skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not particularly knowledgeable about that, so I don't have much to offer here. I'll take a stab, but I don't have anything to cite, and my opinions aren't well informed -

For various reasons I don't want to go into on this thread, Iran is not a society that I think should be looked up to and emulated. It frequently gets cited as an example of highly misogynistic culture, and as far as I know has plenty of laws / official practices that codify inequality of women in a way that many other developed countries (e.g., the United States, countries in the EU, etc) don't. I'm happy to be corrected on this as I really don't know all that much about Iran, but I strongly suspect the people decrying the google essay as being sexist would agree that Iran is not a good role model for egalitarian society. Regardless, from what little I do know, if the structure of Iranian society/culture is what it takes to get high representation of women in STEM, is that really worth it?

I have one more thing to add - I found this video to be thought provoking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5LRdW8xw70&t=300

(I've linked to a specific time where the material is particularly relevant, but the whole thing is worth a watch)

To summarize, that video makes the observation that less wealthy, less egalitarian countries have higher rates of women in typically male professions. Conversely, very rich and egalitarian countries have a lower amount of women in them. The explanation for this phenomenon that is proposed in the video (if I remember right, I watched this years ago) is that when factors like wages, status, family expectations, etc are given less and less importance, and people are therefore relatively more free to choose professions based on desire rather than need, women tend to avoid jobs within STEM fields. To be clear, that's merely one interpretation of the data (although it sounds plausible to me), there are likely other valid ones.
The ol' freedom of speech but not freedom from consequences bit
"Gruber continued, “When he [Srouji] was shown the floor plans, he was more or less just 'F--- that, f--- you, f--- this, this is bulls---.' And they built his team their own building, off to the side on the campus … My understanding is that that building was built because Srouji was like, 'F--— this, my team isn't working like this.’”"

Ya, what that guy said ^^.
Letsencrypt service down
Already on that, I'm handing in my notice in 3 weeks.
The President and the Bomb, Part III
Let's not forget that this affects other services than Netflix - BAMTech is what handles HBO Now, MLB.tv, and others.
I quit mine 120k job because Im not dealing with any disrespect and or unfairness! For 3 months I tried to work out a situation with a co-worker but it was a constant fight with this jerk. Tried to get managements help, but no help or concern was provided.

There's too much opportunity to deal with any B.S. no matter the money you are paying me...ok id deal with some if it paid $250k and the govt took zero.
Don't give them any ideas. The whole open office dumpster-fire has probably been a cover to further reduce software engineer salaries. Edit: added probably.
There's a pretty large difference between shaving 250 grams off your bike weight, versus replacing all your pedalling with an electric motor =).

One will get you banned from the Tour de France - the other will not...

I confess I'm one of the lycra brigade people (they're not all guys!), and have spent money on trying to save those couple of extra grams.

However, for me, I like cycling also for the exercise benefits - and using an electric monitor would remove all those benefits.

Although for somebody who doesn't want to pedal - I think they're great! You get many of the benefits, without arriving as sweaty.
People being fine with news outlets reporting opinions makes me sad.
Thanks, that convinced me to pull the trigger.
yeah. agreed. that video was painful on a lot of levels.
Even if Netflix retains streaming rights to some of the existing episodes they co-produced, Disney owns the properties and future seasons will show up on Disney's streaming service.
There is popcorntime.io
I'm admiring this work, but can't help to be increasingly concerned about the utter complexity web developing is heading for. Case in point on a reddit frequented by junior web devs (and product placement bots as it seems):
https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/6sdglh/feeling_over...
Honestly I think she is one of the best people on this planet. She really means what she's saying, because she doesn't bother to play political games. I love it.

However that is not a good business teacher. Most of us don't have rich parents that guarantee us lifelong financial safety and a vast network of business contacts when we leave university. That means we need to do a lot of stuff we don't like, for instance bother with questionable business deals, and we really need to learn to fight for life of our start-ups because these a-holes who just want to take all you got really are more rich and powerful than we are. In your start-up description form the part "unique selling point" is checking for something that will let you survive when people start fighting you despite you're not being ready to fight back.

I'd rather suggest Sun Tsu than Diane Greene as start-up advice. Keep hers for the sunny days after you exited one or two start-ups successfully.
Tryst with the future
True, but they do get turned off when people and politicians who are seemingly "normal" people get branded an alt right neo Nazi (Jake Tapper was accused of this for challenging Linda Saraour). So, sure, the voter in Wisconsin who voted for Obama twice and pulled the lever for Trump this time isn't listening to Richard Spencer podcasts and larping at white power rallies - but as the Left continues to paint in broader strokes I see the likelihood of Trump winning again increasing.
Not entirely true. Even if you believe in your currency long term you still need money short term so that you can cover your own costs of living and the cost of hiring other people.
Kids handling Blu-Ray disk and constantly swapping them out would easily triple the blu-ray disk cost and also probably add on the cost of atleast one new blu-ray player a year.
Choosing an ETL tool for your analytics stack
Officially there is no such service, but unofficially you can do a lot of stuff :-)

