skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And do you know one of the best ways to change the culture? Get more people from different backgrounds in the room.

That's fair, and I understand that solutions to social problems are complex and hard to quantify. I certainly do not know the solutions.

Yet, if we hire based on skin color, we are by definition not hiring by skill, talent, interests, etc. This also will inherently breed resentment and cause issues, but perhaps that's an accepted cost by your measure.

My concern is that this method of solving the culture issue will cause more problems than solve. Ie, maybe the next generation contains more women who are honestly interested in STEM, and pursue it; Great! But it got there on the backs of, by definition, unqualified women in STEM. That alone has to breed a culture of women not being equal to men in STEM, because we spent the last X years hiring by gender and skin color, rather than purely by merit.

Do you disagree with these sentiments? I feel your solution is a possible solution, but with multiple, possibly worse, downsides.
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Not all of us. The US is great, but not perfect. I love hearing about how other places are better. It gives hope and a goal for improvement here.

I pay $435/month for my office and home internet as well as 3 mobile phones.
> Lucey says that UCSF changed its selection criteria for AOA in 2016 to focus less on grades. The number of minority students selected for the honor society that year increased to match the percentage of minorities in each graduating class.

Are medical-school grades now considered a subjective metric? I'd think that they are pretty objective.

> "It feels like a layering on of accolades that makes people who are doing well do better, have more access and power and opportunity," Giftos says.

I'll posit that it should be uncontroversial that those who do well in medical school should have more opportunities in the medical field than those who do poorly.
function $(id) { return document.getElementById(id); }

Nice! Now I don't need jQuery.
> - SQL - AWS/Azure - Tableau/Power BI/Other BI tools - Python/R - Increasingly Hadoop/Spark

Is above and beyond a typical SW developer. That's three languages and two dsls.

If you expect that on a 120k salary, you will be what you pay for, e.g. a code monkey living on peanuts.
Which unicorns are not companies that were pursuing high-growth, or that were trying to build a unique product<>business model?

Apple? HP? Pretty much every Silicon Valley company that started with one or two guys in in a garage?

The definitions of "startup" and "unicorn" seem to be forever evolving. But at one time, both Apple and HP would qualify.
I feel the same way, but I'm just not sure I'm to the point where I can demand to not work for an open plan company; it's how it is pretty much everywhere I've interviewed. I'd be curious to see percentages in terms of tech companies that still have office rooms for their engineers.
If you want to learn more about research into broadening participation in CS in the US, I recommend Mark Guzdial's blog and publications: https://computinged.wordpress.com/

This is a good talk from Mark about his (and others') work: "Meeting the needs for a computationally literate society" (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9y09mmL9M
Why remove descriptions from bookmarks? I know they're not the most useful thing, but I don't get the benefit of removing them.
Elon Musk calls Thailand diver 'child rapist' in new baseless attack
I'm a musician, so I find most music to be almost ridiculously interesting. Leads me to thinking about the music rather than the work I should be doing. And I find headphones to be physically uncomfortable very quickly.
It's supposedly so that events are easier to setup as "it's a more free form space". IMO it doesn't really make it all that much easier, and looks like shit when an event isn't going on.
Chrome doing likewise:
https://security.googleblog.com/2018/03/distrust-of-symantec...
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Another satisfied user, but it comes with the caveat that my habits let me use it. Firefox really knows how to make memory leak and if I weren’t the type to aggressively close windows/tabs I don’t need and not keep the browser going 24/7 I would probably end up switching to Safari as my default.
I think the answer is "depends on the school."
Theoretically you're right. In practice not enough customers think about that risk for it to have a material impact on the startup's financial viability.
Why we need better tracking protection
Build up -- spend at least a month building a list of people interested in your book when it releases, tease them with sample chapters every few weeks. Imagine releasing and emailing 1k-5k people who want the book, getting a bunch of them to purchase, and having your rank on whatever platform you're on going up, along with some heavy ads.
What we call "political diversity" at the moment (specifically, significant representation of outspoken conservatives) and diversity along other axes are often, sadly, at odds.

If being welcoming to all is an important part of your culture, it undermines your efforts to have people on your team who speak out strongly and harshly against diversity policies.

