skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, shorting a stock is not a long term investment tactic, and it is risky. "Smart" is, in my opinion, too subjective a term to use in this particular situation. I was too risk averse at the time to take action, and part of my risk aversion was based on my lack of trust in the foresight of HN articles.
But it is also possible that the biology is affecting our inclinations, temper, or skills. After all modern psychiatry is attempting to look at the brain mechanically or to influence it with drugs. And intuitively, I find it hard to believe that our genes that affect so much of our physical abilities, likelyhood of illness, etc would stop at the brain and our behavior would be completely independent of our nature and purely a function of our environment.
this would not only explain why less women go into stem, but also why more guys go into it, as it is common for a guy to feel the onus of securing financial safety for his family.

And not gonna lie, even I, a guy, picked STEM partly because I see it as the best escape route from this country, I would have picked something more fun and less demanding otherwise
> actively avoiding it as a low-status role when they have better options.

So why don't men avoid it? It's hardly a high-status role for them, either. I hope my kids don't go into tech, regardless of gender.

The most cynical part of me thinks that this "equality" agenda isn't put forward to further humanity, but simply to get more people into the job market and drive wages down. Then I realise I should probably lay off the drugs, or become a lobbyist (or worse).
If all you want is email (and not owncloud/nextcloud, your own webmail and some other services), 512 MB is plenty. If you can live without antivirus scanning of email you could get away with 256MB.
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As well as the Launch HNs for YC companies. Those are like the job ads in that they get a front-page placement. But unlike the job ads, they rise or fall based on voting after that.
Performance-driven culture is ruining scientific research
If you look closely at their scatter plot, you can see that the UAE, Turkey, Algeria, and Tunisia cluster in the lower right. Without them, the relationship would be considerably weaker. Is there something in particular about Middle Eastern culture that's skewing the results?

I'm not sure I understand the choice of countries in the regression either. Where are India and China, for example?
I thought the three alternatives were "women are bad at it", "women don't enjoy it", "women are being actively put off it by the men being even more sexist than the sexism baseline of men in other career options".

If this is claiming they're actually better skilled than the men, then it opens up more space for the comparative sexism option I would have thought?

Just the fact that it contradicts the common wisdom that "women aren't capable of STEM" seems to lend some support to sexism clouding people's objective evaluations.
And it demonstrated how valuable binary compatibility across generations were, as Windows have never really gotten off the ground outside of x86.

This in large part because of corporate and consumer demand for being able to run their existing software on new computers.

Something that both the FOSS world and others should take note of (and no, app stores do not remove this issue).
A very good step if passed. Sadly these new projects will still have to go through a lengthy, byzantine approvals process
Women get paid less than men for doing the same work, across all industries. Pay them the same and the "confusion" will diminish.
I've worked 36 hours straight in the days before I knew better. And I got off lightly compared to my friends the game industry.
The zip family has more names than just `map`, but boilerplate? You have to select the right name for your code but you don't have to select more names. And at the implementation side, it's not like map's flexibility came from nowhere. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Clojure's `map` is just as verbose as Haskell's entire 'zip' family.

The whole concept of an `apply` function is a bit alien to me. I generally just call the damn function. Also, Haskell has an `apply` function. It's the `$` operator, defined thus (the first line is optional):

`$` :: (a -> b) -> a -> b
f $ x = f x

It helps that Haskell functions all have one argument (that with being curried by default). If you want several arguments, just apply them one by one:

f $ x $ y

(This is sometimes used to avoid parentheses in some cases. I personally tend to just use the parentheses.)
>limits

Humanity is just a infant. It's way too early to talk about limits, really.
I certainly know girls in medicine who struggle to find guys. Some seem to be intimidated by them, especially guys from Asian cultures where they want to have higher status jobs than their wives.

I would add though that in fact neither of two particular girls I know wanted to go into medicine. They were pushed in by their parents. One wanted to work in fashion, the other media.
All those features are in separate small files and have tags. You can enable and disable them one by one.
By nipping competition in the bud and starting company towns. When you're an unregulated monopoly with no danger of anti-trust, lots of things are possible.
Therein lie the dangers of categorical thinking, https://www.newyorker.com/business/james-surowiecki/categori.... Gender is probably the most loaded category there is (except for the other one). There is some movement on this front with acceptance of different gender identities but until society (in all its forms) can ditch categorical thinking and accept that all things in nature exist in distributions, I don't think there will be much progress on this - there's simply too capital to be made by perpetuating strict divisions which everybody must be crammed into in order to simplify the debate and upset everyone in the process.

