skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we need to separate the two acts:

1.) Sharing an opinion and anecdotal experience on a blog

2.) Disclosing that you're participating in an illegal activity (discriminatory hiring practices)

Should she be doxxed and publically shamed for sharing her opinon? Of course not. But should the hiring practices of her company be looked into? Well, thats certainly a much more fuzzy area, because it is no longer a victimless act.
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Belgian FM accuses Russian government of waging cyberwarfare against EU
What about people who don't want their photo on the website? What about people who don't want their name to be found on the company website first (if it has a good page rank)?

Who am I to talk, having a website online for over a decade? Still, if your team likes to have such a team page, awesome (if not a few feel pressured to join in) - but I prefer our wall of mugshots near our entrance in the physical office and I know some people who would object to that team website a lot.
When I say other economies, I meant places like China/Japan/SKorea. Their top science/engineering graduates have NO choice but to enter science/engineering fields. I think a lot of it is due to language/culture.

Please stop bringing up Google/Amazon/Facebook. These are not the true engines of a nation's economy. The true engines imo are companies like GM/Boeing/Tesla who design and make things at cheap enough cost to be competitive. And these companies are losing top prospects to Wall Street.

You are wrong about people working at Google not wanting to leave. Many of those people want to and do leave to start something on their own. But again, I don't really care about such 'high' tech companies. I'm worried about other industries like medicine/science/engineering in America losing the competitive edge due to top young prospects joining in Wall Street instead.
Last one was probably Let Over Lambda. One of the few programming books I've read cover to cover.
why do these junior bankers do that require 120hr a week of work?

What kind of salery do they get after 1 - 10 yeard of working
Not to mention that "because it distributes software well" is stated as if it isn't a huge deal. Has anything ever distributed anything so well, so cheaply, and so accessibly as the internet distributes web software?
Adobe Creative Cloud Crashes, Is Restored
I'm half way through this and slightly disappointed with it. I thought there was too much material on upgrading from early versions that have been obsolete for a long time. Hopefully the second half is better.
Accessing GitHub from the command line
I've run into a similar issue, I'm using FMDB with SQCipher and have finally got it to be reliable after way to much time digging into very low lvl SQLite stuff then I care to think about.
Yelp is down.
Thanks for the info! Is the demand for detailed knowledge 16 hours at a time, or is it more like being "on call" for when a client suddenly gets a wild idea and wants numbers to be run for it?
Well, they did just sponser GopherCon a few weeks ago. I suspect that in order to drive adoption they don't want it to be perceived as a Google-specific technology.
13K year old skeleton could have 'major implications'
"Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby. A Agile Primer" By Sandi Metz. I am not so much a ruby fan, but don't let the title decive you, ruby is just the tool (since it could use any other OOP language) to show what the book is realy about (OOP Design shown in the best way possible).
So instead of storing passwords it has a repeatable process for generating hashed passwords for a given host+account+port+master key?

One problem I see is that your favorite animal might result in a password that isn't allowed for a given site. But I assume the paranoid target user would never use such a site.
My friends in finance definitely make it sound like hazing to me, just like you said. I have a friend whose boss had to talk to him about going too easy on the new analyst, so he had to toughen up and make the analyst's life harder just because.
This is rather apples to oranges. Blue collar manufacturing work where women run at only 25% of the workforce and men have higher than national average crime rates --- you are bound to have more problems with the men.

Not to endorse the author's view, but compare the above to your typical white collar environment with a more even distribution of men and women doing similar, non-physical work. Easier to judge the gender differences there.
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At some point the incumbent becomes so large and diversified that it can't be destroyed by a single competitor. Think IBM. You may come in and beat the incumbent company in the market that originally led to its success, but the incumbent still lives on in many other markets. The only way it is killed is by being consistently less fficient than the average entrant in many markets (i.e. Goliath falls, but there is no David to point to).

Facebook may reach that point before to long, although I'd guess they're not there yet.
I think part of the problem is that both you and the blogger are talking about hiring interchangeable bottom-level workers. I assume you're not talking about skilled labour like electricians and millwrights. You're talking about unskilled workers. Highschool-educated guys.

The blogger mentioned secretaries. Not somebody who has credentials they've honed and invested in.

Even without an education, a professional needs to build success to make the difference between a "job" and a "profession". People who don't have any credentials like that are basically used as interchangeable parts in the job market - one CSR or one stock-room worker is replaceable with any other.

And likewise, they can (and should) treat their employer as just as interchangeable. Everybody needs customer service workers. Everybody needs guys who'll push a cart and lift stuff.

I used to do software for steel warehouses. I met brilliant electricians and accountants and whatnot, but I also dealt with the truckers and the gals who worked the desk with the truckers. And that's where the difference was.

