skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the issue isn't that women cannot obtain advancement but more so of the ratio of woman/men in the tech sector.

I definitely feel this way when I contemplate the possibility of a glass ceiling at my office. There are no high level female execs. But on the other hand, there is only one recent female new hire (contrasted to 10-20 recent male new hires)

Considering the natural funnel to upper management, it seems abundantly clear the lack-of-female-execs problem, wherever it may be, is not in our promotion system. Maybe it's in hiring. Maybe it's in school. But it doesn't seem to be in promotion.
Intel at ISSCC 2015: Reaping the Benefits of 14nm and Going Beyond 10nm
Did anyone else find this joke to be in incredibly poor taste?
The Psychology of Doing Nothing [video]
In particular, I'm wondering whether host machines' HDDs can be flashed from VMs.

If the VM is using an emulated disk based on an image file on the host, probably no chance at all as only "read block" and "write block" types of commands will be interpreted by the virtual disk. Even other mundane commands like "spin down to save power" won't make it to the hardware due to the effect that would have on the host or other VMs on it.

If the VM is configured to passthrough directly to the hardware, then it has full control over the HDD.
Or Dart.
You're right. I don't know where my head was at when I made that comment. I was totally wrong and I apologize the the parent and everyone else who came across it.

Maybe I was struggling to recall Dan Wienreb's post[0] on the failure of Symbolics and somehow confusing that with other things and not making much sense.

Thanks for clarifying.

[0] http://lemonodor.com/archives/2007/11/why_did_symbolics_fail...
And your simplistic, black and white, view of women's situation in the tech world is naive and lacks the nuance necessary to achieve any positive change. The comment you so rudely dismissed made an excellent point. Misogyny is a deep-rooted problem in our society, not just the tech world, and has been for quite some time. This is evidenced by the fact that some of the worst discrimination against women comes from other women. Dismissive name calling will only lead to complaining. Only through understanding will we achieve progress.

We need to examine why we're creating work environments that benefit aggressive personalities. In my job as an engineering manager, I've had to coach two male engineers to be more influential across the organization. This journey has been hard for them since they're the quintessential type-B personalities that are most happy simply getting their work done. But it's been made abundantly clear to me that they cannot advance beyond the Staff level without becoming more vocal leaders. I know this journey well since I've had to force myself into the same unnatural tendencies.

It frustrates me to hear stories like the one we're responding to. Women complaining about being shut out of discussions? I had the same thing happen and for quite some time and I had to constantly ask my manager why I wasn't included in certain meetings. Over time, I started getting invited to more. I've realized that getting my due promotions has required me to be somewhat of an asshole. I don't think my workplace, a large enterprise software company, is uncommon and that's a huge problem. Women complaining about being paid less for the same work? I've witnessed about 100 salary negotiations in my time as a manager and every female prospect has either undervalued herself or caved much too easily whereas most male prospects know their value and fight for it.

I think we can all agree that the outcomes, when women are underpaid, overlooked and made to feel unwelcome, need to change. But the processes that lead to those outcomes are incredibly complex and oversimplifying them does an incredible disservice. These issues are incredibly nuanced and when people like you deny that, you prevent the discussions that might lead to the understanding that is our only hope of remedying the situation.
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Fuel cells require massive infrastructure before a single FC car can be sold openly. BEV can saturate the market of people with access to parking and power right now - and that's not a small market.

The FC vs BEV fight doesn't start when FC enters the market, it's already on and FC is losing.
My favorite example of someone gradually working their way from rank amateur to accomplished professional through sheer volume of dedicated practice has to be the cartoonist Mike Krahulik of Penny Arcade. Over the span of about ten years, you see his art style transform from what would pass for an average college newspaper comic into the richly expressive vision of a master illustrator.
Hey Dan,

Got a ton of value out of your post. Just wondering one thing, how much of Improvely did you build before you started running ads?
CT scan finds mummified monk inside 1,000-year-old Buddha
wow, even with so little entries these ones are lot better than the other 2x threads.
I really enjoyed this film, I felt it was good at being inclusive for people without much technical knowledge.
I think it's worse than that. What next wave are you referring to? Everyone wants everything online to be free so what should they do, insert ads into songs?

I know people in art, music, etc. and all of them wish people in tech would put down the kool aid for one second and actually look at what's happening to those industries. It's not pretty. Musicians are on their way back to being starving minstrels unless they have a patron or are so insanely popular they can get by on no margin.
Breaking news: Oscars host makes cheap jab at movie subject
As an addendum to that, I was able to get a basic Gitlab up and running with Docker in a very short order on Windows. Might be worth recommending: https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab
Plenty of tombstones and plaques highlight a person's career accomplishments and the impact those had on humanity, e.g., http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Sackville...
I feel that, and it is just a feeling, SpaceX is particularly cautious surrounding the news of failures that it broadcasts. I don't get the feeling that it is that culturally open. I say this because, for example, the landing attempt on the barge was not broadcast live, and when the failure was broadcast, it was after it could be determined what went wrong, and the message was "we were so close".

