skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't go so far as to say that "it is now thought". More like some people that are researching this problem are proposing some solutions. We are far from a definite answer.
> Tesla doesn't support CarPlay at all, but you don't hear about hoards of people boycotting Telsa

Because that isn't mistreatment; it's just not offering a feature. Doing something in a bad way can be more objectionable than not doing it at all. It's a bit like if you were to aay, "Yes, Restaurant A's soup consistently gives people food poisoning, but you don't hear about people boycotting Restaurant B when they don't even offer soup."
This mod is a joke just move on
TL;DR: mostly technical debt of things I manage in my private life (server, laptop, family's laptop, my phone).

I would do things that need doing for a long time:

- I have an old server on its last legs running Windows 7 (yes, not even Windows Server or anything) with services which I'd like to migrate to my newer Linux server;

- I'd check and reconfigure some backups, and setup automatic backups for devices that don't have it yet (my own laptop and my grandma's new laptop);

- I'd reinstall my phone which is running Cyanogenmod based on Android 4.4, but it's a lot of work to reconfigure everything (considering how many custom settings I have to firewall apps, disallow most autostarts and wakelocks, deny most broadcast events to apps such as those from the Google framework, etc.);

- and finally a hobby project: I'd finish calendar software that I'm writing (I can't find open source, collaborative, self-hostable calendar software) and finally have friends and family be able to just look in my calendar instead of going back and forth, and my girlfriend be able to edit in it and I in hers, etc.
Given that he's the same individual that built reCAPTCHA, probably not.
> Can it be possible that there are more relevant skills to software engineering than pure coding ability? The best people I have worked with in my career were not the few “rockstar” geniuses, but the rank and file developers with good communication skills and work ethic who strive to make everyone else’s lives easier.

Those personality traits are part of performance as well; a combination of diligence and intelligence tends to predict both job and academic performance. You can be a genius, but you're not in that pool if you aren't willing to do the work.
I feel like the correct move here is to push the library maintainers to update to the new version. Distribution package mods should really be seen as temporary.
It's only in DMs as well. We record while letting our audience listen and because of that we can't use video.
very interesting!! Do you have a source for this? Would like to read up on it
Probably Camino de Santiago or another multi-week walk.
I found ammo in boxes next to the guns. But I didn't at first see it as ammo, I thought it was some kind of barrier and moved on. So maybe it's a matter of making that more obviously ammo looking ? Like a stack of bullets ?
Thanks for this suggestion :)

Will definitely go through it.
The usual workflow for emacs is to launch it as a daemon and use emacsclient
How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash (1996)
Probably learn some non-technical skills such as piano etc and read some books.

Apart from that, NOTHING.
Fix up stuff around my parents house.
Seek better treatment for my mom's Parkinson's.
> Implicit in your comment is that it's unlikely to hire a woman or member of another under represented population who is the best.

I have never said that. It is you who is saying that.

Furthermore I'm black myself so I've been in these situations enough to know that most organizations who do things like that are just using people like me as marketing ploy.

I'm eager to know whether these "hires" are paid as the exact same salary as their counterparts.
I was this close to buy a hackintosh with high end parts (before this help me in save a lot) and now the iMac 27 5k not look bad..

If only Apple put bigger ssd at lower prices...
Does title IX dictate where a company is required to focus its talent recruiting process?
We've been using Discord for our podcast for a while now. At this point we're only using Skype for a short video portion of the show.
"Difficult" is a subjective term. One cannot telecommute to a bricklaying or machinist job.
The holding the door thing is a marvelous trope. I honestly doubt anyone's ever given him a hard time about it considering it's a perfectly normal thing for people to do for anybody. Maybe somebody didn't do the traditional mumbled "thanks" and he interpreted it as them taking offense?
That's a good point. Since speed is one of the driving force in this business, software level cryptography won't be able to keep pace with such high speed transactions. Security has to be provided at the hardware level.
Not just mobile apps:

Windows: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows

Macos: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos

Linux (Qt): https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop

AR: https://github.com/HippoAR/react-native-arkit

VR: https://facebook.github.io/react-vr/

TV: https://github.com/react-tv/react-tv

Shell consoles: https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed

Word: https://github.com/nitin42/redocx

Pdf: https://github.com/diegomura/react-pdf

3d: https://github.com/Izzimach/react-three

Sketchapp: http://airbnb.io/react-sketchapp/

Keynote: https://twitter.com/nishb1/status/913744410537537536

Hardware: https://github.com/iamdustan/react-hardware

Samplers: https://twitter.com/GabeRicard/status/911989894267973633

And so on ...

