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>>Here's another percentage what percentage of women and men didn't waste a thought on how they looked in their teenage years because they where so obsessed on how computers worked?

Most people are not in the job because they like create things or build things. They are there because they want a job and nothing more. And they want a job where (unit of money)/(unit of work) has a higher value.

That means they have to either figure out a way to make more money or do less work, or both.

Therefore the question of early interest or passion is meaningless to most people. So as far as they are concerned, it rarely matters how set of people of identity A got to it. They think regardless of that if set A got it, other sets should get it too.

This also creates other problems. Set A is likely to do side projects, write programs and hacks out of personal interest. Other sets looking at job as a return/effort metric will likely see why they are expected to do anything all all apart from working 5 hrs a day between 9 - 5.

The problem is merit is heavily at the side of A and other sets want the reward to not go with merit, but rather with participation itself.
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> Fingerprints and Face recognition increase the chances that an abusive spouse needs the other person every time they access the phone.

No they don’t - you have always been able to use a PIN a instead of touchID, so knowing the pin still works just as well with or without it.
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Agree about fingerprints, as they are left around everywhere and thus easy to capture. However, FaceID should be significantly better. As Apple talked about, FaceID only works when your eyes are open and also tested/hardened against modeling.
really??
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Just read CircleCi: CircleCi (specially 2.0) is an over engineered beast, designed for vendor lock in and selling add-on features. That is my experience working with it for over a year.
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Entering the price you paid for your crypto is one of the things on the roadmap. However, as I want that feature to be useful AND really simple, it's been taking a little longer to implement.

One thing I'm still trying to figure out for example is whether to let people enter the total amount they paid for all of their crypto, or let them enter the amounts they paid for each transaction. I'd prefer the first, as adding transactions would make the app less simple. But is is still useful that way?
Bit in the same breath if you can get away with getting an equally talented employee for 70¢ on the dollar then why would you ever hire a man?
Great question. I'd guess that Google's workload differs from Netflix.

What's your guess?
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That's not because it's slower; that's because it's the low-end (non-programmable) member of its family. It was designed by a company called Fulcrum, which produced the FocalPoint FM2000/FM3000/FM4000 (1/10G) and FM5000/FM6000 (10G/40G) switching ASICs before being acquired by Intel.

I think that a comparison to the FM4000, which is the programmable series of parts in the "Monaco" family, would be more fair. Here's their datasheet:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...

The FocalPoint ASICs were, as far as I know, some of the first to support (a demo-quality implementation of) OpenFlow in hardware. When Intel bought them, they released the datasheets, which is neat.

As a real-world example, these ASICs were used in Arista's 7100 series (c. 2008) switches. They published a two-part "Technical Evaluation Guide" for those switches which are, among other things, an interesting glance at how switches are constructed out of ASICs. Part 1 (https://local.com.ua/forum/index.php?app=core&module=attach&...) shows the topology of each switch (starting on page 13).

The 7124 is a single 24-port FM4224 with all 24 ports connected to front-panel ports. The 7148S has three FM4224 ASICs; each is connected to 16 front-panel ports and uses 4 ports (40 Gb/s) to connect to each of the other two ASICs in a ring. Intuitively, this means that it's possible that those inter-ASIC connections could cause bottlenecks (if e.g. all 16 ports connected to the first ASIC try to send 160 Gbit/s of traffic to the 16 connected to the second ASIC, they'll saturate the 40 Gbit/s of connectivity between the ASICs). Therefore, Arista also offered the 7148SX, which is non-blocking but needs six (!) FM4224s to make it happen!
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Your argument is irrational. If a company could get away with paying someone 70%, they would only hire the 70 percenters, or at least disproportionality. Google has roughly 20% female engineers, in line with the 20% female CS grad population.

Seriously... if there's some nefarious bias, it would mean a company hiring more women than expected, bc they can "under" pay them. Silly irrational people.
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Not that they're not deadly on a smaller scale.
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It is entirely possible that the numbers don't work. From a business point of view if the only downside is that some art videos get incorrectly categorized then correctly categorized after a manual review then reworking their business model doesn't make much sense.

This is bad PR for sure but I don't think the system is failing that badly. The rate at which video is uploaded is truly stagerring, and that's assuming that the successes of the automation deters many bad actors.
This seems essentially like Searle's Chinese room. The program is not biased, in the sense that there is no line of code that adds bias, but the application of the program to the available data clearly produces a biased process.

We've seen this exact thing with other machine learning algorithms - there was the one in the news recently that insisted on classifying a photo of a man in the kitchen as a woman, because all its training data firmly convinced it that women are the only people in the kitchen.