To be honest, I think being closed like that, particularly as SpaceX is catching up to the capability of the incumbents in some areas (namely transporting humans) is probably a good move. Failures are not a good message when the incumbents have a history of moderate levels of success in this area.

I would be completely unsurprised if in a few years, all the photographs and videos, warts and all, are released into the public domain. Perhaps, after they've achieved some more of their goals.
I agree. This is theft. It's technical and complicated so it likely won't be ever be enforced or prosecuted, but I think this is outright stealing.
"It basically implies that you can ignore people who have blogs and podcasts. Seek out the unknown experts in your field."

Fully agree with this. But it seems not easy to find hidden gems. It takes time and energy to deliver what's in one's mind. Take this into account, what we can find is only a fraction of the real gems with lots of noises mixed with them. The best shot I can think of is to have some kind of small circle to exchange ideas and opinions. Another resource is reading books, I guess.

As for famous people's wisdom, they have way more access to information average people don't have. And the average quality is probably better. Just like what the artists do you mentioned, they do the same with information.
Despite having been involved in the "cypherpunks" world for two decades, I never thought crypto, security, privacy, NSA, etc. would become such a mass market issue that an Oscar-winning documentary would be created about it.
They're both American citizens. At the end of the day, they have to be let in. They could, potentially, be charged with a crime, but not turned away.
Didn't specify who committed the treason; Snowden, or a whole bunch of other people within the government and military industrial complex.
> (FGF) serves as the activator, and a gene variant dubbed Sonic hedgehog (Shh) acts as an inhibitor.

"SHH is the best studied ligand of the hedgehog signaling pathway. It plays a key role in regulating vertebrate organogenesis"

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog
Get the stories from your mentors (and parents / relatives if they're not your mentors) before you turn 40. Learn about their history. Sadly, your turning 40 is going to start being the age where these folks are passing away. Ask the questions now. Knowing about their history will give you some great insight into the whys of their beliefs and actions.
These things aren't free. An apartment with a parking garage space with an electric car charger will certainly cost more than one without a charger, and WAY more than one without the parking space at all. If this doesn't translate directly into higher rents then the building owners won't want to do it.

Making sure a shared car is charged sounds like a nightmare. The whole point of car sharing is the cars get more use and spend less time parked. Considering how long it takes to charge some of these rigs, I'm surprised that the sharing companies have adopted them. My car share offers three models of battery-electric vehicle, one of them is the ridiculous Scion that only goes 35 miles between charges. Personally I don't understand how the economics works on that.
Have you never heard a sexist joke at work? That's misogyny in the tech industry.

Hold on.

When my female friends make funny sexist jokes, is that misandry?

Sexist jokes are sexist, but I don't think sexist == misoginist/misandrist.

EDIT: To be clear, I mean when those women make sexist jokes about men. As in, sexism about/directed at men.
>By your argument

It's a shame we still have illiterates in this day and age, truly a black mark on modern education.

To review: my argument was that we should make devices no smarter then they need to be.

Phones gain tangible benefits from being smart. Do kettles gain tangible benefits from being smart?
That's not how federal spending works. There is no fixed amount so spending money on the military does not preclude spending money on space research. Similarly, cutting military spending doesn't mean those savings would go into any other budget.
Would you mind to show us some concrete samples that show us what you mean?
I'm dimly aware, but that was prior to my time. I'm definitely able to see the influences, though! :)
A+ rhetorical form, I'm completely sold.
Finding the best deals for your textbooks
would be nice if there were a bookmark synching service (paid even) which works across browsers/machines etc.
If it's boring, why were you trying to defend such a suboptimal use of git?
> assume that everyone lives in a nice suburban home with a garage

Well, at the moment they can sell to the people who do live like that. If adoption takes off they could then build more infrastructure.
I wish I'd realized that everything I'd ever looked forward to eventually had happened, no matter how far into the future it was.
These guys have made a career out of it: http://ngdevteam.com/
Why We're Missing Our Best Chance for Gender Parity
I'd argue that this is also stealing from the content creators or other people/companies that added actual value (e.g. group running a forum that pays for hosting with ads).
Don't borrow more money than you believe you can repay within in a reasonable amount of time. But your overarching goal is true.
Yes, it's not something totally unprecedented that we hadn't even imagined possible before. You are correct there.

