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> These institutions of "higher learning" became what they became because people trusted them to be impartial.

So when Universities believed[1] that African Americans were indeed an inferior race of humans they were being impartial? Not to mention that many of the great (old) western universities were closely affiliated with various churches for most of their history[2].

Universities were always part of society and as such they reflected the status quo at the time. They were not and are not "impartial". They are institutions of "higher learning" because they provide the resources and freedom for their professors to explore ideas that may have no commercial or practical benefit. That's it! As a result of this freedom, ideas coming out of Universities have often moved society/technology forwards.

Businesses that hire "talented and driven people" are probably not going to let them get paid while exploring the nature of the Higgs Boson or the philosophy or Nietzche.

[1] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121382/forgotten-racist-p...
"University scholars of the time argued that the racial inferiority of people of African descent justified their enslavement, and that enslavement would bring blacks closer to Christian salvation."

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University#19th_centur...
Yeah, it is pretty clear they intend to bend/break rules the Canadians would hold them too and say "Oops".
How many female participants we got here on HN?

Is it safe to say that male members outnumber their female counterparts?

If so, what's the reason or the catalyst behind this disparity in interest and participation rate between sexes?
I did an M.s.c and offered me a Phd, that I refused, and it was one of the best decisions in my life. Maybe because I work on research in industry doing things that I find very interesting but I really don't think that the phd would have added any value. I see my friends doing it and wasting a lot of time writing papers, spending months looking for funds (mostly postdoc) for a low pay. There probably are phds that give you an unique experience, but in general I don't see how they are worth the investiment. If someone can change my opinion on phds please do so.
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If that was the main factor, the divorce rate for law enforcement would likely be lower as well.
Hey, don't keep pushing that stereotype on us. Software engineering, much like other disciplines, have people from all backgrounds and capabilities. I hate the idea that the persistence of these beliefs can effect the industry further, possibly leading to some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy where good communication skills are not expected.

Routinely software engineers need to give presentations to customers, have to collaborate with other disciplines, and provide clear written and verbal communication.

This type of thinking is, I believe, the same mentality that keeps women out of STEM career paths. Just because you have a small sample set that leads you to believe we are poor communicators, do not broad brush it and assume most software folk are as inept.
The margins the banks make should approach zero, and that takes into account the fact that sometimes they'll get back slightly less than they lend out. However to get the type of interest rates we are talking about here you can probably only borrow at about 75-80% the price of the house and only for a relatively secure house, so the expected payback for the banks is pretty close to 1.0.
This. I'm in my 30s with a wife, kids, and a successful career. The Georgia Tech program looks great, but there's no way I'm going to go back and finish my bachelor's degree at this point in my life. Useless general education coursework and the absurd cost of online degree programs from reputable brick and mortar schools makes it a nonstarter.

If there were an affordable online B.A./B.S. program from a reputable institution, which was tailored to worldly-wise people for whom high school was half a lifetime ago, I might reconsider. But I haven't found it yet.
Software engineers are great communicators, which is why they are often awkward and unpopular. Getting along in groups and knowing your place in the social hierarchy order is much more dependent on effective lying.
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> (outside tech)

And that's probably only because tech industry is barely two or three generations old. We're seeing the signs here too.

I have my pet theory that every market gets dominated by frauds as it matures. You can compete on the actual value you provide to people when the product/service is young, but after all low-hanging fruits are picked and there are no easy / significant improvements to be made, you still need to grow - and so the search for new methods of extracting money begins. Business models get more complicated, companies start to invest more and more into marketing and PR, and suddenly as a customer you can't trust your vendor anymore.
Well, the list does include "computer software engineers."
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On a side note there is already the Edge project that allows NodeJS and .Net to run in the same process. So you can run Asp.Net MVC websites with NodeJS side by side. And it runs on all platforms using Mono Runtime

https://github.com/tjanczuk/edge
Ah, so they wrote a DSL just for doing Bayesian inverse-vision models, and apparently they've now got it to accuracy rates competitive with most other major vision methods?

Good job!
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Jumping on, I definitely agree with sarreph. I was also selected twice (2007 and 2008), and had a blast. I'm not sure if they still do it, but they used to hold a career fair for the students as well. There is no way you will make every session you want to see, but use the time to meet people. That's something I wish I did more. You can always come back to the sessions later when they are online.

