skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's going to be easy to find problems with any study with which you disagree. I want to be clear: studies that are trying to distill something with this vast a number of moving parts will never be entirely satisfactory to everyone. The issues are simply too complicated.

That said, I find it much easier to believe that women are paid less than men, on average, than to believe otherwise. This has been the case historically since pretty much the founding of the nation. While I would certainly hope and do believe that women now make more than they have in the past, and that their pay is now approaching that of men, I think it's unreasonable to believe that we have reached "pay equity" between the sexes.

In my opinion, I would not consider pay between men and women equitable until I have seen reasonable looking studies that have proven the case. I think it would be wise to be skeptical of such studies but look forward to their being published.
People draw that comparison because the fundamental primitives of Marx's theory are capital and labor (aka people).

I'm not passing judgement on the validity of that theory, merely explaining why the two are so often compared.
Yeah,

I would agree that diagrammatic programming is a process that inherently seems like it would solve the opaqueness of programming.

But I'd say this paradigm is just as much inherently limited and not useful for "serious" work. This is because the multitude of "parts" that a computer program has exist in too large a space to be visually represented and because the details don't really follow our intuits for two or three dimensional objects.
That domain's not available, unfortunately. trump.care wasn't available either. I figured Ryancare was the best name to go with -- the bill has already been branded as that name in some circles.
I'm in the same boat.

Apparently education pricing is only $300 though.

I sometimes think that I should take a 0.5 credit online course at my local community college every once in a while so I can abuse those sweet, sweet education discounts.

Last time I was thinking this was actually for the same project. Point Grey makes some sweet-ass USB 3.0 cameras that can do 120 fps, I pump it into a Jetson, distort it for the screen and add overlays, then dump it back out to my Vive. Boom, ghetto augmented-reality setup.

It's a tricky project in a technical sense in several respects - you need wide angles plus decent resolution plus fast framerate and low response times. The really nice thing about PointGrey's cameras is not only are they fast and hi-res, they have plain old C-mounts, so I could use real superwide TV lenses instead of ghetto crap I tore out of webcams. The downside is, they retail for like $700 a pop or something.
No, still goes through a check if it is a globally published app (vs. a custom app for just one company).
Well, sure.

But Jet can only help Walmart compete with Amazon if it has some virtues. And the point is, even if its people are great, they aren't worth $3B. If Jet's technology or brand or whatever are going to help Walmart compete with Amazon, then it's not an acquire-hire.
I don't know if they are doing it right now in this API, but Google and plenty of others have demonstrated recognition of actions in videos. I expect they'll add it later if it's not there right now.

At the very least in this release they are identifying scene changes, which is a dynamic property.
Reduced power comes from reduced complexity, and that has a performance cost, yes -- but it takes far more than a 10% increase in power to get a 10% increase in performance.

Intel's designs, being tuned for high sequential performance, are significantly better for that purpose; but if you look at VPS services which currently only get a fraction of a CPU each, I'm sure they could run more power-efficiently with a larger fraction of a punier CPU.
my commute is about 15 minutes door to door, and i'd prefer not to extend that to 45 minutes by adding on grocery shopping to that trip.
With service worker, you can have a similar setup to a traditional application (install once, and have the first installed version verify all other versions are signed by a correct key).

It's abstracted away from you, but with some work I feel a browser UI could be made to help with this process if people wanted it.
I did this to the recruiter who did a phone screen for a position for Google. She was being super aggressive and borderline abusive in her questioning, so I rapidly lost interest in ever working there. And when I got the opportunity to ask her questions I turned all her questions around on her and asked her for solutions. She admitted she didn't know any of the answers. I didn't get a call back, but I kept my dignity. I pity people who work at Google now.
The story I heard from my data warehouse professor in college was that Walmart analyzed receipts of purchases made on saturdays, and noticed a strange correlation between diapers and cases of beer.

A deeper analysis showed that fathers where being tasked with the replenishing of the diapers stock on weekends, and made a stop by the beer section on the way.

Following this, Walmart put diapers and beer close the each other, and sales skyrocketed.

It's probably not the real story, but it was a memorable enough introduction to get a bunch of sleepy students to learn what normal forms were all about.
Hands down, my mum and my grand mother.

My mum was a self-professed luddite - as in the traditional term where she hates technology. However, knew I was good at maths and could see how computing was going to be a big part of the future. So she'd buy me every book on computing she came across in second-hand book stores. It didn't matter what they were on, she'd get them for me (still does too). So back in the pre-internet days and even before I had my own computer I'd read and re-read them constantly. And I'd try my hand at writing programs on paper and tracing them out in my head.

