skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for saying so. It's probably because my comment was so terse and comes off as flippant. But I assure you it was not meant to be. I think it very much matters that TCL doesn't have a BDFL. I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I'd forgotten that Ousterhout was initial head honcho. I got to know Tcl via Expect and Tk, like many others I'm sure. Kind of like how many encounter Ruby through Rails and Perl through having committed some awful deed in a previous life. Tk and Expect were always pretty niche though.
Some of these are large changes that are recent enough that it's impossible to vet them to Linus' standards.
The findings are beyond just diagnosis statistics and have been shown to correlate with other biologically male traits, like fetal testosterone.

https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2...
In The Atlantic's ^1 article on the magnitsky law they mention that oligarchs store their wealth in western banks 'where property rights and rule of law exist.'. Ive also heard somewhere that there is a theory of Russia being a British/Western crypto-colony since so many oligarchs live in London.
1 - https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/bill-br...
the 50:50 ratio is taken to mean there are no inhibitions or advantages for one or the other as this is the rough ratio of male to female in the general population. The skew of the ratio can be read as there are some factors we aren't seeing. So the question isn't "why do we need this ratio" but "why isn't this ratio present?"

No one cares who writes their code either, but certainly we can agree that if there are systematic reasons preventing women from participating as much we can try to remove them?
1. "Even the most generous estimates of autism prevalence put it at 1-3% of children -- you could hire every man and woman with autism and it would have an entirely negligible effect on gender diversity in the tech workforce at large."

You need to check your math here; on the order of 1% of the US population works in software development.

2. It's called the "autism spectrum" because it's a spectrum, not a binary. People can share some autistic traits without their rising to the level of a diagnosable disorder. If a person is described as nerdy, introverted and eccentric, they probably are further along on the autistic spectrum than most, while not necessarily having full-blown autism.
Yes we do, it's called building denser.
Betteridge's law of headlines says the answer to question headlines is "No".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
For many years I was in the infantry and spent a lot of time overseas in places fighting terrorists. "Fighting terrorists". We did occasionally fight, don't get me wrong, but I'd say 80% of the stuff that happened was just funny and the furthest thing from dangerous you could imagine. Just one example: One day, we received an intsum that told the story of how terrorists had finally been able to get a US visa for one of their people, a camel farmer in the far south of Iraq. The problem was that he was too much of a bedouin: He could not figure out how to operate calling cards to receive his instructions and they couldn't get his plane tickets to him. He had become marooned at the airport in Baghdad, where he was apprehended. And you want terrifying? The intelligence capabilities of the Five Eyes is what's terrifying. They had been involved with this story from the beginning. Snowden's revelations merely hint at the power of the Five Eyes, but if you knew half of the capabilities on display in a warzone, you'd shit your pants. That's truly the terrifying stuff.
Well, if there is some systemic biases preventing women from successful careers in IT/tech/whatever that's a problem—the talent supply is artificially restricted and we get inferior products because of that.

That's an open question, of course.
Ted Ts'o (extremely well-known developer) being warned by Linus Torvalds (extremely well-known developer) about a Git pull request that has a misleading commit message.

Edit: correct spelling of Ts'o. :S
> It feels intrusive, and it's creepy

To you.

AirBnB hosts tend to be open and gregarious in my experience. The hosts who are not (e.g. just need the money) you just change your behaviour to suit (or avoid due to signals in their listing).

As a guest, if I don't want to interact with the host, I get a hotel instead.
Haha, know your audience is the first rule of marketing right?

Seriously though, it's open source and free, so while I know I'm tooting my own horn I hope it helps people anyway.
Well, at least he gave equal time to both of the viewpoints.
This was a great analysis. I grew up in Louisiana as well and you capture my sentiments exactly. It is a shame because New Orleans is a wonderfully historical city, with beautiful architecture and a very walkable downtown. It could be a great city - at the very least the epicenter of the region. But I don't think it ever will be...no one with the ability to change it cares enough.
This article is very misleading. It's not uncommon for engineers who've been instrumental to a key product or development to be given a light duty afterwards. This is primarily because these folks bust their ass and quite literally are exhausted once their project ships. The time with light duty is meant to retain this key talent and give them back some work-life balance. Also if your thing lands and it's big enough you usually get promoted and they want you to focus on soft skill development, literally making friends, so you can go on to do something bigger. My last half, my manager told me that all he wanted me to do this half was make friends. This is because he was giving me space to find the next big thing. When you shift from task oriented work to bigger picture stuff, you can't just start building stuff thinking people will use it. You have to spend time talking to people about what problems they have and see if you can come up with a way to solve them. It's really not unlike a startup in that regard.

