skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably depends by state. I was required to reveal I was a felon while on parole. Once I was off parole I no longer had this requirement but... I was constantly faced with the question on my job applications. My approach was always not to lie and only answer the questions asked, adding "will discuss during interview if needed". Twice I made it to the interview only to be rejected after the nature of my crimes were revealed. On two separate occasions I was offered employment, started work, and was later let go because of my felony conviction.
Ask HN: Twitter bots are really bad for Twitter?
I have been working on a platform to create twitter bots where user can create their twitter bots with help of few clicks i.e. define keyword, define retweet policy, define favourite policy, define reply etc But I have this impression that people consider twitter bots as SPAM. Do you people really think that twitter bots are just for spamming purposes and bad for twitter existance ?

Is there any useful purpose of creating twitter bots ?

Thanks
I have been using RPN calculators for all my life (except when I was forced to use infix calculators in school). Your first example is at least as readable to me as the second one. Just read it from inside to outside instead of from left to right.
Suggesting Facebook and Google and Amazon as serious replacements for Facebook and Google and Amazon really drives the point home.
When I hear the word "vegan" I think of a person that spends so much time thinking about food and nutrition science that they just have to tell you all about it.

They are one of my canaries in the metaphorical food safety coal mine. I am usually annoyed by all their incessant twittering, but if they ever actually fell silent, I'd be very alarmed.

In all probability, from what I think I know, the phytoestrogens from soy-based foods are far less concerning than the bisphenol-A (BPA) in food-contacting plastics and thermal receipt paper. My profiler says to take care of the biggest problems first.
The "for the same work" piece of it rings hollow and is fighting a battle that didn't need to be won. It's enough to get across the point that women are socialized into lower paying roles and held back professionally because of child care obligations.

My daughter is four. Her summer camp has all sorts of course choices every week. So I signed her up for "little engineers," "little scientists," etc. (There was also princess and fairy-related options.) Fast forward a couple of weeks and she's the only girl in "tech machines." I had to flip out at my wife, au pair, mother in law, etc. not to let anyone hint to her that there might be anything unusual or undesirable about this.

These are four year olds, they have no preferences. It's purely parents projecting gender roles onto their kids. My kid is super into princesses and fairies, but also comes home every day with a new project and says it was "the best day ever" because she learned about buoyancy or whatever.
That's not my point, though.

My essential argument is that sexism creeps in when you say that women select lower-ranking jobs by default. I don't think that's actually true. I think it's more that society views the jobs women work as lower-ranking.
Isn't capitalism about the use of capital to control and manage markets? If I will £5m on the lottery and then set up a company investing that money am I worth the 4% a year I should (probably would) make?

The value of your teachers (or lack of value) will only become apparent over time - a long time. The value of your doctor may become absolute to you, several times over your life. God forbid that you or yours fall sick, but should your doctor be able to demand all of your worldly goods to heal you? What about farmers - should they gang together and refuse to supply food until starvation set in would that allow them to demand all of the cities wealth? If no then what is needed - is it a rule of law that enforces particular norms of behaviour?
I'm just beginning to push my product (it's been around for 6 years) and have certainly noticed the customer requests increasing.

I agree with a lot of the advice here and in particular I've just started building out the knowledge base in Intercom to mitigate some of the support queries.

Sales is tough but can be worth it. I've spent lunch hours walking round the business park where I work on the phone and those calls have led to multiple other leads where I've been working with a consultant rather than the end client. Putting the time in does help.

One thing I would say: be honest that the app is a side project whilst you grow it. I've found customers very understanding and willing to accommodate calls at specific times or accepting of slight delays in support queries.

Good luck.
Trueseeing: Non-decompiling Android app vulnerability scanner (DC25 demo lab)
This advice is highly dependent on where you live. Look at the laws that govern your locale.
Why should the differences in attraction for jobs with a stronger or weaker human communication component necessarily be institutional and social ? It might be genetic as well. In that case, good luck "fixing" the situation because it requires tweaking the human genome.

That's could explain why even decades of public policy in countries like Sweden didn't even come close to a situation of near 50% STEM workers.
We just hired someone for our Android role, but shoot me an email, we may be able to hire another.
They're not paid more because their unions negotiate a fixed salary schedule through collective bargaining, and most teachers support this state of affairs. It's hardly a pure value judgment on the part of "society".
If you ask Uber drivers if they enjoy it, the #1 thing you'll hear is "it's flexible." They're willing to put up with all the other bullshit -- the low pay, the lack of benefits -- for the feeling of control. Chip away at that and bad things will happen.
does anyone have any studies on breaking this down further to pay per hour? as men generally are seen as working more hours which could lead to why they get more pay too
Which crates are you running into, out of curiosity?
A lot of good jobs include this type of info now, but it would be better if more did. I don't want to waste my time and yours.
PET scans show many Alzheimer’s patients may not actually have the disease
The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
Well, point (1) doesn't work because sexist capitalists who would be willing to pay women less would also probably think women do less work.
1. "If women were 25% cheaper than men"

That is not what the article said.

