skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Scandinavian countries rank high, probably the highest, when it comes to gender equality. They also rank high when it comes to having a gender segregated labour market. You might find more women in STEM in a third world country that has less gender equality than in a Scandinavian country. One possible explanation is that these countries are affluent while countries with more gender inequality tend to be less affluent. If you don't have a social safety net, and maybe even have to rely on finding a husband to provide for you and all the uncertainty that goes with that, if you don't find a job for yourself that is lucrative enough, STEM might be a good choice. But if you live in a country with both a lot of gender equality and income equality? Then money doesn't factor into it that much anymore...

I tried to Google for the articles I've read about this but I didn't manage to find them.
The thing that sticks out most is this: Of the very angry people who were repeatedly tweeting attacks at him after the Valleywag article, I haven't seen even one apologize. It's just sad.

Edit: @antics, I just reread the stream of angry @paulg tweets from Dec. 28th and have no idea what you're talking about. Maybe I missed tptacek's tweet both times. Please don't attack me over it.
Name your friend, name the YC founders who held this perception so they can discuss it with the involved parties. Of course, that won't happen.
That's pretty great. Would like to have keyboard navigation though. j and k for up and down on post selection and Enter to open article, (maybe "c" for comments)
Songs for your girlfriend
Time saver app. Don't worry to select the right song for the right time. Still in development but you can try and use.
The Verge Awards: The Best of CES 2014
This reminds me of an Etsy engineering talk about A/B testing:

http://mcfunley.com/design-for-continuous-experimentation

Etsy employees were so sure that customers would love having blank/multi-windows, because if you shop on Etsy a lot, how else would you keep track of interesting things while moving down the list?

According to slide 20, 70 percent more people in the testing group gave up and left the site after getting a new tab.
The only deliberately dishonest person here is you. The linked dictionary show quite clear how wrong you are, but I guess I can't expect you to actually read what you link. A restriction can only limit something you already have (read your link). You can not gain something by limit it, nor is a limited area bigger than the whole area itself.

The only way GPL can limit you, is if what you had previous is more. You might feel self-restricted by accepting a license, in the same way that my income will be restricted if I buy a new car every week. The car however is not a restriction, nor is the trade a restriction. Its my action of purchasing beyond my credit limit that is the restriction.

What people hate is irrational people that you represent here that refuses to actually use correct language in favor of pushing your agenda onto people. Calling you nut might be a bit crude, but what else is there to say.
This is pretty fail on Amazon's part. Does anybody have a contact inside Amazon that can help this guy get his job?
Right, and you could also just disconnect the antenna. But GPS is useful for applications that have nothing to do with tracking, so it'd be nice to have access to devices which include strong, legally enforceable guarantees against location tracking (aside from targeted, judicially sanctioned tracking by law enforcement, since making life difficult for cops with warrants does little more than waste taxpayer money).
Ferraris are fun to drive.
Afformations | Better than Affirmations?
Its interesting how this problem of payments is basically non-existent in Hungary. People are used to using escrow and getting paid after delivery. Not to say that this app wouldn't work in Hungary but the cultural differences would certainly slow its virality. I love the bitcoin points made before me, and I too believe that accepting them would be a great move given the media hype and its functional overlap. In addition, I don't feel its crucial to solve payments for an app like this. Rather partnering with other solutions makes more sense in my head. I'd love to hear what inspired the FOBO team to develop a solution of their own. Also shouldn't there be a more generic solution to the second hand market? Fobo team, I would love a comment on why electronics (I'm sure you guys did testing but did you compare focused to non focused or you just compared across focus categories)? Also, why wait so long and release such a full app versus doing something simpler as a start? Altogether great job and congrats!
It takes a total of maybe 15 seconds to learn how to open a link in a tab. If that's too much effort for someone, then I seriously question what other small things that person has decided to just not learn throughout their life.

For most of them it's not a matter of them not wanting to learn or being too lazy to learn. It's that they don't know that there is something they need to learn.

They don't know that it's an option. They don't know that it's possible. They don't even know that it is something they should consider.

It's simple to everyone on HN, but even simple things are not obvious to everyone that uses a computer or mobile device. One of our users just a few weeks ago did not know how to copy and paste text. Not didn't know the keyboard shortcuts…Did not know how to do it at all!

Instead, the user printed out the text I had requested him to copy/paste, scanned it in, and attached the image to a reply email.

You do what you know how to do.
> Most people know how to open your article’s outbound links in new tabs or windows, especially readers of a tech site.

Readers of a technical site? Maybe.

