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Because product managers struggle to comprehensively understand value add and have instead replaced stating business goals and value add with bullying based micro managing tactics like counting lines of code and conflating other such arbitrary metrics related to code with having a 1:1 ratio of accomplishing the goal and do not respect the thought of troubleshooting, architecture design (unless you take another two days to turn it into a diagram presuming it needs to be consumed by some other party) and finding an elegant way to implement code to accomplish the goal as work because they can't see it, and they can't understand it because they are too busy collecting visual days to prove they are properly micromanaging you to take the time to learn the challenges inherent to the architecture and challenge at hand.

Does that help?

But of course if a female CEO works the system and exploits it the way men does she is highlighted online for lacking morals and ethics even though plenty of men run businesses the same way all the time and are either not even noticed for doing it or otherwise glorified.

Do you have any data at all to show that the bar is much lower? Can you please provide it.

Not every school has AP classes. In fact there's a direct correlation with AP classes existing in schools in neighborhoods where income is higher.

This is why MIT got rid of considering Subject II tests because even on top of already relatively wealthy select schools that offer AP classes only a select few of those offer classes that prep you for subject II test.

It's essentially exponentiating the amount of opportunities rich kids have to slice themselves within percents different from other rich kids at their school but overall entirely leaves behind students who weren't lucky enough to born in a neighborhood with a tax bracket that determines the schools funding.

I guess I'm saying no to your attempt to distract from the fact that you can pay alot of money to pass these tests in addition to not having proof there is esoteric terminology people growing up on poverty despite being good students might not be exposed to.

This would be obvious to you if you've ever taken the SATs.

What point are you trying to make? You should make it. Right now you are knitpicking. Even if you are right only it was that one instance it sets precedent for economic power structures graduating students inherit in the workforce for years to come.

I just don't understand your prioritization of feedback which seems to be entirely focused on distracting from the comment.

No.

https://www.clearchoiceprep.com/sat-act-prep-blog/the-most-i...

And sorry for another comment. Your dismissive comments were so loaded there's alot to unpack here to properly address it instead of just letting you get away with this passively:

I never said I had to use the app or wanted to use it. I have been reading hacker news since 2010 and I wouldn't hesitate to say I've read it atleast everyday and used to be mildly addicted to it. I'm very familiar with the demographics of HN and that it is male dominated in addition to some large scale misogyny that exists on the site (i.e. there are open incel groups who chat in comments here often for example/no presumptions being made on my end, they are self proclaimed on the site) and I was highlighting that the creator might want to advertise in places with a more diverse demographic than HN.

I've been an engineer since 2012 and started college in Electrical Engineering in 2008 and went to a school that was 23% female and 6% female in my engineering department (as opposed to the tech school overall) and I can't assume you these statistics donot lend themselves well to an environment where it is easy for women to casually make friends with guys, if anything I go out of my way to live in urban areas where I can have a more diverse set if friends, whether it be males who are more likely to view me as a friend than the first girl they've interacted with in months, or just females or just people who are not so dismissive of women in general, and I was letting the creator know I would not go out of my way to reintroduce myself to a male dominated community to make casual friends with people, and this isn't the best place to bootstrap a userbase where the question set leans towards stacking the already majority make population on here with a set of questions that can easily exploit emotional vulnerabilities of women.

It's not that women can't be crappy as well, it's that crime statistics also lend themselves in the direction of being male dominated, not to mention just not being a very inviting place for females.

If the goal is to make friends, I'd rather do so in an environment that is closer to 50/50 ratio which for me so far in life has basically been anywhere I can get outside of my industry to have friends both make and female, and I'm much better off for it.

Your comments as presumatory. I never felt forced to use it, I was just saying I wouldn't want to and why. To have the attitude of saying oh if you don't like the all white male environment then get out, noone said you had to be here is a very white male hacker news thing to say, but tell me more how there's no women in STEM because of them and not because of that kind of piss poor attitude you have there.

Thank you so much for acknowledging my feedback. I strongly encourage you to reach out to security consulting firms and get multiple blind reviews to vet the work. Video chat apps are tricky but they can be improved for the betterment of everyone. They are expensive but cheaper than lawsuits with the government. The least you can do here is educate yourself on the legal risk the owner of the company assumes with this technology and work on identity verification of some sort.

And I'm really excited to see the demographic using your app and I'm really glad I can help. What you are doing is great, and great leaders surround themselves with diverse people who have constructive feedback, so it's great to see that quality in you. I'm excited to see where this goes.