There's also the old joke of the mechanic that comes to fix the machine by knowing where to tap with a hammer. So having people around who know where to tap is key. They are well worth what they are getting because sites like Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc... can't go down and if they do millions of dollars are burning for each minute those sites are down.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation of brain can reduce methamphetamine cravings
Really it's almost anywhere
> And of the ones that do, the women with autism have to deal with both the barriers introduced by their autism and the barriers of sexist treatment from their peers.

With the benefits of diversity hiring.
Aren't companies like McKinsey more efficient?

They have the rule that you either get better and a promotion or you will be fired.

So they only keep people that improve every year or they get new people.
Interesting assumptions that always seem to be present:

- autism is good for fields related to technology;

- other differences are not as good for fields related to technology;

- fields related to technology are the most valuable.
I believe this is how it works in SF already, something like one can host up to 90 days per year with them not present. I don't think there's a limit if they are present.
This might also be relevant, http://www.human-competitive.org/

This is an annual competition on evolving "human competitive" solutions to difficult real world problems.
Nah.

I miss the old blogs.

People writing about stuff. Writing an answer to some really dumb idea on a other blog.

The man writing about making eating a snake and digging a trench in the back yard.
By bearing the negative externalities of your short term rental? I lived above an NYC airbnb for a while, and of course it was always a noisy partying crew. Which of course makes sense because it's people on holiday/vacation renting on airbnb! But it's pretty disruptive to someone renting the next apartment who isn't on vacation.
I think it's the opposite. If you want a feature phone, you don't want a smartwatch. But if you use your phone a lot, maybe a watch can reduce the friction of some of those tasks. If the laptop can stay in the bag and the phone can stay in the pocket (and the actions are just as fast or faster) then the watch is a win for me.

Do you pull your phone out of your pocket to set timers/alarms? Fire off quick texts? Do you pull your phone out of your purse just to check the time? Gee, why not put all of that on your wrist?

And the point of responding to the GP is, this super low friction doesn't have to mean even more overwhelming interruptions if you don't want it to. You can mute or DND notifications if you want.
> it seems like Ghana could be a great place to be involved in space launches eventually, as close to the equator as they are.

Unfortunately Ghana lacks a downrange ocean. Launching to the east is just as helpful as launching close to the equator.
> if we want them to be full humans

This is a circular argument. You just punted the discussion to "what does it mean to be a full human and why is handwriting a necessary part of that." I ride horses, as people have for millennia; I would never claim nonriders are less than human.
There are others, though. For example, there are a couple of basic asymmetries that advantage landlords.

One is that they generally have multiple units, whereas renters generally have only one. So the end of a lease is a bigger deal to the renter than the landlord. Another is that the costs (in time and money) of a tenant move are much higher for the renter than the landlord.

This means that a greedy landlord can jack the rent well above market price because renters are eager to avoid the expense and disruption of moving.
Use it for both EC2 and SES. Our customers link their own SES account to send out campaigns, so the advantage of being on EC2 is that many of them don't pay a penny. Server costs is about 10% of our revenue, so will weigh up the pros/cons of moving in the near future, I'm sure.
They do - their ToS. And it appears to put all liability on the passenger. They haven't substantively addressed reasonable and fair questions around this.
Notably, both were indigenous designs created by the University of Stellenbosch and the CSIR.
I've lived on Roosevelt Island for the past 37 years and the AVAC system has been very reliable, and no garbage trucks. The system works with a set of "timed" openings and several score of chutes, so the full vacuum pressure is maintained for a single chute, then it closes, and moves onto the next chute. The system timing can be adjusted to meet varying demands. Some of us are looking for possibilities of, say, 3-headed attachments at the chute base, which would allow separation into various recyclables to be automated sorted/collected. Annual cost is about $360K, which is about $30 per person per year (or $3/month). And the system collects and containerizes the garbage so only one carting truck is needed to pick up a full container, rather than carting trucks half loaded, i.e., better truck, fuel, exhaust efficiency. It's one of those "Jetsons" ideas that actually works well. I'm working with politicians to get mini-AVAC systems in areas of Manhattan (high rises), but you can imagine that there are regulatory obstacles and union/industry obstacles, but it really works well.
"Girls aren't supposed to be good at anything"

I don't think anyone at all is claiming that. At most people are claiming that girls are better at verbal and emotional skills, while boys are better at visio-spatial things.
Big battery cars like the Bolt and Tesla do not need to fully cycle every day.
The Greatest Drive – Tesla Model X 100D
It would just result in people not using condoms. The purpose of the magnum is that people want more room within the condom for sensation and they want less constriction. They're not feeding their ego, they feeding their pleasure.
Lua was successful for good reasons. And Lua itself acknowledged Tcl, but didn't have the right trade offs for them.

