skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
20 years ago I walked into a server room where the walls sported naked/semi-naked women and the inhabiting men looked at me like I was there to take away their wall candy. I chose to leave and made another career for myself, because I was too young and afraid to stand my ground. I don't regret this, because I went on to have an amazing life, but I never again stepped foot in a room like that and I do regret never working with a massive Oracle installation or learning how to get the most out of a PERL app running on metal. I lost out, and I hate that I never had the opportunity to experience working at corporate scale.

I am willing to bet those rooms still exist, but almost all of the rest of my career I've found men welcoming and courteous, the same as the women I now work with. Things have changed and they are changing for the better - this is all just part of the discussion we gotta have.

It's getting better folks - the fact that women can now speak out in public means we are less scared, and we'll be able to interact more and you'll have a lot more women as company down the road.

Here's an exacting analysis by the ever-helpful Dan Savage on the Louis CK incident which covers similar ground (work-related harassment and power relations):

http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/11/10/25557816/savage-l...
This is a pretty disingenuous framing. "Be human", really?

The point is that you can't actually literally treat people equally because there are plenty of things that are acceptable to say or do with another man but not with a woman.
The title normalizes inactivity, which I prefer to consider normal, making exercise abnormal.

Everyone is free to define normal for him or herself, but I'd normalize activity and say lack of exercise atrophies the brain.

Logically the same, but motivates me differently.
Absolutely. But in some places I've worked, friendships built at work split heavily, though not exclusively, along gender lines. Men can reach out to befriend other men, and women women, but across that line has too much risk of being misunderstood.
So instead of finding someway to block or spoof a developer telling you they need different permissions, you'll wait around until some hacker breaks into your shit feeling like you beat the system?
Just treat people nice. There's a way to compliment a woman's dress or hair without sounding like a creep. In fact, women who are friends do it all the time. It's part of how women form platonic relationships. One of the nicest compliments you can pay someone is noticing a conscious change that they've made in themselves!
This situation is completely blown out of proportion and ridiculous.

When you have members of the opposite sex sharing space every day, sex is a factor, and there really needs to be some amount of reality brought back into this discussion.

The prevailing attitude reminds me of religious parents acting as if their teenage children are not going to have sexual relations, and refusing to educate them on sex as a result.

The majority of jobs I've had exposed me to sexual harassment and assault in various forms.

I've had female office managers hanging their arm around me and petting my hand while I try to eat lunch after weeks of my ignoring their verbal advances.

I've had female sales women grinding their breasts against me while rinding to a company offsite team-builder in a shuttle bus.

As far as I'm concerned this is par for the course when you stick women and men in the same space. I don't feel like these women crossed a line worth making a big deal about, it's not as if I was raped. They were mildly annoying, but we're adults, and I'm not deluding myself into believing we're going to be robots in a coed office without ever letting our sex enter the picture.

In all my experiences, the women gave up pretty quickly. It's as if they were just going out of their way to make it blatantly obvious they were interested, because my acting aloof and ignoring their more subtle advances weren't convincing enough. They probably assumed I was being shy (quiet, introverted, software engineer).

I personally feel people need to calm down a bit on this topic, and yes I'd like to see the double standard go away. Attraction happens, if people are civil about it and not too persistent, I'd rather there be a reasonable threshold of tolerance on both sides of this.
Yes, it happens. In my view what your describing is also unacceptable behavior. In the past I would have overlooked it, at this point I wouldn’t accept it and I’d ask her to stop and mention it to her manager/ my manager (or HR).

I have no doubt that women suffer from harassment more in the workplace. But this behavior is also not ok.
The point is it can be difficult to treat women exactly the same as men, and that's in itself not fair really to anybody.

One "solution" is to keep the workplace as sterile as possible. Get close to no-one, keep to yourself, all relationships remain starched & supremely professional. But ultimately that's not really a win either. Who wants to work with robots?
Tuning is a hassle, but when the alternative is rewriting my important code over and over until I hit the right tradeoff between fast and readable, I'll take it.
>I refer to them as "women", never as "ladies" or "girls" or other nonsense.

Should we discriminate against people who come from a minority dialect where this is less common?

>I don't engage in, or tolerate, any sexist ... conversations.

Yes you do. Your comment to which I am replying advocates for sexism.

