skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way the article brings up Trump is like this: "While it is fashionable to critique President Trump for his scientific ignorance, science was misdirected long before Trump laid hands on it."
I didn't know about SUNSAT. Thanks for the link!
Cryptocurrencies so far have been a joke that pose no serious threat to the dollar and provide plenty of fun opportunities for seizing criminals' assets, so why would they intervene?
Also by "they'll let you stay indefinitely" you mean there is no expectation of any further promotion. If someone starts slacking, that would theoretically show up in perf
Potentially, the author is using this example as a vehicle to ask us to consider that a 50/50 gender split is unrealistic when you ever try to correct for a different inequality.

I think the author also intends to try and suggest that the 50/50 split doesn't need to be blamed on men.
Are the Spanish known for their effectiveness?

I'm sure I'm being stereotypical but I just known them as taking long naps and lunches. Not necessarily boosting their effectiveness or country wide GDP as a result.
My best guess has been changes they've made to slow down scrolling on ipads and similar.

My follow-on guess is that management figures you're scrolling past the adds too quickly.
In racing and acro drones on the other hand you're lucky if the lipo hasn't puffed or burst into flames after 20 cycles!

edit: typo
That's how I found it too, and that suggests to me that this is more of a test of problem-solving heuristics than of perception at the neurological level. Someone who has solved a lot of math problems in geometry would seem to have a distinct advantage in finding that hidden shape.
Apparently physics checks your gender if you approach it and if it finds you female suddenly makes itself at least twice as hard.

At least this is the impression that a large part of the population seems to have, according to what they tell female students of physics.

It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
Same. I live with insomnia, and naps are more myth than reality for me.

I do find myself taking what I call 'zen moments' throughout the day. They aren't ever intentional, but it feels so good when one comes on. And it helps.

But it's not a replacement for a good night's sleep in my case.
TechCrunch needs to amend/correct the headline, it doesn't even jibe with the article's contents.
I feel like this is just tempting the government to ban cryptocurrency outright.
Global Sex Differences in Test Score Variability
Linus is not an asshole and no one thinks assholes are 'cool'. This comes across as a distorted framing of the issue to fit a preconceived bias.

There are millions of lkml posts that don't get posted here, only the ones where Linus has to tick someone off or express a disagreement, usually posted with zero context or history.

If your impression of Linus is based solely on posts that make it to HN you have a lot of catching up to do.
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This is true.

Unfortunately markets have limited supply of fools with money. When the supply runs out, there is a correction.

Figuring out when the correction happens is hard. It can take several years before the AMZN value is corrected. I would say that it happens within three years, but I could be wrong.
What? This makes no sense: you can write software legally & sell it too. But conspiracy is a completely different matter. If you made a gun with a feature to make it a full auto weapon & just assumed people knew what it was, then sold it THAT is more akin to selling malware that was intended to do harm. The bits aren't the issue here, the conspiracy to cause damage with the bits is.
> in my experience we are still very much a minority overall

Seems like AQ mean for software engineers is a lot higher on avg than other industries like biology where there are lots of women.

https://autismodiario.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/BaronCo...
You should take care to separate these two very different questions.

You should also not forget that there are values other than monetary. I'm sure most people "value" their midwives or nannies infinitely higher than their plumbers or even bankers.
In 2013 Greece had 177% debt/GDP and the Dutch (Netherlands) had 68%.

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&l...
So you're saying that people developing face recognition just forgot black people exist? That even with a few % of employees being black, there wasn't enough testing to figure this out?

Versus the obvious answer that there's less contrast on darker skinned people, making it harder?

Likewise for all these special considerations. That's the kind of stuff you can checklist. It's no different than keeping track of required behaviour needed to write, say, portable C. The idea you need a member of every group in order to write software for them is quite an odd one. I'm aware of ARM's endianness even though I don't use non-LE platforms for any development.

And even then, suppose you can't just go by a checklist, isn't that what testing is for? Kids make poor software engineers, but we figure out how to make software for them.
"This was followed by an altogether different talk by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen (yes – brother of)"

No he isn't. They're cousins, not brothers.
I would imagine the post-2014 general sanctions due to the Ukraine stuff are much more effective.
I saw the year and thought this was going to be related to Kentucky Fried Movie's High Adventure segment about the poisonous fish.

https://youtu.be/0dpkbHmncOA?t=52s
This response is laughable.

