skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm trying to imagine what would happen if a company decided to do the opposite of this. Hires men on what they might one day do, while hiring women only on what they do right now.

Uh, it'd be what you see today. When they refer to "Qualifications" here they are referring to either university degrees or experience in top tier tech firms. And it'd be like the process that VCs engage in to hand out money to untested entrepreneurs. You'll get some Job's and you'll get some Duplants (or non-personally, you'll get some Apples and you'll get some Clinkles).

LOTS of people around you got into the industry without this background. It was in fact the norm. I mean ffs, man, Thiel was literally paying men he thought had potential to not finish college and work as EIRs for his private investments.

This practice is so common for men it's difficult to point to even one organization that doesn't have a man with at least one point on their CV where "they had an opportunity."

What's more, the entire landscape is changing faster than recruiters and folks setting "levels" for software engineers can keep up. Startups like Corusera and Udacity are literally making up new "credentials" out of thin air in an effort to bridge this, but the reality is that competitive edge of the junior position hiring market is a lot more about testing capability and potential more than any CV list.

And were the specter of "men not getting what they think they deserve" were not raised, HN would en masse be applauding Sephora for trying to build a sustainable technical organization that values training and internal employee development over 2-year re-employment cycles that give no one any incentive to learn.
I think the tensorflow code could be improved a bit if the author knew about the layers and loss modules.

import tensorflow as tf
import numpy as np
X = tf.placeholder("float")
Y = tf.placeholder("float")
pred = tf.layers.dense(X,use_bias=false)
cost = tf.losses.mean_squared_error(labels=Y,
predictions=pred)
optimizer =
tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(0.01).minimize(cost)
with tf.Session() as sess:
sess.run(tf.global_variables_initializer())
for t in range(10000):
x = np.array(np.random.random()).reshape((1, 1, 1, 1))
y = x * 3
(_, c) = sess.run([optimizer, cost], feed_dict={X: x, Y: y})
print c
>and then goes on to implement them all the time, for all the decisions made. Not possible, hence evil in the world.

This is literally the problem virtue ethics was formulated to solve. It's less about the ideal decision and more about what virtues and habits you have cultivated in yourself.
Well buying anything in bulk will still be cheaper !
Hmm, are they truly completely different games?

From a high level, it seems like the elements for an AI to learn are mostly the same: Resource gathering and optimization, map/location battle optimizations, building/technology decisions...

It's not like Starcraft: verison X is different than Starcraft: version Y is different the way Starcraft and Hearthstone are different games.
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> Sysadmins aren't big fans of disruption either. You could build the greatest active-directory replacement in the world and no IT department would touch it with a ten foot pole because it isn't what they're used to.

It's all fun and games untill 2000 users cannot log into their machines because your new shiny active directory replacement didn't work.
Thanks for the link, really cool to see the AIs at work.
Ah, sorry, and I don't seem to be able to edit. I guess I always consider a fridge a dry place, but that's not really true the more I think about it.
These books are becoming more and more "electronic-only." A quick survey of my coworkers shows that I'm the only one who still reads paper books. I hope I am wrong.
In some countries WhatsApp is the main form of communication between friends and people are on it every waking minute.
I suspect the opposite - given that whatsapp dominates texting in europe, and twice as many people live in europe as the USA (which is upon what i suspect you base your assumption here)
Unfortunately that's how it works for companies today - they know they can pay less depending on where you live (even within the same country, like SF vs Midwest US).
Well they should pull themselves up by the bootstraps like good little republicans.

On my team of 8 people 1 grew up anywhere near the Seattle area. Half the team moved to the US from other countries. Maybe these people should move. It sucks, but life isn't fair and sometimes you have to sacrifice what you want for what you actually need.
> Most nurses are women, maybe we should favor men in the hiring process there?

Ah yes, the inevitable "I didn't do any researching at all but WHAT ABOUT THE NURSES" post.

Most areas in North America and Europe want more male nurses. How to attract and keep them is a major area of discussion. Many nursing scholarships are exclusively for men. Men in nursing get paid more than women in nursing.

And all this ignoring why the nursing gender imbalance exists. Here's a hint: It's not because women wanted to do the work of a doctor for a fraction of the pay.
roughly the same as a crack addict's relationship with crack. Writing this while standing in a long line at Philz.
Oh OK, that makes sense then. Yeah, that's been fixed in current internal builds and will go out on the store soon.
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I was just thinking that most people who use the term "virtue signaling" are also "virtue signaling" against other people's "virtue signaling".
I'd be interested to see how their dev team (split out from frontend/backend/fullstack) compares to the rest of the industry. I've worked at a lot of companies that were at least close to 50/50 if you counted all of marketing as "tech".
Apparently it's actually frequency modulation lidar

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...
This was hysterical:

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/9nzwjt/the-colbert-report-vess...
My Adventure into SSD Caching with ZFS Home NAS
They do realize that once you pass 50% females you actually start to become less diverse, right?