>Incidentally I regularly break some of these rules with male employees, such as remarking on haircuts ("looking good", etc.), but it's different.

Congratulations, you are now excluding women from a class of social interactions that you have with men. This means that it will be harder for them to develop the type of interpersonal relationships with you that help them advance in the workplace. This is the exact same problem as not taking women out to lunch (for fear of accusastion of harrasment), just to a lesser degree.

Maybe the benifits of these policies are worth it, maybe not. However, it is far from simple. Especially if you have truly bought into the notion that any form of sexism is wrong, because the standards of conduct expected of you (or, at least, as you are describing them) are still inherently sexist.

Further, I think this type of comment does another disservice. It makes it sound like the types of harrasment we are talking about are just normal interactions where one side happens to be a women. However, when you look at the actual instances it is almost always the case that the behaviour is unambigously bad, and would still be so regardless of the genders. Seeing comments like yours generates alot of pushback from people who read it and then misunderstand what the original problem that we are talking about is.
I got started being into algorithms and then making games with ai opponents like http://bitmultiplayerchess.com, http://wordsmashing.com
I took andrew ng’s coursera machine learning course which i would highly recommend, also his deep learning course is worth it too :)

His course inspired me to create a cryptocurrency trading bot which i spun into a business offering forecasting for altcoin markets: http://BitBank.nz - Crypto Market Predictions with Machine Learning

I managed to make much more successful forecasts by understanding the fundamentals taught in that course like under-fitting and over-fitting and how to visualize whats happening by plotting a learning curve ect.

The forecasting algorithm really just applies the fundamentals thoroughly in perhaps a novel way, e.g. some features we compute at the current time include the linear regression of trades over time weighted by their amount

So its definitely worth the investment i think :) try and apply the teaching to solve a real world problem which i think is the interesting part, although you’ll end up doing a lot of data engineering you’ll savor the AI/ML part even more and start to appreciate strategies for how you can improve your performance in your case and test them out.

Having a play around with the create your own deep neural net at playground.tensorflow.org is pretty helpful, try and conceptualize what youve been taught in the courses by playing around with that, e.g. add more layers/breadth to your network to watch it get more and more powerful and begin to overfit when you add noise to your data ect.
Treating a workplace like a setting requiring professional behavior is "overcompensating?" What the GP described is simply default behavior in a professional setting.
Allow the following thought experiment: would you call a co-worker who is non-white "brownie"? "Sweetie" has that connotation nowadays.

I can try to sympathetic to what seem like onerous rules, but refraining from "sweetie" seems like the least of problems.
...bit heavy handed, no?

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Politically impossible. Any plausible alternative has to pay a weirdness tax too because if you’re smart enough to go to college, why wouldn’t you? That makes high school irrelevant. And the UC system, among others, is working on making just having a Bachelor’s a poorer signal of literacy and numeracy.
I can see risk of that gray area: as long as everybody is on good terms, misunderstandings and unintentional wrongdoings are quickly righted, but when either party is antagonistic, that no longer works, and things can get ugly in both directions: unintended harm as well as false accusations both have real consequences.

But, human interaction will never be without ambiguity, and we cannot eliminate the risk of being misunderstood or deliberately misconstrued without (especially) marginalizing those who are at a disadvantage in the first place.

I feel like this is the right way to approach things: treat everyone respectfully and responsibly, even if there's a slight risk to it. (As a strawman: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety")
why is it difficult to treat women the same as men?
The intrinsic-value of the options is required to be zero (strike price = FMV) at the time of grant. As for the time-value, how exactly would you calculate that for tax purposes?
> After-work events are “the front line” when it comes to harassment, and companies want “more safety precautions” now, she said.

This makes me sad. I feel like letting your guard down and getting a little wild can lead to some pretty good camaraderie and friendship.
what are some of the things, in your opinion, that are acceptable to say to a man you do not know, that are not acceptable to say to a women you do not know?
Catcalling just seems like a bad example... I can't think of a situation where that seems appropriate?

