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They wanted more women. Dropped the hiring bar for female devs. Got more mediocre devs. Those got bad reviews. Then they blamed it on sexism, which reduced the women willing to go into tech even more.

-- edit --

I don't know if it went that way or not, it's just an explanation on how their problem would map to the cobra effect.
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I was going to elaborate in my original post, but I like my upvotes.
> I get that the prices will come down, but they're not likely to undercut the Honda Accord/Toyota Camry level

A used Chevy Volt can be had for about ~$12k (depending on the market), and will cover most common trips with electricity only. But still let you burn gas to get to Grandma's if needed. Minivans are coming out this year that do the same -- in four years, those will be around ~$15k.

That's what folks are talking about. In the future, every car will be either fully electric (Tesla, Bolt) or fully electric with an extra gas-engine backup just for long road trips (Volt, BMW i3).

There probably won't ever be a conventional gas-only level 4 vehicle, because by the time level 4 becomes common, few people will want a conventional gas-only car at all.
Creating a throwaway since I've taken part of this internal discussion at Facebook. Once normalized for skill level (i.e. junior engineer, engineer, senior engineer) the level of rejection between genders is the same.
Translating a video game was also one of the primary ways that I learned Japanese. Playing through Chrono Cross while grokking the written form was tremendously rewarding.

To this day, I still choose Japanese audio for games if available.
these articles are sensationalist garbage and just do a disservice to anyone having actual injustice
Bill Gates User Experience Rant
Haha, way to call the guy out. You're ruining his chances at getting access to a potentially sweet sample deal!
Definitely. Can't see any signs of them backporting it to Win 7 though? Those of us to maintain heavy winforms apps aren't going to drop Win7/8/8.1 support in order to get HighDPI support.
You mean the 80% of smartphone users who are much less likely to purchase apps? [1] Could be a chicken-and-egg problem, but still.

[1] https://www.appannie.com/en/insights/app-annie-index-market-...
This is also a biased assumption that women are worse developers... seems a little quick to jump to that conclusion.
I like your non-bigoted explanation, I wouldn't have expressed it in such a way.
Isn't it largely just luck? This was posted a few weeks ago, and went nowhere. Now posted again it reaches the top because a few people upvote it early on.
It will also float down again pretty quickly. Trivial but fun - a few minutes of fame - well deserved
Sadly, yes, but it's not everywhere. Jerrymandering is used by both parties to lock-in districts for particular candidates. Then voter suppression is used to keep people away from the polls, mostly used by the old Jim Crowe states, this nonsense dates back to slavery from which the US is still recovering.

'Democracy in America', by Alexis de Tocqueville is still about as valid today as when it was written. In that he describes this scene where townspeople literally shoot at a farmer to keep him away from the polls. Not all that different than the gun toting individuals who show up to polling places today to 'protect' the vote.
I believe they meant this in the context of popular gender gap solutions.

More specifically, the situation where pressure is put on teams to weigh gender as more important than skill in the hiring process to bring teams to gender-parity. The result of this is female employees submitting worse code. This isn't because women are inherently any worse at writing software than men are, it's simply that the employer has a smaller pool of talent to pick from.
> (or if they're reckless kids)

Which (right or wrong) is the rationalization behind restricting alcohol to those under a certain age.
On the other hand, I probably would not have clicked through to the underlying article if it were not for the title as written (ASUS Router Sends Data to Third Party). The whole blog post feels a bit like an exercise in burying the lede.

The rest of the review is interesting, for sure, and worth reading. But the actual bombshell here is that the firmware indeed sends data about your browsing to trend micro if you activate some of the firmware's advanced features.
Why the jump to conclusions? A lot of people have the idea that most manufacturing occurs in China.
check leshow's reply
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If anything, they should check the rejected code and verify that it was not worthy of rejection, that is, it really was likely the gender of the submitter that caused the rejection.

If higher rank of coder would make rejection less likely, it would also not bear well on the code reviews.
That's the best advice for both bicyclists and motorcyclists. As for regular motorcycle commuter, "the next driver is a psycho who's trying to kill you" attitude along with "stay out of the blind spots"[0] saved me more than once (or more likely, does few times a week).

0. http://www.bike.bikegremlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/c...
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We only provide ratings, they are in no way a suggestion about investing.

That is what Moody's et al always said.

We are useless but you make us profit freely! Good for you, all you stupids!
In the UK one person in a group of friends usually has a fake ID by about 14/15 to buy alcohol in my experience.
Because it is new (throwaway). HN colors new accounts green.
Yesterday, there was a news that Greece has reached an agreement for a new round of money in exchange for further cuts to pensions and removal of some tax exemptions. So yeah, it is going to happen again. And again. And again.