It's hard to discuss this stuff without being really, really classist, because I don't think it's about "class" so much as the investment a person makes in their career. But I think that this "investment" is what makes this difference - is it a job or a career?
I agree finance matters. I do. But not to the point where they can and do sweep up a third of Ivy League graduates. Would you honestly say Wall Street is vital enough that they deserve a third of Ivy League graduates?
I don't think there's enough information here to make any judgments one way or another. I find non-professional behavior has far more to do with the position held than the sex of the person inhabiting it. I have a hard time imagining a female VP, for instance, behaving so unprofessionally. Conversely, it wouldn't surprise me to see a sales guy acting like a jackass. It's rather more likely that one's professionalism stems from 1) the professionalism that's expected from someone in their position and 2) the effort the individual has gone through to reach their position.
Photomatic
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7756750
No, I don't think you understand how it works.

If you are going to hold someone to a standard, then hold EVERYONE to that standard. You can't just hold someone to an arbitrary standard just because you don't like them.
If I didn't enjoy the things I do, why would I do them?

- Self-destructive alcoholic hacker
I agree with you completely , i always wanted to work with him or for him , just to see how his thought process worked.
He is the reason that i want to get a Graduate degree in machine learning.
Got about 20 pages left in the Peopleware third edition. Excellent book even if you aren't a manager.
INSERT COMMENT GENERALIZING ABOUT ALL MEN OR WOMEN BASED ON SELECT PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

BACK UP WITH STUDY FROM 1972 LINKING GENDER WITH PREDETERMINED BEHAVIOR

CORRELATE THE TWO
This is all I can think of: http://xkcd.com/385/
Hold Cheap Flights for up to 21 Days
This kind of problem makes it clear to me that application developers need to understand and be responsible for the full stack of software that they ship, including bundled C libraries. One can't just use a high-level cross-platform runtimes like Mono/.NET and ignore everything underneath, because when the shit hits the fan, the app developer has to fix it, not pass the blame and wait for someone else to handle it.

(For the same reason, I think it's better to rent dedicated servers than to use virtual machines or whatever-as-a-service. And colocation might be better still, if one can afford the up-front expense.)

What isn't clear to me is whether we should still use a high-level runtime like Mono/.NET, for mobile apps in particular, even though we have to be responsible for lower layers. On the one hand, very few developers would want to mess with manual memory management and C-style error handling when writing business logic, database access routines, or UI code. On the other, if we have to grasp the whole stack anyway, then we can more easily do that if there's less of it. On iOS, cross-platform C code plus iOS-specific Objective-C code is less complex than cross-platform C code plus P/Invoke glue for the former plus cross-platform C# code plus UI code in C# (which will be foreign to iOS developers not familiar with Xamarin) plus glue between Mono and ObjC. Similar logic applies to Android (although there will always be JNI glue between native code and Java) and even Windows Phone (as of 8.1, which supports WinRT and native code using that). So, for a more comprehensible software stack since we have to be responsible for the whole thing anyway, should we just give up on higher-level languages and runtimes, acknowledge that we're ultimately dealing with C machines, and stick to C or maybe C++ for cross-platform code? Would that be putting too much emphasis on hypothetical debuggability, and not enough on other things like developer productivity and approachability to less-than-expert developers?
Seems like this one will involved Dart.

"Upgrading the engine mid-flight: How Google improves its web apps without downtime"
Yes, the searchability does not appear to be great :/

Dart sessions are called out here, FYI: https://plus.google.com/+dartlang/posts/VV11S22FvLr

Edit: copying the list here.

Connecting Cloud to Web
https://www.google.com/events/io/schedule/session/c1d65645-3...

Upgrading the engine mid-flight
https://www.google.com/events/io/schedule/session/22e6b6c0-c...

How we built the Chrome Dev Editor
https://www.google.com/events/io/schedule/session/3888155e-3...

Making music with the mobile web
https://www.google.com/events/io/schedule/session/6f73856f-9...
The article mentions Seattle's increasing minimum wage... but a family needs an income of $90K+ to comfortably buy a median priced home here. A high minimum wage won't increase homeownership.

Lower and middle-income families simply cannot afford to buy a house in the city. Homeownership is a luxury, not a right.
And I want to make it clear I don't consider Facebook/Google/Twitter as vital as GM/Boeing/Tesla/SpaceX.

I don't care if Facebook/Google/Twitter don't end up with top brains. But I am concerned GM/Boeing/Tesla/SpaceX are not getting the top brains as much as they should.
Came here to mention this. I've also found it to be a great resource for understanding a lot of the design decisions in Rust (if you're into that sort of thing), which are often informed by similar decisions in recent versions of C++ that "Tour of C++" discusses in detail.
Why single out BJP? Why not the Congress, which _was_ in power when the High Court judgment came out, and could have passed a law legalizing homosexuality?

