skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a decade of managing teams on and off, I have had more melodrama from male staff members than female. The major flameouts and freak-outs have all come from men. Given that I never got to 50% parity and we're talking less than 50 hires overall it would be a mistake to draw any major inferences from my experience, but the same is probably true of hers.

That said, different people need different management styles. But IMO this is mostly cultural, not gender-based. It happens that in Western culture there are gender behavioral norms that you have to allow for. This is something you just have to get over, because a) nowadays you'll never get away with only hiring people just like you and b) the benefits of hiring people from different backgrounds far outweigh the hassle of having to display some sensitivity and treat your reports as individuals.
> There's a reason why HR folks aren't allowed to use it in most firms when recruiting

Can you expand on this? I was blown away by MBTI when I first took the test, and I have considered talking about it in interviews.
>The computers and internet connections (and time) used for piracy are not free.

Yes, but you still have to pay for those if you stream the content. It seems rather dubious to suggest the streaming infrastructure is "necessary", when apparently pirates can distribute fine without it.

Time used to be a factor, but with things like Popcorn Time starting to appear, piracy is approaching the usability of legal streaming services.
what? really? I feel like we aren't allowed to have the freedom of speech anymore.

It's A-OK to completely destroy lives and careers through shaming. It's a method of silencing the opposition for having an opinion you don't like. This is evil.

This women is just making an observation from her own experiences..and somehow it's wrong.
Effective Java. A very succinct collection of wonderful practices and ideas on how to code great software that you can finish in a couple of days, even if you are on a working schedule. Don't mind the "Java" in the title; I read the book regularly and it applies to pretty much any language capable of some OO.

Check the table of contents, it will give you an idea of what to expect from the book.
Of the issues she describes, I have seen them in men as well. I have male friends who have quit with nothing in particular lined up next. I have a male coworker who cried in a meeting, and went to his manager to demand that I apologize for offending him and making him cry. Dirt and gossip? I get just as much from male coworkers as female.

I don't mean to undermine or invalidate her experience, but I feel that the sample is too small. At least, my experience is not consistent with hers.
Considering that the writer goes on at length about how she feels she must treat women differently; "looking inward" would indeed be very much a good idea.

I'm not sure it would be productive, because I'm not seeing evidence of a lot of understanding about what motivates different behaviors in people, which is a skill a manager must have.

"Because she's a woman" is not an adequate explanation for why someone behaves in a particular way.
Hacking YouTube Liberate annotations and in-video drawings
Someone get this man some vim, stat.
Please stop guessing at things and do the hard research and look through mailing list archives and sixperl call summaries. Alternately, ask people who were there. (I was one of those people.)

You're spreading misinformation, and you've been told this enough times that it seems deliberate.
The flowers were "pictures with butterflies". I don't see any mention of flowers, and I bet you can find some awful artwork of butterflies.
Prior patents in the area are one of the main reasons (aside from funding) I think Oculus hooked up with Facebook. They were in a position to get squashed under the past 20 years of VR patents and endless lawsuits. At least now the trolls will know the trial is going to be massively expensive and will be fought to the death.
I didn't see any on App Engine either. Strange...
I see you only mentioned Fox News. You do know CNN and MSNBC are horribly biased as well.
C Primer Plus and Expert C Programming. I wish there was a book similar to the latter that covered C99/11.
This is the essence : "It is not men who sabotage women and stump their career growth – it is women themselves!"
It seems that she is swinging from one extreme - from being enthusiastic about lifting women up and helping them, to actively avoiding them. But maybe a more balanced approach would yield better results?

Maybe the women just became spoilt by how accommodating she was? She says, for example, that she has to scrutinize every interaction with her women employees, for fear of the ensuing drama. Maybe she should just tell them to get over it? I don't know. But some people will readily bite the hands that feed them too eagerly.
So? The point of the post is that they think the article's author must have poor hiring practices and cites their own experience hiring as evidence. That's a perfectly reasonable line of argument and I'm not even defending the article on that point. But to the degree to which that evidence is applicable to the business described in the article, the parent's own employee issues are also comparable. If you want to say that manufacturing hiring is simply completely different than in...whatever the article's author does, then sure, but then what's the point of the comparison again?

I'd also point out that I don't quite understand why manufacturing hires should involve wanted criminals...
No, the application uses chess.js library found here: https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js
I'm from the UK and going to be doing an internship at an investment bank this summer, I do Comp Sci at university. Here are some of my thoughts and motivations.

Banks recruit ALOT of people and have offices across the country, they are very accommodating to your needs.

Applying for a bank seems much less intimidating than applying to a big tech company. The view is that only the very best even have a shot at interviewing at a company like Google/Amazon/Facebook, this puts people off.

