skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather incredibly, the comments and moderation throughout this very story are a microcosm of what is being discussed -- people drag so much baggage into these discussions, with pekk just loading their comment with a mountain sized chip on their shoulder.

My comment above has been down"voted" yet is absolutely accurate -- this rather weak study has zero to do with someone saying they're a 10x programmer or the "best" PHP coder. It specifically asks about sharing accomplishments. Cue loads of baggage and justifications for people's entirely negative reactions.
That article doesn't say that at all. It says that the unnamed banker is being prosecuted and "faces up to 10 years in jail".

The cynic in me reckons at best he'll get a fine, a suspended sentence and we'll never know who he was. Not exactly justice.
Unreal Engine 4's blueprints are a great example of visual programming.
So, on the one hand, you are a proponent of in-depth, intelligent conversation.

On the other, you want to prohibit all discussion of news that might somehow reflect negatively on certain people involved with some kinds of finance.

Is that right?
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This can be a double-edged sword. Cambodia to most of the world is the amalgamation of the Killing Fields and Angkor Wat.

Unfortunately the Cambodians don't make any money directly off of Ankor Wat, but the tourism and interest it brings their country will probably help them more in the long run, even if they are only viewed as a window on the past.
Genuine question... since the pay gap exists as shown in this data, why don't employers prefer to hire much more women than men since they can be paid 10% less on average?
I think the reason why unikernels are typically associated with virtualization is that nobody these days would want to dedicate a whole computer to a single task. Even the cheap ARM SBCs (Raspberry Pi, Cubieboard, etc.) are capacious enough for a full multitasking OS or hypervisor, and the Mirage stack is probably too big to run on microcontrollers. In what situation would it be useful to run a unikernel on bare metal, without a hypervisor or multitasking OS underneath it?
Partially true, but ignores the fact the economy and one's rewards from it, is a game. Your success is largely based on your talent in playing, and some will inevitably do better than others. But, that game also has rules that bias those already advantaged.

Politicians are the public face of this, and people realize that those who make the laws can be bought by powerful interests - they know - but believe they can't do anyting about it.

There is some unfair hatred of rich and the elite - that does exist - but there is also a resentment that comes from the realization that the promise of the "American dream" and the level playing field is not exactly that.

That's not a concern to be waived away in the press by the world's richest men, but directly addressed which will be difficult, because you have to acknowledge the problem of the bias (not level field) while simultaneously trying to get rid of the victim mentality which also plays a factor with those who are losing.
The banks have paid $235b in penalties for various misdeeds.

http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/15/bankfines/index.html
Yes, we are also moving rapidly away from the NIST curves, which are not what I'm referring to when I talk about carefully designed curves.
I would have preferred comparing LXC vs LXD vs OpenVZ vs Docker.
Smart Flight Search Engine added a destination to my trip and made it cheaper
AT&T et al challenging net neutrality order on First Amendment grounds
It's a false problem (or manufactured?). I personally think that discrimination of the sort that started this movement has long been eradicated for the most part. That's why the goal-posts have now moved on past actual cases of discrimination and more into grey areas such as "micro-aggression", "representation-quotas" and the like.

Consequently, I'm not comfortable making sweeping conclusions about institutionalized racism/sexism, merely from quotas and fancy-new-age feminism terms that take male-female dynamics to extremes in order to justify wrong-doing.
Sources? Timeframe? Which year's dollars?
I had no idea, thanks for the quotes, especially the Turing quote.

I hope fetchmail makes its choice too and dies. End of story.
This is the right goal but the wrong way of doing it.

Key section of this article:

"A ban on negotiations leaves a lot of power in the hands of employers, who may not be making equal salary offers to men and women in the first place. The solution is transparency."
> The business of banking is vastly larger than cheqing accounts and ridiculous ATM fees

Right, but until recently the various functions of finance were embodied in different institutions. Due to pressure from the banks themselves and from the threat of competing banks in Europe the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act[1] was passed in 1999. This allowed banks to get much larger than they were before and to operate as insurers, commercial banks, and investment banks simultaneously, which they were previously prevented from doing.

Now, I agree with you that these are reasons SV startups won't "disrupt" the banking industry. (Nor do I think this is desirable, but that is another topic.) However, the idea that it is good to have massive consolidation of bank functions into one large corporation is not immediately obvious to me.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bli...
Re-read your sentence. If everyone has the same rules it is equal. There is no "no-win" if it is a level playing field. The company still must compete based on salary in the broader marketplace.
'A women-in-business non-profit found that Fortune 500 companies with most women board members consistently outperformed those with fewest...Market forces should therefore cause the numbers of women board members to increase accordingly, however, "change has occurred at a sluggish pace"'

Correlation!=causation.

