skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The shares fell as much as 14 percent to $16.85? Lucky bird!

Almost 60% of Twitter Top-100 audience is a cheap poor-quality imitation.
The total number of unique level 1 bots is 310,537,272.
I figure from the article that she's signed a contract with them, so maybe she can't quit yet?
The idea to use shims in order to evade the law seems extremely dubious to me. I just can't see a judge say "oh, nice trick there in evading the intention of the copyright authors. I will now rule in your favor".
I have never been in a company that didn't want more women joining, and every time I've heard people talk about potential recruits women were prioritized (and objectified usually but that's besides the point).
While the other more critical post was [flagged] after maybe 15 minutes...
Was this posted somewhere else? I've seen instances where posts get onto the front page within 60 seconds because lots of people were submitting the same link.

And once something's on the front page, it's easy to get 50 upvotes in 10 minutes.
So this is one way to do it. But it has its downsides too [and thus I find the webpage slightly pedantic for ignoring the tradeoffs]. I think the "Hello" is like "Syn." Cases where you may want to use hello are

1. You need an immediate response, if they are afk then you don't want to ask them the question at all because you'll ask somebody else.

2. You want to signal that you'd like to talk to them when they're free, but that your message is low priority. Generally I'd take a "hey" off-hours to mean "don't answer this unless you're on slack at your computer. Pong me back when you're in the office"

3. Some people care more about the communication being natural and human interaction than they do responding to the maximal number of things in a day. If we have to sacrifice our ability to enjoy our intercations with other people for our job, I'd ask that we don't sacrifice without a fight.
Do you have any facts to back this up? I would say education is pretty irrelevant if you've actually got something to show off (open source projects, etc).
He also did at least one commercial for headphones. Endorsement deals are frequently worth more than player contracts.
Similarly here. School wasn't the best fit for me and tech was great because (like politics, which I also spent ~5 years in) you didn't need a fancy degree to get a job.
Google Home Is 6 Times More Likely to Answer Your Question Than Amazon Alexa
Notes on Category Theory and Haskell
There was a tremendous amount of social technology that had to be developed to allow people to regularly interact with strangers without trying to kill each other.

EDIT: Which is to say, a global community of 7 billion is absurd but not all that much more absurd than a city-state of 50 thousand.
Medium says it's 5 min read, so it's possible.
Personally, I think this article title is clickbait. Nowhere does the author show that it's the best industry for women, only that in her experience, it was a better industry than medicine and a biology lab. And then some fluff about meritocracy. No exhaustive comparison across all the industry areas, no dive into data beyond one singular experience.

I'm tired of titles that don't explain what the article is about. Something like "Why the tech industry is a good industry for women" would be a more accurate reflection of the content.

We've been conditioned by clickbait farms to sensationalize our personal blog posts.
I don't mind die-hard liberals who are actually open-minded believers in individual rights and equality.

The whole white, het, cisgender stuff is coming from intersectional feminism, which is anything but a liberal philosophy.
Island, by Huxley

"Will Farnaby is a cynical journalist shipwrecked on the fictional island of Pala, a Buddhist paradise where modern science and technology is embraced only insofar as it can improve medicine and nutrition, not for industrialization; drugs are used for enlightenment, not for pacification; and the evils of corporatism are unknown."

"The final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative counterpoint to his worldwide classic Brave New World, in which a flourishing, ideal society located on a remote Pacific island attracts the envy of the outside world."

https://www.amazon.com/Island-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0061561797
Education is not irrelevant in tech if you went to MIT or Stanford.
Because python3 and python2 are incompatible dialects, you have to say which one you want, and there's no reliable way to use just "python" and no useful reason to have it on $PATH. Any code needs to declare all its dependencies, including either python3 or python2. If I didn't want any specific dependencies, I'd be targeting POSIX and writing in Bourne shell.
The vast majority of time you /hear/ it from people who are well off, as they are the ones who have their lives written about. There are plenty of happy, non famous/rich people. I should know ;)
We agreed for basic wage, i was working overtime and almost all the time and made me very stressed and he wanted everything today before tomorrow without even studying situations or analyzing n i delivered all the tasks.after that i got pretty restless since i was doing all the work, working on the project and he even gave me tasks of other projects and wanted them all in one time. So i told him to increase my paymet and he agreed and that was minmum wage plus food and transportation. Now when the time came for my second payment and what i owed him from last month, he started delaying. And pretend that he is sick these days, apart from that we had a an important presentation that it was requested that he must be the one doing it since i am not the founder and there would be investors coming " he cries all the time that he has no money, but he Buys stuff with 200$,500$, 600$ And actually tells me about it and gives me money to buy it for him" everytime I confront him about how we gonna write our financials or what is he going to say in the presentation or how is he going to prepare it he gets silent, it turned out that he doesn't know how to write a presentation!! So i started to get really impatient because i was the only one who is putting the real effort and if he continue doing this will put the startup at risk. He delayed my payment for 4 days and on the 4th day i told him that i will not work or go to work again unless he pays me! He started calling me names and was very disrespectful and that i am only after the money and fired me! He told me that i did no work, and after that told me if i want my money I should transfer the files to the other developer. I spoke with the other developer and he took my side since he had a similar situation with him. He deleted everything that i sent him and told him that I haven't sent him yet. What I decided to do is to not send anything " I built a prototype and developed all the front-end of the project" in which would be very important for the coming investors meeting. I destroyed all the links in a way that he won't be able to get anything. It was very surprising i owe him 600$. My question is will he be able to go after me if I refused to give him the files even if he said he will give money in which I highly doubt he will give me? I feel very satisfied that i was able to keep all the work that i did and now I basically destroyed and delayed the project. I wrote an email to the incubation center explaining what happened, I didn't care if i was wrong or not i just wanted to expose him. I want your opinion on the subject. Btw he bought a laptop for me after my laptop got a nasty virus because of his work, and he never did any work in the startup except for noticing outlines in design and not beautiful pictures and that's it. I basically couldn't count on him to do anything even the presentation and he was the money source.
Conversely, I have.

