skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few ideas come to mind

-1- Women have a lower salary, therefore their anchoring point is lower.

-2- There are few women in the department, therefore every woman feels threatened by every female applicant - they are fighting for a scarce resource.

-3- The push against sexism has resulted in men overvaluing women, while women themselves have no qualms about rating other women exactly what they think they are worth (which might still be less than they should, see 1).

-4- There may be a strong correlation in women who can succeed in a male-dominated environment for sociopathic psychological traits.

-5- There may very well be correlation (though no direct causation) between gender and expected performance, which combined with 3, results in women applying an unconscious bias.

Basically, you do not have an unbiased sample and can't make generalisations from just that article.
Nice. The plugin nature of it does raise the bar a little on using it. Looking forward to the day I can apt-get this in Debian and Ubuntu!
Because the MPAA is often the larger entity in court, and with leverage (copyright law). They have a long, litigious history from DMCA takedowns & expansion to SOPA. They don't mind suing individuals, wholesale [1].

In this particular case it's pretty clear the MPAA and the AG were both out of bounds. Why would the AG, the top lawyer for the state government (and supposedly for the people), need to help the MPAA with a smear campaign? According to Google, AG Hood's office supplied a proposal to the MPAA [2] with an editorial suggesting slumping stock prices, media segments in collaboration with the AG, regulatory lawsuits...

This is a conscious, targeted attack against Google because Hollywood didn't get its way. The project was even codenamed "Project Goliath" (related to the MPAA & affiliates, not the AG) [3].

Google has the resources, capability and will to vigorously defend itself where others may have not.

[1] https://w2.eff.org/IP/P2P/MPAA_v_ThePeople/
[2] https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2179...
[3] http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/12/7382287/project-goliath
They obviously feel that they can maximize their impact by giving guidance to other people. This seems plausible to me.
A prior wrong doesn't immediately disprove any future points.
I never got further than a quote. The most exotic hardware I actually bought were a DEC Alpha and a whole bunch of SGI gear (at considerable discount).
If I were google I would choose a big upcoming multi billion Hollywood film. And just return empty pages while the marketing campaign is roaring. For the star/cast/everything.

I would call it piracy prevention program - that way no one will be able to find piracy content trough google.
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Give me a 4.5-inch phone with slightly lower specs (a battery-saving 720p screen would be enough at that size) for less than $300, and I'm sold.

For the time being, though, I'm going to wait out the "my phone is bigger than your dick" game that everyone and their dog seems to be engaged in. 175 grams is way too heavy to carry around in a pocket, let alone hold with one hand for more than a few minutes. And yet everyone competes in the already overcrowded "flagship" market instead of trying to find a niche.

I hope at least some manufactorers will return to their senses before my 4.27-inch, 107-gram Galaxy S4 Mini begins to feel unbearably slow.
I do not know understand, what relation does the gender of the teacher have to their ability to teach? Or is it an example that it can be done?
Intro:

'The Diabetic Retinopathy challenge on Kaggle has just finished. The goal of the competition was to predict the presence and severity of the disease Diabetic Retinopathy from photographs of eyes. I finished in 20th place using a Convolutional Neural Network (ConvNet). In this post I’ll explain my learning process and progress as I implemented my first ConvNet over the last 3 months. Throughout, I’ll link to the implementations in my code, which is available on github for anyone who wishes to replicate my score.'
Why do you assume that a female VC won't do the exact same calculation and still refuse funding? Women aren't some secret cabal that looks out for each other. They are literally normal people and just as nasty on average as everyone else.
> but I think interest versus merchant fees was about a 67%-33% split in terms of credit card company revenue. (American Express is an exception because they do not allow you to carry a balance on a lot of their cards; they will report your account as delinquent and terminate service

That's correct. Depending on the issuer, it tends to be around 70% interest revenue. Pretty much all of their profit comes from this though! Amex does allow you to carry a balance but their ratio is opposite of others 30/70%.
> so I'm just trying to contain the blast

Information becomes more powerful when you connect all the dots together. Hence, it is better to divide information among services, so they all know a bit, but cannot decipher the "big picture".
This link propose a solution: http://botcrawl.com/yourserverisdown-com-referral-spam-in-go...
The biggest failing of Holywood wrt AI is clearly that they always bunch it together with great advances in robotics and neuroscience. It makes little sense that these technologies should evolve at the exact same time and often at the same lab.
> These biases occur unconsciously and without intention or malice.

As someone who has faced situations where a gender microagression has caused workplace conflict, the above quote cannot be stressed enough. Just because you didn't have the intention to be biased or discriminate does not mean it did not happen. For some reason this concept eludes even the sharpest people.