With 74% females they are as diverse as a 26% female company.
I'm positive that's pretty damn far from setting any diversity records.
Not really. Utilitarians who try to find utilitarianism in other ethical schools can certainly do it, but it only makes sense to them as utilitarians. Deontologists generally don’t accept their formulations because their first principles are different, and that’s actually the key thing that people care about in discussions about ethics: the values that motivate them.

For most situations, all ethical schools of thought wind up with the same answer (unless you’re an Ayn Rand devotee). Those aren’t the interesting parts of ethical theory though, the places where they disagree are the margins where the actual theoretical work is being done.
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TL;DR guy has a scheduled job which puts load the db, removes a query which normally runs for 1.9ms instead of implementing rate limiting
Probably:

https://www.transunion.com/product/employment-credit-reports

http://www.experian.com/consumer-information/employment-cred...
I wasn't aware Thiel sponsored only men, or that other practices you mentioned applied only to men. Can you please back this claim up?
The iPhone opens to something like the Program Manager (but with little numbers showing which apps have active notifications).

Android opens to something like a Desktop, with some combination of Widget apps and/or app shortcuts. Mine is configured to show a clock, mini calendar, and weather. Incoming e-mails, SMSes, or other messages are visible in the notification bar. I could configure it to show me little previews of messages, but I chose not to.
The article seems to rely on a lot of people who no longer work at Sephora:

Jenna Melendez

Terre Layton

Asheley Linnenbach

Nida Mitchell

At Sephora (not clear from the article, but assume so):

Mary Beth Laughton

Yvette Nichols

Also very weird, not a single programmer (female or otherwise) at Sephora is quoted in the article. The only possible exception is Layton, who had an 'engineering background' but was Product Manager at Sephora.

This article does not show anything concrete about whether Sephora actually has a large percentage of female programmers, devops, or sysadmins. Neither does it say what concrete steps they took to increase the percentage (final count: 62%, but it's not at all clear from the article whether that number is limited to people who actually program or tend to programs).

The article is complete garbage, and not worthy of HN. It does not elevate or even contribute to the discussion over female participation in software development in any way.
Same here. I can't even imagine how 3rd party tool developers feel. Let's say you have a grid component. In the last few years you had to do a Winforms and several XAML versions( WPF, WinRT, Silverlight and now UWP). The XAML look superficially the same but all have their set of weird limitations and bugs. I am definitely done with Windows desktop.
There's a similar service called Inverify, and they have a page that looks like it might have similar issues: https://inverify.net/ManageIncomeKey.aspx

No idea if they used something smarter than birth date for "Login Code"
> We don't usually give birth control hormones to male humans.

This comment presents a false premise. The amounts in beef are ridiculously small, especially when compared to other foods. Any "advantages" to "hormone free beef" are pseudoscience and a marketing campaign, and that's it.
"How Sephora used sexism to achieve a 60% female tech team"

Seriously this screams of sexism but what I'm most troubled about is hiring inexperienced people and putting them in charge of seasoned teams. I've seen* too many attempts at this and it rarely works.
In Germany a majority of people allowed to drive know how to really drive. I can only imagine the head-on pile up it would cause in the US. Half the time I'm just happy to get home alive, we may have some decent infrastructure but our driver training is near criminally bad.
Read Zero to One. Assuming that is in any way representative of what he thinks, he's a Futurist.

Then again it's also possible that he's massively inconsistent and full of contradictions. Humans are not perfectly philosophically consistent robots. Contradiction is more normal than not. Peoples' beliefs often come more from emotional affinities and cultural bias than reason.
Is there a known upper limit on the number of #s one account can have?

I suppose you could use that limit to set up enough WhatsApp accounts on proxies to effectively have access to all registered #s?
Ask HN: Why is no one talking about the rampant abuse of the Web Push API?
Every news website, and every other random website out there is asking users for permission to send those notifications as soon as the user opens the page. Sometimes, they first have a fake browser-looking dialog, and if the user clicks "Allow", they open the actual browser dialog (possibly to prevent getting disallowed and never getting the chance to ask again, since the choice is remembered).

What can browser developers even do about this, block all requests by default (therefore making it a feature almost no one uses)? Chrome doesn't even have a setting to block all requests.
I assume the iphone was "more fancy featurephone" due to the lack of 3rd party apps?

I would have to disagree with that statement. Windows Mobile and BlackBerry allowed 3rd party apps to be installed, but they were both difficult to find and didn't usually add anything beneficial to the phones at the time. Users, for the most part, stuck to what was installed on the phone and that was it. Smartphones were defined by the fact they had an email client and a (relative to the time) high-resolution screen to read and write emails on.

