skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing my point. I'm not talking about "good code practice and data models and such". I'm talking about how you digest and model the problem as a whole, that is where the 10xer shows his quality.

Consider git vs svn for example. Linus was familiar with Subversion and its predecessors (CVS, RCS) before he created git. He knew that that model of change control was inherently flawed, and that he could create a better base model. According to Linus, he built the git core in 10 days. Even though svn had decades of a head start and tens of thousands of hours put into it, it only took a few years for git to rapidly supplant svn. The reason? Because the problem was modeled better. After 7 years of using Subversion, I was still getting bitten by weird bugs, had a terminal fear of branching, and general uncertainty about how the internals works. Within 1 month of using git, I had a better mental model of how it worked than I did about svn. Looking at the ecosystem around git now, especially considering how user hostile the porcelain CLI is, is a testament to that original core Linus created in a remarkably short amount of time.

Another example in the Ruby world is how Yehuda Katz and Carl Lerche created Bundler. Rubygems already existed of course, but there was no way to freeze dependencies, and as the Ruby ecosystem exploded in the mid 2000s we rapidly entered our own version of the famed "DLL hell". These guys came in, and over a relatively short period of time, hammered out a solution for freezing gem dependencies, layered over Rubygems (whose antagonism they often faced), addressing a huge range of use cases, and got it adopted as a defacto standard. To this day, Python has made 3 or 4 attempts, none of them as good as Rubygems. NPM, which started after Bundler was already out, was inferior and is only approaching in the last couple years with Yarn.

These are the type of things 10x developers do, they build systems that pay huge dividends by their elegance, things which others can build on. Neither one of these examples has anything to do with using a "wide variety of tools". Learning multiple tools is just something that happens organically through your career in most cases, but it's far from necessary. You could specialize entirely in C++ for your entire career and while there are lots of problems it wouldn't be a fit for, but that doesn't preclude being a 10xer.
Do you not think that linked article has even a bit of a bias and agenda? Even then, the link to atlas van lines they use conflicts with several of the claims they made about largest outbound and largest inbound.

So maybe check your article's sources first :-).
He literally said "literally one of the worst human beings on the planet".

I am pretty unsympathetic to any argument that starts with "he meant to say...". I can see what he said, in black and white. I'm going to address that. He can post what "he meant to say" separately.
> His argument proposed that women are biologically less capable than men to perform certain software-associated tasks[1].

I see nothing there about "capability" but about preferences and about how much the work & teams can/can't be (re)shaped to match those preferences.

We should strive to create conditions where people can be effective in jobs they enjoy as it makes teams, projects, and companies better overall. How responsibilities are divided, teams are formed, and people interact are all variables that should be tweakable to some degree.
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Of course a writer for Techcrunch believes that fake news is not the problem. That's like the NRA saying that guns don't kill people, people kill people.

The problem is that we are so deluged with inaccurate articles written by bloggers who have no real concept of journalistic integrity. We can't tell what is real and what is fake. So what happens is that people will start rejecting all news.

There's no accountability for writing shitty and inaccurate articles, and that's the problem. They believe that news can be buggy like software and can be corrected later, but it's not. It should be held to a higher standard because we rely on it.

All that will happen now is that people will stop believe everything they read and even worse, they're going to stop caring. That is extremely dangerous for us as a society because it means people can start doing things in broad daylight and no one will believe it or care. This appears to be what this current administration is doing and Republicans don't appear to fear the consequences, because they're right. There's a very loud minority but the vast majority are really starting to not care.
I was looking for a comment that explained how json schemas are similar or not to xsd but your rant was the closest I could find amongst all the hype that this is great.

Did you have other technologies in mind or were you also thinking of xsd?
You're making it zero sum but it's not. It's possible to have a media that profits off outrage but to simultaneously have outrageous things happening to our the most important institutions.

The media did not create deported children, paid off porn stars, and collusion with foreign governments. So let's not pretend this is on them entirely.
> Maybe the lesson is that we should find a f way to have syntax-independent programming languages! Just as we expect any successful language to have at least a couple implementations before being taken seriously, maybe we should expect a language to have at least a couple different alternative syntaxes and instant perfect translation between them (with comments and code style preserved), so I can use syntaxA and work on same codebase with my colleague using syntaxB.

Microsoft tried something very similar with C# vs VB.net (in the early days of .net there were even more experiments like J#). There exist tools to convert quite seamlessly between C# and VB.net code.

The result: except for some geeks people have decided that they prefer the C# syntax and it seems to me that Microsoft thus slowly tries to fade out VB.net.

