skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's some actual data on actual performance reviews.

http://fortune.com/2014/08/26/performance-review-gender-bias...

When breaking the reviews down by gender of the person evaluated, 58.9% of the reviews received by men contained critical feedback. 87.9% of the reviews received by women did.

Men are given constructive suggestions. Women are given constructive suggestions – and told to pipe down.

There’s a common perception that women in technology endure personality feedback that their male peers just don’t receive. Words like bossy, abrasive, strident, and aggressive are used to describe women’s behaviors when they lead; words like emotional and irrational describe their behaviors when they object. All of these words show up at least twice in the women’s review text I reviewed, some much more often. Abrasive alone is used 17 times to describe 13 different women. Among these words, only aggressive shows up in men’s reviews at all. It shows up three times, twice with an exhortation to be more of it.

>Maybe white males learn this early on the playground. But anybody can learn this.

You're missing the point. The point is the -exact- same behaviors are seen through a cultural lens.
The next phase of democratisation of porn could be a proliferation of portable VR recorders that will be invented later this century.
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MDMA is supposed to reliably relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's. While it's a temporary relief, I find it disconcerting this is rarely mentioned in the media.

http://mdma.net/misc/ecstasyantipark.html + http://www.ecstasy.org/info/parkinsons.html + http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/722158-Parkinsons-Diseas... + https://news.agedcareguide.com.au/2012/06/05/parkinsons-pati...
Hacked the CIA, you say? http://xkcd.com/932/
The growing role of RFID in health care
Racism isn't really a useful tool, even when you really believe in the racist principle you espouse.

All people believe their racism is justified, all are wrong.
It could be that it's just more and more narrowcasting - "real" meat becomes a hobby product consumed by enthusiasts ala microbrews and cigars. You can't get my kids to eat corned beef and cabbage; I looked forward to it when made by my family.

That's interesting - I hadn't considered the dialogue aspect of it before. That's a good way to look at it.

I suspect the guys in the poorer regions will be teaching us sustainability w.r.t farming. There were no small purple potatoes when I was a kid; I am glad they are there now. That's clearly a craft product. Since I don't have to eat potatoes like an 1820s person from Ireland, it's win-win.
I've been running OpenSSH on Windows servers for years, using Cygwin.
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>I just installed gcc and use openocd to program.

Come on, there's a lot of 'just' there. It's not too bad if you just want to play with the discovery board, but there's very little documentation on how to use the discovery board as a programmer. The official docs for the discovery board don't give you crucial information about jumper settings, and I ended up having to download some bloated Windows tool from STM just to output a suitable .ld script for the STM32F030K6. I'm sure it's not as difficult as it used to be, but it's vastly less straightforward than setting up an AVR toolchain.

To be honest, the page you linked to contains no useful information. I can see that it's some kind of peripheral library. It doesn't look like it does anything in particular that StdPeriph doesn't already do (and 90% of example code uses StdPeripg). Plus the github page warns that the API is unstable. Again, compare to AVR. The arm tools are much better of course, but it's so much harder for a beginner to find answers to simple questions. E.g., can I reset an STM32F0K6 with only two pins using OpenOCD and the STLink programmer on the discovery board? (The answer appears to be yes, but it's not readily googleable.)
Indeed, I find it a big red flag when I hear mention of "efforts" to reduce homogeneity. Frankly, any mention of any "social engineering" terms is a big red flag for me.

The only thing that matters is professionalism, work-ethic, and skillset (and my personal favorites, politeness and personal-space respect).

Age, race, gender, nationality should not matter in any way for hiring decisions. But then again, I fall into the "leave it be" side of human freedom and anti-discrimination efforts, rather than the "let's meddle and try fix it with reverse-effects" camp.
When I moved from the USA to New Zealand in the early 90s I was surprised at how much easier the banking was. Sure it's a much smaller country with only about 25 banks (about six banks have most of the accounts). The key here is that every account number has the same format and is unique across the country, and the banks co-operate to make transfers easy. Paper checks are so rare you can shop for weeks and never see anybody pull out a checkbook. A debit card system (EFTPOS) was live in the 90s and all of the big consumer banks supported it; soon most shops supported it too. If you are using the web, paying somebody in a different bank is as easy as if they were at your bank. If you pay somebody at the same bank as you the money transfer is nearly instant; if they are at a different bank it may take 1-2 days.

It's not fair to compare a country of 318 million with a country of 4.5 million, but a little co-operation between the big players might be a good start. New Zealand's banking co-ordination was the result of an industry consortium, not a government agency.
My father runs a commercial landscaping business. The ethanol laced fuel wreaks havoc on his fleet of 2 cycle engines.
>it is possible for a Type 1+ civilization to build a planet sized...

