

So OOo had:
1/ a different governance
2/ different copyright owners
3/ a different license
4/ different sponsors
5/ different contributors
6/ a different name
than AOO, but other than that it was totally the same?

"Other than that" being "own the trademark" here and only that. Just for fun, AOO didnt even use the trademarked term itself.
Not sure whether to be amused, vindicated, or concerned that the most prominent conversation here on HN is terminology: "Is 'backdoor' the correct term?"

Malware, trojan, virus, rootkit, backdoor, squirglebunny (OK, I may have made that last one up).

There's not a lot of talk about the threat vector though - does anyone know how this infects systems?
The problem with that is the high value of beachfront property is based on having a civilization with a great deal of consumer surplus, where a large number of people can afford to take time off to go to the beach for vacation. The worry for climate change isn't just that it'll displace people, but that it'll severely disrupt civilization due to massive refugee problems and agricultural failures. By the time the seashore reaches your inland property, people may be too busy trying to survive to care about beach vacations, or you may have lost your property and/or life in the turmoil.
GRPC at VSCO
Mostly instrumental music - jazz, post-rock, or chill hip-hop beats. eg. Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros, Nujabes, Miles Davis.
That's what differentiates good engineers from great engineers: they know what to avoid and when to avoid it.
The second paragraph doesn't necessarily connect to the first one. It's possible to believe there are no good solutions, while still seeing it as a problem.
They're going to have to play that game anyway since the compiler/interpret won't spell out the exact issue every time. But they'll get through it anyway because their goal is something else rather than that game. A lot of learning comes from getting past stepping stones, but targeting a stepping stone as an explicit thing to learn and drill on is a poor plan.
Grill Grates: Buying Guide, Reviews, and Ratings, and Busting the Cast Iron Myth
So when does the album drop?
Suppose Gore did get elected, and he faced the same stuff.

Would he really have just accepted that Afghanistan provides refuge to those who had killed thousands on American soil? Do you think he could just write off the loss ("oh bummer, thousands died") and still get reelected?

You might remember that Saddam Hussein decided to slaughter Kurds in the north and Marsh Arabs in the south. The original George Bush was expected to do something about this genocide, and so one of the things he did was impose no-fly zones. Aside from war, how was that supposed to come to an end? Do you think Gore would have just kept that up for another 4 years (8 if he goes to war in Afghanistan) or do you think he might have just walked away from it and allowed the genocide?

I'm sure Gore would've wanted to have his presidency be about the environment. Remember that the second George Bush wanted to have his presidency be about education... and we all know how that worked out for him.
It's a long-running process. Ice does not catastrophically melt in a year. It melts over centuries. Which also means shore lines and climate zones will keep moving. Betting on a fixed location does not look like a winning strategy to me.
It's a bummer you couldn't comment further, this thread is going to look a little out of order.

But let's get real here.

This isn't about male victimization. This is about the inability of a privileged class to see it's own privilege. Read this whole thread and what you see are many men who don't recognize their own privilege, men who are blind to individual and structural biases. And because they don't see it they wonder what all the fuss is? They wonder why we keep bugging them with "initiatives" and blog posts.

You get this same behavior with race, gender, money, class etc. The excuses are also the same: "it's not about gender, it's just people being condescending to each other sometimes", "it's not about race, it's just people being mean to each other sometimes". It's an easy trick, it's absolution.

But the inequalities persist. The biases persist. They are unconscious and they are subtle. They are structural. They are written into laws, into company policy, into city ordinances, and work place culture.

We shouldn't be afraid to name these behaviors. We shouldn't get tired of fighting them. And I say we, because I (yes, i'm one of you men) am also guilty.
I'm in my 30's, married, have a son, and a mortgage. But I also have enough savings to pay off my mortgage in full today if it was an urgent need.
I meant it was impressive that it was so simple to implement the python VM in itself, but becomes less impressive when compared to the simplicity and elegance with which you can do similar feats in other languages. I find that point valid.
Manhole covers get new mission: predicting floods
I'm buying a new BBQ and was wondering what the difference is between cast iron and steel grates. Based on this article, sounds like cast iron is a no-go...
> Why should someone else's decisions influence what you decide to work on?

