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Sorry, I was under the impression that this was a rhetorical question.

Of course she doesn't want the community to censor itself.

She is describing how such discussions are distressing to women (and not merely to herself, as you seem to state). She gives the example of an aspiring programmer stumbling on HN, noticing all the subtle sexism and giving up STEM. Which is precisely the issue that we should be debating.

In short, her point isn't "don't talk about it" but "don't be a bigot about it". Don't talk about it as if women weren't reading the threads. As if amongst boys.

A lot of those threads end up circle-jerking into a "men vs. women" debate while the actual debate should be "what is it in our communities that is driving women away?"

My point in that reply was that she shouldn't be the one blocking those threads, her point of view as a woman is vital in such a debate. It should be us that act more civilized instead.
No it doesn't. At best it precludes a certain class of bugs (which may be very significant, but it's not a silver bullet)
A lot of people would take the opportunity of someone to go to work for them while they spent time in the great outdoors with the kids.
Very little. Quite a few programs recieves a decent boost when compilers moved from a 386 default to 486, then Pentium 1. Since then the gains have been much smaller, unless you use the instructions on purpose.
My tests are generally against the module interface as well. Unit tests don't need to be atomic, as long as they run sufficiently fast. Sometimes there is no 'correct' output, I just need to pinpoint if some change affected the output and is that a problem or not.

Dogmatic unit testing is silly. Testing should focus on fixing in the critical end user constraints and covering as much of the functionality visible to the end user. So, I would not necessary focus on testing individual methods unless they are obviously tricky.

In a an organization where everybody can code anywhere I would enforce per method testing, though. Sometimes a succint and lucid unit test is the best possible documentation.
> You seem to say diversity is good, but not diversity of political thought?

Encouraging diversity is a means of letting those who have been marginalized from positions of power for centuries have a seat at the table. Are there similarly marginalized political opinions? I don't think Thiel or others who think like him are in short supply of power. The idea that conservative political opinions are suppressed is so ridiculous, especially as Thiel's party is in control of all branches of the federal US government and in most states. It is perfectly reasonable to have a local imbalance of opinion as long as in general power is not withheld for one side.
>> ...the truth is that they have beautiful offices, close-knit teams, a lifestyle with time for friends, a lot of influence, and a huge impact on real people’s lives through the software they create.

That's not "the truth", that's your experience in the amusement park that has been created for the pampered developers of the current dotcom bubble at companies like Google. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Regardless of gender, I'd rather have the doubters weeded out by an unrealistic negative perception than have them lured in by an unrealistic positive one.
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It's linked in the RethinkDB essay, but it's always worth explicitly calling out the "Worse Is Better" essay:

http://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

Ignore its lessons at your peril.

Your job isn't to build an engineering masterpiece. Your job, as pg says, is to build something people want.
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This was more fun than I expected. Loop the loop is now officially stuck in my head.

I do think it is more harsh than needs be. Sometimes, the little accomplishments aren't for others. Essentially many people use public journals nowadays.

Though ultimately, I think that logic applies here, too. Specifically for this rant.
Ask HN: What happens when there's nothing left to invent or discover?
Eventually we will reach that point. What happens when we do? How does it affect our economies and societies?

There have been very long stretches of history in which general human progress was stagnant.

Productivity growth will eventually slow, given that we are limited in what we can do by the laws of physics.

Of course I could continuously rearrange superficial designs of things, which may give me an infinite number of things to do, but that doesn't increase productivity. There are a finite number of ways to do something in a more productive and efficient way than previous methods.

Given this, eventually we will reach a time when we can't make any more progress in the traditional sense.
Epic had a post mortem blog post here that mentioned in passing they had stumped all the experts they could find to look at unsolveable issues they had with MongoDB.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16340462 I kind of assumed the fix is going to be a rewrite with Postgres or MySQL.
I have dual German - Canadian citizenship, and I've been surprised at how paternalistic German men can be in their expectations or comments around women's careers and child-rearing responsibilities.

If you're a technically-minded woman, who's more interested in her career than being a wet-nurse, you've got problems no matter where you're living.
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Sorry for the typos.

I fail to see how the "coal industry" reference applies to me however, or indeed, critics of this mammoth project that makes absolutely no sense.

I'm French and have been listening to politicians telling us the billions of Euros spent, and tons (why tonnes?) of concrete in an otherwise nice region would transform the production of energy, for most of my adult life.