My grandmother bought a brand new Commodore 64 because she could afford it, and played some games but not much else. She did however show me how to run BASIC. So whenever I went over she'd let me on there, and I'd transcribe my programs into the computer and finally get a chance to run them and see if my thinking was right.
Happy International Women's Day. Her name was large and on the screen but apparently easy to miss! That "first lady to come out," was Diane Greene, the SVP of Google Cloud.
you can cover your ears and shout 'nazi' all you'd like, but i'm not an extremist in any sense, or even a trump supporter. what i said may be controversial, but it's rooted in well established fact. people can have real concerns about the negative effects of immigration without being an evil boogeyman.
In the UK cable thieves thieves are a problem for telecoms and rail industry attaching a 4x4 to one end and dragging the cable out is one popular technique.

This some times all messes up the power for trains
> Small towns seem like another world after midnight. ... there's no sound in your immediate area, there's no life.

What I loved about growing up in a town with less than 300.
Developer here. Appreciate any feedback! The goal is to make it really easy to write multi-user / multi-player / social virtual reality experiences on the web, on top of a VR framework called A-Frame.
I concur. There is nothing flagworthy here. This is only controversial because people doing flagworthy things are trying to inject politics into a celebration of people who write code and build software.
This really hits home. I pondered whether I should write the following string of text because they are deeply personal but I've worked up the courage to put them in writing because it's been driving me nuts and I'm sick of having to protect my parent's failures.

The earliest memory I have of my father is raging and suffocating my mother with a blanket. The whole movie is spotty. It's like my mind was trying to protect my 7 year old brain by "deleting" traumatic moments. This is the tip of the iceberg. All I can say is I've never felt safe. My biggest fear at the end of school was walking home in fear every single day that my dad might try to kill my mom.

My lifelong desire was to provide financially for my mom and younger sister so she wouldn't have to depend on my father. I've failed here but I'm still in this software game, hoping that I can finally provide the life my mom and sister is owed-my father being the world's poorest and financially irresponsible dentist.

Even as I'm writing this I'm starting to get uneasy and it's hard for me to continue. Everytime I revisit these scenes, it starts to trigger anxiety and panic.

While I think divorce is traumatic, the aftermath of toxic adults who have deep hatred for each other is even more harmful to a child.

I really wish my parents had divorced earlier. I wish I hadn't seen, experienced early childhood, teens to adulthood.

I am utterly broken. I'm 100% certain that I will remain the way I am. Unable to marry, unable to have meaningful intimate relationships. I'm 30 but I do not feel like my emotional maturity is remotely close.

But all that I can bear. As long as there's a single breath of life in me, it will go towards creating products that will solve challenging problems and get paid for it so I can find peace for my family and myself.

Happy Wednesday, dear reader.
But the intrinsic mathematical structure of the code by no means implies a mental structure compatible with the preferences of the human mind. I'm not saying there is no good mental structure, just it is not necessitated by the existence of the mathematical structure. The ML specification contains no reference to studies on human perception of code.

I didn't say anything about the lowest common denominator or sloppy thinking, but there is no evidence that suggests that the human mind works equally well with any arbitrary mathematical structure. A mathematical structure caters neither to the lowest common denominator nor to the most disciplined thinkers, but is, as far as we know, arbitrary with respect to human cognition. If it caters to anyone in particular, it is by chance.

My point is not that mathematical structure is bad -- far from it -- but there is no scientific basis to suggest a particular structure is particularly good. I read your comment as saying that a good mathematical structure implies a good mental structure, and I don't see what is the scientific justification for that claim.
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Now I know what I'm naming my next procedure.
While the article is interesting, I think some of the more curious part of HN crowd might find it also worthwhile to look at the actual dataset available here: http://www.gss.norc.org/ . Looking at the codebook, some of the relevant variables for analysis of this kind would be PARTNERS, SEXFREQ, NUMWOMEN, NUMMEN, PARTNRS5 (starting at p.2586).

The codebook includes nice summary tables that might alone answer some the questions you are thinking about (like here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13823544 ; I myself didn't download the data yet but could write that comment).
Get Your Brackets Ready the madness is moving from the court to the cloud
Not only that, but using different compilers will also cover more possible warnings.

You can have code without any warnings in clang, gcc and msvc++ compilers and it is probably better than code tested with only one compiler.
But not as a vendor.

Right now we get the certificates from out customers, sign the individual binaries. Then distribute through our own infrastructure.

We have our own update mechanism (basically hot code push), cannot have the customer's own IT shop be a barrier to deploy the fix. User sync their apps, if there is an upgrade that gets done inbetween the normal data/content sync.
Fewer heavy Americans are trying to lose weight, study finds
> broader constituency of open source communities

By this do you mean projects with closable source licenses (Apache/BSD/MIT) and the companies that prefer to use them? Does this mean we'll see more sub projects like the CNCF which are focused on non-GPL OSS?