It was always a very tiring week, and plenty of times I just wanted to go back to the hotel to rest. Plus those chairs were a killer to my bad back. Looking back, I'm glad I always stuck it out.
Why is Python a popular teaching language?
I wonder if the same happens for Whatsapp (for which I'm still waiting on them to make a public statement and privacy policy change for the adoption of end-to-end encryption).
Being a great communicator != never lying.
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I don't think you understand what the word "ripoff" really
means.

Also:

Apple is pretty consistent with when they announce new hardware. So... there's that.

Just because a new iteration of HW is announce doesn't make the previous iteration useless.

Even the lowest end devices of a few years ago are still powerful enough for most daily activities. (Please don't reply with examples of where this is not true. I, too, can come up with plenty, but that doesn't invalidate my statement).
Perhaps the reason is that only those people who really love the "engineer type of person" will voluntarily marry engineers. ;-)
Another way to look at this is that the employer is helping the state pay less in benefits. I don't see why the alternative for these people is always considered to be a higher paying job. All else being equal, if they could get a higher paying job, they would. If you consider the alternative for these people as having no job, then the state benefits greatly even from marginal employment provided by the employer.
This is more common than you think, especially during the dot-com 1.0 heydays. It is usually administered as something called a Directed Share Program to rewards friends, family, vendors, etc.

As others have mentioned, Lending Club has done this in the form of opening DSP to their Lenders.
> Chicago Boss would be close competitors.

I have commit access to Chicago Boss, and while it's a really cool effort, and is well suited to some niches like the one I'm using it for, it is very, very far away from being a competitor in terms of the flexibility and oodles of gems you get out of the box.
I was at the first one (though not named WWDC yet) in 1986. In the old days this was the funnest week of the year, as you got to talk with everyone and you learned a lot from the random discussions. I went two years ago and everyone sat/stood in long lines using various devices and no one talked anymore. I think watching the videos is enough now.

That first one BTW had 300 people representing virtually all the Mac developers in the entire world, meeting in a single ballroom at the Fairmont. Nowadays you have 5500 people that barely fit into Moscone West.
Some of Lynda's lectures on the Fundamentals of Computer Science are great.

I used them quite a bit in college, because my cs professors were horrible at teaching.
"I cried when I wrote it." A glowing endorsement indeed from the author - I heartily approve!
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So conversely, you can't argue the opposite, i.e. that gender equality would lead to women making identical career choices as men.
I can't imagine an all remote team that relies on email. I've worked remote my entire career and chat is the lifeblood of a remote company. In essence, the chat server becomes the virtual office. When people sign on in the morning, you know they are there. People say bye before signing off (leaving the office). There's a #watercooler channel for people to have idle chitchat. A project manager can ask a question in the project chat room just as they would the teams open office room, etc.
Hi, I'm the author. I submitted the article because I'm fishing for feedback. I'll be flying back to the UK from Pycon in a few hours but will try to reply to any / all questions and comments. Thanks!
I'm not sure how enforceable a warranty disclaimer is when it comes to software that maliciously alerts the user to a permanent and irrecoverable hardware error.
Without having read the original study, it would be worthwhile to see if the there was any attempt to normalize by education level, income and age. It's likely that these are more salient factors and profession is acting as a proxy for these.
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there is no doubt same happens for whatsapp.
As someone who self hosts Dev, Git, etc. at a decent sized company...I wouldn't pay for Docker either. I get what they are trying to do but it honestly doesn't provide enough improvements over existing technology to be worth expending serious amounts of money on.
You are right that I should have been more nuanced in my critique, and you're probably right that it's easier to give away stuff than money.

But I think we should try to always show trust in people who are vulnerable due to the situation that they are in, and by giving money instead of things we show that we trust that they will do what is best for them with the money. By giving things we signal that we know better than they do.

The main reason why people are homeless is after all that we built a society where we accept that people don't have a place to live. We prioritized other things, and left these people on the streets, sleeping in cars, etc.

There's different solutions to this problem, but I don't believe that we should accept in 2015 that people in the EU, the US, etc. do not have a home.
I agree.

What's the point of fighting all the time for gender equality without knowing what it really means of "gender equality"?

I mean, "gender equality" (or any other type of equality) is not correct and just by itself, and might not be manifested only through equal numbers of both gender representations...Gender equality might have some asymmetric effects to many other facades of the society...But what are those effects and how they matter?

Sure, equality would be comforting to everyone's intuitive feeling, but we need to get this world work in a better way than those personal intuitive feeling alone in the end...
Yeah Dragdis seems to be one of the better ones.
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> If you mean a scenario where Docker launches systemd, we don't do that. In my view Docker is just a packaging system; each container's pid 1 is the app we're deploying.

