skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK. I'd argue that software engineering and especially senior software engineering (architecture, designing APIs and interfaces, reading and writing documentation, team management) is better correlated with verbal and social aptitude than with mathematical and logical aptitude. Being able to get a tricky sorting algorithm right is the sort of thing a junior engineer is more likely to do than a senior engineer; when the senior engineer does it, they also tend to need to explain to others why the algorithm is right.

Of course this is just my belief, as a member of the industry, and not a scientifically-researched conclusion.

So, again, I'm curious to see evidence of why women's aptitude is poorly correlated with the specific industry of software engineering. (I would even buy, based on your argument, that women's aptitude is poorly correlated with academic computer science, but that's a very different field.)
8th lowest CoL in the USA and a pretty great place to live. Glad to call Birmingham my home.
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Looking forward to seeing CoinJoin etc in the wild. If only the scaling debate would hurry up and resolve itself!
Walled gardens are awful things in my book.
He may be referring to speech in part, but he's also referring to people killing themselves and others on camera on Facebook. I think that's what has triggered this.
It bugs me that "conservationist" and "conservative" are two entirely different words (with entirely different meanings).

It shouldn't be like that at all.
Programmers probably don't go out of their way to do secure coding not only because it's not mandated to them, but because they know that unverified code is junk. If security is a feature, it has to be verified. It's not the kind of verification where you can show that a feature works on correct data, and rejects incorrect data in some anticipated ways. It requires exhaustive code review, and a lot of cunning in the test strategy.
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Yes, if you have a license, follow the limit rules and hunt in-season.
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Several other sources for this story were flagged out yesterday, even though this is very clearly a topic of interest on hacker news. This one is also currently showing up as flagged. Curious who doesn't want to grapple with an evidence-based look at bias in a tech leader.

Given that the engineer-lead study found this impact when controlling for seniority at FB while the suit-lead one didn't for rank, it certainly raises the question of why women have a lower rank for a given seniority. Charitably maybe men have more experience coming in, but if that was truly the case they could have used that as their input variable to avoid the obvious follow up concerns.
Since social media use itself contributes to lower self image and depression, how much are they going to look into their own product as contributing to a problem getting worse for an individual. It would seem that work being done to drive engagement is most problematic for those at risk.
Indeed, coupling the two makes fake news seem like deciding what is and isn't a fact is somehow political on serves some ideological agenda. But it isn't, or shouldn't be.
For anybody else curious about actual numbers...

In 2013 it was 505 deaths due to negligent handling (vs 11,208 homicides and 21,175 suicides).

I'm not able to find any numbers for accidental Aspirin overdose specifically. NSAID use in general kills about 16,500 people yearly, but that number includes drugs other than Aspirin and doesn't differentiate accidental overdose vs suicides or complications from use as prescribed.
Pretty sure he is talking about physical violence.
So much this. Folks should just be honest about it.
> walk into a store and walk out with a weapon designed to kill people.

1. KitchenAid (or Wusthof, if you are well off)
2. Ford (or Ferrari, if you are well off)

Ability to kill is limited by your imagination only. I don't want to help, but do the exercise yourself, sit down for five minutes with a goal of hurting a faceless non-existent person and count how many ways you can come up with. Whether the tool is designed for that purpose has nothing to do with it.

> I think you should be required to go through initial training, safely store your firearms, and go through refresher training every 2 years. At minimum.

Real life, legal, gun needs are more urgent in nature than that. In gang infested areas, one could go through an event during evening grocery shopping run that would make that person buy a gun.

Your "Let me feel good with there being a 2 week gun training course" is actually stopping a real life person from protecting themselves in a real life situation.

I am fine with the course being a highly recommended thing that people should attend, but it shouldn't be required qualification for a gun purchase.

Guns are much much easy to operate than planes. Yes, safety is important but self-preservation is even more important.

I have seen this lately, existing gun owners are quite fine with new ardent restrictions on new purchases. If we say, everyone must deposit guns at armory first, take a course and then pick up their guns from armory, then we would get an immediate push back from existing gun owners. I got mine, now others should be thoroughly checked before they get their. I don't think that is fair to someone who needs a gun for personal safety immediately. Personal safety situations can't be planned for unfortunately, it creeps up on you when you least expect it. Last thing you want is some "let me feel good and righteous" has trimmed your rights to bear arms.
Read between the lines. He meant "many."
I thought he was referring to situations like the person who killed his daughter on Facebook Live[1].