I'm really not seeing why any of this belongs in the workplace. Why not bars, or if you're not the nightlife type, dating sites?
You could always use byte array or ByteBuffer and reinvent the data structures with raw bytes right ? I imagine thats what you would have to do... sounds exciting.
your statement was thus:

> I'd wager that people making these claims probably _do_ have this as a risk, for good reason.

why do you think they have this as a risk? why for good reason? why do you wager this situation?

your phrasing seems like a sneering insinuation, but framed such that you can say it doesn't mean any one concrete thing, should someone respond. this seems like "weasel wording" and it seems disingenuous to reply the way you did.
> In fact, women who are friends do it all the time.

Part of the reason they don't come across as creepy is because they're, y'know, women.

> There's a way to compliment a woman's dress or hair without sounding like a creep.

This is entirely dependent on context, so as you've stated it it's false.
You don't think it's condescending to call someone sweetie at work?
Lots of downvotes...

I was taking poetic license with the notion that the equation for mass is almost entirely dependent on motion. [1] That's why I listed the equation first. Ah, well.

[1] http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/HEP/QuarkNet/mass.html
> where those willing to deal with social complexity will
> end up on top

You could also draw the opposite conclusion: bullies and predators like Harvey Weinstein are more successful on average preciously because they're less risk averse and less inhibited when leveraging their power. The #MeToo campaign doesn't change that dynamic much, especially at the extreme where you find abusers. The consequences come, if at all, long after the reward.

This doesn't just apply to sexual harassment. Sexual harassers are adept at wielding their power, which is an incredibly useful skill in any field. Very often that translates into socially aggressive behavior, even if it doesn't escalate to anything technically improper.[1] If the consequences aren't swift and transparent, theoretically we just end up evolving more skillful harassers and/or culling the aggressive non-harassers.

Just another way of looking at things. I wouldn't premise any real decisions on such a theory, but it's something I wonder about, at least in the business context. I mean, there's a reason success in business and politics correlates so strongly with so-called psychopathic character traits.

[1] What immediately comes to mind is that hilarious scene in Along Came Polly where Alec Baldwin violates almost every imaginable aspect of bathroom etiquette as part of a not-so-subtle dominance display: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHApjKcZAgI

Because powerful people cross these boundaries so much, you can literally signify power by exaggerating this sort of behavior. See, e.g., the above hilarious clip (because comedy is funnier when it's rooted in shared experience) and Donald Trump (from the truth is stranger than fiction department). In fact, I suspect that it's precisely because we (both men and women) are so used to powerful people crossing these boundaries that women find themselves in difficult situations where the nominal boundary had long been crossed yet they were nonetheless dazed by the turn to more sexually aggressive behavior.
have you considered following up with some of the good developers that didn't follow through to find out where they ended up? You can probably make a decent rough guess at how much they're making based on who their new employer is/location.

Also hiring is difficult... have you considered hiring a recruiter to help?
At work?
Someone please explain this to me: I get that CNN's are unfit for learning different poses, rotations and such. However, the I don't get the face example at all.

Let's say there is a layer of neurons that, after some convolution and pooling, get some features like "noseness", "eyeness" and "mouthness". Unless the pool size in the pooling layer was big enough to include the whole face in the same pool, the parts are still spatially separate (although lower in resolution than in the original image).

When there is the next convolution layer, isn't it going to learn that "kernels that have eyeness up, noseness in the middle and mouthness bottom are the most facelike", similarly how the earlier layers learned to identify parts?

Am I missing something, or is it just a bad example?
You can sell a home to cover property taxes, or even reverse mortgage to get the cash flow. You can't sell private company stock, you can't even encumber it with a lien.
I generally give all the important parts of the question up front. Having to fish for requirement isn't the point.
I'm trying to leave "personally" out of this on purpose. Don't you see the problem, regardless of your personal feelings?

People differ about what's fine in the list. But when a male doesn't think its fine, its still more-or-less fine by comparison.

The negative reactions of men to other men receiving those comments would not at all resemble [some of] the negative reactions of women receiving them. The downside is fairly bounded with men (guy thinks commentor is a jerk or weird) and unbounded with women (commentor loses their job because HR themselves is also playing it ultra safe).

Males can take more social risks with males, which may increase bonding (or it may not), which may leave women behind. That's a problem that's not easy to solve.

