skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how do you know that you won't be the one sacrificed in the name of diversity?

Well, you don't. Just like you don't know whether you will be one of the ones to get rejected from a Google interview that has famously high false negative rates. It's an unfortunate fact of life.

There are studies that show diverse teams have advantages. Some of them are linked in this article: https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter
Great URL's, also a number free iOS app examples and resources on this youtube channel (Lets Build That App) as well https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuP2vJ6kRutQBfRmdcI92mA
I appreciate your thoughtful response, but I couldn't help reply to your comment about starting backwards: I completely disagree. Fooled by Randomness, in my opinion, is Taleb's seminal work. Reading it changed the course of career (I work in finance), much more so than Antifragile or Black Swan (even though both books are excellent).
> Second, he doesn't say that "female attributes/desires are not as compatible with tech jobs", at least not as you define them.

But that's what I read in all the Tweets! Are you telling me their self-righteous outrage was really just opportunistic moral grandstanding!? It can't be true!

/s

Seriously, these people are all just proving his point. Ignore the facts, call him sexist, get him fired, then move on to the next target.
Doesn't give me pause even for a second, because at least a hundred million people in the US alone are really fucking dumb.
> It used strawman arguments. Notably that the world is looking for a 50/50 split in gender ratios. Most reasonable people believe that even in ideal equilibrium state that this is not the expected outcome (although I'm sure there exist some people that push for 50/50 or greater).

It's hardly a strawman; even people in this thread believe that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14970828

"mainstream gender equality says there should be a roughly equal split"

"50/50 split might be naive. It assumes men and women should be equally represented and that makes liberally minded folks feel good. But what's the alternative? Status quo? A different and arbitrary split? I don't see any good arguments against equal representation."
> And just don`t mention Electron, I hate it.

Election is the new Flash. All hail new Flash! /s

Seriously, how do supposedly smart people come up with things like Electron?
What percentage of Sayeret Matkal are women?
React-native animations have come a long way. I think your concerns are real, but you'd be pleasantly surprised. You might want to dip your toes, see how far you get in a day and how it feels.

Article on animation improvements from Feb: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2017/02/14/usin...
Or maybe we could invest more in mental health care and public education and the like instead of shunting off the poors somewhere else so you don't have to see them.
It's the personal license not the business license.
Yeah, I mean, HN trends conservative, especially on issues of gender, race, diversity, etc. so not surprised Douthat is considered a sensible, middle-of-the-road writer here. Him and David Brooks are among the more reasonable conservatives out there, so I'm not lambasting their writing - just pointing out the biases in play.
That's an interesting concept. Would you also suggest having a way of saying "this method should execute in another thread" or "all of those methods should execute in another thread"?
It's .NET, Azure, SQL Server, Windows. We're definitely an anomaly in the start up space here but all of the engineering team worked at Microsoft at some point in our careers, some of us on those very products. So all else having been equal we went with a stack we had a hand in building and we were familiar with.
Don't worry. As soon as you call out things like biological facts, you're labeled as misogynistic or chauvinistic. No one else bears children, or replaces them very well as primary caregivers in their early prepubescent years.

May as well enjoy the decline of the social structure that once actually made sense.
James Damore and Jordan Peterson on the Google Diversity Memo
OP is really defensive about settling for a mediocre life that absolutely no one dreams about. That's the reason.
Also this doesn't have to be an either/or decision that you have to make on Day 1. We started our business as a lifestyle business and as it got traction have decided to pursue a startup approach. On track to do $10M+ revenue this year :)
Intel Introduces “Ruler” Server SSD Form-Factor
I know you mentioned in your description that this is only in New York so far, but that is not at all clear when visiting the site.
The font stack is just "Helvetica, sans-serif" but the weight is set to 100 which is extremely light. So if you have a very light variant of Helvetica installed it might be unreadable.

Edit: or if your default sans-serif font has a super light variant installed, it might look very different from what was intended.
Despite HN having a very critical readership it still falls victim to the biggest problems in internet journalism: click bait headlines and controversial topics(as in "...better than a startup" in a startup-centric message board).
Israel is small, and they have many enemies, so presumably they simply can't afford not to have women fight, too. That they have women in the army doesn't imply that the women are capable of the same things as the male soldiers.

Other than that, sure, in my opinion everybody should be entitled to create the workplace they want. If they want 50% women, or even 100% women, their choice.

What pisses me off is when they indirectly accuse me of sexism and driving women away, just because I am male.