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/thai-man-films-...
Ask HN: Joining Google/Facebook in your mid 30's – engineer
Would you still accept a software engineer role at companies like google or facebook, being in your mid 30's?

- culture fit: they hire mostly young engineers.

- work life balance: they work you out since majority of the people are single with no responsibilities. No working from home.

- growth: you might get stuck trying to move up since the competition is pretty high. Young engineers are very smart and dedicated so you have to triple your game.

What would you do if you were in your mid 30's with an offer from these companies?
Which can handle more requests per second? Java, PHP, Ruby or Python?
Windows 7 is almost eight years old, and is multiple versions behind on low-level display-related components like WDDM. Expecting a backport of a change like this to it is not reasonable IMO.
I ran into this a lot while crossing the border into Canada as a consultant, I presume it is similar crossing the border in the other direction.

Internal business meetings did not require a work visa, while meetings with one of our clients did.
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Many states have a provision allowing minors to consume alcohol provided by parents/guardians, but good luck getting a bar to serve to a minor, even if the parent is there.

No bar owner wants to deal with nitpicking from law enforcement over whether or not the person with the minor was actually their parent or guardian, and serving someone that is obviously a minor is a big enough cultural taboo in the US that few if any business owners/managers are willing to do it.
Some medium to large private investors treat ratings reports as signposts nothing more. But a disturbing proportion of investment traders / dealers seem to treat them as a tick box exercise or a "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" CYA instrument.

After one week of working on a stockbroking floor I was disabused of almost all the economics I learnt in school.
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>The mass use of fake IDs of this sort is a bizarrely American problem. In the UK, you're considered an adult at age 18. Most (aside from the unfortunate 17-year-olds) university students can legally purchase alcohol, smoke, or gamble if they so choose.

In the late 90s, when I was 16-17 and doing my A levels in the South East, plenty of people had fake "Prove It" cards and the like.

If you wanted to grab a drink at anything but the most desperate of pubs or go out in e.g. Brighton, you didn't have a hope unless you could prove your age.

Funnily enough, I knew plenty of 18 and 19 year olds that also used fake IDs, just because getting a more legitimate form of ID was a bigger pain than they could be bothered with - and taking your passport out seemed a bit over the top.

I dunno, maybe I just hung out with the wrong crowd?
My experiences with OVH's cloud platform has been a bit dated. I've been using their cloud platform since 2012, especially when their OpenVZ "Cloud" VMs were nested VMs inside their VMWare containers and had regular network outages (due to noisy neighbors) or restarting the VM every few hours. I switched to their VMWare VMs and they work like a charm. Granted some see it as a bit pricey for a small project but it's still cheaper than some other options.

My experience with OVH's KVM Openstack line was when it was still maturing as a RunAbove product. I remember they had problems out the gate and at one point had regular service restarts and I think at one point had a storage problem becoming read-only. I stopped using them since then and just chalked it up as another problem with using OVH's cheapest cloud platform. They've never worked out for me.

However, for those who stuck around and also bought KVMs from OVH after they "graduated" from RunAbove, I believe it works to an extent. It's not the best, it's obviously focused on minimizing costs and maximizing possible resources and reliability, and (this is my own speculation now) I think their server density is fairly high (VMs per host node). I haven't heard of any major problems lately with their KVM platform but again, I wouldn't put anything intensive on there either.

If cost is a major factor for you, then go with OVH's Openstack KVM line. If you still need fairly solid reliability, I think going with AWS or GCP might be worth another look. If you're fine with a VPS starting out without Ceph, NVMe, etc, then I'd really suggest you hit up Linode. Linode offers some of the best resources per cost ratio while still providing a decent reliability factor. If you really do need reliable storage then I'd look at DigitalOcean's Block-Storage (also known as network storage). Once you've grown your operation a bit more and have more resources and funds, then I think it'd be worth re-visiting the idea of moving to AWS or GCP or any other cloud platforms.

YMMV as I am just one person.

If you want a more detailed response feel free to let me know.

Best of luck!
Interesting that they mention Boston - along with NC it's the only place where my green card has been refused as an acceptable form of ID. I have no idea why a federally issued photo ID with my name, DoB and photo on it apparently isn't enough to prove my age.

As a Brit, it amuses me that there are apparently so many balding 20 year olds with grey beards in the US that I am suspicious.

They also don't seem to like my SO's GA driver's license in Boston.