The FBI wouldnt call it fear as much as they would call it multiple departments dedicated to busting child predators and other predatory behavior which is something the FBI works with almost every major video app to regulate, and take very seriously.

Your comments are not demeaning to me, they are demeaning to the severity of this issue worldwide.

I will forgive your comments and pure ignorance because I'm sure if you were educated on this topic at all in any kind of statistics based context you would have to be majorly sexist in addition to wrong.

Even zoom has recently used the excuse that they will not end to end encrypt video sessions for non paying users, because paying for it requires validation of identity through certain forms of payment and verification which can be tracked by law enforcement, because unverified accounts are the primary venue for the predatory behavior I speak of.

The previous CISO of Facebook who now works with Zoom on this very issue worked with the government to help catch child predators on Facebook as well and currently is a Professor at Stanford researching safety of specifically these types of chat apps. I'm quite sure these questions would be on the list of recommendations the FBI would encourage you not to ask, but if you feel so strongly I'm wrong about this I would encourage you to reach out to the world leaders on cybersecurity and the FBI and NSA on global efforts to reduce the kind of predatory behavior these questions invites.

I'm going to be ignorant and presumatory assume you're a man, and also ask you to please educate yourself on this topic before/if you have children. You'll be a much better parent.

You've obviously never been to a private boarding school where tuition is $40k/year in highschool and in addition to this their parents paid for $5000 classes where the teachers helped them create calculator programs on SAT approved calculators to help solve problems faster and do timed exam grades.

I grew up on welfare until middle school years, made straight A's in a poorly ranked public school applied to every boarding school on the east coast because where I come from those schools are legitmately better (unlike in the northeast where many public schools are legit and fostered by small towns full of rich white people who drive to Manhattan for work everyday) and while I appreciate the people who paid for me to go to boarding school, I still got rejected from a Stanford summer school robotics program despite being qualified because I couldn't pay $10k in cash for it while a peer of mine driving a Porsche to school complained his parents were forcing him to go.

I still couldn't afford the SAT classes many of my peers took after school on campus so while yes my life is measurably better and you are correct money helps pad resumes outside of GPA, you are also incorrect it doesn't also help pad SAT scores.

This has been proven time and time again like a few years ago when sailing terminology was removed from reading comprehension because it was supposed to be derived from the context. Most kids who grew up in the Bronx don't have context for sailing terminology regardless of how well read they might be. This is just one example of money aside, how it is false to believe the tests are any less biased inducing than anything else that might go into a students application.

It's amazing to me ivy league universities have done this in the face of uncertainty and extreme anxiety now that we have evidence that elongated sustained anxiety and chaos in one's life can reduce someone's IQ, I just didn't think they would be so blatantly obvious to do if when something globally devastating enough happened to be distracting to even rich white people as well, when students coming from poverty are dealing with distractions that are often worse regardless.

Sometimes it truly takes a rich white person to experience something before they believe it can happen to anybody else, and then they make a decision everyone else benefits from. Here's to new beginnings.

I'm curious how well rich white students who have never been exposed to chaos and uncertainty of this magnitude will fair in comparison to incoming students who have been dealing with it their whole life, a much better IMHO indicator for success in this "uncertain" times.

I agree. As a woman working as a major minority in STEM as a software developer, and seeing this being advertised on HN means I'll probably be paired with a male if I used it.

Not only are these not appropriate, it's the kind of information you could give to a dangerous man to give them all the cards to know your deepest weaknesses and manipulate you. That trust has to be earned, and it turns vulnerable people into potential targets.

It almost makes me feel like you've never considered how awkward these questions could be for anyone but particularly off putting to any woman whose parents taught them how to be safe when talking to strangers online since they were little girls.

Like the AI app thing where two young men advertised and bragged you could snap someone's pictures and get their asl is an absolutely horrifying prospect for any women to consider having available to anyone on the streets.

Sometimes these types of concepts seem so poorly thought out and ignorant especially in light of the goals being centered around the deep and social nature of human beings, I have to often attirbute this to childish ignorance in my head and remember the feds have another thing they need to regulate on the list. Being inclusive and considering abused of people who are not white males in power is literally the center of attention for most of the world right now. Take it to heart in your everyday life.

There are plenty of other things you can discuss, even concept building ideas that don't center around personal ancedotes.

Hi so this is illegal. Call the FBI. Extortion and coercion are felonies in all 50 states.

I'm a Democrat, and I think Trump pulling politics at a time like this is unacceptable.

However I grew up in the south and when I came to the northeast for college I had no idea how many northeasterners not only thought Republicans we're all dumb but also that the south should separate from the union and often heard the argument of how much money In a dollar per dollar of welfare goes to republican states, as a way to backfire on Republicans who don't believe there should be welfare.

