skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me spell it out. The reason that there is not a percentage of judges equal to the prevelance of women in the population, is due to systemic factors.

Since there are other possible explanations, like men and women having different interests and drives and following different paths in pursuing those interests, there's no tight logical proof dictating that "systemic factors" ipso facto is definitely the cause of the outcome we are evaluating because there are no other possible causes.

There are other possible causes, so given this reality of multiple possible causes, what evidence would suffice to convince you that "systemic factors," aren't the primary cause?

If we want to stick with the premise that "systemic factors" are a problem, what are they specifically? How are the remedied specifically?

If it turns out after following these prescriptions there is still a divergence in the sex ratio, then what? Should we basically just force some number of women to work as judges so that the sex ratio in the field is equal?

There are far more occupations than judge that have a divergent sex ratio, should we work tirelessly to equalize sex ratios for all occupations where this is the case?

If your understanding of "systemic factors" basically means the system of sexual evolutionary history extending over millions of years, then we can agree.
Driving is SF is actually quite challenging. It is quite congested with cars as well as pedestrians and cyclists. Due to lax enforcement many traffic laws are routinely ignored particularly by cyclists, pedestrians and transit vehicles. On top of this there is lots of construction, poorly maintained roads and frequent traffic flow changes.

Not sure what you are imagining but SF is free of winter driving conditions. Other than that it is as challenging as any city in the US, Europe or Japan.
Note how there's no dissertation or thesis advisor listed, unlike the other alumni. Here's an article saying he didn't graduate more explicitly:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/technology/google-enginee...
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> The idea that nuclear weapons are what's keeping them from being attacked is simply stupid.

You don't seem to be too familiar with this topic. Look into nuclear game theory and the vast, vast efforts undertaken to stop countries like Iran developing nuclear weapons.

When all other offensive strategies are stripped away, the core function of nuclear weapons is to prevent an invasion of your country. Possession of advanced nuclear weapons puts you in a situation where the costs of invasion are so high, it would take a Highly irrational actor to pursue.

The fact that NK already has nuclear capabilities of a sort is extremely bad and seems to be a failure of the international community. It means that if NK was not being so threatening, the prospect of invasion now would be near nil. You do not invade a country that has nukes. The problem is NK IS threatening Japan/US with nuclear destruction.
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Here you go:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/technology/google-enginee...
As with most things in C++ that looks horribly convoluted for some very simple functionality.
In D all we have to do is:

* `if ( __ctfe) { ... }` for compile time

* `if (!__ctfe) { ... }` for runtime
Ever walked into a Starbucks with those long communal tables and 10 people on laptops, with two people having a conversation, and others walking past every now and then? And you go to get your coffee and turn around, and now you're looking in the direction of 12 people, some of whom look up from what they're doing because they wonder what you're looking at. You go find a place to sit, set down your coffee, get out your laptop, and log in - only for Frank, the retired cab driver who is a regular here, to immediately strike up a conversation with you about "those fuckin' contractors who won't get shit done on my addition".

It's not as cramped or loud, but it is awkward and distracting. It's definitely not the end of the world. But if working in a coffee shop full of people you see every day does not work for you, this is an unproductive floor plan.

They had enough money that they could have built 10 different kinds of workspaces spread out in a building with five times the work space on the same property. Instead they built a hollow glass donut. Because: Steve Jobs.
I hear you. That sounds very nice, but a work environment can simply never be the same as hanging out with a friend over lunch. There needs to be some way to discourage harassment and promote a positive, friendly work environment that values people for their skill set rather than other given irrelevant attributes.

Free discussion is just not appropriate at a work place - the line must be drawn somewhere and usually that means veering towards acting professional. There is ample opportunity to be yourself fully outside of this context.

Nothing has been more positive to me as a woman in tech than working in environments with professionalism. I got to focus on what I love to do, what I am best at. It works in the interest of companies too.
The NYC 'headqarters' is not even on their list of locations

https://www.atlassian.com/company/careers

so I'd be surprised if it hosts a signficant percentage of their development workforce. As far as I know their Sydney office is really the heart of their operation and it's very open plan.
I was only making an honest observation. It's amazing that, whenever one makes an observation that could be construed as detracting, your observation gets moderated downward. That's sad.

Anyway, audited the first class and think it's a wonderful product. However, my observation about this "seeming like product marketing" stands. Mod me down again, I suppose.
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If you are an equity crowdfunding investor, it's impossible to find an aggregated database of opportunities.

