skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jordan Peterson talks about this a lot; that these traits are the best predictors of success in the workplace. He also states that he doesn't know whether "feminine" traits would work as well. Not enough data.

So how do you test it? You could re-organize a company around "feminine" traits but the only data we have right now would indicate that you'd lose out to competition. So unless a billionaire with deep pockets would like to run a social experiment it is not going to happen.

Governmental fiat? That's partially what is happening in some places. I mean specifically more women in the boardroom (e.g. EU rules mandating at least 30% women). But then those women that made it turned out to make same decisions as men (no, your female boss is not less likely to fire you).

What about survival of the fittest? If "feminine" traits are of any advantage then some company would successfully evolve to benefit from it. That didn't happen.

I think the problem lies in what success means. Public companies are forced to return value to shareholders. I remember reading an article about Etsy. They seem to have had "feminine" traits at the core of the company culture and later on the culture was changed top-down in the name of chasing corporate profits.

But as a listed company what choice do they have? If they don't chase profits they'd get sued by shareholders or some activist investor will mount an attack. You can't leave money on the table, whether you're a man or a woman.
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The "impossible type" (which is just anonymous) occurs within the same statement, so it is obvious.
> “If you think about the most private things that you do, a lot of them are related to the bathroom,” said Mr. Dishotsky, 34. “So that’s probably the hardest part.”

Is he referring to masturbation? I kinda doubt people masturbate in the bathroom.
you should look into namesilo: 8.90 for .com and all domains get free domain privacy.
“I feel like I’m in a relationship with everyone I live with,” Ms. Ndrepepaj said. “If their day is bad, your day is bad.”

Hardly a selling point. As an introvert it's just within my capabilities living with my wife and playful cat; living in such an environment would be a nightmare for me. The article fails to address the 'bad roommate' situation, which always happens sooner or later with these shared-living environments.
Because copying their gun control laws would, at best, not save any lives.

If you outlaw guns, then only outlaws will have guns.
To believe that you would have to ignore the current scientific evidence which is becoming stronger and stronger with the acceleration in our understanding of the human genome.

Even without any of that evidence though, we still have books like the bell curve which people have tried hard to debunk but so far the key points made in the book about the genetic existence of race have not even come close to being debunked.
Things aren't always what they seem.

Fish and chips is what I had for dinner.
And impertinent. That's the thing: people want the side effects of startup success here but they don't care about successful startups or the things that make startups succeed. The Genius loci is huntin 'em and killin 'em here. I live it everyday. Maybe, just maybe a place like Detroit could overcome the premier network effects of the Valley if people here cared about startups. They don't.

In some ways it's unfair but true. In the same way that people with families should not start startups.
"This one is real. I wouldn't advise anyone with a family to start a startup. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just that I don't want to take responsibility for advising it. I'm willing to take responsibility for telling 22 year olds to start startups. So what if they fail? They'll learn a lot, and that job at Microsoft will still be waiting for them if they need it. But I'm not prepared to cross moms." ~ http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html

Unfair. True.
My cousin on ADHD meds lives with his grandparents. They don't have email addresses and only own an iPhone after much convincing.
> What technology visible on the 50 year horizon

Our 50 year horizon for technology might still be thousands or millions (or billions) of years behind the technology of an ETI.
I think we should ALL apply and mess with these guys. I'm gonna come to the interview with a beer and a twizzler straw. Does anyone know of a compound that will look like crystal meth when burned in a meth pipe during an interview? (but not be meth lol)

My brag sheet... the true stuff I could say nobody would even believe.
This law has to be enforced somewhere first.

Either it is enforced against Facebook first, and Facebook complains "Why don't all of the the small fries have to do it yet" and if it is enforced against the small fries, they will say, "Why doesn't Facebook have to do it yet"?

And the answer is, the justice department will probably enforce the law in the way that the expect to have the best effect for themselves. It is not necessary to wait until you are sued before you become legally compliant?
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Well thats kills the romance a bit but always welcome learning something new here. :-)
There is a wold of difference between solving for X and proving P =/!= NP. Collage level math like DiffEq is still the kiddy pool with well known approaches that work.

Writing a new graphics engine, or baking a cake takes applying existing techniques, but not the fluid exploration of unsolved frontiers. So, when I say use math I mean take advantage of what exists not nessisarily add anything new.