And all to save a few German and French banks, because politicians feared the results of telling them "you wanted to play in the casino and you lost, now the money is gone" after Lehmann.
High-DPI is handled automatically, you don't have to change anything in your app.
As it turns out, C# is a language that I know extremely well; I'm aware that setters can have arbitrary code. But, here's the problem: A programming a language is medium for thought, which means that it promotes or prevents the occurrence of certain ideas.

So, even though the compiler will accept any legal void-returning code within the inner braces of

public Foo Bar
{
set
{
//Do stuff
}
}

The fact that the client code is going to look like `Obj.Foo = whatever` will practically foreclose on all but a small subset of possibilities.
Compared online equivalents 'Snap It' that help color identification which require taking a picture and uploading to their site. This is really helpful in identifying colors on the go. The simplicity of this app is where it sings.

It's easily monetized by connecting app to paint suppliers like Sherwin Williams, Home Depot, or Lowes.
I guarantee you that no one in Facebook feels comfortable suggesting that they investigate another possible (not likely, but possible) cause: the code is just worse, on average.

And there could be many reasons for that, beyond just the simplistic "girls are bad at code." Maybe Facebook has a lower bar for hiring female engineers due to affirmative action.
Because new accounts are green and his account is a throwaway account which he just created for the purpose of making this single comment.
Depends on the state. Virginia's would be hard to fake since is has a transparent oval in the card with your face floating in it
I'd be happier with your statement if you replaced "skill level" with "seniority", because the two aren't really equivalent.
I wish they would. I would love to own the EV version of the Kangoo here in the states.

I suspect that Nissan USA management remembers the outcome from the last time a Renault vehicles were imported into the US [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Medallion
Thanks, now I'm that guy in public holding up my phone to stuff. Kidding, this is really great :)
If you don't mind me asking how'd you screen cast this so well?
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Author of “Unix in Rust” Abandoned Rust in Favour of Nim and Now to Gambit
Mini.css – The lightweight alternative to Bootstrap's grid
Definitely, but you could say the same about many behaviours that aren't currently being age-restricted. Even drunk kids will just have a bad next morning, rather than go out and cause larger-scale problems like vandalism (although plenty do that sober).
Hmm, any suggestions on a good router that won't spy on me?
How long until all Windows applications render on high DPI screens without extreme blur?
Yes, that is really how it is. State legislatures controlled by Republicans do everything in their power to disenfranchise minority voters. This includes gerrymandered districts, removing early voting days, not allowing early voting on Sundays, requiring an ID to vote, and calling into question the validity of the voter registration of minorities.
20 years ago at least a number of my 14-16 year old friends in England had fake IDs for buying beer and cigarettes.
As someone who loves to spend weekends in the outdoors hiking, hunting, and fishing, moving to Texas really highlighted the importance of keeping these lands public. As the article mentions, Texas sold nearly all of the federal land it was granted and as a result is currently about 95% privately-owned.

For most hunters, this means that you either have to lease private land, which is becoming increasingly more difficult and expensive (think thousands of dollars annually), or hire an outfitter for exorbitant fees. This has priced many people out of hunting and will continue to do so as populations and land development continue to rise. I, personally, have been looking for a hunting lease within a couple hours drive of Austin for the past three years and have not been able to find one - and that's with a budget of over $3k/year.

Without transfer protections that mandate keeping the land public and accessible perpetually, I don't know how any outdoorsman could be for this "transfer".
> Historian Michael Vann argues that the cobra example from British India cannot be proven, but that the rats in Vietnam case can be proven, so the term could be changed to the "rat effect".

This guy won't win any prizes for marketing.
I think it's also worth mentioning that the EPA rating of the Tesla is 0.

So the 479 g/mi for the Cherokee is just the emissions.

So

- Model S CO2 = 0 (EPA) + 292 (other factors)

- Cherokee CO2 = 479 (EPA) + ? (other factors)

Those other factors aren't going to be zero for the Cherokee
What do you suggest how we organize ourselves as the people other than through a government?
I've seen this first hand. When people where interviewing for work experience during college, a very lucrative top tech company hired two girls who had bad grades, no side projects and wore very VERY casual attire to their interviews. One was even late. Two other male students also had been interviewed. Both had very high grades, worked on side projects etc. and weren't socially inept.

Will the industry just accept that the majority of women are just not interested? Companies are running special events for women compsci students only.

Sick of this notion that we can achieve equality by excluding men.
For many, the question is which public hands should hold the public land. Why should the federal government bring staffers from Arizona to manage the Everglades? Why is the Grand Canyon "governed" by Vermont? Why can't Bears Ears be managed by the state of Utah, or perhaps better yet, San Juan County?