Your links refer to differences in the perception of slight variations of colours, which (yes) women are more sensitive to. The colours used in the image are distinct, and very few men would have enough trouble discerning them for this to have a substantial effect on the results.
>predominately marketed towards males

Why though? Why would a company want to limit sales of video games by only marketing to one demographic?
>Go to your local networking meetups, don't go to any tech ones. Go to ones for Oil and Gas, Construction, Local Government, Textiles, Motor vehicles, etc.

Do you have any advice on how to find these meetups? Is meetup.com good enough or is there a better resource such as something at city hall?
I love the idea of retainers, because it offers the freelancer a chance at a steady income. However, clients generally don't want to pay a retainer to someone doing new development. A retainer is probably more appropriate if you're maintaining an existing app that's already in production. That said, the amount of a retainer is totally negotiable based on your special knowledge and skills. If you wrote the app, you're in an excellent bargaining position. Go for it!
Didn't ring a bell with me 'til Wikipedia. He's the illustrator of Where the wild things are ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Sendak
Good point. Might be harder to disguise as coding though!
Not really. Lots of places here (Norway) use just 30 minutes for lunch.
I don't think it's just an American thing.

It's an easy way to find common ground for casual conversation. Same goes for sport, mention the latest $popular_sport_match and you're bound to find that at least a few people will have seen it, or heard enough about it to make conversation.

For some sports it's even an international thing. I don't really follow rugby, but when I was recently in Fiji, I spent a fair bit of time talking about rugby and the Lions tour that was on at the time, because it was something that I could talk about with most British and South African people. Obviously, you can't go to another country and talk about the Red Sox, but for international sports, it's a great conversation starter.

Same goes for things TV shows like Game of Thrones, everyone watches GoT.

It's the same with the weather, it's an absolutely banal topic, but it's a common ground, we are all experiencing the weather.
Like I said, risky/dumb things
Yes, pretty sure I can sort that out.
Var let and const in JavaScript
Key phrase is "so far". The math behind it all is definitely not a joke.
Do they have a way of ranking by places to live permanently?

This site doesn't seem to take into account things like buying a house and property taxes.
Bill Joy??! I hope you don't have to switch the batteries into "insert mode" to charge them.
Saying programming isn't about code is ... insane? Maybe you can be a programming manager without knowing how to code, kind of? You'll likely be a bad one.

This is the kind of thing you say after you've been coding for such a long time that you've forgotten how challenging it is to learn to code for most people. Sure, once coding is not the main challenge, you move onto new challenges like coordination, collaboration etc. But if you can't code, then you aren't a programmer.

More concretely:
Managing communities and collaboration is neither necessary nor sufficient to be a programmer.
Coding is necessary to be a programmer.
Good point, the only thing I'm concerned about is not having a good variety of restaurants if I'm that far out.
"The current fashion is that there are basically NO biological sex-type differences" - seriously who argues this? I asked below and only got two examples of rebuttals, not examples of people actually arguing this.
I'm not trying to talk for anyone else, just giving my experience. I now live in Barcelona and have a 4 year old son. Most of the furniture in our flat is from Ikea. So while a car would certainly make things easier at times, it's not essential in many cases. Depends where you live of course. In the country with kids would be a lot less manageable I agree.
This post is by some guy who calls himself Donald Clark and I see zero credentials given.

I am not "in tech." Posting to HN says nothing about one's profession. At one time, I was Director of Community Life for The TAG Project. It was an unpaid position, I took it because I was homeschooling my 2xE kids, both of whom are likely somewhere on the spectrum. So, I know something about the issues of people on the spectrum and I know something about testing generally and my interest in this subject is not just some passing fancy because I am bored on a Sunday.

Tests are just tools. They sometimes get misused. My question should be taken literally, not inferred to be outright dismissive, as so many people here seem to be doing.
Honestly its about networking and i dont mean going to going to events and just handing out business cards. Its about what you do every day. I got the Kodak client from someone i already knew from a previous job. I got the Distillery client from someone that found me via my website. I got another client because they were a family member of one of my existing clients, another one i got because we both bought something from an auction site and negotiated with them to split the cost of delivery, got to talking about them and they ended up hiring us.