You pay $12 to Netflix and you can watch it officially on 4 devices, which means it's $3 for any of your 4 friends, but you can "oversell" it actually more if you've some friends in different timezones. Many services work this way just fine. Streamwarez(tm) is here for a long time already.
The 160k+ is meaningless when no one is actually using BTC to buy things. Also, not far from the truth anyway:

http://www.businessinsider.com/merchants-arent-accepting-bit...
If anyone wants to see a turbine car in action, Jay Leno owns one and has a YouTube video on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2A5ijU3Ivs
CarDash (YC S17) hiring a senior back end developer
We're looking for a senior developer capable of working with a Node, AWS, GraphQL, SQL stack. Ideally based in the Bay Area, but willing to work with someone who is remote if they're a badass.

For more on CarDash: https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/08/cardash-5-3-million/

Link to the job posting:
http://careers.cardash.com/apply/oONDCW85Vx/Back-End-Or-Full...
IMO, inlining styles is rarely worth it. Just include a single CSS file in the head and call it a day. There's value in simplicity.

If I'm given the choice, I usually avoid web fonts. Most platform's built-in fonts are usually pretty good and fast. It's fine for a website to look different on various browsers and operating systems.
I think this transformation happened because of the long term house arrest of Julian Assange. He is wikileaks, and I think taking revenge against the people who are to be blamed for his predicament has taken precedence over any noble goal Wikileaks might have started with.
> NPR tweeted that some women at Google were so upset by the memo that they stayed home from work. Well, at least they didn't play to their stereotype of being overly emotional.

I definitely see the humour, but this is necessarily not just a women's thing.

When we as a society increasingly give the power to the offended to decide what is OK and not OK to say, you should not be surprised to find that on average people will be more careful about what and how they communicate, to the point of people imposing self censorship on them selves.

The effect of this on large scale is that because in general people are now exposed to less "hard" speech or statements, they also become mentally less "rugged". Their minds are simply not trained to handle normal discourse or disagreement any more.

And therefore what passes as normal conversation in the rest of the world, is now a fireable offence in Silicon Valley.

And thus people in SV will self censor even more. And become even more sensitive. Rinse and repeat. This kind of stuff is just not healthy. How are you going to we break the cycle?
Maciej (and others) believe the best way to get your company to stop doing things you may not like:

- keeping user history around forever

- donating more from the company PAC to Republicans than Democrats

- keeping engineers in open plan offices

- providing services to election campaigns of anti-immigrant politicians

- not paying the same amount of money to men and women for the same work

- provide less-than-livable wages to cafeteria staff

Is to form a union and strike or negotiate for more worker-friendly policies.

Notably no one is suggesting striking for higher engineering wages, just the avoidance of bad policy and a say in the company's future direction.

As to your second point, I can't speak to that, other than to say it's illegal to retaliate against someone for discussing or organizing to form a union.
ime, that's driven from the ceo/whoever actually runs eng down. Some places appreciate keeping the engineers who built a system around; other places prefer to pay more to hire new people and then have them spend 6 months getting up to speed. Those costs are invisible in the budget though; they just manifest as slower output.
Oh I was definitely not saying Iran should be a role model for the rest of the world. I'm saying examples exist that prove the negation of the "biological" argument.

Which brings doubt into, if we're raising boys and girls without considering gender norms would boys really outnumber girls in tech?
Disney movies are pure junk.
Flowsheets Visualizations
Is there? How are we defining value here? Profit?

I broadly agree that creators hugely benefit from these platforms, but that really doesn't seem to be what they're optimizing on imho. And you basically admitted they're a monopoly with that final statement.
They had me make a Twitter bot that's tweeting out all of the 78s (with preview audio) as well:

https://twitter.com/old_78s
There is considerable controversy among social justice groups about how best to approach sex work. It is absolutely not verboten to suggest that sex work can be empowering rather than oppressive. Controversial, but certainly not forbidden.
The new building is based on his ID lab.

https://www.cultofmac.com/303396/design-studio-behind-iron-c...
so every release goes out with its own API key?
Since when has anyone reduced software engineer salaries?
Top 7 Editors for React Native Mobile App Development
Also Zero Motorcycles are starting to have interesting models here. check them out if you're interested in electric motorcycles. I requested a quote for their 2017 models, waiting on a response.
Shouldn't this be a situation where the market decides, then?

AirBNB, developed in leftist SF: No white supremacists on our system.

AryanBNB, developed in northern Idaho: White supremacists welcome!

If people are really that turned off by AirBNB banning white supremacists, they'd flock to AryanBNB, wouldn't they?