Banks are at every school actively recruiting.

Banks host events like hackathons and advertise them. Amazon also do this in our area to be fair to them, but that one is usually after the academic year. Banks host theirs round about November time, and competing can allow you to skip portions of the interview process.

The offices are stunning and the entire place (Canary Wharf) has a feeling of being important when you're a kid in jeans who has never had a real job, and lots of important looking people are walking about in their expensive suits.

They pay very very well.

One other motivation that is personal to me but slightly different. I don't really want to work in banking. I want to run my own business, but I'm not ready to do that yet. I feel if I work at a company like Google that I'll never want to leave, and that's not how I want my life to be. So a bank is a great option. It's good money, I'll learn a lot, and it's a respected name, and I will never be so happy with my field of work as to never want to leave.
Principles of Recruiting from Keith Rabois
What other specifics could he have included? He showed his methodology in finding a problem, the way he found customers [including the copy in his ad], how he structured a email course, and the final product. The only other thing he could have included would have been the copy he used in the email course.

This blog lays out a very clear framework you can operate within, so I dont really understand where you are coming from.
First, the study you referenced just shows that a sample of women were less likely to get interviews with their photo. From there it's just the authors throwing out guesses for their findings. Maybe HR workers are jealous, or maybe they're worried that attractive young women will cause drama at work. Based on this study, we have no idea.

Even if the guess that "female HR workers don't want to hire other pretty females" is correct, you have no idea whether the same would be true were the roles reversed. Would all-male HR departments be less likely to call attractive men for interviews? It's very possible.

The study you cite in no way supports the authors claim that women gossip more.
Samsung rebranding Heathrow's busiest hub to 'Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5'
I'm only surprised it took them this long.
"...we were two women, both mothers with very small children, opening a company in a very competitive industry."

I'm a teacher in adult education in the UK. The students, mostly but not all women, with lots of children/parents and other care responsibilities are, in my experience, the ones who hand work in on time and who really focus in lessons. They have so little time that they have to plan things carefully.

The younger students, mostly chaps, who have no responsibilities take the most management. "Go figure" as I think the Americans say.

Seriously: good luck to Clarissa but she would need a really good HR lawyer in the UK.

Edit: Just bought a copy of 'River of Shadows' as I'm into Muybridge. I could not give a kipper's dick about how the book's author behaved at a cocktail party (having never attended one), I'm interested in the content, you know, what she has to say on the subject. Good blog. Makes you think. Argue even. On my list.

http://clarissasblog.com/2014/05/15/feminism-triviality/
Google's success doesn't and won't carry America's economy. And most of google's top paid employees are programmers.

It's the success of companies that design/make things that will carry America's economy. And these companies are losing their top prospects to Wall Street. Not a good trend.
>These are kids really really smart, socially adjusted (enough to be accepted by Ivy League), and hard working. If they entered science/medicine/engineering/etc, they would've added great positive impact.

IMHO I believe the kids the banks are stealing from science/medicine/engineering/etc, are not kids that would truly follow those paths. Personally once I found IT I didnt want to leave and nothing was going to deter me from it. Not even a big salary from another industry (I'd take a fat IT salary though).

Sometimes these kids are so smart they just choose a smart degree with no hopes of pursing a career in that field. I lived next to a very smart and talented guy getting his MBA at Emory. He was some sort of risk accessor for a company but imagine my surprise when I learned he had a Mechanical Engineering BS, he told me he never wanted to do Engineering he thought it was a good degree to have instead of a straight Business Major.
For once I'm satisfied with HN's reaction.
The view that our gender (glands, various gender-related cues, etc) influences our mind and behavior seems to be surreally unpopular these days. Many well worded essays on such in the comments.
"Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi.

Also "The Reasoned Schemer", which has the same pedagogical style as the other Schemer books, but works around logic programming.

Both of those books are mind benders and I've gotten a lot out of them recently.
Yelp is Down
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/yelp.com
Disclosure: Astrology has tons of issues and is not the end-all for evaluations, but she would do well to hire more people born under honest, steadfast signs like Taurus, Virgo, Libra, or Sagittarius and fewer drama-prone Geminis, Leos, Aries or Scorpios.
Sorry if the article is unclear. My intent was to clearly communicate that the problem can happen with any two instances, not necessarily of different versions. Like the nutshell summary at the top says.

But I also think that talking about different versions of SQLite is relevant, since dealing with those issues is one of the things that can lead an app developer toward the problem.
This is not at all a surprise although it is good to get more data on such an issue. There is still very limited sampling of DNA from prehistoric individuals,[1] and a frequent popular confusion that ancient human regional populations can be well characterized in their relationships just by phenotype (which in practice means by the shape of their skulls, jaws, and teeth) without any information about genotypes. Even living populations are still astoundingly undersampled (same reference).

