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“why she did not just stay home and take care of her child instead of having a career,”

because asking a female coworker this question has a subtext behind it that is, "I find it peculiar or odd that you chose to have a career". In what other ways do you think it's normal for someone to justify why they want to work? You would never ask this question to a male coworker who recently had a child.
Yes, Facebook has to have a lot of Asian employees (American definition of Asian which excludes Indians). I imagine this lawsuit is talking about her own team which may not have any other Asian team-member.
Stereotyping is usually 'legitimate' in the mind of the person doing it. Few people are intentionally trying to be oppressive. It is usually an unconscious echoing of the culture one is accustomed to. That doesn't make it less damaging.
Could you give some more info on what typical dilution looks like from Series A to an exit?
I'm finding myself loving org-babel more and more. I also love knitr, but in comparison org-babel:

- Works with just about any language you can imagine, not just R or the few other hypothetically supported languages

- Allows me to write in a lightweight Markdown-comparable, LaTeX-augmentable syntax, except org-mode supports internal references.

- Lets you do truly obscene things like pass values from bash, to python, to julia, to R

As Emacs begins to move more and more to Guile, I hope that the org-* functionality can be instrumented as embeddable libraries. I understand that Emacs isn't for everyone, and thus I wish org-mode (the format) and org-babel were available to the rest of the world. I was surprised to find how few edge-cases aren't better handled by org-* than knitr / RMarkdown.
INAL,

A lawyer told me even if you have a legitimate case then you still try to tack on as much extra shit as possible.
One to one is, however, not currently the ratio of women to men who are qualified as programmers. This implies that less qualified women will have to be hired at the expense of qualified men, in the world as it is now.

Shifting towards a 1:1 ratio would be nice, but that needs to be fixed by growing the talent pool, and isn't going to be solved at the hiring practice level.
Looks like a lot of inspiration borrowed from producthunt? Granted you could probably say that about any site with the ability to contribute a link and upvote content.
> I'm not a misogynist, I like woman. But this lawsuit is not going to change anything, because it attacks just the symptoms. Women need to understand first that they really are just as good as men, consider Maire Curie or Ada Lovelace good examples.

Yeah. The gender problem in tech is because women don't understand something. Astute observation there. Perhaps you can explain it to women?
This going to be huge for designers. Lack of proper kerning in CSS makes web fonts feel like half of a solution.
Did you just describe a "Think Tank"?
This isn't uncommon and does tend to happen with more enterprise-y sales. Where I work currently I've had three external SAAS partners come into the office within the past 6 months.
It probably doesn't make sense to do this often with smaller companies but it does make sense if you're going to charge enterprise prices.
The benefits of doing an in-person meet is that it helps you establish a strong relationship, may help with product development ideas and could be a potential way to upsell services
In a country with statutory maternity leave the maximum maternity period is much longer than the average holiday (The UK allows up to a full year). So you have to fill the gap by hiring another developer with the same skills who is happy to work on a temporary contract which might be more difficult and expensive than finding someone seeking a permanent position especially if you require rare skills.

Industries where skills and certifications are more standarised don't seem to have this problem.
I do think that Basic Income is a promising approach. However socialistic it may sound, we have the situation where this solution looks reasonable. We can expect drawbacks, and one of them could be the growing dependence on the state paying the Income; examples of some other states where it happens may suggest this can lead to lessening of freedoms in the society. This means that together with Basic Income the question will arise about maintaining the state to be a service to the people creating that.
The country certainly has a more conservative culture when it comes to gender. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_India#Family_structu...
SO that's what, a few gigabytes? Takes 30 seconds to download? Then run some stats, get some totals and compare it to your check. What's the problem? Its the 3rd Millennium, get with it.
It's arbitrary in the sense that 1:1 implies meaningful equality. Forcing women and men to go in and out of fields they like simply to enforce numbers is not equality, at least in my sense of the word.

To me, giving women and men a fair and equal chance at working in X industry, is equality. We have no idea what that ratio would be though, but i highly doubt it would end up at 1:1.
I could "very clever"-ly reformulate Newtonian physics as a series of invisible frogs who push things around by jumping into them. It's still horse shit.

This article about a "weird fourth dimension" that's "like time but not time" certainly seems like horse shit to me.
I did say that "my personal belief" is that it is my right?