So, yea we want problem solvers, but not thinkers.
> to turn into dorm rooms for the middle class.

let's be real here, the middle class in the bay area/SF makes $250k+ per household.

there's nothing wrong with living in dorms, but there is something disturbing about calling this the 'middle class' in SF.
In JavaScript it defines a local variable or something like that, so there’s that…
This article says it's "an unusual experiment", but how is this different from an SRO?

http://www.ccsroc.net/s-r-o-hotels-in-san-francisco/

Description from this article of the "experiment": "Shared bathrooms at the end of the hall and having no individual kitchen or living room".

Description from the SRO web site link above: "A typical S.R.O. is a single eight (8) x ten (10) foot room with shared toilets and showers down the hallway."

As the SRO web site points out, these have been around in San Francisco "throughout the city’s history".
> A lot of Apple users aren't too bright (1000+ Mac Mail TS issues while serving a stint at a major shitty hosting firm owned by EIG), and would be lost without their apple devices.

Was that sentence really needed?
If you think that's creepy, imagine it with good voice synthesis along with a voice profile of yourself. I wonder if they could get close to making it sound like your internal monologue saying "I should buy that impulse item in front of me"?
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since i was looking into GDPR, a JWT token containing signed data may potentially be a source of private data (i.e., you store the username there), and therefore, have to have a way to clear it, and/or ensure that it is encrypted in transit.
No, it isn't.

Join an org doing something cool, then immediately start pushing to work remote. Or make sure that you'll see a good payout and cash out & gtfo.
I sincerely hope this doesn't start a precedent for our industry or for other places in this country. Stuff is hard enough as it is...
Agreed. Middle class shouldn't be defined by what sounds like a lot of money. It should be defined by what sort of spending power you have in the area where you actually live.
>European companies wouldn't break the laws in the first place, Asian companies don't really compete in the European "web services" market, so the only major source of rights violations is going to be American companies.

European companies are just as capable of violating the law as American companies. Part of the argument being made by critics is that there's been little sign that comparable effort has been made by European governance to investigate its domestic companies as rigorously as it's been investigating America's.

>If American companies don't want to follow European laws, they shouldn't be doing business in Europe.

The counterpoint would be that the companies are only breaking the law because the EU decided that its laws can be applied globally.

>And why are you complaining about in which order those companies are being punished for breaking the law?

Because it's difficult to believe that there's only enough resources to prosecute a handful of companies at a time.
Save as much as possible, and get out.
Getting paid a lot means you will save a lot regardless.
Too late!
I’m in a weird situation in that I started my education and career on the West Coast, but ended up on the Midwest a decade later for personal reasons. I do have to say that the business culture differences are astounding. Obviously I’m generalizing, but Midwest business culture is incredibly risk averse and VC money tends to flow to niche high research fields that the investor either came from or understands really well (e.g. Biotech). I’ve started to see some small changes with some funds looking to invest in “general” startups, but the capital is astonishingly weak.

Honestly though, I’ve come to appreciate it (even though it can drive me batty - Midwest “nice” is a real thing and can be a severe hindrance to effective communication), as I think it forces a level of creativity and resiliency on me that I didn’t need in the West Coast. Finally the tech community out here is so small that people really genuinely seem to look out for one another and be genuinely interested in what other people are doing as you never know where the next job is going to come from.
How does SF compare to LA? I've only been to LA within the last few years and it was a shithole. The whole city smelled like pot 24/7. There were more homeless/destitute people there than some 3rd world countries I've visited. I don't think I'll be visiting California again any time soon, no matter what Schwarzenegger says in the commercials.
Why do you think (paraphrased) “I think secondary school mathematics should focus on solving non-obvious problems” has anything to do with “proving P ≠ NP” per se? I’m obviously not suggesting that we should assign famous unsolved research problems to secondary students. I would instead hope we could assign students a variety of problems taking them between 10 minutes and a few weeks to solve (at their current level of skill), with emphasis placed on smart problem-solving efforts rather than on sorting students based on who gets the most right answers.