From my observation, the correlation most likely runs the opposite direction. Board members of any type have quite limited impact on the management of a company. They fire the CEO if the numbers are bad, but otherwise, they are pretty much just along for the ride. They certainly are not involved in the kind of product decisions where having a female opinion could plausibly make a difference (and any company that has made it to the Fortune 500 status certainly knows how to solicit the opinion of women and customize their products accordingly).

However, I have personally seen "hot" companies, who are getting a lot of media attention, deliberately add female board members in order to avoid the negative press of having an all male board. One CEO of such a company described how the prospective board member put them through the ringer - she had a lot of demand to on boards, so she could be quite choosy about which company she joined.
Blaming the victim is perfectly fine if the "victim" is a government agency.
But he was never charged, so there was no prosecutor involved.

EDIT: Now that I'm looking a little further into the case...

He was apparently raided by the FBI two weeks prior to the suicide during an investigation in the TJX hack. During the raid, the police found another suicide note that James had written several years prior. His suicide note[2] spends the first page and a half talking about something that's been redacted, then the next page and a half talking about some background on the TJX case, denying that he had any connection and noting the fact that one of the other suspects (Chris) had been arrested and subsequently released. He believed that meant that Chris had tried to pin the blame for the hack on him, and he believed that the FBI would be looking to arrest him for a crime he didn't commit.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2009/07/hacker-3/

[2] http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2009/07/jamesn...
Increase in the long run, of course.
I attended one of their Blackberry 10 jam sessions in 2012. While having a conversation with one of their managers, he was emphasizing on the virtual keyboard in Z10 over and over as if that was the magic sauce of a successful smartphone. What I realized later, the physical keyboard was really the magic sauce of blackberry phones. And even though they were stepping into the virtual keyboard era, it was very hard for them to come out of the shadow of their golden time.

Apparently the failure of Blackberry 10 devices has proven that keyboard is not the magic sauce of a successful smartphone anymore.
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What if it's not the company's fault?

What if the root cause is well before the person ever gets near the hiring process? What if it's, for example, education? The amount of men/women who get pushed into field X or Y?

So we blame schools now. But, hold on, is it the schools' fault? Couldn't it be the parents'? They're pretty damn responsible for how a child will view the world, and if the person is pushed at a young age to look at the world a certain way, they will probably see themselves and their future a certain way as well. How many little girls have you heard say "when I grow up, I want to be a coal miner!"?

... is it the parents' fault though? Could it be the companies advertising lifestyle product targeted at men/women girls/boys, shaping social expectations around those?

My point is we don't really know. Gender inequality in statistics is caused by the sum of lots of factors, few of them which can actually be directly affected. Forcing companies to hit a certain target simply causes people to be hired because of the color of their skin of the shape of their genitals. Massively counterproductive if you want equality...
"I'm not sure that more regulation will fix banking" ... "Maybe we should make them smaller".

How do you think you make banks smaller ? Hint: it's through regulation.

The GFC and all the problems it has caused was due to a lack of regulation. It's almost always a good thing. And the highly regulated nature of the Australian financial system is the main reason that it survived the GFC with zero casualties. Capital requirements, lending practices, public disclosure etc. These are aspects of the banking sector which need MORE regulation not less.
It is playing by the rules but if everyone did it, the whole SS benefit scheme will collapse.
Very odd because the discussions are quite often more insightful than the linked pages/articles themselves.
This is a terrible idea and only persists the "lowest common denominator" policies of people who want to hold back better people through laws.

Instead why not have "job agents" that negotiate on your behalf?
Everyone knows the first 80% takes half the time and the other 20% takes half the time. (Though I've personally seen cases where the first 80% takes 20% of the time and the remaining 20% takes the other 80% of the time).
> We do offer the option to create additional profiles on others email a user might have.

I looked at the API, and it didn't offer that feature.

> Currently we do offer the option to add a secondary PIN on each profile, but we are thinking to enforce it to the application level.

So a password.
"The traits that both men and women associate with good negotiators are tied up with ideas of masculinity — such as rationality, assertiveness and self-assurance"

Maybe those qualities are also helpful in a job itself, if not in general? Particularly in a senior position of leadership?