2. "women in general are more agreeable than men"

???

3. "women tend to care about people while men care about things"

???
Goodness, man. Stating facts is not sexist.

> Some are inclined and some are not.

That is what "generally" implies, yes.

There is an argument that women are generally less inclined to negotiate due to the effects of sexism.
"They're not underpaid because they're women, they're underpaid because they're being paid by a bureaucracy."

That's a theory. The relevant question is, what evidence exists to support or refute that theory?
For what it's worth, there are already other exceptions. For example, you can use (non-deadly) force to detain other persons if you reasonably believe you have witnessed them commit a felony or certain misdemeanors, as long as the force used is necessary and reasonable (possibly matching the force used by the offender to commit the felony, or sufficient to restrain the offender) under the circumstances. You generally have the same duties in an arrest as an officer of the law, but with less protection from potential prosecution.

Civil search of property is, in my opinion, a less serious power/responsibility than citizen's arrest; though I guess it could apply in more circumstances.
This is a good idea, I think I'm going to start doing just that.
> If you want to argue that it's sexist that we socialize women to negotiate less, i'm all for that, though.

If that's the road you feel comfortable walking down, I think it's fine to compromise at that point. Regardless of how it happened, the result - women not negotiating - is still the same.
Over the past month there have been several airdrops to bitcoin holders based on snapshots of bitcoin's blockchain.

Stellar Lumens had an airdrop

Byteball had an airdrop

and there are many more, let alone bitcoin forks. These are all very valuable for holders, and people that own their private key.

There are several problems for exchanges, and it doesn't make sense for them to bake that kind of functionality in until a legal framework forces them too. In which case, yes the customer SHOULD sue, thats the only way to progress this. But the old adage is that if you don't control your private keys you don't have any control. And unless the exchanges start providing access to these airdrops as if they are dividends for holding, then it will be a very complex issue for them.
Since 5000 years ago.
I wonder if getting rid of the drivers would be enough to make Uber profitable? It would at least fix the gaming of surge prices.
I've been interested in this project since they made themselves known on HN. Seeing that they're this committed to security makes me consider the possibility that they're for real and not just another fly-by-night.
A bachelor tax? I mean, really, what would that actually solve?
Jeez, that is kinda concerning, how old are your friends kids?
Getting Hy on Python
Thanks for your reply. Just to clarify - when you say, zero data on conversations, you are referring to some way to track if any Google ads customers, take action on the ad?

After clicking on an ad, a potential customer is brought to the website that explains pricing. The website then says if you mention the 'web special' you get $50 off the first month.

Also, this kind of business, typically has active ~150 customers to make $100k. In a month, you may have 20 sign up, 10 drop, etc. So, we're not going to have huge data set similar to an app download or an online store.

# of potential customers...well a student between 1st grade and 12th grade are potential customers. With 4 elementary schools, 3 middle schools and 2 high school near by...back of the napkin (I don't have the #'s on me right now) would be 7000...in reality, no one in the USA has more than 1,200 customers, and that is in major city like Los Angeles (which we are not in).
One could simply bookmark https://send.firefox.com/ and tick the box to "Load this bookmark in the sidebar" in the Library...
> job responsibilities

Job title*

Which means that there is still a well-paying-job-title gap between the sexes
AI for “regular” office workers via Factor Tables [pdf]
I sometimes wonder, what is it that makes those dull office jobs so much more important.
I mean, your kids are your own best bet on eternety. Everything else crumbles to dust - by now often in your lifetime. The device you program for today, your son/daugther wont even see in a museum.

So what if its not a caricature harmony like on stock photo? So what if they have completely diffrent plans?
Its life, its not machines, and thats why it will outlive them.

Touch your navel- there is a blockchain, going a way back.
65k+ people have been disappeared in Syria, and it's common to not know why, one article about that which also mentions Bassel's wife https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...

In part, it's a racket https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/syria-government-u...
Considering that there is an entire "Equal Pay for Equal Work" movement, this is actually extremely relevant. TFA addresses this issue specifically. It's saying that people who are shooting for "equal pay for equal work" are barking up the wrong tree. This article, which you say is embarrassing, is actually agreeing with you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over...
DigiCert to Acquire Symantec’s Website Security and Related PKI Solutions
How bout a separate site for those falsely accused of heinous crimes without any evidence(like Brian banks)
We plan to add GitHub progress tracking just for fun. Last year we had full PITM, parent in the middle support, instant YouTube video notification, search history, but 2 problems, I worried parent would login to bank on child's device, exposing creds to server and also, kids use crazy amount of gigs per day. Traffic volume to cloud http proxy was massive during tests.
I don't know about your state, but in California, speeding (along with most other traffic violations) is an infraction, not a misdemeanor, and doesn't show up on a criminal record search.
I have a 5 year old and a two year old and I've absolutely banned unwrapping videos. They are like heroin.

