skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm running BazQux https://bazqux.com paid feed reader. It's my only source of revenue.

I wanted to read comments in feed reader (there were few forums with very interesting discussions) and Google Reader only allowed to read blog posts. So I've started developing my own feed reader.

I believed that comments reading feature is killer and thought that Internet is big and many people will like it and I will be rich soon ;) I saved some money and quit my job to focus completely on my product.

Guess what? After initial release nobody purchased my product. I was quite disappointed and started asking people what they didn't liked (turned out to be the most important thing to do). And I've started to add features they've missed, asked again, improved again. And got first purchase few months later and second purchase few more months later.

Few times I thought to abandon project. But then Google announced it will discontinue Google Reader. By that time I had more or less usable product and got a lot of new clients and a lot of feedback (which is very important). Worked like crazy for a few months and after Google Reader was closed I've had enough clients to pay the bills.

It's still in active development with a huge TODO list.

Can't say that it is success. I would make more if I go to day job (and won't worry as much about what to do next to have income in the future) but I'm working on my own project, talking with my own clients, using technologies selected by me and can work on my own schedule (although after being burned out and birth of baby I returned to working 5 days a week in office -- my own office indeed, with piano ;)

Having one-person online business is definitely possible but it's not as romantic/easy as it sometimes shown. "Wow, this guy could work on the beach" is actually "damn, I must work even on the beach".
Diversity quotas are making this situation actively worse by giving a bad image to those who pass. In German there‘s even a compound slur word for one such cases, „Quotenfrau“ (quota woman). These kind of outcomes were once unforeseen but are very easily to foresee now after lots of experience with that kind of thing. I firmly believe that as a society we should try to make people of all shapes be interested in the most productive and needed professions, but the pushing and pulling should end there. If you want equal, just go ahead and install actual communism, I actually might be on board with thst more, at least with modern technology it should be doable such that people can all live well enough.
That's the thing is that everyone has a different idea for ham radio. I went straight to QRP and the digital modes and rarely touch voice(except to chase some SOTA activations).

The EFHW does well enough for me but I'm out in the country so I'm probably fighting a lot less noise. 20m is usually S3 and 40m S1-S2. Love the kx3, if I didn't want to do SDR stuff with the IQ output I could have probably done fine with a kx2.
I think cloudfare just needs to reject some percentage of all connections to reduce load on the website. The algorithm to decide which to accept/reject is meaningless as long as they hit the required reject percentage.
Registered nurses: 90% women, median $68k

Nurse Practitioners: 92% women, median $107k

Veterinarians: 83% women, median $88k

All data from BLS.
Note, this lawsuit is being brought by former Google recruiters who say they were ordered to "purge" certain groups from the interview queue.

> YouTube recruiters were allegedly instructed to cancel interviews with applicants who weren’t female, black or Hispanic, and to “purge entirely” the applications of people who didn’t fit those categories, the lawsuit claims.

I'd like to remind people of what Denise Young Smith, who ran HR at Apple, said, before suddenly stepping down after the outrageous repsonse.

> “There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blond men in a room and they’re going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation,” the inaugural diversity chief said.

> “Diversity is the human experience,” she said, according to Quartz. “I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT.”

She's gone now, instantly, after working there for 20 years and rising to senior executive VP. What is going on in our industry?
No, he's not the only one. Most of the arguments used are not the strongest possible arguments but are in fact extremely flawed, precisely in the ways you took them apart. fancy that.
Towards the end of last year I actually did apply to Google in Mountain View for Software Engineering.

I believe my on-site went excellent technically overall, but I had a hard time meshing with a couple of my interviewers and wasn't surprised about my rejection. Nothing strange about that personally.

However, another Google recruiter reached out to me for two other potential positions, said I would be an excellent fit, and said they would set up the interviews for me.

A couple weeks passed and I pinged, no response. A month passed and I pinged, no response. Still haven't had a response from two separate recruiters to this day.

I don't wish to stir the pot -- Anything could have happened, there are some stories about Google recruiters forgetting their candidates, maybe they think I'm just annoying and not a good candidate, but in light of these specific circumstances this is certainly intriguing news.
And so are problem-solving skills, relevant experience and education in STEM. Is it anyone's fault that white/asian males happen to have more of it than other groups?
> does he get paid based on province or local rules?

I believe the answer is "neither". Federal employees are exempted from both. That case would be decided based on federal law and the union contract. It's made more complex by the fact that the union contract is often applied retroactively to events several years in the past due to how long negotiations take.
Is anyone still surprised by this behaviour from a post-Demore Google?
There's a lot of individual choice involved in the NBA as well. Elite athletes will be elite athletes, but where they choose to devote their efforts early on has ripple effects long afterwards. It's something of a trope that the best US soccer players are in the NFL or NBA, rather than playing futbol like their European athletic counterparts.

Fun fact: professional basketball was once dominated by inner-city Jews

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/11/25/when-jews-d...
Where did Red Bull exist in 92'?

