skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And in that the response appears to have been "it didn't make any difference".

> Well if being a male and female founder is practically the same it does rather demand that we ask the question, so why are YC focussing on the sex of these particular founders then, what's it got to do with anything.

I think the idea was that said females didn't find founding a company any more difficult, given they had already chosen the founder path. This is because once you go down that path, the most significant factor is drive. So Jessica "not really touching on being a female founder" may have been intended to convey a welcoming sense of gender-equality by not actually focusing about gender (like you say it shouldn't be). But on the other hand, we can't ignore the up-stream barrier-to-entry that must exist for the demographics to look so skewed.

> we run the place

Yeah, I agree. That particular line (in an otherwise fine article) may have been written with good intention. But it also felt pretty jarring. Reading "we (us women) run the place" gives me vibes that sexism is something to be inverted rather than neutralized. I think the article might have been better received had Jessica said "The 4 of us, who happen to be women, play key roles" or "It's nice to see a female majority at the top for a change".
No, it is not ethical.
At least at University of Wisconsin campuses there's a good legal reason for a campus to have its own police: city and county police by default don't have jurisdiction within state agencies like the University.
It is a style, not a problem. OCaml had been there a long long time. I've brushed with it a couple of times over the years, and every time the same thing.

You look at some random OCaml code, and it looks like this:

when String.length line > 4 && String.sub line 0 3 = "+++"

I'm looking at it, and I'm not even sure - is it a bug there? Should it be '>=3' or they've really wanted to say '> 4'. Numbers all other the place? Ten different variants of equal signs?
How another person lives his life is fundamentally his decision, and it is not your responsibility to fix him. Your frustration with him is your problem, not his. At first blush, I would recommend either accept him or walk away, for your benefit and his.
I'm in a graduate CS program. Half, maybe more, of my cohort is female.
This is by far the worst problem with Stack Overflow. The mods seem to leap at the chance to mark questions that are similar, but not identical, as duplicates.
> Anything you can experience in "the real world" can be reproduced at arbitrarily-fine resolution in a sufficiently advanced digital system.

You can use this argument once we have sufficiently advanced digital systems. Until then it's a non-sequitur.

> As the tech keeps improving, the circle of people who experience real community online keeps expanding.

This is obviously true. There are clearly both positives and negatives to this.

Positive: If I like MLP: FIM & Dr. Who crossover fanfics, I can easily find hundreds of people who also do. This allows for even more niche communities than large cities did.

Negative: Echo chamber. Digital communities make diversity possible, but they, perhaps counterintuitively, tend to have the opposite effect. People are more comfortable in a largely homogeneous social environment, and as technology advances it becomes easier to attain this.
I don't see what the problem is. It's just like pushing ads?
I agree, hack something workable in PHP together and begin to build a audience, then if you want to pull out some cool $NewTech for version 2.0 go ahead.
You are definitely right in that there are biological influences that have caused men and women to want to pursue different career paths. But you must be kidding if you don't believe this effect isn't exacerbated by cultural factors.

Where do these underlying desires come from? Are they generated exclusively by biology, where not having a Y chromosome will make you more likely to pursue x, y, and z interests? Are these underlying desires not at all influenced by the environment kids grow up in--a world that depicts almost exclusively male programmers in the media, a world where the media glorifies young boy geniuses, a world where Lego's are marketed to boys and dolls are marketed to girls, a world where computer games are marketed almost exclusively to boys, a world where computer science role models are exclusively male? It's hard to call any of this "sexist" because it's so subtle and each individual thing isn't really a big deal, but it all contributes to an environment that makes tech less appealing to young girls.
That is actually a very interesting application of the service that I hadn't even considered.
Sounds a bit harsh, i think the OP is looking for advice on how to deal with it. Saying accept it or walk away is not really adding to the conversation.

My suggestion would be to start to talk to your friend about how you feel about his/her situation. Try and get an understanding of just how they are feeling.

Dont just come into a conversation with all your advice ready to go because it will make your friend back off.

Be prepared to spend sometime to get to understand the underlying causes behind his/her need to shut down and not live life.

There are probably some deep seated fears and stresses which are causing him/her to be this way.

Walking away and just turning a blind eye to them is not going to help anyone.
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Wow, a free download of 409pp straight from the MIT Press! Also a nice geek-warming thanks at the end, with just a little more detail than you'd sometimes see in the frontmatter (compilation time):

> This book was typeset entirely with free software and fonts. The text is set in Palatino, designed by Hermann Zapf and available as TEX Gyre Pagella. The headings are set in Latin Modern Sans, based on Computer Modern Sans, designed by Donald Knuth.
The source files were created with GNU Emacs and managed with the Mercurial revision-control system. The figure source files were compiled with
MetaPost 1.999 and Asymptote 2.31. The TEX source was compiled to PDF
using ConTeXt 2014.05.17 and LuaTeX 0.79.1. The compilations were managed with GNU Make and took 10 minutes on a 2006-vintage Thinkpad T60 laptop. All software was running on Debian GNU/Linux.
A heartfelt thank you to all who contribute to the software commons!

