skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep wondering what is the economical explanation for the existence of the gender pay gap?

Assuming women and men employees are (generally speaking) equally skilled yet differently compensated (for whatever reason), rational employers would actually prefer to hire women over men. Just like with any other purchase, all things being equal, cheaper is better.

Perhaps "old" companies with a "tradition" might have a status-quo bias, but new startups/smart CEOs that really try to minimize their burn rate would obviously see this.

Over time more and more women employees would be sought after more then men, which would eventually lead to an equilibrium and remove the pay gap.

So why hasn't this happened (yet)?
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Alcohol is only addictive to alcoholics, and precisely what makes an alcoholic is a subject of ongoing research. Assuming you're not an alcoholic (the more likely option) it's no more addictive than candy. Actually less addictive, as candy doesn't have a hangover.

As for drinking due to peer pressure, well drinking is a social thing. But in my experience most people will be perfectly fine with you not drinking for whatever reason. You might lose out though being the only sober one at the party, and you'll be driving a lot of people home if you have a car. :)

For my part I'll typically go through a 6-pack or bottle of wine on the weekend, I never drink during the week. There are some very tasty alcoholic drinks out there, and while I find getting plastered unpleasant a mild-moderate buzz is quite enjoyable.
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So why not have both? A receipt and eletronic? They should both matched.
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I can't find a villian in this story. Airlines aren't hugely profitable according to the story especially regional airlines. If they raise their prices on regional flights, people will just drive or take a shuttle service to the nearest hub.

It seems like the hub system is the most efficient. But then again, that's easy for me to say since I don't live far away from a major hub where I've been able to get direct flights to any major city in t in the country.
But the poor will (most likely) receive money in this scheme. This can be an incentive for them.
I'm struggling to understand the intended meaning of this comment "In addition, when there is a document they can refer to, individual contributors (ICs) can be given concrete feedback on performance if important decisions which are part of their responsibilities were not on their radar." Can anyone help interpret it?

Assuming the author is reading this, how do you manage the feedback and decision-making process for these RFCs?
Demand for sand (for concrete) is killing rivers... in Africa

In the US, dredging rivers or land near a waterway is pretty restricted. Sand is typically mined from open pits, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mining#United_States
"the so-called "Star Wars" program under Reagan to which I'm referring was considered by many to be wasteful spending."

And was considered by others to be the final straw that broke the Soviet Union and put an end to a 70 year Cold War and eliminated one of the most evil empires in the history of the human race.

"I don't think there is much in the constitution mandating space lasers."

Article I, Section 8. Unless you're one of those people who attempt to argue that armies and navies are limited to 18th century technology.
Another thing to bear in mind: this is self-reported data. Even if the population numbers were perfectly fair, there are known differences in the way men and women report things in surveys (example[1]). Personally, I conjecture that this bias and biases in response rates that affect men and women differently account for some of the reported differences in salary.

I'm more concerned about stuff that wouldn't show up in this data. For example, assuming a woman who is equally qualified as a man, I expect that the woman would be at a lower level on average, because e.g. of studies like those cited in [2]. I suspect that Google is better about this than most places, but I have heard too many stories from my woman coworkers to believe that things are perfectly fair. But I suspect this article makes things out to be perhaps slightly worse than they are, at least on the compensation front.

[1]: https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-05-30/women-underestimate-s...
[2]: https://hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men
Yes. It worked, too. Note that the Soviet Union no longer exists, and it happened without an actual nuclear war.
I thought so when starting to read this article and seeing > and == cases being false.
I guess, with some experience one probably has implemented such logical shortcuts as well themselves.
And now I am pretty sure this is a question of backwards compatibility and not anymore easily reversible
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Otoh, if money already buys politics today, this system could be not worse than what we have now.
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Someone once said to me that RFC stands for Request For Comments, not Request For Consensus.

It is an opportunity for you to get important feedback about aspects of the plan you might be under-informed about and make sure the relevant parties are aware of what is happening.

After feedback, you may decide your plan was flawed and needs adjustment, but just because there is disagreement doesn't mean you need to change your design to fit everyone's needs.
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After 20 years all I remember about `Mote` is the incessant conversations about tea and coffee...
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The same benefits gleaned from drinking are available from taking an aspirin a day. Wine has some antioxidant effects, I guess, but they are outweighed by the detrimental effects of ingesting, what is basically, a poison.
For the record; I'm not for prohibition and have the occasional drink (though, as I get older, I drink less. I have gotten hangovers from a single drink, in the recent past, and I just don't like it enough to deal with a hangover. Though, that was probably a sugar hangover from a god aweful drink my wife made).
On the flip side I've seen tech people get so wrapped up in the process of writing an RFC, masturbating over the definition of words like MUST, SHOULD, and MAY that it just seems that they get more satisfaction out of the process than the content.
It's only uncool if you keep talking about it. If you just order a non-alcoholic drink at the bar, noone will even notice.

