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There was no shortage of outright stealing but it doesn't seem to be the case here. For one thing, it likely wasn't seen (other than by specialists) as a cultural artifact of quite the importance we give it today. The accounts of its discovery and early work done on it don't say anything about theft (including the Indian ones I can find). The fact it was found in what is today Pakistan probably means nobody on any side wants to as much as think about the can of worms any discussion about repatriation would be.
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I really like this list and would add one more that I think if very important.

Enable Fast iterations

Weather it's a fast loop to test and make changes, or the batteries included mindset that means you can use someone else's code, fast iterations are a big win in the Python world.
The fun part of these articles is reading all the comments that literally post proximate causes for the gender wage gap and somehow conclude from that that the gap (which they just validated) does not exist.

This whole process infuriates me. The gender wage gap is an empirical question. It exists. If we believe it's a problem (I do; you may not), it has the easiest solution in the world: give women more money. Seriously, I just solved the gender pay gap, right there: give women more money.

There's all kind of ways you could do that (wage mandates, tax credits, etc.) and they all have pros and cons, but searching for proximate and ultimate causes here is kind of stupid. It exists; if you think it's a problem, the solution is breathtakingly obvious.
So true.

People didn't give two shits about the nerds and the tiny useless portion of the world known as computing they occupied 20 years ago - back then it was less glamorous and less money involved. They scoffed at the morons who not only did computers at work but continued to think, write and do "work" after work!

Now theres money involved everyone wants in! Now those same leeches demand to be given the same roles/money as those who worked much harder for it , because its so unfair that people who put have more experience and passion are rewarded while they are not!
I would like to offer my 2 cents.

Biometrics are good for unlocking X if the persob who cares about the security of X is the person who oversees the registration of the biometrics.

In this case you are the person and X is ... the phone. That's it, the phone.

You should not be using biometrics-derived data for any passwords except to unlock your phone (or that place with the security guard making sure you registered your face the first time). Because REPLAY ATTACKS.

After that you're supposed to use challenge-response by some auth app on a device. So your fingerprint IS a password for the device but not for external services.

Passwords in general are vulnerable to replay attacks!
> The person I replied to was implying that the team he was interviewing for was sexist, to an extent where they simply would not hire women.

I am making no such implication. I am simply saying that I don't find it "highly dubious" that Google has extreme levels of gender bias in teams correlated with area, based on some amount of data (looking at basically all the open reqs in backend in Google NYC over a couple months).

I do find it worrisome to see "sexist" thrown around so quickly: this is a question of objective fact, and we either need to be comfortable with applying the label "sexist" to lots of scenarios and not interpreting it as equivalent to "morally inferior and execrable", or we need to avoid the label, because otherwise there are chilling effects towards discussions of objective fact. The assertion was made, in the lawsuit, that backend teams at Google do in fact fail to hire women. In order to discuss that, we have to be willing to talk about teams that fail to hire women.

That said, if I'm going to support free speech, I should be consistent, and I welcome your attempts to question my own intentions. But to that I would reply that if I was looking for someone to marry, I'd specifically want to avoid them being on my team (even if I'm okay with the ethical breach, conflict-of-interest rules would prevent us from marrying), so joining a company that hires women but not for my field would actually be just what I'd be looking for in this case. Perhaps more factually-tenable aspersions to cast would be that I'm gay and get hopelessly distracted if I'm working with men? That's not true either, but it'd make more sense.
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> I'd love to hear any sound logic argument negating anything I just said.

There is no sound logic argument because your claim is completely wrong and ilogical at the same level as taxes are theft and States are like Mafia.
> Has anything happened with the Department of Labor case recently?

Last I heard was the judge denying a request for more information, saying DoL was on a "fishing expedition" and didn't have anything to back their case and justify said fishing expedition.
launchd, which used to be open-source, is no longer open-source, because it was subsumed into XPC, which has never been open-source.
There are only two countries which have homegrown companies protected by their governments. OP's comment still holds true about US companies not necessarily being good for everyone.
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This is a big deal for many people. I arrived in Perth, summoned up an Uber, and it arrived in a few minutes, all billed to my regular credit card back home. Amazing really.
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A better alternative will be for the government to provide free internet to the poor (like they do with food) than companies creating walled spaces.
I feel you missed something important in the article. The plaintiffs are asserting that there is a pervasive irrational cultural bias by managers that assumes people like them are superior engineers.