So it rather seems to me that people don't like it if there are multiple coexisting syntaxes, because even if there are good converters available, it is still an inconvenience that wastes at least some productivity by mere existence of the multiple syntaxes.
Right, nothing you can do from a git client, unlike a patch.
> If you don't study computer science now you will likely be in the same boat 30 years from now

30 years is a long time. I suspect we'll have figured out how to close the semantic gap for the 99.999% of people who aren't programmers.
> electrons don't move through conductors at the speed-of-light either

The drift velocity of electrons through conductors is many orders of magnitude lower than the speed of light (~mm/s).
Is it possible that your dating pool is subject to sampling bias?

Empirically speaking, about 1/4 of people in STEM are women, so if you've met 0 women interested in STEM, it seems like your experience simply aren't an accurate reflection of reality. [0]

I think it's incredibly ironic that you're highlighting your own relative interest in STEM while failing to apply any degree of scientific rigor to your own thinking.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
I think many people just don't know anything else than the typical supermarket variety. I was talking soap lately and when I said I loved how the soap left no smell behind they replied that they preferred to be left smelling 'clean', ie smelling like typical supermarket bar soap. Many people I've met associate that awful smell with cleanliness.
I think that is a fair point. Our group is relatively homogeneous in our interest in HAM radio (and there aren't that many of us), so when we find others that share the same interest, perhaps we're more likely to overlook any political/religious/racial differences...
There was a whole section on his memo about not reducing a distribution to its average. A difference in distribution will result in different averages or percentiles, however this doesn't mean all women are less capable or interested in a field which is the way I heard most of his detractors characterize his memo.
The problem with both this comment and the article is that it assumes that the tech industry is predominantly led by, or even populated with, those with the engineering mindset. In fact, I would go as far as to question that a majority of software engineers even have that engineering mindset, at least with regards to social matters or issues beyond their engineering work.
What people say they like is one thing, but observing proclivities is another. In elementary schools, boys score higher in math and girls score higher in reading comprehension.
Another way to see it is the Internet was supposed to make sharing what one understood as truth easier; instead, what it did was democratize Chomsky's propaganda model by making entry into becoming the media much cheaper; the Internet-based media newcomers essentially copied as best as they could the traditional media's model of _imposing_ their view of reality and manufacturing consent.

In this view, what we're seeing is a power struggle for influence between the media who traditionally held the power to manufacture consent and the Internet-based newcomers.
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I watched his video on a terrible connection as a tribute.

The fact that he set the ball on fire in the outskirts of some forest was philosophically disturbing.
Paris is now actually pretty good - I was impressed. Fairly stable 4G

London still sucked hard the last time I checked - basically a bit of spotty wifi near the stations.
Yeah that is interesting and something that I wondered about while I wrote this post. There's only so many exercises you can model with a watch on your left wrist (at least with the accelerometer and gyroscope data). Another example that's been on the back of my mind was if I tried to go a step beyond classification to count reps for an exercise like single arm raises, would I be able to tell when I do a rep with my right arm? Definitely something I want to go a little deeper on in subsequent posts to find the limit of what we can and cannot classify. Like you said, I reckon static exercises would be pretty difficult and there would be a pretty high miss on those unless we had access to additional info.
> it's the wrong way to achieve that if more women don't really want to go into STEM

This is a good point, which is why my argument rests on the claim that more women will want to go into STEM if they are going to feel more comfortable in those positions.

In my view, it all comes down to why you think women aren't in STEM. Is it because they don't want to do STEM work, or is it because they don't want to be in these spaces? Based on the myriad amount of women who can do work of a similar calibre (in medicine especially), AND the evidence that women used to be not only more welcome in programming, but absolutely DOMINANT in it: I disagree with the former, and subscribe to the latter opinion.

I feel that many think that women don't want to do STEM work because they think of the women who made fun of them in high school or some other such rubbish and use that to infer how all women think about STEM (and tech especially). One's reasoning for not being inclined to do STEM is just as important as them not doing it.
> It's not sufficient to Control-F to understand an argument. I encourage you to read his article and would look forward to your analysis once you have done this.

