skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's time for a new relational query language(s) to compete with SQL. We need something that's more API-based rather than using custom key-words in a COBOL-esque way. With the API-ish approach, Vendors (and DBA's) may still add proprietary functions/methods, but the syntax itself could be consistent across vendors. It's roughly comparable to using XML to define a domain-specific sub-language: a standard XML parser can be used to parse it even though specific tags or attributes are added by the vendor/domain. The syntax charts for SQL are pasta-city.

My favorite SQL-replacement candidate is SMEQL (formerly TQL). One of its features is using tables, real or virtual, to describe the attributes of schemas and RDBMS settings rather than language text. This also makes it easier to "query" commands, giving one meta abilities/abstraction.
the median height of NBA players has gone from 6'3" to 6'5" to 6'7". The growth in median height of NBA players has outpaced growth in US population median height over the same period.

Yes, its very much a natural advantage to all things being equal, be tall to play basketball. Source: Am tall guy.
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With all due respect, you couldn't pay me $500k/yr to join Square in any realm regarding information security. From the horror stories I've heard about upper management priorities rapidly shifting and projects abandoned, to engineers stretched so thin on so many projects they they burn out within a year... it seems like a toxic work environment from the ground up. I hope your new round of security talent can strive to overcome this and increase transparency within the company.
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Most people don't understand the purpose of "affirmative action" style hiring. It's not to implement a quota and to enforce an "equality of outcome", that's basically unworkable. Rather it's a form of "kentucky windage" to compensate for a system that has a known series of institutional biases across the board. It's a crude tool but if the alternative is waiting until all of those biases naturally bleed out of the system over generations then it's generally preferable.
We already do live in that world.

If you 'whiten up' your resume, you're more likely to get callbacks. Even if the company indicates that they're pro-diversity or equal-opportunity [1]. Employees with black-sounding names are in general less likely to receive callbacks even when accounting for economic status and skill level [2]. Depending on your name, you will be perceived as being more violent or lesser in status [3]. For minorities, this sort of thing is what they already and commonly experience.

So while we can claim that diversity hiring and so forth has swung too far in the opposite direction, studies and research in general has shown this to not be the case. I'm skeptical of any lawsuits like this brought against Google and while I don't doubt there are instances of terrible hiring managers going too far I imagine people will use this lawsuit as vindication for why they weren't hired.

[1] http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/Whitening%20MS%...

[2] http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

[3] https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/5494/black-sound...
You can try to invite a wider audience to apply. Many firms just hire based on a short list of posh colleges and thus inherit whatever racial statistics apply to them. But it's possible to look for candidates of all kinds, to expand internship programs, to go to job fairs at inner-city colleges, and so on.

That really only applies to junior personnel, though. I'm not sure what you would do for hiring more experienced people.
This is assuming, however, that the work force has an equal number of women and men. Some women choose to and want to be stay-at-home moms. Should we try to persuade them otherwise?
This is such a cool way of presenting it, I'll reuse that. Thanks!
A nice memory from my childhood (early 1980's) was doing a school trip to some sort of design shop where they were CAD and getting to take home a crisply plotted rendering of the US Space Shuttle. In my memory, it was pencil not pen, but I'm not sure if that holds up.

The 'perfection' of the drawing blew my mind and, as the author points out, does have a unique character. Definitely one of the early memories that got me excited about what computers can help us do.
I am 26, and I suffered depression and other mental health issues for many years. I have to tell you: it is hard to survive. Till this day, 1 year after my first attempt, I still cannot recover from my mental illness. I am back to school studying neuroscience and psychology, but ironically I still end up being depressed.

No words can describe the hardship a mental illness patient has to endure. It sucks and it sucks so much I have been cutting myself constantly again. Bipolar, depression, personality disorder. I have them. I overdose and continue to abuse my psychotic drugs on a regular basis in order to stabilize my mood and sleep schedule.

As I am typing this, I am already losing my mind but I will be fine in a few hours, but the cycle will repeat. I feel like I am The Boy Who Cries Wolf, but in reality, I am not.

Can I die? No. I am 26 and I have been hospitalized several times already. Friends will leave, family will be worried, and I can lose my job. On social media, I either have to stay positive or just keep my mouth shut so no one needs to see the negativity. I guess the reason I want to express my struggle in public from time to time is to because I want to outside of my social circle. I have pretty much abandoned social media in general. I depend on approvals and romantic love to substation my self-worth because I have none. I compensate my insecurities and lack of self identity by trying to be other people's "savior".

If you have a family or a friend who is suffering some form of mental illness, yeah, give them constant reassurance. It's very difficult to find someone to talk to without being judged and offer advice such as "you have to control your mind." I can't when I am not in control of my mind. I feel possessed and that's what mental illness is. It's a possession of an uncontrolled mind.

No need to report to my ex-employer / future employer. I am safe, and currently I am not employed anyway (well just resigned).
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A lot of the early CS-related workforce was actually made of women, because dealing with mainframes was originally seen as an extension of typing and shorthand (secretarial work traditionally reserved to women) with some math on top. Sometime around the early '70s / early '80s, the field morphed into the male-dominated world we see today.