Finally being able to transfer knowledge and code, and due to the generic nature of React in some cases even everyday eco-system packages can be applied. For instance: https://github.com/gaearon/react-blessed-hot-motion (native console app using plain react-motion to move stuff around).
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> such that schools (k-12 and undergraduate/graduate)

I guess some universities care about which companies recruit there (for marketing purposes, being able to say companies A,B,C recruit there), but does this really apply to k-12?

Also, if most "hip" companies chose to only recruit at universities with gender ratios exceeding some threshold (and by causality this happens before universities are "properly motivated" to encourage balanced gender ratios in CS), won't they be hurting themselves by competing for an arbitrarily chosen much smaller pool of talent?
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I’d go on an expedition. Himalayas in April or November. Alaska in the Arctic summer. Or South America in their summer. In 2016, I had a month long sabbatical and spent it in Nepal, which was worth every minute.
Hmm. Type "flights to SJJ" into your favorite search engine and watch it break this law.

A while ago I needed to talk to a lawyer at MIT about making a derivative work of a chunk of software published, by MIT, under the MIT FOSS license. They were clear that I was free to mention the Institute's name, as long as it was clear to a reasonable reader that I was not claiming their endorsement.

I suppose a municipality might want to be able to avoid confusing the public with spoofs. It's not hard to believe a scammer could send out fake municipal water bills. They need a way to shut that down. But claiming copyright in the city's name seems clumsy.

Plus, the name is important. You really wanna have people calling it TCFKAS? (after the ASCII rendering of Prince's name, TAFKAP, during his dispute with his label.)
>> Because they're not declining candidates because of their gender.

They very clearly make the case that they are biased in favor of women -> over men. You might think that 50/50 means equality, but up front they state that there are only 18 percent women in the field. In order to achieve 50% women in their workforce they have to be biasing the hiring process. It seems strange to go out and write publicly about doing so.
Note: I'm the author of the piece.

Thanks a lot to the person who decided to share this here. It taught me a lot. HN really hosts a group of experts. The comments here have been super nuanced, showing actual mastery of the content. Really helps me sharpen my writing, so thanks to all for commenting.
The comments here are viscerally disturbing, and not for reasons that might jump to mind, meaning I don't really mind the merit-driven mindset when it's aptly applied. It's not in this case.

It's one thing to value merit over politics -- I'd expect nothing less from my peers in the bay. However, it's an entirely different matter to value merit over long term strategic objectives, and from what I can tell, an alarming number of commenters here are bereft of any understanding of the long term implications of not striving to increase the potential engineering talent pool.

We in the US are in a situation where:

1) talent is scarce

2) companies, startups more specifically, are now less willing to hire international talent for fear of visa/etc. risks in the current age,

3) politics are disincentivizing efforts to broaden the talent pool via obvious means -- such as by reintroducing and motivating women to participate.

The end result of this isn't going to be job security for existing participants in the tech industry here in the US. It's going to be the flight of entrepreneurs to talent centers where talent can be acquired more reasonably, and right now, that's starting to look less and less like the United States given the above.

Shoot, even YC is broadening beyond these geographical and political boundaries through tools like Startup School.

If your goal's to keep our tech industry in the US from becoming a laggard, it's in your interest to encourage the system to strategically start motivating and representing the population space more accurately. Otherwise, the talent drought will just drive ideas overseas.

(I apologize to any overseas readers reading my comment. I hope you understand.)

TL;DR: very few people here are thinking about this from a long term strategic angle; it seems like everyone's just concerned about their own jobs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15321850
Completely free? Like no social responsibilities (like caring for my family of 5?)

I would likely spend it trying to teach my kids as much as I can through play, experimentation, discussion, and research.

The problem is, we would likely have to find a mutually interesting topic for a 6 year old, a 10 year old, and myself to keep engagement up.
Are prime brokers allowed to copy your trading strategy? Or do you sign a contract saying they wont?
Do you want to tell more about your time in Nepal? What did you do there, where did you stay and did you go there by yourself?
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Fewer women go into STEM because women have more and better options in life.

STEM is hard and it sucks.

Same reason women don’t have to mine coal. They have the luxury of being able to choose not to.

Men don’t have that luxury. We either earn or we live under a bridge eating food out of cans. Society puts an enormous pressure on men with the threat of homelessness and isolation, which doesn’t exist to anywhere near the same degree for women, because women have inherent value.

Men have no inherent value to society, their only value to society is realized through their work.

The result is men work harder and endure harder shittier jobs, including STEM.

If you want more women in STEM, then just eliminate all of their societal privileges, consider them inherently valueless like men, and put them under the same level of threat men are under of being isolated and going homeless.
Why is a noticeable difference considered meaningful? It won't make the gameplay any better.

