skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Retention is directly correlated with promotion, but I'd argue it's pretty weak. The counter-examples here are people who have been pigeonholed into a position for decades, and I could see that happening to a woman not only in tech, but in other industries as well.

You also have to take into consideration that some people simply don't have ambition for anything beyond their current job.

As for "computer science" moving backwards, I suspect the gender distribution would be similar in any other STEM related major. Nowadays, I question the validity of a CS major entirely. Yes, you will formalize your knowledge, but I think actually coding on your own will teach you more practical knowledge. Women historically tend not to be very well represented in disciplines with formal domains of knowledge, though this trend is changing, albeit slowly. People also tend to forget the pioneers of AI and formal CS theory had women who made great strides in the fields. So I'm not sure the industry is necessarily moving backwards. Perhaps it's not moving as fast as you want it to :)
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I am not a silver bullet kind of person, but I think this kind of technology plus things like Spark are potentially the holy grail. Ok, let me rephrase - I've often believed that there was a sort of "ultimate architecture" with distributed cluster computing, distributed programming frameworks, high-speed interconnect, and flash based storage. I think we are getting closer and closer each day. I wish I worked in R&D at any of the companies doing this fundamental research now - I have a feeling they have some amazing things cooked up behind closed doors.
Yeah you're right, Tremor video is trading about dollar for dollar, revenue to market cap at the moment.
I'd be much more happy to pay into an "insurance" system that did promise to "fight to the death" over invalid/inappropriate patents.

It sounds like buying this insurance might tie your hands and require you to buy out the troll, even if the troll's claims are completely bogus (or are based on extremely broad claims that never should have been granted).
This would be assuming that you would do literally nothing else with your music except put it on Spotify. I would imagine that if you really wanted to make music your career, you might explore some other ways to monetize.
Never, ever say you stole the concept. Inspired, motivated, encouraged - perhaps?

Especially since you got his blessing!!
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I'm down! There is startup weekend here in a few weeks so be sure it does not conflict with that.
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I use fedora as my primary OS.

I Love it, I maintain a few linux ( CentOS ) servers aswell as write alot of node/php/python/ember code that runs on those servers.

Advantages

a) flexibility and lightweight nature

b) very similar OS to the servers i maintain

c) memory usage ( laptop )

d) i prefer the package managers.

whilst i could perform the majority of my tasks on a mac... i dislike the

a) UI

b) package manager

c) defaults given ( keyboard shortcuts aswell as scrolling ones )

d) lack of flexibility

(note: i havn't really had a good play on a mac so all my listed disadvantageous would most likely be easy to resolve )
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I prefer that original website. It makes it much clearer what's going on.
He could do a rough cost benefit analysis. The break-even time could be very long, considering opportunity cost. Also college could be like prison when you're self-taught.
True. Don't take this the wrong way: As a programmer, I would also add that it was a pleasure to work with a real UX API again, and not have to deal with HTML's crazy issues, centering text, jQuery, browser incompatibilities, etc. I always had a <div> that didn't quite work the way I wanted.

In the end, a native app looks much better for fewer lines of code (assuming you can stand Objective-C).
From something I posted on our site:

From my experience, unless a change in a Google product degrades functionality for a large portion of end users they aren't going to publicly acknowledge it. They don't seem to have the same policies regarding transparency that other companies like FetLife do (we acknowledge when we mess up and break stuff!).

When ReCAPTCHA went down last year I looked and could not find any acknowledgement of the issue from a Google employee. This was while FetLife and other large websites tweeted about it and posted in Google's product forum. All we had to go with was speculation and helping each other out with recommendations for temporary solutions.

Likewise, this change in Gmail may never be officially acknowledged. It may be related to the arrival of Google's new Inbox product or it may be related to some sort of spam filtering they deployed into production. It doesn't appear to be specific to adult websites. Other large community websites are affected too. The result is that affected websites using plain text emails are now forced to switch over to HTML-based email. I could see a conspiracy theory in there about Google pushing HTML-based email for a nicer looking Gmail/Inbox experience. No matter what, I think it's very unlikely we'll ever know what change caused this or why.
I think that the effectiveness of the strategy will depend on the specific plant's pollination/seed dispersal mechanism. And it gets really weird when you consider that you can have plants that over multiple seedling generations (years really) that have a mix of clonal colonies and sexually reproduced offspring dispersed around them.

To the original question, one obvious difficulty is considering how a mechanism encoding directionality in a chemical signal can evolve. It's certainly possible that these fungal networks are weakly directional, and it's also possible for a plant to evolve some sort of gradient sensing mechanism if its root network is sufficiently wide, but it -seems- unlikely. I would totally love to see if we can find an example of it though - it would be sooo cool.
The opinion of the cops - our employees - about the requirements of their job is not particularly interesting.

