skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How DxOMark Mobile scores smartphone cameras (Feb 2018)
It’s not as easy as it should be, yet, but if you can get a job somewhere they would help you relocate, or you can look for places that offer residence via investment.
Yes, you can advertise to only one sex. The problem is they advertised a job ad.
> If he were a kid in the 90s he'd be ~~ tYpInG aLl hIs ImS lIkE tHiS ~~

iMac, iPod, iPhone
> No, you cannot serve any EU customers if there is not option to "opt out"

Josh buddy. By chance, have you spent any time at all on the internet using so-called "GDPR compliant" sites?
Take a look at comments on r/elonmusk or r/teslamotors, etc. Many people believe it, insisting that Mr. Musk probably hired a team of investigators to fact check and verify all his claims.
I’ve never tried to place a FB ad, so I don’t know what the interface looks like. But wouldn’t it be fairly straightforward on their end to disable gender (or other protected classes) as options for targeting when it comes to job or housing ads? Or are advertisers not required to choose a “category” for their ad, in the way that on Craigslist, you have to select a category to post in?

Even if there is no such categorization, it’s not a difficult NLP challenge to detect that the content of an ad is for job hiring, or to know that the advertiser is based in the U.S. FB could implement a warning/reminder dialog similar to how GMail tells you that you haven’t actually included an attachment yet.
Yes, it would be very different. For example, the two things you listed are probably rather bad proxies for gender (even if it's only hypothetical).

All they had to do was pick the niche they're going for (which may incidentally turn out to be highly skewed to one gender) rather than making it 100% one gender. I honestly don't even understand the purpose of advertising anything to only men or only women. (The obvious answer would be "sexism", but presumably the advertiser is making some assumption of economic benefit for only targeting one or the other.)
Many have large endowments[1] which should cover much of their operating expenses (though I see Rice's 'measly' $5B only covers 40%[2]).

1: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/09/harv...

2: http://www.ricethresher.org/article/2016/10/5-billion-rices-...
One interesting find :
>>> In a study published earlier this year in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at Stanford University examined political polarization in the US and found that it was increasing far faster among the demographic groups least likely to use social media and the internet. “The 65-year-olds are polarizing more quickly than the younger age group, which is the opposite of what you’d expect if social media and the internet were the driver,” says Levi Boxell, the lead author of the study.
Sure, if you are advertising a dress shirt.
Sure, if you’re trying to sell something you can target the advertising however you want.

I think the issue arises when you’re using an advertisement to look for employees.
An employee who could document health damage might have grounds for legal action, eh?
I have the Mark IV, it's a great little camera that I use for mountain hikes. But it's not discreet or small enough to just pocket daily. Also doesn't do Instagram live videos, or allow me to upload stories at that moment. iPhone pretty much required.

Also! It's confirmed the new sensor in the XS is 32% larger than the X, which is SIGNIFICANT.
If roofing job advertisers are forced to spend half of their budget on a demographic that objectively clicks through at a drastically lower rate, they will have to spend 2X more money to reach the same number of workers that they used to reach.

Making advertising those jobs on Facebook 2X more expensive is an incentive for those firms to revert to alternative hiring habits that are even more nepotistic, reducing overall access to employment.
The fact that R has such buy-in despite being a rather awful programming language (a friend of mine worked on the next Lisp-like version of R under Ross Ihaka, and the next version is based on the fact that current R is a bit awful) is precisely because it offers such convenience to non-programmers.

In my sister company, they have data scientists, and data engineers. The data scientists write their algorithms in the language they're most comfortable with (typically JS), and the data engineers rewrite to perform efficiently in the application that's applying them.

Data scientist and programmer are two very different specialisations.
Evernote was great for a while. Then they decided to go nuclear with monetizing it while simultaneously ruining the software with the worst design changes and features imaginable.
I honestly don't even understand the purpose of advertising anything to only men or only women.

If you pay per view, it's entirely rational to target towards the demographic that produces the most spend for your ad budget.

Why would you waste money advertising, e.g., mascara or sanitary pads to men? Sure, there's probably some infinitesimal fraction of men who would be interested, but targeting them profitably is not a trivial exercise.
As a legal layperson, to me it seems that the argument would focus around this topic: https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/practices/#application_and_hiring

Basically, I think the better lens is one that looks at discriminatory hiring practices, rather than one that looks at advertisements to a selected demographic.
The interesting thing was that I actually did send him an email with an outline of the terms, and when he got the email he verbally said, "looks great! let's do it!".

I was too dumb and naive to catch on and realize that his verbal agreement was worthless, and I moved forward without ever getting anything explicitly printed out and signed.
I want a MS.
Palo Alto spends only 10% more than Oakland per student, which itself spends more than both national and state average. If Oakland schools are worst in the country, the funding has minor, if any, impact on it.
Surely the bookstores are hurting themselves by not stocking this book? If French consumers start shopping at Amazon, it might be habit forming.
I've used onenote for a while and tried to move over to evernote - it's horrible on windows.