I don't think you can have both a standard that's different for what skills a woman should need learn to succeed, and at the same time have equality. This seems self-evident.
Was likely due to the fact that enterprise sales of the iPhone took quite a while. Blackberry very much held onto their corporate accounts which is a very large market.
how interesting, thank you very much.
I start to like Haskell and would enjoy learning to use it for the Web, but look at the size of it:

http://i.imgur.com/kPHl4L7.png

7834KB is way too large for just that, I'm afraid.

I've 120Mbit/s, that's why it still loads fast, but I remember how slow, but fascinating surfing with 56K modem was.
I took it to mean the way you can focus or highlight parts of a visual element, image, whatever, by cropping or repositioning it.
>It's all about the nature of the work.

No, it's not _all_ about the nature of the work. Again, that's just applying one-dimensional criteria. To re-emphasize: is the employee/contractor classification just one factor or a combination of factors?

The concept of "driving" does not automatically mean an "employee" relationship. Many (probably most) 18-wheel truck drivers are independent contractors. Many drivers of tour & charter buses are subcontractors as well. Those charter bus drivers transport people like Uber drivers too.

Likewise, the "nature of photography work" does not instantly categorize it as employee vs freelancer. Sports Illustrated had some staff/employee photographers. But National Geographic has freelance photographers.

Another most obvious example to HN would be the existence of both contract and employee programmers.

It isn't just about the "nature of work".

It isn't just about who provides the equipment.

It isn't just about who decides the hours of when the work is performed.

It's isn't just _one_ criteria.
They haven't kept up with the times, however. MSVC is stuck at OpenMP 2.0, even with MSVC 13. Further, MS has stated they have no plans to change that.
There is no reason the number shouldn't be near 50%...What other conclusion can you draw?

No reason? No other possible conclusion? You should argue the opposite position and try to pass an ideological turing test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_Turing_Test

Here are some sources to get you started on your research: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/114055529676/my-verdict-on-gend... http://www.amazon.com/Why-Sex-Matters-Darwinian-Behavior-ebo...
The best Ruby on Rails mentorship program around?
Hi there,

I've been searching for a Ruby on Rails mentorship program for a LONG time (I'm very diligent when it comes to this sort of thing) and finally came across a private mentor-ship group run by two seasoned developers.

I signed up with them after having an initial Skype call, and put down an initial $1,000 deposit. And I'm now paying $500/mo for additional help when needed, and to have them answer questions, or show me how to solve different problems.

They've been a tremendous help in turning me into a Junior rails developer to a full-stack, intermediate web developer. In fact, I've already started my first contract job and by the end of it my initial investment will be covered many times over!

Anyways, I've found through this experience that the best way to learn a new skill set is NOT only by reading, but by working with those who are where you want to be! You can read every book but learning with those who are are much further are ahead is truly invaluable.

With that said, I was thinking of developing what they taught me into a video series and would like to gauge hacker news users interest in this?

I will cover everything from setting up your dev environment, to creating a new app, and writing your first lines of code, to the different aspects of an app, and what skill sets you need, to diving into each of those skill sets, to building a simple app using those skill sets, to working with git, to deploying the app to heroku, to even the sales pitch to prospective clients and so forth!

It's essentially a "Learn to be a web developer suite/bundle"

If interested let me know your thoughts and I can begin preparing the coursework, videos, etc...
What are red flags that signal you should walk away from a startup job?
Does the height bias extend to entry level jobs and not just managerial positions?
Clients chose to go against their own best interest? For what reason? That doesn't make much sense. What makes more sense is that those clients were falsely led to believe that "simplicity and lowest broker fees" was the best choice.
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BB sold mostly to enterprises, which have very long purchasing cycles. Plus the early iPhone really wasn't built for business. My recollection is that executives demanding iPhones is a big part of the BYOD movement.
No, they sold those too. Look up CDO and CDO squared to see where those things went. That said, super senior subprime mortgage binds did exceptionally well as investments. It was the BBB stuff which had near 100% loss.
I would have gone with "Real Wage Gap = 5-7%", but it's a good video nonetheless.
> but with much slower rendering

How much slower? Flash is slow enough as it is. I can't imagine using something even slower.
> There is no reason the number shouldn't be near 50%. Women are as capable as men. It's nowhere near 50%.

It's the year 2015 and Buddhist monks are still widely under-represented in the upper echelons of the job market. Is that likely to be about discrimination?

That women are as capable as men isn't the only factor. That's very reductionist and simplistic. People also make choices, and many people don't want to invest time into becoming board members, musicians, or what have you.