Actions, as they say, are louder than words. Congress was in a position to enact change; but decided not to.
> Ivy-league grads go into finance because it's an industry that really values their particular pedigree, and is willing to pay for it.

OTHER industries value the Ivy-league grads just as much. It's just that the budget doesn't allow paying at the rate to compete with Wall Street. That's the problem.
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It just tells you that we all have serious blindspots. These super smart people, if they took a step back one day to review their logic, they would probably be very embarrassed.
> I get extremely angry when I come across articles that insist there are gender differences that extend beyond physiology.

This is backwards. There are certainly psychological differences between men and women (see e.g. [1]).

However, assuming that statistical averages determine individual characteristics is also wrong. People are highly varied, and an individual's difference from the mean often dwarfs the mean difference between two populations (e.g. men/women). Add to this the fact that people are self-conscious and can change their innate behavior. Sex is a very poor predictor of an individual's psychological traits.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2159115...
It will definitely still be offered -- that was one of the questions we asked him at All Hands yesterday :).
All I see is BVD's.
Yea, I was wondering how she's not inviting a flood of lawsuits by saying that she's explicitly acting on these perceptions of hers. It was only until I came to the comments here that I noticed it was an anon author.
There could be some bias coming from the career paths these individuals are coming from. We can't know because she doesn't elaborate on her industry, but here's an example which would produce this kind of bias naturally:

If she employs engineers (or some other equivalent), there's a good chance they will provide little issues as they tend to be better-educated and more stable than average. They are also predominately male.

Other office jobs are a mixed bag and tend to employ average individuals, with a variety of education levels and backgrounds. This is often 50/50 or sometimes predominately female, such as in HR.

In that case, it would be more accurately comparing average vs. unusually well-educated individuals. Gender would only be proportional to this because of her specific business case.
How is this HN appropriate content?

If I could flag this, I would. This is an anonymous post on a completely irrelevant blog that has nothing to do with the world HN surrounds.

Is it too much to ask that Reddit/Tumblr-esque gender wars not be dragged into every online discussion forum available?

From the guidelines:
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Just look at the quality of the discussion this has spawned - pure and utter trash.
The problem with two-and-out is that you are hiring people who have no skills, aren't given the time to really learn skills to sufficient depth, and then they are passed onto clients to do alleged value-added work. Stories like Monkey Business or The Management Myth make this case better than I can in an HN comment. I highly suggest both books.
Desktop app UIs were never this painful? WPF, WinForms, WTL, MFC... all could be pretty darn painful when you got beyond the basic Hello World examples.
ignostic, I agree with you completely.

One of the key differences I think, is that you think as a professional manager of people. The author thinks like a "do-er", a contributor, and is looking for people who work like her. She may be an unusual woman that tends more toward the male pattern of behavior, but that is just happenstance.

One thing you both agree on, is that (whether she hates it or not) there are common differences between men and women that extend beyond appearance. Where I differ with her: Whether chromosomes or upbringing or micro-biota I don't care, those differences exist, they are useful diversification and should be accepted, even though they each need to be managed in their own way.
But I don't want a smart TV
Never thought about manners as a "conservative basis" before. Thanks for that thought!
It probably isn't an equal comparison. The original poster might be in a completely different hiring situation from the blog writer. However, I've hired women to work on the floor in manufacturing and I prefer them. As the original poster said, less BS from the women, more reliability. On average, of course. There are no 100% shortcuts.
This has been an issue for anyone transitioning from Apple -> Android for a while (who have iMessage enabled). I have heard of fixes ranging from a few days up to 45 days from Apple support.
Sure, I can create one, but how do I push a new deployment to my Cloud Service from Linux? I can create Cloud Services, but I can't deploy anything, as far as I can tell.
Maybe not a huge deal to most, but the use of "OCD" in this sentence made me wince a bit:
"They put up with our OCD tendencies and pulled long hours to make sure we walked away with a perfect mark."

Not sure it's good form for a company dedicated to healthcare to misuse a medical term like that.

Edit: They've since updated the post. Thanks for doing that!
Ask HN: Between Fifa 14 and Simcity 5, which game has better AI?
Somebody's gotta weld pipe, turn metal, and crank wrenches. I don't see Ivy leaguers applying. A guy who chose the wrong parents and learned to make bad decisions instead of good ones can get these jobs because no one else wants them, and they don't require that much skill.
The fact that she's on Dropbox's board absolutely disgusts me. I was bothered before but this is exactly the type of thing that is pushing me to an alternative.

