skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the approach here. Follow the data. It keeps everyone honest.

All companies cherry pick from the best Universities. The fact they've had to look elsewhere means they're not getting the best from the best Universities (based on rankings). They're getting the best female graduates possible. I assume these are good enough but not the best.

Male hires are probably still from the best universities. This creates an imbalance in competence. The female hires are good enough, the male hires are exceptional. Male hires move up the ranks on virtue of their competence. Other male hires leave after a couple promotion cycles expire.

Now we have situation where male hires are predominantly in coveted positions in the company and female hires are mostly junior mid hires.

The equality problem has now shifted up. What do you do then? How far is a company willing to go with an equality experiment before shareholders start noticing the erosion of the companies competitive advantage and start protesting.

I appluad Duolingo for it's boldness. Am doubtful on its sustainability without either the rest of the industries following suit while pre university educational centres attempt to rebalance.
I enjoyed this. One suggestion: scopes currently are over-powered in an uninteresting way. One thing that works well for top-down games is to not have the view purely centered on the player, but to have it move in the direction of the mouse pointer. That way, I see more in the direction I'm looking and less "behind" me, which is realistic. A scope then allows me to see even further in the direction I'm looking, but hence less behind me. This seems like the right balance and requires more skill to handle the trade-off properly. You can even go further and have, when the mouse is aimed sufficiently far from the player, for the screen far from the mouse to black out. Thereby allowing a "sniper scope" effect.

Does anyone here remember BaboViolent 2? All of these suggestions were done in that, particularly for the sniper rifle weapon (my personal favorite). In that game, it was important to balance your mouse pointer at a "kinda far" distance with the sniper rifle that wasn't so far that the screen blacked out and hence you still had peripheral vision but still got an increased field of view.
For audio only nothing beats mumble/murmur. If you want video stuffs, jitsi.

I refuse to use Skype, discord, or any other proprietary black box system for something so important.
Awesome! Starring it for this very reason (I'll probably run an instance for personal / family use, after I finish setting up the home server). I'm a big supporter of every web tool that you can self-host.
If all you have is a single hydrogen ion (proton? I assume you mean H+), then you will always be able to choose a coordinate system where it is neither moving nor rotating. You can also do this if there is a universe outside.

Alternatively, you can choose a coordinate system where the particle is rotating, accelerating, or moving however you like. Your choice will be determined by the goals you have. (Without the laws of motion, there is no reason to prefer even intertial frames over nonintertial ones.)
It's hard to talk about in aggregate because chemotherapy doesn't have the same effect on all types of cancers.

I went through it. Aside from whatever months it added, it took about 3 of them away because I wasn't doing anything other than barfing, chugging hydrocodone syrup, and sleeping for that time period.
We have the exact same problem. Why can't sales just put a 2 day notice for orders in the contract?
And how could you trust them? Trades are fairly anonymous at exchanges. All you could see is that your strategy doesn't work as good anymore, but you couldn't tell why exactly and how they got this strategy.
Considering there is easily (in US) 60-80K+/year difference between doing HTML + CSS + JS (mostly via jQuery) and say React. Spending 1 month to learn webpack + React looks like fairly sound investment of time.
Young bright people diverted to work on eeking out higher margins for the capital class instead of...anything else.
> What is less apparent is that Vue has had roughly double the growth rate over the past year compared to Angular.

Given that you cannot see its growth over the past year in in the chart this guide shows, some might say it's "not apparent at all".
Great to hear! As far as I know no one besides myself has spun it up, so I'd love to hear how it goes!
I hold doors open for both men and women and no one has ever said anything to me about it except for "Thank you".
Honestly, I'm kind of surprised they still exist, given the half-life of random web startups being ~3 years. Personally, I've seen them (and used for a while) back around... 2011? Don't remember what their page looked like back then, but it was quite easy to figure out.
https://github.com/ajtoo/vscode-org-mode/issues/85

There's an issue, and the project is in alpha, but this doesn't sound good.
I have felt exactly this pain and toyed with the idea of writing a book on it, mostly to learn networking myself.

There's such a divide between network engineers and everyone else, maybe because most network knowledge is gained in the field and it's pretty hard to get the experience without being in the networking corps.
Brutally worded but I get what you're saying. Our collective ability to not care about mens issues really amazes me.
What are your thoughts on causes/treatment of astigmatism? Could lens distortion (away from optical center of a high minus lens) be a contributing factor over a long period of time? If so, could be an argument for using FF lenses. Apparently the Zeiss FF patent expired this month and Seiko's FF patent expired in 2016.

Rodenstock lenses are not widely available in the US. Looks like the Zeiss Individual SV will compensate for astigmatism caused by pantoscopic tilt, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3e73/2da37ec9e17bd086b32095...