For my part, I just don't think this slope is that slippery. I'd happily prohibit white supremacists from using any service I ever developed, or if I ever opened a retail shop, I'd happily ask them to leave (reserving the right to refuse service and all that).

But that's just me. Surely the white supremacists can develop short-term rental apps to cater to everyone, can't they? (They wouldn't prohibit any specific groups from using their services, I'm sure, ha ha.)
Grow up. That telling the truth may help your enemies means that there is something wrong with your position, not that you should eliminate the messenger. This is a basic life lesson you should've learned in grade school.
> Well, if you get fired for it, you lacked tact.

Really, you don't think there were any factors beyond his control, like other people spreading it around and media misreporting it?
That is the big advantage of getting books out on shelves, so people can look through them. That's harder to do with more independent works.

Now that I think about it, I use to buy programming books in University and just after (2005-ish), but I haven't really since. Even when I work places where we have a book budget; I never request anything. These days I read the documentation, and if I get stuck, I go to a stack exchange site.
Nobody is arguing that he is a victim of his "free speech rights" being violated.

People are arguing that Google is acting like a thug.
I remember as a kid one Christmas playing with the boxes themselves with my younger siblings, almost forgetting about what was in them. I seriously doubt my (future) kids will do that and that makes me sad and is a little terrifying.
Getting error messages on the maps.
Shampoo Prank Original
[x] Setup backup
Stuck on patching up legacy software right now, project has been dragging for four months already and the next years worth of projects in the pipeline are all just as shitty. Definitely enough to make me bored, definitely enough to make me buff up my resume in case any offers come along... even $5000 would go a long way in making me feel like what I'm doing isn't such an endless slog.
There's something grotesque about the Left suddenly embracing at-will employment as the best thing in the world that's key to a just society.

The First Amendment clearly doesn't protect Damore. But there's more to free speech than the First Amendment. If employees try to start a union but the employer fires without consequence everyone who talks about it or likes it on Facebook, is that a society where free speech is valued?
Hopefully Google fires whoever was involved here. It's sickening that these researchers would suggest women don't deserve to work in engineering.
No, the Google manifesto isn’t sexist or anti-diversity. It’s science
Cryptocurrency has low beta and offers great diversification benefits especially in low amounts specified by OP.
Imagine the same thing happened in somewhere in USA or Europe. Will anyone argue against shutting down these cell phone companies?
While I don't agree with White power rallies (which should go without saying), they have as much right to service as any other political group.

Equating White power groups with other groups is truly foolish. There is no debate about whether their views are beneficial or have any merit. They will not care about you if the situations were reversed.
Uh.. complete but relevant aside:

All you old farts (TM) need to get these freaking quarter inch tapes pushed up to some glacier S3 bucket or sum=such bucket before you kick said bucket...

I'm serious. C'mon, don't steal from the future what you actually did in the past to make the present the reality of today!!
"While I don't agree with White power rallies (which should go without saying), they have as much right to service as any other political group."

And AirBNB has the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason, outside the protected classes of race, gender, etc.

Political views aren't a protected class in the U.S. They can ban people for any old reason, and if there isn't any general backlash against banning white supremacists, there'll be no specific negative consequence to this action.

The leap from "white supremacists not allowed" to "any non-extreme left belief not allowed" does not make sense.
I had a borderline unhealthy obsession with legos when I was a kid. It would be all I thought about at school before I got home.

Fast forward a few decades and I've found a nice niche in hardware supply chain. I think play that becomes an obsession can indeed have healthy effects that aren't immediately apparent at the time, but I share your skepticism about YouTube.
nah... they will be better off without the so called pennies.
One way I can think of is this (slightly applies to me): when my large company with generous benefits and RSUs went to the open office plan, it (amongst other reasons) caused me to leave. They were likely able to hire more junior staff to backfill (as was their practice) netting them a net reduction in wages.
netdata is a good tool if you are looking for precise data on where the bottlenecks are on your server.
Do you use AirBnB? How about I claim there is a rally in any city you want to stay, or complain to AB you are hosting ebil racists and get you blacklisted?
I am fond of the immune system analogy, myself, when it comes to putting environmental (i.e. social) pressure on bad ideas in real time. Like anything else, however, striking the right balance and behaving ethically are vital companions to the application of this pressure. There was no balance here, and the vitriolic mob response was full of unethical behavior.

I’m usually at least somewhat amenable to the “but the bad actors are mostly just the outliers” position, as well. In most cases, that’s true. Again, however, not here. Anyone who read the manifesto and the “response” post by Zunger while practicing even a nominal amount of epistemological integrity would have immediately recognized that Zunger’s post was wildly dishonest, did not deal directly with the content of the post at all, and apparently even thought that fantasizing violence against the manifesto author was an acceptable way to respond. It wasn’t.