As for new norm, people have drinking and enjoying alcohol for literally thousands of years...
The last question with the job is basically textbook promissory estoppel: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/promissory_estoppel.asp.
Usual official advice is not to start drinking purely for sake of health benefits -- they are outweighed by risks at any level of consumption.
Another good way to protect yourself is to save money, and avoid needing to rely on banks for a credit lifeline.
That is true, and I've been considering switching.
I assume the author meant that there is a paper trail (similar to commit history or bug tracking) that can be reviewed at performance time to evaluate if an IC was paying attention to and contributing to the design process.
> Meaningful whitespace is horrid

Millions of Python programmers might disagree, not to mention that most programmers using languages with meaningless whitespace (as far as the computer is concerned) still put whitespace in there, because humans.

And it isn't like INI is a great experience, either. Flat configs suck in their own ways.
I wonder if this is the first instance of politically motivated mobbing behavior to take place over a digital communications medium? In which case, it is an important historical document in its own right. It has the same structure as modern digital witch-hunts:

1) A group of individuals apparently incensed at some minor infarction by their target.

2) It is not entirely clear why the behavior of their target is wrong, or why it should merit excommunication.

3) The group displays incongruous rage at their target given the apparent wrongdoing, using terms that focus on the target's character rather than the nature of his putative wrongdoing.

4) Certain members of the group are unable to contain themselves and let slip references to the real source of their rage.

5) The expulsion is done by a minor player who does not necessarily take part in the discussion.

6) The summary reason given for the expulsion is different from, and even contradicts the original issue.

R.I.P Jerry Pournelle. Fearless, and always first into the fray.
Go to Google Scholar and type in the paper's title - often there will be a link to a publically available copy of the pdf, such as is the case for reference 1.

And you sound like you made up your mind before even really digging into the literature. Your first job as a scientist is to not fool yourself.
Hi, author here. You can use the code in there as a starting point, it's rather simple!
So... Like Heinlein? Post-WWII Cold War sentiment of that type was not uncommon. I/We (old people) looked at "big government" as something that collectivists (national socialists (nazis), fascists, international socialists (communists), socialists) did ... and without going all John Birch, even ignoring the air-raid sirens making you (uselessly) hide under your desks, it made one cynical about systems related to people pointing their nukes (back) at you...
So I guess Working Software more than comprehensive documentation is officially out, now? Well it had a long run than most ideas we have.
The NPM team also wrote something last year about their internal use of RFCs: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/153881413635/some-notes-on-rfcs
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Hi, author here. I just find it much more intuitive, like unix pipes, or Clojure's threading macros. Nested calls are more confusing to me.
Though it should have probably been better as cbind(...) %>% as.tibble() %>% na.omit...
> but it is UK specific (and almost certainly influenced by UK drinking habits).

You lost me here. What exactly is your hypothesis about UK "drinking habits" that causes brits to get cancer at significantly higher rates than the rest of the world? All studies have to study some accessible subset of humanity. This one picked the UK.

I mean, it's OK to ask for rigor and point out problems with research, but this is an awfully big whopper of your own. You don't get to just dismiss a fairly straightforward result because warm beer.
FYI, mortgage qualification needs a years rent payment proof, ideally in form of bank transfer or bank check entries. If you pay cash and want a house soon, make sure to get written recites for those cash payments.
Oh so Africa is building long lasting concrete buildings and making life easier for everyone... something that most of the western world and a huge part of the developing world has already been using for a long time in the same way? No, let us tell you something much more important: how the freaking rivers are "dying".

Environmentalism is anti-humanism.
Just make a completely wild and inaccurate prediction loosely based on fake polling data, and then graph it. Like they did when they predicted Trump had only a 1% chance of becoming president.
Even slumlords at some point in time had to buy their property. This tribe is being paid up front to be transferred the patent, not the other way around.
Alternatively,

x %>%
bind_cols(y, z) %>%
as.tibble() %>%
na.omit()

Makes the order of execution a little clearer (and uses more dplyr conventions). I still nest functions when working interactively with a REPL, but for code I'll have to reread in the future, the pipes save me much head scratching. Death to the pyramid of doom.
"The right-wing science-fiction writers Jerry Pournelle (an admirer of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini) and Larry Niven pursued a similar argument in their CoDominium novels, a long-running series of novels that started in 1973 and imagines a world where the U.S. and the Soviet Union work together to govern an unruly planet."