This has been discussed on HN in the past, usually in threads about female CS pioneers working at NASA and so on. I believe the consensus is that there wasn't a single individual cause for the change, but rather a number of conditions changed around the same time, discouraging women from CS-related jobs.
And Asians are more successful than white people on average. Strange that there is no “Asian Privilege”
Right, the "path" to be an NBA player starts in high school. You ideally get scouted by a college with a top team and after four years you get an offer to play for an NBA team.

This is very similar to how we do admissions for most college education, except now imagine the basketball scout saying "You crushed it out there, but sorry, we have enough %race players this year".
You could also have a year where you sell a house in excess of the gain exclusion, sell a rental property, cash in some stock options, convert an IRA into a Roth, sell a bunch of appreciated stock, sell a small business, or sell some other capital asset.

Those "one time" activities will all temporarily boost your AGI, meaning people come into and out of the "top 5%" brackets pretty regularly. It won't get you into the top 0.001%, but could easily boost what you think of as a "normal" two-income couple into the top 5% or 1% at some point in their life.
There does seem to be a major contradiction.

“Gender is ephemeral and a personal decision but also women are different than men, let’s hire more women.”
I don't consider C/C++ high-level.
White != "upper class"

Turns out you can be a poor white (like myself)...just an FYI.
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It’s a purity death spiral. Model diversity as a sacred belief with no central authorities. With no pope of social justice to tamp down on the overzealous all actors ratchet towards increasing absurd signaling behaviours, limited only when the enterprise is outcompeted.
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My father's former boss (in Germany) has fired women when they became pregnant and just paid the settlement when they sued. As soon as the employer becomes aware that somebody is pregnant they can't fire them and need to guarantee the position or a similar one for when they return from maternity leave.

I understand where you're coming from, but my guess would be that the situation is much more similar between the US, Europe and other countries than you think.
Currently in Shenzhen, looking to move to Shanghai. Your website does not seem to work - can I email you?
From what I've seen, the workforce closely mirrors the demographics of CS and Engineering students enrolled at top universities, i.e. the educated talent pool.
Well, you can have a lifestyle startup, but not where it's a lifestyle startup for one founder and not the other...You are correct, however, that the OP might be sufficiently committed from the objective standpoint of contributing to make the startup successful. But if the two founders are not aligned on what "committed" means, that is a recipe for disaster.
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Applied last week and didn't hear back...how long does it usually take for you to go through applications?
Wow thank you. I just might resurrect my account with them.
Or, instead of giving in, these companies could actually use their impressive power and reach to halt such practices and not let their brand be so affected. (Hello marketing budgets.) Big_Co is not a victim here, and portraying them as such is vastly unfair to the actual people being adversely affecting by discriminatory hiring practices. These companies can and should do better than "well everyone else is doing it!"
To use our Doctor simile, you wouldn't ask about anatomy (or only briefly), you ask about diagnosing and treating ailments; that's what you are paying the person to do.

For technical interviews, you don't ask them about Computer Science things (or only briefly), you ask them about real-world software development; that's what you are paying them to do. The stuff they really don't go over in CompSci classes.

What was the project you were most proud of and why?

What was the hardest project for you and why?

What are some of the ways you've connected to a database / datastore (if applicable)?

What were some database design decisions you've grappled over? What designs were you considering?

What's the most impressive code you've seen written by someone else and why?

Tell me about how you organized classes in a particular project and why you did it that way.

Describe a way you've organized your classes and wish you had done it another way, and why.

How do you make sure if your software has a problem, you know about it and can figure it out quickly?

What's the hardest software you've written and why?

How do you handle disagreements with a colleague? Can you site an example of a disagreement and each person's reasoning?

Notice almost all of those examples asked "why." That's the most important part. If someone isn't up to par, they will do one of two things:

1. Answer Briefly.
2. Babble on to the point it's obvious they don't know what they are talking about.

#1 of course can be because the person is shy or intimidated or an extreme introvert, but not likely. Because you're talking about a subject they should feel extremely comfortable about, even introverts will come out of their shell.
That is an excellent job description page. I'm not interested in applying, but I'd love to steal^H^H^H^H^Hcopy the page for the next time I'm hiring someone!
Here is a passthrough link[0].

The tech seems like the PC version of OnLive, the stuff behind PS4 streaming.

[0]: https://twitter.com/FinTechie/status/968674531148693504
Oracle bought PeopleSoft. Oracle HR is PeopleSoft.
I’m wondering if a lot of them aren’t working part time while doing something else? Like I can see it being really appealing for a doctor with young kids at home that don’t want to work long hours.
There are three regions in Saturn's troposphere and the lowest region, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) down, is largely clouds made of water and ice.
https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini-Huy...
There was a brief period from about 1957 to 1965 where they seemed to be gaining steam; but other than that, it was mostly other dictators that tried to emulate and/or side with them, not general populations.
We are nearing crisis mode regarding long term home health for the elderly here in US. Cost per visit for even non-nursing, personal care workers can easily exceed $100. Medicare coverage eligibility is subject to political risk. It's a significant tax on working families. And with 30-40M families requiring such workers. It's trivial to see how there may never be sufficient labor market supply.

