skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder as well if you read the papers too? you may learn something from them as well.

"We investigate the idea that women’s flaunting of designer products functions as a signaling system directed at same-sex rivals who pose a threat to a woman’s relationship. We hypothesize that some women use pricey possessions to signal to other women that their romantic partner is especially devoted to them. In turn, flaunting designer handbags and shoes helps women deter romantic rivals from poaching their relationship partner"

Today iPhones and MacBook are mostly mass market for the middle class, as you can see from their presence in universities. Out of all the women owning an iPhone, and there's a lot, I've yet to meet one whose iPhone was bought by their 'devoted romantic partner'. They either bought it themselves, or their parents bought it in the family plan. And usually the phone itself is paid monthly with the plan.

Showing an iPhone does not have the same signalling effect as wearing "luxurious designer handbags", designer shoes, and "expensive jewelry".
Enough people living today will have their genome sequence that if that's true you can just edit in the 'diversity' later in the future if that's needed.
The fastest way to advance your career is to switch jobs every 2-3 years.

Have we kept the same regulations because they work incredibly well? Or because we are complacent.
It's too bad this is being framed as a Soundcloud-reaps-what-it-sows/karma thing, because a volume control flaw was meaningless among the factors that threatens Soundcloud's existence, because I'd really like to know what the design justification is for not having a volume control. There wasn't any justification given in the 2-year-old thread as far as I can see:

https://soundcloudcommunity.com/soundcloud-on-your-computer-...
If you have two sound sources in the same application you can't do this on Windows. Music from SoundCloud and a video call on appear.in or similar, for example.

If you're using a Mac there isn't a system volume controller with adjustments for each application, only a single global control and software is expected to provide its own local slider. Literally every audio source I've encountered has one except for SoundCloud.

EDIT: Might be a bad example, I'm not sure if appear.in has a sound volume slider. But the point stands for every media player I've ever used, whether online or native.
Is there a way to add keywords so you can explicitly pull gifs of different people like say :CaptainAmerica and get just gifs of captin america back without having Cap be in the actual text on the image?
I get what you're saying.

However, we actually have evidence that a sewage plant for a major western city can suffer a sudden catastrophic failure[1] and it won't even make it above the fold.

[1] https://projects.seattletimes.com/2017/west-point/
How could they do it without violating copyright? And I wonder if artists would prefer to have control over what mashup's are made with their own music? Not trying to be snarky. These are sincere questions
Isn't that how Apple established a good chunk of its business years ago?
What? Maybe if you only count the costs of someone on their deathbed. Someone who requires Care their whole life definitively costs more than someone who doesn't
Goat milk plus folic acid would be better for an infant 12 months or older than bovine milk.

Bovine and goat milks are unsuitable for infants under 12 months, because they contain too much protein in undiluted form, and not enough nutrition content when diluted to safe protein levels.

The dawn of civilization up until the industrial age fed human babies exclusively on their mothers' milk, or upon the milk of a human wet nurse. Those that could not feed in this manner died. It was very tragic, and it made a lot of people very sad.

Consuming bovine milk is not a critical step in human evolution. It's just a culinary choice. People also ate locusts back then. It didn't catch on as well, because cheese tastes better, and doesn't have raspy, sticklike hindlegs that get stuck in your teeth if you don't snip them off with kitchen scissors. You can certainly feed your baby pureed grasshoppers, but most people don't, because they are squeamish about insectophagy themselves.
I agree. I said basically that?

The culture problem in tech is not the cause, it’s just the end symptom of many things - including what you’re taking about.
I'm a reseller for Digicert - they just sent an announcement email about this, here's the most interesting bit:

"Earlier this year, the browsers proposed a plan to limit trust in Symantec certificates after discovering issues with how they were validating and issuing digital certificates. Importantly, we feel confident that this agreement will satisfy the needs of the browser community.

DigiCert is communicating this deal and its intentions to the browser community and will continue to work closely with them during the period leading up to our closing the transaction. DigiCert appreciates and shares the browsers’ commitment to engendering trust in digital certificates and protecting all users. "
Also check out Squeryl; it's virtually the same thing as slick with an alternative (imho much more straightforward) syntax.

I do agree that things like associations are an entirely new layer of abstraction.
> 3. Women tend to choose lower paying jobs, such as teacher, caregiver etc. In general women tend to care about people while men care about things (STEM). Again: biology or social construct

Social construct. Look at Asian countries that by all accounts have less gender quality than the west but have more women science graduates. India is double the U.K. on that metric.

The fact that Sweden has skewed representation doesn't capture what I call the "princesses and fairies" problem. Just because society doesn't explicitly discriminate against women doesn't mean that it's not telling women that they should be interested in princesses and fairies instead of legos. My daughter, four, is the only one of a few girls in the STEM programs I signed her up for at summer camp. This is entirely parents projecting gender norms onto their kids.

