skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One shop I was in had a quiet room with two recliners. There were blankets in there but I'd never use them. Hmm .. now I wonder if those things ever got washed. :-P

But really you just need a closet or a small room with shutters. My building/shop had about 100 people and with those two recliners and a small futon, it worked out pretty well. There were never more than two people down there and there was an unspoken rules about .. well .. not speaking. Some people would go down there to meditate. You'd hear the chimes on their phone app.
At the least it will turn on instantly.
because most non nappers are spending every hour of their day outputting world changing products, and the people who don't are lazy.
Meta-Forms teaches problem solving. You have to guess the arrangement of objects in a 3 by 3 grid based on clues such as two circles are next to each other, and no red objects are next to each other.
https://smile.amazon.com/FoxMind-5512646-Metaforms-Games/dp/...
> I have heard first hand that there is a general rule among psychologists that its wrong and unethical to diagnose someone with neurodevelopmental disorder when there are no signs of impairments to the individual.

I've always found this a bit funny. I kind of understand why this is done this way, but it does imply that a person with a given disorder could end up diagnosed, or not diagnosed with it, depending on what kind of society/culture they're in, which doesn't sound right.

I would argue that things like autism should have a solid diagnosis regardless of how it influences a person's life in a given society. The reality seems to be that we're just very poor at diagnosing these things, so we diagnose by proxy.
I can't risk taking naps, especially in an open space. I'm a loud snorer. I learned that the hard way back in college at an afternoon course, where, for some reason, I decided to sit first row in the lecture hall. My lab has nap boxes. However, I can't even use those since they are made of cupboard and are in the library of all places.
Anybody can play this game. You give me you 2 examples of inefficient organizations and then generalize.
I live in Sweden and can give you 2 counter examples of where govt organizations are efficent and effective (healthcare and public transport).

I won't generalize, though. I will agree that without mechanisms, individuals will play the office game. Two mechanisms in Sweden are "offentlighetsprincipen" - anybody working for a govt job can have their costs/emails/documents/etc examined by other citizens by requesting them (no need to even motivate the request - but some docs are kept secret). "The right to roam" is another one that keeps rent seeking behaviour under control when it comes to property - a billionaire keeping the public off a big beach (like Khosla near the Valley) cannot happen - http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/04/27/martins-beach-appeals-....
"It's a defensive measure."

"That's Microsoft Research's whole model."

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Realize your value is not in what you do, but how you're able to do it, that you're able to repeatedly do it over and over again with high quality.

Also nothing really matter on its own, it's up to each of us to make our own meaning. So, if you're really set on these fears they'll be real. If you focus on a different strategy that will be your reality.

You want a non zero sum game perspective.
OMG That is adorable!
I don't know if this is sarcasm or too deep for me to grasp, but my point is that there are many forms of value. Not just economic. Income is not decided based on how much the majority of people value occupations, it's not even a factor.

Soldiers are usually highly valued but earn very little. Monks have often had even higher status and made no money at all. Money lenders were reviled but rich. Etc etc etc.

EDIT: Soldiers do earn little considering the risks they take, and the status of the job. This is still true in countries with modern professional armies, but it was much more true historically. So much so that many higher class people would actually _pay_ for the privilege. They had no shortage of money but wanted the glory that military service could bring.
>, I've convinced two NT (neurotypical) women to switch from bio/chem degrees to CS (they are both software engineers now) and the reason they hadn't considered before was b/c nobody ever talked to them about it. [...] Until we account for cases like the ones above, tech is going to lose out on some talented women,

Wouldn't that anecdote also apply to men? E.g. We take 2 men currently in bio/chem and talk to them about switching to CS which had never occurred to them?

Therefore, does the "uncounted" men cancel out the women "missing in the compsci pipeline"?
Careful taking 5HTP if you're already on antidepressants, specifically SSRI's, as you could encounter Serotonin Syndrome.
> Ask Spain

And not only Spain; the majority of Mediterranean countries.

They are being stereotyped as lazy though, so not sure how this is helping with your argument.
You're correct, but this story is being buried on HN. The lie at the beginning;

>about, essentially, how women and men are intrinsically different and we should stop trying to make it possible for women to be engineers, it’s just not worth it
I use to hate the cubical, until I was in various open floor plan jobs for six years. Open floor plans are the next circle of hell. I know this because they make you miss the cube.
Which I couldn't care less about as long as they improve my daily life. I can book and pay an Uber in two clicks and it arrives on time. Why should I care about an idiot politician not getting their pockets filled because Uber aren't complying with regulations forcing them to fill his pockets?
So, I worked as a PM for about 3.5 years, in total. That was in the past, and now I work as a developer (not a manager anymore).