[1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2344219
Rackspace May Be for Sale as It Hires Morgan Stanley to Explore Options
I don't want to spend a lot of time working on each point within your post. However I do think you discount the value that finance brings. Access to capital and efficient distribution of capital are tremendously powerful.
Describing what finance does as just pushing paper is like describing the startup community as just writing useless code.
Unfortunately, all I can see is either 1) a pretzel, or 2) the mouth area of Darth Vader's mask.

I don't usually over-think logos, but this one looks strangely angular, aggressive, and kinda mean-looking, considering Watsi is a non-profit healthcare company.
"Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World", by Joe Armstrong himself.

I have not read it completely, because the first chapters inspired me to start programming (in Erlang) and I haven't gotten back to the book yet.
Until "Blogger Clarissa" gets a subpoena demanding that she hand over her emails with the guest blogger and testify as to her knowledge of the employer.
Collect your naysayers
Is anyone aware of anything that would corroborate this quote? I've never heard any such controversy, nor could I find anything in a quick search...

"Weeding, even in the garden, has become a remarkably controversial subject."
Everyone is giving this woman a hard time, but I have heard my wife say something similar. I think a large part of what the (presumably male) posters here are missing is how differently women interact with other women.
This comment marks the day when HN comments were more retarded than Reddit's.

> Modi controlled court ... I am sure you are smarter than this.

Do you have any idea how courts work in India or who the central govt. was over the last ten years?

But of course, if you cannot go to the courts in India, go to the UN.

Go to r/conspiracy where you can talk about how the illumanati is adding fluoride to our water to deprive us of our vital essence.
Do you folks even know what gossip is?

Small talk !== Gossip. God, it's obnoxious reading like 98% of you.

You think "stuff I'm not interested in" is gossip, which is even worse than the assumption "Small talk === Gossip".

Look, adding a qualification or narrative component (predicates not strictly quantifiable over the domain) is a mark of conversation.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

AGAIN:

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

VAGUENESS is not gossip.

It's SYSTEMATIC oppression. A laundry list of "why this, why this" at the end of a post COMPLETELY FAILS to grok what SYSTEMATIC/STRUCTURAL oppression MEANS.

Learn how to more categories of conversation. LEARN what speech genres are. Stop reducing everything to "gossip/actionable". Stop the elimination of human spontaneity. Stop building the ideal language that the ideal person must speak.

Stop. STOP.
Can confirm, I've worked in a workplace where it was about 6 men and 48 women (no lie).

The gossip dear lord the gossip and cliques that were formed. The cattiness among each other, the talking behind each others back - it felt like high school on TV.

The guys were 4 on tech team and 2 on management.

The rest were sales girls, making calls to close sales in the higher-education sector. (Think e-learning master degrees). Never worked in a place with that many women so I don't have any other measuring stick, but yeesh did that leave me with weird memories.
I thought I knew how to write good Ruby code, but then I read "Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby". http://www.poodr.com/
I read the article and AFAICT, the basic problem is right there in there in the first paragraph:

> I get extremely angry when I come across articles that insist there are
> gender differences that extend beyond physiology.

That's just ridiculous and ignorant. Of course there are differences between men and women that extend beyond physiology !! [1]

Reading the comments and the replies, the author seems to deny this fact and wants everyone to be behaviourally uniform.

On the one hand she is applying broad strokes and describing her own experiences with her male Vs female employees but on the other she wants to deny that some of these differences exist and can be explained 'beyond physiology'.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_humans#Psych...
jnthn had designed and implemented 6model and NQP and there was a chance Patrick could have convinced Parroteers to replace the broken stuff in Parrot with these pieces.

Multiple Parrot developers volunteered to do this. Rakudo developers said "No", or in some cases "Not yet." Said developers tired of being called out for not supporting Rakudo on one hand and being told not to improve Parrot on the other hand and stopped working on Parrot altogether. You can easily verify this by looking at mailing list archives from that period.
Well, scratch Pivotal Labs off my list of potential employers. Interesting to hear this is common practice among "Agile" companies.

Can anyone confirm this trend?
Who is this SWIM guy I keep hearing about?
reddit doesn't really have any of your personal data. They may have an email address, but that's about it. They may also have an IP address, but as long as your ISP is good, even if law enforcement gets that it won't help much.
I prefer Lua-scripting based approach: https://github.com/bbangert/retools/blob/master/retools/lock..., but I had to implement something similar to your code to support older Redis versions.
>You have employees with outstanding arrest warrants and domestic violence issues? It kind of sounds like you also need to reevaluate your hiring practices...

so, nobody should hire "problem" people? Typical "holier than thou attitude".
> If the "BJP has other policies, which are disturbing", please enlighten us. Just lobbing an attack and walking away doesn't do any good.

