skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author asserts that the hacker scenario is the "linchpin" of her argument. Therefore, it seems to be a flawed interpretation to revise her argument to refer exclusively to one part of the scenario and ignore the other parts. If the author wanted to make the argument solely about the number of folks working on a shared project, why include the remark about "ambiguous" work?

Perhaps the author belives that individual work on unambiguous projects is amenable to women. The explanation you've offered excludes this possibility.
Sure, but if you look at the implementation in the article, that's a much longer dependency chain:

*c = (uint32_t)(s[0] & masks[len]) << 18;
*c |= (uint32_t)(s[1] & 0x3f) << 12;
*c |= (uint32_t)(s[2] & 0x3f) << 6;
*c |= (uint32_t)(s[3] & 0x3f) << 0;
*c >>= shiftc[len];

/* Accumulate the various error conditions. */
*e = (*c < mins[len]) << 6;
*e |= ((*c >> 11) == 0x1b) << 7; // surrogate half?
*e |= (s[1] & 0xc0) >> 2;
*e |= (s[2] & 0xc0) >> 4;
*e |= (s[3] ) >> 6;
*e ^= 0x2a; // top two bits of each tail byte correct?
*e >>= shifte[len];

Plus, all those loads are not making it easy for the processor to pipeline.

And

*e = (*c < mins[len]) << 6;

is really a CMOV in disguise :)
While visiting a newspaper for a project, I heard them talk about how it is better to use a sans-serif font for the body and a serif for the heading because it is easier to read. I think that's more true for printed stuff than on the screen though.
I believe it is a typo. The rest of the article does align to that concept.

At first glance I do disagree that his/her solution will be as efficient in terms of size of the set and as performant as bloom filters or cuckoo filters. But I would have to benchmark it to be sure.
I'd add that a lot of "lone time" characterizes a lot of STEM generally--but also historians, writers, and others. It may be a particular stereotype around programming but I'm not sure it's any truer, or perhaps even as true, with software development as it is with a lot of other fields.

Caroline works in an area (digital advertising/marketing) that involves lots of collaboration and working with people. I'm not sure there's just about any field in engineering or science in which at least individual contributors do the same degree of working with other people as opposed to working through problems individually.

Although she mentions it, I think Caroline also glosses over the shift that happens in the 80s a bit too quickly. She writes:

>The ’80s did see a masculinization of computer science as a field, but I think it’s simplistic to assert that it happened because pop culture pushed PCs as “for boys.”

I don't actually think that's the argument--or to the degree people do make that argument it's the most pertinent one. What did happen with gamers and the rise of the PC is that people who were interested in coding as a profession were increasingly expected to have started learning things on their own and to enjoy it as a hobby. This isn't really true to nearly the same degree of any other STEM field. Although I can't prove it, this seems to me the most logical explanation for why women entering CS peaked around that time.
I agree with the article but put it differently.

To say exercise lowers depression, disease, and death normalizes inactivity.

You can define normal how you want, but I prefer to think of exercise as normal and that lack of it contributes to depression, disease, and death.
"It's a cache." The use case is deduplication in an event-stream environment. This calls for exact matching without hash collisions.
The quote seems to be wrong with Steve Jobs. Jobs wasn't really mainly a programmer though was he? I think he knew how to code and could get something going, but that wasn't really what he did.

Gates also didn't work alone a lot of the time.
I'm on the spectrum and I walk like this. It's always been a weird texture thing for me. I also walked on my toes a lot as a child.

Pretty weird coming on here and seeing how I walk (and got made fun of for it.)
> I think that's more true for printed stuff than on the screen though.

What makes you think that?
A nice quick guide. Definitely eliminates a lot of experimentation when in hurry to get going.

Here's a 10 second theory class: stick to the four principles of design - remember CRAP (not my theory though)

- C: Contrast -> use contrasting design to make things that are supposed to be dissimilar look dissimilar.

- R: Repetition -> repeat design patterns for similar items. Remember CSS?

- A: Alignment -> don't leave anything just hang in air on the canvas. Align things together.

- P: Proximity -> birds of the same feather flock together. Similar things are closer. Dissimilar ones are farther.
> pales in comparison

It's not a competition... To acknowledge one problem does not mean ignoring others. There is very real discrimination against people of Asian heritage in the US college system, with very similar parallels to discrimination against Jewish people in the past. To pretend this doesn't exist does all of the real individuals who've experienced it a disservice, as it would be a disservice to pretend that the extensive, institutional racism against black people is no longer an issue today when it clearly is. These are all problems worthy of attention.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/opinion/is-harvard-unfair... "A similar injustice is at work today, against Asian-Americans. To get into the top schools, they need SAT scores that are about 140 points higher than those of their white peers."

