skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not too sure. In my experience, salary negotiations will earn you a few percentage points at most. It does make it easier for a potential employee to decide between two companies (this is what the other company offered, can you match it?), but it's a relatively small number compared to difference in promotion level and team. If we're talking about software engineering, these positions tend to have 5 or so levels plus different teams. Salary is tied to team and level. I don't think what Ellen is doing will directly make a huge impact on the gender gap because the problem in software engineering is more about underrepresentation of women. Perhaps what it will do is prevent a problem where all or most of the men in the same position were being just a wee bit more than the women at Reddit, which seems like a believable situation.
> But doesn't the gender pay gap come from choosing lower-paying jobs

Not entirely: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat39.htm

> rather than explicit discrimination?

Why does it need to be explicit? Most discrimination is due to unconscious biases, both in our responsive to negotiation tactics from men v. women, and in our initial "gut feeling" about how valuable an employee someone will be. Humans aren't rational logic machines, as much as we like to pretend we are.

> if it were an act of discrimination, every boss would have to be in on it a la Nash Equilibrium.

Prima facie, this seems like it should be true, but there's also a positive correlation between height and income. The Nash Equilibrium hasn't solved this. Why? Even if you have no answer, denying the fact because you can't explain it isn't a great option.

The usual explanation, which seems bared out by the data, is that subtle, unconscious bias (not explicit, conscious bias) is pervasive enough that in an imperfect market with transaction costs. If someone could choose to be immune to this bias, and thus be 100% non-discriminatory, that would be an advantage, but it's not as simple as just choosing not to be biased, nor is it simple to then demonstrate that fact to the entire labor market.
No chance, they are the biggest group that the politicians can pander to.
I don't understand why the media focuses on her as a promoter of equality. She has proven herself biased and overly militant which gives credence to those who say the loudest feminists don't really care about women.
Pretty awesome. Chiang Mai is a great city. We lived there for a month but just moved to Uthai Thani, which is even cheaper. It's a lot quieter, but pretty nice.

Unfortunately, you can never really settle down in Thailand, unless you marry a Thai person. Foreigners aren't allowed to own land, although you can buy an apartment. But even so, it must get tiring to go on visa runs every 90 days for over 30 years.
As I understand it, he was suspected of involvement in the 2007 TJX case and allegedly harassed for it.

“I honestly, honestly had nothing to do with TJX. I have no faith in the ‘justice’ system. Perhaps my actions today, and this letter, will send a stronger message to the public. Either way, I have lost control over this situation, and this is my only way to regain control.” James’s suicide note.
It depends on the company. Many have a budget that says to pay their employees X dollars in aggregate. Assuming that everyone has the same position, then with negotiations certain people would get a little more and others a little less, but the company still spends about X dollars. With no negotiating, everyone gets the same piece of the pie, but the company is still dishing what they were before. The company might actually be able to spend more (I'm being crazy optimistic here) because it's much more predictable what any individual would cost.
The problem is that the law really isn't very clear. The weighing of the factors is based wholly on context and, in most situations, it's fairly easy to come up with arguments for either side.
As a straight Irishman with a family and kids I am very happy that for once there was such a large voter turnout for a referendum,especially among the newly registered voters.

Of course I am also happy for the LGBT community since there is absolutely no reason why people in a modern and progressive 21st century state should be discriminated against based on their sexual preference. It just feels wrong.

Which brings me to the NO campaign that was run by the crazy religious fringe that was downright disgusting, what sort of god preaches hate, inequality and discrimination?
Their safety net is not provided by Washington State.

They presumably worked the required number of quarters for their SS benefits, and played by the rules at the time.
Why not? Are you afraid you won't be able to resist the temptation?
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Gender equality is classic good clickbait.
I have news for you - Sarbanes-Oxley makes high-level executives criminally responsible for a certain subset of the company's operations.

More broadly, executive control is more complete than you suggest. Delegated powers can be audited and controls used to ensure the integrity of the decision-making process. Communications can be monitored, and usually are in banks. Not enacting such controls, or not enforcing them strongly enough, could be seen as negligence.
Do you realize in your own comment, you focused the entire thing on metadata and phone records, without saying what the other (implied) larger part to the story is?

If it's not just all about metadata and phone records, then what is it?
how is this different than the idea that women are not well suited to programming or math?