As I've always suspected, that's complete BS, as the article makes clear. Why people who are not politicians would want to defend ITER, I don't know.
With all its problems, I built a MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node) app from zero knowledge to production 2 years ago far faster than this React, Apollo, GraphQL, and Postgres app I'm building from zero knowledge.
Implying that women are worse (upbringing related or not) at spatial and mathematical abstraction skills is taboo for the exact same reason that saying the same about black people is.

Making these claims simply adds hurdles for an already disadvantaged group. When claims like this get made it acts as subconscious, or even conscious, justification for the biases of some of the readers/listeners. I.e. simply making the claim adds to the problem.

I agree that this isn't fair, but worrying about that is selfish. It is perfectly acceptable to attempt to formulate solutions based on these beliefs, but vocalizing the the beliefs rather than the solutions in public is harmful.

Regardless, arguments that present this logic feel like a desperate attempt to shunt responsibility to someone else. Women used to be well represented in computer science. This is no longer true, and I suspect that the blame for that lies all over the spectrum.
Norton's suggestions for "securing" IoT is worthless.
Let me just secure my other devices because Norton has nothing for smart home things.
> Clearly, they have something else in common. We just need to figure out what it is.

Have you also considered a possibility that there is no explanation, and the gap is simply due to internal variability in the underlying dynamical system?

Although personally I favor the "different interests" explanation, let me expand on this a bit. Humans love explanations, even of random events, that's how superstition comes about.

There was an interesting biological experiment done with ants. If you put two identical piles of food the same distance from an anthill, you would intuitively expect that ants will eat from each pile in 50/50 ratio. However, it's not what happens; in reality, the ratio fluctuates over time, at points being 20/80 and can reverse to 80/20.

Why? Because behavior of each ant depends on strength of pheromone path to food that is produced by other ants. In other words, ants, to some extent, copy behavior of other ants. And this copying is enough to produce a large difference in ratio even in cases that are objectively absolutely equal.

So is it hard to conceive that humans also copy behavior of other fellow humans (actually, the above example is from Paul Ormerod's book Butterfly Economics), and that women might prefer a job where already are other women? Or where isn't an overwhelming majority of different people (i.e. men)?

The influence on individual decision can be very subtle, but yet can, statistically, lead to large differences in outcome.
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>Women are socially smarter

What does this mean? Do women talk more? Yes. Is it substantive? Women are more willing to talk about their feelings but they also can be quite indirect compared to a man.

Women also have a reputation of being more adversarial and catty: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/opinion/sunday/why-women-...
Actual 2010 census said 3.8M Chinese-Americans in the US, or 1.2% of the population. 2016 interim projection was 4.9M, or 1.5%. Granted, they are largely concentrated in California, Washington, New York, and Illinois. But it's still a significant population, and they can be found nearly everywhere [that is worth emigrating to]. A large fraction of students at US universities are Chinese nationals.

There are 100k Americans living in China (2/5 of them in Hong Kong), and a trace quantity of naturalized American-Chinese, because the only practical way for a white immigrant to gain Chinese citizenship is to marry a native. Applicants without obvious Asian ancestry aren't likely to ever get accepted, even if they do manage to get legally naturalized.

So which culture should be expending greater efforts?
I never use browser extensions because of the security and privacy problems.

When you say 'most other users' - can you quantify that? If for example 99% of the world population does not care, that would still leave me with 76 million people who do care.
I find the notion that this topic is NOT being discussed and being suppressed somewhat hilarious. Find me a single women in STEM who has not read or heard extensively about the idea that men are biologically predisposed to be better than women at 'abstract reasoning' etc. Historically, the notion that women might be just as capable at men at technical disciplines is what's NEW! I personally know of at least a dozen gifted young women scientists at the very best institutions in the world quitting the field because of advisors and others explicitly belittling them based on their gender. While these are anecdotes, they're representative for the question of who becomes faculty in STEM since that's my world: These were people who were identified from a young age as being likely to be future faculty in the sciences, performed off-the-charts well on every metric you can think of, publishing papers in journals in undergrad, and you know what? They heard this discussion ad nauseam, and in combination with the random sexism thrown their way, decided to bail (as frankly I would have in their shoes).

A related read that I found quite illuminating: http://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05...

(I run in fairly left-leaning liberal circles and you know what I hear about? NOT actually being PC (whatever that is -- define it, I dare you) but people complaining about something being PC. This has been going on since the year 2000 so much that I'm pretty sure jokes about something being PC are PC, while actually being PC is not PC..)
> I'm unclear if anybody is entertaining the notion that a debate among dozens cannot happen because one person wanders in who's distressed by it, or what?

