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While I understand that serious "sexist" incidents take place in the tech industry I always try to read such articles with distance as honestly, this is just a random blog post published after a leaked info of Uber toxic environment, there is no evidence presented and this may be a post by someone seeking attention (I'm not saying that's the case, though). I fail to understand what was preventing them all from releasing all that stuff anonymously prior Uber outrage?

Don't get me wrong, I'm highly critical of sexism but the western political correctness is driving me nuts even more, I could imagine some of the claims in the article being part of a joke, e.g. "Don't be such a woman" the person didn't like or didn't get, seriously this stuff will soon turn into another list of forbidden words one cannot think of without being accused of racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia or other more sophisticated phobia I couldn't yet think of. On the other hand if it's true that there was a plan to fire a woman because she was pregnant, it is truly outrageous, but then again, it's just an article on the internet.

I also doubt that all these sexist comments ("don't be such a woman") came out of nowhere, this may sound radical but I can't imagine anyone in the tech field picking on an employee (whatever sex) who is performing well, that said I disagree with the form it allegedly took as the article claims but
there are tons of various programs hosted by SV giants and other IT companies across the world that aim to bring more women into the field and let's make it clear, sexism works both ways and I personally haven't seen any complains about these programs, what a surprise. If anything, it's easier for a woman to get into tech nowadays than for a man and this might be one of the reasons why such incidents take place afterwards, when people within the team realize someone is a slacker or his/her abilities are way under the expected average I can imagine such person not being treated equally. What's worse, I can sense this leading to another politically correct absurd like "you can't say I'm not a high performer, because I'm a woman" or the managers not being able to give just criticism to female employees without being accused of sexism.
Pharmacies do charge (fairly) low prices for generics.
IIRC I got bogged down early with the regular expression for parsing, but I definitely want to try again. Really enjoyed the MAL talk at Midwest.io: https://youtu.be/lgyOAiRtZGw
In the real world we rely on humans for lots of stuff, and humans aren't actually deterministic either. Sure, if you train someone to perform a task they'll probably do a good job, or they might suddenly come into work distracted and cause a problem. Diagnosing problems with people is often similarly hard, and we've had all of civilization to work on it.

This hasn't caused the sky to fall, yet. So, perhaps we'll just learn to make AI behave properly under most circumstances, and deal with failures and glitches as we always have with people.
That's an interesting idea! Testing is an interesting topic, since the obvious way to do it is multiple choice, but it's tricky to make questions that don't just test your ability to memorize trivia.
It's not too difficult for most of them.

Drop it edgeways on the table. Most counterfeit ones don't give the proper 'clunk', maybe the material isn't right.

Or, the colour or alignment would be bad, or they'd appear more worn than normal.

I don't think the 1/30 fakes are evenly spread around the country. When I lived in London, they were much more common than that.
Hmm my takeaway from the familiarity was that it's harder for woman to manage up, which sucks. :(
US 5 cent coins (aka nickels) are (or used to be) the same diameter and weight as 20p sterling coins as well, as a grad student in London I may have accidentally used a few in vending machines and doing laundry...
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Are those articles advocating that youtube ban him from the site? Are they arguing that he should be arrested, or prohibited from creating his content? I don't think they are.

What the articles critical of PewDiePie are saying is, "here is what he said and why we think it is offensive and why we no longer watch his channel. If you agree with us, you should also not watch his channel"

Everyone is free to read this opinion and then decide for themselves if they agree with the writer, or if they want to keep watching. If it turns out that so many people agree with the articles that PewDiePie no longer has an audience large enough to sustain him, then that sucks for the people who DO want to keep seeing him, but is just reality. If not enough people want to watch content of a certain type to sustain the producer, then that content will not be produced.
It seems like what he's saying is that you shouldn't allow it to happen because it's not strictly work-related but I find it hard to agree with that thinking.
IIRC Rust by default brings in a few things (panic handling is the main one, and also jemalloc) that make its runtime larger than C (but not larger than C++), but they can be disabled with compile flags. Many folks do, for embedded stuff.

Rust also lets you write a custom runtime by specifying a start function if you want.

> The fact that it's design is not very stable is also a problem.

Rust is stable.
That's also a sort of competency, I guess? :)
I used to have two thunderbolt displays. Now I only use my laptop.

The main reason I switched is because I got so used to working with the additional real estate that it became impossible to use my only my laptop. Since I travel a lot and work from coworking spaces, where I only have my laptop screen, it makes sense to adapt my workflow to that constraint. Having multiple monitors became a crutch that damaged my ability to work productively from a single screen.
Uh, safe for the minority perhaps, but not safe for anyone who would dare to express any contradicting views. Imagine if someone said they thought their was no such thing as being gay, or said that they didn't think being trans was a real thing. Do you think the "safe zone" would be "safe" for them? At least in my perspective it's a very one-sided, anti-freedom of expression movement. It seems ignorant of me for so many which support them to overlook this.
the perspective of women is really valuable and we should be thankful to hear from this group of women, speaking honestly about their experience.