It was a different market in 2007. The idea that a successful smartphone required an app ecosystem was unheard of.
> Men in nursing get paid more than women in nursing.

I can't help but imagine the outrage if this happened in tech...
Open source contribution does not indicate that is a company is or is not a 'tech company'.
I know who the author is. Any time that you have an opinion about a controversy in a field, you are going to agree with and disagree with some famous people. We can respect that we know less than the lead voices in controversies and still participate in them.

I can certainly agree that there are economists who stick to simple models when they shouldn't, but there is simply too much written that addresses the problems in the op-ed to discount the field of economics as too simple or focused on too few variables.
The Coming Confrontation Between Israel and Iran
And there was a technology boom during the agricultural revolution, when people where able to become completely sedentary. And art/craft booms occurred when kingdoms were formed and could produce excess food, allowing excess labour to focus on things other than agricultural production.
qualifications which can be harder for women to obtain in the first place since they might be passed over as a result of being women.
Well you definitely might be right. I can't say for sure that we can do meaningful work now, although the people doing the actual work do think it is meaningful, and I think it's worth trying.

I do think it's worth pointing out that many times, we can do interesting maths without necessarily having technological or scientific capabilities to which to apply it. E.g. lots of things were proven about computing before we ever had a computer. We already know a lot about quantum computing, without having a quantum computer. We knew how to describe the curvature of spacetime mathematically, before we ever knew that spacetime worked like that.

I'm not saying this is for sure, but there are lots of examples where we had math before having the whole picture.

" I don't think we should ignore AI safety at all. I just think our safety concerns should match our technology concerns right now those are physical robot safety and job loss potential. Not runaway intelligence."

I just don't think it's an either-or situation. We can (and should!) worry about both.
This seriously rises to the level of being an ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) violation. Figuratively, that is.

I've spent enough time helping the elderly on computers that changes to see these changes as revealing a deeply problematic arrogance. Drastic, forced changes to basic OS functionality should be illegal (not really, but devs should take it that seriously).

They have just taken away the ability of millions of people to listen to music they've purchased on the computer they own. And don't tell me they'll be able to figure out the Zune app. Sorry, Groove app. They won't because they'll just think their computer is broken when the wrong app starts up when they go to listen to their music.

And then they'll call you and me and ask why it's broken. And I, for one, won't have a good answer for them.

We are past the point in the evolution of major OS's where drastic changes like these are permissible. Or make a Windows version that get security updates and nothing else and make it available to the general public. Car makers don't change the stick shift functionality after you've bought the car (maybe Musk has the ability to do this, but the people who have licensed the right to drive a Tesla deployment are a unique population for now).

And further tangent -- wouldn't it be a cool concept if we could buy car hardware and then license the OS (Tesla/GM/Audi/BMW/etc.) we wanted to run on it separately? Cool as in a security and logistical nightmare, but cool conceptually nonetheless.
> the walkways are deliberately zig-zagged in serpentine fashion around the showroom.

Yes, they try to make people go through everything to increase the chance of them buying something on an impulse, I guess.

> the housewares seem to be a good value. E.g. The 1-quart hermetic jars at ContainerStore were $6.99 but the equivalent at Ikea was $2.99.[1][2] I chuckled when I noticed that even the jars were do-it-yourself: you had to install the rubber ring on the lid! I think lots of customers would be willing to do that to save $4.00.

You mean the little rectangular glass things with plastic lids? In my experience the hinges on the lids tend to come off if the lid is even a little bit off-center when closing. And the porcelain things (plates, mugs, ...) have quite poor "glassing" (or whatever the term is), they won't last very long. Go to the Ikea restaurant and take a look at the plates there for an example..

Now I'm not saying everything they do is crap. Some of the things are pretty good, and the ones which aren't are at least very cheap.
They do for nurses. Same with male teachers in a lot of areas.
If you detect the sarcasm then it's all perfectly consistent.
How to create an interest for studies in individuals?
Some people are just wasting their life just watching TV, or doing nothing or unproductive stuff.

How to get them to develop interest in studies and learn something and spend time in a useful and interesting and valuable way?

Is there any way to use Nudge Theory or Neuro Linguistic Programming to achieve this.
One single person writing a letter--is acceptable.. But money is power, one single person writing a letter backed by 2 million in funding... that's extortion..and should NOT be free speech.

Each person should have EQUAL weight on their 'freedom of speech' abilities... Lobbyism as it works now is flawed.

Corporations are not human entities and should have no protections under the constitution of free speech either... The CEO sure--but they should just be able to send the letter, without any money backing and be barred from giving more than what a normal person could afford to a politician -- i.e. something like $500/year per politician..or something.
> Sadly, this isn’t anywhere near true because most employers who contribute data to The Work Number — including Fortune 100 firms, government agencies and universities — rely on horribly weak authentication for access to the information.