No, systemd is actually capable of running Docker containers directly (even without Docker).

I definitely wouldn't recommend running systemd inside a container unless you're using systemd to launch the container (instead of Docker), since Docker doesn't handle init systems very well, whereas systemd has this built-in. Though you can also go with the one-app-process-per-container approach as well with systemd, which also works.
Apple has held a WWDC every June for nearly 30 Years, so this shouldn't come as a surprise.
At the rate they are releasing new features it looks like one day a conversation will go like:

A: "We're a Twilio for X"

B: "Doesn't Twilio do X too now"

A: "Uh, well, yeah, I guess"
When you read the first line of Chapter One, "I really like The Verge", you suddenly lose all interest in the rest of what he has to say.
I believe Chris Rock said it best: "A man's only faithful as his options". Engineering is a male dominated field so the opportunity to meet someone you might want to cheat with is far lower than for bartenders or dance instructors. Case close, as far as I'm concerned, let's not let this go to our heads.
Now imagine that you have 20 years of industry experience.
> both servers and alptops obviously do have an average HD size

Ok what are those numbers? And how long are they valid for? I've got 35TB on one of my servers, and 20GB on 2 other ones. My Laptop is 256GB but my last one was 1TB... These numbers mean nothing at all. It's a stupid comparison. I doubt the averages would last for ever a year without changing pretty drastically.

Edit: deleted parent comment:

> both servers and alptops obviously do have an average HD size, so the average may not be all that meaningful -- for servefs especially. But i suspect they used the actual size of the servers, not an average, though implicitly they used something like an average for laptops.
As I ponder going into management, I tend to wonder if I should get an MBA or even a masters in CS. There are numerous leadership style classes at the major universities around here that I was thinking about taking as well in lieu of a full masters degree.
For streaming, I can see that this can work.

But basically, what I wanted to do, is implement a module that works as an index between threads (e.g., a search-tree for fast lookup). However, since in Node.js all threads are in a separate process, it is (afaict) impossible to make this efficient, as processes do not share data.
If they use a program they have to deal with Kim's legal team objecting and forcing the prosecution to convince a judge that they have a way to sift information with a 100% guarantee of not mistakenly taking anything it is not legal for them to take.

Easier to just hire a bunch of interns to do the work.
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same with Champagne and a few other protected names.

all scotch is whiskey, but not all whiskey is scotch sort of thing.

he is essentially just creating hard liquor with aging characteristics as I see it. He could technically create any new name to differentiate his product and make it more marketable as the other protected names have done.
I try a byte of that.
"The Epicenter of Change". Really?

I know that HN is full of Apple fanboys, but even they have to think that arrogance is a little over the top.
Snowden's original CryptoParty Hawaii page
See the December 11 2012 info.

Wired magazine story about the party here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150410153501/http://www.wired.com/2014/05/snowden-cryptoparty
Right, but that is compensated by the fact that that same time compression also applies to any energy released by the impactor. It'd be putting out >3.5*10^7 watts / m^2 at 0.99c, from our perspective. And a single sand grain hitting it would release 27GJ.

Not to mention... How on earth are you managing to keep something together when its being bombarded by hydrogen / helium at 0.99c?
The main reason being that I can easily save images/video easily. Links are easy enough with alternate ways.
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The article does not address what I consider to be one of the most confusing elements of this story:

> as an employee of the association that administered the lottery, he was barred by law from buying lotto tickets or claiming lottery prizes

As the head of computer security for the state lottery association, he was surely aware that his position precluded him from being able to win the lottery. Why did he buy the ticket, then?
The so-called "silent divorce."
> did pull requests

Except this bot doesn't create PR's.
If you're thinking of only the 50+ engineers you know, of course those ones haven't changed careers. You'd have to think of some 50+ year old actors or chefs you know and find out if they used to be engineers.
It was meant to be a humorous post, but I'm glad you humoured me anyway. Let's do this.

By your definition, it would seem I purchase my sleep by not working while unconscious, which is obviously ridiculous.

My definition of buying means giving up tangible goods, i.e. gold, money, shares, in return for a change in the world (e.g. receiving a massage).

So, to exchange time for sleep would not fit as your time is not a tangible good. And since you require sleep to work, it would be more accurate to say you earn the ability to work by sleeping. I stipulate no buying is involved.

Opportunity cost does not necessarily mean buying. Exchanging a tangible good for something else does.