It seems like this is a very specific dig right back at Democrats on this long standing argument.

Regardless, it's frustrating to know neither side is going to budge on their stances and either side will continue to badger and demonize the other not only during this time but always.

Though I stand by my personal ethics, I don't believe Democrats are blameless all of the time or that alienating each side is going to result in any progress in this country, only more radical responses from each side, of which Trump being elected is just one IMHO in a series of escalations fueled by spite for the other side.

It's easier to compare the underlying unit prices of the computer resources needed. Even if the same k8s model is implemented off on multiple platforms, each of the platforms have their own features inherent or ad hoc that are subject to change at any time via internal releases.

Regardless, every cloud host company is offering their own flavoring of a k8s engine which biases their open source sdks to build the networks implementing it on your own towards having various edge cases broken or not implemented at all.

The time and resources it takes to then be sure you've implemented an opensource network and underlying compute resource model as an exact equivalent for calibrated comparison is actually where the large cost of this lies, and that output of that comparison is bound to be different model by model which is designed to be unique per company design.

Tldr the real cost is the amount of time it would take to do this per cloud implementation when the results aren't scalable to other architectural implementations and varying workloads they will support.

I was given the task of doing this with effectively unlimited funds across aws, Google cloud platform and azure with a platform to support one million uses after three months of getting terraform to roll out one piece of it for google which intentionally made it lacking to bias you towards using GKE, we ended up with one implementation of GKE with failover in multiple zones and increasing feature lock-in but only security as a feature lock-in after a year, so we also had to pay for security training pentests and reviews.

The cost of all of this is not likely to provide more benefit the final comparison minus these resource ramp up costs would entail.

As someone who went to a boarding school on scholarhsip after moving from a bad public highschool and couldn't afford the $1600 SAT prep classes that preprogrammed in solvers in your calculator, I agree with you in general and deeply resonate with this argument.

However, my initial thought was that MIT maybe has so many perfect scores it's useful at this point and not really a differentiating factor.

For example they can afford to have a perfect 1:1 ratio of men to women for a tech school and I don't think they lower their standards for that.

On the contrary, I went to a highly ranked engineering school of the same limitations (limited other genres of degrees) and it was 30% females overall roughly, but actually in general it was more like 6%-8% females in the actual engineering degrees.

I worked in the admissions office one summer and was hard pressed to find a B on any Q4 report cards which was one of my summer tasks to ensure no early admission students entirely flunked out. I got to see other things like scores and in general I have to say even at a lesser well ranked school, and reading the averages of every incoming class, my notion is not that there is a difference between the scores of smart hard working lower middle class vs the upper rich as much as there is an over emphasis on the exam as a whole.

I agree objective results are very important, and I don't have an answer for a way to calibrate across schools. I think AP exam scores are better indicators but not all schools have AB or IB classes, etc.

It is really at the end of the day like most things about your commitment and ability to get something done regardless of how tangential you think it is to your core goals or study. In real life it is the same way there are lots of silly things people have to do all the time to get where they want to be and the weeding out is those who don't stop trying vs those who find a comfortable spot and stay there and blame everyone else for not having the right priorities.

Regardless, I still fill like even amongst high ranking SAT scorers, students are good at acing them now. My theory though I'm not confident is true is that studying for them has been systemized so much that it is actually difficult for MIT to tell above a certain threshold of score what the bell curve is.

This is all with the exception we need to realize that the SAT is not objective or perfect (the top comment this one is in response to) it was only less than five yrs ago they pulled sailing terminology from the reading and vocabulary portions after having to admit children growing up in the Bronx indeed might not have casually sailed not had sailing related literature in their curriculums, making this a bit unreasonable even for "guessing from context".

On this note about old wives tales, I'm a woman. I've tried every medicine, multiple birth controls, diets, workout and stretch routines to help with period cramps and pain, and I get to try a method and then take what I think helps and adapt for a better test every month until I run out of eggs and here is the bottom line for me at 30 having optimised alot.

Yes drinking water, stretching/really being flexible and fit helps and at the very least needs to start a few days before...

Salmon avocado, iron like steak help with body recovery.

Epsom salt baths help with the cramps as a natural muscle relaxant so does ibuprofen...

It's actually ginger juice, that makes 90% of the pain go away. I bought a $99 breville juicer 8 years ago and lasted me as long. Just got a new one. Three days before I juice ginger with other things

Maybe apple, celery, lemon to help it go down.