The problem is not with having a debate; the problem is the sheer level of hostility present in this thread.
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I really don't need Sql compliance - I use C# and the Linq provider is pretty good.
Care to elaborate how this applies? The article is about a switch. The alternative to a switch is to leave the device on full-time, or implement some self-resuming feature using a RTC. Both of those require constant power. I don't think any of this has anything to do with 'security/privacy implications', so some examples would be appreciated!
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It should really be Opt-In. It just tastes like Microsoft-Behavior.
Most chip failures do not surface as "just stop working" - they surface as the chip overheating much more often. Or the chip over-volting other components. Or failing to throttle down, resulting in excessive battery wear. Or surfacing the occasional computation error. Or some feature just no longer being available.

Also remember: batteries, screen, BIOS... all are controlled by their own chips these days; chips whose failures are attributed to the component they're attached to.
It only takes about 10 minutes to get verified on Coinbase. The majority of people are done in this amount of time. It's when something goes wrong and you can't get a response from customer service that is a problem. After all this time, it still sucks.
I'm in this boat now - I've been a Coinbase customer for years, and then randomly they blocked my ability to withdraw my money (MY money, BTW) from the account. Nothing had changed about my account setup.

Now they want me to go through the Photo ID process, but I don't have a US drivers license, only a permanent resident (green) card for ID. Which should be fine, after all it works as ID for literally everything else I could need ID for in the US - including flying. Support have been fairly responsive, but they keep sending me back to through their photo verification process, and I keep telling them "but this is not a driver's license, please look at the pictures!".

It's really annoying - this is a federally-issued photo ID I'm required to carry with me, and yet Coinbase seems to be struggling to accept it. In the meantime my money is stuck and I don't know how to get it back.
The flip side of 'hype first, features later' is that if you are a user who is burnt by mongodb (or another solution) you'll recommend against using it for a long time. So there's a knife edge to balance on--hype enough, but not so much that too many people get burned.
You don't have to take Gawker's side to be anti-Thiel's side in this instance, though.
But you see now how the TLA could be ambiguous.
> build things people want, not the idealistic future some day version where we eventually get to a priority feature

FWIW, I don't think this was what happened. RethinkDB started out as an SSD optimized database, and quickly repositioned itself (due to "is this what people want") to something more generally useful, and was one of the most feature-rich databases at the time, I thought.

MongoDB however got first mover advantage and a bunch of cash that comes with it. They could afford to invest heavily in developer evangelism. Then they bought WiredTiger. If I sound bitter, I am a bit - not that Mongo did well in the end, but that RethinkDB went the way it did.
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The Yale series on the early middle ages has some good info in the first six or seven lectures[1] My favorite relevant tidbit is that Roman North Africa was the major supplier of grain to Italy, at least in the 4th and 5th centuries, when disruptions in North Africa could cause famines in the city of Rome. When the Vandals in Spain were looking around for another juicy piece of the Roman empire to settle in, they (supposedly) wrangled themselves an invitation from the Roman governor of North Africa, whom they promptly betrayed and defeated. They consolidated control of North Africa and held it for almost a century until Justinian, ruling from Byzantium, took Africa back for the empire. At that point, North Africa was a much more important region than Italy was, and many historians argue that Justinian's reconquest of Italy from the Goths immediately afterwards was a waste of time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8JcWVRFp8&list=PL77A337915...
From what I understand, conformal coating is intended to protect against external agents (moisture, etc), and it does the job well, but it's not equally effective when the problem is between adjacent conductors of the same pcb; for that purpose the substance should be able to penetrate the tiny space between chip pins. It would probably help to some extent though.
Ask HN: Why use Linux for coding?
I'm learning coding. I use Windows. But I have heard that Linux is the best choice OS to start learning programming. What do you think?
I'm used to see "sign up now!" and similar marketing on the www subdomain (homepage, often powered by Wordpress) when I know I already have an account. The SaaS app often runs on a app. or dashboard. or manage. subdomain. Usually clicking 'login' goes to the SaaS app with a note 'you're already logged in'.

I wouldn't worry. It's a UI optimization which can have considerable technical complexity. E.g. you want to move the cookie to a different (shared) domain, the www site cannot decrypt the cookie because it has no shared secrets (or different programming language), logging out of one page should update the links on the other.