If they want more women, they should just say so, and not claim that they want to counter discrimination.
I've recently started to investigate web frameworks for swift, and specially the concurrency part. So just to clarify something : current swift web frameworks ( and ios apps for that matter) rely on grand central dispatch, which is a decent library for spawning work on work queues, managed by the OS, and dispatched on OS threads.

This type of model is fine and has worked quite well in the past. It is not event loop like node, nor light threads ( like go), nor actors like erlang, but it does work fine. And since swift is fast, it'll probably work just a fine as your python / ruby / node backend.

What we're looking for for the future of swift is something better / safer than that. But my personnal conclusion is that it shouldn't prevent you from building regular webservice api with this language.
var timeCreated = new Date();
button.onclick = function buttonClicked(clickEvent) {
var timeClicked = new Date();
console.log("Button was created " + (timeClicked-timeCreated) + "ms ago");
}

Lets say you have two functions: Jon from support, and Jane from billing. Both of them have access to the customer database.
Now a customer calls, the customer hits 1 for support and Jon gets the call, while Jon is on the phone, another customer calls, hits 2 for billing and Jane gets the call.

You can have a very complex setup using just functions, and some variables to keep track of things, maybe an array for implementing a call queue. You can choose when to run in serial, and when to run in parallel, and make a limit on how many calls that can run at any given time. And every possible error handled and managed. Promises, async/await and futures are only leaky abstractions that will just complicate things. They look nice for simple examples without any error handling, but when you want to do real world stuff you have to think about how they work behind the scenes.
Notice how you're not actually agreeing or disagreeing with my assertion. You're simple trying to justify the postmodernist take on truth.
Ask HN: Has anyone used rancher with k8s?
Hi friends,

Considering new docker setups. We need to be able to mix legacy infrastructure and a VPN into our new clusters.

Does anyone have good experience with rancher / k8s?

We also need to be able to use linode and AWS.

Thanks!
Columbus and the Night of the Bloody Moon: The March 1504 Lunar Eclipse
uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
Would be nice if the .gnupgrc would let you enable that, leaving the default to staying off the network.
FWIW, I read it as 10% and would not have had it fixed if not for your comment.

I also felt spending an hour for a 10% productivity boost was well worth it, so it didn't strike me as odd.
I don't believe I have attempted to rationalize his actions, or to claim he was owed a hearing. I have said that, had he found one anyway, he might not have gone and done what he did.

It's of a piece with the opinion, which I strongly hold and have yet to see reason to do otherwise, that the answer to erroneous speech is not less speech but more speech. Hatred is easy and satisfying in the short term. Engagement is hard, and often unsatisfying over any span of time you care to choose. But answering hatred with hatred only adds more hatred to the world. Answering hatred with engagement offers a chance of some more beneficial outcome. But I appreciate not everyone sees the matter as I do.
> Almost makes me want to build a better debating platform.

I'd considered this at one point. I marinated on the idea and decided it's not worth building (for me). The right structure for argument doesn't work in environments like Twitter/Facebook because the costs are asymmetric. It's very cheap to turn into a troll and very expensive to think through a thoughtful, balanced, nuanced argument. The platforms themselves don't afford or encourage the latter and incentivize the former.

I do want to build a way to database and store lots of the most useful facts I gather on all of the topics I care about from every platform I learn/work on.
The edge cases they cited seem to run counter to this expectation:

"At this point, we want to issue a special thank you to the WebAssembly teams at Mozilla and Google, especially Alon Zakai, for being so helpful. We did run into a few edge cases but with their help we were able to still make it happen and even improved the Emscripten tool chain a bit along the way."

If some percentage of realistic projects run into edge cases that are incompatible with either the spec or between browsers, it violates the whole "write once run anywhere" goal.
YeeCall
This person didn't publish an article, though. It was shared internally with (presumably) a receptive group of coworkers.
A Guide to Machine Learning PhDs
It's an exceptionally tone-deaf and stupid paragraph, and I can't believe an NYT columnist would not realize the way people will interpret this. And I do feel there is something fundamentally icky about it. So by all means, let's criticize him.

However, his very next paragraph is about the lack of childcare on Apple's new campus and what it says about SV. I think any reasonable, charitable reader would have to infer from that that he is not expressing an interest in women leaving the workforce to raise children. My prediction is that the least reasonable, least charitable voices will intentionally misinterpret and misrepresent what he has said.
I am aware of that. The point remains the same: both Brood War and SC2 are expensive to run, so you really don't want to and it's worth spending disk space to cache the results of playing out a replay files. This will probably also be true of the replay files DM/Blizzard will be releasing even with the lite client.
I just don't answer the phone anymore unless it's from my contacts.
Since when does water or beef cause colon cancer?
I guess we just disagree on what constitutes pushing the community forward.