Every time I go to the store to get it the cashier's comment they have never seen anyone buy so much ginger in their life, and if it's a woman I tell them my secret. I buy pounds of it and drink probably a quarter gallon the week before.

If you are a woman or have a loved one who suffers from severe period pain, this does amazing things.

That being said, have no idea about respiratory stuff.

An actual Coronavirus story:

I did hear the scientists looking into this said bodies are overreacting into respiratory failure, so maybe it is like many others illnesses potentially about suppressing an extreme over reactionaey autoimmune response.

Someone in my industry got it. 45yr old smoker had to be induced into a coma to avoid acute respiratory failure a couple of weeks ago, after being diagnosed with Coronavirus.

I think the public needs to stress more vulnerable smokers are regardless of age to Coronavirus. Smoking is much more common in China and Italy.

I enjoy Kubernetes because it weeds me out from all the people who aren't used to actually having to read docs to understand the layered concepts of k8s as a networking model, of which there can be multiple opensource Implementations.

The opsys bros I know who are used to hacking together docker-composes that are more insecure than your grandmother's internet explorer browser in 30 seconds, slapping a json parsing logger on it and calling themselves geniuses fail miserably when they are left to design construct and optimise secure kubernetes clusters and elegantly port a variety of full stack web applications in a cost efficient manner.

It requires planning and design. Just because you haven't invested hundreds of hours into reading the docs and testing, and building k8s clusters for which the docs are incredibly useful doesn't mean you have to attack the verbage, just read the docs. If you can't do that then maybe your best investing your criticism into a domain of expertise you're actually knowledgeable and/or experienced in.

Also "kind" represents the type of k8s object, like service or deployment. It's not ambiguous at all, it just requires reading to the third paragraph of "general Kubernetes concepts" in the Kubernetes docs to understand it.

I enjoy Kubernetes because it weeds me out from all the people who aren't used to actually having to read docs to understand the layered concepts of k8s as a networking model, of which there can me multiple opensource Implementations.

The opsys bros I know who are used to hacking together docker-composes that are more insecure than your grandmother's internet explorer browser in 30 seconds and calling themselves geniuses fail miserably when they are left to design construct and optimise secure kubernetes clusters and elegantly port a variety of full stack web applications in a coat efficient manner.

It requires planning and design. Just because you haven't invested hundreds of hours into reading the docs.and testing, and building k8s clusters for which the docs are incredibly useful...

Also "kind" represents the type of k8s object, like service or deployment. It's not ambiguous at all, it just requires reading to the third paragraph of "general Kubernetes concepts" in the Kubernetes docs to understand it.

Ok but ingress controllers don't talk to the kube-controller-manager though, so I wouldn't lump them in as a standard object. In fact k8s doesn't even have a standard ingress controller object.

Does his article provide some value the official k8s docs or k8s quickstart tutorial doesn't?

One thing about building deploying and maintain k8s clusters from scratch over the past two years is the noise from these tutorials that effectively repeat the docs to give the author of the medium post street cred to get a better devops jobs, but as far as value add for.devops engineers deploying and dealing with edge cases and mvp case (Lua plugins for rate throttling in ingress controllers for example if you want more control than a gcp load balancer exposing ips to the public for which vpc peering native clusters didn't exist in GCP until late 2018) it is annoying self congratulatory noise that leave new devops engineers stray when they might be better off with the off with the original documentation.

If you have a cool short tutorial on how to iterate on an MVP or solve a security default setting for secure that might be helpful but I rarely see it.

A good example of this is how many articles I saw about how simple it is to share pvcs across an nfs server. 12 "senior level" devops engineers wrote about this and every single one left out the nfs storage class enablement on the gcp platform, a beta security feature presumably some other devops engineer who does more work and received less credit probably enable for them but would leave every devops engineer following their tutorials left stranded.

I used to think I was just a newb devops engineers but when I read devops posts like this I wonder if should just copy and past existing documentation, install some helm tarts via tiller with no rbacs in GUI dashboards enabled, call the data set "AI" and apply for a senior level position.

Sorry to go off on this post but there is no reason to have an 8min intro of the 5min intro on the k8s docs themselves which hyperlink any concept to drill down into with an interactive tutorial in browser that requires no local setup unless you truly desire to use minikube.

I am all for devops tutorials, but useful ones, of which I have barely found any during my two years of teaching myself how to deploy clusters from the ground up.

Oh. I thought you were going to say hurting the electronics industry as well.

This is what google okay is for. Trust me.

Blockstack was also awarded equity. docs.blockstack.com