Edit to add: I don't know what the solution to this is, or what should be done. I just know if I was one of those people rejected, I'd feel pretty bad. And as a privileged majority, I want to be judged on my merits, I don't want to benefit from racism or xenophobia, if someone is better than me then they deserve my spot. And I've got to speak loudly about it (even though I'd much rather stay out of political discussions online), because to do otherwise is to passively accept the advantages given to me by this institutionalized racism, which is almost as bad as explicitly endorsing it. We've got to acknowledge it, talk about it ...

Second edit: One very actionable thing is to make clear issues of access and discrimination are important issues when your college comes calling for donations. Ask them for their statistics, what their plans and intentions are. If enough people did it, this would matter. It would make a difference.
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So optimising code feels like playing chess now?
To somewhat counter-balance this, in a recent grant panel I was on, several established, senior investigators were given a “pass” on methodological issues in their grants with “I’m sure X’s Lab knows what they’re doing...” while younger investigators got eviscerated.

“X is a genius” is a form of PR.
That is technically true, but the Core group has been stewarding Satoshi's original client since the genesis block. So a switch to another code base (even if it is a semi-recent code fork) is still a major event in Bitcoin's history.
Layperson question coming up -

Say a decohered particle reaches an un-decohered state outside the realms of our detection. Does this mean that for that particle time didn't elapse? As far as the particle is concerned, someone observed it and then someone was unable to observe it.

This hinges on whether a decohered particle can go back to being undecohered.

If the answer is that particles can stop decohering, then our status as observers is merely a contrivance for us to checkpoint a before decoherence state and a decoherence state.
Yes since I bought a dog 3 years ago I walk or run with her almost every day and I'm definitely fitter for it.
Reminds me of Qira. http://qira.me/
It suggests that F is differentiable, and as soon as you form the difference quotient you know everything. With the hint I think it’s a really cool problem.
Just for context, Eli Attia, the architect, is not really the one pursuing the claim against Google here.

A company called Max Sound [1], whose only line of business seems to be suing Google, bought rights to sue over this in May 2014 and then sued Google in Dec 2014 [2]. They seem to have filed at least one other somewhat questionable lawsuit against Google in the past [3].

[1] http://maxd.audio/

[2] http://app.quotemedia.com/quotetools/newsStoryPopup.go?story...

[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-max-sound-google-lawsuit/m...
Cub scouts tend to have one every year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raingutter_regatta

But the elite catamaran style tends to dominate over the standard design.

But yes, there are concepts that allow a single question to be preferential to people of specific backgrounds.
> how do you get startup ideas?

One fairly effective way is to focus on problems, nuisances, frustrations, or pain points. What do people/groups/companies dislike, hate, etc? What can be improved on? What wastes resources that could be made more efficient? Someone will usually pay for something that solves a problem.

You don't necessarily need an original idea, often it's just a matter of doing the same thing others are already doing, but better, or cheaper, or differently. Many people get stuck on coming up with some unique idea, when in reality most businesses are not doing anything particularly unique at all.
The concept of "observer" always bother me. It seems that a light meter, or a thermometer, are equally observers as a brain/body is an observer. WHich then boils down to something like "to interact." Time goes one way because particles/fields interact. Is this right?
I remember having to ask the teacher to explain a word problem that involved a baseball player hitting "a double" and "a triple", because I had no clue what that meant. That test discriminated against nerds who don't give a shit about baseball.
It should be noted that many of the papers in Science are essentially summaries of larger, longer bodies of papers in other journals.

It’s especially easy, especially if you’re outside the field, to think these are trivial. What they’re actually meant to be is accessible to you.
I'm not sure either quote applies necessarily to females specifically. At best seems to just be how this particular person is.
And until very recently, gay people weren't allowed to join the scouts.
Sure it pales in comparison.

Having your house burgled pales in comparison to being in a high speed crash on a highway, but I still don't want either one.

Also, who are 'the powers that be', if not the federal and most state governments which endorses race based admission policy?

Oh, and one more thing: In 'civilized Europe', many countries have decided that affirmative action and race based admission standards are indeed racist, and are banned. Are 'the powers that be' operating over there too?
the snide addition of "Hopefully she doesn't get fired for it." makes it hard to be objective about the rest of your comment, but putting that aside, i agree that there is a tinge of implicit buy-in of gender stereotyping in her writing.

it's almost certainly more complicated than just "biology did it". that biology simply _dictates_ the way we learn is naive, rather than being a complicated dance between biological inputs that get filtered through dynamic social perceptions rippling through an ocean of brains ever more intricately tied together by computer networks. i don't pretend to know the truth here, but i fully expect it to be marvelously complex and in possibly fascinatingly counterintuitive ways.

i wanted to like and even agree with the article, but it basically boiled down to "we learn differently", and i just find that woefully inadequate in explaining why women are underrepresented in tech.
Visual weight is not just about number of non-blank pixels. The author has a few good examples of how strong colours add weight to otherwise identical icons, and so dark icons look better being a bit smaller.
The most contrived examples you come up with are still vastly better outcomes than 150 people perishing in a plane crash. The stakes are just much, much lower.
This is good advice and applies to virtually every industry.
There's also the fact that there just aren't that many coal jobs to begin with.