So, over the weekend, I hacked together a Jupyter notebook that scrapes the SEC EDGAR database for Regulation CF forms, available here: https://gist.github.com/asadoughi/35adc4237e5ba69162fadf8df4...

If you are interested in the links for each of the campaigns, I put those together as well as the minimum investment required manually in a spreadsheet and available if you sign up for the product here: http://cfsheet.launchrock.com/

Thanks for any feedback!
It's like they want me to pirate...

As a non US citizen it's literally impossible for me to watch the majority of the content I'd like to watch in any legal fashion whatsoever, it's quite disheartening. I already pay for Apple Music and Netflix, but there's simply too many shows that are region locked.

Ugh, maybe I should just give up on trying to pay for these services when they make it this difficult...
People "in the middle" are not attending white power rallies.
Me too! I hated the environment (not the job) in every bone of my body.
If most people are "overpaid", why have wages dropped relative to productivity for decades?
Depending on how far you going (size of the aircraft and its occupancy) it is like driving all the way to your employer in a car that gets 2.4L/100Km [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#1.2C0...
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Just read up on the whole thing. Yes, I remember now that he went to Tesla. I think it is unusual for a programming language guy to do machine learning. Not surprised it didn't work out.
> Chaperones: In keeping with Islamic tradition, users can opt to have a “Wali” present in their conversations

Sounds like a pretty unique feature in the world of chat apps. Were there any technical difficulties in implementing that?
> Harvard University tells me James Damore did not complete his Phd. He completed a masters degree in systems biology in 2013 [1]

You can "be on a PhD program" without having completed it.

[1] https://twitter.com/nitashatiku/status/894939560391565317
Not because the ban, but because of this single comment (https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6shf5j/i_work_a...) I'll retract PART of what I said. Perhaps all is not lost, but I adhered to HN policy where I didn't personally attack any HN user as previously outlined. Still, I am now shadow banned and "dang," perhaps you will be the only person to read this. Perhaps none will. Its a website, we both know accounts are a dime a dozen. I have no desire to try to unwind your idea of what HN is, should, or could be. Hackers ask questions, sometimes and oftentimes without permission of the folks being "hacked". If a community portraying itself as a bastion of speech by this community cannot handle dissenting opinions, however harsh, wrong-footed or verbose they may be. Welp, I'll just say "ok", and we'll see our different ways. You can see the upvotes and downvotes on my comment and you see they leveled at zero. The community is split. Realize that. Cheers and truly, best wishes!
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> Most companies don't want to pay for retention.

But many companies, the companies with that 20% greener grass, are willing to give a complete stranger a 20% raise.

"The irony ... the irony ..."
People all have different values. There's work others don't find interesting that I can be happy doing. What I need is freedom, not just for technical choices but also for process.
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You're missing the thesis by an important mark. The thesis is "Women in tech are underrepresented in tech because of sexual differences". Which is a fundamentally different statement. Next you'll tell me that the under representation of various ethnic group is likewise related to the underlying physiological differences. Now we're back to the 1930s and you're on the wrong side of history.

Notice how none of the works you could drum up really point post childhood development or aptitudes.
This is Paul Graham's best piece. Really nails down what it takes to make a business successful.
It's funny because bitcoin seems designed to fail eventually. The computational cost of mining is going up faster than hardware can keep up. That's a problem because maintaining the whole blockchain is dependent on the continued possibility of mining. When the mining becomes impossible it will be impossible to maintain the distributed ledger. But that won't actually happen. Instead the mining will get increasingly difficult and transaction rates will have to decline accordingly. It will eventually become unusable and of little or no value. At least that's what my (limited) understanding leads me to believe.

I used the word "legitimate" because the parent to my post did. The way I see it there is nothing legitimate about any of these so-called currencies. They are probably all Ponzi schemes in the end.
If you haven't noticed a difference in m/f ratio of geeks, then how can you say geek culture us hostile to women? Assuming you think all male geeks are hostile to women, wouldn't it just be half of the culture that is hostile?

idk, something about "half of geeks culture is women" and "geek culture is hostile to women" doesn't seem like a good argument to me.
This is a very good article that goes into detail on what you mention:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...
I have a theory that most people in the US do not work in SV-like jobs.
I don't think that either side of any issue has a monopoly on that kind of lunacy.

By which I mean, there are people on either side of any big debate who try to silence the opposition and call them names.

As Adlai Stevenson once said, "when you sling mud, you lose ground."
Think of hotels or airline/train sleeper seats not public transit.
IMO it depends on the job. Open floor plans are good for ops roles and some front end roles where teams of people are engaged in substantially similar work driven, especially event driven work.