HOWEVER...

it was remarkable how little of the issues they discussed had anything whatever to do with their gender. I think this is really important and should be a good clue for followups. How about YC opens up the question series to engineers from all backgrounds? I expect to see a remarkable similarity in answers about what constitutes a good (or bad) work environment.
Seems like its some i3/i5/i7, only recent ones? Must be some hardware component to it that makes the SSD look like memory to the system, perhaps as another NUMA zone (could you have a huge NUMA zone with no CPU attached?)
Moneyball. Will affect the way you (strive to) make decisions. Worthwhile even if you've seen the movie and/or don't like baseball.

The End of Faith. Definitely don't agree with all of this, but if you're at all on the fence about religion this book has the potential to be very influential.
Thank you, I'm also a chess imbecile and was mystified.
I made a cli tool [0] a while ago to simplify this. I remember the API was pretty difficult.

[0] https://rubygems.org/gems/wik
I totally agree. Well said.
The reason I asked them to follow my train of thought is that I feared I wasn't expressing it clearly enough, which given you response and others', seems to be the case.

Basically, if you want to argue against a ban on Nike shoes, one of the worst arguments you can make is what you just said: that people will always track dirt into the house no matter what you do. (It's a bad argument that won't convince anyone.)

The reason that's a poor argument is that it's simply not true. There actually really are ways to keep people tracking dirt into the house - so if you want to argue against banning nikes by citing a false fact (the false fact that it's inevitable that dirt will be tracked in), you've weakened your argument.

Let's take an example: suppose someone wanted to ban shoelaces, because it's possible to tie up a pilot with them. This is a super easy ban to argue against! It's a terrible ban! But the worst argument you can make is "People will always tie up the pilot and copilot, and banning shoelaces won't stop this." Terrible argument that doesn't achieve the result: convincing someone that the ban is stupid. (The argument is terrible because it's not true. For example, locking the cabin door might easily prevent someone from tying up the captain and copilot: therefore it is simply false to say that people will always tie up the pilot and copilot.)

If you don't think it's a poor, ineffective, argument that won't convince anyone, then go do a field report: go find someone that agrees with the policy (I don't), and convince them using this weak argument that doesn't work. Go ahead! The argument is a bad one that doesn't work, won't convince anyone, and I have no idea why you're defending it. In essence, it's a logical fallacy, like arguing that -2 < 3 because if you square both sides you get 4 and 9 respectively. The reason it's a bad argument is that it would also work to prove -2 > 1 which is false.

I've used your own example with the Nike sneakers, so I hope you'll try to at least see my point of view. To make it explicit: some fitness centers (gyms) ban outside shoes. If they were to institute a policy that you can't enter the changing room if you're wearing Nikes, only formal dress shoes, then it is a weak and ineffective way to argue against this policy to write "But people will wear their outside shoes no matter what you do". Because this is false. (For example, having to show your gym shoes upon entry might be sufficient to keep anyone from working out in their outdoor shoes.)

I've worked with your example and I hope you can see the distinction I am making. I'm trying to help refine arguments to something that works. I hate this stupid ban as much as everyone else here and want it argued against effectively. Thanks.
At work, I use a single monitor with Windows 10 to avoid a few bugs and annoyances, such as one monitor not returning when unlocking the desktop, or having to rearrange all my windows onto the multiple screens when docking the laptop, or sometimes just when returning from a break.

To compensate for the lack of screen real-estate, I start by being an individual with great eyesight. (Thank you, LASIK from 2005.) I use a high-resolution monitor and zoom everything. I have 2-3 tall-and-thin browser windows open taking ~25% of the screen width and going top-to-bottom. A tall-and-thin console or 3, a tall-and-thin Notepad++ window, and RDCMan set to take ~45% of the screen, for Windows remote desktop sessions. All manually overlapping, so they are just a click away.

At home, I use a single HDTV for my gaming HTPC. I do everything else on the kitchen laptop, an old Lenovo T400. Both also zoomed as needed.
I don't think there is such a thing as the best framework. One of the reasons being that there are so many to choose from and each of them does something better/worse than the other. I am mostly talking about PHP frameworks here, I don't know about the other languages, but assume it might be similar. At the end of the day, if the framework helps you get the job done, you have picked the right one :)
> Especially as a woman, I worry about being labeled hyper-sensitive, or that my gender will influence a person’s reaction to my feedback (e.g. the perception that women are hysterical).

[...]

> The final straw has typically been something like my manager making an off-hand remark that is thoughtless and rude, or perhaps a project I care about deeply is axed, or I’m denied a raise, or someone I care about at work is sexually harassed or gets fired.

