skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a man, I've noticed the "women promotion difference" very importantly in companies I've been employed in: Since 2006, it's mostly women who are promoted, with configurations like my last job where both my team lead and the manager were women.

On the other hand, I've left those companies because I could notice there was no career path for me, and created my own. I identify to a generation of men who've been sacrified for women equality. I'm all for equality, as long as everyone has equal chances, which we currently don't have. I'm very happy that we now start having studies supporting that men are less promoted than women today in some context (a minima in Luxembourg, France and Australia for what I'm concerned).

It's now time we study across all countries the mean-time-to-promotion, and it's time we include talks in conferences about the difficulties of men.

And it's time we stop having differentiated education and career paths for women. Today, women are equal in the mind if most men, and have a large swathes of explicit advantages granted by laws.
https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2016/bills/house/1337#digest-...

Indiana General Assembly, House Bill 1337

> Requires physicians to provide information about perinatal hospice care to a pregnant woman who is considering an abortion because the unborn child has been diagnosed with a lethal fetal anomaly.

The terminology of referring to the unborn as children has a long legal history.

There's a similar history concerning how personhood is determined via paperwork: i.e. if you do not fill out the paperwork for an abortion, the unborn child is considered a person for cases of its death---such as if a pregnant woman is killed, it's considered a double homicide.
"The few female species who participate, do well in an industry dominated by male species with poor social skills, little free time, and general lack of success with female species"

All hail uber hacker Meyer.
Certainly. So what should humans do about the cats?
brian@flexhire.com. NYC based. Hardcore tech experts
...and I meant BIOS(GPT). Hmpf.
The "may start charging for it" piece is mostly for stopping people from asking me to open source the app. If I do start charging money, it will probably be at the price of a burger.

I'm the developer of PSequel (a popular PostgreSQL client, http://www.psequel.com/) and it has been free since it came out two years ago. I got people asking for open sourcing it almost every single day. Many people assume free == open source.
That's astoundingly low!
Was the main cost the CPU resources or b/w?
The SO story will allow them to scan the highlights quicker IMHO.
Maybe women are, on average, treated worse at university and entry-level, so the majority that continue aren't a random distribution but predominately represent those more determined and aggressive.
It is unclear why this is downvoted: this is an npm employee who made the requisite policy changes after left pad happened.

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141905368000/changes-to-npms-unpu...
I'd guess not "ransom", but not enough resources allocated to backport fixes, along with a lack of incentive since they fixed them already in the gold standard New Version.
I think you answered your own question. Direct taxes on things that aren't "means" aren't usually means-tested. That is to say poor people would pay the same as rich people.

Some people don't have a problem with that. But pretending we're in a state with even a mildly socialist emphasis on taxes, taking most from income and redistributing across the whole system is a a much more efficient way of making sure the people who should pay more (I know, not everybody thinks that way) do pay more.

We can't pretend that rich people don't also benefit from GDP improvements. A healthy economy helps the land/home/business/etc owners most directly.
If I--or any normal person--was in the same situation

If you define "normal" as "milquetoast and with an Americentric perspective," then maybe.

Americans are much more submissive when bureaucratic process presents a roadblock. Especially a roadblock that seems on the face more reasonable with an American view of sharing bank accounts and old hardware.

Americans' desire for justice and fairness are paraded around. But their sense of justice is beaten out of them until they have Dwight Schrute-esque compliance "That is the law, according to the rules."
Self-introspection is also where I find the most value in M-B. It gave me perspective on my ISTJ personality preferences (preferences is the key word) that I didn't understand about myself prior to having these results.
> My theory is that this version of Math is designed by people who hate Math (English teachers).

You might think that, but you'd be wrong.
"Precision" is explicitly one the 8 principles of Common Core Math.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core_State_Standards_In...

> In my opinion, children who want to become computer programmers, scientists, and engineers are probably not well serviced by this type of teaching.

Do you have any data or evidence regarding this opinion, or is it just your "estimation and fuzzy thinking"?
I like the use of 2 columns.
The P in PCA is principal. It's a strong and dubious assumption that MBTI carries any orthogonality.
Whoa. Never even thought about this, but it would be completely awesome.

Speaking of Neovim, it sure would be nice to have a special mode specifically for yielding to an IDE so that all of the IDE's default keybindings can remain intact.
That's one explanation that fits a narrative. (and ignores the fact there are far fewer women who even attempt to enter the tech industry).

The gender gap in tech starts with children, is seen in STEM enrollment rates and continues in the job market where a multitude of diversity initiatives exist to promote underrepresented groups in tech.

So, an alternative speculation for the abnormally high promotion rate for women is there are fewer women interested in IT in the first place and companies are scrambling to compete for women because it makes them look better (via diversity initiatives).