Average people? Not a chance.
Interesting. Having division defined (for a set) can certainly be useful. So division and indexing (as seen in the article here, indexing starts at 1) are two arguments for positive integers, and ranges and empty sets are arguments for non-negative integers.
In the Dark Ages phone I saw, the processor got to turn on a transistor that passed current to the vibrator. Normal operation was either off or full on; there wasn't a way to write a bit greater than 1 to the port pin that controlled the vibrator.
That is subjective and unrelated to my question, could please give me proper well based answer to the issue that wrote above, or i just have to assume that your claims are based in the examples that i gave in the same and you are just a troll?
> HR - $1,374,695.06 - or 52% of total costs

Why would it be unusual for the majority of costs to be salaries for a company that sells services and develops products? This has nothing to do with the "talent war." That's just the way things work. What else would they be spending money on?

> AWS - $394,588.35 - or 14% of total costs

How much higher would that number have been had Everpix built out their own infrastructure?
If only airlines were rated by comfort, I'd be willing to understand why I ought to pay $100 more per seat to fly airline B rather than A.
Notably, and relevant to this post, the number of media codecs implemented is Rust is, I believe, zero. So perhaps the "some of these problems" is perhaps a bit spun.

Rust looks great for apps and middleware. I don't see ffmpeg or x264 (both of which are implemented with significant amounts of architecture-specific machine code -- an environment where neither C nor Rust is going to be able to help avoid the kind of bugs we're talking about) jumping ship any time this decade.
The point I'm hoping to make is that there is no universal < operator on workflows that lets us rank them in a way that makes sense for most teams. Different teams necessarily have their own, widely varying < operators, and applying these operators to the set of plausible workflows causes wildly varying workflows to rise to the top.

There are, however, workflows that are so bad that they rank poorly under your < operator, my < operator, and just about every other reasonable person's < operator. Your example makes this painfully clear.

Still, someone at the company you interned at had an < operator that pushed that horrible workflow to the top of the list. You can argue that that person was crazy, and maybe you would be right, but maybe that person wasn't. Maybe that person's < operator accounted for things you couldn't see. Maybe the company needed the Git workflow to contort itself into integrating with legacy processes that would have been hugely expensive to change. Whatever the reason, that person's < operator is not one that you or I would want to have forced upon us.

Why then should we assume our personal < operators good enough to force upon anybody else, let alone everybody else?
Bit off topic but I may as well bring this up here.

1. flvrunner uses ffmpeg
2. biggest result for flvrunner searches is how to remove flvrunner (including browser toolbars)
3. doubleclick runs webads for flvrunner.com (google own doubleclick)
4. such ads even run on onlinebehavior.com, which is owned by Google's analytics guy.

There's a lot of malware on the net that google could do more to reduce.

Someone more conspiratorially minded than me might make other deductions.
Why stop there? Nomi tracks any smartphone user who enters a physical store, without their consent[0]: http://www.getnomi.com/

[0] Storeowners install the device, and customers have to opt-out: http://nomi.com/privacy/
There's no reason (once you've decided to nationalize) that you couldn't just nationalize foreign interests (or even interests held by a certain (group of) nations -- such as a nation you're at war with?
The often mentioned quote from B. Franklin (reproduced in the linked site) about "any society" giving up a little liberty for a little security and deserving neither is I think quite funny, because giving up liberty in exchange for security is the very definition of society.

Society is not about liberty; it's about control, surveillance, obedience, in exchange from keeping aliens at bay.

If everyone's my brother I don't need "society", because there are no aliens.

On the other hand, if every brother is a potential or covert alien, then I need a very intense system of control.

I'm not sure it's possible to have society without surveillance; they are sides of the same coin.
I very much doubt that the majority of the American population under 40 are "sophisticated users". And no, browsing Facebook and twitter every day does not count. Especially this day and age full of tablets, smartphones and specific apps, people are unlearning how actual Web browsing works.

This said, personally I consider clicking on a link to an external resource/website to have a default behaviour of opening in a new tab. Failure of doing so counts as a usability bug to me. For same-site links then I agree, opening a new tab doesn't make sense.

There's nothing more frustrating than browsing with mouse only and being forced to go back and open a link with ctrl+click or middle click(also my mouse3 button is broken, but that's my problem)
wouldn't "discrepancy" be a more suitable term?

It's a question, I really don't know.
Hackers steal card data from Neiman Marcus
http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-jim-farley-retracts-stat...
You just spent a paragraph explaining how it was within your control, but because of some nonsense reasoning, you chose to do it anyway.

