skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works as a reference, just today I found out that the devops darling of anomoly detection [1] is in volume two [2].

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/tboubez/5-things-i-learned-toufic...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Smirnov_tes...
Lack of alternatives, for one. Second would be someone for whom the rest of their social network is on Facebook, and they use Facebook as a primary communications source. I know nobody would be willing to sign up for another network or use another messenger just because I don't want to use FB messenger. I cannot get behind the idea that ostracizing yourself from there rest of your friends and family is an acceptable thing.

Turn it around; why should Facebook be allowed to have "take it or leave it" terms? Why should we as a society allow that? And don't just say, "It's their business;" I don't find that to be a compelling reason. Why should users not have the control over their data that the GDPR brings?
That's an interesting observation.

I'm ok with the computers doing this, but it doesn't offend me that a computer is doing this. (Having said that, I take a dimmer view of dark UX patterns where I know I am being manipulated for some gain).
What I read from this is that women are less interested than men in a job by itself and more in what the job fits their desired lifestyle.

I and many other programmers I've talked to got into the career they have because the craft is naturally compelling to them, with the lifestyle of programming being secondary or even tertiary. I don't think most male programmers do what they do because they particularly like each other, nor are they necessarily interested in an anti-social atmosphere. Sure, some are going to have contrary preferences, but if it wasn't generally true that male programmers are primarily interested in their craft, then I wouldn't expect the most horrendously competitive tech companies wouldn't still get plenty of male applicants and even fewer female applicants.

Put simply, I think tech companies could all be run like sweat shops, and you'd see nearly as many men working for them and probably fewer women.

Yet again, we have a woman who enters an arena that women don't want to enter(by her own account) and requests that it be changed to fit her and other women. These are the suggestions she makes for making tech more hospitable to women:

* Create communities (set people up with “buddies”, mentors, lunch groups)

* Emphasize tech’s potential to impact humans and community wellbeing

* Invest in social events

* Offer opportunities for engineers to do user- and team-facing work

* Confront unconscious bias

* Go befriend a girl in your class or company

As a man, these are all distractions from getting my work done. I am intellectually excited about software development but, when it comes down to it, I want to show up to the office, accomplish things, and go home. Being overly concerned with the wellbeing of others is not that interesting, and I don't have a job to make friends; if I make friends, that's through happenstance. I want to be the best at what I do, but I don't need communities/buddies, social events, unconscious bias training, or the opposite sex to do this.

> Go befriend a girl in your class or company

I wish someone would tell women the same thing of men.

Coming from someone who has more female friends than male, there's a lot that can go wrong in a man trying to befriend women, especially at work. On many occasions, simply being friendly has clearly lead to a woman perceiving that I was interested in her. If you're lucky, you're met with distance and radio silence, but most men are going to be treated as "creepy". As engineering is going to be made up of a lot of nerds who already have experience in being "creepy", there's little incentive for those nerds to willingly subject themselves to rejection when they weren't even looking to court these women in the first place.

Again, I have lots of female friends, including some from work, but that's because it took an incredible amount of effort to get to know them without setting off the "creepy" flag. For most guys, this effort isn't worth it.
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California is not just LA and San Francisco. People wonder why rural voters vote differently.
But general purpose education isn’t „the real world“. I think the opposite argument is often made to justify teaching theory when it doesn’t seem to have many real world applications.
You're conflating attraction and friendship. Being creepy means that you seem to have unwelcome intentions. If you're saying that your attractiveness is the reason you've been told you're creepy, the reason for your creepiness is that your intentions are to attract someone, not to befriend them. Fix your intentions if you don't want to be creepy. And listen, I'm not saying you shouldn't want to attract someone, just that if another person isn't attracted to you, it's creepy to "befriend" them while hiding other desires. You've got two options in that case, 1) change your desires and genuinely appreciate them as a friend or aquaintence (it is possible, but takes a certain level of emotional maturity) or 2) Be straightforward and respectful about your desires, and then respect their boundaries if they're not interested realizing that no one is obligated to reciprocate anything.
This does hint at the root of the matter: letter writing is a format dictated by the constraints of communication. These constraints changed between 1815 and 1915, and are all but gone today - so the format of the communication changes accordingly.

The letters of yore we revere today were written by intellectuals and are fascinating, but that wasn't what all letters were like. The letters written by regular people were as banal as the IM threads exchanged by regular people today. Intellectuals still produce long form material, just not necessarily in letter form.
Perfectly reasonable question, sorry for having been opaque in the original post.

