skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this very hard to believe, unless she purposely offended a lot of people in a huge way. Without seeing any proof of her claims other than her own writing, I'm more inclined to believe that this is false and she is just seeking attention and sympathy.
Interestingly, most of your examples are about exposure rather than luck. These guys weren't picked at random. If he wasn't flying (not everyone gets to fly and layover at O'Hare, and probably the executive lounge), he would not get the chance to make the connection.

I always assumed that Startups at Silicon Valley are neither lucky nor skilled people (or the most skilled/fit people for the job to be correct). They just happen to be in a place with strong exposure to Capital.

If you are smart, have lots of experience, and hard-working; but lack the ability to fly to SV then your odds of getting funded by a VC are slim to none.
Airbus have the joystick on the left hand side on captain's seat (on the left).

The right hand is typically on the throttle when taking off and other maneuvers, even when using a yoke.

I think that single seat fighters typically have the throttle on the left and the stick in the center, but I guess it varies.
One charitable hypothesis could be raised that the ratio of harassers in male population is constant, but in male dominated social groups the number of potential victims is lower, thus the the frequency of harassment events females suffer is higher than in social groups with a more balanced ratio.

I have no statistics for or against this.

The test we need is: How often are individuals in social groups with skewed sex ratios who are of the rarer sex in the said group sexually harassed, and is this ratio skewed in software engineering.

Generally, from what I can gather from the anecdotal evidence of my female friends, a certain percentage of us men in general are assholes. It seems that as a matter of fact they have to suffer the real possibility harassment where ever they are (not constantly, but they have to consider it a plausible event). Which to a guy sounds just horrible.
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I thought that this old post may no longer be as relevant. Maybe we have made progress.

Then I read the comments on this thread. :(

We must do better.
Statistically rigorous results, with minimal regret.

The results are only statistically rigorous provided your bandit obeys relatively strong assumptions.

As another example, suppose you ran a 2-week test. Suppose that from week 1 to week 2, both conversion rates changed, but the delta between them remained roughly the same. A 50/50 A/B split doesn't mind this, and in fact still returns the right answer. Bandits do mind.

I don't do p-values. I do Bayesian testing, same as you. I just recognize that in the real world, weaker assumptions are more robust to experimenter or model error, both of which are generally the dominant error mode.

In web A/B testing, the latter is usually the most applicable, and for that, you cannot beat Thompson sampling on the average, no matter how clever yur scheme.

This is simply not true. The Gittins Index beats Thompson sampling, subject again to the same strong assumptions.

Look, I know the theoretical advantages of bandits and I advocate their use under some limited circumstances. I just find the stronger assumptions they require (or alternately the much heavier math requirements) mean they aren't a great replacement for A/B tests which are much simpler and easier to get right.
Thanks. <3 Can you also rewrite all tutorials please?
Kurzweil Music Systems produced the 150 additive synthesizer around the same time that also used a 12 MHz 68k. Do you know if this faster variant was encumbered in some way that made it less suitable for use in a "general purpose" computer, or was it simply a cost consideration?
As far as I understand, the remaining differences between military and civilian GPS don't matter much for accuracy. The military may still have the advantage of ionospheric correction, but civilians can use other augmentation systems like WAAS[1] with similar results. I think the military signals are mostly intended to protect against signal spoofing and jamming.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System
This is a complicated question with no right answer. Both sides of it have been in the wrong historically. I personally believe that the people who have been there longer should have the right to determine what is happening, but there are many reasons for why this view may be wrong, such as the lack of alternative spaces, the necessity of work to survive, the principles of equality, and so on.

However, let us be clear about one thing:

If parent does not harass women and does not send death threats, which seems likely, then regardless of which opinion you hold they are not the problem.

Let's not ever kick people out for civilly holding an opinion, even if we find the opinion repugnant. Civility is important. Civility was violated for the woman behind this post, but not afaik by this commenter.

The real problem are not the people who hold controversial opinions. The real problem are the harassers. Let's team up on them without bystanders having to be scared they'll be next.
Not necessarily. Just tax things that are not needed for daily life with a VAT that grows progressive in proportion to how far removed from "life support" it is.

For example, tax yacht's and private jets, and fancy cars with some really insane rates, while tax something that is a limited resource but necessary to live with a very low tax rate or none at all. Tax first homes lower, second homes much higher, and third+ homes at insane rates. ASF.

