skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> means that it is harder for the other gender in that field, then the smaller population will in fact be better on average than the larger, because it will have taken them more motivation, determination, work and ability to win over others just to get them to where they are.

Do you have any studies or statistics to back you up or is this just what you believe? Also, how does it account for males that come from a poor/under-privileged backgrounds that also requires them to have more motivation, determination, work and ability to win over others and get where they are?

> The fastest-growing companies at 200%+ growth, are 75% more likely to have a female founder.

Revenue growth is meaningless without any sort of revenue numbers to compare it against - compare growing revenues from $5,000/year to $15,000/year (200% growth) with growing from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 (100% growth).

As a corollary to your point though, how many women founders are there in unicorns?

Unfortunately not that many: http://swaay.com/todays-unicorn-companies-where-are-the-wome...

Would such companies be more or less successful with female founders, I don't know, but I suspect gender doesn't really play much of a role, in much the same way I suspect that gender of founders doesn't play much of a role in revenue growth.

> This is probably wrong,

So you think that there is difference in ability based on gender?
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Well there is.

So are you suggesting equal efforts should be expended to equalizing the representation of men in nursing and women in bricklaying, as we do other fields? They are skewed worse than most, so perhaps more effort should be put there?

Are the skews in those fields equally unacceptable or somehow more acceptable? And if they are more acceptable, why? Based upon the public discourse, the commonly accepted answer seems to be they are actually more acceptable, since it's rare to hear about efforts for increasing men in nursing or women in construction work relative to other fields like medicine, law, or STEM.

So the question reduces onto "why are some fields with gender skew more acceptable than others?" and answering that question is basically the key to everything.
As I am data curious, wolfram alpha is best suites me and love the way it presents results. Also DDG is also doing a great job.
This is an extension for the Jupyter Notebook [1]. Jupyter Notebook is a tool that allows you to combine runnable computer code, Markdown text, TeX equations and (generated) figures in a single document. It's quite popular in education and data analysis fields in my experience. Most often it is used with Python. This extension allows you to embed and run C code in a notebook document.

[1] https://jupyter.org
Why is that relevant? Isn't the worth of a human life always the same?

Looking at deaths as a proportion to the populations will tell us the disruption to society, production and agriculture. It is sometimes used when looking at plagues, just since death counts can be somewhat less useful when we want to see how whole societies are wiped from the world. Wars however already causes societal damage by the very nature, so we can not infer the damage to society by deaths in proportion to population.
The Oklahoma town that produced most of WWI’s bullets is now a poison graveyard
> Or if there was a history of alt right groups doxxing and harassing people they disagreed with, which there is - see Gamergate.

There was plenty of that from both camps.
Frequently prototyping sites and always amazed how much value bootstrap adds. Thank you for all the work done!
I must have missed the part of the memo where he used slurs.

I've noticed this kind of statement often: "How can you say X about group A - don't you know group A suffers from Y??", as a way to try and associate X with (the clearly bad) Y.
I made my best money about 5 years after graduating. Became a specialist at a very specific technology, got ~$150/hr for a little over a year. Of course Econ 101 kicked in and supply for that skill increased and so salary went down. Since then just trying to hang on. Consulting fees continually harder to justify vs low-bidders and contracts harder to come by. 15 years later gave that up for corporate. Not doing bad but also not making 300K/yr. Though I do have good benefits now. Anyway hopefully Stephanie does well.
2) those classes sound suspiciously presentational in nature. Does that concern you, or have you decided the benefits outweigh the drawbacks?
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>Network operators basically choose bridging vs routing based on how fast they want it to go and how much they hate configuring DHCP servers, which they really hate very much, which means they use bridging as much as possible and routing when they have to.

Very rarely does a network operator use bridging to avoid configuring DHCP. All modern protocols are built on IP so you still need an addressing scheme and most people want the Internet so the 169 auto addressing is out. So even in big bridged networks, you still have a DHCP server. In fact, you configure less DHCP in a big bridged network than DHCP for a ton of tiny networks.

The advantage to big bridging networks is that you have to setup very little routing (just the router to get in and out). If you routed between every port on the network, there would be an excessive amount of configuration involved to setup prefixes on every single interface.
I guess as with most turbines. Most will remain fixed, only the upper part with generator will rotate. This shouldn't work different to conventional turbines.
I had been using bootstrap for a while until I found http://bulma.io now I can't stand bootstrap.

Still bootstrap has been amazing over the years.
So what do the designers think of the new office?