Failure to follow means they should find a new job. If they decide to make a habit of "forgetting" their badge (aka camera), then they have no authority, and are not doing their job. Charge them with [attempted] murder if they shoot [at] anybody.

Compare the camera requirement with any other job's requirements: retail employees are on camera when on the job almost 100% of the time. If a an employee at the US Postal Service decided to regularly "leave behind" mail, they won't keep their job. If "mens rea" can be shown, they might even face charges.

No, the opinion of the cops was not asked for. The people that we would need buy-in from (not counting the usual politicians would need to be included to get anything passed) are the prosecutors and regulators, not the cops. The local prosecutor needs to actually go after the nastier charges whenever they might happen, or they are really just aiding-and-abetting original crime (willingly choosing to not report a felony that you have direct knowledge of is itself a felony).

The cops need to be given a choice. They can:

(1) use the cameras (and the implicit attitude changes that would require)

(2) face charges for acts that require certain additional powers while willfully ignoring the the mandatory requirements of those powers

(3) have fun on the unemployment line and/or explain to the prosecutors why they screwed up their evidence collection

While I would agree that getting the DA to prosecute is currently an issue, even a usually pro-cop DA is going to be very annoyed if all the evidence is regularly thrown out due to improper collection.
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as a brightroll stock holder.. any news on how they were bought? stock deal/cash or mix?
No one near me. Can I register as a non-startup tech?

Edit: Ah, I don't use LinkedIn.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

Deis = heroku-like interface on top of your own private cloud which must be running CoreOS and certain other things like Ceph distributed filesystem, but can be set to run on a variety of third party commercial cloud providers' infrastructure.

So basically, if you only ever want to use these features, and you are happy with a heroku-like interface to your infrastructure, Deis is useful.

OTOH, if you might want to run a non-Linux node, a specific filesystem or node-local configuration for performance, security or other purposes, or have infrastructure that is not feasibly manageable with a manual process, Deis is not currently useful.

That said, neither are most of the latest-gen infrastructure solutions.
Isn't that a fairly arbitrary philosophical distinction? I'm not sure we can say which organism intends to distribute the resources, since that's a fairly anthropocentric concept. I suppose one could ask whether the relationship between the large tree and the fungus is beneficial to the large tree despite the large tree losing some resources, but the answer seems to be yes.
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"Fighting to the death" runs directly counter to RPX's business model. If NPEs are discouraged from trolling by a streak of losses, no-one needs to pay RPX's premiums any more.
The cold reality is that the way to increase the gender ratio is to hire more women. That's what happened in the legal profession: law schools made it a point to get gender-balanced classes, and law firms supported that by hiring gender-balanced classes of new associates.

I think one of the hardest things for people in tech to admit is that an uneven gender ratio is by itself a deterrent to talented women considering the profession. You can say that people shouldn't care about same-gender mentors and co-workers, etc, but at the end of the day, people care about fitting in and they don't want to have to ride against the current their whole career. A bright young woman considering law school, where she'll be in a 50-50 environment, or engineering school, where she'll be in a 20-80 environment, has a natural disinclination to choose the latter.
Music is not a product, it is culture. For a time there was a distribution problem that allowed it to be equated with the physical means of distribution, and that was a product. That period has past, and the sooner artists realize this the sooner they will stop looking foolish and anachronistic.

On the other hand, Spotify is a service for finding and enjoying music. People will pay for a good service and this is why there is a business model here and a potential revenue stream for artists. It isn't the entire future of ways to make money from music, but it is one of the best upcoming models.
This is an awesome networking hack! If you're looking to "meet" a bunch of employers, check out Hired - http://join.hired.com/x/WF25Mp. We placed someone with a very similar background to you (18 years old, web dev) a while ago. Everyone loved him, they'd be excited to meet you too.

Side note, I'd be happy to chat over coffee and discuss the valley, opportunities, and how to not get screwed over, regardless of your interest in Hired.
Well, it's not that common that people just keel over dead and then a medical examiner has to deduce the cause of death from the corpse.

People get sick, they go to the doctor, they get diagnosed, and then they die. Whatever they were last sick from, that's what killed them. A lot of the illnesses on the 1900 list are not really going to have been hard for a 1900 doctor to diagnose. The doctor says you've got the flu or influenza or pneumonia, you probably do.