Most American undergraduate differential equations courses are taught as a list of recipes with little room for thought. Rather comparable to elementary school arithmetic drills frankly, though obviously involving more built up preparation. https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf

However, it is possible to assign difficult problems to students at any level from age 3 onward (see http://www.msri.org/people/staff/levy/files/MCL/Zvonkin.pdf for an example of real mathematics instruction for preschool students; for primary students look up the work of Dienes; at the middle school level I think some Russian programs are pretty good https://bookstore.ams.org/MAWRLD-7/ etc.). It just takes more work for teachers to provide feedback about student solutions to such problems, it’s less amenable to grading by rote (and therefore not easy to check via standardized tests), and it takes more significant focus/attention/decisionmaking by teachers from moment to moment (and ideally more teacher background preparation). The students learn the subject more deeply, enjoy the process more, and learn significantly more transferrable skills.

Porting a graphics engine from one platform to another very similar platform (after having ported many other software projects between the same pair of platforms) or baking a cake just like all the others you have baked before might take nothing more than skillful application of well-established procedures, but making a new graphics engine in the first place (assuming it does something novel) or inventing a recipe for a new type of cake definitely takes problem solving skills.
Because it's an API and I'm a developer and a fully developed adult with several decades of computer, internet, and professional working experience in tech.
For the first 6 years or so after I moved to California I rented a room in a house where the owner lived (once in La Habra and once in Irvine). There were usually 4 to 5 total people living there. We were all professionals and there was pretty close to no drama.

We were friendly but not best friends. Everyone had their own circle of friends, interests, etc. At least once we had a guy we called the ghost because we almost never saw him. But no one minded that he was introverted and kept to himself.

Once I had a girlfriend privacy became more important to me but I enjoyed having some friendly interactions with others on my terms.
> current scientific evidence

there is no evidence for the existence of a race that does not rely on referencing the idea of a race. the idea is self-referential. to understand this, you must understand philosophy.

another way of saying this is that assigning a person to a race doesn't give us any more information than the information we used to classify him in the first place.

> so far the key points made in the book about the genetic existence of race have not even come close to being debunked.

ok, I'll bite: what defines a race? what test do I apply to a specimen in order to sort him/her into a race category?
Everyone interested in software development should take a really long look at this. This is unusual. Which is to say, WordPress is a really remarkable software.
I can't speak for LA, but from the people I've spoken with Seattle and -maybe- Austin have the strongest ratio of tech work vs. cost of living.
That article tries to debunk a slightly different notion than I had in mind. It's not that I imagined everybody was sitting just above 4 minutes when running the mile, and that the significance of those round numbers psyched everybody out until Bannister finally broke through.

Instead, it's about knowing what's possible and attainable. It's akin to the story of George Dantzig, who solved two unsolved problems in statistical theory because he believed them to be mundane homework problems.

Put it this way: how can something that had never been done before 1954 is now considering a very basic benchmark? I would argue that it's precisely because it is considered a basic benchmark that it is so common. If you know something can be done, that makes it easier to train to. If you know something is commonly done, then all the more.

Of course, that goes for any record/benchmark, but Bannister's 4 minute mile seems like a particularly significant one.
Accumulating 100k in student loans isn't the right move, let alone the American Dream.

The "American Dream" isn't follow an exploitive option just because it's possible.
I suppose SRO's are somewhat stigmatized as being for the extremely indigent, although I think this wasn't always the case:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-sro...

Nothing wrong with them in principle (assuming they're well kept / safe). If you're single, it might be a better option than renting a random place with roommates.
Billions of dollars to reclassify a code word? That sounds implausable.

But your story could be the reason behind the raid.
Median household income in SF is $78k.
Guys thanks for the comments and advice. I'm going to avoid to sell a perpetual license.
You are refering to the Green Dam Youth Escort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort
That's because of Segwit adoption and Batching.
What a depressing article. It almost reads like a satire. 10 years ago, this would be an article in the Onion instead of NYT.
I just updated my home city to Brussels.
KID GETS SCAMMED 25K ON APP HQ TRIVIA??
> "This law has to be enforced somewhere first."

Still, the lawsuits should be simultaneously served to all companies. Preferably with a courtesy heads up.
Here's a link to the AI box problem on Wikipedia for anyone like me who hadn't heard of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box

Also, this reminds me of the premise of the movie Ex Machina (no spoilers!) which is sweet! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/
>"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."

so, this is generally attributed to Franklen, and makes a lot more sense in context:

"those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

It's not really that there's a problem with trading freedom for security; we all do that. But mind the exchange rate!
that reminds me of all the EJB/JBoss/Spring nonsense that soured Java for a lot of people... presumably it was a necessary step but it would have been nice to just skip ahead to web services
I wish I had the level of audacity or ignorance these people have and send plaintext user data over http, write half-assed webapps that just look pretty but offer no security etc etc. I would be in a much better place right now from a professional point of view. But I just can't do it.
Nobody is so extroverted that they want to have other people peering in to their lives every moment of the day (unless they are walking so closely in lockstep with culture that there's literally nothing about them that could cause friction.)