Sounds like the employers were doing it wrong.
Nuraphone: Headphones that scan your ears for a tailored listening experience
No I didn't.[1] Are you thinking of HEADphones?

[1]https://www.lifewire.com/earphones-vs-earbuds-2640208
You couldn't just port from WPF to Silverlight. They took away tons of features. WinRT was even worse. No idea about UWP but I don't care anymore.
Apple's new gender neutral emojis
Nobody has to stop using WhatsApp, the scenario described in the article can be prevented simply by changing the app's privacy settings.
Depends on the game, too. Guild wars 2 annihilates my i5-4670.
Let's stop using react-css-modules
That is an excellent idea. But why 16TB of random data ? Why not encrypt some high entropy value (digits of pi, whatever) with a 100 character password and generate 16TB like that. You then use the 16TB as a password but you could regenerate and recover using a scrap of paper.
I don't want a full-fledged ORM, and I sort of like SQL, but just normalizing nested objects to put them in the database and then unnormalizing them on the way out is really annoying to do in raw SQL in my experience. Every time you want to store a new object in the database, it feels like so much effort to write a bunch of boilerplate functions. Or do you have a solution to this?
haha, wasn't supposed to be 100% accurate ;), so maybe, but in a small enough market I buy this.
Everyone knows if you want true anonymity when conducting criminal activity you don't use a service with a dollar trail straight to you. You use a system you've gained unauthorized access to and you doctor or delete the logs. Criminals have no qualms illegally accessing other people's systems, so it's not logical that giving non-criminal users access to true anonymity would give the criminal users any capabilities they don't already have. In fact there could be benefits to non-criminal users of such a system possibly shielding them from certain types of criminal activity, so it is not even true that society inherently has more to gain by prohibiting truly anonymous networks.
There are lots of tools that do that. But if a tool automatically programs for you, then are you a programmer, or a user?

Programmers do not want to be accused of being users. So they stay away from those tools.

(FYI I am a programmer.)
`0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3` is a property of all (base-2) floating-point arithmetic, no matter the precision or programming language.
> MS was probably worse.

Not that this counters anything you said nor that relevant to this topic, but as a nerd I am genuinely curious if this was true.
I used to write lowlat audio stuff for iOS so I was well aware of the situation Android vs iOS (and because of my large interest in audio Android in general always makes me puke in my mouth a little -- like it is one of those neat little hidden indicators that while Apple is a hardware company, Google is fundamentally an ad company -- they really don't give a shit other than prioritizing ad delivery).

Anyway, Windows itself obviously has solid low-lat audio services, was it really that bad in the mobile stuff?
No, at least after being forwarded from gmail, it shows up as winmail.dat and the message body is in plain text, not rich text.
Honestly from an AI perspective SC:BW and SC2 are probably more similar than from a human's perspective. 12+ unit selection, multi building selection & intelligent worker rallies aren't huge improvements for AI.
Pex Secures $7M in Series Seed Financing
Groove's startup is also instant.
It was just a matter of time.
Youtube and Gmail, too.[1] Google is trying to sort out the Russian ad buyers from the rest of their bottom-feeder advertisers.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-alphabet...
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This is computer programming we're talking about. This is probably the easiest field to get into if you're willing to teach yourself. Literally all of the information you could ever want about programming is available for free online.
And it too would have failed miserably and probably faster than the Amazon Fire phone. Android without Google Play Services is an instant failure.
Opening of a DeepMind Office in Montreal, Canada
During the New Deal era -- I believe there was something like a 90% tax on anything above 10 mill. If you taxed all earnings above a certain threshold for CEO's...then they'd be better off putting it back into their companies..but things are a bit different now adays.. Still something needs to change in 1980 it was 100-200x average employee salary.. since then average worker wages haven't gone up at all, but CEO pay has gone up to 450X the average worker...

Trickle down hasn't worked...at all. The middle class is the new 'poor'.. I earn 60k as a jr developer and still money issues are tight.. I shiver to think what'd happen if I lost my job or went to a lower paying job.
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Honest question, isn't this what notifications and icon badges are for? It's easy to see if there's anything new without opening the app.

Related question, does WhatsApp send the heartbeat only when I open the app, or every x minutes as long as it has a network connection?
I think employees should be paid fairly (which works both ways) based on where they live; if we can pay you above the local average for your role and you don't want to move, then we're an attractive offer.
IMO: Food. Just think how many thousands of dollars the average person spends on food per year and how very little of that is tapped by technology. There's Uber Eats and other food delivery services popping up, but there's still a lot of money to be made in the industry.
I think it's not being talked about on HN because a great many HN users are probably the ones developing these systems.