In this case, the sexism is benevolent. (On the surface at least. Do you think such a salary policy will serve to increase or decrease their overall labor costs?)
>When I read stuff like this "EU pushes 40% quota for women on boards" My jaw just like ... drops. Just image the OUTRAGE that would be caused if the headline was this "EU pushes 50% quota for women in coal mines"

[Edited because my first attempt at quotes was screwing up]

There might be a difference between demanding equal representation in governance and equal representation in low-level labor. In both cases I want the best person for the job to have the job, but in one case, the job involves representing the interests of a diverse group.

> I am all for equality, but just handing everything to women on a silver platter

If we were handing things to _a woman_ on a silver platter, that'd be a problem. This is more along the lines of insisting that every state, even lousy ol' Arkansas, empty Wyoming, and teeny tiny Rhode Island each get at least three seats in Congress.
Yep, was thinking the same exact thing when I saw "actions".
I never see anyone discussing whether the IRS should change its classifications based on the world be live in now, as opposed to when they created those rules.
The idea that you can institute a policy that will account for all of the variables that underly someone's performance is absurd. I recently left a company that started monkeying with policies like this (they they would make exceptions for, for favored employees.)

Develop an environment where your team can thrive. Provide opportunities for growth. Train those that show an aptitude. Listen to people. Pay attention to the values that you espouse and the resulting culture, and make adjustments where they're at odds with your goals.

Putting a policy in place where everyone is at a lowest common denominator is one of the quickest ways I can think of to destroy initiative in a company.
Your comment is filled with vitriol -- did you something happen to you? Why would Uber drivers be getting "rich" anyway? A decent living might be possible, but I don't think driving cars is valued as much in the economy as those creating jobs, nor should it be. And to say Uber bears no risk is completely false--people invested money into Uber without any guarantees. And I'm not saying that these companies are without criticism or that they don't exploit workers. I'm just more baffled that alternatives haven't come along to disrupt them -- say a completely open, peer to peer network of drivers using open source applications that get paid through Square, Stripe, etc.
Brings to mind the Victorian concept of "retire with competence".

Problem is that it pretty much depends on getting in the door with the rentier economy, and not everyone can be there (unless you fancy trying to run the world on an eternal Ponzi scheme)...
I think we should all be alarmed that people are developing policies that purposely handicap one class of people in order to create better outcomes for others.
This article is bullshit. People are going to jail.
http://rt.com/uk/193872-london-banker-libor-guilty/
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The only reason you can't work at Apple and Microsoft simultaneous is because of the overlapping working hours.

I worked at Apple years ago and nothing was in my contract to say that I couldn't work for another company. Because we all do this when we are running startups on the side.
Sourcewatch (HTTP://sourcewatch.org/) is a good start. Tends more toward AGW and ALEC.
> what sort of god preaches hate, inequality and discrimination?

Gods, not many (I really don't believe they exist). People claiming to represent god: many.
Some form of BYOD policy is pretty much the standard at most companies outside of say finance or insurance these days. So surely this rule would be out of date.
Very interesting work, and very clean UI, congrats and good luck!
I think I'm a little younger than you as well, but my first unix was Red Hat Linux 7. It came on a CD and was so buggy[0] I gave up on it after 6 months. I wouldn't touch another unix until my sophomore year at college, when a roommate convinced me to try Gentoo. That worked for two years before I got fed up with it (I wiped out my /etc one time too many). Then I bought a TiBook from same said roommate and haven't looked back since.

[0]: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/00/10/02/2046212/red-hat-lin...
I'm mostly clueless. But I see the pattern all around me still that in established business processes there are so many places where lots of things are done as in pre digital ages. B

As an example...

Building and construction is still in infancy as what it comes to utilizing digital technology. The field is fragmented with long subcontractor chains. The digitalization that happened in e.g. car manufacturing is not yet complete. The field is dominated with clunky, expensive cad packages which, while some may be eatabslished standards, are never the less decades old piles of legacy software. Most of the data is still transmitted between parties in paper drawings.
This looks interesting. I am wondering when it will launch
If you are using Debian 7 or similar distro with an older version of Apache you can avoid it by using the following ciphers[1]:

SSLCipherSuite ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA:!DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:!DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:!DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:!DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:!DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:!DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:!DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA128-SHA:!DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA

However if you are using Apache 2.4.8 or later just follow the instructions here[2]

Either should get you an "A" on SSL labs test[3]

[1] http://serverfault.com/questions/693306/trying-to-mitigate-l...

[2] https://weakdh.org/sysadmin.html

[3] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html
No I think you're wrong there.