There's a reason why people born in compressed, shared living conditions tend to buy houses when they can. If you don't live in a "dorm" you can control your environment, for example not seeing friends while you're sick with the flu and highly contagious (and no fun to be around).

To me this looks like a slide back in to 1800s non-rich living conditions sold as a step forwards.
And how much of that is auto-generated blog-spam?

There are people out there generating wordpress blogs with slightly different variations on design and text, but almost exclusively the same links. All for SEO.

Any quantitative analysis of software behind websites is garbage because most web sites are generated for SEO.
I get what he's trying to say. I think he expresses it very unclearly. I'll try to elucidate the main idea in an example:

If I give a programmer a task. His task is to create an api that can email someone a message with a subject and tell me whether the message is successfully sent. All I need is this:

func email(address: str, subject: str, message: str) -> bool

I do not need this:

Class Email(AddressObject, SubjectObject, MessageObject, ConfigObject, ClientObject).send_mail()

The definition of the Email object vs the email function is about 10x more complex with little benefit. The send_mail method is virtually IDENTICAL to the email function, the objects and patterns you are building are just extra cruft you are layering around the email method. Not to mention you literally have to define 5 extra objects as well. It's obvious to me that most of the code is 100% cruft yet why does everyone who is knee deep in design patterns gravitate towards that Email object? I look at Email object and I think: I get what you're doing, but WHY.. what is the point? Are people really unable to see why this abstraction is unneeded?

Some clown once told me dependency injection (The example object pattern above) helps with unit testing. I agree. Literally, the Email object has 5 extra objects that need to be unit tested so more unit tests!. More lines of code = more unit tests = a better program... In all seriousness, the core method is send_mail and that cannot be unit tested because it's IO. Everything you build around that method is extra BS that only needs to be tested because you made it exist.

Sometimes it baffles me how people just start using design patterns everywhere. I think what's going on is that people reach this cathartic state when they understand a new mind bending concept. Dependency Injection is a bit of mind bender, and this catharsis people feel when they reach a point of understanding blinds them from the downsides of patterns in general. Actually dependency injection is a stupidly simple concept, it's the word "dependency injection" that adds artificial complexity to the concept by making it sound cool and harder to understand.
Why can't the vast majority of these people work remotely yet? For a group of people who often praise the concept of meritocracy, regionally locking down your employee pool seems insane.
> Anyone who wants to unlock the filters on their devices would have to put their request in writing, show ID, and verify that they’ve been shown a “written warning regarding the potential dangers” of removing the obscenity filter.

A near-future dystopian fiction could involve the opposite, with people being required to show their ID and aver that they've been shown a "written warning regarding the potential dangers" of installing censorship software on their devices, abrogating the decision of what's decent to either the state or to the device manufacturer, and paying $20 for the privilege.
Ghostery was bought out by another company looking to expand a privacy browser, but original firm (now called Evidon) is in the business of data mining information from Ghostery plugins -

"Ghostery’s B2B Digital Governance solutions will reassume the company’s original Evidon brand, which focuses on monitoring and consent solutions ...Evidon will retain aggregated data about trackers, ensuring no change to the service currently provided to its enterprise clients..."

Stick to something like uMatrix
These are SROs in the Tenderloin. Funny how this article never mentioned the word "SRO."
So then would sndio be the OpenBSD native sound API?
Nobody here ever seems to bring it up, but in addition to all of the objections raised, I’d add the potential for a truly devastating earthquake.
Consider that WordPress trending no Google has droped slowly in past 5 years[1]. I really wonder how much does its market share the peak (around 2013-2014). Also, how w3techs know/estimate that there's 50% of websites that's doens't use a Content Management?

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=wordpres...
> The difference matters in this context because the counter argument would be "why is the law being enforced predominantly against a handful of American companies instead of the industry at large?"

That's not a counter argument but dissatisfaction. Are you saying that EU companies also don't follow their laws?