Edit: If anyone here works on the MIT Press website, for some reason I can't add the paperback item to my cart. When I click the link it takes me to an empty cart every time (vanilla Chrome, no plugins).
No, thankfully I'm not in a position to need to. I'm just commenting on how ludicrous the situation is.
It's funny you picked those two examples as the PG one isn't sexism at all, just quotes taken out of context. The second one, once the details came out showed was an unfortunate situation but also not really an example of sexism (IIRC). If those examples are the best you can come up with then that really undermines your premise.
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Something that can really help with this is getting out of the mindset of identifying yourself by your achievements. You talked about stoicism and being in the present, but it sounds like you're very preoccupied and anxious over how others will percieve your potential success/failure.

One of the aspects of experiencing the present moment is cutting away that ego - realising that ego isn't actually part of conscioussness, it's just something you're choosing to cling onto and identify with.

That doesn't mean that you can't pursue goals and achievement - just that you're not tying them to your happiness. To quote Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle (which you may want to consider reading):

"Does it matter whether we achieve our outer purpose, whether we succeed or fail in the world? // It matters to you as long as you haven't realised your inner purpose. After that, the outer purpose is just a game that you may continue to play simply because you enjoy it. It is also possible to fail completely in your outer purpose and at the same time totally succeed in your inner purpose. Or the other way round, which is actually more common: outer riches and inner poverty, or to 'gain the world and lose your soul'. Ultimately, of course, every outer purpose is doomed to 'fail' sooner or later, simply because it is subject to the law of impermanence of all things. The sooner you realise that your outer purpose cannot give you lasting fulfillment, the better. When you have seen the limitations of your outer purpose, you give up your unrealistic expectation that it should make you happy, and you make it subservient to your inner purpose."
Hah! I guess I didn't look at it very close =)
Are you kidding? I've seen tons of examples of people who believe exactly this, or near enough as to not matter. They are more prevalent than you'd imagine.
>Try to take in that message first, and when you think you have the slightest idea what it's like to live like that, maybe you are then qualified to add a response.

How ridiculous. Just because a person isn't suffering or doesnt have a true understanding of the same agony as the blogger, doesn't mean they are not allowed to offer help.

Whats so wrong with people trying to help?
Should we just say - "Thanks for the insight. Now back to my own world"
I'm trying not to see everyone's disorders as nails for the hammer I found—but I have a definite interest in raising awareness, seeing both how damaging and how widespread these issues are.

Also, as a kind of warning, I can say the literature available is kind of mixed: there are good recommendations on methods for recovery, but the theory behind a lot of it is quite bad: amateurs seeking explanations for the efficacy of their methods. The most popular expositor, Dr. John Sarno, grounds his theory in Freudian psychology. The situation is probably better when speaking with practitioners in mental health, but maybe not by so much: my psychiatrist was utterly unsurprised—was nothing new to him. That said, books on the subject seemed more practically helpful that recommendations from him.

Thanks!
Also relevant, and a good read to boot:
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/pubs/retargetable-abstract.html
Ahem. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8491060 :-D
Minecraft is tricky because it gives that long-term feeling of accomplishment (the same you get by creating a real-world artwork, or developing a software project), but it's not immediately obvious to some how untransferrable that time investment is to any real value or skills.
Google moved their support to SO for one of their products.

I wasn't happy with the lack of response from their support team so I posted a message saying "What the heck do I have to do to get an answer from you guys on your product?". What do you think the response from SO was? People yelled "it's volunteers here choosing to answer questions on their own time! You aren't allowed to demand a response on SO, who do yo think you are?". Or something to that effect anyway.

Corporate support channels do not belong on a site that is rigorously and outspokenly community driven.

If such a thing is to be allowed then there must be formal escalation procedures to be able to push questions up the line the the company that has offloaded its support to SO.

The whole thing just doesn't fit.
Pseudoscience is a non-scientific practice which people ~generally assume~ to be scientific.

There are many areas of philosophy which people believe are done via science. I'd say metaphysics is a pseudoscience because people assume it's akin to physics.

Most modern psychology (not all of it, and not psychiatry) is based on Freud and Lacan's psychoanalytic practice. This practice people generally assume to be scientific because their health insurance covers it, but it has no scientific basis.

I'd also say some people assume political theory to be scientific, as many mistake it for economics and sociology which ~are~ scientific. Political theory is not.

EDIT: Aesthetics and philosophy of mind are other areas which people mistakenly think involve neurobiology, but they don't.
Does anyone know what the differences between the mainline kernel and the Android kernel are?