The job description for a Pizza Hut driver is to drive no different to an Uber driver. Whether they are delivering pizza or people is irrelevant. It's all about the nature of the work.
And what of Carmen Ortiz?
1. Wrong forum

2. Java, because it is way easier. C++ is an expert only language.
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Really, the author is in favour of polynomial types (sums of products); the emphasis on sums is probably because tuples/records/arrays/etc. are already quite well known.

To see the distinction, notice that many Actions have some associated data:

data Action a
= ClearCompleted
| DeleteItem ItemId
| EditItem ItemId
| EditItemCancel ItemId
| EditItemDone ItemId a
| Filter (Maybe ItemStatus)
| NewItem a
| NoAction
| Refresh
| Toggle ItemId
| ToggleAll

In your analogy, the `action` value is actually quite complicated: it's an object (record) containing a field called "type" containing a string; if the "type" field contains the string "DeleteItem" then the action object also contains a "todo" field, containing an item ID; if the "type" field contains the string "EditItem" then the action object also contains a "todo" field, containing an item ID; and so on.

This is known as a "dependent record", and requires a much more elaborate type system than polymonial types. In fact, without careful consideration, dependent type checking can end up being undecidable!

Compare this to the polynomial type, where the parameters (item IDs, etc.) are right there in the value. We can never have an Action without the corresponding parameters (if we try, we'll end up with a function rather than an Action, thanks to Currying). We can never switch the type of an action while forgetting to change the parameters; etc. Plus, of course, we've denoted a finite set of actions, rather than relying on strings (AKA "stringly typed" programming).

Another point to note:

> it's simpler to directly call the right function, rather than over-engineering things with a short-lived intermediary representation.

Of course it would be simpler, but the entire point of the exercise is to use MVC to separate concerns, even though it's clearly overkill. If we're going to do MVC anyway, then the Action type provides a very simple interface between the Controller and the Model: the Controller just spits out an Action, the Model just receives an Action; no need for any further coordination. Plus, it's all really easy to reason about and type check.
I wonder if the pay gap only has to do with gender. Do all men get the same salary?
I can think of a whole host of such situations where virtually everyone would agree that the CEO should go to jail.

What do you have to say to that?
I worked at Apple when Jobs was CEO and pretty much ALL of the company worked hard. It was pretty much written into the contract. It didn't have anything to do with Jobs personally telling you had to. It was because the deadlines and work were demanding and at a company that strives for excellence you don't want to be the weak link.
How about we ban anti-finance hate articles like this from hacker news?

Certainly, the intent of these is not to spur in-depth intelligent conversation.
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Wrong - every action has to be initiated by the user. Nothing is automatic.
but the rules don't work with people working for 10 years, and retiring for 60. of course this is not illegal, but such a life style choice would not be scalable.
Wow, thanks for the tip.
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That's not really a valid concern in a thread about niche applications.

Yes, we have a scale problem, and it must be fixed with renewables that scale, not with bio-fuels. The fact that the ones that scale are not fitted for niches is not reason to claim that we can't fulfill niches, and the fact that some niche fuels do not scale is not reason to claim that we can't get renewables at scale.
It's the job of board members to represent the interests of a diverse group of shareholders. Do male and female shareholders somehow have different interests - men want shareholder value maximized while women want something else?
What is "art-directing" and "art-direct svg" in this context? Does it have a special meaning?
I have been busy contracting for a client, building a product configurator based on SVG. It feels like I'm working with a better version of Flash, but with much slower rendering.

SVG in the browser is much more extensive than I had realised. There's really a lot you can do with it, and that kind-of snuck up on me. I've never had to touch SVG, been using canvas and DOM elements for a great many things. And now, all of a sudden, there is this massive part of the browser that I had neglected, where you can do anything.

If you work with designers that use Illustrator, you can really create a efficient workflow with SVG as a base.
"Although that leaves it unclear how you got the high-priced house in the first place,"

Get lucky and sell at the peak of the housing bubble. Let's say ten year ago you bought a house with a mortgage in Vancouver or Toronto for 300k, you can sell it now for 1mil if not more.
We're way, way, way past that. I used to think like you, until I started realizing just how institutionally misogynistic corporations and business is. At how low the numbers are. Corporations have had decades to reform and yet the number of women on boards or CEOs or leadership positions is still ridiculously low. The glass ceilings still exists. Generations have passed and the problem hasn't corrected itself.

There is no reason the number shouldn't be near 50%. Women are as capable as men. It's nowhere near 50%.

So, the only solution is positive discrimination.