Because you want to do something impactful that others will use and get benefit from.
Amazon caught scraping email addresses from Google Play
> No, I specified culture, not race.

"You start out in 1954 by saying, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger.' By 1968 you can't say 'nigger' — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'Nigger, nigger.'"

- Lee Atwater, inventor of the Southern Strategy
Its how some people get all those things. Not people who care enough to get their news directly from a number of sources, instead of via the Facebook filter.
Yeah, you had me at "People have different reactions to aging," and you lost me at "If you're mad about unfair treatment, that proves you deserved whatever it was."
I can't speak to what is actually being done but here's an interesting and quasi-comprehensive write-up of what engineers, developers and designers have to offer in the climate change fight: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange
Shun women because if I casually mention saying something about having talked to a non male while my wife wasn't around the wife'll beat me. If I don't say anything about talking to non males then I'm hiding things, which never goes well if wife ever meets a non male coworker who doesn't describe me as super shy
I can't answer so much on generalities on this one, as it probably depends on the the person. I've personally had people say this in different circumstances (not always work), and sometimes it is believable and sometimes not. Thing is that I didn't necessarily think along those lines until they brought it up.

I'd say if she seems to be really uneasy (and you might not tell, most women will try to just be polite), you can try adding it in. Probably unnecessary if you've put the why's of it upfront, though. If she says no, you can always add a little more about what you wanted to talk about, and tell them the offer is open if she'd like. Well, in your own words, and using simlar language as you would with any other coworker and stuff.
USBKill can fry most host devices; Macbooks are immune
weight of history is against your "just did this to charge people money" argument

I had no comment on any of that. In fact I started my comment with "I have no comment on how Apple actually works or doesn't work"
I can tell you from personal experience that getting a job in tech is hard if you are just starting out. Even if you're veteran it can be very difficult at times.

When I started out what got me going was to take anything that came my way. My first job was part time and low paid. Once I got a job I was able to use that as a stepping stone and move up. The other thing I can tell you is that 6 months of tech is just the start. I've found that tech is a lifestyle. You always have to work to get better. Remember that you're competing against people the live and breath technology. In many cases they would rather continue on a problem than to eat or sleep without compensation. Their reward is solving the problem. And they've done this for years. Can you keep up with them?

There is hope. My advice is to get the first job you can get whatever that is - tech or no tech - and continue looking for a job in tech. Also be sure to continue to improve your tech skills. Look to specialize in something and hit it hard. Look for a project that will help you improve your skills. If you can't come up with one just look at something you find interesting and copy that. You're job is to improve your skills enough so you can get a job not to put out a product.

Also make sure you work on your networking skills, join a group that can help with your goals and make sure they know about your skills and what you have done. Yes, networking seems phony but how else will you know where the jobs are before a company needs to post it or go to a recruiter.

General Assembly was only the start. Yes they filled your brain on how easy it is to get a job after you take their classes. Well, it's not that easy. It's your job now to continue improving and move forward with hard work.

Good luck!
I looked up that book's author, it's a guy named Alex Epstein. Who is he?

> Alex Epstein is an American author, energy theorist and industrial policy pundit. He is the founder and President of the Center for Industrial Progress, a for-profit think tank located in Laguna Hills, California, and a former fellow of the Ayn Rand Institute.

Sounds like a reliable source to me!
What about auto-tuning? I can do a pretty good reading-with-intention but I don't have the melt-your-brain-rich tones of Stephen Fry or Ian McKellen.
>A company's bad interview process might have nothing at all to do with the rest of the company.

The rest of the company didn't care enough to fix a bad interview process. That has plenty to do with the rest of the company.

