skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, when you say, "slavery wasn't an African person's fault", I have to assume you are talking about Slavery in recent American history and not Slavery as a thing throughout history. Humankind is at fault there because almost every race and culture did it at some point.

Second, if I understand it correctly, I think maybe people downvoted you (not me) because your statement implies (however unintended) that without men doing something about it, women cant close the pay gap on their own. Making the statement a bit leaner, it could be interpreted as, "Without men doing it for them, women cant close the gap". Which is all kinds of incorrect.

Anyway, I don't think you meant it that way, but as you can see from the "slavery" example, it's easy for us to be unaware of our own racial, cultural, historical, sexual, and sociological bias. Myself included.
I wonder why are there so many services that work with this kind of business model. while I would be willing to pay for code I can own, I would never invest in something in something where I can't predict it's future.
I think they usually mean "much lower black and hispanic representation than demographics would suggest". The population of the USA is 13% black and 17% hispanic [0] - Microsoft employees are 4% black and 5% hispanic. [1] The coincidentally similar percentage of white people in the two groups is because MS has a far higher representation of Asians than the general population.

[0] - http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
[1] - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/de...
Here is a weird quirky thing that I have been noticing a lot recently: People taking screenshots that have a tooltip window visible.

Is this accidental? An attempt to make the screenshot seem more spontaneous? Did Windows or OSX recently change something in such a way that this is now easy to accidentally do? Are people simply not proofreading their screenshots anymore? Is it a "west coast thing"?

I'm being serious. I was writing it off as user-error but I'm starting to doubt that now with how frequently I see it.
The entire software industry is built on layers that hide things.

In 99% of cases you don't need to write SQL in order to deliver business functionality. Just like we don't need to write low level machine code in 99% of cases.
Wikipedia happens to be supported by a huge quantity of individual supporters around the world, both in writing and in funding the servers and development. They actively avoid reaching out to wealthy philanthropists and governments and get all their support from the general global community.

Wikipedia indeed requires a smaller dedicated team to keep the system running. But they are not subsidized in any pathological way. They are funded by large quantity of small donations. There's nothing wrong with that.

We don't need to reach a true post-scarcity world in order to better allocate the scarce resources we have. It's completely feasible to provide a basic income or other basic resources just like we do with clean water. We can have mechanisms to charge for use beyond the basic level. And we can have the community fund people to make the resources we want.

The "pirate economy" you talk about is the "freerider economy" (pirate is a stupid term here). Freeriding is a REAL problem. We can't live on a freeriding economy. But we can still have Free/Libre/Open resources if we can get people to fund them without compelling them through artificial restrictions. Wikipedia works because the scale is SO large that they get adequate support despite freeriding. There's also lots of ways to discourage freeriding / encourage donation better than we do now. The first step is to get everyone to STOP wasting their limited funds on proprietary products so that they actually can afford to better support Free/Libre/Open ones.
I have been thinking about building something similar for the past year. More so after I opened a dessert shop. Good job and good luck.
Splitting EMC and VMware doesn't make as much sense as eBay/PayPal or HP/HP, since EMC and VMware have pretty much identical customer bases. HP Consumer and HP Enterprise have of course mutually exclusive customer bases, and eBay and PayPal have some overlap but not much.

EMC is basically the brand name of VMware's storage products.
Likely a lid that requires pressure on two opposite faces to open- a bit like the kid proof pill bottles.
Fair comment, it's hard to communicate anything well :) Certainly not my intention, my emphasis is it is men's responsibility to help reduce gender inequality, not our privilege :-)

Though again I disagree with people using down votes to disagree with an opinion :-)
My experience at MS was that the only way to get promoted was to have a good relationship with your manager, and for them to have a good relationship with their manager, and so on (the higher level you are the more layers need to be persuaded).

So if you are in that position you don't need to ask. What to do to get your next promotion, and whether you are on track, is just something that gets discussed in 1:1s from time to time.

If you are not in that position, then no amount of asking is going to make any difference, coming into work with an offer from Google/Amazon/Facebook/etc. will maybe get you escorted from the building, maybe get you a counter offer.

So, while I don't have an opinion on the karmic consequences of asking for a raise, I do believe that it will not achieve anything other than friction, either your boss knows you need a raise and is working with you to get it, or you should look for another job
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The compiler says:

/d111/f857.d(9): Error: pure function 'f857.foo' cannot call impure function 'f857.modify_global'
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So, even more ubiquitous surveillance?
This is horrible advice, men and women both must push for a raise, companies will absolutely under no circumstances just give away raises because "it's the right thing to do".