Is a hot spring in Arkansas really so remarkable that it should belong to the people of California?
William Sharpe on the Arithmetic of Active Portfolio Management
I very often push back against those who spread incorrect information and conspiracy theories regarding the IC, all countries have intelligence agencies and engage in SIGINT collection. Ours should be doing the best work possible. However, there are two issues with your post:

1. The NSA does a whole lot more than monitoring suspected terrorists, even if it a hot topic right now, that is a strange point to bring up.

2. I have not read the specifics on this case yet (media seems to still like using "IC is the boogeyman!" slant), but more generally, it is important for there to be a hard line against domestic surveillance of US Persons versus standard foreign intelligence collection. Warrantless domestic collection would be too easy to abuse and more importantly may raise constitutional issues.

I am unsure about this case though, probably will need to dig through source material. The linked article is unclear on if this data is minimized (anonymized) or not, as my understanding is that US Person information must be anonymized under all normal circumstances (and additionally USPI cannot be directly queried without a warrant). Very curious to understand what is actually happening.
I wonder if Asuswrt-merlin does the same.
Drive through liquor stores and looking to be older tended to mitigate the need for ID in my youth.
> if you cared about what people who are the target audience of Cap'n Proto care about, you won't be using JS

What exactly would you be using? Flash?

In all seriousness, it's nice to have a format that works for all your clients (browser, iOS, Android, desktop, server).
Tethered the iPhone to a Mac and used Quicktime to capture/record the device input (New Movie Recording then change the camera input to the iPhone), export as MOV (720p).
That's a very true statement. There are things outside our control (and sometimes in it) that can result in downtime. Like a datacenter downtime event in 2013 where a road construction crew were performing maintenance and ended up cutting their fiber (the location fiber actually was didn't line up with where it was supposed to be on paper). Since then they've built another fiber connection out of the building.

In the end, what matters is how they respond to these kinds of events and issues and what actions they take to prevent those issues in the future. While I can't say for certain what issues were avoided through proactive measures, I will state that Linode has been great with setting up fixes that hopefully prevents problems in the future. DigitalOcean recently had a problem twice with their billing and control panel system going down (in addition to their API being down). They've also taken action to prevent this in the future and have been fairly open about it (one was their SFO datacenter being down if I recall correctly).

My only gripe about Vultr is that their support responses are very basic. Limited to "try again now" and "we've turned off a neighbor". Honestly I was hoping a solution that would work long-term and communication on how they're working to ensure that. DO and Linode focus on relaying that information and I feel really works with me. This is why I'm really fine with buying through them even if they're technically "twice" as expensive as Vultr. That peace of mind is really worth it.
I just made an AUR package for this: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opensnitch-git/

This is cool stuff! Wanted to have this kind of thing for a long while.
Thanks for merging my changes so quickly too. Packaging would not have been possible without it.
Security, Infrastructure & Performance (SIP)

SIP is a instant-response team.

https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/orgchart.md...
Huh, really? My experience was roughly the same, except the border officers were generally acting very serious, and the queue took 1-2 hours. I wish I could enter in 24 minutes.

No random searches here either, though, but I haven't been to the US for at least a year.
What Are You Really Eating? Fake Foods
> If the pull of the cities is good enough wouldn't people just naturally leave the burbs anyway? And if the suburb doesn't have many people living in it, why would we need to mitigate those problems? Why not just let the houses crumble and stand as decaying ruins?

That is assuming the people there have the resources to move. We'd mitigate them to provide opportunity for that choice. Those crumbling houses and decaying ruins will be the home to the members of our society least able to help themselves.
So does Meraki, Cisco, ... Well they give you an option to send your data to the company.
I'm a bit curious about combining RAII or similar with dynamic types myself. It's been discussed at mild length here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9356925

If we assume some sort of object orientation, or first class functions are available, affine types become (I think) impossible; If a value T with lifetime 'a is handed to a completely unknown method on an unknown object, or to an arbitrary lambda, we can't prove that the method will not destroy T in the middle of lifetime 'a. In otherwords, if typechecking is ruled out, we cannot do borrowchecking either.
Available for pre-order today, Surface Laptop brings the superior performance and security of Windows 10 S to a laptop that college students will love.

with a price tag of:

Surface Laptop starts at $999 USD and will be available beginning on June 15th.

Are they really focused only for students? Is price tag reasonable for the student in this case?
callbacks in swig are straightforward. you have a C/C++ reciver function that gets registered along with a pointer to the scripting language target function. I've used this design for over a decade.
> Varoufakis fought to find solutions that would allow Greece to actually be able to repay their debt.

