skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's explore some other possible theories for the gender ratio of doctors and nurses. What if it was the case that men more than women are attracted to the most demanding jobs? And women more than men favor family-friendly hours and work life-balance? If that was the case, then it could explain why men more than women become doctors, and women nurses: because becoming a doctor is significantly more demanding than becoming a nurse.

Getting through medical school and residency requires absolutely horrendous working hours including night shifts, and extremely long work shifts that seem unreasonable or unsafe to me, but that doctors have just accepted. Becoming a medical doctor definitely seems like it's in the upper echelon of demanding jobs. Within the field of medicine, men also disproportionately select the most demanding specialties like surgery while female doctors are more likely to become pediatricians.

The theory that men and women have different preferences concerning demanding jobs and work-life balance has been scientifically studied, and there's evidence in support of it. I'll share a quote from one publication that contains citations to further studies: "Women, careers, and work-life
preferences":

> The majority of working women seek a large degree of work-life balance (Hakim, 2005), certainly more than men do. Women are more likely to ask for shorter work hours than to ask for higher pay or promotion (Babcock & Laschever, 2003).

https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2011/SPP457/um/23632422/Hakim...
In many ways rent control is a conservative policy. It's a nativist policy that decreases social mobility into the cities that enforce rent control. It doesn't jive with the traditional view of conservatism as advocating lesser government control over the economy. But does fall in line with conservative thinking in the more recent view of conservatism as advocating a more closed society (which arguably became mainstream in the 2016 election. TPP and immigration were center stage).
Even if that's the case, deploying and scaling a Kafka cluster is something that hundreds of companies have figured out and publicly written about. It's something that you can hire an experienced engineer to fix. When this thing runs into problems, they will be all new ones.
You're telling me! We transsexuals are a great example, having been co-opted in recent years to make liberals/postmodernists look good. We are just too convenient of a packaged identity now that gays are not a big deal any more. I feel for Thiel, he may be a "public person" with his commentary, but his sex life is private. Everybody knows that you are not supposed to pry (most of us just want to move on with our life), but somehow there is an exception if you are "supportive", "accepting", or "progressive", and it becomes acceptable to gossip about. They all want to feel smug about having the one token tranny friend.

You would not believe how fast I have gone from being treated like a darling to being torn to pieces by liberal ideologues, when it comes to light that I hold unapproved political views, that I do not snarkily put down people who believe in God, or that I had supported Trump.
As a data point, Scaleway's responsiveness to things doesn't seem all that great.

Saying that as a new-ish (only a few months) user to them.

For example, their CentOS 7 ARM7 images come with a bug that stops yum from updating correctly.

This is a simple PR to fix the problem, yet hasn't even been looked at in the month since it was created:

https://github.com/scaleway/image-centos/pull/26

That aside though, the hardware/software/capabilities seem pretty decent. And (for me) the fix is automatically applied when servers are spun up so their sluggish response doesn't negatively affect me.
Not been my experience. Once heard a guy playing loud music like the star trek 4 movie however.
Isn't the rebuttal your post the heart of the whole current, I'm not even sure how to describe it, "listen" movement: your experience won't be the same as anyone else's? I wonder why that doesn't extend to a white, male, gay, conservative?

I also think it is odd that we can see the flaws in everyone everywhere else, but the flaws in our own environ seem so hard to spot. I'm reminded of this in these times: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

> Diff present ideas against those of various past cultures, and see what you get. Some will be shocking by present standards. Ok, fine; but which might also be true?
Does oneOf not cover it?
Great. I'm sure they all had reasons to vote for a man who said "grab them by the pussy." That doesn't make it any less of an endorsement.
Thanks for the feedback. Screening resumes is handled by HR. Can I ask, what was your expectation?

If you feel you didn't get due consideration, forward the rejection to the above address with your resume and I'll take another look. Our process starts with resume screen, recruiter phone screen and coding exercise. If you reach out, I'll have the coding exercise sent to you.
> I think something based on agents that create loosely coupled systems where it easier to expand and replace parts would be a better place to look for a future programming language.

+1

A different question would be - what would a Smalltalk like system look like 'in the large'? (There was the Croquet project that was a live distributed environment so there has been some work done here already.) It seems the hallmark of Smalltalk was late binding so perhaps the core model can be extrapolated to a loosely coupled distributed system?
Yes, I got the same when I pointed out an issue with their dashboard when they announced Bitcoin support
New project registration temporarily disabled on PyPi
Thiel has a larger platform for his views than most people, and his success in Silicon Valley is ironically the reason he gets such a platform. He gets blowback because people are listening, and don't like what he says. Everyone's right to free speech is maximized when he says what he thinks and people who disagree with him say what they think.
One side of this I haven't seen, people like me, entirely code for work, but also work a lot. I work 60-80 hours a week (even more!), so that doesn't leave much time for coding on the outside.

Why? Because I really love what I do. I find the problems interesting, and I am trying to push my career further and bonus higher.

When I go home, I often take the time commuting and at night to read research, run, maybe read or experiment more, but that is mostly just out of habit.

I tried to do little bit on github before, but it sits there, dated looking abandoned. I was seriously thinking of deleting it, but i don't know if that would look even worse.
> you two are being just as tribalistic as the people you complain about

You might be right. I just don't know what to do about political discussion these days. The punchline is, in case you didn't see any other posts by me, is that I've never not been on the left.

In my defence I'll address a few points. The cannabis and DACA issues were not contemporaneous with the president's election, so exclude those. Trump promised, disingenuously, "bigger, better" healthcare. The Muslim thing was not known at the time. Actually, none of your points stick.

But I'll concede anyway. Yes, elections have real-world consequences. But the vibe I got from the comment I replied to - of valley girls crying into their pumpkin spice lattes - was valid. They were mourning their team losing. This is a deathly trap we fall into these days politics-wise. It's a team sport and you will never forsake "your" team. I picked up a few traces of that loyalty from your examples, btw.

> It's not exactly like their team lost the superbowl

I'd counter that it is exactly like their team lost, or won, the superbowl
I think fitness apps are a good example of how timing plays such an important role in startups. Making a fitness app in such a crowded market (timing) makes it extremely hard to cut through the noise and show off your uniqueness even if you have a great product.
The board can always fire the C-level, so by virtue of survivor bias alone the ones left are looking out for shareholder interests first. There is a choice: be CEO or not.
Anyone know of a write-up for the study?
Just fyi, "gangsta" is such a dated, anachronistic slang term that it's use is now almost exclusively associated with resentful white Fox News types ineptly attempting to dog-whistle "black teens who don't give me the deference I think I deserve" (and occasionally "black athletes or entertainers I disapprove of for nebulously defined reasons"). I'd recommend the next time you need such a euphemistic term you go with the more timeless "urban youth".
> How would you distinguish between such a "sowing chaos" campaign and random Russian people/groups who have different interests in the US?

In the latter, superficially opposing strands of propaganda wouldn't trace back to the same actors.

> I'd also wonder why an intelligent person might think this is worse than, say, Saudis and Israelis formenting US wars in the middle east,

Because it's worse—for Americans—to have foreign powers trying to manipulate America into tearing itself apart than to have them trying to manipulate America to use its power on behalf of those foreign powers.
How did you fill the database? Is it manual, automated, crowd-sourced? Did you convert this GCFO (Gluten-Free Certification Organization) PDF to a more dynamic, searchable, user friendly experience?
During the election Trump was promising things like a muslim ban, and increased deportations of illegal immigrants. Regardless of how you feel about these issues politically the plain fact is that they impact the lives of real people, and not just the people who may be deported or not allowed back in the country. These are people with families, children, friends, property, lives. And those things may just disappear one day at the whim of a politician. In the case of the muslim ban it was particularly severe because impacted people were in the USA legally, and had permanent residency.

Going through all that's required to get a green card and then have the government take that away from me as if it's nothing, and for such a stupid reason? I would cry too.
It may be bizarre but it's now a standard tactic - to claim victimhood in order to justify all manner of behavior, ala Fox News and the supposed war on Christmas to support the viewpoint that Christians are under siege in the USA, or that being outed if one wants to discriminate based on gender/sexuality (because of one's religious beliefs like that county clerk who refused to recognize same sex marriage) is unfairly targeting the religious.
How can something half the US voters did be controversial?

The norms you mention are obviously not where you think they are. I think you may be out of touch.
I've been looking for the last ten minutes. Having a hell of a time finding it. The author was Dacher Keltner, it was conducted at Cal (?) in the late nineties (?). Its nickname was the "Cookie Monster" study. I found a YouTube video where he described it [1]. But I can't find the actual study, or any citations of it.

I wonder how successful attempts to replicate it have been. Couldn't find anything on that either.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvl46PmCfE
That's not quite correct. There are very obvious, very large common intellectual & political interests in Silicon Valley:

Equal representation of women and minorities in tech. Wage gap as a result of discrimination. Unlimited low skill immigration; immigration amnesty. Environmentalism, global climate change. Gay rights. Drug legalization, ending policies of mass incarceration.

Those topics all have overwhelming support in SV.
I would love for a space that allowed me to work while providing daycare nearby for my kid. But I’m very niche, for sure.
Hehe hmm maybe. Well, there's good reason besides to touch cow poo frequently on a farm - it makes the best fertilizer for gardens, in raw or liquefied form. ..And you won't find sizable mushrooms under them will you? Can't see the point in turning them over for that.
That’s what (unchecked) exceptions are for.