So the 1900 list is probably pretty accurate.
Have you seen studies on it? I know some men feel it (anecdotally, I have), but saying "just as common" implies having some actual data on it.
Given the title of the page, I'm kind of disappointed that this wasn't defined. http://i.imgur.com/zKu6byK.png
I got an invitation a couple days ago when I searched "mutex lock". Not sure whether search history makes a difference, but it worked for the gf too a couple minutes later: http://i.imgur.com/l4rGps5.png
Because Alice already knows the NSA didn't pay, the game effectively reduces to a two-participant model. Obviously, playing this game with only one other participant would provide no anonymity at all. n-1 colluders can deanonymize any DC network with group size n.

Another fundamental problem with DC networks is that a single malicious participant can completely disrupt communication, and the inherent anonymity of the protocol means detecting malicious actors is very difficult. Chaum introduces the idea of "trap rounds" that can be used to slowly exclude bad actors, but in actual use, trap rounds are rather inelegant and impractical.

Herbivore http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/papers/herbivore-tr.pdf is an implementation of DC networks that circumvents some of these problems by sorting participants into randomized groups of ~k participants, where k is a network-wide anonymity set constant. It avoids collusion by disallowing participants to choose which k-sized bucket they end up in, and limits Sybil attacks by requiring proof-of-work to join the network.
I don't know who down-voted you but I'd say the word:impact ratio on this comment is particularly high. Gems like this can have a big impact on a young person's career.
They are contractors, but are they independent contractors? I think it's more likely that they are employees of a staffing firm that Google contracts out to for workers rather than independent contractors that Google contracts directly.
I tried this with burritos last year. The results were mixed. I got a lot of great people, but even with screening, I had a ton of very weird characters come through because I got some press on it.

I found a lot of people just wanted a free burrito. Not a problem, but not the community I hoped to build out of the experiment.

Needless to say I had put on about 20lbs in burritos.

[edit] sent you an email! :)
Actually, women 40-60 are depicted, but usually not positively. They're either evil (Disney, and the folklore it's based on being a great example) or controlling, or similar. There's a lot of rather interesting discourse on this, and what it says about men (given our paternalistic society).
All sound plausible. Except the 30 hours.
Not exactly what you are asking for, but perhaps of interest to you.

My problems started with exercises... I had a regimen of stationary biking for the whole winter (7 miles on alternate days). By late winter I had serious buttock pains sitting in a chair or driving after about 15-30 minutes. Dr and physio could not diagnose it. Finally did some internet self diagnosis and came up with piriformis syndrome - had to do with the biking/exercising one set of muscles in one direction and not exercising alternate muscles/directions. I am now following some exercises that take about 30 minutes per day, and give me considerable relief but there is no long term fix for this.

Moral: When you do exercise try to pick exercise that have many dimensions.
I mean, the OP isn't saying so, they're point to a ton of evidence (admittedly, a Google link isn't the best, but). Countering with "in my experience" is just an anecdote.
I'm really struggling to understand what this is. I've looked at it a few times and never really get a good grip on what it is.

Also, how does it fit in with Ansible?
There are so many little things you can do to make everyone feel welcome and comfortable, a lot of companies do these things for women and minorities but everyone benefits.

-regular checkins
-coaches/mentors
-make sure that everyone participates in meetings/dev huddles. Often toxic environments stem from just a few individuals who are louder than everyone else. No one else is ever heard and doesn't feel like part of the team.
-make sure people feel empowered to do their job and more. get rid of micromanagers.
-management should be open to feedback and act on it.

Feedback is the key ingredient. Make sure employees have a channel to voice their opinions and that it is acted on.
This is a far better deal for BrightRoll than going public. Tremor and YuMe, arguably similar businesses, are basically trading for the cash they have on hand. Todd (BrightRoll CEO), had told me he thought ad networks were not meant to be public companies. He certainly followed that mentality through to a nice exit. I'd take $640M outright exit any day versus going public at a slightly higher comp.
I try to put my hands behind my head when I'm not typing or using the mouse (because otherwise they're always in front of me and my shoulder blades hurt like hell). I switch mouse hands when my shoulder starts to get sore. I work at a standing desk with a stool so I can sit when I need to. And when I'm not working I try to spend as little time in front of a computer as I can. I also do yoga.
I don't understand. Why do you think a government agency and a court would take a different decision at a trademark matter?
@voltagex_ Definitely. We believe that entrepreneurial spirit is more a state of mind, than what you might be doing on a daily basis.

Edit: Ah, bummer. I believe that's a +1 for native signup! :) Also, which city are you living in?
Its interesting to see this cycle in the Mall of America. The upper fourth floor was non-stop through the late 90's and into 2001 or so. Then the whole floor died, suddenly.

Of the seven or so bars, they all went under within a few years of 2000 and the whole floor has been more or less completely dead for almost a decade now. Planet Hollywood pulling out in 2003 was the last death knell for the floor. Only Hooters survived the mass extinction.

