skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking for raise because you are woman ? How is that not gender discrimination against men ? Guess, US does not follow its own law.

There are literally hundereds of thousands of women coming here from India, China and working hand-in-hand with men. IN many many cases I can show you women earn more than men.

Problem is that liberal femi-nazi propaganda is flawed. You can't just take average of salary for women and compare it with men. There are depth and breadth of job categories and averaging out salaries does not work.

Read "Flaw of Averages" from Sam Savage of Stanford to better understand the game.

If you are really competent enough go change the jobs , work for startups, work for top 10. Who is stopping you ? Now , don't complain that companies don't hire you because you are a woman.

I feel that US is gradually following path of Scandinavian countries where women ultimately want to overpower men rather than seeking equality. Many feminazi movements are for free social welfare.

What about men who also quietly accept job and underpaid for years and years. Just look at many smart engineers still working ass-off after 10 yrs and getting 100k. Learn to look and live outside silicon valley.

One last point I want to bring is that if you create business hostile environment not only talent will run away but also companies will start to migrate. America has fought war after war for 20 years and I respect those who have lost lives , served the country.

When you create/join any movement don't think short term or instant gratification rather think long term social+political+economical impact for you and your children.

I feel bad that America is on downward spiral and unless some magic happens or you get another MLK ; its very hard to stop the demise.
No, that means that they have no idea what to do with the money.
As a female in tech, this is disheartening because it discourages men to advocate or talk openly for gender equality. How awful is it that we just shamed him publicly so instantly? I hope men aren't discouraged by this. Guy needs a bear hug.
Again, it's hard to generalize but for the modern woman, I think it's no worse than what you'd find in the western world. Until last year, the most powerful politician in India was an Italian-Indian woman (again this might not mean anything but it shows that it's not ingrained into people). Also, given the population, you might hear more cases of inequality. But please don't let that affect your general view of India.

The caste system, I'm very sorry to say this, your ancestors are partly to blame for as well. Like we all know divide and conquer goes a long way in sorting out issues :-). But it used to be societal classification based on one's occupation (and people were free to move across strata as well) which allowed for easy governance. Anyway, today it's pretty much non-existent and is more a class system than anything else (it's a corollary that the highest castes are the richest class today). However, have enough money? Even the highest caste member will not mind handing his daughter over.
Why not use (virtual) views?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_(SQL)
Groucho Marx said:

I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member

Sartre sharply found out, that to be an independent thinker "about" society, he must not be entangled to much "into" society.
Pearson’s wrong answer – and why it matters in the high-stakes testing era
A "strongly pure" function in D is a traditionally pure function, and can be detected by the parameters having const types.

const types in D are transitive, meaning that any data reachable through those types is also const. I.e. "turtles all the way down."
Why isn't there an img-tag in the default example? Why are you promoting bad practice by not having images in img-tags? You solved one problem but created a much bigger problem. Bots, screen readers and non-javascript client should see an image, not a div with some attributes.
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Thanks. I didn't realize this was a subsequent lecture.
I treat being downvoted as editorial feedback on the quality of my writing. It means [usually] that I failed to connect with the audience. Perhaps my point was not clearly made, or I misunderstood an ancestor comment, or even that I trolled or said something just plain unproductive.

Depending on the circumstances a rewrite may be a good idea. Other times I'll just delete a lousy comment. Only occasionally will I treat a down vote as a character flaw in someone else, and then as one I share.

In the end writing good comments pretty much takes care of downvotes.
That behaviour sounds great, although I’m curious which old IRC clients you are referring to. I actually make use of an old Power Mac G3 (B&W) running Mac OS 9 for connecting to some IRC servers (using ircle) and in its case, at least, nicks are assumed to be 10 characters or less. This is quite annoying since there are active users on the channels who have nicks longer than that, so the client simply displays their messages with the extra characters of their nick cut off (to keep the messages left aligned). While I suppose ircle could dynamically resize the area for nicks based on the length of the longest nick that has posted a message, that could be pretty inefficient… not to mention if the channel messages are being logged in a text file with messages left-aligned in there as well (which is what ircle does); the whole file would have to be recreated.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 Ernest Hemingway
> In D, if a function is pure, can it call a function that modifies global state?