Clients come from all over. Do things, tell people works well. Whats a problem that affects you that you could easily solve, your local activity group terrible at organising a date? Setup an email list and doodle for organising dates. Then write a blog post saying what you did and how it improved things, then mention that to everyone you know, submit it on HN, Reddit, email it to other local groups, etc.
Kotlin in enterprise
Hi, do you have an example of that happening in Sweden?
Proximity to the equator doesn't do anything for polar launches, any country with open ocean to the north or south can do a polar launch.
Google staffer's hostility to affirmative action sparks furious backlash
I get what you are saying, but my impression was that she wasn't dismissing unknown knowledge as intrinsically trivia, just the use of it in a certain context. When you use knowledge as a status marker, it becomes trivia -- because it isn't related to the application of such knowledge.

In the case laid out in the OP, it is a little subtle, but it's really about status games, not the knowledge itself. Otherwise he wouldn't need to make someone feel like shit for not knowing (or remembering) the term.

For example, I will readily admit I had to look it up because I don't use the term often -- I remembered learning it, and vaguely that it was related to the diagonal/determinant, but that was about it. That doesn't make it trivia, but it doesn't make me an idiot either.

So, it's not trivia if one needs to use it, but that's not how the protagonist in the essay used it. You can imagine how differently things would have gone if he kept his judgement to himself, had sharing information as the real goal, and simply explained what the trace was in the context of the conversation without the putdown. It wouldn't be trivia in that context, because it would be relevant to a useful conversation -- not a status cudgel.
Yet another reason not to punish your employees with an open floor plan office.
And they wonder why house prices in the bay area are so high. :-(

I started work at Sun Microsystems on the Monday after they had IPO'ed (the previous Friday). It was about a year later when all of the various restrictions on personal stock sales had been lifted that I clued in that some people just didn't care any more about work and it was quietly explained to my shocked ears that these people were now multi-millionaires and working was no longer 'for a living' it was 'for the fun of it.' Or not. And I asked why they didn't just leave and the answer was simple, because it gave them something to do and their friends all worked here. Further many of them had been given additional "refresher" options and the more the stock went up the more they were worth thousands a month in additional value down the road.

I was fascinated to see how the different people responded to that new found wealth and the options it brought with it. For the good ones, it empowers a sort of fearlessness to do the right thing even if you boss doesn't think its the right thing. Or to advocate for an important point that might be politically inconvenient for the company. For some it affected their opinion of everyone else as if they were somehow so much "more" than folks who hadn't been there pre-IPO.

Fortunately most of the latter types left fairly quickly.

I could see how it could easily be the 'best' management choice to have someone like that not putting in too much face time at work. Bad managers control their reports by threatening to fire them, if you can't control them they are a threat to the bad manager, better to keep them far away from anything that could set them off.

That said, if you find yourself in this place the absolute worse thing you can do is to do nothing. Get healthy, learn something, use that 'free' time productively. It isn't like you can get it back later.
That's a very long story... But here's the essence.

I got a degree totally unrelated to CS. (Think "arts". Decent school. Top 50. But not prestigious.) Bounced around at not-great jobs for awhile, living in NYC and barely making ends meet.

Then I managed to get a job at an online media startup (essentially a management role), which was a very lucky break.

That got me into software, and I was able to use that experience to move into product/project management. I did that for a few years at some boutique companies, working crazy hours but learning a lot.

Then I decided to go back to school and study CS (starting at undergrad level again)... so I spent a few years re-learning everything from the ground up. That includes all the math, stats, etc... that you'd expect from a typical undergrad engineering program. It took awhile to finish, and was frustrating at times, but it was worth it.

Fast forward a few years... and now I work as software engineer. I focused on ML during my studies, and again (with lots of luck) managed to get a job at an R&D lab doing machine learning, during my final year in school.

I've since moved and now work at a company that does low-level OS-type work. (Which I actually enjoy more than ML.)

It's been a wild ride, but it's been fun.

