skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's odd, because I always thought developers should look a little 'off'.

I generally dress well. Like a business guy. To overcome prejudice, I would wear sandals to my interviews.

I wouldn't care to get a job in software today, but being a little older, and dressing the way I do, I doubt anyone would overlook their conventions and hire me!

But I'm grateful you're doing it.

Maybe you have some devs that look like bankers on your team?
Computer science is not a social issue. It's a technical issue. So meritocracy is a good tool for it.
>Do you think there are benefits to being shy in such a context?

One doesn't decide to be shy after doing cost/benefit analysis of a situation, it's a character trait.

In this particular context women have 'confidence gap'[1] so its kind of stange to brush them off as 'wallflowers'

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-con...
ZH isn't the argument. The argument is "does Renaissance succeed principally though tax manipulation".
Bluntly, computing was a low-status field. There isn't "computing envy", there is "physics envy". Never mind that computing is critical path to all fields now...

As status has risen, it's become more status-ey. Surprise!
It's legal for personal use. You can import prescription only medication from abroad, you just can't buy it domestically.
Seems harsh. It's hard to tell exactly what's happening from the blurry video.
There's no shortage of women with money.
How do you know computers don't experience their existence? We assume because they behave predictably that this indicates they are unaware automata, but assume I asked you if you would like me to put a gun to your head and pull the trigger. You would answer no with extremely high probability. Just because your answer is predictable doesn't indicate that there is no awareness behind it. In fact, there is almost certainly something that it is "like" to be a tightly coupled system of transistors. Of course, that experience is undoubtedly very different from ours.

Part of the problem is that consciousness is a nebulous term that conflates awareness, self-awareness and intelligence. Specifically, I'm only speaking of awareness here.

Also, when sand undergoes chemical reactions, how do you know that isn't a simple form of information processing?
This is impressive, and kindof exactly what I am in the process of doing. It's certainly the best way to get familiar with the internal workings of these methods than just tune parameters like an oblivious albeit theoretically informed monkey. How long did it take you to do them?
Citation needed. How and by whom are girls being chased away? I mean when I was a teenager, it was exactly the other way round: kids who liked computers were social pariahs...
"But usually it is more complicated than that" (2016)
Don't forget that 15% getting re-invested.
It seems to be that either Buffett must be mistaken or you are, right? His claim is that the funds involved in the bet are 2/20 funds, and while the bet started in 2008, it is still running today.
Yudkin mentioned about dental hygiene in his book Pure, White and Deadly: The Problem of Sugar (1972)

it's the form of sugar that matters.

the sticky (think twinkie) sugar does more damage because it sticks to cavities, fueling bacteria producing acid.

the stickiest, the sweetest fruit i can think of is fried dates. banana comes close.

but fruits don't even compare to twinkie, so don't worry too much about it. chewing fibrous non-sweet veg should be enough to 'brush' teeth naturally. of course brushing your teeth won't hurt
Now name four more
Original title

"T. Rowe Price Voted for the Dell Buyout by Accident"

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11691941
It's not giving people an advantage, it about giving people equal opportunities to succeed.
growing up in a poor country my two options were 1. become a software engineer 2. continue to live rest of your life in dire poverty.

This is precisely the reason you would find so many female programmers in south asian and other poor countries.

Its funny to see all the armchair philosophers like Pike come up with some 'Well actually, it's because X' explanations without presenting a single bit of evidence to back it up.
The article we're talking about opens with an observation about better gender parity in another hard science field, so it's hard to see how computer science can somehow exempt itself from the observation without special pleading.
"It is, however, sad to think that this technology could be set back a few years because of Levandowski's actions."

I am less concerned about one piece of technology and more concerned about the future of employer relations in general. Employers will become increasingly suspicious of employees leaving and will take actions to either prevent this or to stifle the actual knowledge gained to be used elsewhere.
I'm professionally employed as a programmer, but all my role models have been physicists and musicians (lots of female musicians, too).