Indeed, I have read the article in its entirely before. And I didn't remember such a passage (my memory isn't great), so I went back and Ctrl-F'd to try to find it and still didn't find it. Then I read on in each instance and saw that, just as I remembered, he was talking about preferences everywhere I found. So, yeah, I've already done everything you're saying, and that's why I think your claim is baseless, but I acknowledge maybe I'm still missing something. So instead of telling me to RTFA, it would behoove you to just spend 5 seconds pasting the full passage you are concluding this from. It isn't any harder to copy-paste the relevant portion of the passage than to comment about why you're refusing to do so when it actually exists. It's only harder when it doesn't exist.
I'm not really sure what it means to use SNI and TCP-passthru instead of MITM. Could you expand a bit? In particular, what would be the advantage of this approach? I'm really a novice when it comes to computer networking - I learned everything I know on the topic in the process of creating Chomper.
US secretly created 'Cuban Twitter' to undermine government
There is a difference between editorial bent and journalistic integrity on the news side.

Members of my family were on the wrong side of an editorial board 30 years ago. The reporters didn’t report anything that wasn’t true, but the editors chose to publish certain stories and editorials at times that were helpful to some and hurtful to others.

The difference today is that news organizations are using propaganda blogs or worse first person tweets as content. That’s Trump’s secret — his stream of consciousness drives the news.
So we are just dancing puppets. Well, look at all these presidents, who didnt like the vietnam protest muppet show. Why does such a event never occur in all those other free countrys?

Why was there never a reported protest against fake news in Syria, in china, in the Caliphate, in Russia?

The problem is that other countrys use the public debate and free media as attack vector- and in a very subtle way undermine democracy. Its not that free markets and free speech would undermine dictatorships, quite the other way around.

PS: You are free to draft and propose a better democratic system and public debate concept.
One often overlooked aspect of being a good developer is surrounding yourself with people who either are better and/or have different experience.

I came into my current company as a dev lead to create a modern dev shop from scratch.

There were some areas where I had no practical experience and didn't have the breadth of knowledge I needed and of course no one else in the company did either.

My first major green field project would have turned out a lot worse if I didn't have a network of former coworkers I could ask recommendations from.
We need some in Toronto, badly
> Whatever is keeping women to 20% of our field is artificial

Sure, insofar as gender-aligned interests have some cultural basis, it’s definitely “artificial”. Do you think it’s something more than that? If so, why?

> We don't need to keep re-litigating this on the front page of the site

I notice that people who use this objection regularly are very selective about when they choose to raise it. I haven’t noticed anyone on this site raising this objection consistently - only when they feel they can get in the last word.
IridiumNEXT started with a budget of $2.1 billion for satellites and $800mm for launches.

http://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/iridium-next/

That's not that different of a ratio from a GEO comsat that costs $200mm and has a $65mm launch.

I haven't run the numbers for OneWeb.
You can also consider using creating a model using the Activity Classifier toolkit in Turi Create which automatically exports in CoreML format for use in. your watchOS app

https://github.com/apple/turicreate/tree/master/userguide/ac...
Much more likely to find a gansta kid that doesn't feel the need to use headphones to listen to youtube tracks.
>No country, much less one that considers itself a superpower should be willingly letting a foreign nation spread propaganda.

Is this a rule you apply equally or is it OK when we do it, like the ex-CIA director says [0]? Should the NED, VoA, Radio Free Asia, etc. all be shut down then?

[0] http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/374372-ex-c...
Oh brother, there's always that one guy on HN. None of this was supposed to "scientific", so relax. I'm giving you my 37 years of experience dating at least a couple hundred women, that's it.
Yes your right the over all sv culture is actually socially liberal wet tory center right UK terms - (Cristian democrat in European terms)
I feel alienated by the awful beliefs and behavior of Peter Thiel and his portfolio companies. Now many people can breathe a sigh of relief that someone who wields billions to support Palantir, Trump, and spurious lawsuits will finally leave us alone.
And this is what I mean by dragging politics into an open source project where it doesn't belong.

> When "killing all men" type of behavior becomes problematic you will have a point.

Every time someone "ironically" tweets this, it's a problem. I've yet to see a CoC used effectively to stop it.
well probably lots of vampires find civilized society alienating.
Heh, I forgot that part.

I’d argue that today libraries and super used code (more bugs already found and fixed, more answers on Google) > powerful language.
You're thinking of "alternative facts", which came from his presidential counselor, Kellyanne Conway.
If-eth: IFTTT/zapier-like subscriptions for smart contract events
Your assumption that male rape victims aren't "actual" rape victims is exactly the kind of sexism I was referring to.
There is a so called Gender Inequality Index by the UN which highlights different criteria http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/GII
No one deported more people than Obama.

No one droned more people than Obama.
Yeah this is absolutely a large chunk of it. Especially when you consider how many jobs are filled through referrals [0]. At my last company, I only worked with male engineers, and so when I got a new job, I could only think of male engineers to refer to open positions.