To me these sound like issues that women are more likely to encounter.
Ask HN: How do /you/ start a project?
Personal or otherwise, what do you do after you gotten the idea? How do you plan? Or do you just jump in and start bashing out code? Do you do server side first? Or build the front design?

What method do you follow for starting a project?
Apple Releases iOS 10.3 with Find My AirPods, Apple File System, CarPlay Updates
It looks to be an accelerator cache for HDDs, but slower than an SSD, with fairly low capacity. And it requires a 7th gen intel processor, so this isn't a performance boost for older PCs either. Exactly who is this aimed at?
> payment inequality

Perceived or real? I'm yet to hear about a company that has policy to pay women less. Most have personally-discussed salaries though. If some ladies are paid less, they probably don't haggle as well. What should we do? Deny custom salaries and personal raises?
I would say four is even better - I have one dedicated to terminal with logging output which might be different/additional to the actual end output of my program, but I agree with your sentiment and disagree strongly with the article. The final nail in the coffin: Limiting yourself to a single monitor is not going to solve your distraction problem.
"Anatomy of the state" by Murray Rothbard.

Eye opener about overall politics and why the sheeple is what it is.
This is the mentality that leads to drama explosions like at Uber. They were all focused on making money and building a big company. Because of this, they ignored the "little things" like building a HR department that could support women when they were put in bad situations.
Now if we could get companies on intern fraud that would be great. Interns are not legally supposed to take jobs from real workers, be unpaid (unless you are a non-profit), or be used for real work right away (like things that might be used 9 months from now possibly). But their main purpose is to teach them, not to be used for cheap/free labor.
I hear you. How ever how long netflix have been producing content ? Which content producer can be said to regularly produce exceptional content ? I would say none. It's usually a blip on a consistent and durable production of good content on the long run.

And a matter of taste too. I consider SG1 and Buffy my top 10 while a lot of people would just find them "meh".

We need also to consider that netflix content has one quality: it's refreshing. The OA, Luke Cage, 3% all had personal taste.
The whole position is summed up as "Be a corporate drone." I think a lot of us would disagree with it.
Discogan is amazing and the name, lol
Build a simple Rails API server and Auth0 JWT authentication and React in 30 minutes
Atlas Shrugged

A book I revisit every few years. It's taught me to be honest with myself even if the social norms aren't in alignment with I'm doing.

It's also gave me a deeper understanding of my fellow man and why some are fine with handouts from others.

It's also where I learned the $ symbol is made from the U and S from United States.
It's probably true that, for the most part, men are less likely to mind, say, crude sexual remarks about women, but I don't think it follows that we should just tell women to suck it up.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13969262 and marked it off-topic.
We're not exactly spending hundreds of billions each year on asteroid mitigation programs. From what I can tell, the total spending at least in the US is at most in the hundreds of millions annually. If the odds of an impact were vastly higher, we probably would spend hundreds of billions each year. If we knew an impact was coming, we'd spend nearly every cent we had trying to stop it.

Given the sheer magnitude of outrage which predictably follows "racist bullshit" being publicly displayed, I can infer, if people are acting somewhat near rationally, that they rate the chance of "racist bullshit" winning the day somewhat higher than "slim". Do you agree with that? If so, why are you worried about reason losing the day? Is it the quality of your ideas that you find lacking, or the reasoning power of the people around you?
I got used to using workspaces to expand my desktop and I've had a hard time making use of a second monitor even though I have one now.

The advantages of a second monitor over workspaces are not totally clear to me. It feels like the same context switch is required in either case.

My coworkers do laugh at me though.
I think it will be a bit different once they start selling DIMMs. I'm looking forward to seeing how that works out.
A Tale of Two Bell Curves
The irony is that these are "progressive" companies.
Most of these issues are something that EVERY engineer has issues with. Male and female. I don't think a lot of these are female specific.
Their current rating system is flawed. I found many good one star movies on Netflix.
It seems that cost-to-produce vs. face-value isn't a terribly important ratio. The US has continued making pennies for a lot longer than necessary, though it seems to cost ~1.5c to make them.
Many of us don't want it to be anything more than that. That's what the rest of our life is for.
I like this idea but it is probably difficult to implement. Can't drug companies make slightly different versions of drugs and work around this kind of arrangement? In that case the US would get the "best" version of the drug since it's paying the most, but that's not the solution you want (e.g. lower prices) because it's fighting the fundamental fact that the US will pay more for the same drug. I'm not a drug expert so maybe there are some drugs where this is impossible or improbable. But this is pretty typical in other industries so I would expect the same thing to happen here if it became necessary.
Needing WAMP just to do some local development was definitely not beautiful. That stuff was opaque and confusing to me as a beginner.