Your jaw may drop, but the companies of the world had their chance and all they've demonstrated is that the present system is quite obviously, without argument and without anything at all you can say to counter it, complete and utter misogynistic. What other conclusion can you draw? Occam's razor suggests the system is to blame. It it weren't, the numbers would reflect the male/female employment percentages, but they don't, they're still heavily skewed towards men.

So either you choose the "qualified" candidates, who are "qualified" by an obviously misogynistic system. Or you positively discriminate.

Does your jaw still drop? Or do you understand why it is necessary now?
> licensed taxi drivers

> private hire firms

You need to learn the difference between these.
I think they mean "no one in the US is going to jail" but that's a way less offensive headline.
"At the bargaining table, women are in a no-win situation."

Word. Instead of teaching them techniques to help them win, let's just do the easiest thing possible and make blanket rules so that everybody is in a no-win situation.

Equality.
> Why is blaming the victim so uniquely acceptable when we're talking about hackers?

"Don't blame the victim" comes from the context of sexual assault. Blaming the victim for dressing provocatively is unjustifiable because dressing provocatively is not misconduct.

Maintaining insecure internet-facing servers is professional misconduct. Someone else's wrong doesn't retroactively make your wrong right.
> It's a shame you're being downvoted.

It's not a shame, his post was entirely void of actual content. It's easy to make statements like his, it's a lot harder to make posts like yours with real data to nuance the argument (I'm not being sarcastic in regards to your post).
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They didn't mention the real trick in the advice section: Don't have kids.
How can I score a job at Google ?
Obviously my remarks would be focused on the 1/8th of the difference (in your view) that is a difference of performance on the part of the speaker, rather than an imputation of motive on the part of a hostile listener.

As I said, sharing personal news leaves one open to rejection, which presumably is what you have been experiencing. If any of your peers are indeed "small, insecure, and self-loathing," as you say, then it is probably a bad idea to try to share your happiness with them in the first place; most especially if you are already braced for a negative response, but sharing the news anyways. Your motive here would be really unclear to me as a third-party witness. I'll accept your assertion that what you're doing isn't bragging, but it seems somewhat confrontational to go ahead and volunteer information regarding your successes under those circumstances. If it accounts for 7/8ths of your problems with people misidentifying your attempts to share happy personal news as bragging, then you may have a more general social problem with knowing how to manage impersonal relationships. I'm pretty bad at that, myself.

With regards to that remaining 1/8th, the way the speaker is conducting himself, what do you see the essential difference between bragging and sharing good news to be? What is it in people's demeanor or attitude that makes you, as an audience, feel that they are engaged in bragging?
This. A result of the proverbial revolving door between regulators and the banks. You can have regulations up the wazoo and it won't make a spec of difference if they are not properly enforced. Even with the odd criminal conviction bank regulation is kabuki theatre for mass consumption. These guys get away with murder - literally. EDIT: yes, literally the murder of thousands in Mexico. HSBC bank & Sinaloa cartel. HSBC in particular has a long history of enabling drug cartels. The Opium Wars.
Sounds sufficient. I'm still using a 2009 MBP with 4M RAM. I've replaced the spinning rust HD with a SANDisk Extreme SSD and it works well for me as a development machine.

But ... I do use a separate Linux server to spin up test environments, etc. I have never been really happy with VmWare Fusion.
Whenever hackers talk about the systems the break into it just reads as a rapist saying "Well if she didn't wear such a short shirt I wouldn't have done it." They know what they are doing is illegal and they do it anyway just for the hell of it. I have no sympathy for that kind of asshole.
Plus they decided to have no children. Otherwise the equation is probably a bit more problematic :)
A women-in-business non-profit found that Fortune 500 companies with most women board members consistently outperformed those with fewest [1].

Market forces should therefore cause the numbers of women board members to increase accordingly, however, "change has occurred at a sluggish pace" [2].

The 40% EU objective stipulates that "qualification and merit will remain the key criteria" and will hopefully challenge unconscious biases that may be behind the sluggish progress [3].

[1]: http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/bottom-line-corporate-perf...

[2]: http://www.ey.com/US/en/Newsroom/News-releases/Women-are-joi...

[3]: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-12-1205_en.htm
When warp was released, Clang's built-in preprocessor was already faster. I haven't seen any updated benchmarks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7489532
As a white man this is so condescending. There's this insinuation that I was born into the world brimming with confidence and endowed with some natural ability to negotiate. I had to learn the rules of this "men's game" and fail in this like everybody else. But I don't get to say I'm discriminated against when I fuck up a salary negotiation and get paid less. I just have to suck it up and do better next time. Like literally every game I play.
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