Print or online magazines: Forbes, Fast Company, Bloomberg Businessweek on a sustained basis.

Plus a little freelancing for Parade, Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, TheAtlantic.com, SmartMoney, Via, Readers Digest, Stanford alumni magazine and,in the throes of book promotion, a couple of the airline flight magazines.
At I/O, Google showed its willingness to change and shape our lives
About two years ago I decided that it was time to get a smart watch. I’m a developer, I’m a geek, I love my smart phone — a smart watch is the perfect accessory, right?

Well, actually it’s not. After spending quite a lot of time looking at the different options out there, I realised that a smart watch is a dumb purchase: it’s another computer with a 3-year lifespan, but a price tag like a luxury watch.

So I ended up buying some automatic watches instead. They’re less expensive and sharper-looking.

After looking at the watches shown off in this article: I made the right call. I’m fairly certain that in a decade we’re going to look back on smart watches the way we do digital watches: as an odd fad that noöne will be able to explain later on.
Fiat money loses purchasing power by design. This rate has accelerated when governments need to raise money. They have been seized overnight.

In 2020, Bitcoin will inflate slower than most fiat currencies. The culture enforces that this rate will not increase arbitrarily. Storing it in a digital safe you control will prevent seizures.

Are fiat people living in a cult or can they present arguments in good faith?
Death by a million paper cuts
In this instance he dictated the card to his assistant who in turn wrote the card/message.

This is old school legal professional formatting where the Initials of the assistant followed my grandfather’s name identifying which assistant typed the dictation.

He was smart, formal, thoughtful and a great sense of humor. Most of me thinks he did it as one day I would find the humor in it.
I was hoping to see something of a more flexible pricing like per 100 MB provisioned based on the far fetched assumption that it is not just a managed redis(like?) offering but a fully abstracted managed redis service where you are just charged by GB/s used as with lots of other services.

This just boils down to the same cost as self hosting minus the self hosting hassle. So not too bad as its just easier to use + no vendor lock in since it is redis compatible at a similar price point.
An energy economist on why it's a bad idea: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/borenste/cecweisenmiller180.... Basically, rooftop solar is less capital-efficient than large solar or wind farms, so we can save more carbon/$ by doing grid-scale generation.
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They need to be short if you want to get it sent before the next post goes out. It needs to be short if you don't have the space on the back of the card. Today's IMs and emails need to be short so that you do not burden the reader. Otherwise email conversations will take so long as to defeat their point.
>software is perceived as anti-social

My experience is that this perception has a strong grounding in reality.
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On the one hand, the FF webextension API is under continual development [0]. On the other hand, "almost everything" previously possible does not seem not a realistic expectation since it'd mean the ability to change almost every single atom of browser behavior.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/04/02/extensions-firefo...
Dig a well instead?
I think part of the programmer stereotype is that you basically have to be socially handicapped to fit in. Which may draw more people like that in and keep more well adjusted (or socially conscious) people out. In general, it seems that from a relatively young age women are given the impression that "nerds" are to be avoided at all costs -- we're stereotypically "weird" (meaning creepy perverts). Even though I haven't met a single person out of hundreds of people in this profession that overtly acted that way (although I've heard 2 anecdotal stories from people who had). Of course I'm not trying to say that there isn't a legitimate problem there, because there likely is, and especially with the small proportion of women in this profession they are very likely to run into those types. But I think the perception of the problem, or the quality of the people who are in CS, is probably greatly exaggerated by the stereotypes and that keeps people away.
As a Berliner, I find it hard to understand the resistance. On the one hand everybody cries out here about the rising rent and the stagnating wages and on the other hand there is this opposition against bigger companies (e. g. Google or big media companies at the Spree). Gentrification will happen anyway because of investors buying off apartments, houses or complete blocks. Berlin has one of the highest tax on purchasing housing space in Germany which is really bad for people buying apartments but doesn't matter for investors that buy as a business since they can get them partially back with their tax returns (not possible if you use the space yourself instead of renting it out).

Big companies would give the market some incentive to raise the wages, which I know is at first bad for small startups but also attracts so much talent that it will balance out at some point (I hope).

I guess this is part of the Berlin culture, being innovative and free minded but also being completely against any change. Only 10 waking minutes away from the future Google campus there is this big fight about reworking the riverside of the Landwehrkanal which should make it accessible for Wheelchairs and baby strollers as well as bikes but people are protesting, living in one of the best appartments with still cheap rent because of their old contracts. Before that there was this even bigger fight about a small part of the old Tempelhof airport area. The city planned to build houses and office space there. I can't imagine any other city (with a housing crisis) where people would oppose to this. The fear was that a nature reservation area would suffer which according to plan would have been not be the case.