I.e., I really see no need of keeping track of actual spending beyond what we are doing already. Plus, after removing income tax, the IRS only needs to keep track of your capital gains, not your income. So the savings from that in and of itself should bring a boost to the economy.
The only reason this was posted is that the author has a recent technical blog post trending on the main page right now, and it's quite good:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442281

Judging from the disaster that is this thread, it should probably be flagged into the ground before a flamewar starts.
"created: 7 minutes ago"

You're just here to start shit with a 2 year old shitpost from a attention seeking girl aren'ẗ you.
Why your push notification sucks? A cognitive look into how to identify...
I had the impression that something like LXD containers - complete linux systems in a container - is better for this kind of containerized desktop than multiple singe application Docker containers. Can somebody here who's more familiar with container tech than me explain how and when Docker might be better for a containerized desktop?
$5 trillion USD on war on terror, and the world is not safer than before.
with $5 trillion you could buy Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook etc.
I would say dealing with bullshit is an part of our life.
In WhatsApp, a typical message goes to 1 other person. On Twitter, it can go to millions of people.

When Twitter initially got their failwhaling under control, I recall reading they solved it by changing from a relational "join in and merge the timelines of everyone you're following on each refresh" model to a messagebox model. If that's true, maybe that naive model is now showing its limitations (I doubt they stopped there though, it seems like they have things under control)
The Ultimate Linux Desktop will not need a blog post to configure, someday.
It's not original in tech industry. Probably every girl/woman that has at least a bit significant online presence encounters similar problems. My GF is an amateur photomodel, you should see what messages she constantly receives.
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A few of the commenters here mention meritocracy, and it seems to me that they value it, or think that it is something we should strive for. I would just like to point our that the term "meritocracy" originally carried a negative connotation, with a very elitist endgame[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Early_definitions
The harassment is not due to being a male/youth dominated industry, but a large one and by definition incredibly well connected. It's easy for a very small percentage of idiots to make a very large noise.

THIS
Ever since I started speaking at conferences and contributing to open source projects I have been endlessly harassed. I’ve gotten hundreds of private messages on IRC and emails about sex, rape, and death threats. People emailing me saying they jerked off to my conference talk video (you’re welcome btw) is mild in comparison to sending photoshopped pictures of me covered in blood.

I find that shocking. I know people say things about others to their friends, but to actually direct that to another person is disappointing.
Programming though attracts all sorts of introverted guys with lacking social skills and a bad track record with relationships (in school etc).

(And to prevent knee-jerk responses, I don't mean that everyone or even most are like that. Just that a lot are like that, which has even made it into developer folklore and is a well known stereotype with basis in reality).

The kind of person who would comment on a woman's developer presentation that they "masturbated watching the video of her presentation" (!!!).

Other industries, such as banking, tend to attract other kinds of people (more jock-ey, or "in-crowd"), which have other issues (more sexual assault, rape, entitlement, etc).
This is the first time I hear about this individual, and even though I believe her when she says she's received the messages she alleges she's received, I doubt any of them had any kind of seriousness to them, and she should know that.

Also if you think getting insulted on IRC is bad, it's because you haven't been packeted out ;P
Thank you so much for your kind words. Yes, our website is on a repo here : https://github.com/cloudboost/home. PR's are a LOT appreciated. Please also feel free to write me anytime at nawaz [at] cloudboost [dot] io
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Sounds like interesting prior work for the problem at hand (granted, docker is not VM, but I guess they needed to solve the same kind of problems regarding ipc). Do you know of any literature about IBM results?
I've decided to quit my job ... and I only have a few $k

I don't know the specifics of your situation, but this seems like a really bad plan. Usually when I advise people who are about to start contracting, I tell them they should have 3 to 6 months of rent before they start; contracting is much more of a sure thing than building Slack for dogs.
One person is enough to make another person's life considerably worse. That doesn't mean a thing about the circles either one's involved with.
Pattern matching an argument to a hashtag is not a refutation.
I will never quit my job without having better signals of profits from your project. My second advice is methodologies (e.g. release on Tuesday?) don't matter when you don't have a business.
If I remember correctly $40.000 is the largest reward paid by Facebook
Then go for it, quitting your job seems the right decision for you.

Just pay special attention if you are moving forward with an idea because the market, your customers are saying so. This is the only valid reason. All other possible reasons are probably pushing you to the wrong way (inertia, a gut feeling that this someday will be huge, people that are not customers nor remotely potential customers giving you positive feedback, to occupy your mind as you have nothing else to do, to take advantage of a tech stack knowledge you already have, etc)
I strongly agree. Some time ago I started recriminating some coworkers sexist attitudes, now I have given up fighting against the current, no more fighting. And in the advertisement industry is far worse.
I think the visuals are perfect and can't relate to a single thing you write.
Wonder what the vmware service on Amazon will be called - maybe Elastiware
The comment you quoted is not considered a criticism or disparagement by any sane person. Nobody is being harmed by the comment you quote.
is discord in seattle?
The US has Voice Of America, which serves a similar purpose: www.voanews.com.
You said you didn't understand why it was surprising, which is a different thing than not being surprised.

