skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the blog-post, but it does not make clear to me why Jessica chose to offer the money to women only.

> "
Specifically, she can’t build the first version of her product and is forced to find a cofounder who can. Because she can't judge technical ability, she'll often choose the wrong person for the job. And in a startup, if you choose the wrong programmer or cofounder and have to replace them, the delay alone can be enough to kill the company.
…"

I have met a number of people who cannot program, but believe that they have a great idea (only if somebody could just build that app for them …).

Even random neighbors who learn that I write mobile apps just sort of assume,

that I do not have my own ideas -- and instead, just program somebody else's ideas into life (sort of like I am a typist, but an author of the novel, I am typing -- has to be somebody else).

All that gender-bias in recent, US, tech grants does, is re-enforces the stigma that women in US are 'special-needs', as far as it comes to technology.

This is not a good stigma to have, and it cannot be broken by appeal to a moral high.

As a parent, it is also difficult to explain to my son, why my daughter would qualify for such a generous grant, but he would not...
What explanation is there ?

As few on this thread, I think there are better way to identify people who born into (or became over time) into a very unfair and disadvantageous environment.

And giving those, the extra help, offering them generosity -- is nothing but heart warming. And deserves huge applauds and replication.

There are boys and girls from disadvantaged environments, some lost parents to cancer, to car accidents, to wars, to terrorist attacks.

Some are in different countries suffering from horrible illnesses (that were caused by environment catastrophes).

Some were unlucky to be born to drug abusing parents.

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It does take more work, may be more passion, to reach out to those -- but I think it would better society more.
The Great Fire of London occurred largely because thatched roofs and other building practices that worked fine in less dense living conditions spread the fire. Afterwards, they outlawed thatched roofs in city limits. You can still have them in the countryside in England.

The US has lots of room for lowering expectations and standards without moving to "shanty town" standards. For starters, we tend to expect a really large amount of space per person.

I think we very much need to pursue some means to lower our expectations in the US in some metrics. At the same time, I would like to see some safety and health standards upheld.

I did a paper once on wells causing arsenic poisoning in, I think, Bangladesh. The wells were dug by non profits from rich countries to resolve the issue of high rates of disease and death from consuming unsanitary surface waters. The wells were successful in terms of reducing death and short term acute disease. But some wells were also poisoning people.

They ultimately found that the poison wells went to a particular depth. Wells that were less deep or more deep did not contain arsenic.

Having arsenic-free wells was not a matter of cost per se. It was a matter of knowledge of the bedrock.

I'm interested in finding those answers that are the equivalent of drilling wells to the right depth so people can have disease-free water that also is not poisoned. I'm not interested in agreeing that either we can die quickly due to disease-ridden surface waters or die slowly to arsenic poisoning and, obviously, poor people would rather die slow than fast.
While I gave examples of family, my first two paragraphs referred to Japanese society in general. Should have been clearer.

> ... expressing feeling is generally considered a good thing in a healthy relationship ...

Not sure that can be assumed to be a universal truth. In most cases, in Japan, expressing feeling is sign of a problem. And often one reason ( of many ) for the isolation foreigners can face in Japanese society. While trying to 'express' themselves, they're actually making others feel uncomfortable by doing so, or trying to convey things that have been already understood, no need 'to explain the joke', you're ruining it.

Not trying to paint a rosy picture here, anyway, about Japanese ways. There are many problems in Japanese society ( directly related to the topic and mentioned in other comments, the massive and ubiquitous alcoholism and all its terrible consequences, for instance ), and societal pressure reaches levels hard to understand in the West, for sure.
> groups of 20 year olds 10k$ and some advice.

not that bad of an idea imho.

a VC fund with 100mil can fund 10,000 groups of kids this way. Gives kids new opportunities socially (reduces teen delinquency), and the VC could hope to recoup if/when one of them becomes unicorn status.
The AWS docs are significantly worse than Heroku's, and in general you'll be likely to get tripped up and waste time figuring something out.
Risk-free is in relation to the risk of getting your money back. Not the risk that the return is lower than inflation.

#2 is true, but extremely unlikely.

Risk-free basically means the lowest possible risk. Not true zero risk.
Recently though I've found Zoom sessions to crash gnome shell as soon as I try to switch workspaces in the middle of a meeting. Probably a more technical issue than overall design but it's forced me to boot into Windows for Zoom meetings for now (because I'm too lazy to try diagnose the crash myself).
The ITU IMT standards are dumb and meaningless.

They just set aspirational targets, but don’t define any technology for meeting those targets. ITU jumped from 200 kbps for 3G to 1 gigabit for 4G. That was not a useful definition and the market correctly ignored it. Imagine if we had “3G” wired networking defined as 100 mbps and “4G” wired networking aspirationally defined as 10 gigabit. What would you do when the IEEE (the folks who actually make the technology) release 1G Ethernet. Would you insist on calling it 3.5G wired networking?

“4G” is LTE. It’s 4G because it’s what came after HSDPA/EVDO, not because it meets any particular ITU target.
Well they laid off the entire team, so that's unlikely. These are typically product pivots, not financial downsizings when it's entire teams.
You have no idea how relevant this is to me at exactly this moment! About an hour ago, I found out that a competitor (a larger incumbent player) released a feature today that I had built and released 6 months ago!

I've been panicking the last couple of hours, but now it's back to the grind. I've got a lot more feature ideas in mind, and this is just that extra push to do the things I've been putting off.
I think this is where a good college curriculum is invaluable compared to say a bootcamp. The reason being is that you get exposed to a lot more aspects of computer science that show you just how much you don't know.
I believe many programmer today did not familiar with assembly. A lot of them started with web development.
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习近平同意大利总统举行会谈
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习近平指出，中意都是拥有灿烂文化的文明古国。两国关系有着深厚的历史积淀。今年是中意建立全面战略伙伴关系15周年，明年将迎来两国建交50周年。近半个世纪来，两国相互尊重、相互信任、相互帮助，不断密切高层交往和战略互信，增进交流合作和利益交融，深化相互了解和传统友谊。当今世界正面临百年未有之大变局。中方愿同意方传承和发扬合作精神，加强战略沟通，推动国际社会求同存异，以合作促发展，为建设一个更加美好的世界贡献新的智慧和力量。

习近平强调，中方愿同意方携手努力，把牢新时期中意关系发展大方向，密切高层交往，推动双边务实合作提质升级。我赞同总统先生提出的意中应该做利益包容、共同发展的伙伴，中方愿同意方加强全面战略伙伴关系。双方要强化理念沟通，巩固政治互信，继续在涉及彼此核心利益和重大关切问题上相互理解和支持，密切政府、立法机构、政党交流合作。双方要打造合作亮点，携手共建“一带一路”，加强发展战略对接和务实合作规划。中方愿进口更多意大利优质产品，鼓励更多有实力的中资企业赴意大利投资兴业。双方要密切人文交流，加强文化、教育、影视、媒体等领域交流合作，筑牢民心相通工程。
as a small wholesale business owner I was shocked that I have to pay $300 a month to Shopify system that lacks a million things and then I need to pay 30-50 dollars a month for each plugin and it was my job to figure out how they will work with each other. I am not even talking about support and where I should get it from after spending around $500/month on the whole 'solution'. Instead of paying $6k per year or close to $20k for 3 years I got my own ecommerce system custom built.
Thanks, will check.
I know a CIO of a large private company (billions revenue) that has an associates in business mgmt and was promoted from within. Excellent people skills and a good golf game. There's no way they can recruit a competent and empowered IT team so a good sales team makes the decisions. Outside of tech companies, I have no doubt that this is the norm.
Why would anyone sign a contract that makes them liable for the relocation expenses (that could be easily ~50K for intercontinental moves) based on a risk that is outside their control?
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On one’s own property, it should be the default that one may draw the line where one pleases. Or delegate one’s authority to agents — employees — who will handle the question.

As far as your personal interests go, again the presumption should be that if it isn’t your property, and you have no contracts stating otherwise, it isn’t yours to decide whether a decision is made in your own personal best interest.
The down side is that retail stores suffer because customers are less likely to visit when they have to pay for parking. It's one more factor driving consumers away from brick-and-mortar stores to online ordering.
It’s still horrible and inconsistent. Tried using Office with just touch? Even going into some of the Windows settings brings up an old fashion UI.

I have a Dell 2n1 running Windows 10.
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There is a surge of awfully unprofitable businesses with poor business outlooks that are going public with very large valuations.
Nice, good find.
I get 18mbit down, 4 up on the lowest end pre-paid tmobile plan. But I'm also in the suburbs of large metro areas where the networks are fairly well built out. However, this is one of the reasons I pay full price on my phone and stick to pre paid. Lot's more flexibility to up stakes and move to a different carrier if they start downgrading service.
Sounds like Heroku's business model and that works fine for a certain type of business/consumer. Of course you could spin up your own VPS or code your own Rails ecommerce app. But that's not always economical - up to a certain scale.

API changes breaking sites is another matter entirely than their subscription plugin model which could be solved while maintaining that structure.

This change by Spotify seems to be related to Mailchimp not providing a certain standard of service that they demand from other plugin-services on their platform. I could see that being a costly choice for any customer who has to now migrate to other services, but the intentions were largely good and pro-customer.