Probably it's a matter of view points, there are the new economy workers like myself waiting for companies to settle in Berlin (not so many there because of the cities history) and then there is the other side with people in really low paying jobs that fear exclusion, totally valid. I don't have numbers but I could imagine that Berlin as quite a bit discrepancy between low and high income households with quite many on the lower end because it has so few big industries.

Cheap Berlin only exists in some parts and mainly myths. Friends of mine pay the same rent in Munich for comparable apartments while going out can be cheaper in Berlin but only if you know where to go, the beer price is mostly the same, food depends. The wages are much lower in Berlin, for developers it's at junior entry at around 10.000€ per year less.
Very interesting. I definitely always hear the conductor moving between cars at the last stop but I never connected that to being why the doors can't be opened.

I think it's funny that the train's computer knows it's the last stop and announces that fact to the passengers... but the conductor has to manually override some sort of system before he or she can exit the train.
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Sure sure. The question is how large a market people like you actually make up, since companies like Google usually want to make products that can reach as many people as possible.
Once I was searching for the definition of a slang word and ended up on a teen forum.

One question there was along the line "What would you do if a boy you don't know came next to you and said you are pretty". One answer was: "If he was cute I would make out with him, if not I would yell: Get lost freak".
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They were never a good choice...

When I see a startup with a .io, I always check the .com and almost always see their name was already taken by some other company.

That's a pretty big hint: think of a better name.
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The math majors in my upper-level math classes had significantly better social skills than the people in the CS classes I took.

This is only an anecdote, but it's not obvious to me that mathematics isn't more social than CS.
I wonder how many men get invited to the inverse 'girls night' also.
Can you share sources on this? I'd be very curious to see how this changes relative to coed schools.
Why is "bold action" required? This entire concept seems flawed to me.
I don't usually find anything I haven't heard before in this genre of thread, but these are some profound ideas. Thank you!

> There are many, many awesome people living in integrity, creating with open hearts and rich imagination. You can be one of them; the easiest way is to join their communities and friendships.

This is what I struggle with the most. (As do many others in my generation, I think.) How does one discover such communities?
Perhaps software is perceived as anti-social because software developers are perceived as people you don't want to socialize with.
One good hail storm would be a much more expensive fix. Insurance paid nearly $10k for my new roof after hail ruined it. Solar panels would have tripled that cost.
But you're making the claim that men think that. You can't just pass the buck to your own premise with "dunno, you'll have to ask them."
Correct me if I'm wrong as I don't have any recent experience with them, but don't iOS devices expose an authentication interface even without unlocked interaction from the user?

Apple's own guide doesn't seem to indicate any form of interaction is needed to enable that interface. That interface is what's attacked by devices like GreyKey if I'm not mistaken. Android devices when not manually unlocked and toggled present no such interface.
I didn't mean to suggest that the npr article presented _the_ authoritative objective test on the topic. I was only attempting to answer the original question of "how to prove it" - in that - I think its possible to construct such a test.
Maybe, but there is selection bias when looking at just girls who go to all-girls schools. Assuming they are mostly private, this would likely select for wealthier families, which may have a correlation with STEM careers. Furthermore, girls from all-girls schools have parents that are willing to enroll them in all-girls schools, which likely correlates with a certain personality type, whatever that may be.
For reference, AutoCAD base offering is a $2k/year subscription.
Run away climate change caused by global CO2 emissions?
> Or what about accounting and book keeping; which is a professional, white collar career that also happens to employ more women than men?

That's the difference though. Accounting is professional. Software engineering is often not. Moreover, while accounting is often asocial (not much social interaction), many software engineers (male and female) can be downright anti-social (against common means of social interaction).
Though prices can drop and even go negative sometimes it's never a long term thing. There is kind of a price floor in the market, if prices get too low energy intensive businesses will move into the state, eg. aluminum smelters, bitcoin miners, and so on.

I posted in the other thread about why I think this policy is a really good idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17008950

Also it's only for new homes. You can still get that new bathroom.
Sadly I have to work in one of the sectors. It is very common for geometric design of roadways. I think it is a result of State Departments of Transportation buying into the system and never wanting to change.
Maybe a reference to AutoLISP?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoLISP
The attempt to create a dichotomy between the two philosophies is a bit thin when you frame the question around products instead of "computers"

All four companies care deeply about creating compelling and useful products for users. That gets spread across many different domains for all of those companies.