Computers are good at lots of things like playing chess, and still completely incapable at lots of things that involve common sense. Expecting autonomous cars to be better than human drivers eventually is one thing, but it is certainly not obvious that we are there yet.
Programmers are kittens, from my experience. they are usually some of the best people. They are often shy as well.
No, but generalising an entire industry by the reprehensible actions of a few is kinda like "all Muslims are terrorists" - grossly mis-representative.
https://blog.jessfraz.com/ seems to suggest she did not, in fact, quit the industry. (Good, it would only make the problem worse, no?)
Will you be the only one doing it or will 10,000 people offer it and beggar it?
What does SaaS think of the concept, the beggaring etc?
Things every male (person) should be taught by their parents:

1) Would I do/say this to another male (person of a sex I'm not sexually oriented towards)? If not, don't do it any other person/gender either.

That's basically it.

TLDR; Treat everyone as a person first and foremost, and a potential partner/mate later.
It being a social problem means that is also an industry problem, by definition.
Tech cofounder vs. Beta launch?
Hi, my name is khawaja jaffer ... I am trying to get into a beta launch of a grocery delivery product (www.suncart.co) in Qatar and have not been able to find a technical cofounder over past 6 months. Got the product made from an outsourced company. Should i just go out and start the beta launch without a techie cofounder and keep the hunt going side by side ? What could be the best way forward & how should strategise this ?
Your bait is so low quality that I feel insulted.
Spend at least one hour every day on sales. Starting now.

Coding is the easy (and natural) part. In my experience, sales has been harder than I expected. Even when people love the product.
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> All extremely boring to watch

What? I've watched Hearthstone and Overwatch on Twitch several hours a day since launch and I will probably never be bored. They are by far the best streaming games out there IMO.
There's a difference between

> few people

and

> humans in general

I tend to agree with you - humans in general are awful, and I'm not convinced "the tech industry" is any worse.
Please troll elsewhere. This isn't a request on behalf of the community, it's a personal request as I just ate and don't really feel like throwing up in response to a comment.

Please, I beg you, sort your shit out, or leave.
It was discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9835375
Get a cheap keyboard and experiment with superglue (make dots with with a toothpick or something) (might be best to ask somone sighted to do it maybe).

I have some shuffled keys and indicated the keys for my index fingers with it.
Remember to at least be open to the possibility.
Leave. Really.

There's no shortage of software engineers, sysadmins, people to fix the coffee holders or whatever - everybody should be working in technology more than you should. Do you get posts from men seeking attention and sympathy? What about black people? Jews? No, of course not, but as soon as a woman's involved it's somehow OK to assume you can dismiss it out of hand.

Leave. Get out of our damn industry. Go away.
Awful. Report & publicly out them.
So because the problem is bigger than the author implied, we shouldn't try to solve it?
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Really not sure how you read that as "UK is the second largest net contributor to the EU budget!"...
I doubt any of them had any kind of seriousness to them, and she should know that.

How is she supposed to know that a picture of her covered in blood is a joke? Put yourself in the position of one of the most physically-vulnerable member of society and tell me how you'can find that funny.
> We need to be finding these people and getting them out of our industry on a permanent basis.

Sadly every time that's tried the freeze peaches crowd descends and claims not being able to send death threats and say that jews should die is persecution, and anyway she was probably a slut asking for it.
Politics, along with Civics, Ethics and Financial Education should be a mandatory part of our education system from the beginning of secondary school.

The cynic in me might suggest that it isn't because having the people uneducated on these matters greatly benefits a certain wealthy and influential section of society.
No, no, no! She's a woman, she can't do no wrong! Just trust her, ok?
>I thought that this old post may no longer be as relevant. Maybe we have made progress.

Since 2013?

Also, in human issues (as opposed to technology) there's no monotonically increasing progress. There periods of the past that are way more tolerant and peaceful than periods that preceded them, and vice versa.

Like the sixties gave way to the selfish seventies and eighties (and macho Reaganism, etc), like the cosmopolitan Europe of the 20s and 30s gave way to the Nazi hell of the late 30s to mid-40s, like the Roman republic decayed into the rule of crazy emperors, etc.
In short: no. It's exactly as cumbersome. If you look at the other comments you'll see plenty of people that found it hard to work with. Equally, if you look at Idris mailing lists you'll find people who love it.