Simple things just as being able to highlight multiple words to change fonts or even have auto capitalization not have a toggle.

The only thing I did like was the ability to repeat the last command you took but that shouldn't have to exist for stuff like changing fonts of certain words one at a time.
> Someone said any field with "Science" in the name isn't really a science.

That's the most unscientific thing I've heard in a while ;)
Does it work with a thin case on the phone? The quantity of charging cables I have to contend with is too damn high.
Build many things.

While you are building them, do it however you can make it work (you may learn some things noone else has done).

But look up things you get stuck on.

Use the things you build. So build things you want to see happen.

While you use them, you will make them more reliable and see the pain points. In future projects you will avoid those/have solutions you instinctively go to because you experienced it.

Write some libraries along the way to help with the pain points you solved yourself. You will learn what makes a good interface and documentation for 3rd party libs which you will probably be using a lot of, even if it's just the main framework or standard lib of the language you are using.

Lastly, all of this will help guide you in your evaluation of new languages, frameworks, and libraries, which you will be doing a lot of during your career when you build/rebuild/extend.

Good luck!
[event]Dear Founder: A Conversation with Maynard Webb of Webb Investment Network
This entire statement is predicated on STEM graduates being a proxy, but you provide no evidence that's the case. Building complex market ecosystems has very little to do with supply of STEM graduates. Having some supply is certainly a prerequisite, but there is no indication that the current supply rate is the prerequisite.

I suggest you read the mythical man month, it illustrates the fallacious thinking behind throwing more bodies at projects to get them done faster.
Maybe compartmentalizing happiness scores to how one felt during work time, during personal time and overall for the day would help mitigate this.
I recommend using Gboard on iOS. SwiftKey never felt quite as good.
Not really, because some jobs are legitimately only available to people a certain gender and so facebook would still need to make a judgement call.
The article says she couldn't even start to pedal until the bike was already at 100 MPH (!).

> Behind it, Mueller-Korenek sat on a bike with gearing so steep that she needed to be towed to around 100 mph before taking over under her own power.
South Wales Valleys UK now Sep-Oct is the the place for magic mushrooms, guess they love sheep manure and rain.
Was there in my late teens, had so many incredible experiences indelibly printed in my memory. Mushroom tea was the best, tasted a bit gross initially, but soon forgiven. Ridiculously the UK gov has since banned collecting such, doubt it has stopped the teenagers of today though.
A truly wonderful gift of nature that everyone should try at least once.
AMP is not your website. It's a restricted shell of your website's content that is hosted on google.com. People aren't visiting your website when they visit those AMP pages.
The PBKDFs for symmetric (secring at rest and gpg -c) are also terrible. I'd love to be able to donate a few thousand dollars to a bounty to get this fixed.
It depends.

You could still use a web UI but without embedding Chrome and Node.
Intern Analyst Automation Engineer.
Phased array inductive charging. Fascinating!
> Is it "anti-male" to call out a handful of men on 8chan for harassing women?

No, but it's insane to take *chan seriously. It's a satire site.
> The underlying crypto is fine (provided you don’t pick the weak algorithms)

That means it's not fine. Footguns mean it's a non-starter. Also, you don't get to pick the algorithms when you're the recipient of the message.
They wouldn't call it work/life balance if work was really part of your life. It's dead time, lost time. I've always felt that way anyhow. You can convince yourself otherwise maybe, if you're a musician or something. For most people though that's the truth of it.
This is fascinating to me. What a nice hack. I always enjoy it when people find clever ways to undermine existing systems. I'll be installing this font shortly!
Oh absolutely, never worked/lived in the US so I'm not familiar with how the engineering culture there calls this workplace mental higiene stuff but yes, it's totally that skill.
Dropbox was an early solution, and put the effort in to make it nearly effortless to get set up.

They've also built a lot of good will from me over the years with promotional offerings. I don't actually pay for a subscription, but I've got about 13gb of quota.
It's a bit late for me, with approximately 8500 < N <= 10000 working days. I can't even remember how I felt last week :)
From the original pitch deck:

> thefacebook.com allows for targeted advertisement on the basis of any (or a combination of) the following parameters:

> College/University, Sexual Orientation, Degree Type, Zip Code, Concentration, Dating interests, Courses taken, Personal Interests, Class Year, Clubs and Jobs, House/Dormitory, Political Bent, Age, Number of friends, Gender, Site Usage.

So blatant targeted advertisement has always been part of Facebook. Lots of (now wealthy) investors and early adopters had no problem that its users were being targeted on the basis of their sexuality.