The modern embedded server is what's beautiful.
Hi, primary author here, just want to add a few notes: this client was developed at Facebook and is heavily used internally as an alternative to the kernel NFS client. The primary advantage is increased reliability (fewer stuck / unresponsive mounts); there are cases where performance can be be better (using round-robin mode) but for the most part performance is a wash.

I expect this to be of particular interest to the Gluster community, it's a great match for their filesystem.

Shoutout to Ronnie Sahlberg whose libnfs does a lot of the heavy lifting.
Roundup of End-To-End Crypto Tools – Tozny
I don't think it's entirely unfeasible, the entire coin could act as the antenna (instead of shielding one, that is).
Why are we calling this "local" and not a "private cloud"?
So put your head down and ignore the fact that women make up a small portion of people in STEM fields and are leaving those jobs once they get them?

That's not a solution, it's what most places are already doing.
Also I find as much the complex plot in different shows, the politics or beliefs of protagonists remain incredibly uniform and simplistic to the cartoonish level.
PIA took out a full-page NYT ad indicating strong opposition: https://i.imgur.com/GJYYNle.jpg

I'm sure there are VPN providers that support it, though.
I didn't downvote you, nor am I a fan. I only saw parts of the episode when a friend watched it, so I did not see it in it's entirety.

Is what you listed a complete listing of things he attempted to get through? Or just your selection of what he tried that was prejudice? It seems likely he also would have tried to get some other dumb things through on the level of dick jokes.
> 1) Discourage your work 'culture' from being built around aggressive tech code reviews/debates/arguments/chat where young males love to beat their chest

Frankly this is something I'd welcome too.
Posting inflammatory or snarky comments on divisive topics ends up turning threads into flamewars. That's effectively trolling even if you don't intend it to be, so please don't comment this way on HN.

Comments should become more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Then we avoid the downward spiral into internet hell.
Speaking as a non-American, this is partially-valid point, and a very frustrating one.

While the only people who can affect the decision are Americans (members of congress won't, and fundamentally shouldn't listen to calls and emails sent by foreign nationals), this is an issue that affects much of the internet-using world by virtue of such a large volume of international internet traffic going through lines on US soil.

In this case, it would make sense for there to be a framework whereby international citizens can provide input, but I doubt there's a way to do this without setting a precedent which could seriously compromise the integrity of their federal decision-making bodies (any further).
Cheap Flights from Barcelona to Rome
It's not like the industry figured out how to retain men to begin with.

Almost every tech company I've been in, I've seen people of both genders move in and out constantly.

Programmers have been complaining about management since forever.

Is there any evidence that women in particular are facing different issues from men when it comes to job satisfaction?
Given that racist adults exist it is quite clear that the scenario is possible, and I think it is reasonable to assume that is a process that begins in childhood, when their minds are malleable, until finally they are old enough they cannot be swayed but can fully rationalize it, and maybe even hide between the lines in almost palatable questions like, "Is it really bullshit if it wins the war of ideas?", which assumes some kind of fair marketplace of ideas where the right thing always wins, ergo if we kill a million people here and there for the group they belong to they must have deserved it.
If you like Moom, try Magnet, its like a better thought out Moom.
I just transited through Qatar yesterday, bound for JFK, and had my electronics forced into the cargo hold. They made us check a bag 3 separate times: for a hair straightener, a Nintendo Switch and a Kindle.

Following a mind-numbing 25 hours; it turns out that our bags then got lost and we're now awaiting some update from the airline.
What I understand of it, after skipping through all the marketing speak, is that the Optane Memory functions a cache for your SATA drive. The Optane cache is just a Optane SSD which uses some new and apparently faster 3D Nand technology.

And about Linux; somewhere in the PDF with the technical details it states the requirement that your OS has to be 64 bit Windows ..
> Good managers are hard to find. People don't quit their job, they quit their boss.

I think it is an adequate tl;dr for this whole thread...
Is there an easy way to host a local DBPedia copy? Last time I checked it uses a little known database software. MySQL, Postgres or Lucene/ElasticSearch support would be prefered.
This breaks the HN guideline against going full flamewar with nothing new to say.

The vector here is predictable and therefore uninteresting; most of us have been through it a zillion times and live in hope of being spared another. Therefore, please just don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13968549 and marked it off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"A lot of young males (including myself previously, and sometimes currently) can be very aggressive in presenting their views."

This is a very sexist statement, do you have any evidence for that other than your anecdotical experiences?
> If I remember the book correctly ...

No book, sad to say. The movie is based on a Ted Chiang short story named "The story of your life."

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

There are a number of books out there named "The Arrival" or a variation thereof, but they have no connection with the movie.

I only post this to keep people from ordering books with that name, hoping to acquire more depth than the movie provides. Not to disparage the movie, which I regard as first-rate.