Someone can love and find value in a piece of software just as easily as they can a piece of hardware.
SF actually limits building height in most areas I believe. Every time we put another one of these laws on the books, it's another obstacle blocking the way for affordable housing that probably won't ever get reversed
The devs are basically soldiers following the chain of command. The devs aren't going to do much unless they are threatened themselves because they get to enjoy rich, comfy lives as a result of their association to FB. It's easy to put blinders on to the rest of the harm they are contributing to when they don't really suffer from the impact of their work (or convince themselves they are doing the right thing).

As a modern analogy, imagine Erdogan's military and bodyguards. With all the global news on the matter, it's evident they are causing a lot of oppression to many people and basically contributing to a dictatorship, yet they still do as they are told from the top because their own benefit depends on it. Hell, he even got them to suppress a coup threatening his own power.

In order for FB to really change, it needs to change from the top. Otherwise, it's a massive effort to convince everyone at the bottom to push back against the top and threaten their own job security. The reality is Zuck, Andreessen, and the other board members at the top don't care to change, because changing for the benefit of their users also means less riches for themselves.
Still need septic.
> Most of the theories I've seen about the women-in-tech gap don't resonate with my experience because there was a very obvious 'women-in-tech' gap in about... 5th grade? in my (typical, I think) American elementary school.

I think your experiences are typical, thanks for sharing.

I'm curious what theory-of-the-gap you've found that you like more than the ones you've seen? You were (intentionally or not) a little cagey about your ultimate position. :)

For my part, I usually see that young girls are the ones who are pressured the most to stay out of STEM. I'm sure that by the time they got to 10, the little girls in your class already "knew" that afterschool computer games weren't really "for girls". Kids are very impressionable to even off-handed comments, and they will self-censor if they think they don't belong.

Anyways, it's all to say that I think there's no secret--if you actually make little girls believe they can do math or code, they'll do it. It's just that as a society we spend a lot of time telling them they can't.
Honest question, this seems to be a long term issue for you, why don't you disable autocorrect? I've found that the "half-way house" of seeing the suggestions, but having to manually select the one you want, is a good compromise.
Thanks, I was at work and didn't want to read the whole thing. I searched for "delete" but nothing showed up in my browser...
I'm Canadian. I moved to LA for a bit and then moved back to my home in Saskatchewan. I took a bit of a pay cut to come back, but I work for an autonomous vehicle company now. I enjoy it much more than my job in LA. We're looking for a Deep Learning/Data Scientist right now ;) $70-150k CAD is what to expect for salary range.

It definitely is harder to find interesting companies in Canada, which is why I originally left. They do exist though! Most decently sized cities are actively building startup & tech communities.
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It appears that the biggest argument for React is:Facebook is using it.
Really?
PHP folks say they same thing: FaceBook is using PHP. There is article on how they write a custom PHP in C. When I view source of FB, it looks like SSR - and they are not using node.

Maybe some small notification widget is sprinkled on top of PHP.

But what kind of argument is: FB is using it? What is the FB reputation even?

It is: who cares. My POV is, show me a react project, and I'll show you a poor tech manager. Because react and js frameworks are so much worse than LAMP even. The productivity is shit. The maintenance is: lets re-write it. Etc. etc. The point is not to program, but to solve business issues, ex: SEO, user engagement, etc.
Best thing you can do as a manger: get the react programmer to work for your competitor, that is a win.
Yeah, it's looking at this from a demand-side perspective rather than a supply-side one that's arguably much more relevant
Yeah, this is what bugs me with the advice to "Go befriend a girl". How about they come and befriend me? Like with dating, there's the expectation that the men need to make the first move. (Whatever, it's not necessarily a bad expectation, but when it's implicit like this I'm not always sure it was intentional...)

Of course in the friend case I think it's more of a function of your local environment than anything else. At the same company I've experienced a large difference in the local atmosphere between the Seattle and Vancouver offices, the Vancouver office was quite a bit more welcoming and more people would randomly introduce themselves.
No as I am comparing apples to apples here as I am 1099, paid by the hour, and they are a sole proprietor. Yes they have different expenses than I do, I buy a $300 laptop off of ebay every couple of years whereas they probably buy a $30,000 backhoe every couple of decades. But still... a little blue collar work with more and more regulations making it take longer and be more profitable is starting to sound lucrative.
Why do you get to choose how I communicate?