skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sad that you're being downvoted[1]. People seem to think we can force a ratio and "win" in this scenario, it seems to be their goal. I never want a 1:1 ratio to be the goal.

I want equality. I want all women and men to have the jobs they desire. If that ends up 1.5 men for every woman in tech, that's okay! If it ends up with 2 women for every man that's okay!

Equality is not about the numbers. Focusing on the numbers will only lead to furthering equality issues.

1: were being downvoted at the time of my writing this, atleast
heh.

edit: Sad that the people downvoting don't have the courage to discuss it on a forum. Be bigger, explain your points.. if you have any.
There are a number of factors (particularly in premodern societies) that produce the imbalance, but polygyny particularly exacerbates the imbalance (and, from a pre-existing state of polygyny, then, monogamy reduces it) because polygyny means that the most successful males are each able, in their reproductive prime, to secure, with social support, exclusive reproductive access to multiple of the most desirable females, which increases the expected ratio of females successfully reproducing in that generation to the number of males successfully reproducing.

(Because of the biology of reproduction, this would seem likely to be the case even if, in institutional terms, the practice of polygyny was balanced by equal practice of polyandry, but historically that wasn't the case anyway.)
I was the first employee at Twitch, back in 2007. It worked out very well for me, but - having watched the sausage get made - I'm very aware of how incredibly lucky I've been. It could very easily have all come to nothing.

To be honest it's not something I'd ever advise someone to do, even though it did happen to work out for me. I'd advise most people to join one of the big giants and enjoy a predictably comfortable life, and those with a certain temperament - like myself - to found a company instead of joining one.
What Grasswire is attempting to create is the furthest thing from what current media outlets offer. That's why it's relevant.

And for accusing someone of dropping links you sure seem to drop a lot of links to your news site Newslines. Newslines seems to be little more than a celebrity gossip engine. Are you attacking Grasswire because you see them as a competitor?
I agree with you on many levels. I think it's important to remember that founders looking to get into YC are seeking PG's advice and thus have specific goals in mind. I don't want to debate whether YC is biased towards VC's or not because I think that's irrelevant here. In my opinion, what matters is YC's track record. Remember, no one is forcing you to look to YC for startup advice...
I feel just the opposite. I think they pace the game really well. You are constrained at first, but the early game is pretty easy. Once you get a bit larger traffic becomes a problem and you need to make adjustments quickly.

When you get further along you can create districts and set policies that affect the evolution of your city. I think the late game is way more interesting as there's an endless amount of things you can tweak.

I'm really looking forward to seeing more mods that affect how districts work, I'd love to create a china town or little italy with specialized assets. I think these things are all possible and will make fully realized cities much more fun to tinker with.
Right now the payment is easy to understand why you were paid as you were. Listens * payment * .7 = my check.

If the proposal were followed, all transparency is lost.

"Extremely long payment records" is quite an under-statement. Imagine sending a popular artist a 27-million line breakdown (you'd need a LINE PER LISTEN, and what % of a listeners listens that was). That's absurd, and STILL less transparent.

I understand the problem, but this is actually a pretty terrible solution. Future complexities build on existing complexity. I can't even imagine the monstrous data, business, and programming nightmares that would arise from breaking payment down in the proposed manner.
I don't think a 1:1 ratio should be a goal. I think "any women that wants to be in tech can do so without any gender discrimination" is much healthier.

Forcing more women into a field that they didn't choose on their own is its own form of discrimination.

I also think we should stop pointing to unresolved harassment claims and using them as fact that there is discrimination in our industry. Anyone can file a claim, proving your case and winning is an entirely different thing.

Innocent until proven guilty is an ideal that I'm afraid is getting lost in a lot of this discussion.
These people were doing fine before all the jobs disappeared. Whatever's wrong with Detroit, it's not that all the people magically forgot how to "organize their lives".

And objectively, giving people money works pretty well. https://web.archive.org/web/20101107195857/http://www.econom... https://web.archive.org/web/20141111020223/http://www.vox.co...
JS Event Handlers: A brief comparison between inline events and event listeners
Lawsuits and punitive actions are not intended to directly change anything. This particular suit seems to be intended to compensate a claimed victim. Alleviating symptoms is not exclusive with prevention.
`jslint`'s community mindshare was replaced `jshint`, and more recently `eslint`, which are configurable with a lot more options and some pretty sane defaults.

Most of it comes down to opinion... I like comma-first and a few other differences from the norm. It's easy enough to change eslint to suit your needs. I'm using BableJS lately also, as even io.js options are still a bit incomplete by comparison. Modern (ES6/7) JavaScript is really nice to use.
Yes, but suing costs a lot of money, so people don't tend to do it because they've "interpreted wrongly" a few isolated comments. She's suing 51 people - that's a lot of co-workers who just wondered why she opted to choose a career instead of a family.