The entire premise of the lawsuit is that the managers are working contrary to the best interest of Google. Companies are made of people, and no matter how much CEOs might want employees to behave a certain way, employees are still beholden to their cognitive biases.

The optimum situation for Google would be to pay all employees the market rate for the level of quality they desire. This would basically yield a meritocratic pay structure. But this is not what happened. The plaintiffs were awarded different pay grades for measurably comparable ability. This is suboptimal for Google and for society; that is why Google is being sued.
Its not necessarily starting early in programming. Its being in general being good at 'scoring marks' vs 'doing projects'. The former and latter take very different skill sets, and their returns too are often very different.

If you are good at doing projects. Along the way you learn a lot of other very important life skills. Things like resourcefulness, persisting at things, immunity to failure, trying many times etc. And these come handy and are usable to to many things that actually matter in the real world. That is building things.

These things are harder to gain at a later stage in life because expectations from one's life at that time are different and you have to worry more about monthly payments and putting food on the table. You don't have 10 - 15 years lying around to do what other programmers have done in their early years where it was cheap to that in terms of time.

You are also discounting the accumulative effects of these things. After a while due to years of practice, early starters are likely to get very good at things in a far more disproportionate way than those who come later.
Thank you for WSL! I've been using it to learn more about what it could be done with it, and at home have been trying to compile flutter (http://flutter.org) on it... Currently it gets stuck in the "pub upgrade" (the dart language packaging mechanism), as it runs several tar's to unpack packages.

If you just follow the simple:

bash.exe...:

$ mkdir p; cd p

$ git clone https://github.com/flutter/flutter

$ cd bin

$ ./flutter doctor

it'll soon get up to speed, and eventually hang. Off course all this works on Windows, but I wanted to experiment with something as it encompasses several different things - language, environment, packages, jit-ing, etc.

Still pretty excited about the development!

Heh, one thing I've learned the hard way, I made a symlink on my /mnt/c/ as /mnt/c/something - and this was making several windows tools unhappy, had to deleted from WSL and now it's fine.
98% of plumbers are men, for some reason feminists aren't outraged about men getting to make sure shit flows.

The reality is that programmers are an easy target and easy to push around and tech is a high paying and now somewhat sexy industry.
Sigh, I don't know how that comment got to the top. This[0] for me was a more interesting discussion (and I ranted in a reply). Basically, level 5 automation (the kind that would require no human interaction, which is what the comment above is referring to, is a long way off according to [0], but it's not like other things like level 4 automation can't happen soon and be immensely helpful for society.

But it isn't going to put hundreds of drivers out of work.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15116991
This is an NPU, so for sure not in the 5k, or any other Nexus. Those are all fixed-function ASICs, in some cases (like the 3k, or the 5k's L3 module) actually Broadcom ASICs.

The original 5k (which was a Nuova Systems product before cisco spun them in), had a 1040G crossbar (nicknamed Altos) and a bunch of 80G line chips (nicknamed Gatos).
all alt-right stuff. flag and move on
I think you are right that you should stop development until you get a few customers for the current version -- otherwise you may spend time not focusing on the selling aspect! The web-site tells what the product does like it would be obvious to users, but you probably need to present a specific use-case/example/workflow where it will help an end-user. And this use-case should target the specific type of customer you want. Also, probably target a segment where people will try new stuff (i.e where they don't necessarily love Microsoft Word, etc) -- it seems like a interesting product for startups to write up product manuals maybe? Narrow your product's/service's focus market....
Actually, that's an interesting thought. I just did a quick check of the FFI and it looks promising. Thanks for the the idea!
You don't need Redshift and it's not really the best for "combining data".

I'd throw the data on S3, do the processing in spark(you can likely run on one node in local mode for now at that scale and scale as the data does), write the data back to s3, load that processed/aggregated data from s3 into mysql since you running that already and can just plug in your BI tools.

Much easier to process data not in the db, s3 as a source of truth is great in AWS, and much cheaper.
Exactly. What a non-story here.

Moreover, an argument can be made that it can be used for good. Someone could target Jew haters with some sort of educational messages.

"I want to address a message to Jew haters" isn't inherently good or bad; it doesn't mean I'm a Jew hater.

For that matter, someone who expresses an interest in a topic like "German Schutzstaffel" by searching for it isn't automatically a neo-nazi.

This article has some of the flavor of blaming a knife factory for stabbings.