Case in point, I am a white male. When I started working at a company over a decade ago I also started at the same time as another white male. I started at $55k, he started at $52k I negotiated for an additional $3k from the start. The first year I assumed they would give me a good raise since I was hired at entry level wages, I got a $2k raise. I was livid. The next year I made a huge deal about the tiny raise, I ended up getting $5k, now up to $62k. Year after $3k, again not happy. During that year there was a "salary freeze", I told my boss that was unacceptable, if I didn't get a promotion I would be leaving. So I got another $5k during the salary freeze. The next year still not happy, I made the same ultimatum, This time $10k. Up to $80k, I ended up leaving a couple of months later for a management position.

In contrast that other software engineer? He got $2k per year, except for the salary freeze year, they made it up the year after. He left after 5 years making $62k

Me -> $55k, $57k, $62k, $65k, $70k, $80k

Him -> $52k, $54k, $56k, $58k, $58k, $62k

So, apparently by being the squeaky wheel I ended up making an additional $18k a year by the time we both left. Plus all the additional money I made the preceding years.

Lesson here? Make yourself very valuable to the company, and then make them pay. They won't do it of their own free will. Look at it from their perspective, if you don't say anything why would they do anything? Obviously you are happy if you are not complaining.

The problem for women is that, in general, they don't speak up, they don't negotiate for salary increases they just accept what is offered. What we really need to do is to teach women how to understand what they are really worth, and to negotiate from a position of strength.
I find David and Ben Crystal's efforts to promote the Original Pronunciation admirable, but ever since I've heard their version of Sonnet 116 a few years ago, I've harbored doubts about their particular choices. Several books I read on Early Modern English phonetics agree that love-prove, love-move, love-remove etc. are not visual rhymes. But Ben Crystal chooses to pronounce all these words with the short [ʌ] sound (like the vowel of modern 'cut'). And I think it's wrong (well, not on my own authority, I'm not a linguist or a specialist in this area, just someone very interested in historical phonetics of English who read a bunch of books and articles).

Words like move, remove, prove used to be pronounced with the long [o:] sound before the Great Vowel Shift (which is how they got their spelling), and by Shakespeare's time they moved to [u:], which they retained until modern times. I tried to find any evidence other than the love- rhymes that these words could be pronounced with a short [ʌ] sound, and couldn't.

On the other hand, "love" was probably pronounced usually with a short [u] sound, the same sound we use today in "put". All the words with u in a closed syllable used that sound as well, like "cut", "but", "cup" "sun" etc. The change from this [u] to [ʌ] happened after Shakespeare's time, mostly later in the 17th century, resulting in the familiar pronunciation of "but" "cup" "sun", but leaving after it a fair number of exceptions that refused to follow the change, such as "put" "push" etc.

"prove" and "love" did rhyme when Shakespeare used them; but perhaps the rhyme was a bit inexact, rhyming long [u:] of "prove/move/remove" and short [u] of "love" (but still much more exact than modern [u:] and [ʌ] of course). Or, as Charles Barber claims in his "Early Modern English" (unwieldly Google Books links: http://bit.ly/1uI7SWQ), "love" was exceptional in having a variant [u:] pronunciation especially beloved by poets, precisely because they could use it to rhyme it with handy words like "prove" and "move". Either way, the love/move rhyme did not sound at all the way Ben Crystal pronounces it.
Complaining a lot about downvotes is also sometimes a good way to earn them...
> Yet, they still have very significant endemic impoverished population clumps

China has problems, but nothing compared to the China of 20 years ago. China is the poster-child of globalization improving the living conditions of the poor.
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Very nice. Was surprised to see some webkit vendor prefixes in the source.
Well there's a market solution for that too - keep looking for better work if you believe you're worth more. Eventually smart employers will see the ridiculousness of what's happening, and hire all the otherwise competent workers who are being discriminated against for no good reason.
I want to make clear that I believe we all make mistakes and we all have prejudice - denying prejudice would be a foolish thing. I don't expect of him that he should be without prejudice, "he who is without sin" etc.

More I'm just re-iterating that what he said doesn't help in the battle for equality, it hinders. And within the setting he made the comment :-) it really doesn't help. Again not about blame, just that it doesn't help to put the emphasis on women to change their behaviour?

Certainly my focus is on the problem, not the person - because he may well be (and probably is) a much nicer person than me.
Is there a complete transcript somewhere? Why are we all jumping to conclusions with no data? All this discussion seems pointless without enough information.
The downvotes are for your man-splaining. Your status as privileged group invalidates everything you say.
Ah I see, if you suggest there is something wrong with the system you get penalised by the system. My mistake :-)
Interesting that they're basically unwinding the acquisition of Veritas from 2004 by splitting up into two companies.