Nope (it would be a useless feature if it could).
Where is the heat coming from?
I never stopped using a tilde + mod_userdir
You hipsters know how to make a guy feel old :F

http://rapidpacket.com/~xtat/
Actually both theory turned out to be correct which is the way science sometimes works. Most of our ancestry is traced back to Africa, but the various populations outside of Africa are a mix of African and the various related human species that had been living in the area. For example modern Europeans and East Asian peoples are a hybrid of African humans and Neanderthal human populations [1]. The modern Austronesian peoples (most likely the descendants of the cave painters) are a three way hybrid between African, Neanderthal and the Denisovian humans [2]. I find this all really interesting.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_human_admixture_with_mo...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan
I wonder how he felt about his fame, you can't shake that off. Maybe I misunderstand his argument, but it seems like he could have used that argument to just always write anonymously.
I suspect he gave his standard advice about raises without considering the circumstances or that it wouldn't work equally well for men and women. That's not an excuse, but a reminder that sexism doesn't have to be deliberate to be sexism.

On the positive side, he did apologize without the typical spin or qualification.
It's sad how every outlet is putting in its headline some form of: "Satya Nadella to Women: Don't Ask for a Raise".

But "don't ask for a raise" weren't his words. His actual words were subtly different, and more along the lines that it can be OK not to ask for a raise – you shouldn't have to ask for a raise – when a compensation system is working right. It was sort of a "don't feel too bad" reassurance to women who are not comfortable pushing for raises.

The main problem with his answer was that it was sufficiently unclear as to allow for the "don't ask for raises" misinterpretation... and lots of people rush to the worst, rather than best, interpretations.

Who can report subtleties when there's revenue-goosing rage-hits to attract?
absolutely amazing talk. This needs to be watched several times. My favorite takeaway: Get your users to their 'magical' moment with your product as fast as possible.
https://github.com/android/platform_external_qemu
JavaScript the better parts – by Doulas Crockford[video]
assumes that the reader is a (straight) male

Or it implies the writer is a straight male discussing his own experience, but who is incorrectly using the second person. That's the most natural reading.

I've observed that in my first drafts, I often (confusingly) switch between the first person, second person, and the mathematician's "we" ("we now integrate by parts to..."). I've also observed women will also sometimes use "you" when they mean "I", and I occasionally tease them by saying "I too think that dress will make my ass look great" (their reaction: [light punch] "you know what I mean you jerk").

Being consistent and correct takes effort that is incommensurate with the value of an HN comment.

It's a bit silly that we've now declared certain grammatical errors, tones and voices to be secretly sexist.
My concern for this project is that it is so dependent on the culture of its users that is has to be strictly controlled. It cannot scale up, because a strong culture like this does not scale. There might be more Tilde Clubs over time, but such a machine is too easily disrupted by even a single bad actor, like peterwwillis says. Even if that did not happen, cultural erosion would happen, like a mini Eternal September or take your pick of communities: Reddit, Slashdot, HN, etc.
Simulation showing Ebola spreads slower, kills more than other diseases
At full intensity, it draws 6a @ 12v, so 72 watts if my mental arithmetic is correct. With luck that will throw enough light to be useful.
... Because security and information management is totally unrelated.
Common sense rules, jargon stuff like 'growth hacking' is just that - jargon.
The most common case I have run into is storing a reference inside another data structure.
Floats are like 16-bit shorts. Useless.

There is little performance advantage to using a 32-bit float. Their precision is low enough that you can't do anything useful without risking the correctness of your program.

They are, like shorts, an artefact of the past. Unlike shorts, their limitations are not within the intuition of the average programmer, which leads to widespread abuse and bugs.

Kill them before it's too late.
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One of the best so far. From speech delivery to content.
Very creative, great work. I especially like the downvote as upvote.
Sartre only represents himself. Not any institution like the Nobel. That's his argument. So writing in his name is ok.
Ask HN: Help me find a job for $400 per month
Dear HN,

I need about $400 to cover my monthly expenses of food, rent, internet etc. I can program in Python and Javascript, make descent looking websites using Bootstrap and deploy code to Linux boxes. Right now I only have money to cover this month's expenses only. I am ready to do any work as long as it covers my monthly expense - approximately $400. I am desperate.

I started learning web development this year and started working on an idea fulltime. I need to support myself till I can get my product out.

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Pay is based on background + experience + knowledge and how much company see as valuable resource.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of women from India and China earning $100k salary in California itself.

If you average out salary across depth and breadth of jobs and complain women don't earn enough I pity you.
Look out for "Flaw of averages" from Dr. Sam Savage of Stanford.

If you are competent what is literally stopping from changing company ? or Start your own business ?

Complaining that you get paid less because you are women is nothing but non-sense. Show me recent graduate girls ( women ) earning less than recent grad boys.