Hopefully there was some sort of data migration process in place and some upfront warnings before your email marketing system gets cut-off.
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They could have done it on the division level. Pad your org with a relatively useless team just before the forced 10% layoff and you've dodged the bullet.
I'd likely contribute something to gcc, so I'd be getting some money back when everyone else uses it.

You could likely fund openSSL properly if people had to pay some minimal tax on it, that could be offset by contributing
I get what he means, but... it's probably easier to say that "in retrospect" when your ventures are as successful as his.
I think it is misleading to use the lowering rates of women in computer science as proof of anything, especially when you look back to the 60s or 70s. Unlike many scientific fields computer science was much more of a womans field when it started off than it is now, for instance (and I am aware this is quite possibly cherry picking) if you look at images of the bletchely park codebreakers who worked on the origial turing machines to break encryption you'll notice a majority are women. One explanation I found of why this changed in america was the marketting of console video games, up until around the 90s these were not sold as toys and when it came for atari and such to choose between marketting to boys or girls, they chose to sell to boys, leading to connections between boys and computers or electronics.

I don't think this has anything to do with how sexist america is at any time, but rather how the gender roles have changed over a relatively short time period.
and Google is full on speed in that direction
>The gender equality paradox is like a religion to you people.
Lumping everyone who mentions it together and othering them does not seem constructive.

>Women aren't just "less interested" in sofware at the scale we see in that study, they're outnumbered by literally a whole order of magnitude.

How can you be sure? Men are on average more interested in working with things, and women are on average more interested in working with people [1]. "...non-biology STEM majors showed lower [people-orientation] and higher [thing-orientation] interests than biology and health majors."[2] Self-efficacy and competence beliefs tend to be a factor that keep women away from tech [3]. The Gender Equality Paradox also mentions competency as a factor.

1. https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0017364
2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00018...
3. https://portal.research.lu.se/portal/en/publications/will-i-...
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Do you need to speak Italian to travel in these places? I’d love to see more of Italy but not sure how hard it is to get by on English.
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I think that as you get more towards the 70s golf becomes more of a mental game and a battle of endurance to hit shots as crisp on 18 as you did on 1. That being said, I jumped from 100s to around 80 from simple mental things like instead of focusing on hitting the ball with the club, I instead tried to hit the club with the ball. I found that helped me hit the sweet spot much more.
There are many programming fields these day that assembly are more of a nice-to-have than a must. For example web programming where it's not entirely uncommon to find someone only familiar with JavaScript, or enterprise Java where it's more important to know about design patterns than how to code, etc.
I am using a Firefox derivative called Fennec along with uBlock and am never going back to anything else. It can be installed from F-Droid.
that happened to my PayPal account.
* The Millionaire Next Door.

* The Four Pillars of Investing

* A Random Walk Down Wall Street

I've seen fellow interns blow their salaries on 200 jeans, clubbing, and eating every meal out.

Meanwhile, the IRA I started in grad school is growing at ~7% a year providing a nice nest egg.

Financial security gives you the freedom to take risks. Some discipline in your 20s will make your 30s more awesome than you can imagine :)
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"$20k for 3 years" instead of 3 years of custom development costs is nothing... sure it's expensive but that's positioned in a marketplace where the alternatives are far more expensive for the average non-technical e-commerce store owner.

If $6k per year is a big expense for you then obviously this isn't the service for you, but enough people are willing to pay that where they are a billion dollar per yr in revenue company.

If some half-baked open-source PHP ecommerce platform with a p/t solo developer over a couple yrs is sufficient to run your business, that's fine. But that was always an option before Shopify existed too and they probably found they weren't interested in that subsection of the market.
Shopify:

> We (Shopify) are totally addicted to your data and snooping on you so that we can get as much intelligence on as many people as possible so we can exploit everyone in pursuit of revenues, despite the consequences or risk.
> But it's being used here to justify an outrageous outlier. Women aren't just "less interested" in sofware at the scale we see in that study, they're outnumbered by literally a whole order of magnitude. Nothing from that study argues for this kind of effect, nothing at all.

This claim doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Tech is not an "outrageous outlier". there are plenty of jobs that are over 95% male and female respectively: https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/segregation-work-ame...

Here's a much larger list: https://fourpillarfreedom.com/visualizing-u-s-occupational-e...

Software isn't an outlier. In terms of representation of men, it's just behind "printing press operators" and just ahead of "taxi drivers and chauffeurs". Women are about as overrepresented in "File clerks" and "loan interviewers and clerks".

Software is an "outrageous outlier".
During the boom, the Williston ND Walmart had to end the practice, but other Walmarts still allow it.
Mystery Science Theatre 3000, anyone? :)
Will building/maintaining/running you own system cost less than $20k; most of which you have to pony up upfront?
I think the problem I am describing goes deeper than just the API calls.