Edit - I should add that the second time we went back to the place which wouldn't take my green card as ID they didn't ID us at all
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The cynics would be right. I've seen financial instutions report data using poorly defined regexes on bank statements. Regexes which could easily yield false positives and negatives.
the onus shouldn't be on multinationals to hire 50/50 gender, but on smaller companies that need lower skills and can accommodate junior roles.

or maybe multinationals should be honest about hiring juniors, and think that would be good PR for them rather than just let people use their staff as a statistic.
When I read the description "Tinder for Books" I thought it would be something like GoodReads, with some kind of innovative interface.

It's more of an alternate publishing platform, nothing to do with Tinder at all (other than left or right swipe will let you build up a list of books to read).

Not to mention I've never used Tinder so that description wasn't particularly helpful for me (I know it's a common shorthand to explain to people, but I prefer other ways of describing the value proposition).

That said, I don't have any app that has this kind of service for books (I do use Goodreads and I'm an avid reader). I do have LINE WebToon which has great discoverability for web comics, maybe something along those lines?.
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From the footer:

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Because they accept it as currency when your local convenience store doesn't.

Who you can give the money too is generally a good indication of what it's used for and for better or worse bitcoin is for hording and illicit purchases.
In some states, like NH, the default is that you can even hunt on other people's (privately-owned) land, unless it is posted. As a landowner, you are encouraged to allow free, recreational use of your land by others.
I know at least part of this problem is driven by the IT security field itself. Try, for example, to find a pragmatic PCI auditor that can focus on real issues. They exist, I'm sure, but the defacto process is to create a huge report filled with minutea...versus something rolled up and actionable.

It's not good, but I can see why, after a few of these experiences, proactive security gets dropped off the priority list.
this jew needs to be sent to the gas chamber

getting sick of him
I am glad to see this topic is moving from a debate to a realization/complaint. A friend of my was saying the same sorts of things about Visual Basic when it really started getting popular. "Computer Science will be lost because all these people have no clue what they are doing and still are making a useful product." I think the reality was "I got this job to practice computer science, and I am quite annoyed because I have to use someone else's software rather than write my own." I hate when this happens, but one has to move on.
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This assumes that a job opening has a perfect distribution of applicants. Let's take another hypothetical;

Bob's factory posts machinist ads on Craigslist. CL turns out to send Bob 90% males and 10% females. Bob decides to try to increase the number of females he hires, and advertises on a second site. Turns out this site is viewed by a higher percentage of females, and thus his number of female applicants increases, and the bar for hiring stays the same.
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Oh, don't worry about that now. They've already moved to have the article removed from HN. Conversation over! ;)
Facebook. See my comment.
I asked because the request for help suggests that the workload for mobile apps may be a problem for the development team.

Good luck.
New legislation, fines against businesses form a feedback cycle. They keep going up against repeat offenders until the behavior changes. Inverse exponential-backoff under collision with the regulatory body.
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was wrong link,

here's the right, http://ckkashyap.blogspot.in/2015/02/nim-is-best-programming...
Are they hiring pre-cogs from Mars?
Not sure if it's related to this, but I was scheduled to have an interview with them on 1/24/2017 for a Full Stack position, and an hour before our scheduled time, they sent me an email that "due to some changes in hiring priority this role is currently on hold", and cancelled the interview.

I wasn't too impressed :)
Let's assume for a moment, that engineering requires intelligence, and to be a top engineer you need to be in the top X% percentile of the population.

As it turns out the distribution of IQ in men and women is different[0][1][2][3], with men having more variation (more extremely dumb men and more extremely smart men), and an ever so slightly higher median (men have slightly higher IQ on average). These small differences lead to huge difference in representation of exceptionally smart people, because of how normal distribution works. These differences manifest themselves in tasks requiring high intelligence, such as chess, go, engineering and software development.

I say this as a scientific statement, with zero sexism implied. I believe that people should not be afraid to state scientific truths, no matter how controversial they may seem.

[0] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289606...

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886911...

[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289606...

[3] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289604...
Was just talking last week that the last thing any of these large internet companies wants to do is hire a large room filled with low paid workers to do anything, especially here in the US.

If they are making this move they must see some large liability looming on the horizon.
This is one of those apps you look at and think, "Oh yeah, this should exist"

Seems obvious in hindsight.
Cultural changes among engineering teams would be helpful, but the bottom line as far as business apps are concerned is that, to prioritize security, the financial liability of letting hackers access customer data needs to meet the financial incentive of shipping working code. Until those curves intersect the status quo remains.
3000 persons on top of the current 4500 is a big addition. If all these persons are dedicated to the prompt elaboration of complains and violations of TOS, it might indeed make the difference.