With cartoons they'd watch and be disappointed if we ended them. With this more addictive content my older kid would become aggressive and highly agitated if we stopped them.
We're strongly in personal preference territory, but Apple earbuds sound terrible. The lows are far too heavy and the mids are far too thin, though the highs at least sound OK. I would rather spend that $30 (retail from Apple) on a pair of Sennheiser, Klipsch or even Sony earbuds.
I agree that compensation is more than just salary BUT that is the starting point. I don't want to play the "benefits" game until I know a minimum number that you are even willing to entertain. Remember, even benefits are seen differently by different people. When I was young, I could not care less about benefits as I just wanted as much cash as possible. As I got older, benefits like vacation days etc. started becoming more important. But again, before we even get to all this, tell me the damn range.
You've got the causation backwards. Society pushes women into jobs it values less. There is nothing about teaching that makes it a woman's job--the majority of teachers in India for example are men.
>Do they have some existing offering which isn't totally valueless

There's a lot of patents, via Holmes. Someone in the last Theranos thread also pointed out that whatever hardware does exist may have licensing value for other developers. The owners may be planning to part it out.
Women are less likely to negotiate because of the societal views of women who are shrewd negotiators. The societal pressure on women to be passive is immense. Just look at women in politics for numerous examples. That's what's sexist about it. There are different expectations of people based solely on gender, and that further divides into race with black women at the bottom of that pool.

You need only listen to the experiences of women founders in Silicon Valley to realize your comment really doesn't match up with what really happens. Women, especially in the tech sector, are treated like personal sex objects of some VCs.

There is not a single situation you listed above that cannot be attributed to similarity bias or cultural bias against, both completely unintentional.
Non-anglophone parts of the West are civil law countries more often than not, and plea bargains there are rare at best, when they're even possible.
At Microsoft, (so the throwaway account).
In theory: peer review + manager comment on : your work, how you help others, how you reuse work done by other.
The reality: peer review is quite useless (that can help manager to give examples feedback but nothing more). Manager's opinion on your work is the only thing. So a big theorical system with bunch of HR documentation but a terrible / useless process at the end.
Next on the wishlist: an APL inside Python.
Okay, that took some thinking to figure why it works. Basically, p(x) tells the coefficients as long as x is bigger than any coefficient. This is easy to test with the given example polynomial p(x) = 2 x³ + 4 x + 3, p(10) = 2043, where you can see the coefficients plainly in base 10. But for example p(x) = 2x³ + 14x + 3 is ambiguous with p(10) = 2143. (edit: I feel like there is a connection to Nyquist-Shannon theorem here, the coefficients get kinda "aliased")

The trick here is that because p(1) is the sum of the coefficients, it must also be bigger than any of coefficients, so p(p(1)) is always "safe" to use.

To avoid base conversions, I think you can always use next power of ten for the second value, i.e. p(10^n) where n = floor(log10(p(1)))+1. For example if p(1) = 182, then you could ask p(1000) = 12000140030 or 12 000 140 030, which gives us the coefficients (12x³ + 140x + 30). Arguably easier than trying figure out what 72368326 is in base 182.
>Typescript combines typing and transpilation together, essentially doing what flow+Babel does. Typescript allows you use newer JS features like Babel but produces much cleaner JavaScript.

It's important to keep in mind that the simplicity of TS's ES5 codegen comes with the tradeoff that it isn't spec-compliant.

For example, given a program `for (const el of arr) { }`, TS's codegen is a loop like `for(var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { var el = arr[i]; }` whereas Babel's codegen uses `Symbol.iterator`. The former is technically wrong in an environment where `arr` happens to have a custom `[Symbol.iterator]`.

Another example is ES2015 classes, for which Babel's codegen asserts the constructor is being called with `new` whereas TS's doesn't.
Negotiation is a huge part of it. Patio11 wrote a great blog post on this several years ago: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
To me this is moot. At this point you're fighting against the natural inclinations of the human mind. I'd pick my battles more carefully. There are other issues related to sex that are much easier to attack, with much greater potential impact.
Netflix opensources its first D library: Vectorflow
I feel like at 6 years old you understand enough to describe state machines.