In US you don't just look at salaries. You look at total compensation which includes PTO, 401k, holidays etc etc. Each company is different so some companies might be paying low on salary but high on PTO. So all I am saying is you can't just average out and claim that you are getting paid less.

By the way how this is not gender discrimination ? Guess US does not follow its own law. There are thousands of men also who get paid less , go years without increase what about them ? Why no movement for them ?

US is following path of Scandinavian countries and it is very sad that it is in downward spiral.
Frameworks for Understanding the Future of Work
The sound we use today in "put" isn't [u], it's [ʊ]. Today, it would definitely not be considered an adequate rhyme for [u:]; would you call "look" [lʊk] an inexact rhyme for "Luke" [lu:k]?

On the other hand, I tend to suspect that [u], if it occurred, would be accepted as an exact rhyme for [u:]. Any line-final [u] in a poem would sort of necessarily be promoted to [u:], though.

On an unrelated note, are there areas that use a [lʊv] pronunciation of "love" today? That might explain the to-me odd use of "lurve" in humor.
Open question: couldn't peer discovery be coordinated over a bitcoin like network?
You are correct. HTTPS is HTTP spoken over a SSL/TLS secure channel. The contents of the request and response are all fully encrypted.

The hostname is a special case, as it's present in the certificate presented by the host, as well as in the client hello if SNI is in use. (Both of these are unencrypted, as they're sent in the process of negotiating the secure channel.)
Amazon Must Be Stopped
Cute, but I'd wait to see reviews on the espresso it makes.
I have a myPressi Twist which makes outstanding espresso but it requires me to preboil the parts to bring them up to temp , the whole process is finicky if you really care about coffee. Not sure how this falls onthe curve
you add boiling water to it
I think you put hot water in.

Creating really nice steamed milk is more difficult than creating an intense coffee liquid that will I enjoy.
Presumably boiled on a fireplace nearby; it's basically a portable version of the aeropress http://vimeo.com/40980282

It would be cool though if it could boil the water too... but that's more complicated + litigious if you get it wrong ;)
I would go a slightly lower temperature than sea level boiling point.
The Aeropress isn't exactly non-portable.
One type of interesting modern hand crank device is degaussers.

Goverment regulations require that data is able to be destroyed even if the power goes out. So the top end degaussers can operate by hand crank. It reminds me somewhat of the movie Argo.
It's certainly true that it has a nasty growth curve (exponential in version number; probably worse in number of active terms).

I just think it's fun for low value things, and interesting if you're in the situation you have a huge feature set relative to the number of active features, since it incurs no penalty for fields that are 0. Any time you have about ~1% features being present, it can make a difference. Example: if you have about 5 of 500 fields with 16 possible values represented, storing all the 0s is expensive. Using a naive 4-bits-per-field, you end up with 2000 bits, whereas, using my method, you only use ~620. Even using a 500bit number to flag which fields are present and then listing just those fields in order only saves you about ~100 bits over my method.

Plus, I manage to spark off a discussion about math and the problem, rather than just whining about it being hard, which I consider to be a good thing.
Wow, the document is awesome and code is really understandable though I haven't used lua before. It's pretty nice work! thanks for sharing :)
Why not just get a minimum wage job?
40,000 suicides annually, yet America simply shrugs
I never thought of that as being strange. I think it's used this way because it fits with "a few," you know? "I had a few drinks," "I had a couple drinks." But fwiw, "I had a couple of drinks" doesn't sound wrong to me.
> PS: Can someone explain the downvote?

I didn't downvote you, but since you made a PS, a PPS, and a PPPS about it I would suggest you read HN's Guidelines[1], specifically: "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

Some people are going to disagree with what you say - it's really not worth worrying about.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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D'oh! Yes, any possible library contains only a finite number of functions to version. Even if we order the functions in decreasing order of update frequency, this scheme will overflow quickly if more than one or two functions update regularly.
Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video]
Sartre also said : Hell is other people.
Come on people, have a little class consciousness. Don't expect upper management to give you good career advice.
I had exactly the same thought. The fact that you aren't running Rails and you can't clone a bunch of open-source libraries from Github, but rather must start from scratch with your own handmade HTML, is absolutely Burning Man's "radical self-reliance."
It implies only that he wants to see men and women paid equally for equal performance. There's no particular reason to think that he would achieve this by lowering the salaries of better-paid employees (where better pay was not correlated with superior performance) rather than by increasing the salary of worse-paid employees (likewise).