What are the alternatives these days? git-annex? Anything else?
The article is very interesting/good, but I do want to mention one issue I have with it:

“To say that there’s a large amount of literature on the benefits of this approach would be an understatement.”

I've brought this up before, but “literature” carries the connotation of “scientific literature”, and I actually haven't heard of many rigorous, well-constructed scientific experiments that have produced conclusive scientific literature that indicates the benefits of TDD. There's certainly a lot of anecdotal posts and writings, but there seems to be relatively little actual “literature” in the most commonly used sense.

Not saying TDD is bad, of course… Just wondering if this is in fact an overstatement rather than an understatement. If we're going to appeal to authority, we should make sure that authority is valid :)
I talked to one guy who's a former Goldman Sachs guy who left to go to the tech industry who said the adage in the tech world now is "be wary when the pretty people show up."
leave what I'm working on -> scroll -> scroll -> scroll -> click menu -> run mouse back to window via a lot of scrolling

NeXTSTEP had nice menu that could be detached - it was so easy
I want to point out IT is not the true engine of America's economy. The true engines to me are companies like Boeing/GM/Tesla/SpaceX who make things that other economies want to pay money for.
I agree.

Some don't realize that a resume isn't a life-journal, but rather a carefully crafted group of documents which should help to paint the image of a choice candidate in the eyes of the interviewer, not the interviewee.

Like much in life, the biggest part of the problem is stepping into the shoes of the other party and learning to craft what they expect to see.

Having helped numerous friends and loved ones with their individual resumes was personally enlightening for when the next time comes that I must make one.
Confirmed: http://blog.coursera.org/post/85921942887/a-personal-message...
I've used tests similarly when designing APIs, partly to subject myself to my API's UX flaws.

I write mostly functional/integration tests[1]. I try to avoid needing unit tests by making mistakes/errors of that sort impossible by construction (types).

Good post.

[1] https://github.com/bitemyapp/bloodhound/blob/master/tests/te...
"Many books that existed in no other copies, many books arguably with historic value, had been simply thrown away and buried in landfill."

I understand the need to get rid of unwanted books from a library; books are ming in, so naturally some books have to go out. What I find despicable is destroying those books rather than trying to find ways to people who would use them.
Nikola (static site generator) v7.0.0 released
Any news on the rumour that there will be a nexus 8 announcement at the con?
I was at the perfect level of education to appreciate the information in GEB. I was a young programmer and math enthusiast with an average high-school education. My knowledge of Boolean logic went as far as De Morgan's law. I knew next to nothing about classical music, functional programming, meta-mathematics, propositional calculus, Dadaism, or molecular biology.

Reading GEB felt like reading the Cliff Notes to an entire college education especially tailored for the kind of person I didn't yet realize I already was.
Just Because You Weren't Dancing is No Reason for Us Not to Beat You Up
There's no deployment tools listed there. You can deploy VMs and Azure Websites from Linux, but not Azure Cloud Services.
I am very disappointed that one of my "own kind" is disparaging women. If that's what females in this field encounter, no wonder there are so few. My deep disappointment cannot be expressed in words right now. Hiring is hard to get right, period. Why are we worrying about gender traits--this article is generalizing to the point of absurdity.

I feel motivated at this point, to change my name to a gender neutral one for hiring purposes.

When people see articles like this, it is affirming, and others will follow silently.
Physically Based Rendering by Pharr and Humphreys. Excellent book on modern ray tracing that is a literate program. It's an amazing piece of work (even won an oscar!)
Pretty insightful article about growing fast. It's a shame that people are overlooking the content of this article and instead using hackernews as their personal version of Consumer Reports. Posting personal communications between yourself and Homejoy on hackernews is taking being an assh*le to a new level. It's also devaluing the purpose of 'hacker' news.
Yeah it's the difference between living to work, and working to live.
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I agree with your points and approach to manage the genders differently. However, I also recognize the author is simply frustrated by her realization that these stereotypes are based in reality. She's basically sympathizing with the people who she disagree with as a feminist. She recognizes it wrong, but doesn't have the time to fix it. The easy solution, for her, is to hire a man.

When I shop for clothes I often look for a female to help me. In my experience I've had better results getting stuff I like with better advise from women. I know a man could sometimes be better, but I actively try to avoid men. It's just a simple filter I use to get to my ultimate goal quickly with a (perceived) higher level of success. I think this author is doing the same.
Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition
still not finished, but this is best book i have encountered for linux driver programming.
> reminds me of Michael Feynman

Richard Feynman?
The Soul of a New Machine. Fascinating documentation of Data General's development of the 32-bit Eclipse machine. Sorta programming, sorta hardware... back when the two were more tightly integrated.
Just spent a couple minutes playing a game against myself – I won/lost! Looks great, really nice job :)