Robert Sapolsky - we need you now more than ever, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sapolsky
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Two sides to every story. One thing that sticks out here is why Arrington of all people would easily cave and give 10% to someone who did "nothing."
I guess it is more a feeling that it'll start with a pancreas and then we'll figure out a way to make other organs, and maybe some human life after that. Perhaps it shouldn't concern me - if I would be fine with a pancreas or a kidney grown in an animal, why not (eventually) a human life in an animal? - but it is still a worry for me right now.
The point being made is good, although I don't think you can blame this on the UK's Research Excellence Framework, seeing as this is happening around the world. Frankly, it's also that the researchers who end up evaluating other researchers simply have no time to evaluate the research itself [1] and are used to reaching for the Impact Factor - even though that's completely unreliable [2].

[1] https://theconversation.com/why-i-disagree-with-nobel-laurea...

[2] https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-ca...
You are making some covert buffer-overflow-vulnerability-crafters very sad now... their easy subterfuge is revealed :-o
This is a common talking point of the dominant narrative but simply not true.

When you average all women and all men, you get a "gap". However, like the imbalance in fields, this is almost entirely due to different choices. When you control for factors such as field, hours worked, years worked the gap effectively disappears.
I said that women usually have a lower understanding of mechanics than men do in conversation and the other person looked at me shocked like I had just killed a puppy. I then said that very often dad's will teach their sons how to mechanically work on things as a basis for this conclusion and they where understanding of that, but not my original point. I find it frustrating that I can't make a statement without first explaining the examples too.
Chances are if you have your own server for email you also want to run some other services on it, like a blog. Those may be less secure.
It's normal to struggle this way with work you don't love sufficiently, which (unless you're lucky) tends to include the work you do for money. Companies have techniques to motivate employees. E.g. your boss or peers will be upset if you don't do something, and happy with you if you do. As a freelancer you don't have that, so the struggle is more visible to you.

Some people can sometimes find types of work that they love so much that this doesn't happen. I have often managed to.
Postgres started as a Lisp program, and turned out to be too difficult to develop in a mix of C and Lisp.

The Objectstore database was developed by former Lispers, who wrote an earlier object-oriented database in Lisp.
a radical thought along the lines you are going....instead of striving to bring up the numbers of underrepresented group X in field Y, how about we strive to bring up the salaries/status of field Z (etc.) where group X is over represented?
The wage gap myth has been debunked time and time again.
> S3. RDS. Elasticache.

A requirement for serverless would be having access to a general programming language which is why those examples don't really apply.
Most diversity programs state 50/50 man/women ratio as their goal, which, according to the article is counterproductive.
I think GP means that she felt like engineer and doctor were the only options she could choose from, and therefore she was effectively dragooned into a STEM career. That is, if she'd been dealt a different hand, she would've preferred a career in something other than engineering or medicine.
Another tactic that people like Keith employ is to walk the fine line, i.e., claiming credits while not claiming it. Here's what his LinkedIn profile says about TC:

I co-founded TechCrunch through my friendship and business partnership with Michael Arrington. We started edgeio and TechCrunch simultaneously whilst cooperating through Archimedes Ventures LLC. I can't claim a lot of credit for TechCrunch ... I'm the one who advised him not to do it :-). I hope I helped Mike get to the point where he wanted to do it, and was able to help him be successful.
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In short: a almost romantic cold-war story of a mission to recover a sovier submarine triggers an interest of mining the deep ocean floor.

Not actual until the whole world is moving to an electrical future where raw materials such as copper, cobalt, zinc, etc are in shortage, or suspect of child work, thus an option of mine the ocean floor.

This has other drawbacks, such as destroying the ecology of the deep ocean floor, possibly wiping out species that we might not even know.
Maybe the delay when you are allowed to reply to comments? I think this is a pretty good idea and certainly has managed to keep me from getting too carried in "heated" discussions.
The whole point of turning off 'location' is I want it to not track my location. I disabled it on purpose. If I only wanted to turn off GPS, I would do that. I turned off location.

If they're not actually going to turn off 'location' then don't call it location. Call it GPS, and be honest about it.
Magnus here, maker of RexPad. I have been searching for the ultimate collaborative note-taking tool for years, and finally decided to make my own. It has some unique features:

You can organize notes as a tree with notes nested within notes, you can view and edit more than one note at a time, and you can share any part of the note tree and work together in real-time.

Let me know what you think!
> Well, sure, but it is not what we mostly consider a JIT. The "JIT" part is just an AOT compile at runtime, without most of the nice things that we generally consider being a JIT.

Huh? Then what do you consider a JIT?