Non-linear paths like this rarely get mentioned, but I met dozens of people with similar stories when I went back to school. It's hard, but can definitely be done.
"good at something traditionally male-dominated"

Yeah but that's different, I was replying to someone saying that the general opinion was that girls are not good at anything at all. That is simply not true, almost nobody believes that.
> it is meaningfully problematic if a non representative slice of society creates almost all of it

this can take you down some socially controversial paths. if you apply the same judgements to other identity groups who dominate other extremely influential sectors, you are going to run into serious trouble.
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I think the parent lives in the real world.
Yes, that is why nannies and so many other Pink Collar Ghetto jobs are paid so poorly: Because we value these people so much.
At Microsoft, we called a lot of these people in Group B, "volunteers". They were with the company through the glory years and had great wealth. They just wanted to come to work every day because they liked saying that they worked at MS. The best response given when I asked one why they still worked, "Why would I spend time at home? Have you met my wife and kids?"
I'm interested in making it easier for people to nap at my company, but I'm having some trouble figuring out the logistics. I don't mind people taking naps, but I don't want to end up dealing with cleaning sheets, blankets, etc.

Any suggestions on how a small office (~15 people) can have a napping area without taking on any additional custodial work?
Yeah that'll fix it, just get a better job! While you're at it, get paid more too.
Food and drink in Spain is very effective at being delicious -- some of the best in Europe. I think it depends on the industry.
From their FAQ

Airmule then manually inspects and verifies each item prior to packaging for a traveler. We also guarantee that 100% of the items shipped through our service are safe for travel on commercial aviation.

This is classic lawyer speech (notice the words "safe for travel on commercial aviation"). This just means that there are no harmful things to a plane, but they don't say anything about 'safe for customs'.
There's a good treatment of the politics of Louisiana's environmental catastrophe in "Strangers in Their Own Land": https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Their-Own-Land-Mourning/dp/...

The author talks to a lot of people in the state about the conflict between loving the outdoors (outdoor sports/hunting/recreation are big) and supporting companies that dump chemicals in the bayous, because of jobs. There's a lot of fatalism.
This is true, but difficult to avoid in some form or another.

The Queen does not personally take away my rubbish, or lay the city water pipes. The government pays people to do that, and private contracting is one way of organising that. State-owned corporations (or whatever you want to call them) are other.

Sure there are opportunities for rent-extraction by contractors. But the same opportunities exist for bureaucratic empire builders and public-sector unions.
> what is the author suggesting about the abilities of women?

And we get to the heart of all this - the belief that a comment on preferences is questioning some group's ability. I find that deeply misguided, and I believe it places measurable, tangible elements THAT DO NOT MATTER (i.e. money and status) over important things that can't be measured (i.e. LOVE).

The rich man who is without love - and yes, I mean man, see Ebenezer Scrooge - is a meme in literature that is well worn. We are told time and again that money isn't everything, that there are more important things in life than money, status and achievement...

And it is true - there are more important things! Money is everything if you are starving, but once money is no longer the only issue in your life, and you are choosing between spending your time in the pursuit of more money and other things, there are many things better than more money to spend time on. Health is better than money. MENTAL health is better than money. Love and connections with others is FAR better than more money.

The general principle here is achievement and working more vs connection with fellow humans. The best illustration of this is would you rather work 16 hour days in a law firm making a million a year but have no social life, or have friends, family and a life, but a lower paid job making above the median wage? And the evidence is in aggregate, more men choose the former, and more women choose the later.

The idea women that women are lesser if they have different preferences and choose connection over money/achievement... well it is absolutely misguided. That is the preference that differs between men and women IN THE AGGREGATE, i.e. out of all people, there are more men choose achievement over connection than there are women that make that choice.

How does that make women anything other than smarter than men, in aggregate? How is a life full of connections with humans worse than one with achievement and money? I'm a man, and I have run a mile from long hours my entire life - because I want a life defined by more than just work and money. I accept that comes with reduced pay, as I am sure I could squeeze in an extra 10-20 hours of paid work a week - but that is a choice I make knowingly, consciously, and actively.

To assume that women make the WRONG choices, or that honest assessments of womens' choices on aggregates implies they are less capable is, IMHO, patronising to women who make much more nuanced decisions than men about life beyond "what will pay me the most".
Several of my previous employers have been nap-friendly. At one we even had a hammock on a frame in the office; I used to lie down in that with a timer set for 15 minutes and nap when necessary.

My current employer has a 'pool room' with couches, plants and nature sounds. Great for a brief nap.

In my experience, this sort of thing is _especially_ helpful for new parents :)