Lower density low cubes are ok. Offices are great for managers, PMs or professionals like attorneys, engineers or accountants.

From my perspective, remote works if the culture is friendly to remote or conditions like traffic make commuting a misery for everyone. As a manager of managers, we historically have had a lot of problems with remote employees compared with people in the office.
>The success of HBO Now has been a challenge because it holds out the hope that if you are "good enough" you too can get $10 - $15 a month per subscriber.

it'll be interesting to see how this changes when the Game of Thrones ends.
Just use mothballed planes as offices. A steward could come down the isle every couple hours and give us snacks and drinks. When the build breaks, they can turn off the air as punishment.

Hook them into some sort of huge ferris wheel, saves on space and keeps attrition low.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14954927.
> A few emails, echats, and meetings are sufficient.

As a sysadmin, I overhear a ton of stuff that people don't put into chats. I like being in the office and being able to hear what people are talking about in the workplace; it helps me do my job better.
> This happened a while ago so I could be misremembering, but regardless I don't believe that the environmental value of electric vehicles has been realized

Indeed.

However, look at it this way: which is easier to replace, the entire fleet, or centralized power plants?

Every time a new windmill or solar panel is added, your Tesla gets that much cleaner. And that's something you can do yourself if you want to. Electricity is fungible and your car could not care less where it came from.

Oil changes have a non-negligible impact for the environment as well. And then there are all those components that have to be replaced from time to time and end up in landfills (spark plugs/cables, timing belts, etc).

So I believe electric cars today are already a net gain. And, even if they polluted more, the pollution is centralized in the power plants, which is easier to do something about. There are problem health benefits from moving pollution away from population centers.

I make a point of going to parks with my EV. I know it's a token gesture, but I like to think I'm not blowing dirty fumes next to animal habitats. It helps that California is reasonably clean.
> It's clear that, in aggregate, he believes certain groups naturally more "fit" for the work. Now, if you're a woman who has to work with or for him, what do you feel?

He explicitly states that the overall trends contribute to the resulting distributions (eg. overall trend where men are more interested in tech-type things leads to resulting distribution where more men than women work in tech) but that this should not be misinterpreted as having any relevance to any given individual.

So if you're a woman working with or for this person, whose reading comprehension is roughly equivalent with that of your peers (and I'd expect no less at a company like Google), you would know that he explicitly does not view you as any less "fit" or capable, and so would not feel victimized or targeted in any way.
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>Agents of Shield I believe a ABC owned production

and ABC is owned by Disney.
It's sort of telling how far out of my way you went to form an argument against something you manifested all by yourself.

You're a bike ride away from the office that you prefer? Fantastic job of deflection.

It's rather obvious that there are trade-offs, isn't it? It's pretty clear to me, at any rate, and there's nothing inherently wrong with providing an office. Shame on your words coming out of my mouth.

In relation to the expense of providing "office space" for several hundred the cost of a fat pipe is pretty darn cheap, were that it existed.

If you don't have the need to live where you work there are "simple" choices any given person can make that will make their lives easier, happier and, hopefully, more fruitful for both themselves and their employers.

And besides, having worked in offices (real ones), cubicles (and half-ones), bullpens and open spaces (including fields) I feel I am more than qualified to provide my own opinion on the matter without implying that my "simple" opinion is somehow not compatible with your own.

Open spaces suck to work in. It's that simple.
https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys
I don't think it's any secret D does CTFE better than any other language.
Hi, I'm the main author of SocketCluster. SC does support multi-node clustering; in fact, you can deploy with a single command and scale with a single command. SC has been able to auto-scale on Kubernetes for almost one year now. See https://github.com/SocketCluster/socketcluster/blob/master/s...

You're right that neither SC not Deepstream support long polling fallbacks but there are some very good architectural reasons for this. Both SC and Deepstream used to support HTTP long polling fallbacks via engine.io in the past but both projects independently decided to stop doing it after years of experimentation and feedback.

Now that WebSockets are well supported in all major web browsers and HTTPS has become even more prevalent (so corporate proxies are no longer a problem), the extra load balancing complexity, performance costs and the DoS vulnerabilities of long polling are no longer worth it.
Unfortunately, Amazon is a large part of the problem too.

People who want to watch Japanese cartoons get to pay for yet another streaming service, and for years there was a split where we had to pay for both Crunchyroll and Funimation. We finally saw light at the end of the tunnel with the advent of a partnership to share content. Only it turned out to be an Amazon freight train in the form of Anime Strike, which not only requires a $99/yr Prime account, but an additional $5/mo surcharge.