These days, more bars are opening, but its not the same. There's a Corona Catina which took over the vacated Fat Tuesday's (which was shut down after repeated warnings from the city went unheeded) and Knuckleheads Comedy club. There's a smaller comedy club which took over the Gator's nightclub spot, but it's half the size of the original club. There's some new restaurant where Planet Hollywood used to be. Hooters is still kickin, but the rest of the bars (still 3-4 spots) are completely vacant.

It's an interesting dichotomy since the majority of the rest of the mall is still doing very well. Camp Snoopy has been renamed twice now, but is still super busy on the weekends. The rest of the floors during the holidays are flooded with eager shoppers. And yet, the fourth floor is like an attic nobody wants to go to anymore. I think its partly due to the newer, hipster bars opening in other parts of town which have drawn a lot of the suburbanites away. Also, a lot of the college kids who used to live in the area, are now moving to second and third ring suburbs now.
No, they are just well known for having plentiful partitioning issues. If you are in your own data centers, you can plan for carefully for this and make it a very low concern.
Too few categories.

I don't want to meet venture captialists. I want to meet other marketers, authors, and artists.
I use a Samsung Chromebook 2, with a chroot environment running xfce. This allows me to do all of my development tasks on a sub-$400 laptop, with over 8 hours of battery life.

I've worked at Apple, and I love Mac OSX, but the expense of owning a Macbook far exceeds any additional returns I would get by using one professionally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Major Leo Major singlehandedly liberated the city of Zwolle from German occupation.
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Was anyone else surprised to see death by accidents drop? I assumed as health-related concerns went down, the accidents ratio would go up?

Then again, I don't see "war" in the list so if casualties of war are grouped under accidents...
This seems like I have to pay protection money to a company which supposedly protects me from other patent trolls.
You can create your own categories (there is an add button).
Clearly that individual is not representative of any culture or larger movement.

It also has nothing to do with this conversation.
How do you know though? Obviously imposter syndrome is common in men, but how do you know if it's more or less common in men than women in tech jobs? Do you have something to back that up?
Ask: Are US companies willing to hire engineers from Mexico with TN visas?
My colleague (from Mexico) and here on a TN visa says the majority of good engineers from Mexico would want to come to the US to work. According to what I've read, a TN visa is much like an H1B from an employer standpoint.
This is also the default behavior for ASAs, so it's really just not bothering to configure them. Probably because email works, so why screw with it?
Two recent articles here (or reddit) the woman who was a stenographer joined up with a programmer to create spoken commands to program.

Add to hat the recent NSA project that search code and autocompletes what you are working on as if MS Word is correcting a word on a document.

Imagine both of those in Google Glass you can jabber to yourself while jogging.

I see all this crap and forget to bookmark it then can't recall where I saw it!
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It seems pretty unreasonable to tie together stock buybacks and employee stock compensation. The reality is that companies using stock for employee incentives will necessarily have to create new shares fairly regularly. Buying back shares also has the fairly obvious correlation to increasing the per-share price. That both things happen at the same time in many companies is not surprising, but it's also necessary.
Not available on the Google app store? Bummer.
Yes, because these days raw clarity and functionality most often take a backseat to cute design.

I've been using the web since its inception, and I had no idea that your.email@gmail.com was a placeholder in a text input box. Furthermore, I had assumed that the "Wednesday.." placeholder on the 2nd input field was in fact some sort of auto-generated next free opening. Only now after reading your note about camouflage did I go back to the page and realize what he was trying to do. Sigh.
Orly.

I only scrolled through the startup portion and then said fuck it.

I'll have to give it another shot.
I prefer Miles' "narrative" style. :)
Gender-based discrimination against one gender has nothing to do with gender-based discrimination against a different gender? My, what logic you have!
Half the people in this sub-thread think it's about public transit, and the other half are talking about the company bus systems that take tech workers from homes in San Francisco to jobs in the Silicon Valley. These company buses generally have a single drop-off point, and if you look at the top of the sub-thread, the bus is dropping "all its people". This is a long-winded way of saying that the excuse is that you work at the same company as the people you frequently see on the particular bus you ride most days.
I've implemented kets, bras and all their friends. That explosive set case is tested and cared for, too.

Still a bit confused about those unicode inputs though
True. And yet... for a good method name in an interface, you want it to be as general as the interface could be. You want sort(), not sortVector(), because sorting is much more general than sorting a vector - you could sort a tree, if it can be ordered.

You could include the name of the interface as part of the method name, though. But the downside of that approach is, if another interface wants to re-use the same method, things get awkward...
The "Favorite Languages" need a little updating. I wanted to pick OCaml, Rust and Hack.
E-Mafia.
Smells like a press release to me. Wouldn't surprise me if 90% if that article were reprinted verbatim from a PR piece.