I did this when I was 6 with the older lego RCX brick. I didn't understand the limitations of the graphical programming language at the time because nothing I thought of was complex enough to push them. It still probably helped me understand intuitively how "dumb" computers are which can be pretty hard for beginner programmers to grasp for some reason.
That's an assumption that may or may not be true. Is there any reason why Coinbase could not be operating on a fractional reserve? Or, if we want to consider Coinbase as managing a discrete asset instead of managing deposits... Shorting stocks "loans" out a stock that technically belongs to someone else; there two "positive owners" and one "negative owner" until the position is covered. So they can also operate on a fractional reserve.
Not trying to hijack the conversation, but how useful is a very large salary range anyways? Example: In almost all the salary range jobs I've seen on SO, the difference between low and high end is anywhere from 30% to 50%. Even in the examples quoted in the blog post above, the 2 ranges shown are 85K to 120K and 100K to 135K.

As a job seeker, even if you do click through to see the job, what are you thinking you'll be able to get? In my case, I look only at the higher range, and if it's anywhere close to what I desire or expect, only then I click it. I completely ignore the lower range.

By that notion, isn't such a large range meaningless? Shouldn't the salary transparency be represented as just 1 number with a +/- %age and a note on what will allow for a + and what will account for a -.

Ex: For the 2 examples - 100K +/- 15% based on experience, 115K +/- 15% based on skillsets.
This made me switch to PIA. Thank you!
Mainly because the company doesn't know how much it wants to pay the offered candidate ahead of time.

This depends on a few things, but the main points here are that:

1 - The company is willing to hire a range of skill levels and qualifications for this position, and the compensation will vary depending on the actual qualifications of the candidate.

The company might set out looking for say, a generalist senior engineer, but end up interviewing a machine learning expert. Alternatively, the company posts a listing for a senior engineer but end up deciding that they need someone more junior.

In both cases stating a compensation range upfront will cause difficulties - the domain expert is dissuaded from applying because the range seems low, and the junior has an acrimonious negotiation because the stated range is above what they are being offered.

There is always a lot of uncertainty when companies set out to hire, and companies very often end up hiring someone different than the initial job posting's description.

This is the nice-sounding and reasonable-sounding reason, here's the less-nice reason that is also true:

2 - Tech employees suck at negotiating. For two people of equal skill, one may accept a quarter the compensation of another - this is not an exaggeration. I've seen engineers making $70k a year while their peer at the same employer makes $250k, without a significant ability gap.

The company doesn't want to pay someone more than they have to, so in a market where a large percentage of employees have no idea how to negotiate, obfuscation around compensation is an advantage to the company.

This is true even on HN - every time compensation/salary threads come up people continually are shocked that there are thousands, if not tens of thousands, of generalist senior engineers making $300k+ at major companies all over the industry.
The Truth About Mainstream Adoption for Decentralized Applications
There are actually some somewhat analogous situations in the US listed equity options markets. Options are typically adjusted for corporate actions other than regular dividends. However, special dividends are only adjusted for if they are more than 12.5 cents per share. And for voluntary corporate actions the options are adjusted according to whatever would happen to a non-electing shareholder. So if there's an exchange or tender offer, or a merger with electable form of payment, you have to exercise your options ahead of the ex date in order to benefit.
If you find this kind of stuff interesting/challenging, you might want to read some stuff from Seymour Papert who dedicated large portion of his life to figuring exactly this: how to teach kids to program. His definition of "programming" was a bit broader, though.

http://papert.org/
Gang stalking internet phenomenon
Through out areas of the US "gangstalking" "monarch mind control" and "mk ultra" are to describe group stalking with a bunch of "black helicopter shit" - I have tangible evidence of it occurring- within the healthcare setting and throughout specific communities- this information contradicts the majority of what is discussed on results of searching the phrases on metadata search engines: how likely is it that the majority of these sites are related? Has anyone heard of this phenomenon, and from the websites listed below how can someone find a definitive link? Aside from gathering information detailing who they overtly communicate with via social media? One definitive link of information shows that these sites are
Posing as it are police officers based on their avatars and locations etc.... how to go about proving or disproving this? What can be seen in the source code of the sites indicating they are related aside from the subject matter.

http://nhoa-d-brown.deviantart.com/journal/Murder-By-Numbers-Gematrinator-3-22-17-671182556

https://themonarch-butrfly.tumblr.com/page/3

http://www.njherald.com/story/22893293/gang-stalking-threatens-lake-community-family

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCuLJ9zPCE98xxLd7xeUblfg

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wm4F2ZI-M
https://m.facebook.com/MK-Ultra-Mindcontrol-560248367402017/
Let me know when the US has "market forces" unattached to rent seeking behavior. There are no major markets that aren't receiving mass amounts of corporate welfare in the form of tax breaks, incentives, or monopoly protections.
There is some overlap. Many people buy Macs, and use them as essentially internet browser machines.
Pfizer, although I only owned a few shares so I didn't follow up. Doing some quick searches it seems the spin-off might have been halted.