(Also, asking women why they aren't staying home instead of having a family is the example HR uses when they talk about sexual discrimination. If you're working in a major corporation in America in the 21st Century, you should know that that question is not ok.)
People who want free stuff just use Dropbox or other free alternatives. People who use something like AeroFS generally do so because their stuff is important enough to pay money to maintain.

As someone who's trying to figure out this exact situation for one of our teams, I'm not going to try to pirate something and then try to maintain it. I want to be able to call someone and make them help me fix things. I want to know that I'm getting security updates on my appliance. If I wanted to do all that work myself then I would just build it myself from e.g. BitTorrent Sync.

Besides, the last thing you want as a corporation with data so sensitive you want to keep it in-house is to trust it to pirated, unsupported third-party software with no support and then have someone snitch on you and end up getting sued for some huge amount on top of that. Sure-fire way to get… well, fired.
Hard Worker's System
Would you mind disclosing at what stage of the process you got your initial grant, and how much that grant was diluted along the way to the IPO?
A betting system that requires knowledge and hard work. It generates picks with liquidity at serious bookmakers.
I don't understand why vendors would keep a lot of bitcoins on the site, instead of withdrawing them as quickly as possible.

This guy apparently had 300BTC/$85k on there! http://np.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/2zeuxo/compla...
> people are smart too, and some people are not nice people.

What did you do to these people? Because there are two reasons these people aren't going to be nice to you: you offended them, or you're a random target of violence that we already experience, but now it takes the form of a homicidal self driving car instead of a boy in a movie theater with automatic weapons.

Are you advocating we stop pursuing self driving cars just because security is an open ended problem?
I always felt guilty about it, as if I was perhaps missing something obvious. :)

Glad to see it gone in the defaults.
Why would I hire extra people just in case some of them leave? I'd wait until an employee said s/he was going to leave and then hire someone to replace them.
It would be paid leave, and optional of course, so the men would not punished.

You could perhaps claim that the corporation was being "punished", but you could claim that forcing corporations to give maternal leave in the first place is "punishing" them. A certain amount of "punishment" of corporations is to be expected.

In reality, "punishment" is just "regulation that aims to modify the properties of a corporation". Manipulative, not punitive.
I never said it was a reason to. I simply said this method is anything but simple, as the author called it. Your method would require even more potential lines on the monthly report than the nearly identical method I described above. As yours would require a per user line, even though many of them would have duplicate rates.

Keep in mind things would still need to be split per song also, as rights holders vary per song.

Do you really think giving every artist that many potential lines of accounting every month can be called simple?
... and grandparent has "been in the valley ~20 years", so adjust upward from the 30ish engineer figure.
One to one isn't an arbitrary ratio, though; it's the ratio of women to men. There are questions about positive discrimination, but I feel I have to point that out.
I'm not sure I have any good arguments either way, but seeing an argument that open source software is uncompensated labor that devalues programming work and serves the corporate establishment makes me very uncomfortable.
Always good to see the outright, unfiltered sexism make an appearance here.
That works until you get into anything complicated. Recently, I had a spreadsheet that our finance team built that provided different calculated values (for a multi table aggregation, nothing simple for sure) on Excel Windows and Excel OS X. This is not an uncommon problem - I've seen it a handful of times. Excel for OS X is at about 90+% parity with Excel for Windows.

This only bites you occasionally, but when you are a spreadsheet driven org (e.g. Finance groups in a company) you often need the performance/top-end feature set of Excel for Windows.
I'm just looking for a dozen users or so, and $15/mo/user is somewhat expensive, given that I'm providing the server, the disks, the backups, the user support, etc. I'd be willing to pay a few grand a year for my entire enterprise (and I'm seriously considering it), but it's hard to justify ten grand a year for 'Dropbox but authenticated to our LDAP database'.
"The discrimination included, but was not limited to, plaintiff being belittled at work and asked why she did not just stay home and take care of her children; being admonished when she exercised her right under company policy to take time off to visit her child at school; being ordered to organize parties and serve drinks to male colleagues, which was not a part of her job description and not something that was requested of males with whom she worked; and being replaced by a less qualified, less experienced male."

1) Don't think any company will ever do this
2) She realised this after she got replaced?

Edit: why am I getting downvotes here? People need to explain before downvoting..
To add to your list-- let's get gender equality in prison too! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._incarceration_rates_1...

//edit flippant attitude aside, there is real discrimination happening here.