My mom grew up in bangladesh in the 1960s. She majored in chemistry as did several of her sisters. The expectation was that an upper class woman would be educated so she could marry well, not for work. But the western gender norm about women being suited for certain professions doesn't exist.
> It still probably helped me understand intuitively how "dumb" computers are which can be pretty hard for beginner programmers to grasp for some reason

Grasping the dumbness of computers can also be done via a bottom-up approach: transistors, then gates, then boolean-logic/state-machines, then binary-numbers/ALUs, then processors, and so on. "You think it can do X? Then show me how that could be built, using what you've learned so far!"

(Analogous, of course, is learning mathematics starting with a 3-column-proof-based approach, rather than ... err, whatever they call the typical American approach.)
Normalization alone wouldn't always work. Highly compressed songs sound louder than a very dynamic sound. Even with both are normalized.
I'm quite certain the competition see enough of each other's competing offers to have a very precise and up-to-date view into what each other are paying. At least this holds true for the Amazon/Facebook/Google/Microsoft musical chairs party as well as other companies vying for that candidate pool. The attempt at obfuscating the market rates is mainly in support of low-balling candidates.
think banning him is a bit harsh. A warning should be fine.
I also don't think he meant to be racist, he is just afraid something as powerful as gene editing can get into hands of wrong people. Not saying all chineese are bad.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149680/

"For example, women are often found to be more agreeable than men (Feingold, 1994; Costa et al., 2001). This means that women, on average, are more nurturing, tender-minded, and altruistic more often and to a greater extent than men."
Unrealistic deliverable deadlines, poor management, scope creep, poor team organization / hierarchy, ignoring technical debt, inexperienced developers all contribute to poor code quality.

Take your pick.
This is only true for the embedded player widget. The regular player on the Soundcloud website has volume control.

You can simply click on the song name to get to the Soundcloud website where there is a volume slider.
Another tepid form of progress is fewer "mandatory minimum" sentences, on page 8. That's nice to see at least, thank you for the PDF.
From your original comment:

In fact, despite the ideas of US prison overcrowding and for profit drive conviction rates...I'd argue the opposite, that it's very likely the employer has already hired individuals who have committed various "crimes" and could but simply don't have records.

So, basically, you think everyone is violent criminal scum, and are happy to only discriminate against the ones who have a record as violent criminal scum. Your argument is broken no matter how I try to view it.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14913259
Whoever calls the number first, loses. If a company is willing to pay X, but a candidate is willing to work for X-10, he will still happily take X.
This line of argument makes little sense. In the markets that do offer a way to buy and sell it, there's still a market setting the price. This idea that there will be totally different market forces at work once more people have access to the market is silly. I would not buy a $400 BCH today if I wasn't also willing to buy a $400 BCH when transaction volume is 1000x what it is now. If anything the fact that there's not an insane selling frenzy from those "lucky enough" to have access to their BCH on an exchange shows that there's a real demand for BCH as a currency.

There seems to be a lot of propaganda out there trying to marginalize and minimize Bitcoin Cash. The belief that literally everyone will instantly sell their BCH as soon as they can seems to be one of the messages of that propaganda rather than a reflection of reality.
Has prestige also dropped for doctors and lawyers? They're not professions dominated by women AFAIK, but women've become quite well represented in them since the ~mid 80s, so one might expect to see this effect there.

I know job prospects aren't as hot for lawyers as they once were[1], but it's still one of very few professions that I'd expect to reliably make someone's parents' eyebrows go up and an "oh!" issue from their mouth on hearing their kid's dating one, ya know? So the prestige is still there, unless I've missed something. And doctors are doctors, so certainly in that category, too. I really doubt "software developer" automatically gains one anywhere near as much social capital, in general company and without further favorable details/context.