The only difference is that $11B has disappeared from the combined companies market cap in 10 years.
Wish him well, but this is probably the most tepid rage-quit I've ever read. I also have no idea what he was doing or what he's going to do. His blog features "personal branding", an oxymoron, so he's got something of an uphill battle. Regardless, I say good luck Michael!
Protip: If you are a man you should reject any invitation to speak at a women's focused conference. At this conference in particular there was a bingo sheet for statements made by men. Any misstep will turn into a headline. It's crazy dangerous.

Attendees also questioned, perhaps fairly even, a particular panel session that all men. Why were they there? Because they were invited! The only rational response is to turn down such an invitation in the future.
When my Dad worked in a power station, one of his colleagues got blasted by 66,000V, directly from a multi-megawatt generator. Severe burns, but he lived. That's quite amazing, given the low impedance of the source.

The scariest situation I've been in is doing measurements on the live busbars at the entry point of a skyscraper. The electrical cabinet contained a wall full of uninsulated high-voltage gear emitting an ominous 100Hz hum, as the bus bars vibrated in the EM fields. All I could think of was "don't fall forwards".
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Oh man I had completely forgotten about the obligatory disclaimer.
This is the Burning Man of the Internet.
Then why don't they say that? It seems more damaging to use an obviously absurd euphemism.
Most of EMC's current value is thought to be based on VMWare. So they've always been hesitant to sell VMWare as a result.
Is your password a short poem? :)
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Both sound natural to my American ears.
Thanks this is really great stuff. Its tough finding good resources like this. I much prefer to learn the way you propose, by actually coding apps, and putting all the pieces together.
When I wrote the comment below the question was to the effect of "How is there privilege for men in Tech", it has since been edited.

> It's almost impossible to avoid it and I have certainly done my bit to make it worse when I was younger (and probably still do a little).

> However, I would rather a female commenter answer this from her direct experience.
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Just so I understand: what DOES the statement imply? Think of me as mentally deficient here and explain it like you'd explain it to an 8 year old.
> This woman’s perception of this man’s physical attractiveness remained this intense, even after 30 years since last she had seen him!

This just came out of nowhere, without any previous or later mention of the period the study was conducted over in the article. Was it a typo? It seems like a lot can change in 30 years and I'm doubtful the subjects would even retain an association they formed with a person they rated 30 years previously.
Apparently the VMware-Cisco SDN competition is hurting EMC-Cisco storage partnerships.
This is nice, but it does not put a valid img tag in the document source without javascript execution. That might be fine for things that don't face the public internet, but if you do any type of public publishing, you should care about having markup that describes your content independent of scripts or css.

This is why standard markup-based responsive images (picture and srcset) are such a big deal.
Poll: Do you think you are a top 10% coder?
I'm wondering how engineers perceive their own value and their intelligence to the rest of the world, and how many coders, think they are a top coder? So do you think you are one of the best?
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Discovery of new subatomic particle sheds light on fundamental force of nature
Okay, fine. I downvoted you because you seem to be blaming him for answering a direct question and also for saying it's women's problem when he said it was management's responsibility.

I can't tell for sure if you're actually blaming him or explaining yourself in a confusing way, but both of those are bad.

You make valid points, but the way you tied them into the conversation makes your point confusing and/or non-sequitur-insulting, so I think it's a bad comment.
And if their perms permissions are wrong on their tty, you can /usr/games/rain > /dev/tty24 or whatever. That was great fun back when.
/sarcasm

Was going to ask a serious question, then changed my mind.
Best guess here, is that it's because a lot of people like Satya and have been optimistic about what he might do at Microsoft.

If a bigger jerk said the same thing, you wouldn't see as many people seeking to explain it away. I think people naturally prefer to give a much greater benefit of the doubt to someone they think is nice.

Also, as a new CEO in a very difficult job with high levels of 24/7 scrutiny, there's likely to be an inclination to not light the guy on fire over his first misstep or three (even if it's offensive).
Best of luck Michael!
> Why were they there? Because they were invited! The only rational response is to turn down such an invitation in the future.

The Ada Initiative recommends[1] responding thusly:

* Respond saying that you'd be honored, but the panel seems awfully heavy on the men, and can they find a qualified woman to join the panel? Here are some suggestions.

* Respond saying that you have taken a pledge not to participate in all-male panels from now on, but you'd be happy to join if a qualified woman is added.

* If you can't accept, suggest a qualified woman to take your place.

[1] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Allies_training#Scenario:...
It was a snippet from a very long interview where almost all of what he said was good.