And now once again, we have a service cannibalizing half the important shows each season. And I'm just ... out. Amazon is not getting more money from me. I'm not supporting this balkanization of media content. And I will likely drop Crunchyroll because it doesn't have half of what I want to watch anymore.

These companies are never going to learn. I am happy to pay for content, but I'm not going to sign up for one streaming service per show I want to watch. Like most people, I simply can't afford that.
I was in Germany a few days ago. My credit card workflow:

- Cashier tells me total amount.

- I get my card from my wallet.

- I hold the card near the terminal.

- 2-3 seconds pass, terminal goes "Approved".

- Done.

It's easier than cash. Almost every store I went to had wireless card terminals, even coffee shops and supermarkets.
There is a way to cache data in memory.. I don't know why this isn't documented:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38423277/does-firebase-c...
Can you provide some examples? The FAQ beginning with [1] seems to paint a different picture, and it would be nice to hear something from the i2pd side.

[1] - https://github.com/monero-project/kovri-docs/blob/master/i18...
> These comments are stored and indexed forever and whatever we say could be used against us at some point in the future.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/hacker-news

This dataset contains all stories and comments from Hacker News from its launch in 2006. Each story contains a story ID, the author that made the post, when it was written, and the number of points the story received.
I would never want to own the physical discs (minimalism), but if the price is right this will still be better than buying the individual movies on Vudu for some people.
Oh cool, didn't realize color burst was used for that, I skimmed over it in the past and misunderstood its purpose. TIL
>VSCode has a built-in debugger which takes it dangerously close to being called a full-fledged IDE rather than just a text editor with plugins cough Atom cough

Is that a bad thing? I like debuggers.
You asked for a substantive reply given the downvotes by others, and I gave you one. Are you going to reply to it or focus on the guess (which I called out as a guess... hardly an assumption).
Even a Leaf is fun due to the constant acceleration.
Are we talking long term investment, or do you want to play with speculation? If they first, I'd say it's neither - just go with some real fund, possibly via your bank. If you want to speculate - all of them. Setup a few buy orders at various levels below current price and wait for the next big event / crash / exchange fail / ...
I simply asked you if you agree that it's a man talking about how men are over-represented.

You were drawing a conclusion about how his comments are different from an Asian talking about how Asians are over-represented.

I haven't said anything else.

I take it from your somewhat insulting non-answer that you aren't sure if you agree with me.
you posted this in the chromium thread too and ... it's not relevant
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Perhaps you should make chapter 3 free too? That's the kind of material is want to see before I decide if I like the language or the book.

Of course, you might have a good reason not to do it, but that was my first thought when looking at the web site.
They should rebel collectively, through a union perhaps
Here is the DocOk/Vrui post on latency, A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline (2014) http://doc-ok.org/?p=1057 (from which the reddit-linked graphs came).

Highlights include:

> Under a non-compositing window manager, regular double-buffering under OpenGL does not incur undue latency (and there is a window manager hint to tell a compositing manager to grant pass-through to a window).

> At least using the Nvidia graphics driver [...] OpenGL can vsync to any connected display, primary or secondary.

> OpenGL and X Windows allow applications to draw directly into a video controller’s frame buffer, allowing single-buffered rendering and racing the video controller’s scanout. [...] With front buffer rendering, display latency on the Rift DK2 dropped to about 4.3ms

And from Zero-latency Rendering (2015) http://doc-ok.org/?p=1313

> with some new rendering configuration options in Vrui 4.0 I can disable vsync, and render directly into the display window’s front buffer. In other words, I can let these applications “race the beam.”
Where do you pay $5 for coffee? I think you are getting ripped off.
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He made it with React.
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> Except this only works with subsequent encounters with the same trickste

At some point you have to risk and generalizing when you see similar arguments brought up over and over otherwise "the other side" could continue to use the same tactic as long as they cycle through different people that haven't done it before.
It's not just wealth, but status. I was in the UK recently and had an enlightening conversation with a mixed-class couple. The guy sounded like an aristocrat and the lady sounded, well, low-class. They both had middle-class jobs but told me that if the guy was a hobo on the street, most Londoners would still believe that he was wealthy and give him the privilege of it, just from his manner of speech.

Americans might claim to have no such social strata, but one can often tell from dress and speech what social class someone is from. Amusingly, I met a young billionaire who tried to dress poor, but still quite obviously spent thousands of dollars on his dredlock basket-hat.