The market will go where it wants to go: Instead of explicitly targeting men, you now target people that liked WWE, Family Guy, study business school, and searched for "hackernews". Or you make the advertisement itself appealing to men (and take the small loss on an irrelevant audience).
???? like what?
Base R is annoying, but IMO the tidyverse alone makes the language worthwhile.
Hulu Talks About the Challenges of Live Video One Year Later
Exactly. This doesn't necessarily mean these companies advertised the job to one gender. It simply means the ad was targeted at a specific gender. For all we know, the companies spent twice as much on a different ad set for women.
Hiring discrimination is not the same thing as advertising/outreach.

You are free to to apply to any company you want, and they are legally required to judge you on the basis of your skills (equality of opportunity). They are not legally required to hire you on the basis of any demographic you fall into (no equality of outcome).

If 60% of your workforce came from European universities, while 40% other universities -- are you required to advertise to them all equally? What if that 60% figure came about on its own, with no external influence on your part. Maybe they have more international renown for the skills your company just happens to desire? Would you spend the same advertising budget on both institutions?

Sometimes these things happen on their own, But pretending that the businesses doing outreach are 100% accountable for "SOLVING" every demographic composition is simply not vested in reality, especially when these things weren't necessarily broken in the first place.

Presuming bigotry can be in itself a form of intolerance -- we need to be careful!
China, according to those links, purchases 60% of all global soybean exports.

Looking up the figures, about another 30% is the EU, with 10% for everybody else.

Now, the EU is increasing their US soybean imports, but they cannot make up the shortfall even if they wanted to, and are only really increasing their imports from the US because US soybeans are currently cheaper than South American ones.

Also, the EU are not really that interested in helping the US on this one without first getting concessions in the ongoing EU vs US trade war.

Out of this, the EU have so far managed to get Trump to promise to drop much of the EU trade war in return for the EU buying more US soybeans, which is something the EU were going to do anyway and as I said before, will only cover a fraction of the reduction in US exports to China.

Also, the EU continuing not to target US soybeans exports is all rather dependent on Trump keeping to his word on not continuing the EU part of his trade war, if he restarts it, those reassurances are going to leave the table.
> Note-taking should be a simple matter

And yet EN on a number of occasions had (probably still has) sync bugs that lost either parts of notes or entire notes.
These kinds of "arguments" are so tiring. Who cares who's better than who? Focus on solving problems, not stroking egos.
From a photo in the article, it looks like two stages of insane.
The goals of a society and individuals sometimes conflict. It's true, perhaps an organization could become somewhat more productive practicing discrimination.

Personally, I prefer a more level playing field even if it is a bit more expensive. We're rich enough to afford it.
No, at least in my understanding data scientists specialize in the analysis of data rather than the development of software. You'd hire a data scientist to look for interesting patterns in data, or create machine learning models, and other data analysis tasks. These tasks may involve writing code, but it's usually specific to data analysis, often in R or Matlab or similar. A lot like how many people in the natural sciences pick up coding to enhance their capability, but the software writing is a means to an end.

I wouldn't hire a data scientist to build a web app (well, I would if he or she had the necessary knowledge and skills - the job title wouldn't be "data scientist" though). "Software developer" is much closer to "programmer".
The human serpent of advertising.
Are the paper books "print on demand" or is there an initial print run like a publishing house would have? Still a good way to prevent waste if the only copies actually printed are already sold.
No one is excluded though. A woman can buy Men's Health; a man can buy Cosmopolitan. What Facebook is doing is enabling straight up exclusion of genders from advertising, which is completely different in the eyes of the law.
In classic rubber duck-debugging style, I ended up realizing that as soon as I pressed submit.

In that case I suppose it's not very ethically questionable for things that are very clearly 100% (within a minuscule margin of error) men's only (prostate health, etc.) or women's only (sanitary pads).

I guess the real quandary is for stuff that's male-dominated like hard, dangerous physical labor (coal mining etc.), but not 100% men. If a recruiter can statistically prove that the most efficient use of their advertising dollars to hire for a coal mining job is by targeting only men, 1) is it sexist and/or unethical, and 2) should it be legal?
Honestly watching Brian talk about Rust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM8vw3pbU
is what finally inspired me to get the books and give it a go.
Depends on the job. You won’t send a female cleaner in a male locker room.

Also some recruiter are explicitely trying to correct a gender imbalance and are therefore actively seeking female candidates. Does that become unethical to advertise to women?
Lightning cables are essentially consumables. I’ve spent at least two hundred dollars across our family on them. I’d rather have wireless and the efficiency hit that goes with it (in return for hardware longevity and cable cost savings).
Why would you waste money advertising to women who don't want mascara or don't need pads? I would think you'd be better of targetting people who bought some sort of eye makeup if you wanted to sell mascara, and target people who bought pads or tampons if you were selling pads.
I am probably the target audience :-) Basically, to use GPG, you need to understand how it works. To understand that, you need to be quite technical and also willing to spend several days reading and thinking about what the implications are.