I've never had a role model in computing.
I'd recommend anything by Parnas on information hiding. It's the basis of abstraction--know it inside and out.
It's usually even better to use iterative methods
I can recommend Applied Predictive Modeling by Max Kuhn: http://appliedpredictivemodeling.com/
Even when a product is successful at first, a very typically Google thing to do at this point is to not make substantial improvements to it for years until suddenly deciding to deprecate and replace it with something entirely different that has no migration strategy, might not have kept all the good parts of the old service, and even uses a new random brand name :/.
The implication that women need "special treatment" in order to excel in tech is why there are so few women in tech. How do I know this? Because women who have excelled in tech have told me so, I've read their blogs, I've read their tweets, I believe them (because they're clearly competent, and they've clearly explained why tech has been an unfairly challenging career path for them).

At this point, the only way to be wholly convinced that tech doesn't discriminate against women (and some people of color) is to willfully ignore the huge array of evidence, and to assume that every woman who has spoken out about their experience is lying. I'm unwilling to ignore the evidence or to assume that a bunch of women I admire are lying (for what reason, I can't imagine, because the women who speak out face being doxxed, harassed for years, and otherwise making their life miserable with the only goal being to make things a little more fair in the future for other women).
That's what psilocybin would do, maybe not lsd. Shrooms will send you to the woods though for sure
"Alligator" comes from "el lagarto" ("the lizard")[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing
Many times it requires years to build a laboratory which can even begin to replicate the work of an established operation.

And sometimes it is impossible to solve a difficult problem using the first lab one builds in pursuit of that concept.

In these cases the true type of laboratory needed only comes within focus after completing the first attempt by the book and having it prove inadequate.

Proving things is difficult not only in the laboratory, but in hard science it still usually has to be possible to fully support your findings, especially if you are overturning the status quo in some way.
That still doesn't require findings to actually be reproduced in a separate lab if the original researchers can demonstrate satisfactory proof in their own unique lab. This may require outside materials or data sets to be satisfactory. Science is not easy.

I think all kinds of scientists should be supported in all kinds of ways.

Fundamentally, there are simply some scientists without peers, always have been.

For unique breakthroughs this might be a most likely source, so they should be leveraged by capitalists using terms without peer.
Do men never leave computer science? Or do they just write less about it, or if they do, it receives less attention?

For sure men are unhappy with their companies. Otherwise nobody would ever switch jobs.

Also it should be considered that women have more career options than men. Since they spread out over more professions (including fulltime mum), it is to be expected that they are not 50% of people in all professions.
It certainly is! Thanks. :) I have been working on it for about three weeks now.
I would reflect on the fact that computing isn't just a market based economy. That is just on facet and even then you're assuming that entry to the market is equal.
>very unlikely that computer technology is unique among the professions in being suited to men

There are a bunch of other professions where women are under/over-represented. CS is one of them. Others include:

Mechanical Engineering
Construction
Electrical Engineering
Physics
Aerospace Engi
Geography
Finance

On the other hand, in Biology things are a lot more balanced. So maybe it is the field of interest as opposed to discrimination since the scientific culture in universities is about the same in Biology as it is in Physics.
A very important book, and especially if someone gets "Meditations: A new translation" by Hays. The translations available online don't explain the context of Aurelius life, and are hard to read.
Why would diversity the yardstick? The yardstick is creating useful products. (Edit: no there can not be more yardsticks in the long run - a company needs to survive. It gets paid for great products, not for virtue signalling).
I must say that I also feel proud and I'm not even American!
True. Thanks for pointing that out. I think they probably should be putting the emphasis in their marketing on the fault tolerance i.s.o. the performance.
Maybe I'm not explaining myself clearly.

You can use an environment variable to point to a CDN host and use it as a prefix in your code. But you also need to make sure the CDN assets get expired. One approach is to use the stats plugin for Webpack, parse the manifest, and write a helper so that the right files get included in the HTML.

Here is an example of how the webpack-rails gem does it: https://github.com/mipearson/webpack-rails/blob/master/lib/w...

And here is an explanation of why you would want to do that instead of using ETag headers on constant filenames: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26272271/why-digest-are-u...

EDIT:

In fact after looking into it, Neutrino does use html-webpack-plugin which does exactly that by templating index.html: https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-webpack-template Which is cool!
The comparison of copper bracelets to LSD is pretty weak in that if you take LSD, something WILL HAPPEN
Do people typically enter the field via an instructor/lessons?
They are for sure! Obviously, all depends on the complexity of the problem and the willingness of programmers to install tests :/

In my company, we are ridiculously pedantic about unit testing, but even with proper level of attention to detail we sometimes fail with getting 100% code coverage.