I can think of one hiring discussion I participated in where a candidate's gender was considered because HR was asking questions about diversity of the dev team.

Don't underestimate HR's CYA tendencies.
Not exactly.

Suppose you're living in Saudi Arabia as a woman, and men there are treating you very poorly and in a sexist manner. Should you conclude that "men have a big problem with sexism"? No. The correct conclusion is that "men in Saudi Arabia have a big problem with sexism". Go to someplace like Norway and you're probably not going to see the same dynamic.

The same is likely true here: she's in France. I've never worked in the tech industry in France. However, I've worked in a bunch of different companies, in different industries, as a software engineer here in the US, and on both coasts too. I've never seen behavior like this. So IMO, the conclusion should be "the tech industry in France is misogynistic". The answer for her, therefore, IMO is to get the hell out of France.
Never said that -

The story wasn't "I almost quit my job" - the story was "I almost quit tech." If you want to keep generalizing - we can keep going to "I almost quit modern cities and went off to live as a hermit."

I think it's important to share her story. However, it's more powerful when people don't overreach, and talk about their specific situation and how it had specific instances & issues because it allows people to understand, empathize & change things that are within their circle of influence.

Saying "tech" has a problem is easy to say, but it doesn't actually provide any actionable insight on what to do about it.
Nice quote about how the profit motive and being in bed with the corporate world affects your work:

> "I remember having a conversation with a well-known EDM artist. Half of the brief conversation was him humblebragging about how many corporate sponsors he’s got: I can’t do this thing because I don’t want to piss that sponsor off and I can’t do that thing because I need to make sure this other sponsorship deal stays in place. That’s not what the spirit of being a musician or a rock star is. Why are these people even making music? I’m doing it because I have to get something out and I feel vital when it resonates with someone else. When I can get paid, too, that’s a nice consequence."

Parallels with the creative process of software development. I've always thought the best software I've ever written is at home on unreleased hobby projects. Only in that context can one truly say to hell with all the needs of these outsiders (what investors want, what customers want, what the boss wants, and the all-important deadlines) and focus on writing great software for its own sake.
Just using newegg.com is borderline impossible with just a few tabs open unless you have 4 non-SMT threads.

I have four Newegg tabs, one Amazon tab, one Verge tab, and one Engadget tab open in Firefox. CPU utilization is 3% on this ancient i3 laptop.

Maybe your experience isn't typical. That's all I'm suggesting.
Slightly off topic but ...
Women in tech please do this ...

Focus on a different and more important problem.
Find a Director/VP level employee to be your mentor.
Basically, I feel, to fix these issues we need more leadership diversity. Focus on getting more power.
How about a type checked python variant ala typescript that compiles to python2 or python3?

Do: introduce and require the compile step for awhile, flesh out the language and build it up, get by-in and an ecosystem while also leveraging compatibility with python2/3 ecosystems -- then eventually release a python4 that runs this new typed python language directly!

Bring us the beauty!
Ah yes, the "cool tech girl" position. https://code.likeagirl.io/the-myth-of-the-cool-tech-girl-786...

I'm glad she has a positive experience. It's far from common. I wish her good luck on the road of discovering empathy.
A few thoughts about the post...

She's new to tech. 2 years by her own account. That's not a lot of time to experience all the industry has to offer (good or bad). No comment on whether her feelings will change over time; they very well may not.