But a subscription service model for those that can afford the highest quality home care for the elderly. Represents a phenomenal startup growth opportunity.
So you being poor is justification enough to spread divisive comments and fuel further hatred (on either side)?
I'm not sure how you made this HN post, but I presume it required internet access. The self-same internet that can be used to search for a wide variety of information and educate yourself on many subjects with only a few minutes of effort. Have you tried doing that?
I don't know much about their market. A friend of mine works there though, and he said they are growing.
Probably this line:

> absent dismantling the gas giants themselves, you're not going to do anything very interesting do the dynamics of the solar system, regardless of what you take apart, or how you reconstitute it.

I would consider reconfiguring available materials to achieve more usable surface area to be interesting (not to mention potentially useful if we manage to accomplish it someday).

However, what's "interesting" is highly subjective and dependent on context. Perhaps you meant something different by "you're not going to do anything very interesting" than the way some of us are interpreting it?
Just a note to acknowledge that user IntronExon predicted stories and comments exactly like this being raised in reaction to the stories about endemic sexism that were briefly on the front page today. Now replaced by these tales of unfairness to men. You called, it, Intron.
In all honesty I got at least two details wrong, I now realise; it was 1995, and Pro-Plus caffeine tablets.
I'll take a false dichotomy to go please
My point is that the "I don't know how to talk to you" guy is participating in the conversation of how we move towards equality. It's as important to be sensitive to confused likely allies as it is to be sensitive to victims of inequality. Obviously you don't know a person by just a couple lines of a story, but it seems very likely he wants to be a positive influence he just doesn't know what to do. It's so very important to assist him in taking the right path while avoiding condemnation. Pointing at him and calling him the same names we call the physically aggressive guys is going to be counter-productive. It's just as easy to consider him part of the problem as it is to consider him a likely part of the solution whose ignorance is the result of the problem.
What in the world are you talking about? As soon as he found out about the 2016 breach, he ran an investigation, found that the chief of security was responsible, fired him, and then came forward to the press about it.

IMHO, that couldn't have been handled better.
Yes. Jeremy Lin has spoken on multiple occasions of the discrimination he has encountered entering and during NBA, and god knows how many more Asian Americans are kept from a NBA career by these discrimination. (Hint, there are very few Asians in NBA).
We're speaking to what a large body of research and hiring practices have borne out. It's a bad idea to assume you are immune from unconcious biases.

https://hbr.org/2017/08/what-the-science-actually-says-about...
> the idea that you have to be "passionate about computers" to do the job is one of those things that men have made up to exclude women.

I mean if you've been programming since you were 8 and consider it your identity its not that far to go into believing that anyone who is good has to have the same background. Gender doesn't have anything to do with it.

For what its worth I thought this way until it was proven otherwise to me after enough time in the industry.
That's not at all true. The only engineers who would think all that is a good idea are those who could update their LinkedIn. The salespeople and non-technical leadership though? They're going to love the idea of ML (read: magic) based solutions to replace human resources with computer resources to streamline their welfare systems.
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So what about making it name-blind?
>There’s no attention in getting men teaching. Where 80% teachers are females.

That’s not true.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/22/male-teacher-...
> Why do so many people keep insisting on believing that the problem is specific to the technology fields? Women face these kind of problems everywhere that they have to interact with men.

Straw man? I prefer to think of it as "I work in tech and I am glad these issues are being publicised and (I hope) enough people think it's a big enough problem that finally it's being addressed, I hope seriously."

I can't do anything about, say, mining, construction, advertising, film, retail...but I can have some influence in tech and life sciences businesses.
Late reply, but I think it should be exceedingly valuable, but at the highest quality you'll get a lot of noise. There are a lot of engineering organizations that put out bad code.

I'd consider recommendations from CTOs, former Senior or Principle engineers to be the #1 indication that the person can do what they say they can do. Verify a bit more, but honestly the college level micro-optimization whiteboard-only BS questions are mainly only useful for checking new grads.
if you have $10mil, you're not burning much more than ~$400k a year if you're smart. a charter flight across the continental US costs at least $6k. so you could definitely do that from time to time, but if you do it even once a month you are blowing almost a fifth of your yearly budget on transportation. you are probably gonna feel that.

edit: the figure I used is just the cheapest possible aircraft you can rent. if you actually want a jet, you are looking at $10,500 and up, which would make your monthly flight eat more like 32% of your budget. most people are going to find this untenable.
I disagree with this but I do selfishly wish I could get a "diversity" boost when applying. Too bad being LGBT is effectively invisible to recruiters.
Have there been any experiments that stripped all identifying characteristics from resumes (gender, race, age) including things like name, graduation year, college, etc., and recorded the resulting hiring outcomes? A company as big as google could easily do something like sanitize resumes to ensure impartial hiring.
new CEO joined Sept 2017, breach was disclosed in Nov 2017

it's more than 1 month, but "months" is a stretch here
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