I think this is also why inertia is so hard to offset here, we have a strong self-reinforcing cycle that's going to take a lot of external force to break out of.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-survey-reveals-85-all-job...
You can look at https://vultr.com

I use both vultr and DO and they are very comparable. Vultr customer service has been decent and their pricing is competitive.
That’s really helpful to know.
> (e.g. bricklayers vs nurses)

How about doctors vs nurses? I think this is a much more relevant comparison. In the united states (sorry) male doctors outnumber female by about 2:1 [1], while female nurses outnumber male nurses by more than 10:1 [2]. Comparing these two professions it's a lot easier to make the argument that women are implicitly encouraged to set their expectations lower than men, who actually may feel emasculated as a nurse.

STEM jobs are seen as more difficult to train for and to achieve than non-STEM jobs, similar to the job of a doctor compared to the job of a nurse. If you're confused as to why women choose 'difficult' jobs less often, I hope this line of thinking is convincing...

[1] https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/physicians-by-gend...
[2] https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-number-of-pr...
How about just replacing it with "intellectuals"?
It’s the Internet’s fault, we’re told.

No. Pointing out the existence of the internet as a vector for propaganda doesn't mean people are blaming the existence of the communication medium.
Well that's easy to avoid- don't give anyone ammunition with which to dismiss you as an asshole. It's totally unrelated to whether or not someone really is an asshole. It's trivially easy, and if it's not trivially easy, well that's a big giant glowing arrow pointing at an impending personal growth opportunity with a reward:effort ratio that's off the charts.

Whether or not someone is an actual asshole, the ability to avoid misunderstandings is critical to moving forward and getting stuff done and not wasting time on distractions and petty arguments. CoC's are simply an organization's defense mechanism against pointless interpersonal chaos that doesn't belong on their mailing lists (or whatever) in the first place.

Source: genetically inclined to be a total and complete asshole, have spent the last few decades trying to get better though.
> uniquely low; it is rivaled only by physics and MechE for gender disparity.

So it is not, in fact, "uniquely" low. It is about the same as other engineering. Hmm...maybe because it is like other engineering?

> Whatever is keeping women to 20% of our field is artificial, and a travesty.

You claim without a shred of evidence, while poo-pooing the actual evidence to the contrary.

It is a simple fact that most people regardless of gender aren't interested in computer science, girls just even less than boys.

See for example: https://erzaehlmirnix.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/unterschie...
The study showed that adjusting for interest in STEM women were 10% less likely to chose that career than a male in gender equal countries, so personal preference (which you’d expect to match with interest) doesn’t entirely explain it.

I don’t think the article cites anything that would support your Japan hypothesis.
Yes but there are no far left parties in the USA to vote for.
Not the original commenter, but I don't believe that was the point (to suggest abolishing rules in favor of intuition or to compare the pros & cons of the two). I read it as a simple observation that codifying things, writing them down, is hard, especially that which is (debatably) "known intuitively." And I think anyone can affirm this who has ever tried to write a law, a computer program based on business rules and tribal knowledge, or this selfsame FreeBSD code of conduct. It's surprisingly hard to describe and define things that previously fell under "we know it when we see it." That's why if a contractor gets hired to build a building the contract is 20 pages but the specs are 2,000 pages. For every word that says "build a building," there are 6 that are there strictly to remove wiggle-room.
Yep. If you want to go with china’s middle class, I’m ok with that, but we aren’t talking about such a huge student population anymore.
In the United States, political views are a protected class and one can sue if fired on the basis of them.

I expect one will claim that James Damore offers evidence of a life being "ruined" by their views, but I think the kid is doing pretty damn well for himself - especially due to his views. If you are a conservative activist in tech then feel free to shout your views from the rooftops, I'm sure there are many on 4chan who would love to follow you and help you succeed.
If you're wondering why Firefox and Safari aren't studied in this report, it's because Cure53 was paid by Google to generate it as part of Google's effort to push back on Internet Explorer Edge.
it's literally entirely about the company. maybe it's sponsored but it doesn't hide that its focus is muscle milk.
I'm sure that the parent meant something else: engineers moving from India, Eastern Europe, Africa to Western Europe, USA, Canada...
Those human computers used slide rules, as even with them the problems were so ridiculously complex they took months. Their were many different slide rules with varying degrees of precision

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/home/calculate...
I am frankly blown away that you feel persecuted for liberal opinions online. We must both go to the wrong fora for our ideologies.
Nothing can stop [aging]

You just wait, SV will figure it out eventually.