Pole dancing photos and other stuff. Maybe in SV. But, in DC, stuff like that is very likely career limiting. I can't say for sure, that's a gut feeling based on the jobs and companies in the area.
For a single case study, see what happened with speaker selection for GitHub ElectronConf. After gender-blinding their process, they found they had too many men to their liking, so they re-did the process to have a more pro-woman bias.

(But I don't think this is indicative of the industry as a whole.)
Show HN: A tiny Chrome Extension to search through “Who is Hiring?”
Hey, folks!

I'm writing this small Chrome Extension to help me find jobs I'd be interested in the monthly HN's "Who is Hiring?" thread. I've used React to render the UI that just loads a stripped down version of the posts and look into them by the tags I've chosen. Here's a demo: http://imgur.com/a/CzNSa.

I haven't submitted to the Chrome Web Store yet because of their $5 fee. :P But let me know if you'd be interested and I can share the extension with you :)
> you didn't need a fancy degree to get a job.

What's wrong with a fancy degree? I don't understand why fancy degree is used as a pejorative around here. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that most people these days that come from bootcamps make more money than people with "fancy degree"s.
what even more strange is that whole world should follow quirky us system rules. put usa citizens in jail for not following usa rules, not foreign companies.
The eye!
I know this enters the realm of character assassination, but, after reading the article I also was curious who Geoffrey Miller is. Found a wikipedia article which contains one of his twitter posts:

"Dear obese PhD applicants: if you didn't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth." [0]

I know that doesn't invalidate his arguments and you can't judge a whole person by something they posted on twitter, but man, I'm disappointed this is the kind of person whose genes are considered so valuable to replicate. In our efforts to optimize for intelligence we may leave so many other good traits behind.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/how-twi...
Check out https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ lives a very comfortable life on a low amount (though he's damn rich now even if he doesn't spend it)
What does one do with this data?
It’s a desktop, it’s an RPG, it’s Kingsway
hehe. Best of luck dude! :D
Can you give me some examples of platforms whose memory usage has meaningfully gone down over time?
Ask HN: What's the new Google/Facebook for engineers?
Despite all the hate they get here, obviously Google/Facebook have been good places for engineers because of at least the following:

1) Scale (obvious)

2) Breadth: no matter what you want to work on, you can probably find a team within these two companies. So once you get in the door and blend in (which might not be simple), you can pretty much stay there forever and be amused.

3) Reasonable (engineering) culture (disclaimer: I've only been at one of them). For companies this size they are reasonable - obviously there are bad managers, etc., but overall they are pretty good, and engineers are respected, and normally don't go on death marches.

4) And of course, they treat people very well. At least employees.

I was once a peon in one of these two companies, and although I don't terribly miss that time period, I do believe the next Google/Facebook would be a great place to be in now, and not only for financial reasons.

However, looking around, I don't really see companies that are on the same path. Public companies are pretty much out of the question; Stripe, Slack, Uber, Airbnb all don't have the same feel when it comes to breadth; Pinterest and Snap are showing signs of stagnation (and no, social networking isn't my thing); and stagnation aside, Palantir and Dropbox are about as old as Facebook.

The history of the Internet so far has been giving us great companies event ~5 years - 1994, Amazon; 1998-99, Google; 2004, Facebook. I'm not sure what 2009 and 2014 have given the world.

So my question is - what could become the next Google/Facebook, especially for software engineers?
>> The average career earnings for an NFL player is somewhere around $5 million.

Is that before paying management/agency fees + taxes, or after?
I did not see that post until you put it here
There's no chat feature in Nuclino at the moment as most teams use it together with a chat tool like Slack. But we're planning to add some lightweight commenting soon.

Resizing a picture is not possible, but we're planning to add different size options like full-width vs. normal-width for each image. Would that solve what you're trying to achieve?
English as spoken in West Midlands

No need to feel ignorant; it's a nonstandard, eSpeak-specific notation.
It's absolutely not OK to make personal attacks like this on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Perhaps the attitude of measuring the good-ness of a chat client solely on how much memory it uses is one of the main contributors to the rise in popularity of Slack and the decline in popularity of IRC. I personally don't care if my chat client uses more ram than its competitors if it's easier to use. Judging by the amount of people using Slack, I don't think I'm alone.
Only about 500 produce readable manuscripts to start. Publishers have their names because it changes schedules that much.
Really? https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ seems to do OK with him, his wife and his child living on a similar amount.
As a male, if you said that around me on an all-male team, my opinion of you would plummet to close to zero. Comments like that are entirely unprofessional. Are you French by chance? Because I've never heard such stupid shit here in the US in a professional workplace. Maybe I'm just lucky.
In Hollywood, men at certain levels throw tantrums and break things when something isn't to their liking. It's changing a little and the film industry is ready for a comeuppance.