We all have our biases. It's about time we owned up to them and put effort into mitigating them.
Didn't read the whole article but this stood out to me;

"Confirm that men and women with the same qualifications are earning the same amount and that they are receiving promotions and raises at similar rates (and if not, explore why)."

Yeah, no.
I have never worked for a company which pays employees based on skill, it's all in salary negotiations. If you work for a company where salaries aren't public, then this is the case for you. Also, although anecdotal, in my experience men are willing to risk more when they know they're worth more than what they're being paid.
I pay out of my ass for water

You pay for treated water. If you dig a hole in the ground you'll get untreated water for free.
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Credit cards are used because they allow for global money transactions in much the same way debit cards do locally in your home country. For example, it's practically impossible to fly into USA, rent a car, and book a hotel for a week unless you have a credit card that has several thousand dollars of credit. Even if you have the very same money on your bank account. The system just works that way.

But credit card debt is way overrated. You basically have to have that money anyway (roughly in a month) so that you can pay off the credit card bill. In the average, you can use a credit card to spend your next salary beforehand but that leaves you with nothing to live on the following month. So what you can do with a credit card is rather limited, as if you do not pay off the debt in one month, you're in for some serious interest rates until the balance comes back close to zero again.

Debt is useful when you invest in something that will produce better yield than the interest on the debt. For example, buying an apartment generally will immediately lower your cost of living (in comparison to rent) and subsequently frees more money to pay back the debt and interest. Thus, taking a mortgage makes sense if you can pay it back in a reasonable time so that the proportion of interest won't accumulate into too high in the grand totals.

Then again, buying a new car with a loan makes no sense whatsoever. The value of the car will only degrade and it might actually degrade faster than the rate you're paying off the debt.
> For me it got so stressful that in June 2001 I developed a mental illness from all of the stress I was under and all of the extra hours I worked.

It's seriously a damn shame you worked yourself into a nervous breakdown. I can't possibly stress that enough.

I've spent about ten years working a couple of tech jobs. Over those years, I've probably put in a few hundred hours of OT (unpaid or otherwise). If we're pessimistic and call it an even 1k hours of OT, this means that I've spent an average of somewhere between 42 and 45 hours per week at work over my entire career so far.

I -and others in tech that I know- have never been required to work anywhere near point of burnout, let alone breakdown. Moreover, from what I understand of tech sector hiring practices during the Dot Com Era, anyone who could spell SQL and/or HTML could get a well-paying job in the industry.

Maybe those practices also included a near-universal culture of overwork, but -based on what I hear from a few folks who were working in The Valley at the time- I'm pretty certain that that's not true. If management was pressuring you to work those insane hours, you would have very probably found better treatment at another company. It seems like the lower hiring bar would have given a seasoned veteran quite some mobility during the boom. The situation after the bust is another story all together.

Since you stopped working in the industry in 2003 and claim over 25 years of industry experience, would you be so kind compare and contrast the work ethic and attitudes of tech company management during the Dot Com boom of the late 1990s to those of tech company management during the PC Boom of the 1980s and very early 1990s?

Thanks!
> When I was a young boy in the 1970s it was different

People in the 70's thought work life was hellacious and going deeper into hell, just like today, and every decade since (and probably every prior decade). I recall people declaring they weren't going to have children and bring them into the rotten world. Of course, the politicians all campaigned on fixing everything, just like today, and nothing changed, just like today.

Source: I was working for a living in the 70's.
Forget updates, you can even run full-blown Windows 10 and Office on that beast. If only it came with Windows apps and drivers to use the phone-related features...

http://www.greenbot.com/article/2946255/windows-7-running-on...
Nitpick: it's better to say "2:1 split" instead of "67%-33% split" to avoid the illusion of excess precision.
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If women discriminate then we should know this as it would be very helpful to know why.

If the cause is environmental influences outside the workplace then it is a bit hard for anyone to solve from within the workplace. It also makes any hypothesis of sexism untestable since there is no possible evidence that could be gathered that could ever disprove sexism as the cause.
Poor, and lower class people can't get credit cards.
I'd take that bet if we're talking about the SF Bay Area.

I honestly have a hard time with any such figures since they take entire heterogenous regions and distill them down to a single figure that isn't going to hold true for all places. Single figures suggest homogeneity and that couldn't be further from the truth.

The UK is not the US. There are totally different cultural forces at play. I'm half British and all my aunts do most of the housework. My female and male cousins are one generation younger and share homemaking responsibilities with their male/female counterparts. The effect is stronger for those that live in larger cities. I've also live in China and Brazil. The homemaking habits of either country are not in the least bit applicable to the US.

Even within the US, there are big differences between California (where I live now) and North Carolina (where I went to school and college). Many of my classmates that stayed in Raleigh-Durham area have lifestyles where women are likely to handle homemaking responsibilities relative to those that left the region to live in places like SF, NYC and LA.