Default is not a solution to repay a debt. You can choose to default, but you can't expect any credibility later. The message Varoufakis sent to Greeks was: "Let's just say we don't want to pay and everyone will forget about in a couple of years."
I've heard that the opposite of this suggested bias ought to be consciously corrected.

If the stereotype for a senior engineer is a balding white male with glasses, and you have two prospective engineers with otherwise identical resumes and work histories: one balding white male with glasses and even a pocket protector on his white shirt, and one black woman with a wild T-shirt, which would you hire? The answer I'd heard before was that you should hire the non-conformist, because they've risen to identical positions and accomplishments despite the bias against them at each step, while the stereotypical engineer was probably assumed to belong in the positions they attained. So you should choose the stuttering surgeon and the messy lawyer when given the opportunity.

(No idea where I heard it or what the phenomenon is called, though - anyone remember this?)
So I should have spent more time adding that comment; it wasn't intended to be negative. I honestly believe that a company who can adjust their corporate guidelines that quickly is something to be admired, and the fact that they're doing it on such an important topic is excellent news.
> having big states control who becomes president just because of their population, given how independent states should function,

This used to be true, but as more government control has been ceded to the federal government I don't believe this to be the case. The President is not all powerful either, this should be a fully democratic election. Also, the electoral college was broken when states started alotting their votes in a winner take all manner.
How do you distinguish between rank/seniority and skill-level?
Right, it would be great if we could see the ("anonymized") dataset.
US Department of Justice is prosecuting a woman for laughing at Jeff Sessions
Not necessarily. If the pool of talent is exactly the same(let's say 1000 women and 1000 men) and your interviewing process is perfect at determining engineer quality, but you are hiring 80 women and 20 men, then you'll hire the top 2% of men and the top 8% of women. Again, just assuming that the talent is exactly the same, the women you've hired will still be worse.

In reality, the pool of female talent is very shallow. Again assuming the talent levels are exactly the same, there's just not enough highly-skilled women to go around, e.g. if you're trying to hire the top 1% of engineers, and you have a pool of 1 million men and 100,000 women, then you're looking at 10000 men and 1000 women as your potential hires. If the top 1000 women are already taken, then you're forced to relax your interview requirements for women. In fact, if the pool is completely free for your usage, but you're looking to hire 10000 men and 10000 women, you'll be hiring the top 1% of male talent and down to the top 10% of female talent, which should lead to a difference in output.

This doesn't mean that "sexism" isn't real or that it's not a problem women face in the workplace. The question however, is how to measure the effectiveness of "anti-sexism" practices employed, if you cannot measure the effect of "sexism" itself, as it is entangled with all the other, confounding factors. You can't optimize performance if you can't measure the effects your solutions have on it.
Great idea ! I wish I had this idea after working on a website that tries to map RGB colors to paint names. An example of result with the Limeade color - http://en.tacolor.com/hex/6fb400/

This does the distance check in the CIELAB color space.
The improvements are Windows-10-only. Of course it has worked to some degree or another for ages. More or less.
> [white] Americans are like salmon. They are born in the suburbs, they move to the city to find mates and build careers, then they move to the suburbs to have children.

I think the difference is that Americans are forced to do that dance, even the ones that actively don't want this.

Kids are crazy expensive to have and raise. Just child daycare alone starts at around $1,000/month and goes up from there. Housing costs are so high in every single city that if you want to give your kid a bedroom of any kind, you are effectively required to live in the suburbs, unless your extremely wealthy.

If you do have the money to stay, then comes the network. Housing in cities gets hard to find at all (no one wants to live near you, since you bring the screaming infant into the building). And American buildings are all built like shit, so everyone can hear everything. Childcare isn't just expensive -- it's difficult to find at all. (As one example, Seattle daycare waitlists are 2 years long in some cases - http://crosscut.com/2014/09/parents-seek-alternatives-tough-... )

And we haven't even started on the mess that is schooling.

Generally, American society treat parents and children like shit, and then forces families to live elsewhere. It's no surprise that those parents just up-and-leave to form their own little enclaves out in the suburbs, where they can at least try to remove some of that pain.

> That said, when I did live in the suburbs for a while, I found it to be depressing and miserable.

Well yeah. It can be depressing and miserable to be poor or working-class-poor. But at least suburbs are a safe and somewhat-affordable place to live. It's not like there is an alternative -- there are no functional cities willing to house people. And especially no cities willing to house families at all.
Your bizarreness may be misplaced. American 18-year-olds can smoke and gamble.

I don't see how 18 prevents fake ids from 16 and 17 year olds though.
Can you link to some sources to back up your claims regarding this?
https://medium.com/incerto/surgeons-should-notlook-like-surg...

Taleb - Surgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons