skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the point is that women are already the majority of STEM graduates, they're just graduating in the wrong kinds of STEM.

For example, women are over-represented among social science and biology graduates. Perhaps we should add a quota to make social science and biology graduates 50% men, then women blocked from social science and biology degrees would go into computer science instead and balance things out.

There is also a leaky pipeline where women e.g. study math but then go into teaching, which doesn't count as working in STEM. If we had a quota of 50% men in teaching, this would help make the pipeline leak less gender-biased.

Of course some women end up becoming stay at home moms, so we also need a quota where 50% of stay at home parents must be dads. You probably need the government to enforce that.

But if we have enough quotas to ensure 50% men in female dominated fields, then by elimination, those men have to come from currently male dominated fields, and the women pushed out by quotas have to go into male dominated fields, so things should even out.
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I got bad news for you.... It seems you did your taxes incorrectly.
For people not yet convicted, I agree. For the already convicted it seems less dystopian than locking them in a concrete and steel cage with violent felons.
> High school, college, any STEM fields are all overwhelmingly biased in terms of favoring women. 57% of college graduates are women. Men are not only getting the short end of the stick...

What is the graduation rate of women in STEM fields? 57% is not the graduation rate in STEM fields, which makes it sound like you are cherry picking statistics. What fields are all the women graduating in?

Aside from Google, the pay gap still exists and women earn less than men. The WP article estimates 94 cents on the dollar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap_in_the_United_S...

You're right that women are getting positive reinforcements, it's because (whether you agree with them or not) we have affirmative action programs for women. Affirmative actions always have and always will be debated to death, but the question you should be asking and answering before dismissing this issue is, if there's no affirmative action, how do you equalize opportunities for groups known to have been discriminated against? We already tried not having extra programs and not having extra awareness, and the result was lower pay. How would you correct this?
I've used bus-powered USB 2.0 display adapters in the past, even up to 1920x1080. They're usually a software-based renderer writing to a frame buffer on the USB device. Big updates or lots of USB traffic meant dropped/torn frames, and lots of extra CPU power used to drive it. It worked well for word processing and light web usage, but you wouldn't be watching an HD movie on it.
Tridactyl gives you Vim bindings in Firefox (Quantum)!

https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl
My best understanding is that poverty puts one at much greater risk of ending up a victim of the criminal justice system. If we dramatically shrink the size of the underclass and grow the size of the stable middle class, the devastation you describe should happen far less often, thereby giving society proportionally more resources per instance of crisis to try to properly remedy it.

Again: I'm not suggesting we shouldn't seek to address the problems with this specific system. I'm merely explaining why I think growing the middle class is a meaningful antidote to some of what happens here.
You're being downvoted because the comment isn't really adding anything to the discussion because its so short.

What Brian_K_White is referring to is SQRL by Steve Gibson from GRC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQRL.

Its an alternative simpler secure protocol that has been in development for a few years that is frequently discussed on the Security Now podcast.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19304857
When is the new "kinder and gentler" Microsoft going to support and sponsor this project?
My only guess would be education.
Inspired ELearning Demonstrates First VR-Based Security Awareness Training
He mentions his reason for the title:

> The title of this paper is an homage to David Goldberg’s classic paper “What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic”
Except taxpayers can deduct the greater of sales tax or income tax. Property taxes (paid by homeowners) are deductible in the same way as income tax. States have no incentive to prefer one type over the other. Texas, with no state income tax, is also paying dearly for this new federal tax policy.
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It says confirmed in the title. It says confirmed in the APs post.

I'm finding it hard to believe AP simply "missed it" when they had the question in mind before they even read the thing.
> I can't remember the last time I got an unsolicited text.

There's some bullshit law that allows political parties to harvest voter telephone numbers in my state, so I get pummeled by unsolicited text messages from political campaigns.

For the ones that actually have a human on the other end monitoring it, replying with 'I cannot vote, I'm a felon' (regardless of what the actual law is for voting and felons in my state) is a good way to get them to leave you alone.
Bitcoin did not lose "more than 75% of its value in a little over a year". You're conveniently picking the peak price during a short-lived bubble as the baseline for your comparison, as if $20k were the normal price. No one with any sense purchased significant amounts of Bitcoin at that price. (Obviously quite a few people did buy at that price—but that's not the point. Buying after a sharp rise in the price is a losing strategy for almost any investment.) I could just as easily draw your attention to the fact that even now Bitcoin has nearly tripled in value (+190%) over the last two years.

Right before the run up to $20k Bitcoin was around $6k; now it's at $3700. That's only a loss of 40%, not 75%, if you bought at the pre-bubble price. And it reached $3700 for the first time only about a year and a half ago, in July of 2017. It's hardly the only investment to show no net gain (or loss) over that time period.
> But I don't think people are willing to spend the majority of their waking hours in a job they don't like so they can have a house, given the alternative of having a job they do and renting.

This is... not accurate.
De jure and de facto equality are different things. Do you honestly believe that African Americans faced no discrimination after July, 3 1964? Because at that point they lived in a democratic society with no barriers. They could run for political office. Under your definition, that's a 1.0.

I guess you could say they just didn't choose to run for office. Or to get educated. The cross burning was coincidental.
Why Learn Ruby Programming
I bet a JIT in LuaJIT would have been easy and fast: compile to Lua code in strings, call "eval" (actually load() in Lua, but the name eval is better known).
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If the best estimate of the value of the stock is it's last valuation, that means current options, which are priced at last valuation have a paper value of $0. There's certainly a time-value, but that's hard to compute, given the most popular model uses a volatility component which you'll have no data for.

If you have options from before the current valuation, or if you were offered RSUs, or underpriced options, you could use the valuation as a guess of the value, sure.
Same here. I did a bit of CoffeeScript development and source maps rarely worked properly. Arguably we just didn't have them set up properly, but it's a condemnation in its own right if our smarter-than-average engineers can't configure the technology properly.
It's interesting that you still don't understand the third possibility. I wonder if it has something to do with why many hard-leaning leftists also only consider the first two as possibilities.
I was under the impression that on macOS you ultimately needed to get the task_t to do stuff with a target task, and that getting this for a target task was a privileged operation (unless the target task sent it to you).
This is definitely a cool product. I've been thinking of building something like this for use in a game server backend.

Do you plan on adding height-support? I'm sure some clients in the professional space would like to know "what room/floor in this building are you in?"
Why would they? Google fears China is going to create their own version of Google and will lose access to the country and possibly more of Asia. They are going to try very hard to keep their foot in the door there.
> I wonder if the obligation to take care of your parents is less pronounced in eastern households that are wealthier.

For East Asian families, it's still there but it is non-existent from a financial perspective. It's no different from the article even though it describes the US. I've personally seen several scenarios of approx 30 individual families:

1. Kids were either extremely spoiled so they ended up with a poor work ethic, were incompetent, or both. They are not millennials. Parents ended up supporting them for the rest of their lives. Their wealth eventually consumed in one generation with their businesses either being sold or destroyed. In all these cases, the parents were content with grandchildren.

2. Kids were high achievers. Stereotypical scenario of getting into the Ivys or international equivalent, with the right finance, law, or engineering jobs right after with continued progression. Parents still gave a lot of financial gifts even though they weren't needed.

The only real expectation when the parents are financially well off is that their children still take care of them when old age becomes an issue i.e. no nursing home. parents will live with one of their children until they die
>>> Going to C is what allows people to use our code without having to buy into exotic, strange languages with lambdas.

At this stage is there any software engineer who considers a language with lambdas strange or this is a joke from the author?
> can just be met with a 'thanks no'.

I never stated otherwise.

I was responding to the idea that it is ridiculous for workers to talk about their working conditions, and that they should just get a new job or something.

The person who I had originally responded to, basically thought that you should just quit your job.

Instead, I am saying that it is within our full legal right to attempt to change working conditions. IE, write articles like this one, or discuss/organize/demand better working conditions.
I'm aware of that. But inflammation also can be caused by, for example, excess acidity. Reversing excess acidity has been shown to effectively break up biofilm, thereby reversing antibiotic resistance.

Seems pretty clear to me that the connection thus runs both ways. It isn't a one way street.
Discussion of original source (Intercept article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19303948

HN Guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
I believe there is a competition to develop a method to collect carbon dioxide and turn it into something useful. Did you won that competition? This seems really promising and better than collecting CO2 and just dumping it underground.
The patent office lax standards gave Elizabeth Holmes the BS patents she needed
Welcome to Georgia, the 6th district flipped last year and we were extremely close to having our first Democrat Governor in 15 years.
And the Marxian dialectic is supposed to be different still.
It's imperfect, but no perfect solution exists.

If you're considered a low flight risk, you could be released under your own recognizance or released at a low enough level of bail that you can afford to pay the bondsman's rate. If you're considered a very high flight risk, you stay in jail. Cash bail is for the cases in the middle, and if you either abolish it or replace it with something less effective or efficient, more people will be considered "high risk" and denied bail.

If you can't afford to pay a bail bondsman, that means that the court has deemed you a high enough flight risk to require a high amount of bail, and it also means that every bail bondsman you meet also deems you a high enough risk that you don't get an affordable rate on the bail. By definition, that's a situation where literally nobody actually thinks you're actually going to show up to court of your own free will, and in that situation, there's no solution that keeps you out of jail.
I wonder if the bail fees have increased over the years because of the existence of said bondsmen.
At least FreshDesk has an "occasional agents" option (users who are paid per every day they logged in).

https://support.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/227...
>also notice the moving guys aren't wearing their shoes inside. They are taking them off upon entry, carrying stuff (sometimes really heavy stuff) and putting their shoes back on when removing stuff. That's the part that shocked me.

I've worked granite installation. Some customers demanded we take off our shoes. It's terrifying carrying a piece of stone with someone that weighs several hundred pounds with nothing but socks on. It's also fun trying to get your shoes off while holding said piece of stone. Normally, we'd put it down on the steel toes if we neesed to. Can't do that while you're taking your shoes off. I hated those customers.
The charger comes with the car
"So it's driven home to me daily that the world terribly undervalues quiet maintenance type work."

I always think about how little the cleaners at a company are paid. In a sense they keep the whole thing running but they get sooo little respect.
> I have seen many complaints that in many cases, the original manufacturer's Amazon Fulfillment stocks are intermixed with the counterfeits. The people working knock-off policing are going to be running around the same space as the item runners.

They won't be if Amazon stops commingling stock from different sources.

Dumping everything into a big pile, then expecting pickers (or some other kind of hurried low-level worker) to sort out the fake/counterfeit items is probably the most impractical and inefficient way possible of addressing this problem.

Amazon's problem is on the "input" side, so they should solve it there.

> Why not start a competing online marketplace, with better policing of knock-offs?

Someone could totally do that, but I was talking about fixing the problem at Amazon. No marketplace should be offering fakes and knockoffs, so competition isn't going to be a panacea.
> You'd still miss out, like with the surgeon's example of a patient calling.

No you wouldn't. It would go to voicemail where they could leave a voicemail. Then you return the call if you want.
Official announcement: https://usb.org/sites/default/files/2019-03/USB_PG_USB4_DevU...
No no no no.

I'm not speaking game theoretically here, because there are a good many more factors that go into determining a "win" than the financials.

Now from a money perspective, they won't get money from Google if Google DOES NOT move in, and they won't get too much money from Google if Google DOES move in. This is because the expenses on the infrastructure improvements to support a 600 million dollar data center for 18 of those 20 years is higher than the $15 million bucks they're gonna get from Google. Those expenses are, obviously, not there if Google does not site a data center in that municipality.

So if you want a, sort of, game theoretical optimum, then the question people on both sides of the issue should be answering are:

1 "What are the benefits to this municipality, or to the state, of Google moving in?"

and

2 "What is the value of those benefits in tax dollars?"

If the answer to 2 is greater than or equal to 15K per Google head, then you break even or profit. If it's not, then you lose.
I’ve been having trouble with their codelab which runs on the cloud.
It keeps freezing either when I am downloading data from a cloud bucket or trying to run some specific cells. This was yesterday though and will need to retry
> A lot of people think that JScript and JavaScript are different but similar languages. That's not the case. They are just different names for the same language, and the reason the names are different was to get around trademark issues.

Douglas Crockford via Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript
> I said "Hmm, even with paternal leave, the mother would be
> taking more time off while the husband works in the
> overwhelming majority of families" which CLEARLY implies I
> am talking about during pregnancy.

> CLEARLY

Nope, not seeing you clearly imply anything about "during pregnancy". Especially when the explicit context of the rest of the conversation is what happens after pregnancy (at the top level, "childcare").
> But it involves money changing hands, which gets certain people all up in a lather about abolishing it.

That's not the reason. The problem is that it requires innocent poor people to pay for the amortized cost of apprehending the guilty absconders, while rich innocent people do not need to pay anything (since they have the funds and will get their money back).
This is dangerous for anyone who connects to random MySQL databases with the default settings of most clients as it allows arbitrary file reads?

The segment at risk is almost exclusively black-hat, although maybe you could MiTM a connection....
Debugging and profiling tools, which understand C. You don’t want a mess of auto generated function names showing up at the top or your profile. It’s better if the code generator produces something roughly human readable.

Also, crash reports produce stack traces. I’m positive that Microsoft and Mozilla are both heavy users of automated crash reports.

Abstractions are leaky. There are many tools for debugging assembly as well.
my first thought is, no surprise this is being described by someone with a visibly non-American domain, as this would be a fairly textbook breach of CFAA, right?
Minimum wage for municipalities.

Establish a federal minimum for local taxes. No sweetheart deal in the country entice the business more than the minimum allowable by law.

Might as well go ahead and also ban cities from building stadiums at taxpayer expense, but for some sports team owner's near-exclusive benefit. It's the same kind of extortion: give us what we want, or we go to another city.
Perhaps it's C that is weird for confusingly allowing you to assign within a logical expression. At least clang (and possibly other compilers) warn you because they assume you meant to write '=='.

(Dartmouth BASIC required a LET keyword, Kemeny and Kurtz being mathematicians after all. Bill Gates might have made it optional in Microsoft BASIC to save typing and possibly one byte of memory.)

I sort of miss Smalltalk's left-arrow though.
I know many smart people who have no interest in programming (and wonder why I enjoy it)

I had an ex-girlfriend who could code, but had no interest in doing that for a job. I'm currently married to a woman with 3 degrees, one of which is a PhD, and she also can code, but says she feels sorry for me, because it's my job.
It's always easier to attack than to defend.
> 2 friends confided that they were asked to trade sexual favors for promotions albeit this was 20 years ago and that was the deciding factor for them moving to the Bay. These things are horrible and I can’t imagime the emotional trauma for that.

Of course, this could have, and does[0] happen in the Bay Area, too - in just the last year even.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/technology/uber-sexual-ha...
Passwords will continue to exist. But it has a lot of flaws, so it's nice have alternatives.
I don't do web dev but you can debug mixed source and assembly. You can switch back and forth between stepping though source or assemble and inspect registers and variables at the same time. It starts to break down with heavily optimized code.

Part of the reason C still exists is enormous amounts of work went into the tooling.
The exclusions sound... arbitrary?

I get the research exemption, and i’m Happy about a politics exemption, but why books, newspapers and insurance?

Why not bicycles or theatre or education?
As someone[1] wrote, "The acquisition of new soil for the settlement of the excess population possesses an infinite number of advantages..."

After all, it seemed to work out pretty well for those 19th-century Americans.

[1] http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/mkv1ch04.html
As any radio amateur will tell you, PC shielding in the wild is generally poor. Plus the vast majority of PC RFI is radiated via the connected cables ( be that USB or the power cable ) or the monitor which form broad-spectrum antennas.

A PC and its appendages is a horrendous radio squawk-box and should be kept away from anything RFI-sensitive. The FCC 'must not cause harmful interference' clause is pretty worthless.
It's more to finding FPC factories dealing with anything amounting to a "specialty product," and finding somebody who can engineer that FPC with all attention needed to signal integrity and fickleness of high frequency circuits.
Thanks, Facebook tracking is a deal breaker.
You can’t take on climate change without tackling sprawl
Maybe you really can't afford it, but given the job opportunities this is a bit like saying that you can't afford college. The cost with all 5 decompilers is about $15,000. That is comparable in cost to a semester of college. It might be a better deal if you bother to really learn the tool.

I guess there aren't student loans for IDA, but there definitely is employment. Once you become competent with IDA, you can apply for jobs like these at my workplace: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19284153 Being competent means you can navigate around in a binary without symbols, that you can mentally convert assembly to C, and generally that you can find things of interest in the binary and understand them.

Binary Ninja (binja) is $149 from Vector35. That might be optimal for you.
The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked
I created Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/ (Electron app)

I sell per download for $3.50 minimum (users can pay more if they would like). It was released last year around the same time and now has 473 copies sold. Late last year I made it open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

Unsure if anything I shared is valuable to your situation. I chose against using licenses / serial numbers / etc - fewer headaches. Makes the user experience better I suppose.
> Why would they?

Morals, perhaps.
Would those also be in Chrome?
Hackers Sell Access to Bait-and-Switch Empire
Where's the source?
It's a lights out DC that won't be a hub for Google jobs.

Are they going to give rebates on the taxes paid by the other DC's that have been built without incentives? If not, why not?
I genuinely did not know that! I've always presumed JS = JScript = JavasSript = ECMAscript. Hmm.
In this case I meant the native scripting in palemoon (which is an FX fork I believe).
But did they mark red areas because they were black neighborhoods or because historically people in those neighborhoods defaulted on loans?

An algorithm as simple as "mark neighborhoods with high default rates as red, low default rates as green" would probably turn out to be "racist" even if it is also flagging poor white trailer parks with red.

There's no easy way to solve that
One of the reasons I ultimately quit my corporate job: during the recession, they cut back on janitorial to save money.

I was taking my own trash out of my cubicle every other day because I have a compromised immune system and it makes me too sick to work to leave trash there for two days.

I wonder how much productivity went down because of this one decision without anyone but me seeing any connection whatsoever.