> In computing, just-in-time (JIT) compilation, also known as dynamic translation, is a way of executing computer code that involves compilation during execution of a program – at run time – rather than prior to execution. Most often, this consists of source code or more commonly bytecode translation to machine code, which is then executed directly. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation
Any recommendation for video conferencing? We are using hangout and it is not reliable at all :(
When starting a new company (esp without any compelling background), no one cares about their project. So founders often reach out/involve potential employees/advisors/supporters on the side line, and sometimes those name appears on incorporation document/contracts/rent agreement etc because founders were trying to get things off the ground. And they don’t want to screw up the newly built relationship to get going.

Situation like these do not make someone a real co-founder.
Oh come on. You keep coming back. If nothing else, HN gave you something intriguing.
Sure, and the study quoted in the article shows that. Environment is a factor, it just points in the other direction.

So if you assert that discrimination is the cause for the imbalance, the evidence shows that your assertion is wrong, because it makes the wrong prediction.

This is not just a matter of degrees it is a matter of sign (the arrow is pointing in the wrong direction).
Talking specifically about celiac disease, not non-celiac gluten sensitivity, 4 out of 5 people who have celiac disease are not diagnosed with it.

If your brother has it, there's a 1 in 10 chance you do too.
Yes thank you, people seem
to forget that the reason why STEM gets a higher paycheck is because there's less people willing to go for it, both female and male, the paycheck is not a prize you get for being male, it's a prize you get for the sacrifice you make. Look at it this way: no one is complaining about the lack of girls in the blue collar industry.
My #1 reason, aside from the great number of quality and diverse stories that get posted:

The fantastic people in the comment section, with intelligent people who put real thought into what they write. You may find people dropping in from high up in major corporations, are SMEs of the highest order - or are just way cool in their own ways. Love it.

In addition to being a place to always learn, it's a true sanctuary for the mind - especially after eg reading public Facebook/Twitter/YouTube comments on just about anything.

(Thanks all!)
As someone in university and talking to a lot of both genders why they want to join engineering I get a lot of nebulous answers that don't really traceback to a main character trait or reason. Which is fine you don't have a totally define answer but I am kinda perplexed by the desire to do something with seeming no reason.

As a side note I see a lot of women engineers start out as saying they want to do Biomed and the switching to something else. Not totally sure why but I find it interesting.
Given that rewards kill intrinsic motivation, it’s a good idea that you focus on coding for its sake.
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I clearly live on the wrong continent.
There is a cool gallery of ascii art [here](http://www.gridsagegames.com/rexpaint/gallery.html). I think that ASCII still has a place today. Roguelike games for example usually have ASCII art. Take a look at the [Roguelike dev](https://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/) Reddit for example.

Note that I'm not the owner of the subreddit I'm just a user.
Incidentally, thank you for asking, jxub. It must encourage the mods a lot to read stories like the ones I've read here, and being a forum moderator is ordinarily among the most thankless of tasks.
It seems the one fact that nobody is disputing is that the guy in question owned 10% of Techcrunch. Generally people who own 10% of a company had significant involvement in it. Not always, there are always edge cases, but that is a good general rule.

Maybe this is one of those edge cases. But claiming somebody who owns 10% of the company had literally nothing to do with the company is an extraordinary claim that I'd say requires extraordinary evidence. This blog post to me doesn't seem like extraordinary evidence.

But really the conclusion of this saga is pretty irrelevant. If somebody is investing in any type of business because an advisor to that business may or may not have co-founded a tech blog 12 years ago... well they have bigger problems.
Off topic, but does the $500B total global advertising spend sound wrong to anybody else? I'm seeing reports of that number, but that seems incredibly low to me.

Google made $95B in advertising revenue in 2017, can they really be almost 1/5th of the entire global advertising spend?
XSD is only part of the value-offering... XSD + XSLT is the value provider for format heavy, robust, declarative, document transformations.

JSON-schema solves many of the validation issues of JSON in the absence of an XSD-for-JSON solution, to allow message processing and other validation assertions. From that perspective it's 'duplicated effort', but only to the extent that JSON messaging applications are maturing to the point they need the kinds of guarantees that were so clear during the development of XML/SGML. It's a whole different language supporting a range of JSON-powered clients that don't necessarily require transformation support or other guarantees.

This is about JSONs ecosystem maturing to the baseline, not about reinventing the wheel :)
That's not a very convincing argument. There are tons of interesting space companies, like these 10: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.fastcompany.com/3026685/the...

They don't even mention all the ones I know about, like Planet Labs, or Blue Origin, or places like JPL.
TechCrunch was a tech blog which didn't require much "operation". The site was just a wordpress blog and the only work involved was probably blogging and some wordpress maintenance.

This Keith guy never blogged, and this guy is no programmer.

The best he can claim to be is an "investor", but you really have to be shameless to call yourself a "cofounder" when you really did nothing, and use that reputation everywhere you go, especially in this case to promote scam ICOs.

Whether he deserves the 10% or not doesn't really matter. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. But you're not a "cofounder" if you did no work.
Yep, the "women are wonderful" trope is extremely widespread in the media. I've seen dozens of articles with a headline like "women are better than men at investing" or "women make for better leaders". You never read anything saying "men are better than women at X", not that they'd be any more socially beneficial than the toxic male-bashing that occurs today.
There's also a profile of Arrington in Wired from 2007 [0]. It also gives the impression that Techcrunch grew out of his personal research for new business models whilst he was working with "Arrington's longtime associate and mentor, Keith Teare."

Just in case anyone thinks this was perhaps written without Arrington's knowledge, his blog post would suggest otherwise. [1]

[0] https://www.wired.com/2007/06/ff-arrington/

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070501222122/http://www.crunch...

EDIT: Removed ambiguity regarding whose research.
Find a few applications where XSLTs are used for mission critical stuff... XSDs are a Good Thing (even if working in JSON is nicer than XML).

Data schemas are the first step in powering transformations, which is where most of the Enterprise is bound up.
Kniterate: Digital Design Knitting Machine
Lately I have been reading HN a lot and realized it's all about the comments for me so I started building this HN client.

It's a very early stages read-only functionality without possibility to log in add posts or comments.

It should behave well enough on wide range of screens and devices, also check out help section for keyboard shortcuts for post navigation ( very intuitive, once post is selected, it's up / down arrows and esc to deselect ).

I am mostly looking for a feedback and tips on how to make it better and if some of you would like client like this.

Cheers!
Other side seems to be pretty simple: Arrington accepted to be co-founder of Archimedes Labs with 25% ownership. The Archimedes Labs was founded by Keith with him retaining 75% ownership and it was merely a shell company for many future startups. The problem in this arrangement was that whatever Arrington or Keith did would be counted as new or existing startup work under Archimedes Labs umbrella and therefore other co-founder also gets to become co-founder on each others work - even if they had zero contribution. So it was possible for Keith to legally challenge Arrington and grab 75% share in TC even with zero contribution. As litigation is expensive for startups, Arrington decided to settle by giving him 10% share - which technically also established him as "co-founder".
On the other hand, the vast majority of people with celiac disease don't know they have it. And those with non-celiac gluten sensitivity remember the weeks or months of needless pain and suffering before they tried an elimination diet.

Excluding gluten lets you know if gluten is making you sick.
That's because he's replying directly to Arrington. Would be hilarious if he kept insisting he's a "cofounder" on the same thread.

But just do a google search and you'll see that the guy has been really capitalizing on the "TechCrunch Cofounder" brand for almost a decade now.
It indirectly funded my work on a personal project - Neovim - for nearly two years.

The work was actually funded through bountysource, but without the momentum gained by my post HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7278214), which stayed in the front page for more than 12 hours, the bountysource campaign may not have been successful.

HN had a major impact on Neovim being a successful open source project.
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Show HN: Hey Meta – Quickly check, improve and generate your website's meta tags
Hey Hackers

I delayed posting this here for more than a month, because I was kinda discouraged by my own mind as I'm not really an experienced developer (or "hacker" for that matter). But since I'm proud of what I made, here goes:

I'd like to introduce my recent web project, Hey Meta. I made this because I didn't find a tool (other than Facebook Developer Tools and Twitter Card Validator), that would show me how my website would look like after I've shared it to social media and searching for it on Google. While there were some tools that would show me the meta tags from my website, I needed something visual and a way to see changes in real time. There's still stuff I have to work on (and fix), but I wanted to put it out there for you to use/check/test. Let me know if you find it useful to you ;)

Cheers, Igor
Do you happen to work for the C++ committee? http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/clamp
We don't have to go to claiming a specific cause.

The simple fact is that if your claim is that discrimination is the primary cause for the lack of representation of women in STEM fields, then these data show that you are wrong. Not because we can eliminate subtle pressures with 100% certainty, we don't need to do that.

The hypothesis is wrong because it makes the wrong prediction: if discrimination were the major cause, then more discrimination would lead to more unequal distribution. And the data show that it's the other way around: less discrimination leads to more unequal distribution.

It's not a matter of degrees, it's a matter of sign, of the direction of the change. And that's effectively boolean, the sign is either positive or negative. The "discrimination" hypothesis predicts the sign is positive, in reality the sign is negative. Can't really get any more clear-cut than that.