I was and remain extremely disappointed in Bay Area tech culture right now. This “manifesto” —a ridiculous and politically expedient moniker— was a crucial opportunity to have a culture-wide teaching moment and we blew it spectacularly. We could have had a nuanced, intelligent discussion about an extremely personal and difficult topic while also demonstrating to Mr. Damont why his application of the very real, widely accepted science he cited was wrong-headed and possibly even oppressive[1]. But no. We didn’t want to acknowledge the facts at all, and our aversion to doing so was so strong that a witch-hunt was executed instead. Meanwhile, we still seem largely oblivious that we made Mr. Damont’s broader point for him. And for the alt-right. They’re having a field day with this, and it’s all the more infuriating because they’re not wrong this time.

[1] e.g. https://contemporarysex.tumblr.com/post/163876071377/doing-a...
Thank you.

I was in Africa last year for 2 months after 16 years in the US. I share your feelings 100%.
> Too bad no good examples for C / C++ projects in Circle CI 2.0. Barrier to entry too high compared to Travis CI.

Hahaha, just stop using C/C++. It's 2017 for god sake why do you want to write inefficient, memory-unsafe, non-scaling softwares when you can avoid all these?
Don't care about your Karma or downvotes on your comments. It's the internet and someone will hate anything you say.
How long have you had them? Any issues with the headband cracking?
> Bitcoin has many uses, and is a fundamentally new technology. Naturally it's going thru the technology adoption life cycle and every few months/years it catches up to the wider levels of adoption and more mature use cases.

I have literally only seen one use case where it makes more sense to use bitcoin than to use traditional currency exchanges and that is illegal markets.

The downsides (hard to use, one way transactions, high transfer costs due to low block size, super easy to get hacked and lose all your money...) all massively decrease it's value over traditional currencies. Illegal markets only put up with all of those downsides because companies/governments have specifically made it harder for illegal transactions to take place over traditional currencies.
Is SegWit activated yet?
I think it would be more fair to call it object oriented. It's just not framework oriented, and that's a good thing.
Is there an advantage to daily over weekly/monthly? It seems to me like w/m would make more sense as you'd get less fees?
Given that electric bicycles are automobiles, it hardly seems much of a stretch to me.
'German automakers will stop developing combustion engines in 6 years'
Actually in West Africa and much of Arabian Africa we can communicate with one another in French.
> Imagine that: the irritating, snot-nosed Subandhu from school shares his name with an ancient Middle Eastern prince. Goosebumps. (Sorry, Subandhu).

That is an insult and stereotyping.
This article repeats "The Most Common Error in Media Coverage of the Google Memo", namely calling it "anti-diversity manifesto". The issue was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14959601
I am become The Avalanches, mixer of old songs

Very cool
The GitHub desktop app, at least on Windows, is built on .net, not Electron.
Plus the costs of running the cafe! Plenty of HNers know how crazy Bay Area rent is. Business rent is just as much of a rip. It's $6 for a 12oz mocha because they have to pay a ton for space, taxes, labor, supplies, equipment, power, water, etc.
I'm in the UK and I don't really find casino-style gambling fun, plus it's all over pretty quick. I agree there are plenty of ways to spend 'afford to lose' money, but I'm a geek and cryptocurrency piques my interest.
If he had only posted it anonymously he wouldn't have put Google in such an awkward position. What do you do with someone that many will not want to work with?
It's an open and shut situation: He used company time and company services to disseminate a controversial position to a captive audience of coworkers. Had he posted this on his personal blog in off hours, he would have a case, and most likely, still have a job.

It showed terrible judgement on his part, and that's not even getting into the content of the manifesto.
Is canceling as useful as inhibitory neurons?
Does better AND doesn't require the language to be AST :)
The latter really, more for fun and experience as I've never done anything remotely like this.
You would be surprised how many people do not understand that the First Amendment applies to the government. A former manager, a seemingly rational person, once started to rant about pro-liberal censorship on Twitter (during the time that Yiannopoulos person was banned) and how that is a violation of his First Amendment rights. It took a few assertions on my part to finally get it through his head that that was not a valid argument on his part.
And when you've built this office and nobody chooses to work in the open office?
One of my favorite early big-band tunes: https://archive.org/details/78_streamline_art-shaw-and-his-s...
One of the things that can hook you into a new language is having a really well written introduction book that gives you the philosophy of the designers and the big picture while moving through the syntax and semantics.

The book is roughly 300 pages. Even with a careful reading that's only a few days invested.

For instance I read Roberto Ierusalimschys's Programming in Lua and Niklaus Wirth's Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs. But have never really had a project which fit either of those languages. I still enjoyed the books.
Great for Peter Molyneux, his best work since Fable, Black & White and Dungeon Keeper.

Sorry, couldn't resist.
Should Hobby Lobby be able to fire a transman employee who publicly transitions, just because many of his coworkers would not want to work with him?