The biggest pain are log(x)/ln(x) issues in numerical optimization.
In this situation you are probably right. However, it's very problematic as a general statement. There are too many atrocities committed by violent majorities against powerless minorities that come to mind. This blanket statement gets into victim shaming really quick.
I think perhaps the "Scaleway" brand name is less about what their users can do with their products, and more about what their business model is.

As for their hardware, I believe they have designed all of the physical servers themselves, so they'll contain nothing they don't need. https://www.scaleway.com/features/hardware/
I would be shocked if the NSA hasn't been running their own crawlers for years. Because, you know, terrorists may be chatting on pages not allowed by robots.txt. And just because other crawlers respect it, doesn't mean we need to...
Nobody needs permission from anyone to start a company.
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Always good to see Hawaii schools doing things like this
You're assuming the playing field is level. That men somehow don't inherently have advantages like having the proper "look"

consider the stereotypes of computer programmers "wear hoodies, look kinda disheveled and drink mountain dew. probably asian or white" women/girls don't (shouldn't?) look like that. therefore they can't be programmers.

and let's step away from gender entirely. let's talk baseball. the entire game is based on winning but rather than choose players based on their ability to play the game, a large portion of them are chosen based on how they "look" based on opinions from scouts. "is he tall? muscular? does he have nice teeth?" "this guy threw a 90mph fastball. he doesn't have any other pitch and 3 people hit homeruns off him but he's going to be a star!"

nothing in life is fair. promoting people who have been overlooked is not a "special advantage" it is merely re-balancing the "special advantage" others have had due to gender, race, or just plain genetics.
So people outside of the "tech echo chamber" even use half of these services to begin with? I think the point here is that if Google wants to see normal people think to use any of these projects they are going to have to maintain them for a longer period of time under a brand strategy that doesn't involve constantly deprecating and replacing services while bothering to market and support the product line.

Every now and then there is a Google product I know about which would be perfect for some use case we have in our community (I am involved in a lot of political organizing here). I bring it up, and no one has heard of it; and the last time I did this, I went to go show people, and it had been discontinued anyway... I mean, what's the point?
Any VC fund would love to have a primarily female start up on board, there just isn't one.
1. Buy hardware in bulk
2. Offer incentive for quarterly/yearly subscription
3. Over provision network
I think the definition of a "lie" implies intention. If one says something that is not true which they genuinely believe to be true, that is a "mistake" rather than a "lie".

So the scenario you are describing sounds totally plausible, but I would phrase it as the bee making a mistake rather than lying. =)
"Going to be interesting watching this one play out."

I suspect, access of "14,000 highly confidential and proprietary files shortly before his resignation" will play a major role in swaying the deciders. Experience tells us that not all of those 14k were critical, what if it had be 1 or 2 critical design docs? In a different or future case, we may see that happen. Corps have incentive to reduce competitors, but now may start recognizing the potential leverage they have - "Our network logs show Joe accessed our main design doc 1 week before he left for company doing similar work!".
See: Programming Beyond Practices by Gregory Brown released last year

https://www.amzn.com/dp/B01LYRCGA8
One of them was United. I did in fact report the incident to the FAA. Because the flight started and ended outside the US they had no jurisdiction and rejected my report.
I can't speak specifically to SHA-1/2, but typically the criteria for the standards takes into account lower-end hardware that must be able to execute the algorithms with limited memory and processing (especially embedded systems).

For example, smart cards and terminals for the payments/banking industry. These algorithms came out in the 90's when you often had 8-bit processors and very little memory to work with.
>Your argument is essentially that there are almost no women talented enough to be in leadership roles in tech

This is wrong. There are plenty. My point is that these people should not be given special treatment and more opportunities if they come at the expense of other demographics.

>I'm not suggesting quotas here, and I don't think Pike is either

He didn't mention quotas, but he did mention preferential hiring.

"It may take proactive behavior, like choosing a women over a man when growing your team, just because, or promoting women more freely."