I suspect any n-grams can be used; you can probably target people who are interested in a "pig shit ice cream" or anything completely random.
I even witnessed a company who started with a product and then went down the road of customization, 15 years later arriving to a point where they are a custom development shop using all the same product simply as form of advertisement (proof that they are competent). Just by continuously taking the offers of enterprise clients to customize their product to their needs - it quickly turned out that it made a lot more money than selling the product. Then, these clients started to hire them to do unrelated things, and recommend to other clients to do unrelated things as well.

Their last license sold was about 5 years ago.

But probably making more money than they ever planned to make with the product (the product was planned as a lifestyle business, not a startup - say they never tried to look for any funding).
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Well no, Google wants to hire all the best engineers they can find, even if they have to pay more. Obviously they don't want to pay more than they have to, but their primary concern is capturing as much of the top talent as they can.
I don't understand how just giving a group of people more money will solve the problem.
That's is an artificial way of addressing it, it's just a band aid.

Let's look at the causes , and address those.

I think that's how you solve it.
It is pretty sexist to say , "give someone more money because they are a women"
You don't lose access to React. You lose access to any patents in React, but not the copyright. We don't even know of any React patents, so for all we know the entire document does nothing.
CloudFormation provides support for Network Load Balancer.

Check the 'Type' property mentioned in the CloudFormation templates reference in public documentation http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuid...
Income is more important than wealth, anyway.

Again, there are many countries - including First World European countries - that don't have the credit score system, or only have reports on non-payments (usually govt-run). They seem to be doing just fine.
I agree. I love Ruby. Not just the language, but the values of the community. Don't give up. Try SciRuby. I also recently discovered pycall, for those times when something really doesn't exist yet in Ruby. Of course, if it doesn't exist, that's an opportunity to make it yourself!

1: https://github.com/SciRuby

2: https://github.com/mrkn/pycall.rb
You don't think that people are accustomed to thinking of "nurse" as a female role?
Do you have any idea what limits residency positions? They don't pay like a doctor but they do doctor like stuff. I would think that hospitals would want a lot of them. Sort of like how in science post-docs are hired everywhere because they are just the same as a research scientist, but you can pay them less.
Third is that in a woeof hires photography every picture can contain your fingerprints.
According to Wikipedia[1], in season 6 every episode cost an average of $10 million - lets say they're shooting 2 alternative endings for a cost of $20 million.

For the same $20 million per year they could hire a team of 100-200 security engineers (realistically couldn't even use that many effectively) and still have enough left over for some snake-oil vendor trash products.

Instead they do this. If they get hacked again what's to stop the hacker from leaking all 3 endings?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones#Conception_and...
I feel like they kind of lose money on IDA by not marketing some sort of hobby version. I offered the guy $100 to purchase a legit version of IDA for personal educational use and he declined (go figure). I am just a university student.
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15249562 ?
Nursing is also a bad defense for discrimination in software development because male nurses typically excel in the field. There are no lawsuits by aggrieved male nurses because they get promoted and are approved for special positions at the same rate as their peers.

Not to mention, lifting a 300 pound patient, perfecting an IV stick, or shouting down a raging alcoholic is pretty fucking manly.
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The trend is we are going to see more use of biometrics to authenticate.
But the problem is "know what they are doing" can still be unfair. Consider: you're staffing up a company and need folks now. You've found two candidates who seem equally qualified and want to hire them. Both are asking for only a modest raise over their current salaries, but one happens to make 50% more than the other due to arbitrary reasons[1] having nothing to do with qualifications.

What do you do? Realistically you give them both what they ask and pay them unfairly. Congratulations, you're now part of the problem.

[1] Yeah, one is a dude.
In every single industry and craft, those with more work experience are typically paid more than whose with less.

There is little difference between "experience programming during a job" and "experience programming for fun". It is the same activity.

So of course those with more experience should be expected (on average) to better than those with less. Of course those who seek out more experience due to passion will (on average) be better than those who don't.

It's not an unusual thing to expect at all. People who care more do better.. in every human endeavor, and this is widely accepted by society. It only seems unusual when newcomers cry "unfair" when they see others enjoying the fruits of their labor.