They’re supported by all general purpose programming languages because we — as developers — are smarter than the compiler.
MIDIMonster: Multi-Protocol Translation (MIDI, OSC, ArtNet, Evdev Input)
> I suggest focussing on explaining concepts, not drilling sums.

The research I've seen suggests that having a bunch of stuff at your finger tips then makes it easier to have the concepts crystallise. Trying to start with just the concepts doesn't work.

So what's needed is both, significant practice to help embed the simple underlying facts, with extensive exploration of the links between the facts to help the concepts emerge, be identified, and then distilled.

To me, it seems that almost everyone goes full extreme: "Must do this", "Must do that", whereas, as in game theory, it seems obvious that a mixed strategy is likely the best option.
Comparing the removal of obviously fake news to censorship is a false equivalence. One does not lead to the other.
Sidestep the paywall here:
https://www.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.c...
But not everyone is capable of being Elon Musk, or should even want to be like him, if they really understood what it takes to be him. Here is one of the most insightful posts I have ever read on the subject, coming from someone who should know -- his first wife:

https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-be-as-great-as-Bill-Gates-St...
This would still leave the question of deciding which, of an huge number arguably medical human activities to subject to scrutiny. Various commercial interests will find ways of sticking their noses into the game of maybe-maybe-not banning something.
Again, this is a perfect example of the absurd overreaction that Valley liberals have to the idea that someone might have some conservative views. You sound like you voted for Hillary...do you endorse every single thing she has ever done and said? Did that "I'm with her" shirt you probably bought apply to the Clinton Foundation scandal and the use of an unsecured private email server for classified emails? Probably not.

It's the same with Trump. Some voters - many millions of them - overlooked his many flaws and voted for him, for any of a variety of reasons. That doesn't automatically make them racists, bigots, sexists, idiots, or any of the other labels that liberals like to put on Trump voters. I'm not even endorsing a specific viewpoint here - I'm just saying that instantly ostracizing someone from their workplace social scene (if not their job altogether) based on one data point that by itself means next to nothing is wrong.
That’s more than twenty years out of date. I can’t help but feel it’s purposely disingenuous, considering all the top google results on the topic point to their efforts to expand residency funding:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ama+position+on+residency+funding
?? How is this political?
I have no idea what you just said.

Care to provide me with your promised definition of what "far-left" means?
> Women in STEM complain that they have less job prospects and feel uncomfortable in their position.

Which is definitely a problem. But there seems to be an implicit assumption that it happens at a higher rate than discrimination in every other field, and thus STEM deserves this criticism. Is this actually true? The only data I've seen keeps harping on gender parity as if parity is its own end, rather than a means to an end as you've suggested.

> Instead, as a group women have decided that the best way to make themselves more welcome in STEM - is to have more women in STEM.

Did they? Was there a group meeting and they all voted? Where is the evidence that gender parity would actually yield this result? If so, where is the evidence that the gender parity measures being taken would actually lead to parity? This seems to rest on a lot of suppositions.

Also, from what I've seen, women in STEM largely aren't driving this movement, contrary to what you seem to believe.

> Claiming that men and women just have different criteria, and thus the problem should be ignored entirely completely misses the point.

There are two problems being conflated here: the gender parity "problem", and the sexism/discrimination problem.

Articles like this are attacking the arguments that gender parity is a) actually a problem, and b) one that can be solved by simplistic measures like quotas, marketing directed at women, etc. If women truly are less interested in CS and similar fields, then none of these measures are likely to work. And so far they haven't made a dent.

I'm also skeptical the discrimination problem will be solved by these measures either. I'd prefer something far more direct.
Cookie Monster Study seems like the magic query?
http://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-professor-dach...
> startups

Snarkiness aside, I'd wear Microsoft gear.
I would have expected the center area to get wider as we move up and to the right.
When you vote for a sexist and racist, don't be surprised when you're thought to be a sexist and racist.

It's 2018, polite society has moved on from polite silence in the face of such backwards and discriminatory viewpoints. In a lot of circles anyway.
One can be a non-racist conservative, in the sense of wanting a smaller government and less regulation. However, today’s Republican Party is undeniably racist, and supporting them also makes one racist in my opinion.

This is especially true since today’s Republican Party is not actually conservative. One cannot want smaller government while simultaneously supporting a drastic increase in immigration and border security and a whopping $25 billion for a 2000-mile long wall.
If I recall correctly, this isn't quite accurate—with four cookies, no one ate the fourth. So they changed to five cookies, and the group leader then usually took the fourth (with no one taking the fifth).
I used pdf2json to scrape all the data from the GFCO PDF, which they publish annually. So mostly tool-assisted manual labor :D

However, I'm now negotiating with GFCO to get continually up-to-date information. I'm also working with another major GF certification and will soon be adding their products too.
> Americans have a very weird conception of what "far-left" means

And other Americans have a very weird conception of what far-left is outside of America.