I once was at a place were designers always had the last word (maybe because CEO was an architect), hence their new offices looked like a much cheaper version of Starbucks. With fewer couches and the few walls that made it were all made of glass.

The company is no longer around. These days just nearby their old offices brings back horrible memories.
> For everyone who doesn't do it on their own, they either have to trust the originator or trust someone who has done it, so for most users you aren't eliminating the need for a trusted third party.

Which is a different trust model.

There are a few major things:

1. Not everyone has to trust the originator

2. It's possible for me to trust a third party which is different from the one asking for my money

3. It's possible for me to trust a combination of many third parties, given that any one reliable third party that cries foul would be enough

So there's a huge difference between "trust me and give me your money" and "trust that not all the third parties that checked the code are co-conspirators".

> That was the upthread claim.

Yes, but I'm not making that claim, and I think your statement saying this piece is "useless in isolation" is overly dismissive.
It's not difficult to imagine how a US household could use a MWh of electricity per month indeed. We know these are the facts.

Point is, it is possible to change those consumption patterns. Quoting from your example:

* heating: 67°F should be fine in winter. replace by natural gas where possible. invest in appropriate insulation and ventilation. Look at how much of northern Europe does it.

* air conditioning: use less and more recent airco. 76-77°F should be fine in summer.

* pool heater? just switch it off, or at the very least switch to a more efficient source of heating

* cut the second fridge in the garage, or at the very least, replace it with something efficient

* use an efficient freezer

* Check what machines have to be always on. Use something efficient for the things that really have to be always on.

I'm quite sure something along these lines would have cut more than 2/3 of the electricity consumption of this average American household.

It is physically possible to make these changes. I concede that it would not be easy to convince the people to actually make changes in this direction, but it can be done!
> Coworker was building a new house, and when it came to the numbers it was let loose that it was going to cost about $700K. This didn't seem like much

Not much? I hate you Silicon Valley!
>And nowadays big data centers are basically just SDNed, and you might as well not be using IP in the data center at all, because nobody's routing the packets. It's all just one big virtual bus network.

The opposite trend is true in large data centers. L3 fabrics where everything is routed have become extremely popular because BGP (or custom SDN setups) can be used to migrate IPs and you get to utilize multiple paths (rather than the single path offered by STP convergence).
So some supermassive unseen object just has to be a black hole? Particularly when the theoretical entity called a "black hole" cannot form in a finite time universe.
Would one really expect anything at all in CSS to be simple?
You define gender that way. I and many others use it the same way you do 'sex', distinguishing XX or XY vs 'sex' which is copulation. If you live in any western country you're already aware of how commonplace this is - please don't tell me what I meant to say, it's passive aggressive and rude.
You're not "checking the value of a property after you've nil'd the parent object", you're checking if you were given a nil. This issue can occur for any function which takes an interface-typed parameter. That's usually how it happens: somebody passes in a `nil` which comes from a pointer-typed variable: https://play.golang.org/p/ADTvLDDrw6

> But regardless of the bad design of Go around the usage of "nil", the code would have failed in pretty much any other language anyway.

No, it would not. In Java, null is null whether it's typed as a concrete reference, as an array or as an interface.
What if the server needs to send you a packet while you're mobile but you haven't sent it a packet yet so it can update its cache? That packet will be lost in his scheme. Nice try.
Azure is an absolute joy to use and administer compared to IBM Bluemix.
> The only other option is to not have nil values.

Rust has a bottom type (!)[0] without it implementing all traits by default while using a different type (Result) for error propagation. Plus having nil/null as a a value of the bottom type violates some aspects of bottomness.

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1216-bang...
For me, it's this HN clone I started working on the other day: https://ng-hackernews.lukecs.com/

The advantages of using it include:

1. No need to open a new tab just to view comments
2. It loads a lot more stories at once than HN does, so you don't need to keep going to the next page
Why do you prefer bulma?
Go work for Microsoft or Amazon?
Exactly that. The difference to other offshore is not that it's further away from the coast, just that it can be used for less shallow areas. They should still be reachable within a day by boat and I guess maintenance shouldn't differ much from other offshore wind farms.
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Just noticed this today, sorry for the delay. I'm the author, anything I can do to help out? Let me know!
The first cycle collectors for reference counting too, so backup tracing wasn't required.
https://sqncbrk.com isn't going to make any money any time soon.
"These days windows just feels wrong though. It's probably just me but I feel like my windows machines are basically iPads with keyboards that I can't really do anything with the way I want to.