"In 1993, the only real contender was Tcl, which had been explicitly designed to be embedded into applications. However, Tcl had unfamiliar syntax, did not offer good support for data description, and ran only on Unix platforms. We did not consider LISP or Scheme because of their unfriendly syntax. Python was still in its infancy. In the free, do-it-yourself atmosphere that then reigned in Tecgraf, it was quite natural that we should try to develop our own scripting language ... Because many potential users of the language were not professional programmers, the language should avoid cryptic syntax and semantics. The implementation of the new language should be highly portable, because Tecgraf's clients had a very diverse collection of computer platforms. Finally, since we expected that other Tecgraf products would also need to embed a scripting language, the new language should follow the example of SOL and be provided as a library with a C API."

http://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf
>They had been involved with this story from the beginning.

Which story are you referring to, the camel farmer getting a visa?

>if you knew half of the capabilities on display in a warzone, you'd shit your pants

Please, do tell!
Which is inevitable. They better saved enough money before the company wiped them out for its own existential crisis, because by then, it is hard to imagine how could they return to this ridiculous lifestyle once again.
But why is it even a goal? I don't think the world is any better or worse off for having any particular ratio of genders in tech. Just let the cards fall as they will.
By paying higher rents because short term lets (at least on the airbnb model) inflate the rental market?
What are levels 1 and 2?
$81 million seems small potatoes to call it the worlds biggest Cyberheist.

By comparison: £650 million
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11414191/Hacker...
"Why on earth is this a test for autism?"

I agree. There is a clear gender difference in seeing color [1][2][3][4]. The use of colors here would invalidate the test for autism, at least in the context of gender difference, since it would be testing for how well you see shapes versus colors.

1: http://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2191999
2: https://www.livescience.com/22894-men-and-women-see-things-d...
3: https://www.colormatters.com/color-symbolism/gender-differen...
4: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09/120907-men-w...
I can only speak for myself and the 5-6 people I know who rent their properties on these platforms; we don't rent to new profiles.

Clearly some people do rent to new profiles. There are fools everywhere, but they won't be fools for long. It will only take a few bad experiences, and then they'll learn.
If you fall into a coma or vegetative state, are you still you?

What about during anesthesia, or deep sleep? (disregarding the certainty that you will wake up)
Say what you will about Uber (I use Lyft more personally), but UberEATS is incredible.

They took on the messy pricing models (delivery fee + delivery minimum + tip + convenience fee, etc) that the other food delivery apps use and made it a clean and simple $5 flat rate with realtime tracking. If it arrives later than the guaranteed time they give a credit. With this side business alone, they've made a 3-5x improvement in the overall food delivery experience. I think it's one app where we can't give Uber enough credit.
Sir, English is not my native language but what I see on my screen is that you wrote:

> It's chemical rockets, nukes or a space elevator. At least given known physics.

So I have a hard time to understand how that would mean:
"the alternatives to rockets are nukes or a space elevator"

In addition nukes are rockets (as far I know), so how could they be alternatives to rockets?

And they are not beyond feasibility, NOVA has been studied at NASA extensively, I think it was even fired for testing but I can't find a reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_(rocket)

And there are other proposals, rockets are really a dead end, I only need a few centuries to be proved right!
SOOO....continue the madness that existed before we had compulsory KYC rules. The same rules that allowed the financial system to enable the exact criminal activity we'd like to prevent?

Gotcha.
Vatican roulette has worked for me for over ten years... Or I'm infertile. It's kind of a toss up, but anecdotally I wouldn't rely on it if you wanted frequent sex. All contraception is a probability issue but there's a huge difference between 99% and 80%.
> Writing by hand is amazingly flexible

Once, as an exercise I attempted to transcribe my Statistics notes into LaTeX. I was perfectly capable of inserting the proper math notation, but I never realized how versatile layouts can be so easily made on paper. Things like alternating writing sizes (doable in digital, but usually ends up looking horrible), varying levels of indentation and line height, margin notes, asides, ease of diagrams (again, doable digitally, but time-consuming), notation (crossing things out, circling, arrows, etc), and so many other things. Typesetting for print or digital requires a complete change of layout and even approaches to presentation. You don't realize how much freedom the blank paper gives you until you try translating it to the digital document.
I've heard that autism can present slightly differently in girls than boys in terms of coping strategies, etc etc, which makes sense due to different external factors. This may lead to the underdiagnosis - it doesn't "look like" autism in boys.
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Montreal is amazing, actually.