I don't write javascript software, I merely have to experience the pain of using it.
CockroachDB does many thing really well but please for the love social acceptance please change the name.
Dark Reader extension on Chrome, black background with white font become much better.
There no were BW pro-gamers outside of Korea.
Congrats again on the funding. Your vision of a better web is inspiring. Wishing you and your team the best.
I grew up poor. A common sentiment among my peers about math was "I will never use this". No teacher ever corrected this sentiment. Teachers and parents alike seemed to accept that the kids were not able to succeed academically. There was no malicious intent, just acceptance. The kids were actors in a social environment in which trying hard in academics was a source of stigma rather than status.

The overwhelming majority of kids (including me) received poor educations. I learned this in college when I was shocked by the difficulty of the courses. The majority of the kids passed high school because the standards were lowered.

I think lowering the standards in college is failing to target the source of the problem. I believe the further you get from hard skills (e.g., math or cs) the more relevant your soft skills become (e.g., cultural fit)[0]. The fact of the matter is that poor people have a distinct culture and it involves many elements that are not normative. I don't know if it is objectively more difficult to assimilate culturally or learn hard skills. On the other hand, I found it so difficult to assimilate to my PhD program in a social science that I didn't finish. I found programming to be much easier, albeit still a difficult mid-career change, than assimilating culturally. If it is the case that acquiring hard skills offers better opportunities for the poor to rise, then that is exactly what teachers and parents should be telling their kids. That is exactly what those with "sympathy for the poor" should be funding.

[0]Brendan Eich & the Googler who wrote about diversity are counter examples. I can (but I won't) argue the case they have better chances financially due to their hard skills compared to a person in a occupation lacking said skills.
What's really hard is to get your head around is the random number- what are the chances someone will have the same number as me? For anyone that asks, the answer is basically 0, because maths

For a trustless currency there's a lot of trust going on there!
Demystifying the Black Box That Is AI
Bitcoin is simple the same way Git is simple. Appreciating it is less about understanding the technology and more about caring why the solution matters.

Git is just a way to deal with objects in a DAG (insert standard joke about homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space). Not super difficult. But unless you have worked in a horrible version-control system, you probably just don't care about having that capability, so when someone starts excitedly jumping up and down while showing you how easy it is to draw a line connecting two circles, you might figure you just aren't smart enough to get it.

Likewise, Bitcoin is a combination of recognizing a certain problem and exploiting a certain technology to solve it. If you understand that distributed, trustless consensus is a hard problem, and that digital signatures and proof-of-work algorithms combine in this exciting way to solve it, then Bitcoin makes perfect sense. But otherwise your inner voice keeps asking "why are we even discussing this?" and making you feel dumb.
These failures are why the runtime ships with executable code within .NET Core, Golang and Rust.
They made a micro framework called Kitura. Maybe some other stuff as well, but I’m not really aware of anyone using it.
Yup, you call a c function that calls out to JS and then make whatever dom/canvas calls you want.
> This is why the new Apple headquarters, which has a 100,000-square-foot fitness and wellness center but no child care center, is a more telling indicator of what really matters to Silicon Valley

Ouch. Extremely out.
We tend to discuss that the SDK was written by recovering C devs learning Java on the job.
Two-dimensional context free grammars [pdf]
What pointy haired boss named that option? Just reading that sentence tells us it should not be named "disable-dirmngr".
Free speech doesn't mean that you are protected from the consequences of your speech. It means that the government cannot prosecute you for making speech that's inflammatory towards politicians or the state. It's not their job to protect you when you say something that others interpret as signs that they shouldn't keep you around.

Google was protecting itself by firing damore as his opinions are sign saying women aren't welcome at Google. As we have learned over years of history, workplace diversity and safety is important for a healthy work environment. It's rather unfortunate that this is up for debate and I hope that those that do not understand why it shouldn't be up for debate should really try to read and understand the difficulties that women have in tech. However, most likely the same people that don't understand why it's a problem also lack critical empathy skills which means their understanding is quite limited.

If only there was documentation for empathy! Then we could stop having this conversation and instead link out to it.
Beat me to the right answer
Sayeret Matkal, like all elite units, is closed to women. [1]

But it’s difficult to claim that women are equals in the IDF (even the IDF admits that less than 4 percent of women are in combat positions). Many are in “combat-support” positions that can involve anything from opening the gate of the army base to cleaning guns—and which, by the way, command a lower salary than combat positions. And tellingly, there is only one female general in the entire IDF. [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/ga...
AIs can click faster, but humans still have better overall strategy and planning, which matters a lot in this game.
Oh god. I'll see if HN lets me delete my comment.