It is about support and accountability. As a business owner, I want as few parties responsible for my infrastructure as possible with healthy portability possibilities (to avoid lock-in).

With Shopify app store, the whole idea is insane to me - I have to now deal with Shopify + plugin developers individually to fix issues. Things break all the time, just go to Shopify forums for support. And then, there is the risk of a developer leaving Shopify ecosystem with a dangling plugin never to be maintained.
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"Connected to the civil war" is the key word here.

She was born well after WW1 in 1930... which was 63yrs after the Civil War ended. Meanwhile:

> The last surviving Civil War veteran died in 1956 at the age of 109, according to the VA.

Similarly (and probably more interesting) is the 17th century perpetual bonds still paying interest from 370yrs+ ago: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/08/the-17th-century-bond-...
full of deceit
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Depends pretty heavily on the place. South Dakota has some really good ones and some really bad ones. Checking the light poles generally tells the tale.
So? Continue to wade through it and you’ll end up with a significantly lower IT bill at the end of the month. The extra work pays off quickly.
When overwhelmed - spin a beach ball!!!
what a shameful industry
Ah interesting. Makes sense.
Yeah, but what about thinking strategically, placing figures on a virtual chess board, anticipating moves, etc? Assuming their actions can affect you, or otherwise them wouldn't be competitors. If this is a wasted effort to someone, maybe they just aren't doing this right.
He's trying to crash a script-kiddy's box with fuzzing. It's a fun thought, though I'm not sure it's practical as you'd only get a few tries. Fuzzing is typically an approach of throwing it the wall and seeing what sticks; if your deep learning found something that crashed most ssh clients that would just be a zero-day.
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1. Really, anyone who changes their logos playfully sets a precedent for a gaming culture? Do you actually play games?

2. Streaming a film and streaming the full content of Halo is a whole different ballgame. Do you know the kind of optimizations devs have to do to achieve the performance they do on pcs and consoles?

3. And how many Chrome book users is there?

I think at best this will be more like a mobile game platform. Won't put a dent on AAA games on PCs and Consoles.
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There's nothing like hands-on experience. Go set up a VM, and read the digital ocean docs. They're some of the best resources out there. Go start reading the arch linux wiki, that has some nice information on configuring services. Look into docker and investigate it. Think about how these things are put together. Understand business needs and how things fit together to make money.
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Shit, I have sleeped in at least 15 walmart parking lots over the last year, and I have never had a problem.
No, it was 2c-e according to the toxicology reports in the newspapers at least.
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I'm on prepaid but I'm paying for data consumption I just don't utilize given the abysmal speeds. I have to use a mobile VPN just to achieve decent peering.

Basically to get around this absurd policy I have to switch to another carrier and back over two months. However, I don't plan to switch back once I make the jump.

In the last year I've traveled to a couple states and a few dozen cities and I had garbage speed and latency in all of them. T-Mobile's solution was that I buy a new phone. But the phone achieved 100mbit when I first got my plan.
I've got one on my keys, and one stuck in the back of my monitor.

sure, somebody could steal it, but I'm bit going to lose it
I am in downtown Denver Colorado and can’t even reach 10Mbps on 4G LTE (Att).

In the Czech Republic, on a prepaid SIM card, I received around 50Mbps, many years ago.

I have zero trust in these wireless generation differences. There are so many other variables in end-user speed.
That’s just content marketing, nothing to do with thinking about competition, although that’s what you’ll be doing if you write that.
Great to see wireguard is taking Windows support seriously, rather than just using the openvpn driver. Currently on tunsafe, but I'm excited to switch over to the first-party client when it's available.
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If you want to integrate with AWS/Azure, Python is the language of choice for CLI.

It's because the actual AWS CLI/Azure CLI is written in Python and they have the most supported interface so far known.

I personally like Go because it's easier to ship a static binary but in this case I would recommend otherwise.
Also getting a cushy tenured position takes years of hard work, and the alternative is being a perpetual postdoc which is paid abysmally.
Blue and Green for the Web in 1999!

https://www.nngroup.com/books/designing-web-usability/
What about woocommerce? It's not terrible, and seems like it's very flexible, plus a lot of the stuff is free.
When it comes to this "Play" carrier in Poland high speeds are for contracts, prepaid SIMs are limited to 70 Mbps
If you or anyone affected is interested: I'm hiring in AWS both in Seattle and Vancouver, BC. Email me at alljay at amazon.com.
I guess it depends a little on whether you feel like the spec writer or testers should have anticipated cheating, and attempted to detect it or not. If the job of a tester includes catching cheaters, or if a good spec should be very hard to cheat, I'm not sure missing that falls at the feet of the legislators.
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