> One important result from Table 6 is that females receive even shorter sentences relative to men than whites relative to blacks. The discrimination literature generally argues that females are objects of discrimination and receive worse outcomes. In sentencing, however, women receive better outcomes, consistent with women’s being treated paternalistically in court. Although some contend that the sentencing guidelines harm women,58 studies have usually concluded that females are sentenced more leniently than males.59

http://people.terry.uga.edu/mustard/sentencing.pdf

And if you have a philosophy of "equal outcomes" not just "equal opportunity", you need to think hard about how equal outcomes would look in all scenarios.
Not a bad idea but if you want a better response you might want to link to a demo page - I don't have anything around me so I can't really see what it should look like.
Yes, but if you dig a bit deeper, the wealth was created by massive amounts of financial trickery too. Most of the paper that supports the stock market is really just a fabrication of an illusion - people mostly selling virtual pieces of paper that suggests you own a right to buy and/or sell something if a hypothetical scenario ever occurs. So to say that the wealth was destroyed by financial trickery isn't the whole story... it was created by that same trickery. All the wealth you see in the real world (the big mansions, flashy cars, accumulation of stuff, that nice secure feeling you have because of all the money you have in your bank account, your ability to purchase stuff) is built upon an illusion that only exists in a virtual reality. While companies are allowed to fabricate wealth pretty much out of thin air, what can you expect?

Not that I'm disagreeing with your larger point. In comparison to Silicon Valley, Wall Street is a city of charlatans.
Men treat one another like shit all the time but then when a male asks a question, probably naively and innocently, it is suddently "not ok."

This is like a kind of thought policing, and it's sick.
I think you might have just accidentally racist there.

Not every male of Indian ancestry is a brutal rapist, nor should every male of Indian ancestry be singled out as a potential sexist because of brutal rapes happening in India.
Aaron Levie Interviews Keith Rabois on New “Founder Calls” Podcast
Yeah, hoo boy, I'm really suffering by being granted leave.
Yes, I joined a company fairly late in its history (just two years before its IPO), ended up in the lower end of that range, despite doing nearly everything wrong from financial POV: stayed for roughly 3 years (didn't fully vest the initial grant), sold large portion of the stock right after the lock-up expired, and so on.

I know plenty of other folks with similar stories: they also joined a mid-sized, yet fast-growing (in terms of both company size and revenue) private companies, ended up doing well financially.

There's a catch, however: this isn't a "get rich quick" scheme, in fact neither myself nor any of the people I know made the decisions they did _for the sake of money_: my own choice had more to do with interesting work, great team, applying my skills at greater scale, and so forth. Lot of folks told me that joining said company was "just too late"; I also considered it as such (thinking of options -- if they were to become worth anything -- as a nice potential bonus,
but not a life-changing event).

I don't like giving advice, but here are some heuristics (YMMV, none of this is universal):

1) Don't treat equity so cynically as to never take an offer that offers slightly lower title/salary/etc... vs. the others _especially_ if there are other great reasons to take the "lower title/base pay, but higher equity" offer.

2) On the other hand, don't over-optimize for equity such that one ends up with high percentage of equity but of little or overall negative value. This value can be financial (simply put, if a company is less generous with equity it means they think it's worth _something_), but more importantly it can be in terms of missed learning and growth opportunities. I hate to jump on the "too many SELECT ajax FROM php startups" bandwagon -- I happen to work for one that is _very far from that, and yes we're hiring! -- but there are plenty of startups that don't offer much technical depth, or (for non-technical-folks) don't do anything terribly interesting business-wise, either.

3) The two anti-patterns I've seen in Silicon Valley are folks _never_ working in smaller teams AND folks trying to get in "as early as possible" for the sake of... "getting in as early as possible" (treating all startups interchangeably, etc...). Good people and interesting work can be found in companies of _any_ size: don't pass up these opportunities just because the company seems to be too bi _or_ too small. In the end, the compensation (not just financial/equity, but also choice of projects/responsibilities) company N+1 will offer will depend on what you can bring to the table, which in turn depends on what you've learned at companies {0,..., N}
Sure, and I can see that at least somewhat with pc⎻⎻̊ as a lazy "ent" being flattened, but I'd be interested as to why the o is superscripted rather than simply distinguishable at the end of the word, as well as knowing if it was usual to include the 'o' when writing lazily.

Secondly, the '-̥̊'[1] character actually looks like it'd be slower than '㍶' so it's a little counter intuitive why it would happen this way.

I'd like to see references to other similar developments or precedents, rather than a three stage theory, especially when stage 2 and 3 are so similar.

[1] - This looks brilliant in a monospace font, but crap in view mode, but I spent minutes getting it right so it's staying. It's the 2nd example from TFA.
I'm WAY out of the loop- but I thought this might have been Civitas coming to fruition... http://videogamesuncovered.com/what-happened-to-civitas-and-...
>lead to them being the local king or whatever they were

Or lead them to "steal" secret reproductions? There's only "one" king, but there could be more than 1 "illegitimate" fathers.
Jsonresume: Open source initiative to create a JSON-based standard for resumes
> Maybe — just maybe

Then again, maybe not.

I agree this might raise people's awareness and they will save more water in their daily life.