I guess the thing worth explicitly asking is whether biases for entirely logical reasons are defensible - for instance, if you start with an industry where (for whatever reason) men are paid much more highly than women, it's okay to offer people their current salary + fixed delta to poach them from their jobs. I would say no, because the goal of legal policies like this is to achieve a specific result in society, and specifically not to punish bad people in charge of companies, so the question is not whether people had a bad motive, but whether the result is being achieved. If you're allowed to apply a non-biased algorithm to biased starting data and have it yield an equally-biased output, you're not actually solving the bias.
Considering the law can compel you to use your fingerprint to unlock a device, it cannot do the same for a passcode, which only lives in your head.

For this simple, pragmatic reason alone, a pass code will ALWAYS, 100% of the time, beat out any supposed biometric security advantage.

Usability only goes so far, otherwise we wouldn't even have doors on our houses.
IIRC, KDE 3.x made a lot of hard-coded assumptions about running on a desktop. Plasma was a re-write to be independent of the display and using Qt-Quick that Nokia had crafted for Symbian/Meego.

But it's an egg and chicken problem. With no readily available KDE mobile hardware, developers won't port their desktop software to a 5 inch touch device.

But in the past few weeks we've seen the Plasma team reach out to develop halium (common hardware base for sailfish and Ubuntu touch etc), assist with packaging for postmarketOS and this purism phone. So that's 3 backends make Plasma run on.
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Bought some DOGE, sold it back, and now have $0, at the very bottom of the leaderboard:

https://gameofcoins.de/leaderboard/710

I have company, though. :)
What are your stats looking like?
Google puts lots of effort into hiring and promoting women, and attracting them into tech.
I had similar thoughts about the following:

> It costs 10¢ to post a comment and the money goes to the original author. Our users enjoy paying the original creator to post a nice comment next to their work.

Which would seem to discourage discourage diversity of discussion since profits go to the OP.
Same with SSNs. Try changing yours. And yet, they're used as passwords.
>>In my office almost all of the management positions are filed by women while almost all the technical people are men.

This again creates a new problem of 'Smart engineers' Vs 'Dumb managers'. To a point eventually you get to reducing management to routine supervision work.

In the past I have seen a situation where a program manager was routinely pissed because he was barely able to understand what engineers were talking about. After routinely under estimating time estimates he came to a point where the entire argument on him could be reduced to a rude statement: 'Why don't you stick to your spreadsheet cell filling work, and let us engineers do real work. Work that matters isn't your cup of tea'

I can see where this would go in case of women managers. In only some time, men would be accused of things like 'mansplaining'.
The downloads are all under 7.4.1708, so the 7.4 is still there. They don't talk about it much because it's not the same as what RHEL calls 7.4. RedHat still patches older point releases, while CentOS does not so you always need to track with the latest to get updates.
Indeed, they already have a trial taxi app, Waze Carpool.

Though right now they follow the UberPOP pricing model, at-cost rides. It has additional aspects that only work for commutes. For example, the rider has to wait at a pick-up point near a highway.

That said, if they made any serious effort, they could likely gain significant market share. Uber and Lyft already did the hard work of lobbying and creating the demand for riding and driving. Google could swoop in and reap the benefits.

It would require Google to do something novel for the company: have large distributed customer-facing operations.
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Do you remember the people pasting a paragraph saying things like "I do not consent to be tracked and my informations to be sold"? It was met with snark by a lot but I really wonder if it would not be legally valid in several countries.
What you're talking about is referred to as a 'market opportunity', which in this case doesn't hold water since I don't know of any successful all-female (or majority-female) tech companies.
Ahh, yeah. I was checking out the 2017 Quiltcon awards. Of the 70 winners across all the categories, 1 was a dude.

https://community.themodernquiltguild.com/resources/quiltcon...
Yes, I know, I was addressing your question and explaining why:

> The main advantage of PowerShell is interop with .NET so why not use C#?

Anyhow, I've written tens of thousands of lines of CScript and PowerShell over the past 15-20 years, give me PowerShell any day of the week for automation and admin tasks. Why anyone would persist with CScript/WSH for sysadmin tasks and automation (unless you're still managing an ancient fleet of Windows 2003/2000/NT) makes my mind boggle.