There are nations out there that are very, very conservative compared to the US. Republican talking points would be far-left in much of the world outside Western Europe, Canada and Australasia.
“The majority of the country does not support this man or his ideas”, says the liberal SF tech worker from the comfort of his/her Google office where all of his/her co-workers also blindly agree (except for Paul from Minneapolis, who secretly voted for and supports Trump, who would probably get fired by HR due to “poor performance” after coming out about it)
> The cannabis and DACA issues were not contemporaneous with the president's election,

Trump, during the campaign, said he would immediately terminate DACA if elected, and also (by the end) had reversed his earlier position of leaving marijuana legalization up to the states, in favor of reinforcing prohibition. So, both were active issues in the election.

> Trump promised, disingenuously, "bigger, better" healthcare.

With no actual content except the repeal of the ACA.

> The Muslim thing was not known at the time

The Muslim ban was one of the earliest and most frequently repeated campaign promises, though the exact wording changed over time. It was not a policy preference that was out of the public awareness at the time of the election.
My dual monitor setup has an old 19" with a stand that rotates 90º. Custom stands are available for any monitor that has the VESA mounting screws.

Laptops are trickier but I'm hoping in the age of tablet-hybrid detachables that a rotateable tripod comes of age.
Is this US data only?
And just in case folks aren't super familiar with Cure53, they know their stuff. The report largely speaks for itself in conveying their level savvy on browser security. Google didn't hire some corporate consulting firm that would give them a glowing recommendation based on a review by folks not knowledgeable enough to really be able to differentiate between browser security architectures.

P.S. We (GitHub) have engaged Cure53 several times, including an assessment dedicated to Content Security Policy bypasses across various browser implementations. Mario (and team) are incredible to collaborate with.
See: "POWER, APPROACH, AND INHIBITION" --
Keltner et al

PDF: http://www.communicationcache.com/uploads/1/0/8/8/10887248/p...
> I'm not that old, 33, but I think I recognize that I wasted a lot of my youth being paralyzed by the thought of failing, when really it is the most successful people who start out by failing

Well said. Describes me as well.
I've run Kafka at large scale. I've also seen even larger scale attempts to replace it.

Just use Kafka. Seriously, it's rock solid and is practically lingua franca in backend architecture these days. Everyone understands it and every data processing framework or service supports it.

Kafka is much, much more than just distributed pub/sub. It's disk cache optimizations alone make rolling your own a terrible idea.
Crazy liberal SF/Bay, home of Feinstein - the Iraq War, AUMF, Libya War, Patriot Act and FISA Reauthorization supporter.

In TX, we'd call these people Republicans.
Your vision for the future of America sounds incredible, how can I sign up? Seriously, I had never thought about it before but just dividing everybody up into high-school cliques that openly loathe each other, with no pretense of a common societal fabric... you should give speeches. This is a message people need to hear.

Can I find any more of your writing on this topic? I, and I'm sure many others, want to hear more.
Travis CI is free for OSS projects and offers a pretty cool iOS build option: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/objective-c/
DeepState: Symbolic Unit Testing for C and C++ [pdf]
The best and hardest job you’ll ever have
There was heavy manipulation of the media in favor of Clinton during the last election. Reddit, for example, was very active in promoting pro-Clinton news and downvoting pro-Trump news. It was so obviously an orchestrated campaign it was actually funny. CNN was relentlessly pro-Clinton. Clinton bought the machinery of the DNC to ensure her primary victory.

Now, I'm not suggesting any of that is or should be illegal. But any discussion of Clinton losing because of propaganda should consider the converse.
I find mentions of “deployments”, but unlike a platform like Kubernetes I can’t seem to find any mention of how to set up the “serverless servers” anywhere. And until then it’s just a really neat local CLI
This sounds more believable. I think everyone has been in a situation where there's one left of something, and I doubt person would always take it.
I wonder why that doesn't extend to a white, male, gay, conservative?

Thiel has been around for a long time and his views have been given extensive consideration - I'd say he's a well known public figure out here on the west coast. It seems to me that people have listened to him and that a significant fraction have subsequently arrived at a negative conclusion about him.
"With incredible consistency the person arbitrarily appointed leader of the group grabbed the fourth cookie, and ate it. Not only ate it, but ate it with gusto: lips smacking, mouth open, drool at the corners of their mouths. In the end all that was left of the extra cookie were crumbs on the leader’s shirt."

Bollocks.
GFCO certifies products for several different countries, but the majority is US.

We are going to be adding country support so folks can easily find products available to them no matter what country they are from.
Vancouver criticized for boasting of low pay of its tech workers in Amazon bid
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13663193