skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found a simple explanation for much of the gap. In terms of hours, Women work 12% less than men.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/lf/aat22.txt

So really, the gap is only 8% (not 20%), assume a strictly linear relationship between hours worked and money earned.
Yes, my mistake, I saw the "According to Pinker..." paragraph first. AFAIK they are siblings otherwise.
Interesting when you compare the argument made in the ranking article right now (http://www.spacex.com/updates.php) to the one made here in the Economist. China is at a crossroads it would seem. Further, the potential for China to have an even greater healthcare-cost problem than the US seems pretty obvious now, no?
Do you think it could be disparate risk aversions between men and women (or decent people and over-competitive arseholes)? The system only appears to favor them. The system also punishes them severely at the opposite end. Risk takers make the most money. They also go bankrupt (or to prison. See: Enron). "Decent people", on the other hand, play it safe, and the system neither rewards or punishes them.

lkozma makes an excellent point here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2524031

Assuming risk profiles are the cause, then the problem is by nature the fact that men are historically the bigger risk takers.
Thanks! That was really interesting.

I take it "we" was you and your gf?
I'm also English. Calling something 'utter arse gravy of the highest order' isn't a particularly informative form of criticism.
So on average men work 40 hours, while women work 35. What this study doesn't show is whether the women wanted to work the full 40 hours and were not allowed to, or if they chose not to for external reasons (child bearing, social activities, etc.) There could still be discrimination within the hours allocated for working.
There's probably still a gender gap, but look at the trend -- it's been shrinking steadily since the early 70s: http://i.imgur.com/RnpSl.png

Can you look at that graph and claim 80% is a ceiling?

The data [1] for this isn't even adjusted for "equal work", one of the difficulties mentioned in the article. It's just median individual income, which probably overstates the disparity -- see eg yummyfajitas' comment [2] on number of working hours.

[1] page 36: http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p60-236.pdf

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2524159
Has to have all the basic functionality of the original.

Here's an example:

I just played for a bit and after setting a city to build something noticed a few turns later that one of my easternmost cities had been taken over. When? I don't know, but there was no battle displayed and no notification.

Other features that are missing are being able to see how many units you have stationed in a city, what cities are building what, notifications when upgrades are complete, etc., etc.

This is why big games require oodles of developers (sadly!)
I would disagree with the statement "nobody can afford to burn a huge logo onto the Moon". If the only constraint is who can "afford" it, the advertising world has some pretty deep pockets.
I agree with you mostly, and I think there is a misunderstanding of the terms. It's possible to serve large amounts of requests with threads as well as with event loops, but there is a distinction between the two on how they consume resources. The author is wrong in assuming threads will not scale, as they will, but a Java web framework using threads will eat up hundreds of megs under heavy load, while an event loop will keep on churning away with progressively longer response times. It's not so much a case of lying as much not knowing when to stop presuming instead of investigating the actual facts.
It circumvents the paywall.
Yeah, whenever people say threads don't work, point them to Varnish. It uses threads intelligently and everyone agrees it's fast and awesome.
Are you sure you identified all of the 16 and 17 year olds?

When my wife was a 15 year old college student, people assumed she was quite a bit older. She was intellectually, emotionally, and socially ready for college at that age. Those students who are ready in all three ways are often overlooked. Other students are ready intellectually but missing the social or emotional aspects, and they're the ones you're more likely to notice.

If you or I have a daughter who finishes high school early, college might not be the best option, or it might. You have to evaluate it on a case-by-case basis.
How would you do it, exactly? Bear in mind that any logo visible on the Moon from Earth would have to be roughly the size of... oh, say, the United States.
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I know what I said.
A phrase may represent multiple questions, and a question may have multiple answers.

It's definitely much better to provide links relevant to the phrase for users to identity the right answer, instead of giving an irrelevant one.
A process blocks when it needs to be rescheduled, yielding back to the process scheduler pending I/O. That's what "block" means. It doesn't mean "all the time consumed by any operation performed by the process". For instance, a process doesn't "block" when a hash table lookup unexpectedly trends O(n) due to collisions.

On a nonblocking socket, the I/O operations you're talking about are simple u/k and k/u buffer copies.

I think between aio_+ and the C10k page, you may have gotten a bit scrambled. Whether you have an event loop or not, disk I/O is often transparently blocking, even when you try to set descriptors nonblocking. But I/O operations on a nonblocking socket don't wait the process. If there's data in the buffer, you get the data; if there isn't, you get the error.
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Having all aggregate phone location data available for comparison would be useful in balancing that. If you could compare where people are to where they're searching for you could figure out what new places people go to and what places they go to but don't search for. Rank places based on how often people go back there - sort of a geo-Backrub.