Here in the Bay Area, it's even more extreme. I wouldn't assume that any of the women I encounter does any more or less housework than any of the men I encounter.

Since all this talk is about the SF Bay Area and regions that aren't the least bit comparable in terms of homemaking activities. I don't even know many tech couples that live together. If they live together, they both handle homemaking activities.

You can't take a bias from somewhere else and blindly apply it to the SF Bay Area.

Furthermore, the modern house is sufficiently automated or simplified that handling home chores is hardly the full time or even part time job it once was. Laundry you can do once a week to every two weeks. You can get a roomba. You have services like homejoy to take care of the heavy duty chores like cleaning the bathrooms, mopping floors and cleaning the kitchen. I'm one of the few people I know that actually handles such chores themselves instead of hiring help to do it. It's not that hard and it's not that time consuming, especially considering that most people can hardly afford more than 300 to 600 square feet of living space per dwelling inhabitant in this city.

At the end of the day, these figures just aren't compelling as a way to describe the housekeeping chores division between men and women that work in tech in Silicon Valley.
> Amex does allow you to carry a balance but their ratio is opposite of others 30/70%.

Ah yes, you're correct; thanks for reminding me. Their (arguably) more well-known cards (Green, Gold, Platinum, and Black) are actually charge cards. I think you're able to explicitly mark a an item you've purchased as something you'd like to pay for over time, but otherwise you are required to pay in full on those cards. The rest are true credit cards, such as Blue and SPG.
Some ideas: it would be nice if you could run it inside a web browser. You could print data-structures, and like in the developer console, you could navigate through data-structures by unfolding them. You could also do console.log(image), and the image would appear inside the browser. Or you could type "admin()", and a menu with buttons would appear below the command prompt. Etcetera...

(Just thinking out loud).
It has a removable back, but no removable battery or expandable storage? I can sort of understand if the back wasn't removable... but on this one, it is. In this price range you can find many other Android phones which do have those features.

Here's one, for example:

https://www.fastcardtech.com/Elephone-P7000-Android-Phone.ht...
Very interesting!

For bash or for POSIX shell? Why not just be POSIX compliant so it works everywhere?
Well, they didn't know, did they.

But I would say that with such good results, they might want to increase it even further. 18 weeks is still rather short.
OxygenOS is being made by the Paranoid Android team. These guys definitely know what they're doing. Expect a more minimal experience with UX optimizations aimed at features users use daily.
It was the same for arcade-oriented NES or SNES games, but not all games are such, both NES and SNES had numerous RPGs, or games with progress (SMB3, DKC) or unlockables (Mario Kart IIRC)
The part that worries me is:

> To whom is the UI accessible? (Professional installer, end user, other.)

What professional installer? Consumer routers are all set up so the user configures it. Making the distinction between the end user and the installer sounds like the way DOCSIS locks the firmware of cable modems so the network operator has complete control over it.

I also wonder if this is the part of the FCC's plan to put data in the white space of other bands. The argument has always been that it's too difficult to coordinate all the different radios to prevent one accidentally transmitting where it isn't supposed to. But sending out frequency maps is easier when you can limit the number of different radios to just a few authorized vendors.
Nothing new. Deep learning is hyped up to 90% these days.
> We should move through source files not by line but by block

Have you ever written in a lisp with the paredit plugin? (for Emacs or Vim)
This concept of translators looks very similar to FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) in Linux, I wonder how it differs, is it easier to write?

And how about the context switch cost? being used to Linux, I'd think that the execution flow has to jump back and forth between kernel and user space to call the translators, and again and again if you chain them?
Exactly. Many (or shall I say most) people don't have the time to figure this out, especially across social networks. So, if it's reasonably priced it'd be definitely worth it, for example before a VC meeting ;).

I believe there is a service which allows you to search and find common interested with the person you're meeting, but this to me is more interesting.

If anyone wants to build this, feel free to ping me, would be happy to give feedback as well as sign up as a beta customer.
You could pick up the Nexus 5. I switched to OPO from Nexus 5 and it had the perfect dimensions. Lightweight and great for one-hand usage. The battery is a bummer though.
Interesting, there is no rule about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Furthermore, precedent would indicate quite a different policy.

But the most interesting part comes here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9362589
where you say I am being insulting by requesting people leave anti-science comments outside of hacker news. Is it then acceptable for you to tell me to leave politics off this site? It seems to me like one of these categories is more appropriate for this site; not because I think science is awesome, but because that seems to be generally how the rest of HN is run.

I think most people here agree science rocks, and while there might be some that hate politics, I don't think in any way that is comparable to the size of people who hate science.