But it might also serve as an alibi. I did my part by not having water for lunch. Glad that problem is taken care of!

How do you know what the actual reaction will be? What was it last time California had these restrictions?

I also think we have a limited amount of self sacrificing community spirit within us. If people are using more of it to voluntarily save water, they will spend less of it on other issues. That model doesn't scale far.
Is it just me or does this article twist the (rather simple) idea of meritocracy?

What you contribute and the quality of what you contribute defines the respect and influence you receive as a result (in a given community, of course). I don't see how that can be tied into "normal" social statuses as this author is trying to imply.

Thoughts?
If it wasn't for the regulations you wouldn't even have vacation or maternity leave. It's capitalism, when you're in competition, any value you can throw under the bus to become more competetive will go under the bus - either you'll do it, or one of your competitors. The answer to the question "why is my company so dysfunctional" is often "because it can't afford to not be".
My wife is Japanese, I'm Israeli, and we both live in Berin, where our son was born. We talk to him in our native language, and between us in English. He goes to the Kita, where they speak only German...

He's still fairly young (17 months), so doesn't really talk much, but we can spot a few German words (Ja! Nein). He does seem to understand Hebrew and Japanese when we talk to him, and says one or two words in Hebrew (Aba, means Dad) and in Japanese (Wanwan, means Dog).

We're very curious on how things will evolve from here. It's very likely that his German will be his strongest. But we're sure he will understand and can speak with us. Our biggest hope is that he can help translate German for us though ;-)
> It's an uphill battle, but one day there will be one female engineer for every male engineer, one female PM for every male PM.

Will never happen, if for no other reason than the fact that a non-trivial amount of women are stay-at-home mothers (even though it's far less than previous generations, plenty of mothers still choose this option).
It would probably help if RMS understood a little about how inventors of hardware circuitry make a living instead of posting from a position of almost complete ignorance.

Circuit topologies certainly can be patented. "Copyright" is an irrelevant concept here. The IP doesn't reside in a copyable drawing or shape, but in the commercial value of the topology.

What matters isn't the graphical or notional arrangement of the components, but the fact that the arrangement provides a novel and unique solution to a specific problem and/or implements a significant new capability.

Licensees can then pay for the right to use the topology in their own products.

If you want to make your topology free, you can simply release it into the public domain. Prior art rules will then make it very hard to patent.

The various CC/GPL licenses make little or no sense in this context, because most hardware topologies aren't directly copyable without modification and tuning.

Besides, a lot of designs already use standard topologies. There's no patent on many standard digital and analog design elements because they're already in the public domain.

Some of them have been in the public domain for decades.
Same kind of mechanism behind "The Moderator Problem" article, I assume.
Classes are overrated. If you work from a more functional over oo mindset, you'll find that you really don't need them. Not to mention doing unit testing in JS doesn't require the mental spaghetti of interfaces or IoC/DI that it does in strongly typed languages.

If you use a module/builder system in JS, you can do composition and testing that most other languages simply don't hold a candle to. Including Java/C# and plenty of others. If you include Browserify+BabelJS it gets better still.

Just because you have trouble wrapping your head around the concept of modules or object composition without classes doesn't mean everyone lacks that skillset.

/rant
Yep, and all of those middle-man business that add almost no value should be squeezed down to razor-thin margins and turned into commodities by competition.

That's slowly starting to happen in the financial industry, with robo-advisors and cheap index funds taking trillions of dollars out of the hands of overpaid Wall Street firms, but that process takes time. Hopefully we'll start to see the same thing with Lyft and Sidecar eating into Uber's nonsensical valuations.
> What's interesting is that this apparently started after agriculture rather than before.

Well, the effects become much more pronounced after agriculture.

> Also 17 females to 1 male is pretty absurd. Even if you look at cultures that practiced polygamy in recent history it wasn't to that extent.

17:1 ratio in females vs. males having descendant lines surviving to appear in modern DNA doesn't imply 17:1 female:male polygyny.

Heck, the reverse (women having multiple partners, especially a higher-station one with better prospects for having offspring and having them succeed in youth and a lower-station one with worse prospects later, perhaps after the previous one died) could contribute to this, though polygyny is probably part of the explanation.
Streaming:

+ Huge catalogue on-demand

- Lower quality

- Latency, dropped streams

- Monthly subscription

- Artists get next to nothing

- Player lock-in

Hard disk:

+ Zero latency

+ Highest quality

+ Artists get everything

+ Any player

- Device storage limitations

- Heavy file transfers

I never understood why streaming caught on to begin with.
> why are we assuming that light users prefer indie bands and heavy users prefer pop music?

The article explained this - because heavy users are playing music 24/7 at gyms, etc., and never play the smaller groups or genres that only some individuals like (and would like to support).
Tropico series has it as well, complete with political leanings, food & entertainment preferences, and a tolerance level for el dictator.