There is a great documentary examining actual science on the subject and interviewing both scientific researchers and social scientists on opposite sides of the issue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5LRdW8xw70

Should we attempt to combat the gender gap in the nursing industry with the same vigor that we are focused on tech? How about the gender gap we see with garbage workers or psychology?

edit: clarity.
I have three cats.

The youngest straight up chose to be an indoor cat. He was a feral kitten, about 12 weeks when I first encountered him (based on the vet's estimate of 16 weeks when I eventually brought him in). I left food out for him for a month, as he progressively hung around more and more and watched my two indoor cats through the sliding glass door in the back of my apartment. After about a month he seemed to trust me, so I picked him up, took inside, took him to a vet to get him a checkup (he very badly needed to be dewormed), got him fixed, and now he doesn't even want to go outside, even if the door is left open. He saw how good my indoor cats had it, and he wanted it. He's the most affectionate cat I've ever had. He constantly wants to be touched.

My oldest cat is over 17 years old, and has arthritis. She's never been a good hunter, even as a young cat. She got out for a week when she was around 3 years old, and came back so thin you could touch your fingers together on either side of her stomach. She could have never survived outdoors, then or now.

The oldest cat is the only one I set out and said, "I'm going to get a cat," and adopted one. The middle cat was an abandoned kitten my mom rescued at 3 weeks (she waited all day after she found the crying kitten in the barn to see if the momma cat came back from hunting, but she never did, nor did she ever find the rest of the litter). Given the area my mom lives in, she would have been eaten by a bear or fox even if she hadn't starved.

Indoor is better for almost all cats. You just have a provide an enriching environment with lots of high surfaces for them to explore and exercise them with toys.

Even if you think cats should be indoor/outdoor, there's no way you can compare keeping a pet cat to chickens in battery cages.
"Maximum Overdrive"

(Also "Demon Seed")
This is a "black hat trick"?
Yep. Every woman developer I've talked to wants to be a manager someday.

Some even go for junior manager (a lot lower pay) even thought they have the degree and skills to be mid developers without any problems.
Actually it would be a nice thing to do. Wonder how long would it take manufacturers of all this crap fix their shit after massive warranty claim flood came in
What about making human settlement of oceans a reality? Like, not just the surface but the floors too. Seems like a suitably grand technology project with massive potential benefits. I never hear about it though.. not sexy enough? Doesn't capture the imagination?
South Koreans live in 'the Republic of Samsung,' Galaxy 7 crisis feels personal
Russian YouTuber faces 5 years in prison for playing Pokémon Go in a church
http://notornis.osnz.org.nz/system/files/Notornis_51_4_193.p...
Why not contributing these improvements to non instead ?

Why is the JavaScript community continuously creating new tools instead of contributing to existing ones ?
Anger and hate is socially reinforced just fine inside a group - no tribalism is required. Just look at the cycle of physical and emotional abuse in any broken household.
> I'm all for equality, as long as everyone has equal chances, which we currently don't have.

But that will keep a status quo if one group is starting out as a serious minority. That's the whole point of equality movements: you have to adjust upwards for a bit, until it's actually equal. Then you can go back to being fair.

EDIT: This thread is blowing up, so I want to clarify my comment: I'm talking about affirmative action, and I think it's a good idea in the case of women in tech, presently.
> Strengths of the MBTI include the text descriptions, which are very valuable, and that it focuses on positive psychology

You're describing salesmanship and/or popularizing techniques, not scientific validity.
The main benefit for me is it saves all the commands you want to commonly run. So for things like an SSH tunnel, rather than having to keep some snippet around to copy/paste into that new tmux window (yes, I use tmux extensively), I can just put all the random SSH tunnel strings I need into one list, and turn them on/off as needed.

Also, I have to disagree with the terminal experience on the mac being terrible. Between iTerm and brew, I've never come across anything I couldn't do, but that could be done on linux.
Nold Open – Homekit compatible universal gate opener
We probably need less people throwing out answers and more people actually trying to make them a reality.
As a sidenote, the USD to GBP currency figures shown in this article really show how much the pound has slumped over the last 6 months.

Article: "£52,000 ($74,000)"

Current day: "£52,000 ($63,020)"
I don't think people realize just how _bad_ is Mars.

When scientists talk about "water on Mars", they think they've found a river.

When they hear how far it is, they think it's only twice as far as the moon.

It even has an "atmosphere".

For some reason, people think that it's easier or more useful to build cities on Mars than in the Marianas trench
I can't speak for either project, but personally I would say that I don't think static typing in JS is a solved problem, and at this stage to me it seems a monoculture would be much less fruitful than a competition of ideas.
Am I... on your lawn?

I'm on your lawn, aren't I?