However, in this answer, I can see why the CEO of a 120k employee company is not going to say "get pushy with your salary" else he's have a pay rise revolt with people's justification being "your boss', boss', boss' boss told me to"
This article, like a lot of science writing, seems to just pull together a lot of studies with a common thread and write an alternative version of the abstract for each one. It is in many ways a less useful version of an academic review that is easier to read.

As a side note, that paragraph reminded me immediately of 1Q84.
The only way that double(pi) - pi could be much smaller is if pi magically had a lot of 0s in its binary representation (it doesn't).

Yes, this is what I was getting at. Obviously the statement is true for pi and the majority of reals; I just don't understand why it should be a rule as the article implies.
For what it's worth, I'm sure you didn't mean this to be sexist, since the phenomenon does exist in both directions. But your comment nonetheless reads unpleasantly, because the question "ever met a seriously hot girl?" assumes that the reader is a (straight) male, or, conceivably, a lesbian. That's the sort of wording that makes women feel unwelcome in communities like HN; it's essentially equivalent to having a discussion with a male and female colleague in which you address all of your comments to the man and ignore the woman. In general, you'll likely get a better response, and be able to avoid the "not sexist" disclaimers, if you write as if you were speaking to a mixed-gender audience (which you are!). In this case that could be as simple as s/girl/person/.
Can you see from my point of view though. That while making a valid comment which didn't include flamebait or hate etc. I see my comment goes to zero and is greyed out. It's pretty disheartening and unwelcoming to have that done to you. I apologise to others about this 'meta'-conversation but I do think it matters - as it genuinely discourages me from sharing my thoughts and may do the same to otehrs.
That translation is pretty terrible. It's not a translation of the musicality and beauty of Shakespeare into modern English, it's a translation of Shakespeare into poorly written literal statements.

When foreign translators are doing Shakespeare, they are trying to capture the whole essence, not just a literal extraction of what it's referring to.

Example:

Yes, as sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As cannons overcharged with double cracks,
So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.

"Translated" to:

> The new challenge scared them about as much as sparrows frighten eagles, or rabbits frighten a lion. To tell you the truth, they fought the new enemy with twice as much force as before; they were like cannons loaded with double ammunition.
Lazy thinking.
You're free to use votes as you please, but down-voting is not at all flagging for abuse, and there's no reason people should have to treat it as such.

This has come up a few times in the past, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 shows that downvotes are clearly not just a flagging mechanism for abusive content.
Yes - the standard that defines what the sin() function does is the C standard itself.

Just as a compiler is free to evaluate strlen("foo") at compile-time, it's free to evaluate sin(0.1) at compile-time.
There is nothing stopping you from setting the src tag. But you are just adding another request. Our base service works perfectly with src set and picturefill. This library is for cases where a different result is desired.
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> Let's just get it clear, it is all about what we (men) need to do.

There's wide disagreement about whether men should be getting involved in feminist projects. The concern is that men will dominate those as well.

The overwhelming majority of men wouldn't want to participate anyway, because they benefit from the way things are now.
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Yes, even on 4.4.4, there was no noticeable difference between even ART and Dalvik. Again, that's why I wanted to use it daily as labs are one thing, but real world is often quite different.
I highly recommend that if you support experimentation you join and donate -- I have a MetaARPA account that I don't think I've logged into in 3 years, but I just send them a $36 check every year because I think it's important people be able to have a safe, free place to tinker.

(Also, if you want to sign up, I can validate your account. Email me a link to your HN profile and if you have enough contributions to convince me you're an okay person, I'll take care of it.)
Well, thanks at least for taking the time to understand my point. Though I don't consider it a "nit" when the article implies that "never round to zero" is some sort of rule (such as "round toward even LSBs" is), as opposed to a consequence of the properties of floats and the constants and functions involved.
Did you notice the similarities between his talk and the 1999 piece on google that was on HN http://www.zdnet.com/news/can-googles-search-engine-find-pro...
... a place for current and future Y Combinator founders to exchange news

From one of the articles you indicated.

Sounds to me like it was intended to be used.
I have room in my car from Palo Alto/Mountain View. Email in profile.
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Yeee-ep.
Someone should mention telehack.com here - not quite shell, but a brilliant simulation and set of emulations. It attempts to replicate life as we knew it in 1986 or so.
Dear god, everyone should ask for a raise. You can't trust that your employer will give you one out of kindness or something...
It is not. There is an association with ambitious and grandiose in general language at times.

I think it is related to whole 'the meek shall inherent earth' way of thinking. Which is a whole other debate if we get into the gospels of Matthew, Luke and Q issue.

Which if you follow the logic of the statement to Matthew 5:3 it related more to an understanding of poverty and conduct. Ironically very much in line with something Marcus Aurelius would say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_5:5

So I get the confusion, because I used to make the same error.
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