Dang...wikipedia says it came out in 87'. I can't recall energy drinks before ~2003.
> Is the latter example okay? No, not really, but we must find a way to not lump that guy in with the physically aggressive guy.

Yes, it's important not to conflate those two very different behaviors. At the same time, however, we need to recognize that both are symptoms of the same underlying issue — and that's the thing that we ultimately have to change, not its case-specific behavioral expressions.

"Not as bad as" is a fallacy.
How does that help solve the problems mentioned in the post?

It sets an example. Examples are far more powerful than most people recognize.

Currently, if a man is talking to a woman, he is probably hitting on her. This becomes self reinforcing behavior. Women assume that men talking to them are hitting on them. Observers assume it is a personal relationship, not a professional one. Men avoid talking to women unless they are hitting on them because they don't want a problematic misunderstanding. This helps entrench sexism.

Meaty engagement as a professional breaks that expectation. If enough men will do it, good will crowd out bad.

Currently, women are overly vulnerable because they are professionally isolated. They get insufficient legitimate interest. This leaves them in a needy position. They can't easily afford to turn away the creeps if the only people talking to them are the creeps. They hold out hope that maybe this time it will be different.

If there are people they can reliably access who are taking them seriously, it gets vastly easier to walk away from the creeps. It also can help signal to the creeps (or the non creepy clueless) "This is how you talk to a female colleague."
This is a false equivalency.

The idea that male programmers are like professional athletes who are so far superior to women that they deserve a similar level of elevated status and disproportional representation is repugnant and indicative of the problem that needs to be solved.
The "pipeline problem" is a red herring.

The core problem is that for a woman working in tech is a shitty job, compared to what it is for a man. It means a much harder uphill battle for recognition, for jobs, for seniority, for autonomy in their work, for being treated like a basic human being in the workplace, etc. It's a fantasy to imagine that women don't notice this or haven't been noticing this, they do, they have. That's why so many women leave the field, and that's also why so many decide not to enter it.

You make tech an inviting and rewarding field for women to work in and the "pipeline problem" goes away on its own. Right now the story "women will be rewarded for working in tech" is a hard one to sell to little girls because substantially it is a lie.
I propose a new term: "Clown Car" security.

For situations like this where a fiasco just keeps getting worse, each step its own facepalm.

* Asking users to generate private keys on the issuer's server

* Storing those private keys

* Emailing those private keys

* Sending that email completely in the clear

* Running unsanitized user input on their server

* as root
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The horror! Who can say what unspeakable acts people will perform in the interests of potentially securing a better life for their children. I for one am reassured that there is at least one voice speaking out against this atrocity.
Then company X gets rightfully trounced by a Chinese firm 5 years from now which does not share our ridiculous racial taboos. Some crimes are self policing.
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It is mind boggling that someone could not realize that we already live in that world.
I don't know what the position was and diversity for PR sake alone is nuts and it's harmful. Also agreed, any discrimination is discrimination and not OK.

That being said, it is YouTube. Sure most programmers are white or Asian males but many YouTube viewers are not. It could be in this case that a broader demographic more representative of end users was desirable for actual practical reasons and it was more than about slinging code fast and a PR quota stunt.
Agree
Let's face facts, it's stupid to care for some random company morally in that case. And let's face some more facts, even if you don't believe in morals or agree with that one, it's way more important at the societal level for women to be able to have children then for some rando company to be guaranteed a profit
Ease of travel is pretty unimportant for prioritizing research targets. No one is leaving for another star anytime soon.
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Probably the datadir was in the user's home?
And the solution is to fight fire with fire? When Asian students apply to universities, they will have better chances if they change their names and activities in their personal statements to be less typical Asian, because of this affirmative action.
Hm, Saturn is a gas giant with average density less than water.
I was not criticizing them (can you quote the part of my comment that was critical?). I was illustrating that they are not perfect, and just using them without considering that they too could be compromised is a bad idea.
I'd be surprised to see a major hospital system telling their recruiters to purge female nurse applicants from the hiring queue.
There’s no attention in getting men teaching. Where 80% teachers are females.

And we still wonder why boys ragequit school at unprecedented levels: There’s only 1 man left for 2 women at university now. And it keeps deflating. Could it be too much effort placed on getting women to succeed, and too much misandry from teachers? and men defending their side of equality systematically being accused of masculinism? No, men can’t be discriminated against, because discrimination only touches women, by definition.
Doing this with Facetime and some other tools (telehealth) might be the best of both worlds.
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> Except when left to our own devices to "look beyond the superficial traits of a person", we usually end up hiring people who remind us ourselves.

Speak for yourself. Also, like similarity goes beyond skin color. I have more in common with a programmer of any race than with a non-programmer of my own race.

That being said furries are weird.
For people like me this is much nicer than the electron app

(not to imply that the electron app isn't nicer to some people)
In govt IT(mid Atlantic region) as a Caucasian I am always a minority amongst my awesome Indian and a Asian (few) male & female peers.