I suppose where your definition and mine differ, is in your definition you require a sentient seller, and in mine the seller could be non-sentient, or could be metaphorically represented by a collective of gold owners who would benefit from you losing your gold to the ocean.
Normally Veritasium videos are very good at explaining what is going on in a simple, and understandable way, but this video was confusing to me...
For the record, proving the pigeonhole principle in Coq is sufficiently doable to be a mere four-star textbook exercise (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/current/MoreLogic.html). No exponential explosion of terms required!

>The problem is that you need to sample efficiently from the posterior distribution, and for anything AI related, MCMC isn't going to cut it.

Which is precisely why so much of the actual research work in probabilistic programming is to add more and faster inference strategies. One paper already got a 600x speedup just by using some techniques from the compilers/VM world related to caching whole and partial computation traces.
How about because the highest goal of a society is the welfare of it's citizens and not what is most expedient for those in power/with the all the wealth.
Still, this is the strategy with the best chances. The existing team may be too invested in the current concepts, and as a new member, if you don't speak up early, your possibilities to change something vanish with every day you say nothing.
It's on the frontpage right now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9373165
I don't have a credit card for this exact reason. I get at least 5 invitations by mail every week but i don't really need it.

Spend the money you have not the money you can get.
>...but if the new boss would be like the old boss...

Fortunately, based on what we've seen so far, that doesn't appear to be the case.
Take a look at Scrivener[1], it might be a good fit for you.

[1] https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php
Do you remember the invitations? I received one around that time that was elaborately constructed out of layers of paper and looked like a floppy disk that fit in a 5" envelope. It was amazing how much effort went into that stuff.
I think the main reason is the unpleasant fact that desirable women under 30 like to have fun with attractive men (men that create a lot of interest amongst younger women and can exchange them frequently), which from 90% excludes all engineers. Once the age issues hit women, they look for reliable and stable partners that would consider them a win at their age, for which engineers are prime candidates. Sorry for being cynical, as a photographer I handle a lot of desirable women and talk to them about what is important to them at various ages, and as an engineer can observe this basic dynamics - i.e. a no-longer super attractive woman rejected by most desirable men because her attractiveness falters hooks an aging engineer that had a crush on her while she was in her prime, and stays with him due to a lack of better options and desire for some stability, while he is happy beyond measure to get such a (formerly) attractive spouse.
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To give totally unsolicited advice - 3 years is easy - it doesn't get really hard for another 5 years. Don't stress about it but also don't take it for granted that your communication will always be as great as it is now (without ongoing effort).
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My wife is an Etsy Vendor. This is the first we heard about this, and we were interested in this IPO. Granted, with our experience with Etsy, this is not surprising.
"Taxpayers are spending a lot of money subsidizing not people who won't work, but industries that don't pay their workers a living wage. Through these four programs alone, federal and state governments spend about $150 billion a year aiding working families, according to the analysis (the authors define people who are working here as those who worked at least 10 hours a week, at least half the year)."

Obviously that kind of schedule isn't going to yield a "living income".

"...the important point here is that is quite possible to work hard in this country and still need help buying dinner"

Maybe, but not on the evidence presented here.
All other thing being equal, the CS grad is much more likely to know the advantages and disadvantages of using a heap than a self taught programmer.

At least in my CS program you can't get away without getting a decent exposure to algorithm design and theoretical computer science. You can on the other hand easily learn programming without ever touching these subjects.
Somewhat. They found that male economists lacked that bias. There wouldn't be enough info to make conclusions about top-20 physics depts specifically.
I find that male engineers are more difficult to handle by their wives

In general, I have found that intelligent men are more difficult for women to manipulate.

Not to say that it doesn't happen or that it's not possible, merely that it's more difficult and when it does happen, it tends to be less effective.
you're not going for the keynote.

you go to get hands on with the new technology, speak to the people developing solutions and meet other apple technology developers.

my friend went last year when they introduced Swift, the knowledge he gained from talking to the language developers is unparalleled.
It sounds legit up until the part where you're supposed to take a picture of todays date on a calendar
>You could use a MCMC method, but the problem here is designing a proposal density. There is no reason to expect programs which are almost correct to be syntactically close to programs which aren't. Changing a single bit in a program tends to radically alter its behavior, in a very non linear way. Program space does not map smoothly to output space.

Ahaha, "this sounds like a job for topology!"
I'd also like to know more on this.
Matrices represent maps (functions), and matrix multiplication is map (function) composition. This is very useful because you can easily see how linear algebra generalises to functional analysis and you can easily get an intuitive feel for many theorems from functional analysis if you convince yourself that infinite-dimensional bases are not that special.