>I would rather have VMware in than out

I agree in general that a big tent model works well, but I think the question here is more about what it means to be 'in'. Maybe you have more nuts and bolts insight into it. From the outside, I think the feeling is that membership was as a symbol that large organizations support Free software; the world is changing to embrace FOSS; etc. But now it looks more like there's no ideology involved and it's more like NASCAR sponsorship at best. At worst, it looks like 'pay us and we'll won't enforce the GPL as it pertains to you'.

I'm not surprised pitchforks are getting rustled.
We use the curry cubes too, and usually buy the "beef for curry" packages from the market, so it's doubly easy.
Greasemonkey script to highlight new HN comments
Demo: http://i.imgur.com/Er3RvFv.gif

I got tired of refreshing a long thread to see that there were new comments (e.g. it went from 47 -> 52 comments) but then having to wade through and skim the whole thread again just to find them.

So I hacked this Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey script together that highlights them for me. Maybe you would find it useful. (Or make it better, I can do damage but I'm no js developer.)

https://gist.github.com/infogulch/77bcd65ae8dc0a3de9a99b00f9987732
Plivo (YC S12) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer
Well, there's people self-identifying, and there's people living the lifestyle, and the groups don't necessarily have to match up, like in the closet I guess.

With respect to living the lifestyle, Time has an interesting article on the percentage of college grads living at home after graduation, aka failure to launch. We'll assume 50:50 male:female although of course not all degree fields are 50:50, and we'll assume that living in moms basement means the sex life is essentially zilch.

http://time.com/4106297/college-degrees-parents-house/

So half of English lit grads, 40% of CS/IT grads, 30% of engineers, more than half of history majors.

You could argue that the extrapolated trend around 30 is more relevant than just out of school and trying to find a new career, in which case its merely in the 10% to 20% range depending on major.

Far too many college grads are produced than there are jobs for them, by integer multiples too many. Its the opposite for skilled trades, you'll make a lot more money and demand is intense for electricians so I'd imagine "failure to launch" for journeyman electricians is exclusively limited to, like, in home hospice care of ill parents and similar, so figure that rounds down to about zero although I don't have figures.

Maybe unemployed college grads living at home make it work, I never had to do it, but I imagine it would be awkward having uni roommate conversations with your parents and little sister to get them out of the house when you're having someone come over, or I guess they could stay home and listen, or just ewww.

Personally I came home from the Army while going to school in the day and I couldn't take the parenting for more than a couple weeks while I was doing the school GI bill thing, of course that's all the time I needed to get an apartment and car and start school and stuff. Where are you going who you gonna hang out with how late will you be out remember tonight is a school night do I know their parents oh can I meet this girl she sounds nice, is kinda cute or tolerable around thirteen but not a 20-something adult. My score while living at home was definitely zero, although I was too busy setting up apartment, car, school, all that stuff to go out anyway.

So in summary, mid level double digit percentages. Not a rounding error.
I'm all for it. But how do Zebras compete against Unicorns? Especially when Unicorns have VC magical funding supporting them...
International Women's Day: Tinder Makes $250,000 Donation Pledge
>What I want is to know, how can we have greater agreement that racism is bad, and more diversity of expression about racism, at the same time? It seems contradictory.

I don't understand this logic. To have greater agreement about something requires convincing people. If you forbid discussion of a topic, you have given up any chance of convincing anyone of anything; you've simply temporarily driven the other side underground.

It may look like you're making headway. But that's an illusion.
To me that sounds optimistic. A bearish view would be that they limped to enough revenue to cover the costs of operating a solid recruiting and contest site; non recurring revenue of, say, $15MM without a strong growth or margin story.

Kaggle was a great recruiting play; given that Google bought them, and not a recruiting company, I would bet that this is an acquihire.
Couldn't user data make it into the model, and be reverse-engineered from it, if you used it to train the model?

I mean, machine learning models aren't designed as one-way cryptographic hash functions, so you can't be sure that some of the training data can be inferred through the model's behavior.
Right. But to your advantage, here you've demonstrated how you've interpreting evidence to fit with other evidence and knowledge to strengthen your set of facts. Most people will not see what you saw and think what you thought. And this can be applied to everything really. Evidence is everywhere, though even if people saw it, they won't know what it says or how to measure it.