Git sucks on windows, paints replacement sucks, almost anything that isn't .Net development sucks and Visual Studio has to live in a cage or it takes over everything from wanting to debug your steam library to howling at the moon."

You are being far too polite :) It is not you: Windows is fine as a launcher for consumer applications, but for setup of development tools, it is appallingly terrible, and outside .NET the user experience with developer tools can be pretty rough. For many things, it is now a third-class platform (Mac is first, then Linux).

I definitely agree with Git, specifically. This isn't Microsoft's fault: Git is so UNIX-y that you have to wrap it in a kind of miny-UNIX distribution to run it on a non-UNIX platform, but they are the only desktop vendor with a non-UNIX platform.

I am looking forward to having an opportunity to work with WSL, to see how much that helps.
That's fascinating. Is there any information (in English) about that project?
Ask HN: How did you decide on a license for your open source project?
Was it based on whether your project was free or paid-for?

Have you ever chosen an open source license and wished you'd chosen a different one?

Have you actively avoided a particular license? If so, what were your reasons?
Vaping? Edibles? Do they drink alcohol as well? More research is needed!
> Recycling (and slightly modifying) a previous comment

Please don't. There's too much repetition on HN already without copy-pasting previous comments.
May I ask how much are you making?
I just checked wikipedia on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem

so which of the 26 taxonomy models are you referring to ?

Clearly, it's an utter mess.
In my experience, there are three problems with these debates (incl. the Google memo) that are huge enough that I believe it's best to avoid them entirely in the general public:

1. To many opinions in them are agenda-driven. There are racists and sexists, and if they are allowed to post pseudonymously they come out in troves. For example, the memo was recently discussed on /. and this turned very, very ugly.

2. Not enough people are aware that issues of social justice cannot be backed up by scientific facts in a straightforward way. They don't distinguish between preferences and capabilities, status quo and what would be desirable, etc. It's pointless to discuss such topics with anyone who isn't aware of these distinctions. Facts do not play the role in these debates that many seemingly scientifically-minded people believe they do. I can give examples, but don't want to do that now, because these would invariably stir up some unnecessary controversy. Well, I'll give one that is perhaps not so controversial: Many women did not express any desire to vote and considered suffragettes as too radical. The preferences of these women doesn't tell you anything about whether women should be allowed to vote or not, though. The status quo can be changed at any time if there is enough of a will to do so. Women used to be executed for adultery in Medieval Europe, and this is no longer so, because we have changed society to the better over the centuries.

3. The discussions are almost always based gross and insubstantial generalizations and an inability to describe tendencies correctly or draw adequate conclusions from small tendencies. The groups chosen are also often based on superficial differences or historical accidents.
Personally prefer Foundation but glad to see Bootstrap maturing from the eternal alpha version. :)
If you wrote just the first three paragraphs, I would upvote you. I agree completely. But then:

> Even if there were jobs that women were less qualified for, or had less interest in, we would want lower the difference, with equal representation if possible.

Who are we to tell people what they should do? If people want or don't want to work in some field, they should have the freedom to do so. They shouldn't be forced to work in some field just so that the society could mark the 50:50 checkbox.

Now, you can say, there is "discrimination", and that's why that's somebody preference. But that shouldn't really matter, as long as you fulfill each individual's honest wishes. If I ask you about something, and there is no reason for you to lie to me, then that's your preference and it should be respected if possible. If it's respected, then there is no discrimination, doesn't matter what the group outcome is. Individuals matter, groups are just constructs.

(In fact, the reason why the whole nature vs. nurture debate gets invoked is that somebody has an agenda. You can see the same thing in reverse with gays. Some people want to believe that being gay is cultural, because if it's cultural, then it can be changed, and according to them, should be.)

So this worries me, by going against individual preferences, we are going to make people unhappy, just to satisfy some "higher" goal. There is always a tension like this, in the free market (which I don't believe in), the pay should resolve it, but why to add to it?

Sadly, there are some women out there who are vocal proponents of for example more women programmers (I actually wish for that too, because programming is just cool, but I can't force anybody) and want positive discrimination, but if you ask them personally, if they considered programming as a career, they will tell you that it doesn't interest them for one reason or another. It's incredible hypocrisy.
White guy got fired for insulting female coworkers. Not the first time.
I think it's fair for an employer to say to its employees. After all, you are there to get work done, not solve all of the problems in the world.