My guess is that a lot of this depends on the organization, and product/projects.

But as an opinion...

The politics/posturing & social aspects of the job are integral to shipping products, making positive incremental changes, and "getting things done".

As a PM, I definitely was not the boss. (Even though the success of the project was ultimately my responsibility.)

This meant I had to lead, persuade, and _negotiate_ very effectively -- always arguing what's best for the product, or the end-user.

So I guess I'd say that these sorts of politics aren't separate from building a good product. They're sort of the process for getting things
done.

But again, that's limited & personal experience. My companies were relatively small (20 - 50 people). In essence, I was figuring things out as I went along. (These were small businesses, and we all were.) Big organizations with lots of really established process may be different.
Vacation rentals earn a multiple of long-term rental rates. AirBnB average in NYC is reported to be ~5500/month, so 462k/year for seven properties.
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Makes sense. I was worried that something like a beanbag would get gross over time, but I'm probably overthinking it. We already have a couple in non-quiet areas and they're fine. Thanks for the response!
There is difference between company failing and company price collapsing. Amazon may do fine, it's just that Amazon's price will be radically adjusted.

When Internet bubble busted in last time. The Four Horseman of Tech (Microsoft, Dell, Cisco and Intel) lost 75% of their market value.

Intel was valued $73.94 in 2000, now it's 36.3. The value of the stock never recovered even if the company is still going strong.

Microsoft's value has been below it's bubble valuation 16 years and it broke it's previous record last year.

It took Amazon stock price 10 years to recover from 2000 bubble.
Their perfect guide to napping says to aim for 20 minutes and no more. This is really tricky because you can't just set a timer for 30 minutes because the time it takes to fall asleep is variable. Are there any wearables or techniques to solve this problem of starting a timer when you fall asleep?
25% margin is pretty good (not apple good but still pretty good) [1] and the market is expected to continue to have high growth [2].

AWS is the main reason their stock is so high.

[1]: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4042924-amazons-margin-situ...

[2]: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3616417
I agree. Don't misunderstand me, all great artist know how to use a paintbrush. Very few will tell you it's all about the paintbrush. Focussing on people who know how to sling code is like focusing on the carpenters who have great hammering skills. Knowing how to code great is necessary but not sufficient to make great software.
Old blogs? People still write that stuff. My current favorite is Syonyk's.
Presumably, there is some reason you are crawling.
There are a few misconceptions around Spain and their napping habits. There was a thread recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14812127 . Three hour lunch breaks involving naps – outside of small shops – are mostly nonexistent now.

Anecdotally, I worked in Spain a decade ago and I knew only one person who lived close enough to go home, eat and nap. Many of my colleagues were perpetually tired because they stayed up so late socialising.
Link is not to the article, just the site
You mean like mentioning that Facebook and Google are owned/led by minorities? Or?
The context that deprecated is used is "as a technical preview" which is different than saying that "in our opinion, btrfs is a deprecated technology and people shouldn't use it". So, while Red Hat did use that word, if you don't follow it up by explaining in what way support was deprecated then you're misleading people who aren't aware of the whole situation.
Worth noting: for better or for worse, companies are autocratic dictatorships or at best, oligarchies: opinions of employees do not matter much, unless such opinions somehow affect revenue.
Apparently in Japan napping at work is honorable because it proves you are working hard and late. Funny that the idea of "slacker" isn't the first thing that crosses their mind. East Asia is a different land.
Well that's sort of the idea of stereotype threat, in that it can warp your perceptions of not just other people, but also yourself, and that the self-doubt will cause you to do worse or drop out in the long run.

I recall we had a comment exchange awhile ago about optimism/pessimism in the parable of The Two Travelers and the Farmer. In this case both the parent commenter and I may have had the exact same score in terms of seconds to an answer, but we both perceived the significance very differently.

I also shared the idea that "it's easier to change ourselves than it is to change the world". I think this might be an example of where that could be applied. (Of course easy for me to say, I haven't lived my life with subtle social cues that told me not to be good at math or spatial reasoning, but there are other areas in life where I get to apply the same lessons).
Well that's a profoundly sad and depressing answer, hoping to never end with that kind of thoughts
Napping aside, when (or where) did "leaving your desk for lunch" become taboo? Is this an American thing?

In most places I've worked it would be unusual to stay at your desk for lunch, and in many places it would be discouraged. People really need to use their lunch time, however long or short, to actually take a break, not just from work but also from sitting in front of the computer, and maybe get a few minutes of fresh air and natural sunlight.
It is not so much an "asshole bias" as a reaction against the emphasis which is placed on 'soft' skills in management: empathy, tact, drive for 'diversity' even when this means compromising on skills, etc. Linus is known to be an effective project manager who does not fit the mould of the modern 'soft' 'people manager' so any time some quotable reference appears he's cheered upon by those who don't agree with these 'modern' management styles.
I'm going to say something contraversial, let's allow it for the sake of discussion.