Some quotes from Chapter 1 of an open-access book on astigmatism: https://www.intechopen.com/books/astigmatism-optics-physiolo...

… visual tasks with significant downward gaze, such as reading, can alter corneal curvature owing to eyelid pressure ... Studies on the time course of astigmatism regression have revealed slower recovery after longer periods of reading ... continuous use of the medial rectus muscle, especially during near tasks, imposes a force on the cornea which increases its radius of curvature in the horizontal meridian resulting in a shift towards against-the-rule astigmatism...

… Larger pupil sizes—in low lighting conditions— increase the amount of higher order aberrations such as coma and may intensify the cylinder power in subjective/manifest refraction. Coma has been shown to be correlated with greater amounts of astigmatism …

… accommodative astigmatism is related to lens distortion due to inhomogeneous lens elasticity, variable constriction in ciliary muscles (which itself changes the lens power), and nonhomogeneous tension of the extraocular muscles during convergence (which causes corneal distortion…

… slight changes in cylinder power and axis (towards with the rule) occur during convergence alone … this change is seen in a small percentage of eyes … for those who experience such an alteration, separate spectacle prescriptions for near and far distance vision might be beneficial.
Read, travel, create something for the joy of creating it and not because it will make me money.
I think a lot of people have setup their lives such that they don’t feel they need a break, or free time or an escape. They don’t put off those things that the rest of us do. Maybe the commenter you replied to falls into that category.
I find that suspect; I know there are people with something called "work ethic", but for those of us lacking such characteristic, our willing to do the work depends on the work itself (plus the surrounding environment) - and that can be quite different between college and the workplace. For example, I'd say I'm a better worker than a student.
Perhaps a more interesting question would be how your interests & goals change after a month of downtime?
What is pure HTML and when does it become impure?
It doesn't mention http://vanilla-js.com/

:-P

I know it's just a joke, but maybe there should be a section about not using frameworks at all? I'm also curious about the weight of these frameworks. Once you minify and treeshake everything, what's the minimum you can get down to in order to deliver an app?

Also, do any of these frameworks have a way to degrade for people without Javascript enabled? From what I understand, the only way to do this seems to involve some server-side rendering (and it looks like JS is still required).

I'm also really curious how heavy React/Vue/etc are compared to the original gmail implementation back in 2004 (only of the oldest major javascript/ajax applications that minimized page refreshes).
What I'm doing now: my podcast, Leadership and the Environment http://joshuaspodek.com/podcast, because I consider it one of the most important things I can do with my time.
I've downvoted your comment because it's only an insult (to a person who doesn't even seem to have been directly involved in this work), rather than an argument that you put forth and which others can attempt to either support or refute.
one free month and money? => travel!

one free month and no money? => read!
Great work. Might be more interesting and survival'y with real line of sight.

Like check out the game Nox. First result for "Nox multiplayer gameplay": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGbJvbDMEf8
There are people who are afraid of this.
It doesn't assume that at all. Any company can choose to implement a hiring goal for (almost) any reason they choose. Maybe they wanted a broader set of perspectives on their team? The idea that Duolingo would have to justify their hiring decisions in terms of changing the demographics of the whole industry is absurd.

Also Duolingo has ~100 employees total. There's no way that the industry's demographics are somehow limiting their available talent pool. Having a policy like this sounds like a great way for a small company to attract highly talented women.
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Choosing between programming in the kernel or in user space
EU is not a country. It does however represent the world's biggest unified market.

And as the US clearly demonstrates: taxation is better done centrally.
This is a common way to record remote interviews (since the mid-1900s, I think), and is called a "multi-ender" (or "double-ender").[1]

They're straightforward to do manually. All parties participate in a recorded "1-2-3-clap" at the beginning and end of the call, and the claps are later used for sync.

There are also many "assisted" solutions, including Cast[2], Cleanfeed[3], Ringr[4], and Zencastr[5]. Some folks find them useful, but the additional dependency also means more things that can go wrong. Anybody using them has learned (or will learn) that they must record the live/VoIP portion of the call as well, as backup.

[1] Wikipedia calls this a "phone-sync" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone-sync), which is not a term I've ever heard people actually use.

[2] https://tryca.st/ [3] http://cleanfeed.net/ [4] https://www.ringr.com/ [5] https://zencastr.com/
have you ever considered the idea that many women dont want to be engineers?

what about the fact that more men are dropping out of school and less are entering college? shouldnt we be encouraging those men to be engineers as well?

as far as encouraging undergaduate/graduate to have more 'balanced' classes, since there is a limited number of seats I can't see that going any other way than: you have a penis, thats a negative on your application.
Somebody is throwing money at the politicians.
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Some people prefer to be part of the solution, not part of the problem...
> Is there more to it?

Yes. Org Mode. I.e. the huge, extremely versatile, extensible and powerful (and complicated at times) Emacs package that uses (and defines) this format.