Here's one link, you can find lots more:

www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/31/8-surprisingly-small-industries-that-employ-more-people-than-coal/

Coal gets a lot of attention because it's visible, distinctive, and I think a lot of people see it as a stand-in for any blue-collar job, i.e. the stuff that's all being automated or obsoleted out of existence.
The article starts with discussing the top of the funnel (attracting M/F to domain) and hard-shifts to analyzing the bottom of the funnel (they're workers now!). I like that the analysis ends with relating the representation of Fs in certain segments of the workforce to the top of the funnel, but I'd like to see more discussion of top of funnel dynamics.

Not discussed here is an idea I've heard in gender--pay analyses that regards the funnel in general, and I'd like to see analyzed more: though discussion tends to suggest that men are for some reason smarter/wiser than women for their pursuit of higher-paying pursuits (in this case, CS/programming), the discussion may in fact be overlooking a number of factors that make that pursuit non-optimal over the short or long-run (say, relatively lower quality of life) and women are in fact wise for not going for it.

I admit that I do not quite buy the idea described above, but it does appeal to me, as a guy that enjoys learning about counter-intuitive and counter-productive ideas/behaviors.

Lots of discussion of this matter that I've seen has gone the route of "look at these fantastic projections of industry growth for CS/programming jobs [as based on current conditions]! It's unthinkable [hard to understand] why more women aren't rushing into it!" Accordingly, I'd love to find out years from now that women are less moved (convinced) by projections of future conditions that are highly based in current conditions than men are (which I think is kinda wise).
Sans-serif seems easier to read on a screen when the font-size is small. Maybe that's just me though.
I think beyond just "educational style" something we should consider is the way we socialize reward in young men and young women. This is a gross generalization (but when your metrics are bulk - as opposed to individual - results, as in number of entrants or number of employees, generalizations matter), but socially and educationally we train boys seek reward for building or doing things and train girls to seek reward for being something. By the very nature of the software industry, in particular, the rapid engineering cycle, will skew towards building and doing over a state of being.

I am not suggesting that these socializations are an inherent part of being male or female (and I would emphasize that you've got a serious problem if you're stereotyping an individual based on the bulk socialization), but I would suggest that if bulk gender parity is important, then forcing it without changing, or at the very least identifying/recognizing/selecting individuals who have deviated from, the pervasive gendered socialization is likely to cause serious problems.

As a side note, I personally find the consequences of this early socialization are also highly reflected in the very way that the gender debate manifests itself.
I would also recommend the book by Edward Frenkel, "Love and Math" where he talks about his involvement in the Langland program.

Also, he has a very cool lecture on the subject here:

"What Do Fermat's Last Theorem and Electro-magnetic Duality Have in Common?"
http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/bblunch/frenkel/
The code formatting is confusing on mobile. Didn't know I could scroll through it.

Like I just said for another comment, that quote doesn't seem to be true just for women or even possibly for women more than men. The few female programmers I've worked with weren't like that. There's guys who will be like that.

I always thought ways of learning best were more on the people and environment (and how it affects the person) than gender by a long shot. I don't see why males wouldn't suffer just as much as women in the issues marked in her quote.
My humble appendix wrt online typography ("-" means IM-not-so-HO):

- If your font colour is more thant #333 on white, you're being cruel, especially to those who suffer astigmatism.

- Make sure the font colour contrasts the background for prose.

- Except from "fi" and "ffi", avoid ligatures in Latin scripts. They were useful when fonts were forged in metal and typesetting was manual labour. Dots may connect to serifs, but those "st"s and the ilk hurt my eyes.

- Do not use huge fonts. That's illegible on plebeian displays.

- Do not use very narrow or very light serifs for long texts. Looks cool with titles, brand names and logos, but they are really hard on eyes with anything longer than a short sentence.

- Account for when the user disables your fonts. Use defaults for things that are not needed to be stylised for your brand / website identity (i.e. any prose).

- Avoid stuff that obscures the text on your page (dickbars, links to top, etc).

- Repeating this, but can't repeat enough: make sure you understand the difference between brand identity and prose. If you style your prose too much, it'll become hard to read.