I uses GPG for encrypting files for the most part. I also use it for some of the situations where you might use ssh -- not because it's a good idea, but rather because I wanted to learn how to do it.

My main use for GPG, though, is for distributed authentication. PGP's web of trust is quite useful if you know how to use it. Very few people use it, because they don't know how -- and also PGP's protocol makes it very difficult to understand how to use it. On top of that, GPG's UI makes it even more difficult to use. But if you can wade through all that, it's fine :-)

The main scenarios where I think WoT is useful is where you have a historical relationship with someone and that relationship is more important that their actual identity. For example, maybe you exchange haikus with some guy that you don't know. They claim to to be Matsuo Basho, which you think is a bit fishy, but you just want to ensure that all of these haikus are from the same person claiming to be Matsuo Basho (and not someone pretending to be the person pretending to be Basho). Now if your Basho pretender wants to introduce you to their painter friend Claude Monet, you don't actually care if it's actually Claude Monet (you'd best be suspicious). However, when someone claiming to be Claude Monet contacts you, you want to be sure it's the same Claude Monet that your friend Basho recommended to you.

These are the kinds of scenarios where PGP implementations (like GPG) are pretty much the only way. You can do it by hand, but using GPG is very slightly easier. A more realistic scenario might be that someone is giving you requirements for some project and they want to delegate some of the specification duties to someone else on their team. You are a remote contractor and have never met any of the people involved. You are satisfied that your original specifier is valid because they keep paying your invoices, but you want to be sure that any other people you interact with are authorised to deal with you.
I really don't see how the companies placing the ads, aren't going to get hammered for it. But Facebook is doing nothing illegal, unless the ads, were placed for jobs with facebook. Just as newspaper/radio/tv aren't required not to post job adverts that violate the EEOC's rules.

For clarity, According to the EEOC (https://www1.eeoc.gov/laws/practices/index.cfm?renderforprin...)

Recruitment

It is also illegal for an employer to recruit new employees in a way that discriminates against them because of their race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

For example, an employer's reliance on word-of-mouth recruitment by its mostly Hispanic work force may violate the law if the result is that almost all new hires are Hispanic.
I agree, but it starts to get awfully close to the subject of encryption backdoors, more censorship/lockdown of political ads and other topics that are more convenient for the government to be handled separately, without the comparison to China, hence they don't bring it up.
I think you have to look at the effect at the end of the day. Did redlining happen to specifically punish and oppress minorities, or to let white homeowners feel "safe from criminals"?

"Lock all the criminals up" when the subtext/unspoken relation for "criminals" is "black people/minorities" is a way to oppress minorities. Its also a failure to think of or implement a different path to work against poverty or criminality - something politicians love to do as a crackdown is easier for them to implement than actually improving people's lives.
Facebook should make it much harder to use their product illegally. They can hide protected demographic filters when ads are of a protected nature, like jobs or housing.
I think there is potentially two potential scenarios here.

- The company conducting the interview is not aware that the software they are using to conduct interviews does not work on a significant proportion of mobile devices. or

- The company conducting the interview is aware that there is a problem and either don't want to employ those who use ios devices, or are using the problem as a test for the candidate to overcome.

If I were having to be interviewed/screened via an online process, I think I would anticipate problems and make sure that I had access to a computer running a recent windows and a range of browsers on hand. Web based applications have got a whole lot better at dealing with differences between browsers, but when you get to the more involved processes such as camera/microphone integration, you can still encounter problems if you are not running the systems the software was tested on. Even then, I think you could still have problems if you have just updated your OS or browser to the latest version.
So Victoria's secret should be forced to advertise to men too?
Lest anyone think this is hyperbole, I've heard even crazier stories from an employee I know personally who was there.
While I see both sides of the argument, as long as the advertiser pays per view, it seems wrong to require the listing to target demographics that are almost certainly uninterested.

Your example of listing a job in Men's Health but not Cosmopolitan seems good. Technically not a perfect analogue as a woman always could buy Men's Health, but in practice very similar.

Spinning off into a different angle, what if an advertiser gets the most qualified female applicants advertising through LinkedIn, and the most qualified male applicants through Facebook? (Again assuming pay per view) Is it wrong for them to target women & men on separate platforms with separate ads? Utterly hypothetical of course.

Or yet a different angle, what if they have ad "A" and ad "B", each subtly designed to excite one of the sexes. Perhaps an ad for the Marines, one emphasizing toughness & grit, the other emphasizing teamwork & "stronger together". Target one at men, one at women. Legal?

To me it seems to come down to the overall behavior of the employer, not Facebook or any one ad.