Not sure what your point is since I'm not going to disagree that from the perspective of the law it is not my right.
I'm happy to play along but first can you give us an idea of the answer(s) will relate to the topic at hand? I'm struggling to find a correlation.
It is unfortunate they couldn't have had a more original name than stealing 2600's magazine "Hacker Quarterly" name and changing "Quarterly" to "Monthly".
I think you're conflating equality of outcome (not desirable) with equality of opportunity (desirable).
My guess is that it's just not a problem worth investing in. They probably only made it somewhat difficult to hack, knowing 1) it's not worth the gain achieved is not really worth the time hacking 2) if someone does hack it, well they were never going to pay anyways... blocked.
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Do you guys have any data on what Series A -> Exit dilution looks like for regular employees>
They have 18% of the world's population, so having 18% of the world's rapes would mean they are average in terms of sexual violence.
> our main data warehouse is on MS SQL Server, but not super fast

MSSQL on similar capacity hardware as PostgreSQL? Is the data restructured once in PG for specific queries?

Curious as to why MSSQL is slower given it has some advantages for data warehouse workloads such as query parallelism?
It sounds like the game is inaccurate in how it models traffic, because in real life people do move out to make use of empty inner lanes (outer lanes? I can never remember). NB: I've not played the game so I'm not 100% on what the traffic problem is, exactly.
Regarding your vote not mattering, what about "Instant Run-Off Voting" [1] ?

[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
Just shows right place and right time are necessary but not sufficient conditions. Still need right decisions...and when it comes to picking stock trajectories, that largely correlates with luck or insider knowledge for ordinary mortals.
I don't mind disclosing but I don't really know. This was almost 9 years ago at this point, and my memory is hazy, plus I was pretty naïve about all of this crap back then.

I definitely had at least one dilution event. Could that have been concurrent with the actual IPO? I want to say that I lost like 1/3rd of the ownership share of my stock, but honestly that could be total fabrication at this point, please don't bank on it.
So what you're saying is hardware is justifiably patent-able in the same way that software currently is.
I am not implying anything about every male of Indian ancestry. I am just pointing out that in the last 3 sexual harassment cases from SV, Indian males seem to be involved.
I'm sure they are being pissed on by governments because they're a net loss to society. People just like to use shiny smartphone to order a taxi.

I hate that new libertarian trend of pretending to solve a socio economical problem, while it requires a smartphone and a fast dataplan. The army developped those techs and now it's being used for profits and profits. Oddly there is so little money involved in techs like bittorrent or openstreetmap, etc.

Investors should really think about having a legitimate improvement for society. I mean if I was an investor, I would be so much proud of creating free services. That's the only way honest improvements has ever worked, when it was not so much profit driven.
This post may benefit from having 'Ask HN:' in the title.
Do you think it's good that men treat each other like shit?

I think it can be just as oppressive when a stronger man treats a weaker man like shit as it is when a man treats a woman like shit. (By 'weak' in this context I am talking about power differential and not some inherent quality of the individual).
Exactly. This is what I also see. We're having the discussion about equality because the field is high-status. No one is asking why waste collectors are mostly men - because most people would like to avoid this line of work when possible.
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It is true that the culture of OSS contributions and IRC lurkers is a very small subset of the available talent pool. On the other hand, jobs that hire based on open source contributions are still a very small subset of the total available jobs. The vast majority of my friends in college were hired with little experience into large corporations, who are better equipped to have a smooth onboarding experience and on-site training.

FWIW, I contributed to an open-source project and was then hired to work on it full-time, and it has been a great experience.
Your email campaign is also running, that pulled me in
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wanwan is the sound the dog makes (like ruff-ruff in English). wan-chan is a colloquial term for dog. [just to be a nit-picking ass].
Full disclosure, I used to study journalism. I'm being intentionally provocative. I do want us to question the idea that journalistic writing skills are essential to the goals we have, of an informed public that reacts with wisdom to events.

It's like questioning why tech executives have to be adult-supervision MBAs from an Ivy league. Ostensibly the MBA is trained to be a manager of $anything, but a founding engineer might still be a better CEO due to their special understanding and vision. And that MBA is never going to have as much skin in the game - they're in it for what they can get.

Similarly the journalist is allegedly better trained to tell the story of $anything, but maybe we could do more effective work with subject matter experts who pick up the basics of fact-checking, storytelling, and information design. And journalists, unless they are assigned to cover a beat or do a long investigation, rarely have much invested in a story - if something else juicy comes up, they're onto the next thing by tomorrow. And in the Buzzfeed era, that's becoming the next few minutes.

Any time you read a story by a general-purpose journalist on something you know well, there's a familiar pattern. It all is very slick and authoritative-sounding, but is usually hilariously wrong and simple-minded. Consider that this is happening all the time, for the subjects where you aren't an expert. So much for 'writing skills'.
But why does it take longer? There are some stores where I'm just as fast to self-checkout as a human cashier, and others where it takes a ton more time, because the machine is super laggy. (Or deliberately made sluggish?)