[1] as you correctly wrote, "Not all jobs have direct 'money in, money out' relations that you can use to judge value."
I don't see any alternative here. You could theoretically make the gene-editing a standard benefit paid for by the government, but the US at least can't even agree on how to provide basic healthcare, so it's unlikely we would agree on this. You could outlaw gene-editing, but as long as it's medically possible some people will still do it, and at best you get the same result at a slower rate.
Pentagon officials can view classified material on special tablets
Companies that frequently offer remote jobs
Most exchanges, wallets, miners, etc currently support BTC and designate it as the new Bitcoin. The switching costs are the big hassle.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I get what you're saying but it doesn't really matter. If they don't want to lose a lot of customers (and revenue) they'll offer a withdrawal option.
Reinforcement learning for complex goals, using TensorFlow
It would help to just cache assets based on the integrity hash. I know there is a potential security hole, but the browser can remember what the sourced URL was and verify/validate. At the very least it gives you a way to handle a downed CDN.
I have found that the existence of a formal performance review program is a good proxy for a company's structure having grown and/or calcified to the point that I would no longer be happy to work there. If the startup I'm currently working for someday grows to that point, I'll take it as my cue to start looking for another startup.
Why do you ignore the lower range. I would think you would want to apply for jobs with the highest lower range for which you qualify. The company will think it is getting you cheap. You will be more sure of getting an acceptable offer. If you get the job, you'll have plenty of room for raises. That's just my assessment, so I am curious about yours.
Well there is a truth to that. However this might be something symptomatic. As power consumption is getting more and more interesting nowadays, having a minimal impact on system resources overall might still be a sensible goal.
No, the other option was to ignore the pediatrician with his one size fits all weight gain curve and continue breastfeeding. We told our ped to talk to the hand unless they could demonstrate a REAL problem. Kid is the smartest 8-yo I've seen.
SEC just blessed exchange's plan to revive the trading pit
“Keep in mind we’re not Clojure. We’re not Common Lisp. We’re Homoiconic Python, with extra bits that make sense.” — Hy Style Guide

That said, Hy takes a lot from Clojure.
They can keep playing walled garden games and piracy will just continue to be the better option.
That's such a silly article. There are so many confounding factors as to make any attempt at determining causation specious. Women's employment rate grew massively over that time period. This means that jobs requiring no specialized skills would receive an influx of job seekers. If we assume the employment rate of men stayed the same over that period, we would expect all jobs that require no specialized skills or physical demands would reduce in wages as the demand for those jobs increased. As far as computer programming goes, it literally was a clerical job early on. Wages rose as the job started requiring more specialized skills (which apparently women couldn't or didn't want to get).
I am rather frustrated with this kind of analysis that makes no effort to think about the "unseen" consequences as Bastiat puts it.
Where is the money for UBI going to come from? Will this make South Korean economy less competitive? How does South Korean economy going to compete against giants like China and Japan, and its smaller but nimble Taiwan?

The fact is South Korea is stronger, richer, more humane than it has ever been in its long history, and we know why this happened. Don't ruin this with UBI.
It's even weirder since we can give them phones, or watches with integrated phones and gps-trackers and what not.

When I was 12 I yelled a friends name while walking out the door, and was expected to be back by dinner. If I wasn't the best thing my parents could do was to call my friends parents (homes) and ask if I was there.
How is Symantec's cert business not a toxic asset given their historical practices?
There is apparently a woman working for them now doing some of the hard Vulkan stuff nobody else wants to do, per John's tweets lately.
> As far as I know, people value things according to what value they obtain from them.

Yes. But I think you miss one point. People are not rational beings (even trained ones are not), and "value they obtained" is a result of some psychological process which is not strictly rational. And if people estimate value obtained from employee by sex of that employee, it would be not surprising at all.

> To call that sexist is just completely inconsistent with any reasonable conception of economics to my understanding.

Conception of economics is a theory. Reality is something different, theory is just simplified description of reality. Theory is much more formal, more simple and more understandable. Theory exists only in human mind as some entity of informational nature, while reality... well, reality is just a reality. Theory offers us laws that works in most cases. Or more precise, that laws works while axioms postulated by theory are fulfilled. But reality just works, it does not follow our laws and rules, it just works somehow.

No absolute truth exists. Every one axiom sometimes is not true. In a case when axioms are not true, theory becomes unreliable. If you think to rely on laws of some theory, then first you should check whether all relevant axioms are fullfilled in your case.

People use word "economics" and mean either theory or reality depending on context. This leads to confusion and inability to see the difference. Train youself to separate theory and reality on every occasion, try every time to use different words for theory and reality and you'll become immune to such mistakes.

As I undestand such a theory as economics, "people value things according to what value they obtain from them" itself is axiom. Here you see some case where axiom is false: its just a matter of fact. So reality and theory are different here substantially. You should choose some other theory to deal with such situation.
I thought that Swedish kindergartens and schools make sure not to force gender roles on children. Isn't that a big thing in Sweden?

Perhaps money is still a better motivator than gender equal society.
> their brain is ready

Without abstraction/generalization capability, how are they able to learn the entirety of the concept rather than merely analyze your concrete examples?
No. Smart money understands why something is valuable and to what extent along with weighing the alternatives.

Dumb money invests emotionally without comprehending why a thing is traded for other things.
From the email announcement:

... snip ...

Also, some of you may be wondering about any implications our announced acquisition will have on the ongoing debate between Symantec and the browser community about trust in their certificates.