People who choose to keep their opinions to themselves can still thrive, but dissidents and activists have trouble. It was ever thus.
How Human-Centered Design Can Transform Your Organization
Baby Boomers are going to die at a much faster clip than their parents (due to sedentary lifestyles/fast food/general excess), and that will cause a lot of unplanned destabilization. I'm willing to put $20 on both my parents (currently 69 and 63) kicking it in the next 5 years.
Gitpod git-bolts git-IDE onto GitHub for in-browser code git-editing
How else are you going to parallel construct a case against someone if you can't intercept their communication using extralegal means?
Software dependencies really are the worst part of programming. It's probably the root cause og 75% of developer burnout, with the remaining 25% split between path resolution errors(relative or absolute, training slash or not?) off-by-one array index errors, nulls and simple typographical errors that cause the loss of hours of compiler time.

This is very common!

Common, but still total bullshit. It's THE barrier that repels most novice programmer who just get fed up, and reject programming as a passtime or livelihood.
True, but many people jump on the hype wagons and assume that they need machine learning, or whatever the flavor of the day is when in fact they need something far simpler.
New Silence hacking group suspected of having ties to cyber-security industry
I think given you are getting light, natural > artificial. However I can see why some people would prefer no light at all!
You make the updates user opt-in only. That doesn’t make everything perfect but it reduces the likelihood and potency of the worst scenarios.

The EFF advises device makers to never enable automatic pull of updates. Because doing so would open the door for forced silent updates by court order.
Getting rejected twice in a short time frame does hurt your chances on getting accepted the third time around. In such case, it may be best to either wait a couple years and reapply, or apply for a different visa type.

My colleague in China had a similar issue. The U.S. consulate in Beijing is slammed with visa applications on a daily basis, and it could take 6+hours waiting in line before getting a visa interview that may only be a couple minutes. The meeting itself can be nebulous and certain parts of your story may spur a tangential interrogation into the details. In the end, my friend was slated to attend NYU for grad school (and put a security deposit on an apartment), but was rejected twice in the same year for a US visa. After getting rejected, there's not much recourse in terms of appeal or finding out more details.

Now, he's looking to apply for an E2 visa, having heard it gives slightly better chances, but unless you have the personal funds to find a different avenue to the US, it could be multiple years of reapplying.
I mean he is right, and it's even said in the article. It is an amazing piece of software, nobody's arguing against that, but it's not chess.
That's not necessarily a bad thing if those credits are in your chosen major. If you are a CS student, you'll want the university-quality CS education.
The taboo against chemical warfare developed after a war that involved mass bombardment with both chemical weapons and explosives. I’m not qualified to discuss the reasons, but the people on the pointy end of the stick seem to have come away thinking that there’s a significant difference.
Google Notifies People Targeted by Secret FBI Investigation
> If we can live on mars

We can't live on Mars, nor can we live on a sterile Earth.
In my experience its the software engineers bosses that are poor at the later.
You're not accounting for the difference in cost of maintenance. Which would be SIGNIFICANTLY higher for a 2005 S600. Oil changes, brakes, etc, all of which do not apply to the Leaf, plus all the things that are statistically very likely to be wrong with or break on a 2005 vehicle.
Hi, dev here. :)

Can you capture a profile using steps from [0] and send them to us/me?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7knnn4/firefox_qua...
Uncle Sam wants tech toolkit to snoop social media stock scammers
Thank you for linking to your attachment blog post. What's the status of ronomon? It seems https://ronomon.com/ assume existing user - and gives no more information?
Martin Molin of Winergatan showing the project breakdown of his Marble Machine
Why is Google selling potentially compromised Chinese security keys?
ESP32-B (ESP8266 successor) now available with 8MByte (double) RAM
In which case they are still equally bad and thus it doesn't matter if they think they are doing it for benevolent reasons.
Implementing unordered map/set that way looses iterator/pointer stability, which is guaranteed by the current impl, unfortunately
It is amazing, and is a huge productivity boost for me.

It has a few irritating quirks, though, and I suppose these quirks have little chance to be removed without some support from browser core.
OCR is their most important feature, and that is mainly what I pay for. The clip extensions for browsers and Skitch are nice too, but not as essential.
I think we should be interested in someone's achievements, not on sex, skin colour, height, weight, clothes etc. of that person.
> This reads like such a weird statement. It never existed. It could’ve never have revolutionized testing because it was entirely imagined and not based on reality.