You're literally doing the same thing as a cashier, using the same equipment - as long as you don't suck at scanning things, it should take exactly the same amount of time.
See also http://github.com/hadley/purrr
Stories like this one make me feel foolish. I recall not applying to Twitter in 2008 partly because I thought that they were already too successful and famous for the equity to be worth much. Clearly, I was mistaken. (It is a small comfort that I probably would not have received an offer anyway, due to my skills and experience level not being a great match for the open positions that they had at that time.)
One of the critical things for me is to have an easy user interface for non-technical people to use. Having a bookmark to manage your files/folders via a web interface seems… annoying, at best. Putting an icon in the menu bar seems more accessible, since people won't have to remember where it went, lose their bookmarks, wonder if it's running, etc.
It might not be complicated, but it's cumbersome as hell: "Hey, Rhianna, here's your 65-million line payment breakdown for the week! I know it used to just be one simple intuitive calculation, but isn't this great!?"

> 99% of artists would prefer this model, even if it meant more complex accounting.

What are you basing that on?

Artists paid more might not complain, and those paid less (likely the more popular artists) would complain. Then there are new artists, growing artists, and people who would just be annoyed by the complexity.

The theory is simple, but the implementation is a complete nightmare.
Easy, direct access to different external data formats: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers

Alternate storage types: https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
Higher signal to noise ratio. Dr. Barry Blesser suggests that "raising the loudness of music, like a double shot of whisky, elevates the intensity of the experience". Listeners undergo significant, measurable changes in mind-body states and Blesser reckons that "loud music is simply a stronger stimulant than soft music".

Blesser - The Seductive (Yet Destructive) Appeal of Loud Music:
http://www.blesser.net/downloads/eContact%20Loud%20Music.pdf

Psychoacoustic tricks such as compression and EQ allow us to increase perceived loudness without crossing the threshold of pain.

3, 4, and 6 in this article explain this psychoacoustic phenomena pretty well:
http://getthatprosound.com/hacking-your-listeners-ears-9-psy...

And this article argues in depth, that the relationship between actual/perceived dynamic range is ultimately an artistic choice, yielding different feels. What people who complain about loudness are really objecting to is the improper use of these techniques:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep11/articles/loudness.htm
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“why she did not just stay home and take care of her child instead of having a career”

Considering most Indian families in the bay area are dual income, I find it weird that they'd be surprised to see a woman working instead of taking care of her child.
When is bootstrap 4 going to be released?
Upvoted, because this is the flipside to "diversity" that a lot of people fail to acknowledge. Diversity can have positive effects on your group/community/organization but it also increases the likelihood of tension that might otherwise have not existed.
They're on Google Play Music! Listened to it this morning.
I don't follow. Why does splitting revenue amongst millions of people provide a boon for the major studios (thus making splitting everyone better)? You say it's better but I don't see the an elaboration on the why.
I was approximately employee #500 at Facebook (mid-level engineer), sold the stock pretty quickly after the IPO lockup ended. I left after 3.5 years. I came out with around $2.5m after taxes.

If I had sold at an optimal time, and fully vested. I would have around $4.5m. Almost everyone I know waited the full 4 years, but most did not wait for the stock to appreciate due to fear of concentrated holdings.
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I probably listened to 300 tracks of Emancipator a month on Spotify. At 0.00786 per play, that works out to 2.85. For the last 2 years: 2.85 24. That's $56.59.*

I don't think most people listen to 300 tracks of any artist per month consecutively. Say you are doing 30 tracks per month on average by an artist, that's $5.66, less than buying three 10 track albums.

I have hundreds of albums on CD (I'd guess ~500 or 600). There are many that I probably only listened to five times.
Daylight savings is easy to fix: don't use it, just standardize on UTC. That's what essentially everyone does in, say, telecom.
That's a great idea on the transparency, I'll be sure to have that implemented.

The hardest part of modding Skylines right now is using its non-documented UI system; styling the panel is all I have left and it's taken days. Watch /r/CitiesSkylinesModding or /r/CitiesSkylines, that's where I'll be posting upon release.
Ah! But if it's optional, I can only assume a lot of men would not opt for it, while women would probably be forced to take it at least for the first few weeks.

In an ideal world, from my point of view, leaves would be both equal and mandatory.
> Realistically, it would be both hard to change structurally

Perhaps there is a simpler solution. Here's one idea: for accounting purposes, only count a limited number of plays per month, per user. It can be the first 100 plays, or if you want to prevent any biasing, it can be a random sample of 100 of each user's plays.