Google and Apple obviously can have that data, but do privacy constraints prevent them from using it?
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So that's kinda what I had in mind. From general appearances, it does seem that squeaky wheels get oiled, regardless of how much they actually contribute to an enterprise. Slapping an adjective on bias is something of a false dilemma. I am philosophically opposed to labeling bias in a way that politically polarizes arbitrarily delineated groups. It's the ship with no captain problem.
Or you could stop pretending the government can legitimately criminalize a harmless business activity at the behest of a rent-seeking cartel.

I agree with you, to some extent. However, some level of regulation is necessary, otherwise "harmless" can quickly become "harmful". The case of South Africa is instructive.

In South Africa, the Apartheid government entirely deregulated the minibus taxi industry in the late 1980's. It was to be a cheap source of transport for the black population, since public transport links, particularly in newly established "white flight" areas were very poor (whites tended to have cars, blacks didn't). Also the idea was that individual taxi owner/drivers would help foster black entrepreneurship.

The best description of what happened next I've read is "the miracle of the 1980's turned into the nightmare of the 1990's". Instead of one-man one taxi, we got one owner, with many taxis. Taxi owners formed cartels, and violence in competition for routes led to murderous street warfare ("taxi wars").

The weakened state (1990-1996) was unable to intervene. Starting with the Mandela administration, attempts were made to re-regulate taxi operations, but were consistently stymied by the taxi organisations. Even as recently as the last 2 years, taxi owners, through road blockades (and a fatal shooting) managed to strong-arm the government into giving them control of a new Johannesburg bus system.

In any town and city in South Africa, overloaded, barely roadworthy taxis blast through intersections disregarding traffic rules, stopping dangerously, their drivers desperate to increase their takings, menacing their own passengers and other motorists with their aggression. Fatalities are not uncommon.
If you specify just one example that would be good enough.
I can give you my example:

http://www.quantcast.com/postjobfree.com/traffic
355,373 visits per month reported by Quantcast is 10% less than what Google Analytics reports (272,688 Visits per Month).

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/postjobfree.com/
126,069 unique visits in March 2011 reported by Compete.com is ~2 times lower than Google Analytics shows for US traffic in March 2011 (252,621 Visits).

While Compete.com reports numbers that are two times lower, it shows trends correctly (overall PostJobFree.com growth; drop of PostJobFree.com traffic in December).
Right, you can't project from Earth and get that kind of broadly visible image. You'd have to setup projection via satellite orbiting the Moon.
"Homework assignment".

It's a symbol table, or a table of atoms (insert a string, get its atom_t, &c).
Yeah, uh, sounds a lot like like "hay, dudez, let's use the moon as a restroom wall. lol!"

I mean, I know we're moving towards cyberpunk dystopia, but, come on, can we not have this kind of poop being floated?
sure...

I would go onto say we should not have not moved out of Africa at all.

Most people would agree that we humans somehow end up making places less beautiful by own standards by inhabiting them and exploiting them.

But we NEED to do it. We can just ensure that we restrain ourselves from crossing a commonly accepted limit. I had never suggested turning moon into a billboard in the sky.

Think of it more like rock painting made by a caveman. in certain restricted parts of the moon.
Reminds me of this:
http://teddziuba.com/2009/09/twisted-vs-tornado-youre-both.h...
It's interesting to see an article like this on TC, I was rather surprised at first.

Not sure if I like it or not, it just doesn't seem like their 'core competency'.
PS: I've been in situations where it's hard to ignore the fact that I was passed over for something because of my gender. I have bouts of existential angst over it -- why do I persist in growing my skills set only to be passed over for something I cannot (reasonably) control? The answer is always the same: because it feels good. And that's worth more than money to me.
I think the article misses a point - in order to speak well, particularly off-the-cuff, one must first be able to think quickly and clearly. Looked at this way, judging people on how well they speak is a useful short-cut to assess their thinking skills (although not definitive).
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Yes, that wording is much better.

Person1: "My house washed away!"
Person2: "I have found the cause: it was that hurricane last night. My work here is done; glad I could help; you are very welcome."
This is a really horrible article, and it's clear that the author doesn't have a great grasp of English culture by the bad generalisations he makes.

While I haven't bothered with University, I did go to an expensive private school (a step below the likes of Eton) (fees paid by a scholarship), and I have had some links to Oxford University which technically make me an alumnus of an Oxford college and gave me the experience of the university without having studied there (long story). So I'm pretty familiar with the people this article is trying to talk about. For example I have been in the same class as the son of Peter Hitchens, the brother of Christopher who is mentioned as an example in the article, and also the same class as a boy from the Getty family.