How would you feel if you applied for a job and it was given to someone else because they were a woman? Would that not be unfair? Would this practice applied in aggregate not chase off even more talented people? I can only imagine most people would not want to stick around in a situation like that.
Compared to the number of men with money, there sure as hell is. 95% (that number is me talking out of my ass, but, I can tell you I only met one female investing partner at a VC, and no female angels, the entire time I lived there, and countless men) of investors in Silicon Valley are men.

The whole ecosystem is hugely weighted toward men making decisions.
Regardless of this bug or their business practices, this is why Cloudflare has gotten so big. They have a much better pricing model compared to other CDNs.
Neuroscience, molecular biology, chem, stat, even pure math all have saner gender balance than computer science; some, like molecular biology, even have slightly more women than men.

I think it's going to be difficult to compose an argument for how computer science could be intrinsically better suited to men in a way that didn't also apply to other popular hard-science fields.
Aram, I'm 100% certain you mean well, but the part of the post you're quoting is not proposing to abandon perfect equality in favor of a minority group. My reading of the post is that there has never been an equality of chances in technical fields, and that astronomy is one of the few outliers in this regard. And based on his experience in the industry, Rob Pike's proposition is that a disproportional number of women have been forced away from tech careers despite their level of expertise, and that recalibrating the industry's view of the situation is a move towards that equality, and a clear long-term benefit for most everyone involved.
Every country can be proud of their achievements. The success is powered by science, human ingenuity and risk taking, all over the world.
How do you know that all hard science fields are equally interesting to women?
Hopefully the goggles will become comfortable and we ll be able to take them off easily. We ll get used to the escape. It will become as commonplace and unremarkable as headphones
There exist groups whose sole purpose is... every conceivable political position. This argument is so general as to be completely reversible. "We have to support the NRA to stop excessive anti-gun legislation," but also "we have to support gun banners in order to stop excessive pro-gun legislation." It's a recipe for endless polarization.
Dang, this one's probably going to be more popular than mine.

http://cloudbleed.surge.sh

Of course, mine isn't exactly performant, was the result of about 15 minutes of work, and just uses that Github repo with the list of affected domains (so, not exactly the most comprehensive). But hey, it was fun to build.
Wait, you're asking me for evidence? I think it's the other way round - on my side are the stated views of the Malaysian authorities conducting the actual investigation, the fact that China has sanctioned North Korea, basic common sense (there's no such thing as a government-independent North Korean simply living in Kuala Lumpur period, let alone one who is connected to the murder), the use of a poison typically only available to state actors, etc. You have: a bunch of unfounded contrarian speculation. What's your evidence?
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It can be literally free to learn programming if you're a woman. Girls Who Code, countless initiatives, you name it, it's there. Yet if you check contributors of any open source project it's going to be all men. What if most women are just... not that interested in programming?
Several points:

1) Google has Android because they did something very similar to Apple: Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board and used his inside info to drive smartphone development at Google. A massive lawsuit then transpired, but for Google on balance it was worth it to steal the Android IP from Apple.

http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-im-going-to-destroy...

2) For that matter, David Drummond was on the board of Uber and arguably took info from there to Google as well, using it to start their ride hailing project. Uber did not sue at that time.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/exclusive...

3) Google was very slow on self-driving. Levandowski and others tried to get Google to ship a real self-driving car product for years, but only Uber actually had the cojones to do it in Pittsburgh and Arizona. That is what finally lit a fire under Google to spin out Waymo.
GMRES is definitely my go-to these days. Though it is worth noting that direct methods do have a benefit of letting you quickly solve many successive linear problems involving the same matrix, but different right-hand sides. But iterative methods scale very well for large sparse problems that they are very often the only tool to consider.

Block Krylov methods are a thing , but I haven't experimented with them yet.
I will go against a mainstream of answers like "soft skills" and "computer science" as it's not news that those skills matter. In addition to timeless skills you also need to bet on some new technologies.

I have bet on container orchestration and deep learning. Some people would say they are at risk of becoming a fad, but both have been used in solving previously seemingly impossible problems and are rapidly advancing.
For one indication, look at the ratio of women to men graduating from STEM courses in universities. Even in school, the number of women taking STEM subjects is dwarfed by the number of men. While the issues another poster has mentioned (uber etc) I'm sure do not help the situation, it's still a huge problem even at school ages.
Women's brains aren't as mathematical as men's. why is this so hard to believe.