Also you there's a reasonably useful IDE with ships with PowerShell so you can actually set breakpoints, step through your code and inspect variables (though I prefer to use PowerGUI). That alone is a massive productivity booster.
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In python, yes. But if I was in Go, I'd just fire (and forget) a goroutine to do that.
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I still wonder why the gender equality issue in nursing has not been addressed we need more men as nurses! What is it like 12 women to 1 men nurse we have to fix this its is out of hand. /s
These ladies are behind the times. Gender politics at Google are now so advanced that feminism isn't even a thing. The "non-binary" and "genderqueer" have thrown the feminists under the bus. Frankly I'm shocked that the informal voluntary salary survey had the bad taste to try to classify gender.
All the prices are artificially kept low as Uber and Lyft seek market share to bankrupt traditional taxi service. I expect within five years you will see dramatically higher costs.
"The level of differentiations is so small I don't think much of that matters"

there are hundreds of additional subconsious decisions being made in a persons head that inform which app will ultimately be opened up. These companies public actions/reactions matter ALOT in terms of determining their success.
2 things here:

- firstly binary ops really need not 4G ops to test them all, but 4G2 ops which is not a 'few seconds' but 4G times a few seconds

- secondly, as a chip designer, by the time you've got silicon it's essentially too late - testing 4G or 4G2 operations in the original verilog/vhdl model is very much not a few seconds or 4G times a few seconds
Is this a standard setting that can be managed?
But most people are not Facebook (and will never be).

If you have to have several hardware servers, I don't see why the application server itself cannot contain basic boilerplate code to coordinate communication between the different instances of itself that are running on different machines.
I wonder how this would compare to Netflix's CDN machines. Where Netflix moved TLS encryption into the kernel.
I feel like there is practical worth in drawing a line in the sand, though. If all open source libraries had this then using open source would essentially mean you can't sue the big corporations (or having to go through some very lengthy and very expensive expensive engineering if you do). I think that outcome is bad for the industry as a whole and bad for open source in general and it's better to fight now than have to fight it when it's more established.
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Hahahaha it's funny because "nursing" is a gendered term for a class of front-line medical occupation that is almost certain to be vital to the provisioning of cost-effective health care in the 21st century where it is vitally important that we both raise the status of the profession to get more people into the labor force to do it and also to raise its status among consumers so less people have to wait for ludicrously expensive general practitioner doctors when a qualified nurse-practitioner will do and that's totally what you meant, right?

The best joke!
> I've never heard of anyone getting a lesser pay on account of gender (at-least here in India)

and so you can speak for all Indians?

I have heard one of my Indian manager saying they dont prefer hiring single females who are not native to the city where they are hiring because once they get married the females would leave the city and so the company loses all that training/skills etc.
The decision for me is always based solely on which one is cheaper for the trip I'm trying to make. I'd be surprised if that wasn't the case for a lot of people.
Just noticed your throwaway user ID. Clever. I'm guessing that you support single payer?
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>>A corollary is that working remotely is probably not a good idea if you're ambitious.

This.

And also communicating and blowing your trumpet at all opportunities available. You don't want to be overdoing it. But definitely enough of it make every one hear about you and your work.
Apple probably does the best among hardware companies in forced-upsell -- you need to buy expensive accessories from Apple to go with your shiny new device -- and each accessory is a little bit more expensive that similar models for other devices....
Two things to consider:

1. UDP packets are lossy, we had the UDP buffers of our Influx server fill up, and it took us a long time to detect we were dropping packets.

2. Many people want to detect when they are not getting data from an endpoint. Polling is a great way to quickly detect a endpoint is down.
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> They didn't make a pixel perfect copy of Facebook.

So you are saying they failed even with the huge warchest.
It's rare you'd have headcount open at L4 but not L5. There's a significant jump between levels, but not to the extent you're saying.

Leveling is a function of interviewer recommendations and hiring committee approving a candidate for a certain level. We usually interview people with a target range in mind (e.g., L4-L5) that's based on your experience and current role.

Base salaries don't have a huge range until you get very senior (e.g. Director). There's a LOT more variance in stock grants. I'm sure there are people two levels below me that have a higher overall comp due to huge stock grants.

Source: I work for Google, interview a lot, but don't serve on hiring committees. This isn't advice, and may not apply to all areas of the company.
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I didn't ask only about gender; I mention it because that's what the conversation above was about. I was leaving a job where the management structure had not worked well for me (nothing against the people in management, it just wasn't productive for the way I work), so all my questions were about how management worked - and in fact the remainder of my reason for turning down the job offer was that there were lots of other ways in which the management at Google didn't seem like it would work for me, much as there were lots of individual people I liked. My questions about diversity specifically included diversity of gender, race, and background (internal vs. external hires, experienced vs. new hires, etc.), and in part I was listening for how they would answer more than what they answered.