If he's smart, he'd engage an outside auditor to measure employee productivity and how well it correlates with salaries, then raise the pay of any group that wturned out to be systematically disadvantaged.
Node-Red Another Way to the IOT
You might be interested to know that Cicero, irritated at the prevailing viewpoint of the time that discussing philosophy required Greek, made a point of using Latin and coining the words he needed when he needed them.

The idea that your language forms unbreakable shackles around your soul has apparently been unreasonably popular for a very long time :/
Bundler::Updater – Interactively update your outdated gems
It's definitely not fun. City raccoons here are very aggressive and a big nuisance. They rip apart and shred any containers that have the sent of food, and are carriers of several diseases.

While they can look cute and furry, from my experience, they are far from.
It's called Helicopter :-(
Have you tried a manual stovetop frother? It's made of metal, and it has a plunger with a frothing head (looks like a coil-type whisk) on the end.

You fill it with milk, put it on a gas burner or electric hot plate, warm it until the milk is hot enough (around 60-65C). Then you take it off the heat and push the frother up and down until the milk is sufficiently aerated. Here's the one I have:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000X7GF40

It produces microfoam that is at least good as those electric frothers from Nespresso etc. Not as good as a steamer wand, but close.
They are both renouncing something in a spectacular way to maintain a personal ideal.
It's hard for the constraints of old to justify lying about your accuracy in the documentation you produce, though...?
Dude, the distance from the east to the west of India is some 1200 miles, and north to south is around 2000 miles. The idea that you could describe the entire country in such simple cultural generalizations is as wrong as generalizing about people from LA and Kansas. Just the way you're talking about India is, while flattering, very uninformed. The US is also home to lovely and kind people, as well as people capable of monstrosity. The caste system is irrelevant in many parts of India -- it's not even a consideration! It's like not wanting to visit 1960s New York because, you know, all the lynching and the Jim Crow laws.
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Trust Signals for Your Website
Please correct me if I’m wrong (still learning Japanese), but isn’t「ー」only used to extend sounds written in katakana? In the case of the「あーん」that you wrote, I would think that it would be written as「ああん」instead since that’s the way sounds are extended in hiragana. I agree with your usage of「あ〜ん」though.
Pompous.
> 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.

Comments like the last line there are what I [despite being a male who genuinely feels there should be more women in tech] find extremely frustrating.

If we [men] do nothing we're accused of not caring and/or defending the status quo. If we try and help we get accused of suggesting women are incapable of doing it themselves.
This thread is now disappearing forever but anyway for posterity, ignoring the title and the pretty inaccurate article: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-value-of-downvotin... the discussion in the comments is very interesting.
Global Capitalism’s Bouncers
Everything with IBM it's some strange act of financial engineering.

Everyone who worked in the PC division of IBM essentially worked for Lenovo one day. They used the same people, processes, part numbers, etc for many years. Lexmark was the same story a few years earlier.

The only change was that the IBM account exec that plays golf with your CEO didn't give as shit about PCs anymore.
My understanding is you're going to get in trouble flying a drone anywhere. If you get caught is different but it just doesn't seem like a good idea at the moment.
I'm not sure I understand your example very well or what you are trying to say.

> Consider an empty plane where all the seats are paid for by passengers that all coincidentally were late to the airport. That's not a problem for the airline, because the tickets got sold and it was the passengers fault. However, this is a failure for the tube, for which payment is secondary

In both cases, the airline and the tube have fixed costs related to having planes flying or trains running. For both of them payments are necessary to offset the fixed costs and generate profits to further invest in better transports.

They key difference is that for one the volume of passengers is much higher than the other, therefore "full capacity" is defined in very different terms in the Tube vs a plane. People don't stand in a plane like they do in the Tube.
Why I stopped reading/hearing/watching the news
"They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off."

That bit really jumped out at me, because it's something I've felt about computers in general for a long time. People get it into their heads that computers are hard/complicated/etc., and so they get scared of them, and so then they don't do anything with them but a strict subset they've decided they understand and wind up doing all sorts of things wrong or inefficiently. Often, in trying to protect the computer and themselves from what they've convinced themselves they don't understand, they wind up breaking it instead: they don't know what they're doing because they think they can't learn. "It's too complicated."
What did Notch renounce? I thought he sold his company to Microsoft.
There is, except that there it's no money in PCs anymore, and print is a low/no growth business.
Very common in Australia. Seems some Brits do it as well.
A Conversation on Future Urbanism, Tech Hubs
He did not say that, it's what one character says in Huis Clos. That's just like saying Tyrion is actually expressing what George Martin thinks.
This can't be proven. No one in the drivers' seat of a Benz has ever tapped the turn signal.