It's a very simple concept. If you are renting, you have relinquished any guarantee of stability.
Thanks pretty interesting insights for other startups!
> You definitely would find me on /r/formula1! I'm oh84s

I was so excited for a split second there!

same un on reddit as well :)
Every time...

Theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6441795

Potential examples:

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6885123 - Homeless coder starts app
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6365495 - Africans genetically more corrupt?
3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6448409 - Rick Ross's history
4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6857739 - Nelson Mandela dies
5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6035263 - (Most obvious)Resume with black vs white name
6. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6902563 - Cover up of racist+sexist mindset in Harvard
7. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6907915 - Homeless coder finishes app
8. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6975732 - BlackGirlsCode event

I'm going to just keep on collecting these links and post the list on every instance I see.
This will be added as the 9th.
This could have been beginning of a hockey stick growth too. You'd think this is where a VC would be willing to accept some risk.
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Then you truly weren't paying attention. At the top of comments section re: one of the articles explaining that the interview with pg left out an entire question, tptacek's apology was the top-voted comment.

Insinuating yourself into a discussion you have not been following carefully to accuse another party of hubris is pretty much the apex of bad discussion behavior. It is not in good faith, please don't do it.
Well, you recognize that the spelling and grammar are messed, fix it! You know what they say about execution. Spelling and grammar are part of that.

Your 'about' page still says nothing about what the user should expect when they are logged into the site. All you tell is about why you had the idea, which quite frankly doesn't make a ton of sense to me, and then that "Linkedin.com is the myspace of our generation and jizie.com is the facebook".

HOW! WHAT! You've given people absolutely nothing with regards to what the site will do. Even if you just give one or two examples of how your (hopefully soon to be renamed) site is different. What will it allow you to do.

I see in another thread that you responded that 'without a co-founder...'. Please don't make excuses. There are tons of people who have built successful sites without co-founders. I'm sure there are also lots of people who grew up in 'bad neighbourhoods', just as there are people in technology who grew up in the farming communities where they didn't have access to a technology community.

I know I'm sounding like a downer but I want you to get a bit angry and realize you need to up your game. You've made it further than most have, just by building something and releasing it. It's a sad statement of our industry full of dreamers, but it's the truth. So give yourself a small pat on the back. Then look at the road ahead, and how long and hard it is. Take one step, then another, stay focused, and keep going.

Congratulations. All your hard work to get to this point is nothing in comparison to what you've got ahead of you. (That's a compliment, though I know it doesn't sound like one).
Those same people may not understand how tabs work, either. They might not realize where their previous browsing session went, or how to get back (since the back button no longer functions as expected in the new tab).
> why do we programmers always feel we need to apologize for something that we did quickly

Because if we don't, our programming brethren will assume that we thought the fix was correct and optimal. And we'll get bashed for it.

Haven't you ever heard of the quip (summarized): "The quickest way to get help from a technical crowd is to claim what you're doing is correct. People will bend over backwards to prove you wrong."
With students that get bad grades being kicked out from the 'free' track. This might actually be workable.
at least with word of mouth, i can gauge the veracity of their statement.

If I know Bob has unrealistic expectations, I'll take his opinion with a grain of salt. I would only know that because I'm Bob's friend.

If Jane says "They suck. Don't go there." but in more words, I tend to take it at face value and place less significance on any individual review.
We'll definitely be up front on how necessary an H1B turns out to be once we have that info from our employers. Preliminary results suggest that around 2/3 of companies are fine with sponsoring H1B transfers, but we don't have data yet on sponsoring new H1Bs, which I guess is the big question.
Why the fuck is this being downvoted?

The comment isn't stupid: such gender/race discrimination _may_ backfire(for example, if your message is read not as "black girls have the same abilities but may need extra help" but as "black girls need extra help because they are black & girls -- inherently less smart and talented". Now, I'm not saying that it _will_ backfire(I guess it probably won't) but it _may_.

Also, the author makes a really good point that you probably want to help all disadvantaged(unless you're racist/sexist for some reason): why exclude asian girls if they get less help?

I get that, in fact, race/gender discrimination may be the best way to fight race/gender discrimination of the past, but this point of view requires much more explanation than simply hitting downvote button.
The poorest member of Congress was also a California Republican, Congressman David Valadao. He listed debts upwards of $12m, largely stemming from loans on a family dairy farm.

His first piece of legislation:

http://valadao.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID...
Entropy as Understood by a Programmer. Part 1: Program Structure
you sound like a terribly unsocial person if you were that worried about a phone interview. what is wrong with you?
Oh, I agree. I think that C was the right choice for FFmpeg, at least at the time, and I do not think that python would be the right choice for it today.