My current team at the company I ended up joining, as it happens, has no women, so this clearly isn't a dealbreaker for me - but I was much more convinced by the quality of management on several axes.
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If you had a system that could target such small things, lasers might work.
How does that protect anyone? Any patents covering React would probably cover Preact.
I don't know if you are trying to be sarcastic, but this is a very hot topic in the nursing field. https://www.nurse.com/blog/2017/03/17/making-the-case-for-mo...
I'm earlier in my self employed consulting journey then you are and I'm seeing a similar pattern. When I'm busy I'm extremely busy working lots of hours, but then I'll have some time off and it usually means marketing/networking, haha, it's not easy, but I do like the freedom.
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I find it interesting that HN commenters frequently take it for granted that someone who tinkered with programming at an early age and do side projects is a better performer at work.

I have never seen any multiple-data-point evidence presented to support it. Sure, various prominent entrepreneurs used computers as hobbyists (Gates, Zuckerberg), but does that apply to the typical programmer?

We all encountered students in classes who didn't study yet completely grokked their mathematics and algorithms coursework. Why is it so hard to believe that those quick learners use their time effectively at work?

Additionally, a multiplier to good engineering is strong communication and organizational skills; those can be enhanced through social recreational activity, and diminished by spending leisure time in solitude.

I'm not claiming either method is better, and intuitively the passionate engineer should win, but we shouldn't take it for granted until we get some actual information.

Edit: there seems to be some belief that I don't value experience. It is extremely important. We just shouldn't take it for granted that programming at home is as valuable as work experience.
Fingerprints are tokens, just like usernames and passwords.

Oddly enough, from a trust calculus standpoint usernames are not particularly valuable; we could do away with them entirely and the logic of authentication wouldn't change (though usernames add some very nice logistics that from a practical standpoint we don't want to give up).

At a very basic level, a single token suffices to authenticate: something you have, know, or are does prove you are who you claim to be (usernames just give a convenient handle to that). So, a 1TP from a fob, a password, or a fingerprint at a very basic level is enough.
Me too, the current system has a steady leak that cannot be patched. Sink the ship and lets build something better.

This is some Mr. Robot / Fight Club shit. Get it over with.
> Now who do you think is more valuable as an employee?

For which job? For some breadth of experience would be better but for a job working with html+jquery all day every day the depth of experience in that area would be preferred. Sadly the industry seems to be too focused on "full-stack" interchangeable components lately.
Because one of the several definitions of "nursing" is gendered does not mean it is a "gendered term", especially when used in a non-gendered context.

Unless I'm immune to the irony, this looks like a ridiculous out of place outburst.
It all depends on what the web developer is trying to accomplish. Without knowing that the best advice I could give is make sure you have a quite environment. Everything else aside, being able to focus for long stretches of time is more important than most things.
What do you think of ufw? It's native to Ubuntu, but it's also in Debian and Fedora (just checked the latter with Docker). I chose it over firewalld for my simple firewall needs because I run Debian and Ubuntu rather than Fedora and CentOS, and there's no daemon in ufw, so IMO it's simpler.
> What more do you need?

Tail call elimination, so you don't have the tiny recursion that Python locks you too.

Real lambdas instead of the arbitrarily limited one's Python has.
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Regardless of Uber or United, what's your point? If everybody else turns a blind eye to bad behavior, we might as well abandon our own principles out of convenience?
Somebody at Google could write a memo proposing that sexism might not be the only possible explanation of why a majority of their top engineers are male.
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It seems more like a faulty null hypothesis. Instead of assuming zero correlation between ability and pay, some people start from the assumption of perfect correlation.

With regards to ability, we seem to intuit the existence of an unmeasurable "ability factor" that underlies real, measurable metrics of performance. I have no idea how Google measure this kind of thing or any statistics qualifications, but a very dumb first attempt might be to get all the engineers to recommend five top co-workers, break the recommendations up into male/female groups and discard cross-group recommendations, then look at the attributes of the most recommended co-workers in each group.
First of all TouchID is layered on top of a passcode, so you still have good protection from being compelled to provide a fingerprint.[1]

Second, you’re missing the point. Passcodes do not “always 100% of the time beat out” biometrics if the passcodes are weak or nonexistent. Which was the case prior to TouchID.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/17/16161758/ios-11-touch-id-...
It's true that Facebook didn't intend to be an alternative to MySpace, but myself and everyone I know who used MySpace certainly saw it that way.