Overall, I would say that as a country we value talking and arguing highly as skills, more so than many countries. It definitely becomes more noticeable the higher you climb on the social ladder, but that is generally just because the better educated you are, the more practise you get and the more you learn. It's not that middle/upper class education teaches people these things, it's just that, as with all subjects, private education tends to give people an easier ride.

The idea that at OxBridge it's more about talking than knowing. This was much more true before I was born, a few decades ago. It's certainly what many people who went to those universities in the 50s-70s would say.

"Traditionally, elite Britons then leave education aged 21." That has nothing to do with being "elite", simply that the majority of people who go to university don't study past their BA.

"When Tony Blair hinted that Iraq’s 'weapons of mass destruction' could hit London within 45 minutes, the establishment mostly believed him." Actually a huge number of us didn't believe him, but we blamed it on lies rather than mathematical difficulty. Many of us took to the streets in protest against these lies.

"Educated Americans would often praise Blair for arguing the case better than President Bush could." If you have to draw comparison with GWB to prove that someone is good at arguing a case then you've lost the argument already. I don't know a single working class person who doesn't manage to appear more engaged when speaking than Bush.

"But in general, Britain’s ruling classes are funny speakers." Nonsense. Britain as a whole tends to have a sense of humour, in my experience the upper middle class has less humour than lower classes.

"It was the urge to amuse that recently prompted Cameron to riff on an old TV ad and..." It wasn't the urge to amuse, and anyone who tries to suggest that Cameron, or frankly any of our leading politicians, has a sense of humour, hasn't spent enough time listening to them talk. That was Cameron's attempt to appear hip and youthful.

"Admittedly, ignorance sometimes saves Britain’s rulers from error." How can such a claim be made without given a single example or a single piece of logic to justify it. I don't know if it's a good or a bad point because, without any context, I've no idea what he's even trying to say.
so any bugs yet.??
I didn't realize that he's sending printed checks from his fictional bank. That's better than the old checks--I love the "0x$" and "hexadecimal dollars".
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It is a rather English insult, though.
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This writing has a few awesome hum-dingers: "Like many of the hangovers that haunt modern software engineering, this is ultimately mostly Microsoft’s fault," "Yes, I am being deliberately sexist here, because in my experience those women who write code are consistently good at it," and "So what should a real interview consist of? Let me offer a humble proposal: don’t interview anyone who hasn’t accomplished anything. Ever."

When I read his work, I feel like this author writes in a binary way: Either an entity's right, or they're wrong. Period. (Jon Evans or the highway!)
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These countries have had centuries to progress. Why now?
one man's horrific crime against the government is another man's struggle for freedom. A tool isn't all things to everyone
Slightly off topic but I liked the word play in the last line (paraphrased): "It's not easy to be a start-up when you're viewed as an up-start."
You bring up a very important aspect of quality control. i.e. How to prevent it from turning into a restroom wall. Of course it will go through an editorial process.

Something magical has prevented HN from turning into a rest room wall when many others have failed. "Processes" and communities can make that magic happen. Anyway as I said elsewhere I have abandoned the idea :).

I love the community here... Validating an idea can get over in a few hours especially if the decision is to toss it away...
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Nothing as satisfying as really really occasional bugs. (When they aren't yours)
Yeah, I was also surprised with it. But it made me think that this problem is actually getting so big that even techcrunch is talking about it.

Oh, and I actually like their reasoning - I think the software engineering community needs to figure out a better way to interview candidates.
yeah, all this rush, and in 99% of cases it's just to get a job where you are a small cog in a big company
Just be careful not to get sued. Now that OKCupid is owned by eharmony (or some other big company--I forgot), they're more likely to enforce their trademarks and such. Or else, they lose it.

Funny idea--how did you come up with it?
About time. This has bugged me for years.
Just like startups, anything that displace the silicon valley would probably not be like silicon valley. It'll be something else probably...
I didn't see this before, but the SpaceX office tour is pretty awesome: http://spacex.com/multimedia/videos.php?id=26
I'd encourage everyone to read Einstein's book on relativity: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/books/Albert%20Einstein/Albert%2...

His writing style is beautifully simple and the content is therefore easy for anyone to read and understand.
I have a completely different approach. I hire people who have worked with a particular technology or ecosystem for a while, because I think that builds the relevant experience and habits. If they are good at things similar to what we are doing, they should be able to pick it up and integrate quickly, and learn more stuff.