Is a biased pipeline even a problem? What are we trying to solve?

It seems there are separate issues: equal numbers, we need to tackle the pipeline and convince women STEM is great; what happens happens, we need to not be biased against a gender and admit proportional to applications.

I can see both sides; I think in different moods I ultimately agree with either.

At the moment, I think if we spend long enough with admission (universities, jobs whatever) reflecting competence in the pipeline, then the pipeline will gradually come to reflect the proportion that's interested - 50:50 or not (either way around).
Something is wrong with color pallets this days. Hurts my eyes :(
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That quote is super cringe worthy.

The article is very unclear, they also quote:

>"Most of my friends at Google work four hours a day. They are senior engineers and don't work hard. They know the Google system, know when to kick into gear. They are engineers, so they optimized the performance cycles of their own jobs," one engineer described.

Probably a lot of cherry picking going on.
I've got some programming experience (developed few apps, some of them working for few years now in production, although they are very amateurish), but did not become "official" developer. It's not for me, and I went marketing with focus on marketing technology.

Martech is pretty interesting field with almost no competition (you need to be well versed in classic marketing, analytics and programming, also good to have some domain knowledge). For me it's a balanced blend of soft and hard skills.
Thanks, I should have made that clear. There are many supplements sold over the counter that can hospitalize you if you mix them with psychiatric medications. Hopefully people that are on these meds are aware of potential interactions, but the way doctors prescribe them I wouldn't count on it.
It's a lighthearted joke.
The video is called Hjernevask [1] and it is a Norwegian documentary. Norwegian is one of the highly gender equal countries [2], for your information. The reporter is interviewing Norwegian social scientists about their theories of gender and social constructionism. The documentary generated much public debate in the country.

I knew you weren't calling me stupid. I called you stupid because you weren't able to spend 1 minute to check a reference and decided to throw up all your speech without even knowing what I was talking about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask

[2] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Superpositions!
Modern American elites have come to favour inconspicuous consumption
Except don't they actually work really long hours? I visited recently, it seemed like falling asleep on the train (etc.) was normal and they just looked so exhausted, i'd assumed it was the only way they were getting enough in.
Of course it's small business - the point is there is little distinction between this guy and Accor for most people, they are both corporations and not someone renting out their holiday home anymore.
I thought Sweden's system is focused on cohort local groups for health care. So while the government requires national healthcare, all decisions are made locally within your 10k group of peers.
Ever used RVShare? It's pretty cool to rent an RV at/near the destination, good combo of included amenities and mobility, don't have to be a neighborhood disrupter if you stay at a camp ground/state or national park, etc. Clearly not a viable alternative for all vacation lodgings, but a nice alternative where it suits you're needs.
Why was this flagged?

Wow, how lame can you be, HN?
Indeed, he said it jokingly.
I've seen it claimed, without substantiation, that anyone who argues against the fashionable position can't possibly be doing so "in good faith" - because the unfashionable position itself is declared to be a bad faith position.

I've seen this repeatedly on HN.
Could a committed nation state try to 51% attack a popular currency for nefarious purposes? It would seem to me (given these oligarchs' assets are frozen outside of Russia and that they are seemingly unbankable in the west), that having control of ethereum/bitcoin mining power would be a relatively easy way to move money around, obfuscate the movement of that money, and steal some in the process.
I'll admit the pull request was a little marginal for patches that would be landing in -rc4, which is roughly halfway through the development cycle. That being said, all of the patches got independent review (none of them were authored by me, and I reviewed them all before accepting them). I also ran the tests through a very extensive regression test suite. (https://thunk.org/gce-xfstests). So even though many of the commits landed very recently, in my experience testing catches many more problems than end user testing in linux-next, because not that many people run linux-next.

Granted, I certainly wouldn't have sent this pull request any later. After rc4 the only thing I would send are regression fixes, and at most one commit in this pull request could be considered a regression fixes. The last commit listed in the short log "make xattr inode reads faster" optimizes a new feature (large xattr support) that only landed in this merge window. So it's not going to have many users, and I figured it was safe.

Cleanups have always been in the grey area. I certainly wouldn't have any hesitation sending these cleanups a week or two earlier. None of them were terribly large by themselves, although as a whole it's a somewhat large merge request for at this point in the cycle:

13 files changed, 290 insertions(+), 196 deletions(-)

If I screwed up, and missed a bug in my code review, and it wasn't picked up in the testing, ultimately I'm the one that's going to be held accountable. Which presumably means that Linus isn't going to be trust me in the future when I send in another marginal pull request.