I'm NOT saying that this is only a matter of choice, and not about discrimination. I'm just saying that reducing it to one variable is too simplistic; just as simplistic as if I said that the gender ratios of the job market is purely about individual choices[1]. And your post only seems to be about representation argument, and makes no mention of any concrete, direct discrimination.

[1] In the sense that people have reasonable freedom to compete and make choices based on their preferences. Not in the trivial sense that they just make the "choice" to give up on a system that is discriminatory.
But it doesn't absolve the attacker of any responsibility for damages caused, either.
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The "early retirement community" has people who manage to retire early while having kids. Check out http://www.earlyretirementextreme.com.

The real trick is living way below your means. The main cost factors for most people are shelter, transportation and food. If you manage to lower these three recurring expenses considerably, you can retire within 5-10 years (even if you don`t make a six figure income).
She ruined the life of a small town doctor who was acquitted of all charges after living under a cloud of suspicion during a 7 year "investigation"

http://needham.wickedlocal.com/article/20150515/NEWS/1505171...
In Germany, men can take equal paternity leave as women. And it is used sometimes, actually.

And these quotas just say that "30% of each gender should be in corporate boards" or that "negotiating a custom pay should be illegal" – the negotiation part also discriminates against people who aren’t good at negotiations, therefore provides a different pay for people based on a totally unimportant metric.
The solution is clear. Modify (gut) the regs to bring banks into compliance. Or simply ignore it. How will the SEC dress it up and sell it (to itself)?
It appears that you are misunderstanding Social Security, and you may think that the US federal government plays by the same set of fiscal rules that a household, a corporation or a state has to use.

This article from the Washington Post can help: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/01/...
I had no idea either and was quite surprised to see the attack on Mozilla from the author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Decided to dig deeper and lost a significant chunk of my naivete concerning a certain type of open source advocates.

The cherry on top. As far as I understand these are true Eric Raymond's beliefs:

"It is relevant here that I am a third-degree Wiccan, which means that I’m pretty experienced at designing rituals that invoke god-forms for specified purposes."[0]

[0]http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1573
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This seems almost comically narrow minded. Like it or not, negotiation is unavoidable. It's how two actors come to an agreement.

Even if negotiation is banned for determining salaries, there are other negotiations to be done: how much vacation you get and when you can take, when you can work remotely (if at all), who gets which projects and which roles in them, who gets the better desk, who gets to go to the conference. Plus you have to negotiate with other companies about contracts, joint ventures, prices, schedules, and so forth. And the rest of life is a negotiation too, for the price of a car, rent, the price for the house, the cost of house repairs, where to go on vacation, and on and on right down to where are we going to lunch and who's picking up the tab.

This is well-intentioned but the solution is not in the realm of possibility, like trying to solve broken bones by banning gravity. Everyone will have to negotiate about many things, no matter what the law says. You can either learn to do it to the best of your ability, or pretend it doesn't exist and thus just suck as it.
I think this makes sense. I've been trying to use react-d3 but I think I'm already getting some friction integrating. The tooltip and point click handling is exactly what I'm working on right now, so I think I'll switch to fully my own integration based on this article. Thanks a lot!
>It it weren't, the numbers would reflect the male/female employment percentages

So should this apply to every industry?
While I tend to agree with you on Über (as well as those food delivery services with "personal shoppers" which are "independent, but must work for us 8h/day"), why do you think Airbnb also qualifies as such?
A fit person can walk from the east to west coast of the U.S. in 60 days. Sure, poor conditions would slow people down, but overall I suspect people have always been fairly mobile.
But can you argue that an implicit bias is responsible for a gap of up to 23%? 23% is way too high to be a result of a totally heretofore unnoticed implicit bias. By controlling for many environmental factors, the gap is in a range of 4.8% to 7.1% [1]. Not that that's excusable, but it shows the world isn't ending for women.

[1]: http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20... (page 1)
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From my experience (I have no data), it seems that many of them use the same source for coffee: http://www.cafesrichard.fr/services-chr-nos-produits-4.html

(and this is rather cheap coffee)
> Communications can be monitored, and usually are in banks.

So ? You just join a chat room on your 4G phone or iPad.

Regardless banks are no different to every other enterprise. The firewalls just capture the URLs and white/black list against some subscribed set. They aren't monitoring every bit of traffic that goes out. Except for maybe PCI compliance e.g. checking for 16 digit numbers passing through the firewall.
It's like punishing the mayor for a crime one of their employees made on the job, after the mayor had been put on notice that mayors are responsible for their employees' on-the-job conduct.