(Asking as a Luddite who doesn't see the point of Retina displays.)
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"when revenue start to decline then the politicians either have to cut services or more likely what they do is raise rates for other taxes"

This is something Americans will never get. There is a political obsession with lowering taxes. The only thing that keeps the US from crashing is US Treasury bonds.
Seconded. It took me a while until I noticed that the small colored squares are ammo - I only realized it after I noticed a label popping up and disappearing as I moved over them.
I recently started to build an electron application using the electron-vue boilerplate. Dear god, there is a ton of garbage in that boiler plate! Not to mention boilerplate is such a code smell.

With so much base stuff baked into that base, it makes it difficult to add new components and really understand what's going on.

Still I'm glad my first step into Vue is through an electron app so I'm not dealing with figuring out browser comparability. Still it makes me sad we don't have very many cross-platform desktop app tools, that we have to use electron and package a 100MB web browser and VM as part of our app.

Slack, Discord, etc are all at least 90MB. That's kinda messed up.
As someone in their mid 30s, with a wife, kids, and friends (if you have the funds):

* Replace your server with Dropbox and/or a VM outside the home (I use Dropbox @ $100/year and a Digital Ocean VM)

* Switch to Backblaze or another backup service of your choice instead of self-managed backups (I use Time Machine with my 2013 MBA)

* Put your calendar software away for now, use Google Cal or Fastmail (depending on funds and level of Goog wariness, I still use Google Cal because laziness, but have a paid Fastmail account to support them)

I'm not saying anything you outlined doesn't have value (I think it all does!), I enjoy learning more Python by contributing to open source digital archivalist projects. But automate those mundane tasks and go spend time with your girlfriend, your grandmother, and the rest of your family.

"Technical debt" will expand to fill the free time you allow it to, and time is the ultimate non-renewable resource. Spend that time making memories with those you love instead. One day they'll all be gone; no one lays on their death bed wishing they had tweaked that one last backup script, or tried that additional custom rom on their mobile device. They wish they had spent more time with loved ones [1].

[1] http://www.bronnieware.com/blog/regrets-of-the-dying
Are you planning on open sourcing your calendar software?
Yes, our plan is to support those exchanges. All US exchanges.
Yeah.. No.

Having worked for a German company where 7-midnight shifts were a regular thing for month (project team of five): Sure. That's illegal. I know that, knew that then.
But maybe you just want to do your job and get over with it. Then there's the fucked up problem between coworkers. Five people. If one says "Enough! I go home now after 12 hours!" then four are "Erm... why do you leave us to finish the tasks?".

Germany (can't comment on other so-called civilized countries) is no help here if the employees feel that they're in a bind.
1. The Higgs field goes one better: By offering resistance to anything that passes through it, it may explain why objects have inertia in the first place.

Why doesn't the higgs field slow down objects moving in space?

2. If gravity is simply the curvature of spacetime itself, the higgs field gives particles mass, and mass curves spacetime, what is the relationship between the curvature of spacetime and the higgs field exactly, is it special somehow? (It seems somehow the way the higgs "offers resistance" is related to the curvature of spacetime)
Completely untrue. I was at Bocoup and we wanted to standardize on Ember. It took weeks to get devs doing the basics in a large app. Ember isn't gone because its misunderstood. Its gone because we can build the same apps using more suitable libs/frameworks, in a fraction of the time, with less code, less magic, and less upgrade burden. Ember sucked at upgrades, even though they tried to make it better.
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This approach is not a solution to anything. The 18:82 ratio needs to be addressed, which basically means starting to build interest in high school. Duolingo (etc.) would be better served by sponsoring interest groups and clubs in high schools, offering scholarships to graduating high school seniors, offering internships to high school students, etc. They need to market high tech careers to those high school girls who have the interest and proclivity for tech, but not the exposure that helps them realize it.
The comments here are pointing the obvious data behind hiring in tech, if you have <10% women working in Software engineering, you can't have 50% women working in every tech company. The issue cannot be fixed in any way by changing hiring policies.
The supply of apples is limited (and with a distribution of 20:80 in terms of varieties A and B). People can test individual apples for taste before buying and compete with you for the best ones.

It's going to be much harder to get 50:50 excellent apples than 20:80 excellent apples.
Gender is a choice, there is elasticity in supply of female engineers.
That’s not necessarily the case. (1) They can still sort rank by quality of institution within the subgroup. (2) I also suspect that outside of top 10 CS programs, that universities sort ranked by proportion of women tend to have higher quality candidates than average. (3) If you build a repudiation for attracting female talent then you may be more likely to attract some of the top women in a given pool—women who might normally go to FANG.