Earlier this year, the browsers proposed a plan to limit trust in Symantec certificates after discovering issues with how they were validating and issuing digital certificates. Importantly, we feel confident that this agreement will satisfy the needs of the browser community.
DigiCert is communicating this deal and its intentions to the browser community and will continue to work closely with them during the period leading up to our closing the transaction. DigiCert appreciates and shares the browsers’ commitment to engendering trust in digital certificates and protecting all users.

... snip ...
Yeah except that email to that affect only went out July 27 @ 11pm EST.

So for Coinbase customers not tracking the fork news, this was a total blindside. This gives you 3 days to get all your coins out?

Not to mention if you used the "Coinbase Vault" your coins are subject to a 48 hour holding period before you can them into a usable Wallet. Then you have to wait for what was at some points an 8 hour transaction delay?

Also you need to figure out how securely set up a wallet, potentially order wallet hardware, etc.

No court would say that was sufficient notice.
If Ethereum is forking because of contract problems, then an Ethereum contract problem is an Ethereum problem.
You're making the (common) mistake of conflating socialism with a strong state. Socialism does not in any way imply a strong government (see libertarian socialism).

UBI might be "socialist" in the sense that it is a redistribution of wealth, but it would still be within a capitalist system. Free markets, private property ownership, and employment would still exist. The difference now would be that working for an employer and being a wage slave would become an option, rather than something you need to do to not be in poverty.

Dependence on government is not ideal, but neither is their system. Most critics of UBI fail to offer superior alternatives.
You might be relatively insensitive to lidocaine. For the past 15 years and 3 dentists, I've almost always had to get additional lidocaine, sometimes 2 or 3 rounds of injections over a 20 or 30 minute period, even for simple fillings. That time might be split between the initial injection and subsequent injections midway through the procedure. Occasionally the dentists (certainly at least my latest one) breaks out a special alternative, which is injected with a much bigger needle from a comically huge injector.

A few years earlier I had a horrible root canal experience. For years I thought there was a mix-up and they had just forgotten to numb me. I went through the procedure without complaining because I thought it was normal, but I was soaking wet afterward from the sweat. Now I realize it's probably just that I was insensitive to the lidocaine (or whatever they gave me), and they weren't paying attention or didn't care.

I don't usually ask for the additional injections. But sometimes the pain is lightening quick, incredibly intense, and I can involuntarily jerk.[1] Unlike that first dentist, the past three refuse to continue without numbing me more if they sense I'm uncomfortable. I feel bad because sometimes I spend more time in the chair sitting alone, waiting for the injections to soak through and taking up a valuable patient slot than for the procedure. And I'm also a little worried that I'll become increasingly insensitive to these injections.

One trick I've learned that I think helps a little is to take some ibuprofen an hour or two before the appointment.

[1] I handle constant, dull pain much better. Though for all my teeth problems I've never had serious tooth pain outside a dental visit.
That HBO Game of Thrones Hack Was Worse Than We Thought
You said that:

> The level of drop outs of women in tech due to this is very high.

But if that were true I'd expect women would be underrepresented in tech compared to AP Comp Sci. As it is they are slightly over-represented.

If you have clearer evidence on that point I'd like to see it. I've heard convincing anecdotes of women dropping out because of sexism but I find it hard to reconcile with the data.
>The regular player on the Soundcloud website has volume control.

It does now. My memory isn't perfect, but I'm 90% sure that it didn't always. Note that the post is from 2 years ago.
What is the Amazon competitor to Voice? I use Voice for texting from my computer and phone calls (not sure if there are other services it offers)
A teacher I had in ≈ fourth grade did this with our class. We had to make a PB&J sandwich. It was entertaining, and like your example, he pushed us to give the same amount of precision in our answers, all while having some fun.
We've discussed that in the past and will likely discuss again in the future.

The value of the challenges over Github reviews are 1) allows us to anonymize the process, 2) eases level-setting and adjustment across the reviewers to prevent a "hard grader" throwing off the overall review, and 3) doesn't bias against those whose workplaces did not allow or encourage open source contributions. It gives us a consistent baseline as a starting point.

GitHub (or other open source code contributions) can come into play after the initial code challenge portion is passed and can be a great point of discussion in the interviews. We're definitely advocates for open source, especially in terms of making our work on behalf the people of America available to them in source format as much as possible.

For us, at least, we've found having a consistent first step to the recruiting process to be very beneficial in terms of giving everyone an equal starting point for consideration. It's proven difficult to come up with a method for weighing side projects versus open sourced work projects versus contributions to existing projects in a manner that has felt consistent and fair to candidates.
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"Located or willing to relocate" is in Preferences, but yeah we should make it clearer in the listing that it's a nice to have.
Lesser reasons? Holy crap, an audio player not having a volume control? That screams incompetence.