But in IT and many other industries this kind of behavior would get you flat-out escorted out of the building. What's considered OK on a film set is not tolerated in most offices.
Exactly. It's just bad engineering. Taking shortcuts to save money and not paying attention to important non-functional requirements.
Not sure if this is the case, but a lot of people do drive by upvoting/downvoting based on the title alone.
I think the article highlights one of the good points about tech. The meritocracy.

It's not perfect but it's there.
This really just highlights to me that what it means for a game to "end up working" or for a game to be satisfying can be as subjective as what it means for it to be designed "correctly".

It's also interesting to me that the "meta" in Hearthstone not only can, but does change regularly, when people discover deck archetypes that beat the currently dominant ones. Especially when deck types that fell out of favor at some point show up again later because the decks that countered them too hard also fell out of favor (I think variants of Freeze Mage has done this twice?).

This kind of evolution of the meta happens in lots of games, but of course notably in the ones where players themselves refer explicitly to a meta amongst themselves and keep track of it.
>There might be a misunderstanding here. Capacity does not increase with the number of nodes. The only thing the number of nodes tell you is the amount of users who participate without trusting a third party. This is literally the invention behind Bitcoin. A company that deploys a thousand nodes does absolutely nothing for the network. An end user who deploys just one, and transacts with it, has real value.

I completely agree, my point is that even with full 8MB nodes the barrier of entry is not much higher than it is today with 1MB node. Or to put it an other way I don't think we'd have 10 times more nodes if block size was at 100kB. I postulate that the main barrier of entry right not is simply bothering to actually set up a node.

At least in the "first world" the average joe has the resources available to run a full 8MB node without having to starve himself, both in terms of bandwidth[0] and storage[1]. So while there's some discussion to be had about what constitutes a safe amount of nodes online (Taek has some interesting points about that elsewhere in this thread) I still think it's pretty irrelevant in this blocksize debate.

>But storage is the least interesting aspect. Increased transactions per second means increased validations per second, which has a number of implications including increased latency in the peer to peer network. This affects mining protocols, orphan rates, mempool size, throttling algorithms etc. There are several interesting aspects, and storage is very far down the list.

That's a very interesting point and something I hadn't really thought about. I'm surprised though, given that nowadays the rule of thumb is "wait for 5 confirmations before accepting a transfer" it seems to me that the latency between the moment I issue a transaction to the network and the moment it's "mined" into a block is not that significant? I mean, at a rate of 8MB every 10 minutes you have the time to do a lot of crypto work on the nodes...

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/204952/average-internet-...
[1] https://www.newegg.com/Desktop-Internal-Hard-Drives/SubCateg...
is it accessible? http://wave.webaim.org/report#/http://www.sunu.io/
"I'm a stripper" [or whatnot] "and techies treated me just fine."

Not exactly changing my mind about bro culture.
Nothing wrong per se, but personally I see it as a waste of time - you could've built real products and actually improved the world during the time wasted on that fancy degree.
glad you like it :)

I think more people would like Twitter if they didn't have to spend 30h+ curating content until it becomes valuable
I was speculating about cost cutting earlier last week when we received a shipment of vitamins in a glass bottle that didn't survive shipment. The box was unusual in its length, and the cardboard was thinner than normal, both outliers from the happy Prime boxes that previously dominated shipments.
A major part of the plot was the discovery of the snake skin scale in the tub. They didn't dive deep into that culture, but it was definitely significant, as Decker visited the creator.
I think tech represents a good implementation of a meritocracy. You are welcomed to be weird and yourself, as long as you get your work done. Think about your coworkers-- you've got some weird ones. Dyed hair? Check. Burlesque dancing? Check. Gender non-conforming? Check. Goes to Burning Man? Check, check, self-check. Any of these things could get you fired from teaching kindergarten.

Let's keep tech inclusive and accepting and weird.

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Before switching to software, I was a Research Associate at the Fred Hutch. At one point my Principal Investigator told me point-blank: "I don't expect to help you or motivate you, the other Research Associate, or the PostDocs much, because you all get paid far more than the Grad Students."

Being a manager and giving a bit of excitement and motivation is so easy. It's free! It's free to have a positive attitude and be excited for your work and let that be infectious. Yet my boss just decided not to do it. Academia biology research is so fucked.
"Note: I am running a Slack desktop client on OS X with eleven (11) accounts."

Admittedly, Slack is a lot of resource usage for what is something like a glorified IRC client, but this is not the average Slack user.
No. Some of those are borderline supportive (#3, #4). The others are at least slanted towards "[maybe] it's a problem, but not one that we're going to fix".

They all convey much more "we heard what you said" than "We don't give a fuck" does. Just MHO.
I always - always - sent my paper to at least one non-coauthor for a final copy-edit before being submitted.

Also, no editor at any journal (I've published ~20 papers) made any edits to my papers.