Personally, I think the last reason provides an arbitrage opportunity that let’s small companies that focus on women compete for talent in a way that FANG can not.
What a moronic idea to copyright buildings scenery.
I was expecting a lot of ambitious projects would be mentioned, but it seems as if a lot of HN wants the same as me.

I would Unplug.

Take the kids camping, explore a national park for a couple weeks and let nature do it's thing. Take the guitar, leave the tablet. Try to catch some fish, which I have never done.

Read a couple books that have been put off for too long. Maybe some Heinlein or Asimovs foundation series (which I seem to have never gotten around to reading). Definitely some Alan watts.

I would also try some of that legal cannabis I keep reading about.

Also: Take a nap every day.
Do you have bouts of doubled vision with only one eye open? If so, that is likely astigmatism which can be temporary.
The A10X in iPad Pro is pretty damn good, and it doesn't throttle as much as in the old Ax SoC. So I think A10X is close or already on par with Intel's low TDP CPU.

Then you have to realize on Intel's roadmap, there is nothing substantial changes in the next two years at those TDP SKUs apart from 10nm. While Apple already has A11x lined up and 7nm from TSMC. First time Apple and Intel SoC has Fab features size parity.
I wonder how it feels like to be a female engineer, trying to figure out whether your skills were indeed above the bar, or you got hired only to fill the gaps in some diversity officer’s spreadsheets. Sounds like a recipe for impostor syndrome to me.
They also say

> this meant going to some never-before-visited schools as well as cutting out a few schools that had been on our list before

They wouldn't have eliminated those schools if the new schools produced better candidates.
Bad analogy. HFT is not like a supermarket. HFT would rather be the guys at the local supermarket running behind you and right in the moment you're about to grab something off the shelves they grab it buy it and put it back on the shelves so you can buy it for a higher price only. And they'd be allowed to do so because they own parts of the supermarket. Oh those guys don't exist at supermarkets? Well funny...
Probably because they aren't actually preventing men from applying or disadvantaging them if they do apply. See https://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html

It actually makes sense. Assume men and women are equally competent on average (probably true or at least close). If your applicants are 18% women and the applicants are randomly sampled from the talent pool and your interview is totally unbiased you should get 18% women hires.

If you convince a lot of (randomly sampled) women to apply so you have 50% female applications, you should still get 50% female hires. I don't think this is unfair on men as long as your outreach activities don't at all affect interview chances. In particular they shouldn't give an "inside track" to bypass HR.

Sounds like they've at least thought about that and made the first stage blind.
A thought experiment I'll quote:

"Suppose there was overwhelming evidence that 95% of women were terrible at technology and 5% of women were awesome at technology. There are roughly 7 billion people on the planet, roughly 3.5 billion women, roughly 1.5 billion women who work outside the house for a wage. In this scenario, where only 5% of women love technology, there are 75 million working women who are awesome at technology. According to the Bureau Of Labor Statics, the USA had 1,256,200 software developers in 2016. The BLS also tracks some other minor categories, such as Web Developer, which have about 150,000 jobs. Lump all the sub-categories together, and let’s say there are 2 million such jobs in the USA. Let’s be wildly generous and double the number for the EU, and triple it for Asia. That gives 12 million software developer jobs in all of the advanced and developing economies. So even with exaggerated assumptions about women’s inherent weakness in technology, we still end up with a scenario where every single programming job in the world can be filled by a woman who will be awesome at the job. There is no need for men, at all, in the tech industry."

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/why-are-women-being-pus...

More to point, women are being pushed out of tech. Women constituted 35% of all software engineers in 1990, but only 26% in 2015 (see above url). Given the rough figure of about 2 million jobs, that 9% difference suggests there are 180,000 missing women from engineering jobs right now. Initiatives like Duolingo help reverse the trend, and therefore should be praised.
To me, taking into account gender during the hiring process is the text book definition of sexual discrimination. Whether you mean it in a good way or not.

How will you tell you won't be developing some bias over time just to make the hiring process an easier job for you?
Trying to cheat the system eh? :^)
It’s literally just has to do with numbers. If men and women are equally good at the job and there are less total women, forcing a 50% split at all jobs means that eventually places need to take on lower skilled workers from the smaller group.
Travel. Probably to ski.

Organize photos. Scan all physical photos.

Read.

Ride my bike.

Organize.

Write code.

Edit: I guess it somewhat depends on the definition of "free time." Summer with kids? Road trip! School year with kids staying local? Other items. School year with kids on the road somehow? Japan to ski and learn. Sail the Caribbean and homeschool.
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