But in this particular issue I think that Google actually opened the door by implementing a diversity program that favors one group of people over another (note: I personally have no issues with affirmative action programs, but let's at least be intellectually honest about what they are), and forcing employees to sit through special training. Now he is complaining about workplace conditions. And firing employees for complaining about workplace conditions is not ok (and potentially illegal in California).
Looks good. I'm going to try bulma for my next project
What are you even talking about? I've also been shouted down, talked over and the rest. What does that have to do with the analogy for which you felt the need to express disapproval and play your "woman in tech" card?

You have a strong air of superiority. You seem to think that because you are a woman that you are more important than me. I'm sure this is because you are a part of the group that "we're all so concerned with".

Well, guess what? I am not concerned about getting more of any group of people in tech. I want people in tech who want to be in tech. Simple as that. I support lowering the barriers to entry even lower than they are right now. Free software and Raspberry Pis are great. They are cheaper than Barbie dolls now. We're doing really well.

What I don't support is trying to force a particular group of people to do something that most of them don't want to do. As a woman in tech yourself you must surely see that it is possible and that there are no extra barriers to any other woman who wants to pursue the same path. Or do you think that you are special and all those other, weaker women need more help to do what they want?
> As a network-ignoramus, who likes cryptography, I’ve long dreamt of a networking protocol where endpoints are defined, primarily, by a public key. All messages would be encrypted with the destination public key, and signed by the source private key.

See https://zerotier.com/
>> I don't know why.

Wouldn't that be mass copyright infringement that Soundcloud would have a duty to prevent?
There's a page with German electricity production by source [1]. According to that, wind is still more reliable than solar but even offshore wind seems to be far from 24x7. It looks like yesterday there was virtually no wind on the North Sea. It still makes most sense to combine both and then use batteries to match production with demand. Relying on one source won't work.

[1] https://www.energy-charts.de/power.htm?source=solar-wind&wee...
That's not the argument at all, because there was nowhere in Europe where the government provided no services[0]. Chesterton's fence isn't an argument in favour of non-intervention or laissez-faire economics, it's an argument in favour of inertia. If anything, it implies that the Soviet bureaucracy should have been slowly and carefully dismantled, which isn't obviously wrong if you read accounts of what happened after the dissolution of the USSR.

[0] At least in theory. Failing to provide a promised service is not the same as deliberately providing no service. It might not even possible for a government worth the name to do literally nothing.
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> but I never quite got into the tinkering culture

off topic (bikeshedding?) comment: you don't need to tinker with linux: install ubuntu, use it, profit. At work we went from "windows 8 + osx" to "ubuntu + windows 10". Nobody tinkers with anything and everything just works. Its just a bit faster and cheaper now.
Okay, now we're talking about Armageddon. Why bring it up when one option is clearly better than the other?
You are definitely paid less or are junior (IC4?). $80k/yr equity is pretty par at this level.
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> Your analysis assumes that it's always the best candidate that's hired.

Which is something Google has gone on record as saying it does, see for example here: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-google-hires-exceptional-...

But you are correct in that my analysis makes several assumptions that might not hold up in real life, it was meant merely to show that the statement from the original memo doesn't mean (as many people incorrectly thought) that Damore was saying Google was lowering its standards for diversity hires.

> Personally I find it hard to believe that the companiesdoing affirmative action manage to do it without lowering the bar

Ok but even assuming as you do above that a random sample is hired such that "it's still top 25% of women and men that are hired," then you have lowered the bar for everyone from 10% to 25%.

Yes that still meets their own internal requirements, but is what the author meant when he said 'effectively' lower the bar by decreasing the false negative rate.
I'd say that there clearly is an externality being addressed by age discrimination legislation.

It's not in the interests of the state to have corporations pushing down wages by favouring only younger staff.

Low wages == low tax receipts, which is objectively bad for countries and their citizens.

Also as citizens it's hardly in the interests of the group as a whole in allowing corporations to drive down salaries and make older citizens redundant. Every young citizen who might benefit from such actions now will become an old citizen who will get the downside later in life.

At the moment we're discussing the behaviour of a large corporation (google) so it makes sense to address that class of company.

To be clear, I don't hate corporations at all, but nor to I have any faith that they'll always act in the best interests of the country I live in, in fact I expect them not to do so where their interests diverge from the interests of the country and so I expect my government to address that with legislation.
With IP-per-container we're pretty close to this already. systemd could launch every service on my system into it's own network namespace with a unique IPv6 address + NAT via my IPv4.

Might be an interesting weekend project sometime.