You can ask for data - great, we don't know the answer. But if I had to guess one way or the other, based on all human experience, yes I would lean heavily towards experience. Its why professors know more than students, why Edison invented a lightbulb after a thousand other failed inventions, it is the basis for the very concept of an expert - its why we appoint a doctor instead of a physicist to run a hospital. Its pretty goddamn fundamental - people get better at things with time, so those with more time tend to be better.
In order to believe that you have to believe that literally 100% of tech hiring companies/managers are sexist. If even ONE was not, they'd wind up with all the women because they'd be willing to pay those women more money than every other company. I'm very open to the idea that there's sexism in tech, but the idea that literally 100% of everyone is sexist doesn't seem plausible.
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I don't know what's more funny (or sad): that you think engineers are no longer as looked down on or compensated at a lower rate than their "work" should otherwise merit or that you seem to have completely missed the part about "equal experience" in your haste to poohpooh them that desire equal treatment for it as inferior.
I don't understand why can't you just replace all React with Preact or Inferno-compat. That would take 2 minutes, wouldn't it?
Ask HN: If enough people froze only Experian report, would they go out of biz?
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It's not bash or POSIX compatible at all, they're basically incompatible.
if only Google would release Chrome OS for phones, we'd have the best of both worlds.
Before what did you have to do? Find a horse?
+1 on this

though I use fingerprints on my laptop, I'm quite aware that it's really easy to leave any fingerprint anywhere

(I use it because I type slow)
It would be a hard study to do, many of the non-tinkerers will never enter the industry in the first place. For a fair evaluation I think you'd have to look at first year comp-sci students and then see where they are in 10 years.

Personally I think the correlation I've seen personally is strong enough that I'd be shocked if a study proved it otherwise.
Flow of events:
See article in Feedly -> ooh that looks interesting -> click it -> See the link is vice.com -> oh :-( -> notice lots of chatter from fellow HN readers -> things improve immensely!

Please HN dont change :-D
You've described the typical "up or out" professional services firm.
What exactly does “fingerprint data has been compromised” mean? Someone lifted my print off a glass?
So you are saying that Apple would want to enforce it in a way that is less convenient for Apple than the way the license author would enforce it?

That is just as absurd.
> Imagine working all night and getting paid the same as someone who works half as much.

It's the socialist dream!
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I want a high tdp A11 in a MacBook.
maybe it was this described influx of foreign male workers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Saudi_Arabia
Gravity, Atmosphere, Aesthetics (for population expansion), research... all sorts of reasons.

But yes, once you've gotten reliable mining operations the pressure will be less. But the novelty will always be in high demand.
Kinda felt this was inevitable, but man the outrage over it was ridiculous.

Programmers can be such children sometimes. One moment we hate binaries, the next we love them. One moment compiling from source is a badge of honor, the next it's too big of a hassle. An OSS project has to resort to a somewhat-expensive license and 30 bytes of ad header to keep the lights on, yet nobody clamors to donate. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
The results are what I have expected but yes, mandelbrot and n-body in Ruby? Ruby's typical workload is getting some strings from a web server, building a SQL query, sending it to a database, get a resultset, creating a bunch of objects to represent the result and send back another string to the web server. That would be more energy efficient if done in C but not as much as doing a mandelbrot.

Then factor in the energy of the developer and its supporting environment for the extra development time (commuting, air conditioning / heating, laptop, monitors, etc.) The less the load on the app, the more important it gets.
IIRC this hasn't been the case since the iPhone 6 because it switched to relying on a TPM.
every website is a law unto only itself, every connection breaks the "physical" limits of national borders. the cat is out of the bag and the old powers that be have no power to keep their human slaves on the farm.

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
Sorry for the delay; it was (ironically) deep in my HN comment history:

https://blog.coralproject.net/the-real-name-fallacy/
throw a bunch of big wet heavy ice rocks on the surface (before we decide to set up base there) and you'll have a good kick start to an atmosphere.

Also, sounds fun...
Learn a few new languages, browse on each device thinking with that language. It could be enough to fool some algorithms.
What if we observe differences in said algo(s), when applied to small companies and the Googles?

Said another way, if Google's employee stats are biased, is there any feasible defense?
It sounds like your workplace doesn't suffer from the same issues addressed in the article. The women managers at Google were not being offered the same compensation increases, despite performing at or above the level of their male counterparts (all allegedly).

You shouldn't take it on faith that the women were being underpaid. The case will reveal what happened.

You also shouldn't derive from your experiences that just because you have only seen good outcomes, another workplace or team is similarly good. You only know what you actually know.
Ummm... you realize band-aids solve the problem of bleeding, right?

Similarly, giving women more money solves the problem of women getting paid less money.