And don't underestimate the value of good documentation.

But of course, one prerequisite is absolutely necessary: the ability to approach problems logically. That is what one should look for on top of the domain knowledge.

Besides interview questions, give an interview ASSIGNMENT. Meaning, before you are hired, you have to complete some task. This shows a) commitment to wanting to work here, and b) shows that you can sole the kinds of problems we had to face before.

You know your version control, where someone had to go in and fix some bugs? Well, encapsulate these things as minimum examples (with e.g. javascript errors, maybe a stray comma or something in JSON) and then tell the guy "it doesn't work on IE, please fix it". You know it can be done because it WAS done. That's the kind of stuff they'll need to do at work.
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http://www.almstba.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19816
http://www.almstba.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19816
The paper this points to is the "OECD FORUM ON TACKLING INEQUALITY". (capitalization in the paper) Post-colonic: "What drives it and how can policy tackle it?" (I had to decapitalize.)

The paper explores a large number of factors, but it is diffult to see how the base premise is anything other than Inequality needs to be 'tackled'. Where destruction of the middle class is happening, that needs to be tackled. Extreme poverty needs to be tackled. Creation of a middle class in countries that lack it needs to be tackled. Inequality, however, is a metric, and one that is oblivious to whether things are getting better or worse. Successfully tackling inequality says nothing about whether the lives of people have gotten better or worse, it merely tracks uniformity of outcome.

I'm very supportive of policies that prevent social instablity, and poor outcomes. My libertarian streak is weak at best, and centered around a distaste for government interfering in social policy. I'm unhappy with framing this metric as problem, because it easily falls into the trap of helping make people unhappy with otherwise good outcomes. The metric used is inherently oblivous to outcomes that I think matter.

Churchill's "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." applies here.

I can agree we should have distributive tax policies due to falling real wages at the bottom, yet that point is obliterated by starting the debate with a relative metric that I do not agree should drive the policy.
The example is contrived because there is no content in the table cells. In the real world there will be some content, and suddenly your "width"-attributes are many lines apart and not nicely aligned. This makes is a mess to maintain, because there is no single place where your layout is defined; the information is spread all over the document, mixed with other kinds of information.

Furthermore, separating style info into a style sheet allows you to adapt the style for different devices.
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The gender imbalance is a real problem. Historically cultures that have an overabundance of males end up at war. I really would hate to be a typical male in that culture right now. But it's good that their birthrate is decreasing.
Yeah, HN has a pretty narrow focus and has a conscious effort to maintain its quality.

OTOH, reddit, digg, 4chan, pretty much every newspaper with comments - they all turn into hives of idiocy and depravity really quick (although 4chan might have simply started there. :X)
So for those of us who didn't go to oxbridge and didn't acquire this valuable skill, how do we acquire it as adults?
I'm pretty sure that if you put on an upper class accent (think Hugh Laurie) that would be enough to make the author of this article assume that you have the skill.
But I think we agree. Layouts with nested tables are hard to maintain because presentational concerns (like the attributes which defines cell sizes) is spread all over the document and intermingled with the content. It's a mess.
> Smart and Gets Things Done. (Academia is teeming with
> people who are the former but not the latter.

Tired stereotype. Academics at the top of their game know how to get shit done, very much so even. But it's different shit.
SpaceX has brought down the cost of space travel by an order of magnitude. If Ad Astra succeeds in their VASIMR effort, they will bring it down further. Many things you could only dream about in the past will soon be economically viable.

Just because something is possible does not mean we need to do it. And that is something I figured today!!!
I'd expect to get a price break on something like an internet course. I wonder if her degree cost her less that way?
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You guys should do a kickstarter with each flight. Spondors get their photo taken into space or something.
Bill Gates tried teledesic... it went nowhere though...
I think you are confusing the definitions of non-blocking IO and memory-mapped IO.
Good point. It may seem intuitively true given that the constituent states in the EU are probably as diverse as those in the US.

However, the US had a Gini of 45 [1] while the EU had a Gini of 30 [2], suggesting that despite the vast differences among the European states, overall they are more equal. The reason is that countries like Luxembourg are very small (in population), and Europe as a while is dominated primarily by countries like France, Germany and England where individually income distributions are vastly more equal than in the US.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

[2] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
I'm just doing it for the fun; if OkCupid comes to know about it and ask me to remove it (through a courteous email, or something stronger like a DMCA notice or a Cease and Desist), I will comply asap.

I don't remember exactly how I came up with it. I was trying to find a better way to show my CV and browsing OkCupid at the same time I guess :)
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