I should get off, shouldn't I...
The DMV is a pain as an American. Even if every worker in the DMV is diligent, helpful, and courteous, the DMV somehow conspires to make the whole process difficult. Go to the front desk. Fill out this form. Stand in that line. Get a stamp on the form. Stand in another line. Get another stamp, pay $5. Go stand on another line, get yet another stamp. Go back to the previous line, get photo taken, get endorsement on license. It's crazy.
I like this idea a lot. Perhaps every IoT device should publish a profile of its expected behavior to the router. For example, a wifi-enabled thermostat might tell the router that it only intends to connect to a particular range of servers, by DNS name. The router could then set up an automatic firewall rule that stays in sync with DNS changes. The user should be able to disable that firewall rule (to overcome technical issues), but most users will never have a reason to do so.

We could bootstrap this idea by having the router fingerprint IoT devices and apply matching firewall policies from a database. If only we could install "apps" on routers, like we do on Android and iOS devices, someone could get started with this idea right now.
It's an interesting idea, but I prefer to take my experience and tell a story that specifically targets the role for which I am applying. From that perspective, having a single "story" out there for all potential employers isn't optimal for me.
There is a 'print to pdf' option that saves it as the traditional view.
For IPv6 that makes a modicum of sense, because IPv6 has additional fields in the address not directly related to identifying the endpoint, and these have been historically in churn.
I am pretty sure the simplest and most humane solution is... to put a small bell on your cat.

I am suprised no one else has said this.
Wiping out a quarter of their mobile division's profits is hardly going to do them in. (The last guestimate I saw as to the cost of this.)
Glad you enjoyed our talk. We still don't know how the van exploded. After months of investigation by our insurance company and van manufacturer, the root cause is still unknown.
Pre-Interview NDAs Are Bad (2013)
I agree with this. I'm the submitter of one the OP's example links from yesterday. I was aware of the impact the paywall would have, which is why I tried to helpfully summarize in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12680419

The mods allowed that to be the top comment in the thread for a while to help loop in people who couldn't otherwise read the content.

I'd like to also emphasize that sometimes paywalled sources are the only sources. In this specific case, WSJ was the first source to break the news on the Theranos lawsuit story I posted. I subscribe to WSJ and I received the notification when the article went up, but I looked for other sources before posting. It's not uncommon for WSJ to be the first or only source for new articles.

I would be in favor of adding "Paywall" to these links as well, but I also think that banning paywalled sources is too inflexible.
I replaced the Wifi chip with an Intel one and have had no problems since.

I did have other problems -- some serious. Right now, running Fedora 24 and Gnome 3, it seems to be a reasonably workable machine, but yeah, it's been more trouble than you'd like for the money. Part of it seems to be that Skylake is just wonky on its own. Some of my issues in Linux have been issues with the dual-booted Windows 10 install as well (e.g., sometimes rebooting instead of waking from sleep).
Barack trying to steal Musk's thunder?
You're rolling perilously close to the cliff that has your Geek Code signature block at the bottom.
So you'd remove an indirect tax, implement a new direct tax and then implement a welfare system to help people pay the new direct tax? Car stamps?

Just pulling on my reply to same, varying your tax on a person's earnings is a much better way of means testing life than by separately means testing every tax.
I wish employers cared about your github profile in lieu of puzzles, but they don't.
Wait till I release my new programming language, 'the'. It's the go killer.
Performance Analysis of Nvidia  GPU Cards for Deep Learning Applications [pdf]
no worries.
It feels like I am the one crying out in the wilderness. I not been a developer on mac OS but I use it for computational science and the user experience in the CLI is terrible compared to linux.

I'm not convinced the desktop is great either. Sure, the visual polish is better (font rendering is much better on OS X), but things like windowing, workspaces I find was much more my speed on Gnome 3.
Does yarn support custom `run` commands like npm?

For example:

"scripts": { "dev": "node api.js --config config-dev.json" }
$ npm run dev
I've called for a mandatory physical "wifi off" switch for all Internet-connected devices that disconnects the antenna. Useful for the times when you want your light bulb to just be a light bulb, and not DDOS some journalist.
This Smartphone Microscope Lets You Play Games with Microbes
What it's like to work at Snapchat, one of the most secretive companies in tech
Open Guide to Amazon Web Services
Meh, that's too passive-aggressive for me. I'm perfectly okay with clicking decline on an invite and not going--no need to hide it. I guess what I was really asking was how do I persuade my company to not try to waste my time with all-hands meetings.
MacOS refuses to recognise that there is even a filesystem on the drive, and if you have to do recovery it involves just scanning the remnants filesystem looking for magic numbers without any metadata (like filenames!). I've seen it happen on three different laptops now (not all mine unfortunately, mine are at least backed up!).