It may be possible, but we seem to be a very long way away from being able to test such a hypothesis.
In what way is the sandbox not fine grained? I thought the whole idea with entitlements was that access to individual facilities could be controlled separately.
You can but that doesn't mean you should. Most cars go into a "limp mode"- they still run, but nowhere near as well as they should. Additionally the most common way to "detect" low octane fuel is with an engine knock sensor, so any engine that tries to optimize itself instead of using a "limp mode" will have to flirt with knock.
Well said.

That's exactly why it pays to prepare for coding interviews. If companies are not going to be thoughtful about interviewing, candidates can either reject those companies, or prepare for those interviews. My belief is that if more candidates are professionally prepared with those closed-ended questions, this will eventually force companies to be more thoughtful.

[Us: http://interviewkickstart.com]
I couldn't get it to fire, I couldn't move without clicking on the "ship" and dragging it (which didn't always work.)

From a purely design perspective - the bullets are too small, and too fast, and fire too often, and the ship is too wide. Also, it's missing a lot of the mechanics of Space Invaders (in particular, the invaders don't move down when they hit the side of the screen.) I know it's a demo but for me (and it seems for other people) it's barely even playable.
He hasn't switched to natural gas mowers yet? I've seen them everywhere lately.
A mutex held for up to 10ms on each iteration, over 500 iterations, averaging out to 2s doesn't seem surprising at all. In fact, this is quite expected. It would take considerably longer if the random sleep hit 10ms every time.

If you modify the code to release the lock before sleeping...

func (c *Counter) add(ch chan int) {
c.Lock()
tmp := c.Num
c.Unlock()
tmp += 1
time.Sleep(time.Duration(rand.Intn(10)) * time.Millisecond)
c.Lock()
c.Num = tmp
c.Unlock()
ch <- 1
}

...and reacquiring it after, it still finishes in 10ms on my machine, as you'd expect. As you can see, the problem isn't so much that locks are inherently slow in Go, but rather the mutex, as the acqusition function name implies, is doing what it is supposed to do: Lock. What is true is that you have to be careful to use them properly.
Doesn't the higher octane gas also have various additives that claim to make your engine run smoother etc.? I have tried that last time when regular gas was $1.98 and it did seem to make a difference on a long trip - engine felt smoother even when I had forgotten that I had fueled it with the higher octane one.
Culture, culture, culture
There are still annoying bugs as of last week, but the game has a lot more polish than it did in alpha. I think Prison Architect is the sort of game that's worth persevering with, particularly for younger players, because the interdependent requirements of the facility, budget, staff and inmates provide a good backdrop upon which to pose ethical questions about incarceration in general that cannot be matched by other genres of media.
The impression I got from the article is sort of the reaction to not understanding some facet of social justice. It's apparently your job to educate yourself.
articles like these make me feel like a pawn in a JP Morgan Chase's (ie big banks) little game.
I'm surprised the OpenBSD team is accepting the commits

Theo has come a long way since he lost beaucoup bucks by spitting in DARPA's face after taking their money.[1] Now Microsoft and OpenBSD are besties.[2]

There are a few companies that give money to OpenBSD. Far too few, but there are some: http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html

The saddest thing to me is that Yandex is on there. Not because they shouldn't be, but because so many American and Western companies are willing to take, take, take, but are unwilling to give back even a little bit.

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2580728/security0/darpa...
[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/08/microsoft_donates_to...
As someone who knows nothing about these technologies, I have to say the use of abbreviations and acronyms in the post adds a huge barrier to even wanting to unpack the information.

It reminds of me Elon Musk's memo to SpaceX: https://twitter.com/collision/status/602950284864692224

For example...

SONET/SDH and ATM WAN
ATM-to-the-desktop and ATM LANE
MPLS Traffic Engineering
BGP Brownouts

Or...

I was trying to explain the principles of SAN and differences between FC and
FCoE to a networking engineer a while ago. I started with B2B credits in FC and
told him Fibre Channel uses exactly the same approach as hop-by-hop windows
we had in X.25, with the same results…

Of course, I understand that I'm not the target audience, and the author didn't decide on the names for the technologies in the first place, and maybe even that these acronyms are common knowledge for the target audience, but it sure isn't helping information sharing if every sentence requires tons of extra parsing for new acronyms.

The comments section gets even worse...