This is actually surprising to me - I had expected that the only differences were in username (unit system, ipc, etc). Is it a question of one time development to make driver format compatible in Linux?
Thanks for looking into this. I'm aware that choosing right quality level is a hard problem.

If you only ran mozjpeg's jpegtran on a file created with another JPEG library, you won't get benefit of trellis quantization. Try creating JPEGs with mozjpeg's cjpeg (and -sample 2x2 to match WebP's limitation).

Here are the files I've been testing (one is same size, one is same quality based on my DSSIM tool v0.5):
http://i.imgur.com/O57WF19.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ZBD6ioD.jpg
C++ Reflection in under 100 lines of code
I created www.NotConstructive.com a few days ago in response to some of the challenges of posting to Stack Overflow.

Launch announcement:
http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/notconstructiv...
You could stick it in /dist/index.js.

You could also make /dist/index.min.js.
Except when you need to pass a message to the GUI thread (main thread).
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As a person with over a decade of life (16-28) characterized by health issues, this resonates. It can get better. I've been mostly normal for 3 years and I'm well-treated, although YC/HN-style startups are out of the question (can't risk going without insurance).

Health problems are like many natural disasters (e.g. hurricanes, earthquakes, heat waves) where it's not the event itself that kills people and causes suffering so much as human failures: looting, under-maintained infrastructure, incompetence by trusted service providers and malfeasance by insurers and various unscrupulous opportunists.

When you're sick, the health problem itself is challenging. The continuing onslaught of people failing you (which you'll frequently blame yourself for, especially if it's not clear what's wrong with you) or exploiting your (no matter how intermittent) weakness is demoralizing.

Now that I'm well I fight back against human failure and indecency and I will not stop.
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Been in business less than a year. Approaching 1/2 mill in sales.
If this was a major barrier then we'd expect the numbers to be closer in learning paths where feedback is negligible or where gender is mostly invisible. I.e., we'd see plenty of self taught women but few college educated ones, and more women in open source than in corporate environments.

Is that the pattern we see?

[edit: based on all the downvotes I'm guessing the data doesn't fit the theory? Oops.]
Has a lot of safety issues that became apparent with their first model. Hopefully they've fixed it with this one. Otherwise there are other devices on the market that are just as good that I would reccomend. http://www.trans-cranial.com/
http://thebrainstimulator.net/ or even http://www.apexdevice.net/
Running a coding school (Codeup), I get this email all the time from recruiters:

"Dear xyz,

I've been hired to fill this not-so-great job THIS WEEK and we want this crazy exclusive unicorn skillset that about a dozen people in the world have and, you know, we aren't going to pay much anywhere near going rate and we're going to hire as a contractor so we can fire you any time and we're not really interested in training a person who'd actually want this gig at the rate we're wanting to pay. So, do you know anyone?"
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Hm. I don't know if it's a new shortage or not. But I'm currently hiring and finding good developers/engineers that are also a culture fit is pretty difficult. I guess it has always been this way since I moved to SF (~5 years ago).

[edit]

To clarify on 'culture fit' in my statement:

Interesting, inspiring, nice, humble, pleasant to work with, eager to share knowledge, discover new things, understands our audience, who we are, and genuinely wants to further the vision of the entire startup.

These are people that are going to help elevate the group together. I don't look at engineers as simply a commodity that can be replaced at a whim, but rather part of a symbiotic system that must transcends itself, grow, and evolve together in time.
C Pointers Explained, Really (2012)
They stated Brown's body was found 125+ feet from the police cruiser, and his blood was found 150+ feet away. Altercation at the car lead to Wilson following Brown and executing him - just as it was in the case of VonDerrit Myers Jr. - who was chased down a narrow divide between two houses and executed. I guess it's just my opinion, but the whole situation screams wrong to me.
Economically speaking, if the market is allowed to set the price, then shortages don't exist - the supply and demand curves cross. For example, if there were only 10 box folders in the world, you could get one if you were willing to pay more than about anyone else, hence no shortage.

But from a pragmatic point of view, if the price is higher than you can reasonably afford to pay, then there's a shortage.
> “It seems pretty clear that the industry just wants lower-cost labor,”

It does, but that's not the issue. There is a shortage of good and qualified tech workers. Tech companies simply can't afford to pay whoever $120k/yr if their technology doesn't work.
I've been seeing a version of this every month for past 10 years or so.

H1B in my view is new Ellis Island. Stopping H1B == Stopping all immigration to US. People often say they support legal immigration but don't support H1B. What are the other alternatives to H1B to immigrate to America?(I am not talking about Nobel Laureates or Olympic athletes, I am talking about common folk who showed up at Ellis Island).