A random sampling can even be audited to prove that it was fair.
If you have hard budget caps and more than 30 employees, it means you're still not going to pay for it this year. This announcement just seems like bad timing. Or maybe they're gearing up for next year.
you guys should email her, and tell her she's wrong.
"I think we should understand that different people have different philanthropic interests."

Yes, but they're wrong. Imagine seeing a hungry dog on the street. Going over to feed it is a virtuous thing to be sure. But, to step over and ignore someone choking to death on your way to the dog is not.

"give in the way they find most meaningful, even if it does not have the greatest 'objective' impact?"

It's easy to be fooled in our first world fantasy lives, but we are really living a world of men, women and children dying for want of sometimes as few as US$1000. Good is hardly good enough.

Something will surely fill every economic niche. If there are people who want to "donate" to the opera or dogs or cats or toys for tots, then some organization will find a way to serve that niche.

But, I think it is useful to oppose these goofball "charities" and educate people about lives they can save.

The stakes are very high. It is a matter of life and death.
Ask HN: What are the projects/apps I can build to learn Go Language?
I am a seasoned Java developer, starting my Go journey. I am sure that doing project is the right way of learning it.
I would say if Carlos Bustamante or Stephen Montgomery are ever giving a talk to the public to check them out. They're both based out of Stanford Med, but their research touches on tracing Human demographic history. If she's still interested when applying for colleges, Harvard and The University of Chicago should both be on her list.
I heard an interview with Brandenburg a while back. He sounded sane, smart, and his understanding of physics seemed sound.

I can't stand this secular inquisition bullshit of cherry picking any sign of possible 'out there'-ness and using it to completely trash peoples' entire bodies of thought and work. It's anti-scientific. Please point out a problem with Brandenburg's actual published work, or go away. Even if he does hold non-traditional or strange religious beliefs, it's not relevant. Roman Catholicism is no more rational than Eastern mystic cults, so do we throw out all scientific papers by Roman Catholics?

I'm not much of a fan of PZ Myers either. I read him a bit back during the mid-2000s 'intelligent design' creationist PR offensive, but stopped reading him as he got more and more shrill and irritating. IMHO Myers is as much a shrill fundamentalist as the religious bozos he constantly wars with.

One interesting thing Brandenburg did say was that when he came to believe himself that Mars had been nuked, possibly in act of "biosphere genocide," the realization that this might have actually happened plunged him into a bit of a metaphysical crisis. He immediately thought of the Fermi Paradox, and that maybe the reason we're not hearing/seeing anything is because there are big nasty genocidal intelligences out there that 'cull' anything interesting from the universe. He said he actually got very depressed, and got deeper into religious/mystical stuff as part of this.

That doesn't sound crazy to me, just human. Around here we've seen some IMHO irrational fears of super-human dangerous AIs circulating recently, and it seems to have led to a similar amount of metaphysical anxiety among some very brilliant and notable people in the CS field.

I'm very skeptical of Brandenburg's thesis here, but I have to admit that the evidence he puts forward is very interesting. It either points to what he says -- some kind of incredibly ancient use of a nuclear device -- or an as yet undiscovered natural phenomenon that can yield a similar signature.

One possibility (other than 'reaper' aliens) I can think of would be a natural nuclear reactor that actually went fully supercritical and detonated. Another would be a hypervelocity object, possibly traveling at some significant fraction of the speed of light, that impacted Mars and went thermonuclear in the atmosphere on kinetic energy alone. Maybe an asteroid or comet that got flung by a high-gravity body (black hole? neutron star?) or supernova debris could do that?
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My guess is that because she is also accusing them of racial discrimination, when noting who replaced her it was relevant context. If you just say "male", people will assume it was a white male and that she was fired to make room for the patriarchy.
That is a statement sent to the artist but broadcasters report far more detail to SoundExchange and licensing agencies.
I stopped contributing OSS lately after seeing how many startups use some of my modules. Why should I work for free to help others profit? Yet if I use restrictive licenses people just avoid the software altogether. If my open-source software is successful I just end up being exploited financially.

EDIT: Downvotes? I guess it's socially unacceptable to not want to contribute to OSS because someone else will just make money off your work.
It depends. If you have no current process, $500/mo for this revolutionary extension to your workflow is great.

If you have a current process, an incremental improvement to it might be a hard sell at $500/mo. And I can guarantee that at 1k users, the $15k/mo is going to be a far harder sell than 'use sharepoint/the public file share/e-mail, it works fine'.
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