I'm really bad with my facts this week.
Down votes are unfair, this was quite funny.
Yeah you have to click full story button to see article
Very astute. More permanent positions are needed, and grant agencies need to limit number of grants single professor can head. In fact NIH just did so to 3, I think. Good move.
Surely someone who talks like he does will never go anywhere in life!
> As Mr. Hume told us a few hundred years ago, nature simply is, and doesn't tell us what ought to be

It unfortunately isn't that simple. About a century ago, one of the fathers of social psychology, no less, and an opinion leader at the time, offered the following quote:

> In the most intelligent races, as among the Parisians, there are a large number of women whose brains are closer in size to those of gorillas than to the most developed male brains. This inferiority is so obvious that no one can contest it for a moment; only its degree is worth discussion. All psychologists who have studied the intelligence of women, as well as poets and novelists, recognize today that they represent the most inferior forms of human evolution and that they are closer to children and savages than to an adult, civilized man. They excel in fickleness, inconstancy, absence of thought and logic, and incapacity to reason. Without doubt there exist some distinguished women, very superior to the average man, but they are as exceptional as the birth of any monstrosity, as, for example, of a gorilla with two heads; consequently, we may neglect them entirely. -- Gustave Le Bon

There's more to 'the weird fetish about "biology" on both sides of the debate' than just wishing a better society into existence. There's a bias that feeds on deep cultural history that must be shed light onto and overcome.
But that is precisely what I said! Developing countries are egalitarian out of necessity. For them economic emancipation is principally important, and just by accident lifts women and minorities up.

We have grown a little too soft it seems. Our (western) over-emphasis of freedom of choice is actually segregating us. We're giving in to our worst instincts and then claim that they are biological facts that we cannot escape from. That is not a good idea.
Excellent comment. You should do a "Bitcoin demystified" blog post or something.
What I find odd about all this is the apparent lack of concern for other male-dominated industries like deep-sea fishing, logging, coal mining, sanitation, construction, power-line maintenance, etc. Look at all the most dangerous, physically demanding jobs in the world and what do you see? They're all more than 95% men.

Where are all the women clamoring to get into those fields? Where are all the women wondering why women aren't clamoring to get into those fields? And where are all the people who want to spare men from having to bear the burden of all the most dangerous jobs?
> nature simply is, and doesn't tell us what ought to be

A lot of studies have probe the opposite (recent studies, not old ones).

> I have trouble understanding why we are approaching the issue from this angle.

Because you have cases like Norway, one of the most genre equality countries, where the ratios or men/women in tech are even worse that less genre equality countries. And the most accepted theory for this is based on biology (actually other theories fall apart because they don't have any evidence).

> I find this discussion funny in the context of say Israel having countless women serve in the army for decades now.

The biology also explain this. Skills are not unique and their values are diffuse. Even if the average men is stronger than the average women, if you select a man and a woman is not always the case the man is stronger than the woman.

You can say biology doesn't matter but the facts are that there is a strong correlation and should be taken into account. So I suggest to not to ignore it and read about the topic.
I'm fine with that. Github is 'too large to fail' already, adding the Linux kernel to the pile and forcing the kernel team into Github's workflow are two big negatives. It would be great for Github but bad for everybody else.
AWS Lambda Deployment with Terraform
(4) MUSLIM JUDGES AND LEADERS TAKING POWER
This doesn't work when the attacker is a nation state, b/c the PoW change damages all miners equally but the nation state is not playing by the same economic rules, is politically motivated rather than financially, does not need to remain profitable to continue attacking, and is better able to absorb the loss and continue the attack with new hardware.
Why I quit paleo ketogenic and went vegan – dr. Lim
Never heard of feminists pushing for quotas for dangerous or dirty jobs.
It's best to change our understanding of _dangerous_.

AI will not come in the form of a dystopian movie franchise.

AI will show itself in ugly biases that occur because of our human biases. The prime example of AI being dangerous already exists in predictive policing. A potential starting point to understanding that aspect of the problem is [here](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/big-data-may-be-rein...).

In terms of the physical realm, you can think of self-driving cars. Currently, these systems are not robust to [adversarial examples](https://blog.openai.com/adversarial-example-research/).

So AI will not be dangerous in the traditional sense. It _might_ be dangerous because of biases in the data or because it acts in ways in which we do not expect them to work.

Research in interpretable models and adversarial examples will help alleviate some of these issues.
Progress relies strongly on unreasonable people like Linus. Keep in mind that Github mutilated his baby so that's a pretty good reason to be upset.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Bravo