Immigration is one of those things where everyone who got in wants to shut the door behind them.( "I(or my ancestors) got a shot at a better life, fuck you the door is now closed.")
> "The real issue, say Salzman and others, is the industry’s desire for lower-wage, more-exploitable guest workers, not a lack of available American staff. 'It seems pretty clear that the industry just wants lower-cost labor'"

That has to be BS. Industry leaders and investors want to expand the labor pool in the name of diversity, not to suppress wages. It's all about justice, not profits. Someone better flag/kill this article, I'm offended.
> I guess it has always been this way since I moved to SF (~5 years ago).

Are you accounting for the skyrocketing cost of living of SF? I'm guessing that (as the article suggests as a general case) there are plenty of good developers but they just plain want more money than you're offering.
I get several emails from recruiters each week, almost none of them include a salary range at all.. I won't even respond.
Definitely true, but if America can't figure out basic rights like privacy there will soon come a time where it doesn't matter how many H1B visas are issued.

However, in light of recent corporation missteps like the Google and friends wage suppression scheme, I don't think gifting them a bunch of cheap labor is the right choice.

edit: Clarification. I am referring to privacy breaches causing a lack of trust in American tech companies by consumers, not whether they will be able to hire foreign workers.
yeahhh... this happens. I don't get how companies want to compete for talent without paying a reasonable market rate.

You should also add Codeup to https://schools.techendo.com/
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I'm definitely not agreeing with that article's perspective, just thought it provided a contrasting point of view. Not sure my comment deserved a downvote though (ouch!) :)

That's definitely a good point about the journals not adding enough value. I think it's clear they've placed themselves into a bit of a position where they hold most of the cards and that really does need to change.
And this is exactly the problem. People see the horrors of bad drugs. No one sees or cares about the people who die and suffer from drugs that weren't developed.
> “There’s no evidence of any way, shape, or form that there’s a shortage in the conventional sense,” says Hal Salzman, a professor of planning and public policy at Rutgers University. “They may not be able to find them at the price they want. But I’m not sure that qualifies as a shortage, any more than my not being able to find a half-priced TV.”

I'm not sure how many developers Hal Salzman has tried to hire, but I find a lot more of them are weeded out at the "seeing if they can code their way out of a wet paper bag" stage than at the "salary negotiation" stage.
Michael Brown shooting: Ferguson jury reaches verdict
That's an older version of Angular being compared against - lots of perf improvements have been made since.
This is the difficult part. How do you accurately price for this market. I've tried salary searches across whatever job boards I have access to, but how can one be certain?
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Maybe your culture is too narrowly defined or inflexible.
Would you care to expand on what a "culture fit" is in your book?
Isn't that the spammy site that insists you log in to view answers? I always took it as another Experts Exchange.
I think you may be behind the times when it comes to psychology. Modern psychology looks down on Freud and isn't based on it at all. As of a couple of decades ago, parts of psychology would probably be well classified as pseudoscience, but that isn't the case anymore.

The ~generally assume~ is an interesting bit. Dictionary definitions of the term typically go with something more like "practices which claim to be scientific". Its not terribly fair to philosophers to call them practicers of pseudoscience just because the layperson sees "physics" and assumes "metaphysics" must be science.

But, then again, life isn't fair. Metaphysics is a pretty misleading name.
I think as soon as the "average" person starts hearing about encryption etc. it seems like something way too complex to get involved in. The Snowden marketing ploy still hasn't showed up yet?
I've just started learning Clojure, and I haven't spent any time yet on Clojurescript.
Interesting conclusion! :)
Grand Jury Does Not Charge Ferguson Officer in Michael Brown Shooting
If you're not getting enough people saying "yes", you're not offering enough money.
Well, the reality is that every company is becoming a tech company.

Text Book Publisher -> E-learning Platform
Mass Marketing -> Mass Emailing
Hotel Booking -> App for Hotel Booking

While there probably is no shortage of tech workers, finding ones that aren't going to mass-code unreliable software then leave the company is fucking hard.
> Further, he and his co-authors found, only half of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) college graduates each year get hired into STEM jobs

Maybe those graduates aren't any good.

> “We don’t dispute the fact at all that Facebook (FB) and Microsoft (MSFT) would like to have more, cheaper workers," ... “But that doesn’t constitute a shortage.”

I'm not really sure how that squares with the fact that only half of STEM graduates were hired. Why didn't facebook and microsoft just offer those graduates cheapo salaries?

Because most of the time, these workers aren't interchangeable cogs. A degree doesn't mean you can do work in the industry effectively. Maybe there are billions of STEM graduates, but if only 100 can do the job, there's still a shortage.
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Specialization and diversification can both be good. I think it's spending 10 years making the same mistakes, not learning, that's being criticized here.
You must have missed the revelation back at the beginning of the year that some of the biggest players in the tech world were caught in an illegal cartel to suppress tech-worker wages. So, there's that.