How is it not a complete takeover? I realize news articles are not the best technical sources as they get terms & concepts wrong, but I am reading that the firmware is completely reflashed, which means the HDD CPU has been utterly "pwned", for lack of a better term.
Maybe you didn't follow the economic crisis then? One of the key differences between it and the great depression was the fact that depositor money was not at risk this time around thanks to the FDIC and the regulations surrounding it. There weren't wide spread bank runs wiping out savings accounts that are supposed to be risk free.
Plant-based diet better for the environment?
> Whoa. Can you say who? I've never heard of this. That is... disgusting and horrifying.

https://www.reddit.com/user/Here_Comes_The_King

P.S. I was so tempted to just say jedberg.
(too late to edit:) that was supposed to be "multiple rays through every pixel "
What an asshole answer - some of us have a wife, kids, and/or a life offline and can't afford to dick around for 200+ bugfixes for zero dollars just hoping to get noticed. Fuck this attitude.
65 dead in Bangladesh ferry accident
Everyone is totally winging it all the time. Confident people are just better at hiding it.

I don't think people really understand how true this is. I think we all might feel it, but to really believe that [insert name] doesn't really know what is going on is a revelation.

To wit, whenever given the opportunity to talk with someone who is or was in a large powerful role (Fmr Undersecretary of the Navy two weeks ago for example) I always ask them how confident they were, that what they were doing was the right choice, or how much they felt in control of a particular action/decision.

Across the board they all say they feel like they have very little control and are just doing the best with what they have.
Ask HN: Where can I find coding puzzles that require “out of the box” thinking?
I am aware of the Project Euler. The thing I'm looking for is the puzzles/challenges with the emphasis on "out of the box" thinking, the challenges where the first solution that comes to mind doesn't work, or that strongly encourage searching for unusual/unintended solutions.

Such as 9-dots puzzle, but for programming.

Possibly something that would be to coding/math what "What if?" by xkcd is to physics - crazy questions with extremely unexpected solutions.

If you know about books/websites that collect these puzzles, or you know some good examples yourself - please share them.

If you have any ideas on how I could learn to invent these puzzles myself, or maybe some programming projects that could be a source for a lot of such challenges - please share them too, that would be extremely valuable as well.

P.S.
Ideally these puzzles would be small and simple enough to be solvable by a beginner/intermediate programmer, although that is not a strict requirement, more advanced examples are very welcome too.

EDIT:
To be clear, these puzzles are for me. To train my brain and have fun and get better at hacking. Not to test or train other people. Well, maybe also to list them on my blog, if I manage to gather a cool collection.
While that's not strictly true. It's also worth considering that working more means nothing to someone on their death bed. What does money do for a dying man? Of course people ask for family and friends when they are dying because there is no longer any value in the products of work.

With that said, there are plenty of people who believe their job does the world good and wish they could do more good before they are taken away from this life. I hope to be one of them.
My realization is that I am about in the middle of my life. That means half of it has already passed. There's only half left, and that includes old age. It makes me think deeper about how I am living my life.
the past two decades have taught us that there is no such thing as a safe job or a risk free investment

This conclusion is what has driven me to just jump in head first to doing my own thing. I think a lot of people are searching for something "stable" and I'm not sure that really exists anymore if it ever really did.
1) For some reason it got a lot easier to not care about things I knew, rationally, that I should not care about, right around age 35.

2) The red pill. I don't agree with everything what comes out of that cesspool of a community, but there is a lot of ugly truth in it as well.

3) Kids, job, sleep (and, therefore, happiness). Pick two in your twenties & thirties. However, if you pick the first two, sleep comes later. If you pick the last two, kids probably won't. The happiest people I know picked the outer two.
Also though we have not had decent electric cars for long we've had electric golf carts for a while and googling the recommended life for accounting purposes it is 5 or 10 years. Just because a vehicle is electric doesn't mean it will last for ever.
Not Penny Arcade but here is an early xkcd: https://xkcd.com/6/

Contrast that against current xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1471/

And it doesn't stop there. He's done amazing things that stretch the concept of "web comic", like https://xkcd.com/1446/ or arguably his most famous work https://xkcd.com/1190/ "Time"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_%28xkcd%29
To be able to tie even the devil to a pillow - Obstinacy overcomes everything

To bang one's head against a brick wall - To try to achieve the impossible

The dip is real
Agree with acid or mushrooms, everyone should experience this. Or DMT.
Is there a specific reason that the Linux kernel team has given for not adopting semantic versioning? Or has the discussion just never been started?
>complexity itself is a sin

Complexity is inherent to any task in some degree. That complexity must be expressed in full in any program which performs that task correctly, whether in terms of language/library constructions or the ways in which those are combined. When the tools with which you implement a task (here, C and the core Unix API) are structured substantially differently than the high-level concepts of which that task is composed, there is additional complexity inherent to mapping those concepts.