- Honour conventions (i.e. links have underlines, use hyphens and en- and em- dashes correctly, etc.)

- Use the space economically, and try to hit a balance between making things stick out, and making things miles apart. IDK how it is right now, but the Deck network's website was one of the best product websites around. Another good example is https://www.mcsweeneys.net/.

Many of theese the user may overcome by using the likes of reading mode in Firefox (that's a life saver), but why would you want the user to just skip away all that styling you worked on for maybe weeks? Just respect how the eyes work when you're putting together a webpage.
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I would be very surprised if there truly were any normative studies showing differences in the way women vs men learn. Maybe individually for this woman it didn’t suit her style. Personally I think everyone deserves individualized instruction but in the US at least we don’t value education that much.
You've just proven that regatta is such an unusual word, that you mis-remembered it as "yacht".

It sounds like a kind of Italian cheese to me.

As an elementary school child, I couldn't understand a word problem about baseball that used terms like "hit a double" and "hit a triple," because I didn't give a shit about baseball.

If more recently I read a word problem about rugby that used the term "scrum", I would understand it to mean the players were having a stand-up meeting.
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Who is McLuhan? Do you have a reference for this?
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>But we spend most of our media time on shootings and snake bites, in reality it's that bag of Cool Ranch Doritos (which are a curse on humanity).

We really going to worry about a bag of chips when so many people still smoke?
You may not have noticed that in response to an accusation of racial persecution, you have brought up an ancient report of genocide perpetrated by the notional ancestors of the targeted racial group. It's probably going to come across as cryptic what-aboutist anti-semitism.
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Some of his story is in this article from the Notices.

http://www.ams.org/notices/199910/fea-saul.pdf
“I also, as an ex-Googler, know that the company places a high value on internal open dialogue and personal expression”

That’s only true as long as your “open dialogue” and “personal expression” aligns with the prevailing liberal dogma. Step off the officially sanctioned path and the same thing will happen to you as happened to Damore.
I have persistently encountered the same problem in this space. Most people I've worked with write documents using the last formatted document they made as a template for the next. Tracing back through their history of documents you find that they are all based off one person who decided it was a good idea to mix fonts and colours of headings, and mess around with font sizes and then save it all as default heading and text styles, and then everyone after them just uses these saved styles to save time because changing them would mean having to work with frustrating aspects of the tool (MS Word).

So my question is, how can I get people to care about this? I've argued for a properly defined corporate style guides as well as adoption of typesetting systems like LaTeX but nobody wants to hear it. Am I just in a minority by being put off by poor typographic and formatting choices and should find more important battles at work? It concerns me that customer facing documentation is severely lacking in quality.
How can that be true? Don't fat people at least have more skin cells than skinny people? Also, I can't imagine that enormously obese people just have larger fat cells than skinny people. I have read that it is harder to get rid of fat cells once they shrink, but not that we don't get more of them.
maybe the 'women are social and men are loners' trope is the wrong mechanistic explanation for gender disparity among coders. FWIW/anecdata: I know way more women than men who are self-claimed 'introverts' that would stay at home if they could get away with not working, so I would not be in the least surprised if this explanation were a dud.
tu7001's comment shouldn't be down voted, it is correct. The human body has to expend energy to heat or cool itself when the ambient environment is outside a certain narrow range. Sweating burns some calories, even if you're just sitting around. When we spend our time inside climate controlled rooms then we burn fewer calories. The effect is small, but measurable.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975627/
yes they didn't state if was LE NE or CE they where talking about :-)
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics Richard Feynman was turned down by Columbia University because of the Jewish quota (he went to MIT).

Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine Arthur Kornberg was one of three successful Jewish applicants to medical school out of his class of 200.

Kornberg's son, Roger, later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
> in the age of learned helplessness

It's nothing so new...
"light version of a child" is funny :)
It's like a child but without the stress ;)
Indirect costs cover things that we aren’t allowed to write into grants. And at my institution at least, it’s questionable as to whether or not that indirect rate actually fully covers the cost of research.
Society appears to be moving to a post-fact era, where opinions and feelings matter more than evidence and data.
> Chances are they granted it to other apps

Other apps were not given access.
Legacy is bullshit. I don't see how anyone who wants meritocracy can support it. The children of Harvard alums already are privileged and have an edge, but the school gives them an official handicap too?
Feel free to look for an actual regulation that prevents ridged bumpers with shock absorbers. You will not find it and in fact many vehicles are sold that can have a 5MPH collision without significant harm.

The reasons for this is people can walk into solid objects at 5MPH without significant harm.

PS: Feel free to start with: 49 CFR Part 58