The recovery tools are kind of touchy too, they only work on certain versions of MacOS and are kind of difficult to track down. The only saving grace is that Time Machine is so easy to use that people sometimes actually turn it on.
they have millions of installs and can't break them?
Invisibilia ran a great episode on "the personality myth"[1] and I think it shows the difference between BMI and "personality tests". BMI might be worthless but it measures something that objectively exists. Is it useful? Maybe not. Personality tests measure something that we don't even know exists, personality.

The episode talks about research showing how we can understand ourselves better as sets of behavior that we exhibit in different contexts, more than as having a single personality.

Put in simple words, you maybe introvert in some contexts and extrovert in others, and theses behaviors can change over time. You ARE not AN introvert, you exhibit introvert behaviors in context.

[1]: http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/482836315/the-person...
No problem. Thanks for asking bluntly about generators. It made me write some more experiments using them.

Right now, the main thing that I think stands in the way of them being a good solution for Pyret is that they have limited stack depth – about 7000 frames on Chrome Canary, for instance. One thing we get out of our strategy, which reifies stack frames onto the heap when pausing, is that we can simulate a much deeper stack.

See http://imgur.com/a/GaBg2 (I don't need to be able to do sum of ten million, but 10,000 would be nice! This is just so a non-tail-recursive map works over reasonable-sized lists; we'd rather not have the concept of tail recursion as a curricular dependency for working with that size of data.)
Woah.

Just to clarify: That's absolutely not the "whole point of equality movements". This is a stance some people take on it. By far not all.
This is authored by a Jay Hanlon, "VP of Community Growth". Apparently, the role includes publishing clickbait.

He squeezes in a humblebrag: "...if you're like me, and still just a little proud that you got off the waitlist and eked your way into a school above your intellectual weight class..."

And he uses scarcity to scare devs into creating a profile: "It only takes a few minutes, and you do NOT want some other joker snapping up the good URLs."
"Obama has been trying to smatter himself across history throughout his presidency..."

And with little sticking, IMO. At least in the positive sense.

Of the words that history may eventually use to describe the guy, "leadership" will likely not be one of them.
Well yes, there could be such a bias at every stage in the development of an IT career and this would skew the skill/ambition distribution of female engineers towards the high end.

I know plenty of male engineers who, to put it nicely, are underperformers. All of the female engineers I know, and there are much fewer of them, are what I would call exceptional engineers. Because I know so many more male software engineers, I still know more exceptional male engineers than female. However anecdotes don't matter for scientific inference which is why I asked if anyone had such data.
Lower gravity sports leagues?
Wow, so much naysaying here. When I hear about private plans vs government plans I think back to what Neil deGrasse Tyson said:

> Private enterprise will never lead a space frontier. In all the history of human conduct, it’s as clear to me as day follows night that private enterprise won’t do that, because it’s expensive. It’s dangerous. You have uncertainty and risks, because you’re dealing with things that haven’t been done before. That’s what it means to be on a frontier. [...] The government is better suited to these kinds of investments. They have a longer time horizon. They’re not shackled to quarterly reports like you see in a private enterprise.

I tend to agree with him. I'm betting on the government to get humans there first. But I'll be happy to eat humble pie.
I like where this is going (i've built something similar, if private [1]).

Resumes in their current form don't work well as a source of truth about anyone's career. The main issue being that we put summarized/editorialized information in instead of details. It's like discarding the data you used to generate a chart and then updating the chart directly going forward.

[1] https://jobrudder.com
The Power of Convictions
Preach brutha! I'm so sick of these developers who are addicted to endlessly installing npm-packages without ever getting to the point of building something usable.
> Okay, then you release your recorded call AFTER they defect

Isn't this essentially what happened (at least according to Kapeli)? He wrote the blog post, sent Apple a draft, then Apple went to the press.
But at least we'll know _something_ about operating a self-sufficient colony.

What will happen if on landing on Mars, we find that the Oxygen cycle isn't good enough, or that plants don't grow, or ...
The sites you list (and a lot of discussion on MBTI) take the judgments way too far. That's when a lot of people conclude MBTI is junk -- when they see these conclusions based on type.

MBTI is basically this: You have a set of observed traits, and from that set we can tell you other traits you likely have based on observing many others that share the same traits.

Or in other words...
-Observe trait A
-Observe trait B
-Observe trait C
-Extrapolate trait D
-Extrapolate trait E

What those sites are doing is...
-Observe trait A
-Extrapolate traits C, M, Q, X, Z
The death of optimizing compilers [pdf]
The origins of the MBTI are closely related to the Enneagram, and much of what MBTI is getting decried for is far removed from its history - Jung and Myers both laid down an incredible foundation for psychology and introspection. It's a shame MBTI has been swept up by pop culture as there is a great deal of insight to be had both in learning of the cognitive functions and Jung's works on the unconscious.
Every explanation """fits a narrative""", including your alternative.
You can make it work with `node --preserve-symlinks`
College chain from India expanding to the US
This is blogspam of the recently submitted and also on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12685700