Additionally there's a whole slew of degenerate comments around here that you feel are perfectly acceptable.
I'm completely disappointed with the way phone market evolves. I don't want a cheap phone, I want a phone that works.

I want my phone to have enough memory and processing power to handle its operating system without hiccups. It is ridiculous that even a $700 phone can just start lagging on you. I want my phone to have it all - Bluetooth, WiFi, IrDA, accelerometer, thermometer, barometer, SD card, double SIM, removable battery; all sensors and standard protocols and features that companies use now to segment markets. I don't see a reason for a phone to not to have it all other than vendors trying to extract more money from people by forcing them to choose the least inferior option. But fuck it, I'll pay even $1000+, just create a phone that works.

And I want a tool, not a fitness toy for bored first-worlders. Double, no - triply so for wearables. People ask me why I just bought a Pebble instead of one of those shiny touch-screen "smart"watches. It's simple - I want a tool, not a glorified pedometer. While I think a touchscreen would be really welcome, still, Pebble seems to be the only wearables company that wants to make something useful instead of shiny. But I am yet to find such a comapny for phones themselves.

It's disheartening when you compare what we know we can do with what is actually done because of business reasons.
> Create a collaborative environment
Stanford research studies document that women are more likely to dislike competitive environments compared to men and are more likely to select out of them

That is not how it works. Tech is as pure marketplace of ideas as possible. So while we should all collaborate after the decisions are made, the process before them is by definition adversarial. We must nitpick and deconstruct each other's solutions. Because we programmers cannot work if we don't understand anything in full. To grok it.
I'm sorry but, 400 bucks is cheap now? It's a great phone for the price, don't get me wrong, but I think 400 bucks is a lot of money.
Probably POSIX shell doesn't specify any plugin API.
What is "gender microagression”?
Thanks! I'll be more careful in the future.
Definitely good ideas, but there's some tools that do similar things, and I wouldn't want to tread on the other libraries' boots. I forget the name, but one popular library creates a web server where you can open chrome web tools and do profiling on the fly, which is awesome.

Vantage.js is entirely based on TTY controls, so it wouldn't really work too well in a browser.
I don't know if an arbitrary set of cell formulas could be proven to converge but I do know from experience that it is a useful technique. The trick is in setting the initial conditions; usually there will have to be one or more cells that contain a check for a wildly out of range value that will force the cell value into a reasonable range. Excel, and other spreadsheet programs, have counters that are used to halt circular calculations after an arbitrary limit. This is really no different than using a while loop to compute a value iteratively.
sexism is not something individual men perpetrate against individual women, it is a systemic set of biases built into the fabric of society. women are part of that fabric just as much as men are.
I think almost anyone's email box, if studied attentively, might lead to embarrassing or even illegal revelations. Basically, self censure will be the name of the game. Nobody has privacy any more.
Wrt the pipeline, I have to agree to a large extent. I admit it, I'm biased on a lot of levels, not really against gender, but I will admit I prefer to work with men. That said, doing pre-screening of applications at a job a few years ago opened my eyes a lot.

To be honest, I no longer hold much of any value to a resume... I've seen too many people with higher degrees and years of experience that can't seem to do what it says they can on said resume. Me, I'm particularly bad at white board coding... but I understand the need. That said, I'd rather have a laptop connected to a projector.

I've probably sat in on a couple hundred interviews of other people over the years, and only a handful were of women... For the most part, I appreciate that women tend to be much more accurate on their resumes and in responses as to their skill level. I've never really liked excessive arrogance, and prefer someone more honest. This is just me though.

I also think that efforts to make language and interactions politically correct are a disservice to the goal of letting anyone that wants to work in IT do so. A few months back I witnessed someone pretty much accosted because he dared to ask, "...can any of you guys help me with this?". My extended family is over 80% female... my step father was an only child, but my mom was one of 4 sisters, her mom one of three, and half of the women in my family only had daughters (including my sister). hearing things like "I miss you guys." was said by women, to women, without any gender bias, as a generic phrasing.

There's a difference between being overtly sensitive and issues of bias/discrimination worth bringing up. We're at a point where awareness is increasing, but as a society we've also been heading down a path of so much excessive sensitivity that it's downright abusive towards people who aren't ill-meaning. I hope that a balance is found sooner than later.
What was the base of this drop? Do the vast majority on moms at google stay or leave? If 99.9% of moms before the change stayed then a 50% change in the 0.1% who left is not too informative, but if 80% previously left then it is very significant.
Agreed - I bought the One for CM as well (and stayed with CM, moved to 12.1 later).

Looking at the S6 Edge on my desk here I won't ever buy another device, without seeing official nightly builds from CM first. So no OPT(? OP2?) for me, for now, although I crave for a replacement device to get away from this Samsung POS.