A whole lot of things we have today were inspired by Star Trek and didn't exist... until they were made to exist. The fault in Theranos was that they sought to make things exist by innovation on a time table, and when the time table didn't work, covered it with fraud to make the deadline.

Honestly, fuck Elizabeth Holmes and her weird ass advisors. There was so much potential here that was squandered for the sake of her ego and paranoia.
What would be an example of a "big single page app"?
One Hacker Way Rational Alternative of Agile – Erik Meijer
How else are you going to make a compelling argument without cherry-picking an extremely rare event and implying it's the norm?
+1 for Resolutt, we are trying it at Bitnami and though it is still early days it is very promising (https://resolutt.com/)
Until a startup is obviously a billion-dollar entity (reasonably on track towards $100M+ ARR), it varies greatly based upon;

- Growth metrics (MoM, YoY)

- Following, absolute metrics

- How these metrics compare to others in your vertical

- Business thesis

- Total market size (needs to be gigantic)

- Strength of vision, ability to execute

- Ability to convince others of said vision

- Ability to attract, recruit and retain talent (investors, employees)

- Many more magical and unspoken factors that influence an investor's perception of you, individually

There are many, many different ways to optimize any specific signal here but realistically you're going to have to throw half of 'em away. With the exception being you can't really budge on market size or you're not VC-fundable. Some of the factors can be leveraged off of one another to improve the other. (Strength of vision -> ability to recruit, etc.)

$100k for 20% is a nightmarish Shark Tank deal for a lifestyle business that's generating sustainable revenue. As another poster mentioned, you're looking at $5k - $50k checks in the Angel stage. If you're on to something, with a product in market a reasonable hypothesis as to how it becomes a $B company, you're looking at starting to raise on SAFEs at a ~$4M Cap. At least, AFAIK, that's pretty standard absolute lower bound out of an accelerator or incubator (which will give you some credibility -- I might optimize towards that path first). Meaning you're assuming pre-money capitalization at a priced round of $4M or greater. You can go lower if investors really want to deal chase or it'll get the right person in. So, if you raise $500k on SAFEs and pull in $1M in total investment for a seed round at a $4M pre-money valuation (+$500k from a MicroVC or small VC check), you get diluted 20% in exchange for $1M (post-money of $5M).

Edit: should mention, YC's standard deal is $120k for 7% [1]. Other accelerators are more aggressive on the capital they provide / equity they ask for in exchange. I've skipped a step here and assumed you've been through an accelerator to raise at a $4M+ Cap, though it's not absolutely necessary to have gone through one -- but the accelerator deals are more in line with what you're asking about.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/deal/
One fairly universal current I've observed though is a dislike for strong artificial lighting, particularly overhead lighting. I can work very productively in an abundance of natural light or in a basically dark room lit only by the glow of monitors and RGB accessories, but put me in a room without windows and with supermarket-style lighting and I'll be miserable.

In my home office, I'm fortunate to have both a large window and a simple IKEA floor lamp (something like this: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10394129/). I alternate between the two, but never turn on the overhead lighting on the ceiling fan.
I still wear headphones (because much like coffee, I gotta get my morning sports talk radio fix), but the tinnitus is already raging thanks to a past job that involved blowing things up in a distant part of the world.

Measured, it's right around ~60dB.
I wouldn't even have a problem with that if I was told up front. Just don't give any individual neighbor priority.
Isn't all of machine learning, economics, industrial engineering and statistically social science a form of applied statistics ?

That's a lot of fields to dismiss by simply handwaving.
This ignores that educational funding is (generally) allocated by legislative bodies, based on various criteria. And that these criteria determine how much funding is delivered to where, and if any funding is delivered at all.

So we have the now classic cycle of perform a cut, point out how bad an institution is performing, use this as an excuse to cut more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
You're right: Firefox is showing you these even though you didn't visit them. Sadly, many of these "recommendations" are from politically charged sites. Vox is notoriously far-left, Buzzfeed is leftist and often features sensational, click-bait headlines.

Disappointed these are showing up on my Firefox homepage.
Design Patterns in an Intro course to CS? No, and not required reading either. That's a "Practice of Software Engineering" thing.