I often wonder why many Caucasian complain about foreigners taking jobs yet those complainers never bothered to learn an in-demand skill. Thus those nice high paying jobs are going to those who are qualified no matter their race, creed or sex.
It isn't an exaggeration. In the same time span (2 months) I spent about 90 hours playing Oxygen Not Included and about 60 hours playing Darkest Dungeon. And that was me trying to play games less.

When I started I didn't know what dynamic programming meant and I didn't know how to implement a breadth first search. (I thought it required a priority queue). So a lot of time was spent reviewing things like N Queens and dijkstra's algorithm because I hadn't touched it since university.

In the end I spent too much time on things I never got asked and I should have been practicing on paper instead of a computer.
Early in my career I had a brief stint as an engineer at a consulting company in the ERP industry. Our projects always had at least one functional consultant whose expertise was _using_ the ERP systems and understanding how they integrated with other systems and procedures. This was a different position than PM, who was often an employee of the client company who drew the short straw.

The functional consultants had varying degrees of technical experience (some were highly technical, including having CS degrees), but in general they were people who in a previous life became really good at managing and hacking their company's ERP system, became the goto person to deal with crap, and figured out they their domain knowledge was highly valuable.

The competence of our technical consultants was questionable. On my first project the senior tech consultant told me that I was the first person he worked with (himself included) who structured his code into modules. He was like, "it makes it so easy to use your stuff!" :) But the functional expertise was excellent and the reason the company had an excellent project success rate.

The company basically imploded after some senior technical engineers and managers bought into the Java and XML fad. Their plans failed horribly because the technology was too complex for the technical consultants (not to mention too immature), and it left little room for leveraging the expertise of the functional consultants as pivoting to Java and XML effectively required reinventing everything. Chaos ensued and, after being bought by a major ERP systems vendor (ironically for their strong project success rate), effectively disbanded.
> 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 didn't say that they need passion. I am saying, however, that I am less likely to go into medicine because I am not interested in it. Maybe the same could be the case for women? (meaning, if there is a general trend that less women are interested, then less will join said field of work, because it is their choice not to).

> That logic implies that those women are not qualified for the job and that you could never build a gender balanced team with qualified women.

You have a good point. This sentence does have a negative connotation as you say, but it is not exclusively said. Could it also be possible that a push to hire more females (explicitly because of needed gender balance, something that is, in my opinion, contrived) has happened enough recently that people's minds go there first?

> Until we make gender balanced teams the norm people are going to keep thinking like that, which is why it is so important to take corrective action.

Interesting point. I'm not willing to say you're wrong, because you might be right. I'll admit, I thought that less women graduate with CS degrees than men though. Am I wrong? If not, how do we get more women to enter that major? And what if they don't want to simply because they're not interested?

edit: I appreciate that we can talk about this btw, and that you seem to respect my opinion. I think this is a valuable part of this discussion. Thanks.
The ayahuasca comment makes me think of this:

> In their other research, the authors have also proposed that the serotonin receptors that psychedelics interact with are involved in bringing about “a state of rapid plasticity that is conducive to major change (e.g. in outlook and/or behaviour)—when such change feels necessary (e.g. to aid mental or physical survival). Such a function may be related to humans’ unique capacity for adaptability.”

Quote from https://tripsafe.org/psychedelics-and-connectedness/

So it seems plausible that ayahuasca may be helpful to people in cases like this. (Of course, additional evidence being that psilocybin seems very helpful for people with depression)
That's a great point. It shines a positive light on the gentleman I spoke with, and a negative light on the industry as a whole (if bs is so rampant that merely admitting not knowing something makes someone shine)
Twitter seems to be the epicenter of echo chambers for every different combating ideology in the world. Probably best for the world for them to just shut down.
Its also systemic bias when you won't even interview men...

I have first hand experience with this. As a normal working-class white guy with poor parents and no connections (I worked my way through school), I had a hard time even landing an interview at first. As a social experiment, I changed my name/sex from Joe/male to Joanna/female, kept everything else on my resume the same, and reapplied to all the jobs that didn't want me previously. Every single company that rejected Joe was overjoyed when Joanna applied. In every case I got a email within the week wanting to meet and interview me. It was kind of eye-opening. I didn't follow through as "Joanna" because the sexist hiring policies were enough to put me off working at these companies entirely. I eventually found an employer that wasn't sexist and have been happy with them so far...
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Exactly right that the proprietary nature of Google and Dropbox are the problem.

Proprietary software suffers from a fundamental flaw that limits its usefulness as a technology. It's a technical problem.
Garbage comments like yours are what perpetuate the rift between the Asian/White (what I refer to as the "upper-class") super majority in tech and the infinitely smaller minority that are brown people and women in tech. I'm part of the latter group and there is nothing funny about how marginalized we feel around the rest of you.
Isn't a person who refuses to acknowledge and change his toxic behavior despite all warning signs a definition of a bad person (which also often transitions to monster)?