1) Niven didn't co-write any of the CoDominium novels, as far as I know. Mote had some historical references to it, but it was set hundreds of years after the CoDominium had collapsed.

2) The CoDominium weren't the "good guys" in those books.

3) Pournelle was not an "admirer of Mussolini".

Inaccurate to the point of being dishonest.
Resisting candy is harder than resisting alcohol for me. So in that sense candy is more habit forming.

But habitual candy eaters don't get sick or die from going cold turkey from eating candy (1). It's not clear that clinical addiction is even possible with sugar (2). In that sense, alcohol is much more addictive.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_withdrawal_syndrome

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar#Addiction
The Fair Credit Reporting Act requires Consumer Reporting Agencies to do two things that are fundamentally at odds with the idea of using a blockchain: Negative information must be removed from your record after a certain amount of time. And false or inaccurate information - which some studies suggest exists on about 25% of consumer credit reports - must be removed or amended upon request.

Both of these are Good Things. One of the most important things our legal system provides is opportunities for remediation when something goes wrong.
also bastard colors (if for no other reason than the name) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_color

impossible colors are fun too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color
It doesn't matter how many people understand it, but how many people think they understand it - from what I've seen, a lot of people think they understand the US system (at least they did, until Trump won with a minority of votes :P )
Yep, Sandbanks brings the average up http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/Sandbanks.html
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Dynamic typing is a nightmare.
I don't understand why Google gets so much heat when they seem to be one of the better companies in the world in regards to diversity.

I've been at several companies where literally all managers are men and women no more than objects that are hired based on their looks. Executive meetings are spent discussing female coworkers attributes and who has managed to get laid with who.
Moving nodes are summarized under the term mobility, and in RPL it is usually handled by reconstruction from the top or re-discovery of parents by the node itself. Timers play an important role, and mobility is a known weak spot of RPL.

The choice of preferred parent is governed by the objective function OF, which could be anything, but usually is the rank of the node (relative to the DODAG root).

If you are really interested, RPL is an open IETF internet standard, so are the underlying protocols and principles. Down the rabbit hole it is.
Another, from 1978: 'A Fortran Coloring Book' https://archive.org/details/9780262610261
I remember hearing about a social scientist "discovering" that in any classroom he visited, there always seemed to be 4 kids that were either all friends, or were all not friends. He wrote a paper that attempted to explain this using social theory/group dynamics...

(This was told by my Discrete math professor when learning about Ramsey's Theorem )
Comments also are a bit tricky to preserve when programatically modifying data structures, so a destructive minifier approach makes sense. Although it's very Javascript, "let's make another utility you now need".

Crockford probably didn't think it would take off like it did, but with hindsight comments would have been the pragmatic choice IMO.
Thank you so much for doing this and posting it online. I have learned a tremendous amount from your coursera course.

Whilst I appreciate that you are not seeking to teach the details of specific currencies, could you use some of the newer currencies to teach by example?

For example, could you discuss some of the concepts detailed in several of the white papers (and the legitimacy thereof) such as IOTA's tangle or some of the features of the new coins built on ethereum or the utilisation of XRP by banks?

Could you discuss future possibilities such as decentralized exchanges?

Thank you again.
This is useless, if you don't control for factors other than sex. Men tend to work longer hours, take fewer sick days.

Education and extra-curricular activities don't seem to be taken into account, which can easily explain the gap in the lower tiers.
Nation-states are not people. Nations have (temporary and shifting) alliances based on common shared interests -- not love.

Japan is a great ally. I lived there for over a decade, and I can say that I love the Japanese people. But I will admit - and their people of the WWII generation would too (although - sadly they are (have been) passing too quickly), it took a solid kick in the teeth to get them to calm down and cooperate.

Sometimes, with intense nation-state disagreement, things are settled at the point of a gun. Where there is a winner and a loser.

I like diplomacy as much (or more) than the next guy ... but it is irresponsible for a nation to be unprepared for when that doesn't work.

N.B. Fighting back after Pearl Harbor is a different kettle of fish than exporting democracy by force. We have no business doing the latter. It's obscene.