It's too early.
Careful with that. I ended up with tinnitus (ringing in the ears).
What would you say is missing from a mooc-based training?
I don't think it gets personalized unless you "login" to the your firefox account.
I interviewed a romance author recently about her strategy for going from 30 to 30,000 sales, it was pretty interesting[1]. TLDR is build community with your readers to turn them into evangelizing super fans. Pretty much the same audience building strategies you use for early startups.

Maybe you’ll get some ideas from the podcast :)

[1]: https://howauthorswork.com/8ae47f49
I do disagree to the extent that the role models for men in STEM are borne out of the same, unfair, cycle. [0]

We can go reductio ad absurdum and go all the way back and say that, for example, men were given the opportunities in STEM 200 years ago not because they were any more qualified, but because they were the ones allowed to go to school, causing an artificial cycle of inspiration and societal expectations around the profession. Do men or women in the sciences today feel guilt or resentment at that?

I'd also argue against framing them as "unqualified women in STEM", as the basis of my argument isn't about, for example, shoehorning a hairdresser into a rocket science career, but just taking into account context when looking at similar candidates.

[0] am intrinsically aware of my own position, being a white male, but I do work in a sector looking at a different form of inequality so have some context as to the issue.
This is something else. C++ has had parametric polymorphism in the form of template metaprogramming for a long time (the article on hashmaps even covers it).

This is one of the reasons I don't really like the name 'generics', it's a little ambiguous.
That's a roughly 10% increase over last year in the relative rate of participation:

(38195-27478)/(103811)*100 = 10.32%

Comparing two percentages directly like that, while intuitive, misses trends in relatively small subsets of the larger population.
I think that the contents of the emails in a thread is a minor part of 150MiB taken by the full version. I suppose my entire inbox (the not-archived part) is much smaller that that.
Everything was connected, and I was fucked
I use Chrome for big apps, especially Google apps (GMail, Google Music).

But yes once in a while I still have to restart it when its memory usage and responsiveness become a problem (used to have an extension to have a restart entry in the menu, killed as many others by the new system, yeah for progress).

In fact I use Chrome more since Quantum, ironically.
I always thought web 3.0 was the decentralised web and not necessarily blockchain.
I tried this, but unfortunately it doesn't work if your coworkers don't respect your desire to be uninterrupted. I've told everyone around me, "When I put on my headphones I'm in focus mode, please leave me alone." But people still shout across desks to get my attention or tap me on the shoulder, which means I have to take off my headphones to figure out what they want.
There’s a saying: “write every email as if it will one day be read aloud in court”.

Today, I think a good correlary might be, “write every email as if it will be released to the public by Russian hackers, with random excerpts screencapped and highlighted and tweeted out of context by trolls”. Though maybe if you’re just working on a presidential campaign.
I should also point out why the "Lean Startup" is more relevant than ever: Theranos. (The other story trending in hacker news).

After reading Bad Blood, I am not convinced that Holmes (at least initially) intended to perpetrate a fraud. She may have believed it was possible to produce the machine she dreamed off, and it was a question of putting in the R&D. (It still might be possible).

If this is the case, the "lean" methodology would have saved her if she had just started out small and focused on developing the tech first.

Saved in the sense of convincing her it did not work and that it was best to return the rest of the money.

There was a time when the distribution deals were signed and the tech wasn't read and the deals were used to raise cash that really must have felt like things have gone too far.
This always comes up as a solution, but what about those of us that hate wearing headphones?
There's some mention of improvement for this in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265824#c221 -- scheduled to be released in Firefox 63.

You might try the nightly and see if it's already fixed.
> someone on HN would make such an overly broad, and with it, inaccurate statement

You must be new here!
Simple, straight forward and does the job.
I believe Steve is talking about traditional startups (high growth entities with full teams, capital, boards/advisors, etc).

Solo entrepreneurs, side-projects, 'lifestyle businesses', ISVs, and other small businesses in tech don't really fit into that category. Although while many of them still call themselves startups (which is fine) the distinction is quite clear.

Lean Startups has fundamental business advice that is good for any company. But Steve's analysis here is clearly targeted as a specific group of traditional high-growth startups which angels/VCs invest in, from which the original idea for Lean was spawned and designed for (and later found wider applications outside of startups - for better or worse).
Maybe we'll open up a vacancy for Gitter (Node) at some point.