Another way of looking at it is which is easier to grok: imperative or functional flow.
They don't need to explicitly punish areas like Wales, just treat them like they have been treating them - business as usual without EU Regional Development funding will be devastating. Nobody's talking any more about having vast sums of money available to reallocate, so unless we're cutting somewhere else I don't see how that vast EU pool is being replaced.
I can totally not type blindly when not sitting perfectly. E.g. reaching over to the side to type in something when using a beamer. How does this work for you?
I think that reduces further to: A certain percentage of people are assholes.
>All industries are fcked.*

Not much of an answer. And not qualified with any metrics either.
"A woman does what women always do"

Do you really think this way? You may want to ask what happened in your life to end up with this attitude. That one sentence basically precludes you from society.
I think everyone jumping in to say "it's not the industry it's the people" or "other industries are like this, too" is missing the point.

We tech people tend to think of ourselves as problem-solvers and intellectuals who would welcome anyone interested in the domain, and who was willing to contribute. And yet, many, many women in this industry feel marginalized and/or excluded. Even if that is based on the behaviour of a few bad actors, even if it is somethat that other male-dominated industries (like finance or manufacturing) suffer from, why not try and fix this? Why tolerate the behaviour, or shoot the messenger?

People who get angry at posts like this seem to feel personally attacked somehow, which is a weird reaction. (I mean, unless you also harass women, in which case you should feel guilty and take this peronsally, and you should stop.) Otherwise, why not band together in solidarity with the women who experience it, and help put a stop to it? It will make your industry better, your companies more valuable, your workplaces more pleasant, and your conferences more interesting. And most importantly, people who right now are getting a lot of shit thrown their way will be treated better. There is seriously no downside.
> suggest she did not, in fact, quit the industry.

TFA's 5th paragraph states that she will not, in fact, quit the industry. Why would you infer that she'd have quit?
I've been on IRC for 15 years and I've seen (and suffered :P) so much worse. I'll just say some parts of the internet are just not meant for everybody.
> definitely going to be safer than a human driver

That's just ridiculous. It is going to be safer in some cases and less safe in others, and obviously it depends on the system and the driving conditions. To say that a computer is necessarily a better driver is just science fiction until we have solid data showing that to be the case.
>> We need to be finding these people and getting them out of our industry on a permanent basis. They can go work on a landfill as far as I'm concerned

Exactly this. These people push out men with their behavior as well. I truly doubt any one of these people are worth the 2 or 3 that get fed up with it and leave.
To be fair, every time that's tried the social justice crowd takes it too far and tries to kick people out for holding the wrong opinions, even if they never actually harassed anyone.

Good intentions do not protect from being corrupted by power, who knew?
Hopefully this will be constructive. It's a tough pill to swallow but it's needed:

This is only a problem because of a) the immaturity of the average tech guy, relative to other professions and b) the lack of success with women of the average tech guy, again relative to the overall population.

Tech professions attract mostly left-brained people, and attract some personality types much more than other types. A tech guy is more likely to be an introvert. He's also more likely to have poor social skills, which relates to both A and B. It would be interesting to know if insecure attachment styles are more prevalent in the tech industry (likely), if anxiety disorders are more prevalent (likely; and someone with anxiety might be more likely to spend their free time indoors harassing people than playing football outside) and if low self-esteem is more prevalent (sadly, in my experience, likely; obviously 'harassment behavior' isn't something to be proud of, so doing it, while apparently desirable for some, would just result in lowered self-respect for them).

This is more prevalent in the open-source community, since there are no selection standards. You need neither a degree from MIT or Stanford, or to go through the tough Google interview standards, so you'll end up with the crap that's left on top of the sieve.

This problem will not get fixed anytime soon, and certainly can't get fixed through politics of any kind, since it's founded in personality and psychology. Mandatory pre-school with screening of all children for attachment disorders would help a lot, and hopefully someone reading this will be convinced to promote that as a solution.

To those who would say this is just speculation and ad hominem: it's conjecture, not speculation, and can be debated. It isn't ad hominem: to find a solution, asking "why" is necessary. There's no contempt here, though some of what I said may not be nice, I'm not assigning lower worth to anyone.
https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/822301430933573632

The responses here are telling. The reasoning of a lot of people seems to be "WhatsApp isn't perfect, we should tell people not to use WhatsApp" without serious enough consideration what alternatives are actually likely to be usable and/or used.

Good example of "perfect is the enemy of good". In my experience this kind of behavior is extremely common in the security/privacy space, and it is exceptionally harmful to getting real user improvements out (which tend to require measured compromises).
Is it OK for even just a couple of people to send you death threats? Do you want me to pick through your posts, find out where you work, have a bullet delivered to your desk? Splash blood on your front door? Phone your loved ones and tell them you're going to die? No. No you don't. And it would be a very, very big deal for you if I did.

But it wouldn't be serious, I'd be doing it for shits'n'giggles and you should know that.
One of your comments is dead. I don't know why, I think it's a word filter maybe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442908