As a way of marking text up, it's not much different from everything else. But combined with org mode, it's probably the most hacker-friendly system for managing todos, events, habits, information, and multiple-format publishing - and all of that in simple plain text.

Personally, I use org mode for blog posts on my new site, for managing my todos, meetings, notes, brainstorms and personal wiki. People also use it as a better (self-hosted!) equivalent of Jupyter notebooks, for literate programming, and plenty of other cool things.

So, TL;DR: it's not the format that's the magic, it's the software around it.

EDIT:

Oh, and tables. Org mode has the single most productive plaintext interface for manipulating tables. It can even work as a basic spreadsheet in a pinch.
I'm with ya there. I would Unplug. I'd sit and stare at the wall. I go for a walk. I'd do nothing. (I'd quote Office Space here if I could remember exactly what Peter said) Fishing... sit and do nothing.

I know this is true because I was only given one month. It would be different if it was indefinite. Having a solid limit, and just a month, is not bad. Having nothing in front of me for the rest of my life would be different.
Unfortunately there aren’t really any luxury manufacturers who don’t nickel and dime buyers. Come to think of it, that’s like all cars.

I would like a company that just takes the old Apple approach - you’re going to pay more, but you get everything for two different prices. Now even Apple has lower prices and then extra for stuff.

I thought Tesla would be this cool company, but they mega upcharge you. My friend signed up for the “35k” model and got $15k in options, one is entirely software based.
I had similar thoughts about the acyclic graph "falsehood". Sure you can have a cyclic graph, but then your build system is going to be crap. The cycle has to be cut open by the build tool somehow, and builds may or may not work reliably as a result. It is better to avoid it.
Flow/TypeScript is not really near the level of the other type systems, so I wouldn't really say that—it is a nice first step though, one that you can do on an already established code base.
I'd try to....

- Find a server for cheap that I can virtualize GPU access
Ideally >5TB HDDs, 512GB SSD cache, >64GB of RAM, cores on cores
- Virtualize the system that I use to Steam Stream my games
- Setup an at-home virtualized data analysis lab
Python + Pandas + SciPy + Matplotlib + Mongo/SQL
- Obtain some cool data sets and look at them
- Setup a website and post informed conclusions from the data sets
I think the text contrast couldn't be any worse.
"Pushed out" is an odd narrative for an industry that is bending over backwards to try and draw more women in. Is it even possible that women (on average) are less interested in tech work and thus have chosen (on aggregate) to pursue other careers instead? It seems like even asking that question is forbidden.

Why is the same level of angst not applied to education, where <20% of primary school teachers are male? Have the public schools been pushing men out, or are men just not interested? Or maybe it's some of both? Do we even know?
Because a headline like "Lab grown meat kills hundreds" could set the industry back a century. There's also the fact that ranchers, pig farmers, meat packers and the rest of BigAg don't want their businesses disrupted. And then add in the anti food-tech people (the ones who complain about Soylent et. al.) and combine that with the anti-vegeterian folks and you have a whole lot of opposition.

As a current vegetarian I'm excited to start eating these lab grown meats, but I also want the industry to do it safely and intelligently.
In my mind, shell scripts are simpler. I have no reason to need the extra complexity that make brings.

Also, I do a lot of programming on Windows, where GNU make would be another dependency to install. (Also, in my experience, make is slow on Windows, since they have to emulate fork()). I guess I could use Microsoft nmake, since I assume it's still installed along with Visual Studio, but again, batch files are simpler.
The bread and butter of the industrial robotics industry is SCARA machines for pick 'n place. These commonly don't have any sensors beyond a few rotary encoders and motor feedback. They're just moving between preprogrammed points. It's hard to make a simple definition that includes everything.
I have a day off a week, entirely to myself. I negotiated it with my work (a very large $CORP) in exchange for 20% of remuneration.

I end up tinkering with the things I'm interested in, and roaming London, going to places I've never been to in 40 years.

It can be incredibly productive. I even published a book as a result: https://leanpub.com/learnbashthehardway

What I have found 'hard' is doing nothing. I find walking helps with managing stress, as it's activity but not cerebral.
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GHC Haskell does nearly all its optimisation using trees and a high-level functional IR, so I think you are understating trees.
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Someone mentioned something like this yesterday (on /., IIRC, but I'm not sure). You could have 100% female engineers by simply having all your male engineers declare themselves as such, since "gender is independent of the underlying biology". There, problem solved! :D
I tried learning and using org mode. In my case it doesn't make it better than markdown, it's faster to use if you know the keyboard shortcuts, it's more structured if you want to export content and it provides more functionalities. But for a simple list or an agenda markdown is fine, so I personally went back to markdown like that I can do things from ST.
Nice, but you really should give some examples, too. Something like:

The Bitcoin client's use of unary negation has caused traders to lose $32.49 Billion over the last three week period, according to a recent study by Price Waterhouse Cooper. From a similar accounting produced by the US Office of Management and Budget, HODLers lost an amazing $1.479 Trillion - That's Trillion with a "T"!