Well, its stance on homosexuality, for one. It's not really hard to work out why many people are disturbed by the BJP, and even more so by Modi.
At a glance, IO2014 seems clearly focussed on:

- Design.

- Pushing Chrome/ Web apps

- Games and wearables on Android

Seems like the start of pushing mWeb instead of apps for consuming web content.
If this is the case, then this is hardly a fair comparison. Reason 1 being women in manufacturing are typically in office jobs and Reason 2 being that, compared to the kinds of men who typically work the floor, just about anyone will look reasonable who works in the office, man or woman.
TAOCP by Knuth (if you can get past the maths).
Careface.
If you don't mind me asking, what don't you like about the name "AxeDork"? I like it a lot, I went with it because its light hearted and guitar is something that is fun and not taken overly seriously by most.
Parkinsonian and other forms of tremor do have relatively safe and effective treatments in medications or deep brain stimulation implantation.

(My father has PD, my father-in-law had PD, I am a webmaster for a PD news/events/support groups website, and we are on the board for Struther's Parkinson's Center in Minneapolis. Which is to say, I live and breathe PD daily, in a very personal way, through relatives and close friends, as well as doctors who have dedicated their entire lives to PD. I see first-hand what PD medications and DBS surgeries do to people, over a period of many years.)

Your post is mind-boggingly misinformed and heartless. The "relatively safe and effective" medications you mention are not safe or very effective at all. They carry serious side effects for most patients and get less and less effective as time goes on. Even in the honeymoon years when the meds are still relatively effective, people still suffer in-between dosages, which is to say several times a day. The fact that people prefer being on them than being without them is a testament to how bad PD is, not how "safe" these meds are.

Likewise, the DBS surgery is quite risky - so much so that you have to be relatively young and healthy to get it, e.g. very few people over 75 are even eligible. Moreover, the improvements are typically in the 40%-80% range, far from the 100% you so happily imagine, so MOST patients who undergo DBS still have to take medication. The risk of stroke from the surgery is 2% and the risk of infection requiring another surgery is super high at 4%, to name just two. If that's not enough for you, the risk of DEATH from DBS surgery is around 0.5%. Moreover, it is NOT a one-time procedure. The batteries implanted in the chest run out, and then you get to have another surgery.

DBS, while brain surgery, is the more elegant solution. Your tremor goes away, rather than requiring a superficial "hack" like this spoon.

What a bad, cruel joke.
I show off this app to others more than I use it personally. The typical reaction is "magic!" or "witchcraft!" It's really that simple and impressive.
When deciding whether to partner with an organization, I view their team page. You are not only excluding potential coworkers via certain choices.
Yep, basically what I believe too. Also, if you look at history, a lot of the worst troubles for the minorities have come during Congress' rule(which further bolsters your argument that those in power want stability more than those not in power).

I'm actually more wary of vested interests other than Modi who want there to be riots so they can position themselves as the saviors of minority. These groups exist on both sides. Hopefully the saner people on both sides will keep them in check.
Wouldn't it be far more constructive to discuss and debate the author's views instead of making a passive aggressive attempt to incite an attack on them, simply because you don't agree with them? This sort of attitude can be dangerous.
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Is unix predicting the end of the world?
I don't know if anyone has come across this before (couldn't find anything on google), but I came across a weird issue when checking account expiration dates: a date that didn't fit the format (Account expires : Feb 28, 235912). According to the man pages for usermod, the date format for 'usermod -e' is YYYY-MM-DD. This got me thinking what the maximum was.

I first tried entering only 9s until I hit the rollover to never (i.e. the argument rolls from a date to just never) and I got:

# usermod -e 999999-9999999-99999999999999
# chage -l test
Last password change : May 16, 2014
Password expires : never
Password inactive : never
Account expires : Dec 22, 2590218
Minimum number of days between password change : 0
Maximum number of days between password change : 99999
Number of days of warning before password expires : 7

# usermod -e 999999-9999999-999999999999999
# chage -l test
Last password change : May 16, 2014
Password expires : never
Password inactive : never
Account expires : never
Minimum number of days between password change : 0
Maximum number of days between password change : 99999
Number of days of warning before password expires : 7

Sort of Mayan Calendary, but I wasn't convinced. I knew I could go higher ....
Wow, I just finished his Coursera ML class this week. I hope that course continues to be offered. I wish I could tell him thanks for teaching it! The way he balances cutting-edge research with popularization of hard concepts reminds me of Richard Feynman. Best of luck to him.