Thanks, universally-slandered rent-control! Living in this city makes me realize how cargo-culty a lot of HN economics is.
I'm not sure this is accurate.

Well roughly only 1% of the US population are software developers, so I think you could have a workforce only consisting of autists. Not only that, but if the autism ratio is 2:1 male and you filled all positions with autists, you'd have numbers near what Google has in reality for male/female.

Wikipedia suggests the ratio for autism is actually 4:1. So if a company had 50% autists and 50% non-autists with 50/50 balance, you'd get the ratios like Google has today.

If only 1/3rd of the workforce is autistic (4:1), then you don't need a huge bias in the rest of the hiring to get the 2:1 ratios we see in practise. Systemic bias and any other factors could easily bridge that gap.
CM-2 was a magnificent machine I had the honor of getting some access to in my late high school years.
Diversity seems to be just a slogan these days. There's few contexts where gender, ethnicity or race really matter as specific traits to bring to the table. And I wonder if human empathy is not sufficiently capable of overcoming those differences. I mean, me as a white male, should I expect that a black woman can not design a product for me because she doesn't somehow get what it is like to be white or male? Why would the reverse be true in any way?
which platform?
Which races are you talking about?

The ones leftover from 19th century pseudoscience?

Can you point me to a science paper that shows a genetic basis for these so-called races?

Not, notably, working back from genes to crazy theories. I could genetically detect ginger haired people, or people with green eyes, that doesn't make those races.

So what defines your races?
You aren't interested in any television shows? Man, I have the exact opposite problem. There are so many things I want to watch that my to-watch list is getting longer and longer. Often I'm finding television more interesting than movies these days (my wife and I go to the cinema once a week).
Programming is about people not code. Great software helps people and communities. Knowing how to write code is a tiny part of the job.
Maybe he should have thought about that before he posted it. The author of the medium article is right that the manifesto implies that a lot of coworkers are less capable.

It's a grey area though.
One nitpick: Con Ed's plant was located near an actual thing called Hell Gate, not nicknamed that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gate

Also see its namesake bridge, under which seemingly every "dangerous meeting" scene of every movie ever, was shot.
vref and (setf vref) define getter and setter functions for manipulating pixel arrays. Since these functions are used a lot, it makes sense to allow compiler to inline them for maximum speed.

Normally function must be accessed trough the symbol and it can be redefined on the fly.
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Only clear bug fixes are wanted at this point to make the next release candidate(s) as small as possible. In this case, the PR contained some cleanups.

More changes can mean more regressions. The goal is to stabilize the master branch so that v4.13 can be released.
Similarly, if this is such an urgent goal, why are we not seeing an even more strident push to even the genders in roles where direct human interaction occurs, like teaching and nursing?

If different genders offer such a unique perspective in tech, surely that perspective is even more important in teaching our youth or caring for the sick.
Perhaps such a chimney could be built inside the shaft of a space elevator, canceling out the forces.

I'm only being half serious, but it is nevertheless interesting that the required structural challenges act in opposite directions.
Know that a simplistic test is not good enough to diagnose such a complex area of neuroscience.
You don't even need to go for Marx to discover that distinction, or challenge the idea that property is a natural right. It was remarked upon by that renowned pinko commie, Thomas Jefferson:

"A right of property in moveable things is admitted before the establishment of government. A separate property in lands, not till after that establishment. The right to moveables is acknowledged by all the hordes of Indians surrounding us. Yet by no one of them has a separate property in lands been yielded to individuals. He who plants a field keeps possession till he has gathered the produce, after which one has as good a right as another to occupy it. Government must be established and laws provided, before lands can be separately appropriated, and their owner protected in his possession. Till then, the property is in the body of the nation, and they, or their chief as trustee, must grant them to individuals, and determine the conditions of the grant."

"It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all... It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society."

(Note that these are slightly contradictory; I presented them in chronological order.)
A friend of mine makes a great point about this:

Regardless of the reasons for the differential, tech has so much impact on society - think about the cultural impact of video games just as one vector - it is meaningfully problematic if a non representative slice of society creates almost all of it.
How did you end up working in an ML research lab? What's the story here? What's your background etc.