A table-driven Unary NOT solves the issues caused by the use of Bitwise NOTs and direct operator use. To that end, we submitted a pull request. After 4 weeks of repeatedly sending the same pull request to the BC team (and being ignored), we are now disclosing this Bitcoin Client issue for everyone to see. Remember to patch this use in your Bitcoin Client, or your funds may be stolen! If you need to use an editor for this fix, and do not normally program, the use of SED will speed up your client edits tremendously. https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html*

Now that this critical issue has been disclosed, we strongly urge all Bitcoin users to patch immediately, or their funds will likely be summarily depleted within a week.
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Well, its certainly trying to behave like one then! Uniform currency, no border enforcement/passport requirement, law enforcement that spans members. Its as much like a country as the United States individual states are a country?

Anyway, taxation is, as the famous dude said, the art of plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least squawking. Any semblance to a rational system is only there to appease/content the citizens as they get plucked.
It's ok, the people who have picked a weekend to learn it feel sorry for those stuck in 2005 web design, too!

Sometimes I think web devs specifically and devs in general forget just how much you have to know to get started even with something "easy" like Django. You gotta know HTML (it gets new features, too), CSS, SQL, Python, Javascript, and the tools necessary to each of them. You gotta learn all that while a framework abstracts it from you. And that's not even considering the choice before that. Why not Rails or something else? Frontend dev is pretty simple in comparison, you're just familiar with one and not the other.

Node is an interpreter that runs JS on the backend. If you understand what Python or Ruby do, then you understand it. You of course can use it on the backend, but the main reason frontend devs use it is to compile the most recent versions of JS down to stuff that works on browsers. You're free not to do that, but JS has evolved for the better over the last decade. Babel is the main tool people use to do this, and webpack uses something like Babel to "pack" your app/components for the frontend. In a lot of cases, if you are using webpack, you don't need grunt. But both of them are build systems, which all language ecosystems use.

Most of it is optional but quasi-necessary and fits a defined role and need. But don't miss the forest for the trees, don't let choice anxiety get to you. What you want to learn is the underlying model, which is a huge step up from what people were dong 10 years ago. If you don't want to get complicated, there are a few "no choice" options.

1) Use React or another view library without any fancy schmancy tools.

2) Use a small, full-stack framework like hyperapp or Elm. This is the entirety of the model you want to understand, and both are small and easy to learn (we're talking a day if not an hour).

3) Use a bigger, everything included framework like Vue. There's no guarantee it won't be passe like Ember or Angular in five years, but there's an existing community and documented way of doings things.

Pick one of them, any of them, but don't get in that dread of choice. The great thing is once you've learned any of them, the concepts are wide enough that you can pick up another framework really fast. As in I can look at any of these and understand what they are doing the same way you can look at a web MVC framework from 2005 and know the hows and whys of what they are doing in an hour.

The great thing about the churn is it's like Christmas every day. You don't have to pick up any of the new stuff coming out, but I'd rather have options and evolution rather than not. The alternative is stagnation.

It's really fun and empowering. I encourage you and others not to get discouraged. Oh, and don't feel sorry for your coworkers. They're learning new stuff. What's better?
There are many different schools of thought within military academic on what it takes to prepare for battle. The current implementation is one that leadership currently thinks is best, although I bet we agree that the military suffers from a lot of historical baggage that would not be included if we were engineering an entirely new system from scratch, optimized for the current world.

Regardless, my comment wasn't intended to be judgemental, I apologize if it came off that way. I just wanted to point out the similarities between effective cult leadership and military indoctrination, but should have been more clear that I was speaking more academically.
In that case, I'm putting this on my todo list (in org mode :)) and will spin up an instance on my home dev machine somewhen in the next 10 days (I'll have an extremely busy week). I'll get back to you with the report.
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Worse obviously. PayPal is a US company, US consumer rights and privacy policies are always worse. That's a given.
The people most afraid of this are the most in need of it.

Always do what scares you the most.
> I thought that their products were available to order now...

Senso.me? https://senso.me/order has said "Estimated shipment date: December 2017" for long time, and blog hasn't been updated since Sept.

Varjo? Last I saw, Alpha version available to partners. Though Beta was expected Q1?
Travel to foreign countries I've never been, stay in cheap hostels, and document the experience. Leaving on Thursday :D
Animal farming is such a historical constant, I wonder what the unintended consequences of artificial meat are?

How does this ride with the trend for more organic and natural produce? Will artificial meat only be a suitable alternative in cheap or fast foods?