I'm just making a point that language is relevant when discussing the type and frequency of errors that are surfacing in a project.
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The lead Vancouver recruiter could have screwed up, and might have accidentally dropped the "when I send you the offer" when he hadn't yet talked it over with everyone else. I know nothing about the OP, but maybe he just didn't make the cut.
To other readers - this post is 92% typical post-interview review, but the last 8% is a big WTF on Amazon's part. So... if you're short on time, feel free to skip to the end.
The problem is that you don't understand what racism is. Racism isn't just treating someone differently because she belongs to a different race. Racism has more to do with power dynamics than with color of a person's skin.

For example, just because a college has different standards of admission for different races to promote diversity is not racism but to give preferential treatment to the group of people who have more social and economic power. That's racism.

BlackGirlsCode is not a racist organization. Actually to the contrary, its trying to improve the opportunities to the most under-represented group of people in tech industry. This is a good thing for the tech sector. To focus on blank girls, this organization can be much more effective in its goal (to make tech sector more inclusive) than if it was a "PeopleCode" or even a "GirlsCode" group.
I've been conducting an informal survey amongst coder friends testing the hypothesis:

Childhood experience playing with LEGO blocks is a predictor
of a person's affinity towards programming as an adult.

I think "building things with code" is very similar to "building things with LEGOs" so I wonder to what extent other people see programming the same way and whether "LEGO experience" could be a factor in the developer gender gap.

Perhaps some of the female coders on HN could comment. Did you grow up playing LEGO?
Social anxiety != unsocial. Plus, it was a technical phone interview, where your abilities are relevant, as opposed to a "is this an okay person" phone interview with HR.
Sure do! This has been an issue in web design since 1999. Usability studies back this up.

Open New Windows for PDF and other Non-Web Documents (Jakob Nielsen, 2005) [0]

The Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 1999 (Jakob Nielsen, 1999) [1]

Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design (Jakob Neilsen, 2011) [2]

We gain nothing by "keeping the user on our site." The user doesn't care, to them it's all just content they want to look at. If they want to come back to our site they can use the back button, the most popular feature on a browser[3]. If we open new windows we are: littering the user's screen; breaking their chain of navigation; and if they're on a mobile device, consuming extra RAM and causing other windows to disappear prematurely.

[0] http://www.nngroup.com/articles/open-new-windows-for-pdfs/

[1] http://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-top-ten-web-design-mista...

[2] http://www.nngroup.com/articles/top-10-mistakes-web-design/

[3] http://www.useit.com/articles/browser-and-gui-chrome/
Long-time Amazon employee here.

I have to say that I despise with every fabric of my soul the lunch interview. I wish we didn't do it to people and I decline as many of the lunch interviews I have to give as possible--I don't think I learn much from the candidates as they are starving and tired and trying to put food in their faces. The best candidates tend to answer your questions instead of eating, making you feel rude for eating yourself; the worst candidates take big long thoughtful bites to stall answering.

It is definitely one of the more broken things with the Amazon interviewing system and I wish it would go away.
I know economists talk about people choosing places to live in terms of "amenities," and businesses want to headquarter where people want to live. At what point is it cheaper to import amenities to, I dunno, Wyoming than to keep fighting the rising costs and politics of the metropolis?

I guess the answer is basically never? I wonder how much it would cost to keep the museums and clubs running with a lower population, just a whole planned city of entertainment...

(Maybe because businesses also benefit from sharing a tradeable talent pool with other similar businesses...)
Good idea, but not feasible for a restaurant:)
Don't you mean >1B searches were proxied to Bing, Google etc? Aside from being an anonymizing proxy, I don't see any real reason for DDG. Maybe i'm wrong, maybe the news meant you served > 1B searches from your own inverted index, but I didn't see anything that suggested that.
I work in ad tech, and while this isn't the sort of position I'd take, I do fit the bill qualifications-wise in some ways (IMO). Someone who understands both the business and technology, involved in marketing/advertising. There's a slew of Professional Services positions in my industry that are basically outsourced growth hacking.
Private NPM Registry + Proxy Cache Options
Whether or not first sale doctrine applies here or not is an interesting question, which I believe is unsettled.

I'm pretty sure it can be argued convincingly either way. I'm sure of that because when I was in law school, it was this very question that my copyright professor asked on the day he picked me to be the Socratic method victim, and they always pick questions that can go either way. :-) I don't remember which way I argued, but I think I argued that first sale applied.
I use a lot more than !g or !b
I'm willing to throw those babies out with the bath water. I've been to too many hotels that were fine, where every reviewer with only one review had nothing but awful things to say. I find that to be too much of a coincidence.