With the internet we can go directly to the source for evidence. Sources can be completely open and transparent regarding their motives and research. And anyone who wishes to learn should be able to start with learning how to identify the bubbles of fake news and alternate facts. Then we'd be talking. Until then, most everything you hear is just somewhere on the BS spectrum.
The TK1 boards (at least) have their own set of problems too. I was at a conference where one of the vendors was showing off a little stack of TK1s he was using as a cluster... but apparently it needed to warm up before the GPU would work properly.
People do. Dadaab is the largest refugee camp in the world. It's in Kenya, near the border with Somalia. It houses >250k people.

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

There are millions of Syrian refugees, and a vast majority of them have taken refuge in neighboring countries: Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon.
Yes, but I mean if you analyze video as individual frames, you can't declare "we do video analysis", because video is completely different domain.

There're papers like [1] where CNN output is used as input for RNN, which performs deeper context analysis. Results aren't exciting, though.

[1] http://cs231n.stanford.edu/reports2016/221_Report.pdf
That sounds like a very rewarding application that will be a great net benefit for humanity.

I'm looking at using machine learning on time series data in a similar way, replacing EEG with 3D motion data. However, ML is not my forte and I am just cutting my teeth. I would really appreciate if you be able to share some of the 'buzzwords' or ML topics that I might look into as I explore this work?
No men would have landed on the moon without women. Your implication to the contrary is kind of crazy.
It's actually $2bn [1], $400 million per year over 5 years.

1: http://www.recode.net/2017/2/2/14492026/snap-ipo-2-billion-c...
how do you know the implementation details?

it would be completely naive to implement it that way, considering there is an entirely new attribute video applies over images which of course is "time".

I don't know shit about ML- talking out of my ass here- but I'd be surprised if the algorithms didn't account for changes over time or canonical entity recognition (is this the same boat that was in the last image)?
Are there any public posts discussing how you augment data?

Also, what do you use you spin up multiple jobs in parallel using EC2?
I bet you could do a lot of good with an equivalent for eviction proceedings. Most people being evicted don't have representation.
Even your article admits the biggest factor, and the most important one. Men choose careers that end up paying more on average. It seems they still try give the impression that women doing the same _exact_ position as a man gets paid less in every case. I can believe there is a disparity, especially in certain fields where the general public's perception of skill reflects your perceived worth (like physicians, maybe law). Some people get paid more just because they're taller, and that isn't the company being heightist.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13819624
The idea of Facebook platform being more accessible than the web is scary to me, but not surprising.

Think about non-tech-savvy users on low-end devices, Facebook is familiar, and there's no responsiveness or web accessibility issues, it can feel faster because Facebook can optimize what is getting downloaded.

It is scary when you extend this out a few years, FB and Google continue to extend the line of what gets consumed on their platform vs what sends people off to a web page.

Your company's branded app is already dead, soon your company's website will be dead.
introducing the d as in dumb
Show HN: Ultra-simple Chrome productivity plugin/website blocker
The Cloud Vision API already offers this: https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/detecting-safe-search

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud, but not Vision.
Hmm, I haven't seen the blue uniforms where I live (SF Bay Area.)
I don't think it's reasonable to flag this page because of the link to Senator Warren.
WebCrypto is also a potluck of primitives, designed my committee, with "secure end-to-end encryption" as a non-goal.

I'd personally rather see browsers ship libsodium.js (or equivalent) than WC or SJCL.
Javascript is making you sad.
I've been feeling a lot of this myself. This corporate balance can't last. People will strive to merge their outlooks and philosophies with their day to day actions, so companies that don't help satisfy that thirst for something more out of life in their employees will have trouble. Plenty of people just want a punchcard, but I doubt it crests 30% in a secure population.

Just what that alternate model might be... I'll keep searching. In the meantime, co-ops are promising. There aren't many tech co-ops; most seem to be farms. But maybe.

"Companies We Keep" - an introduction to co: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KTT65Q/ref=oh_aui_sear...
Scientists Finally Observed Time Crystals
Content moderator is what you're looking for:
https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/content-m...
I guess the alternative is the anthropic principle: we must be the first intelligent life otherwise we would have been destroyed by now.
If I can build the basic scalable submission and comment system in one 8 hour day

...

[unless this is deliberate parody in which case, you got me]
Valuation Shell Game: the 409A valuation
Be real, work well and wait for the bubble to burst. You can't ride methane forever.
As always, the practical, dirty, coal-using, environment neglecting China is way ahead in practice than the Boston PhD theorists funded by billions of old US money.

This is a solved problem: you generate electricity via Solar and commute via electric bike, lowering kcal consumption and increasing average speed and range at the same time.

The problems are cultural and infrastructural - it needs a critical mass of cyclists to become safe to ride electric bikes in the US, otherwise you risk being run off the road by the majority of drivers who are distracted using their phone.