Males allowing males more leeway means males will have more opportunities to bond with males. "Boys club effect" grows stronger.
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Ask HN: What is the etiquette regarding duplicates?
If I wanted to share a link, but the link has already been posted a long time ago, should I submit the link anyway or "necropost" on the older thread?
Guess whose job it is to bring it with HR and make sure they understand the double standard you see? You and everyone else you can round up that agrees with you. Make it happen like women have always had to do.
as has been said many times by now in this thread-

there are many things a man can say to another man that he can't say to a woman, and things he can't do.

or even if there is something he can say, he might not be totally confident he can say it. who among us has never said something that came out wrong?

"so just never say or do any of those things ever" is a poor solution.
Think of it as building an empire as well as building a product. The empire should seek to be beneficial for the peons as they build the empire too. Paying in equity (as well as cash) is a great way to align incentives in this respect.
It blows my mind that we didn't confirm the existence of other galaxies until the 1920s.

It was less than a century ago that we learned that the universe was a hundred billion times more complex than we thought it was.

Imagine what we don't know now.
There's a double standard in GP's comment.
I know a lot of people who want to work for someone, myself included. It's a kind of tribal mindset.

While not too rare, they often want to join the best tribe. Which is usually places like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs. Or places like Medium, Asana, Atlassian, Pivotal. These people want to find a good leader and follow them anywhere.

Rarer are the people who are joining a company to try to improve it or make a difference. They tend to go for rapidly rising startups, or startups with a solid core. They are good followers and also good leaders, but they are perhaps the pickiest of all.

You either have to prove to them that you are the best leader or that you're rising rapidly. Often you might have to entice them with a bit of equity to let them feel like part of the tribe.

But if you believe that working for people is bad, they might sense that and not feel like it's a cohesive tribe. So I would work on getting them to feel like they fit in and have some ownership in the company (or at least ownership of their code).
Could you guys push an update to the App Store please? The current version is 3 years behind. I also thought the project was unmaintained until just now.
no, it hasn't been clarified.

what are these mysterious things a man can say to other men he does not know that he couldn't say to a woman he doesn't know?
Germany has seen many revolutions, each of which was declared the demise of labor in manufacturing. AI is just the latest panic. Germany does well because Germany believes in the value of people. Unlike American companies, German companies are not bent on divesting themselves of employees. They see AI as a tool to leverage their workforce, not a reason to scrub people off their books. From that perspective AI is not a falling-sky moment.
I think every device should ship with root by default, it's the case for computers, I don't see why phones would be any different.
> not profitable, burning money, I'm paying

This, I think, is your biggest problem. Fix atleast 1 or 2 of the 3 and your stress will be mostly gone.

Ex:

profitable, not burning money, I'm paying

not profitable, burning money, co-founder is paying

not profitable, burning money, someone else is paying

profitable, burning money, co founder paying
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Blood flow restriction to the extremities, reduced oxygen supply, cerebral hypoxia, slow-motion brain tissue death.
The article actually states how there can be a difference between hugging and harassment, to just point out one example.
> The first time Bitsbox co-founder Aidan Chopra had to create a forward-looking income statement, he “didn’t know where to get those numbers from.”

Many founders are out to solve a problem which they think requires solving at a large level. The issue being not knowing - where to get the numbers. What is your market size? What is the income strategy? etc.

Sure, there are some companies which succeed massively despite this but majority go down under because they don't understand it completely.
Not "nightly-only" but also "beta" channel since weeks/months. The today beta version is in fact the tomorrow stable one (57.0).
Not artificially low; the idea is to increase liquidity by tying said currencies to semi-liquid ETC/BTC (or whatever).

Right now, most post-money valuations are artificially high, which has its own set of problems. These companies are being valued as if they had already accomplished their objectives, and it’s solely because the lack of liquidity allows (and after several rounds of funding, requires) VCs to obfuscate reality and get big valuations that drive big headlines which become self-reinforcing.

In any case, it’s all speculative now, but in 2 years I bet we have this all figured out; and the regulators will probably catch up a few years after Trump is gone. Cryptocurrency has hit the critical inflection point where big banks are building platforms around blockchain. It’s not like this stuff isn’t already core business for Goldman et al.
That's not entirely true, and a bit of a fallacy of masculinity. I assure you, there are many men who don't care for much of the things other men say, and just because I'm a man doesn't give you permission to talk to me particularly differently.
"If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

If you repost an older story I'd recommend adding the relevant year to the title, e.g. "Do Things That Don’t Scale (2013)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14957007