On our SaaS it was easy (shared platform). We only added it to be able to pre-fill API keys in documentation (makes it easier for users to copy&paste code, https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/tutorials/geocode-in-nodej...). Without that benefit I wouldn't have spent the time.
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https://www.coinpayments.net has been doing something similar for a few years now.
The images of the roadster in space are historic, those images alone could inspire thousands of young people to explore rocket science or physics as a career who perhaps otherwise wouldn't have. That I think is worth more than just another satellite in space or a science project, they also had to test that it could actually lift heavy objects. This was the perfect item to launch to space.
So what you're saying that if I find something on google, it's undoubtedly true and I should blindly believe it? For every one of those use cases, I can provide a counter-argument. And there are many more who can do the same.
Don’t click on threads that discuss gender unless you’re prepared to wade through crap

Whether that’s the chicken or the egg, the fact that the subject leads to crapfests might be a motivation for many to flag and move on.
In response to some of the other long discussions stemming from contrary perspectives, I'd be interested in seeing this post discussed.
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So: "JA" "VIRAMA" "NYA" "ZERO-WIDTH NON-JOINER" "VOWEL AA"

That looks like a non-trivial character. I wonder how many other crashing characters can be generated from this pattern.

JA is a consonant, VIRAMA indicates a lack of vowel, NYA is another consonant, and it's non-joined(?) with the vowel AA. Can a Telugu speaker explain what that's supposed to do?
Exactly. There is still hope...
I'm one of those who made the jump from programming to medicine. I consulted during medical school, but programming is much more fun as a hobby than it ever was as a career, and I'm past the bad days where I had sleepless nights and long call. Residency still sucks but even that is getting relatively more humane.

I'd never go back to programming as a career unless medicine became completely untenable, and I doubt that's going to happen at the level I'm at now.
Is there some sort of technology than can detect these bad boys? I'm imagining that with AI, it shouldn't be too hard.
Ask HN: Is it illegal to run a SaaS for escorts?
Say I want to build a tool for escorts to solve some of their problems. What are the legal barriers to doing this? Would I be legally culpable if I e.g. took a percentage of booking fees?

Just asking out of curiosity, of course.
As an aside, I hate the term 'schemaless' because there is always a schema.

https://blog.jooq.org/2014/10/20/stop-claiming-that-youre-us...
> so they went with signed only types

Except chars

> At least Java 8 introduced unsigned math helper methods.

They still aren't enough IMO. They don't have way ways to take LE/BE bytes out of integers or vice versa (not worth creating ByteBuffer for). I always end up recreating these utilities in projects where it isn't worth depending on or shading an entire Guava, e.g. [0]

0 - https://github.com/cretz/javan-warty-pig/blob/master/fuzz/sr...
I keep hearing about how people have been burned by Mongo but nothing specific.

Does anyone care to give any specifics?
> Also things like automatic parking assist, rear view camera, computer vision algorithms to detect if the driver is falling asleep. It's feature creep all over the place.

You have a weird definition of "feature creep". Some of those things you listed save money, others save lives. I definitely wouldn't include such things in "feature creep".
I did the same thing, then started writing random map scripts, none of which were ever playable

The only scenarios i ended up playing were things like 500 villagers vs 10 elephants and stupid stuff like that
When I first bought ETH (Coinbase) it took 5 min verification and a debit card. Practically instant in comparison to traditional financial setup times.
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I agree, but "equality of opportunity" tends to follow "equality", so I think the "equality of opportunity" folks are trying to advance the conversation, but other folks are trying to stop it at "equality" (presumably because elaborating on their idea of the word would expose it to lots of obvious scrutiny).
A big advantage is that 5G is running on licensed spectrum, so not just anybody can send signals in the spectrum, this should give much less interference.

Public WIFI is also really bad from a security perspective.
> That is strong evidence that women are kept out of STEM

I might be boiling down your comment down to that one line, but it such a common line that I feel the need to point out some data. Here in Sweden about 12.5% of the population, men and women, work in a profession where the gender segregation is not higher than 150% dominance for a single gender.

The other 87.5% of the population all work in a profession which is seen as extremely gender segregated. We could describe it as if the wast majority of the population is keeping people who don't gender identify similar to their own out of the work market for which they themselves work in. Evidence that men are kept out of 87.5% of the professions that women work in, evidence that women are kept out of 87.5% of the professions that men work in. In a nation which pride itself on equality, we could claim that there is evidence that the wast majority of everyone here is actively being sexist in their professional life.

When looking at numbers to explain whats going on in society, I feel that the discussion often lack perspective. A ratio of 60:40 is actually within that small minority of 12.5% that is recognized as gender equal, and yet many feel that it too is unacceptable high level of gender segregation.
And a key part in this is that a lot of experts openly claimed that Theranos was selling snake oil. You can't do those kinds of tests with that little blood.
I've thought about that a lot too. It's possible, but I think that thread failed when the re-conquered cities were turned into the Crusader States rather than being returned to Greek control. If anything, I feel like the Siege if Vienna would have happened at the walls of Constantinople instead and history would be more or less unchanged.