I don't ask if it is economically viable, I guess he knows what he is doing. Facebook is not losing money anytime soon.
They can monitor all the encrypted traffic I send to my VPN to their hearts' content.
Oh believe me, I caught that bit. And my summary of the entire article stands.

To paraphrase what he's saying here: why is selling things to people who can easily afford them "ok" when exploiting the poverty of historically disadvantaged groups and getting them possibly maimed or killed is not ok?

The fact that he even thinks this approaches an interesting argument reinforces my point: intellectually and morally bankrupt. The guy isn't smart enough to realise that his unanswerable rhetorical questions have obvious answers.
I mean, there has to be some level of overlooking the obvious going on. There's no way a person could sustain themselves on the prices that these items are going for, if they were actually hand-made.
The study that showed the bias accounted for seniority at Facebook (though not previous experience). That seems more valid overall than "rank" which, if these biases do exist, one would expect to also be influenced by them.
Or rather it'll happen again and again until the casino is turned into a viable and competitive economy. I wouldn't blame the Germans and French for trying to contain a crisis at its origin..
I agree that it's too cheap, but that's the state of thee app store. There tons of other apps that do the same thing + more for free (I was building something like this to pick light colors with my HUE lights).
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Saving money should be everyone's goal. Cool product.
For Seiken Densetsu 3, Wikipedia links to an article that stated: "...the game's North American release had been canceled by Square's American branch due to programming bugs that they deemed impossible to fix in a timely manner."

For Final Fantasy II: "the long development time, the age of the original Japanese game and the arrival of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System [...] led Square Soft to cancel work on the Final Fantasy II localization in favor of the recently released Final Fantasy IV"

Similarly for Final Fantasy III: "...Square was focused on developing for Nintendo's new console."
"Hand made does not scale."

It most certainly can if you have the proper equipment. You can facet two or three stones by hand on flat grinding surfaces, or you can get a rotary lap wheel and spend a day making ten stones, then you can get a mechanical precision arm for the rotary lap and now you can pump out 20-25 high-quality stones per day that sell for good money.

It all depends upon your tooling and experience.
It doesn't seem to fit the definition of astroturfing. [1]

>Astroturfing is the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization (e.g., political, advertising, religious or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by a grassroots participant(s).

Are they concealing the source of the messages? It seems like they are just adding more people who have the authority to remove content that violates the TOS.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
i'm asian american.

the overwhelming cringe factor in reading this kind of drivel is it's so obvious the author desperately wants acceptance from the in-group, while at the same time demonizing it, while at the same time humblebragging their newfound coolness.

what person of any race or culture would respect someone with such an obvious inferiority complex?
Unfortunately Security and compliance (like PCI) cover similar ground but are very different in implementation.

PCI auditors work to a fixed standard and can be negatively affected if its found that they deviated from it, so there's a strong incentive for them to be picky. When combined with the fact that it's hard to have a standard that reflects the reality of good security practice, you end up with well the current PCI process.

The problem you're describing isn't really (I'd say) one that came from the IT Security industry though, it was the card issuing companies who set the PCI DSS standard and them that mandated the compliance process. Auditors are just carrying out those requirements.
Depends what they remove, and how they remove it.
Oh, so Cone app is NOT free?
This happend a couple years ago in Germany.
The actual challenge for the local utility company (one of the biggest 4) was not to compensate the missing energy output from solar, but in calculating the optimal backup energy plan to buy on the future/spot market. If you buy too much or not enough upfront, it just gets expensive. But the whole problem is keeping the cost low. Not a black out.

Friend of mine was in the dev-team for the spot trading software.
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Definitely not stop it after 1 cycle. I watched it over and over many times. Please no pause either. I really really like it the way it is now. One of the best demos I've seen.
The engineer-lead study did control for that fact. The company study used promotion level instead of seniority which one would probably expect to have similar bias impact as code review.
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I hope this observation doesn't come across as bigoted or insensitive in any way, but I find it interesting how common transgender people (like the star of this article) are in the emulator/rom dev community. I can think of four or five other very prominent examples just off the top of my head – and it's not a very large community. It's certainly a greater proportion than the general population. Honestly I can think of more trans-women coding emulators than biologically-born women. I just wonder why such an unrelated-seeming correlation occurs.