EDIT: I didn't downvote you. I appreciated your take on the query posed.
Another factor would be the opportunity cost of moving. With an apartment you're free as soon as the lease is up. With a house, even if you get a job across the country the mortgage must be paid. The time investment alone in preparing a house for sale/selling it is nothing to scoff at.
I've never heard anyone talk bad about anyone for not drinking. At most there will be a mild curiosity since there's sometimes a personal story involved as to why.

If you're around people that give you a hard time for not drinking, find another group to be part of. It shouldn't be hard to find people that are more chill. Health nuts, parents, and religious folks in particular tend to develop alcohol-free or alcohol-optional culture.
That's a difference in phrasing. All hurricanes won't increase in frequency, but they will get stronger. That isn't contradicted by saying that high strength hurricanes will become more frequent.
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The phrase "tyranny of the majority" does not usually refer to an unenlightened majority making suboptimal decisions for itself (and therefore requiring the rule of a more enlightened minority).

It more often refers to settings where a majority and a minority have conflicting interests, and in which the majority is inclined exploit the minority in ways where the damage endured by the exploited far outweighs the benefit to the beneficiaries.
The phrase has been uttered: "Democracy can be like two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner."

EG:

- A majority of city-dwellers will vote to destroy the homes of the forest people to improve the development of their cities, however slightly.

- A majority of old people will vote to tax the young more heavily to achieve a transfer of wealth, even though the gains of each beneficiary is smaller than the loss of each loser

- That same majority of old people, finding that their preferences in nearly every domain are different from those of the young, might vote to raise the voting age.

- ...
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Fredrik, Thingsquare CTO here. Glad to see an interest in this article, and happy to prepare more detailed information about how the system works and performs. There's of course tons of information that we're happy to discuss :)

Anything else in particular that you would like to know more about?
I think there is a difference between documentation for yourself(and your team) and others.

I think documentation for others (your users) is still needed, but I rarely write documentation for myself or my team.
What Google pays men versus women is at the heart of a dispute with the Department of Labor. The company is fighting over how much data it needs to hand over

What are they hiding? They must know what that data will reveal is the only explanation.
But in many cases using credit will save you money. Two examples would be credit cards with their rewards (as long as you never pay interest) and house/car loans if you manage to get a low rate and invest what you don't pay up front.
One question that remains for me other than whether this is fair to groups with income <x>, is: how do you decide which proposals to vote on? Otherwise, there'd be incentive to submit ridiculous proposals that greatly disadvantage the wealthy, who would then have to pony up to keep those proposals from being implemented.
I am trying to code neighbor discovery, you be willing to answer some technical questions? Maybe via email.
...allowing the FBI to unilaterally access and police social media accounts—which would make us start to look a lot like Russia...

I think the author is aware of that point.
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Because it's more complicated that. Hiring decisions, career progression decisions, salary decisions are not made by an algorithm trying to balance the sheets. They're made by humans with biases.
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That's indeed a nicer style
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Efficient usually refers to Pareto efficiency. Sometimes (rarely) Kaldor-Hicks efficiency or "no deadweight loss" efficiency
So it's a method of exchanging influence for money for poor people, and money for influence for rich people? Still doesn't sound that great...

Anyway, I see it's been submitted separately :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15206291
In the weeks leading up to the election, they were putting Trump's odds at 1/4, and pretty roundly mocking/cautioning against others who were putting him at 1%. On mobile, so I can't check by hovering, but I don't think they ever put his chances below 1/10: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
You're talking about syntactic rules, I'm talking about visual cues.

IMO there is no reason to have commas at all so this discussion is pointless.
Done right (like in python), it's not so bad.
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For a good (if scary) insight into the "hidden bias" and "forced diversity" culture inside Google, have a listen to the recent James Damore interview at Joe Rogan's podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ1JeII0eGo

They recount the ways people have been misrepresenting James' (rather meek) position, right down to accusations of sexism, nazism, malicious removal of academic references and outright lies. A sad testimony of this day and age and the current media climate in the US.

It's like people think covering their ears shouting "LALALA NOT TRUE, WILL NOT DISCUSS" has ever been a constructive way of addressing social issues.

I wish Google would come clean and release the raw stats. I understand that's one politically loaded and sensitive dataset, but nothing beats drawing your own conclusions. Right now, Google is getting flak from all sides, lose-lose.
There wasn't one, certainly nothing like the apple App Store success stories you may read about. J2me was in the era when carriers controlled what was allowed on their phones, with an iron fist. Most apps and games came from telecoms, with some popular games ported between phones.

Add to that, the phone ecosystem was much more diverse, and the j2me APIs on the phones were buggy and incomplete mostly. It was not a good time be building mobile apps.