In the past, when I was ultra-conservative and wouldn't send any of these fixes until the merge window, Greg K-H would sometimes grump at me because it would delay the fixes getting to stable kernel, and it would also contribute towards making his workload more "lumpy". What I would have done after -rc4 (and perhaps what I should have done for -rc4) is to only push those fixes that were cc'ed to stable@vger.kernel.org or were specifically regression fixes.

Bottom line: I did realize that what I was sending to Linus was pushing the boundaries a bit. And Linus was making sure that I knew that.
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I don't know where or in what decade this has been true, but in the United States for all of my life, media, every level of the education system, corporations, and governments do everything they can to communicate that women are as good as men at anything and better at many things, and that any disparity is necessarily caused by discrimination.
I think I would definitely put more effort into establishing clearer space/time boundaries between work and home. I live near a local library and might turn it into an office of sorts so that I have a place to go, people to interact with and so on.

I'd definitely put more effort into making sure I'd wake up, shower, and dress for work during work hours and then stop at the end of the work day.

Basically, better discipline, more delineation.
I'm curious if people that do this ever get a "perfect storm" of all clients having unplanned work at the same time. It sounds great in theory but I feel like it would just tangle you up in a web of lies.
iGo Green's rechargable alkaline batteries from 2011 (http://www.zdnet.com/article/igo-green-rechargeable-alkaline...)

In my experience "any" battery is rechargable if you are willing to wait long enough but recharging rate has always been a killer for alkalines.
On a trading desk, it's unusual for more than one or two people to leave their seats at a time for lunch. And often, the team will order delivery and one of the junior guys will go downstairs to pick it up.

Once, I left my seat to go to Starbucks for about twelve minutes. In that time, the AVGO/BRCM merger was announced, and my BRCM position made $500k in my absence.

So there's at least one major industry in NY where it's generally discouraged for people to leave their desks.
> This post is by some guy who calls himself Donald Clark

No, the post is by a person calling himself Jon Reidel[1]. Who knows why he calls himself that, maybe it's his name?

> My question should be taken literally, not inferred to be outright dismissive

If you don't want to be perceived as dismissive, perhaps you should stop making strange, snide remarks about someone's name.

[1] http://www.uvm.edu/ugresearch/?Page=news&storyID=23724&categ...
Yeah, I wrote "+" but HN turned it to "and".
I had a similar thought. I'd say that tech has been firmly in the "masters of the universe" phase for a while now and while I don't think the end of it will be the same as in finance (the nature of the businesses are completely different, there's no systemic risk), I think tech's comeuppance will be anti-trust. It's already happening in the EU, and in the US Democrats are making that a big part of their platform [1]. The election of Trump has revealed the shift towards populism in American politics, and I think Democrats see anti-trust as good politics to capitalize on it. Personally I think it's smart both from a political and policy perspective. Tech seems to tend toward monopoly, and anti-trust is critical to combating that. It's also a perfectly good and necessary counterbalance in capitalism.

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/31/16021844/a...
Perhaps, but it's gone on for generations. Are you old enough to remember the "Vote for the Crook! It's important!" bumper stickers?

For those not familiar with the background, it's a reference to the gubernatorial race between Edwin Edwards (convicted felon and known outright thief) and David Duke (former? Ku Klux Klan grand wizard). Yes. Those were our two choices to lead the state: a criminal and a segregationist.

How do you end up in this predicament? It's not overnight, and it's not one person or group. While the bumper stickers were trying to make a joke out of a bad situation, I found them emblematic of the sad situation and became disgusted with it all. So I did the only thing in my realm of control, and I left.
Those are both fine points and I think we would find a lot of common ground if that was the topic.

However the title was: "Is gender inequality in technology a good thing?"

So is the author saying it is a good thing? Does he mean that gender inequality (as it presents today) is good? Or just that some gender equality (60/40 for example) would be as good as 50/50? I hope he means the latter, but the wording implies the former.

I'm just worried that he didn't acknowledge the potential for factors besides autism to be relevant or provide a more fair target equality ratio to strive for. That makes me think he thinks the current numbers are fine, which I disagree with. The level of imbalance we see today indicates to me we are missing out on talent, and my experience makes me think it's a pipeline problem due to underexposure of tech careers to logical, but non-tech hobbyist young females.
I'm in restaurants and I notice kids just old enough to hold a phone spending the entire meal staring at it. Theres no way thats remotely healthy for brain development.
The simplest explanation for this is that rules for adding a voter are more active than removing one. And over time as people move in and out of a county (or even within one), the accumulation increases.