In light of that, I don't understand what you mean by, "complexity itself is a sin," unless you're referring specifically to the strictly unnecessary complexity introduced by a sub-optimal mapping of high-level semantics to core constructs. I don't think that's the kind of complexity we're seeing here. I think we're seeing the complexity inherent to mapping shell-level semantics to C semantics and the semantics of the Unix API, specifically error-handling semantics.

I agree with jws that what this code demonstrates is that the core Unix API is difficult to use for writing precisely correct high-level programs, even ones as simple as echo. I feel that this is exactly why it's important that core high-level programs like echo encapsulate as much of the complexity of mapping to C as possible (that is, in the style of GNU rather than SysV): so that one can easily write reliable programs with high-level tools like the shell without worrying about that complexity.
I dont quite understand the GitLab model.And why GitLab.com is free.

Shouldn't GitLab.com cost something, and its revenue will be used to support the hosting as well as building a sustainable business model? The idea is for those who want to own their data or the fear of vendor lock in they could use the Community version.

The current offering looks like those Free Webhosting long time ago that offers unlimited bandwidth and webspace.
First penny arcade comic - http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18

A recent one - http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/02/16/attempted-recid...
Probably because of this:

So far, the arguments against it seem to have been "major numebr
should go with a major new feature or breaking of compatibility",
which just shows how little people know. We don't break compatibility,
and we haven't done feature-based releases since basically forever.
It's too bad that LastPass feels like a highschool project by a dude and a couple of friends.

Zero consistency between the browser plugin, the vault, the app, and the mobile app. Even within the vault there's little consistency between different panes.

I'd like to believe that they know what they're doing crypto-wise, but damn that UX feels mickey-mousey. Even something as simple as using up/down over the autocomplete list misbehaves.... ;(

... and don't get me started on Basic Auth support on Chrome OSX
It's not glossed over: That's why I mentioned it. You are not in the sweet spot for this generation of electric cars. If you look around Hacker News, you will find a bunch of people like you complaining that it doesn't work for people like you. Sorry. Electric cars can grow a lot without buyers like you. If they grow to the point that you're a big problem, they'll be pretty common.
If you read that link you posted you'll see "what the investor buys is not debt, but something more like a warrant. So there is no need to fix a term or decide on an interest rate"

Warrants just give the investor the right to purchase equity at a given price some time. They are not debt.
6-12 months was a bit optimistic (I thought ES5 was released in 2011, in fact ES5 was released in 2009 and ES5.1 in 2001) for vendor adoption I'll admit. Still, I can't imagine waiting more than 2-2.5 years for perhaps 80-90% of browsers supporting virtually all of ES6.

> And what happens with browsers on older mobile phones that cant be upgraded ? you let your scripts stop working ?

If I was absolutely worried about browser support on older mobile phones, I'd be still writing vanilla JavaScript with no features that aren't in Ecmascript 3. You'll have to drop support eventually. Plus, it's very likely a good chunk of the ES6 I'll be writing will only ever be intended for running in browsers that support other cutting-edge features like WebGL, Web Workers and WebRTC, or on a fairly up to date environment like iojs or node.js.

> No,5 years after the launch of ES5 some browsers like Safari still didn't support some ES5 features.

I'm not sure which features Safari is missing that you're referring to. Safari on both iOS and OS X are missing a lot of Javascript APIs, but both have fully supported ES5 since at least 2011 [0], and my old Macbook with Safari 5.1 has no problems running modern websites.

> If you think you can switch to ES6 in 6 month without any kind of transpilation, while keeping a good browser compatibility good luck ...

A lot of ES6 features are already being polyfilled (Typed Arrays have been polyfilled for years), plus you can use try/catch to support new syntax whilst also supplying some sort of fallback.

[0] http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es5/
How to implement it efficiently
is an issue!

If you can figure it out, publish it!

Else when I get time, I will!
Code Baseline Moved to Java 6, Improved OpenDocument and HTML Import/Export
There is a certain amount of trust you put into lastpass due to it's closed nature that you wouldn't by using something like KeePass, isn't there?
bar har har! Serious LOLs were had after playing around here using Google Chrome then viewing history later to find something else.. 10 pages of Chrome History telling me 'I'm Sorry' because Chrome Records Every URL Change To History!

Well played with project... and the I'm sorry page title.
Theres plenty of articles out there about this topic.
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/08/u_s_filmmaker_repeatedly_det...
Anyone over 40 who is certain of anything hasn't been paying attention.
> When my female friends make funny sexist jokes, is that misandry?

No, but it is misogyny. Well, At least my understanding of the word. I may be wrong in how the word is perceived, but I know the strict definition includes prejudice and making jokes that highlight prejudice may not indicate how you make decisions in life, but it puts prejudice in a good light and that has subtle but real impact on how people behave.