>isn't it generally accepted that all tech interviewing sucks,

No. The interview process I went through was phenomenal. And my job is very pleasant and rewarding.
How do you connect "carussell" to https://github.com/aioutecism/amVim-for-VSCode?
This is such a strange scam. Surely the amount of fees/person shouldn't be enough to move the needle on a company like WF, not to mention how the incentive could adequately spread around 5300 people (that's less than 400 accounts/person).

WF would have done better to be like the cable and phone companies and simply add mystery monthly fees to the bill. Hardly anyone would notice.
I think what you're getting at taps into the heart of the issue- it's not just that the software industry is fast-paced in terms of innovation, it's fast-paced in terms of business requirements, in getting products out of market to scramble for users, which translates to higher valuation, and more VC dumb money. So in SV we kinda have a HFT-type situation where companies have to continuously get more and more speedy and optimize greater, even if it comes at a human cost- i.e., everyone's hiring only for senior engineers and there's not enough openings for junior developers, much less the resources to train juniors.

As an aside, it's paradoxical that the industry simultaneously desires 10x seniors, while prizes youth (who they don't have to pay at senior salaries). So the true profile of a unicorn coder is basically a 10x dev with 10+ years of experience who is also a new grad that requires no training. Keeps down the cost, all around.
I guess where I was going was that there was a fairly high standard to "get in the door" first, after which experience seems to be valued more uniformly (at least more than in software).

We don't have the equivalent in software, and we also seem to have a recurring discussion about effective ways to filter people during an interview process. I've certainly had mixed results in my limited sample set when considering past experience to actual performance of hires.

Is there a good way to translate the value of someone's experience?

EDIT: For that matter, I guess I should wonder how folks translate the value of people in those other fields effectively (or if they do at all).
Your rush to dismiss very well documented problems as coming from “a die-hard feminist SV hedge fund kid who blows everything out of proportion because of political reasons” suggests a far more likely explanation: none of the women you've talked to feel comfortable discussing their frustrations with you because they're afraid of sharing that hostile rejection with the potential for negative career impacts.
I'd love to see LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice compiled to the Web (eg. asm.js, WebAssembly)
A lot of the conflict you see in the middle east has more to do with crop failure and water shortages than oil. Yemen fell into chaos over acute water shortages.
I have one main client that will basically pay me hourly as much as I'm willing to work for them, but then I also try to take at least 2-3 other clients on each month just for diversity. The smaller clients I typically charge by project rather than by hour, and so far I've been able to get my rate on those after the project is done in the lows 100s/hour range. For me personally I don't know that I could get my schedule completely full of work like that, but it might be possible I suppose.
Regardless, the point of a rootkit is to provide an execution context with escalated privileges. Whether that means root user, kernel space, System user is I would think depends on the specific rootkit. (Whose name, of course, points to "root" privileges.) Which was my original definition and is inline with the posted definition from Wikipedia.
Zipcar, Google and why the carsharing wars are just beginning
Y'all have some super-paranoid jealous partners, if you can't even talk to a colleague of a particular gender, purely as colleagues. I hope both for your partner and for you that they stop being that way someday.
This isn't the Python ternary which is:

varX = 'X' if boolean else 'Y'

# And is chainable in a more natural way than C*:
varX = 'X' if boolean else 'Y' if other else 'Z'
Agreed completely. This is why shared home adverts are exempt from FHA regulations.
Never Mind Apple's Courage, Removing iPhone's Headphone Jack Stinks
Money. Remote work (freedom). Location.

Equally important, IMO, is what I stay away from:

Ping pong/pool/foosball offices.
Free soda offices.
Creepy culture cults.
Open floorplans.

Basically, all the infantile ways IT companies like to placate younger, naive employees while cargo-culting Google and Facebook. If your office resembles a college dorm, then you probably need to grow up.
I don't think this would be a problem. There's no reason for people moving out of cities to cluster anywhere in particular. Housing costs near jobs may remain out of reach for basic income alone, but they should still be much more reasonably aligned with wages, since if people start to get stretched, they can just quit and move away.