None of our NOC guys know what ATDT means, even the ones that did come through
tech support. (PSTN is still more reliable than 3G for OOB, assuming you
test it often - anybody got a good automated test script?).

ATDT - priceless ;)) Thanks for bringing this up! Now that I think about that,
I started with ATDP :D... and I'm positive there's AT command set hidden
within every 3G modem (in the good old days you could use it to send SMS
messages).

ATDT is still alive!. Just setup a simple GSM/SMS based solution and used
AT commands to control GSM modem. It's really coll that this has not
changed over the years.

I remember having a little BBS in 1989 using some BBS SW called pirate or
black beard or something like that for my Novell and Token-Ring customers
to dial in and obtain the latest desktop drivers for IPX and IBM NICs etc.
I love the analogies on the older tech and SDN. Especially IntServ...

At a certain point, I'd blame technologists who enjoy feeling smart due to the barriers put up around the knowledge they've worked hard to earn, and who chastise newcomers for not doing tons of work to slog through poorly communicated concepts, instead of newcomers who would probably love to learn more and don't know where to start.

We should communicate more clearly so that it's easy to share knowledge.
It's very poorly documented compared to AVR. It's not even immediately clear from googling what the preferred tools are. Try googling "open source arm cortex m0 toolchain".
I run my Yamaha on 98 (Australia) whenever it is available, but having looked, it would suffer from the same deformations. Good heads up!
Actually I think a self driving car might be better at driving on slippery roads than most humans. Detect any wheel slip, vehicle yaw, etc. and immediately take action. Not to mention being better at simple rules like 'when temp is below freezing lower speed by 10 mph'.
What valuable business skills are you gonna learn working at that fast-food establishment?
The analogy to a computer is a good one. A computer may have lots of software. Installed, but only some of it is used. Sometimes the software interacts with each other.
A bit off topic, but what theme and color scheme are you using in your Sublime Text screenshot?
I have a psychological model for people buying premium gas when they don't need it, that fits in with the demand for it being quite price-elastic.

Most people don't understand cars very well, but just about everyone understands that they are complicated and they need maintenance. So there's always an anxiety that the car is going to break. I think the way we deal with limited agency in an uncertain environment is to just "do what we can". So when there's an unexpected windfall at the pump (cheap gas), the maintenance-anxiety heuristic says "apply it to maintenance" and people buy premium gas. Because that's good for the car, right? And now they've "done something", so the anxiety is reduced.

Of course, it doesn't actually have any mechanical benefits, but this isn't a mechanical issue.
I've been wondering how much "pay-at-the-pump" card machines affect sales of incidentals. If a fraction of customers are going inside and being exposed to the snacks, how's that work out?
I believe he is referring to people who got there bachelors in a different major, and then got their masters in CS.
It's a big firehose, but McDsyan-Spohn "ATM Theory and Applications" (ISBN-13: 978-0070453463) from 1998 covers the general principles extremely well. There have obviously been entire technologies that came and went since, but the first few chapters do a remarkable job of drawing up all the evolutionary pressures.

Since it's so old, it's also pretty cheap.
Great to know, thanks for mentioning it.
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Is Google scanning/reading emails as to do advertising with Enterprise customers? If so, I'd imagine a lot of companies have qualms with that practice.
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Yeah I don't think this is an argument the aerospace industry can win. To whatever degree SV lacks patience, the airplane industry has the opposite problem. Tolerance of needless complexity leads to expensive systems that aren't necessarily any better for it. There's a real sense that design has absolutely no place and every problem can be engineered around, even if it takes two more layers of parts to achieve it.

Not only that, they have a bad habit of adopting disproven solutions simply because they 'are mature'.

That is I believe Musk's premise with his rocketry division. It couldn't possibly be this complicated, can it? I hope he turns out to be right. But if he is, gonna be a lot of smug engineers having to take early retirement.
Those are called addpacks, they are unrelated to the octane level. Chevron Techron, Shell V-Power, etc.
I do the same thing. There really isn't any point escalating the situation when someone is clearly being out of line and unfairly interrupting you. It almost always devolves into a shouting match. And then drama ensues, and someone has to mediate to resolve, and so on, etc.

I've also seen others that react in different ways. Some of them react a little too-hastily to being interrupted with some sort of hostile comment (even after doing it others), and don't adapt to the situation. There are some discussions that are lively and very back and forth.

Really, at the end of the day we're all just there to solve problems with good solutions. If you have a good idea, as long as no one is actively blocking/ignoring it, it needs to be considered.
The author's email address is in his HN profile (one click away). If you truely wanted to help the author you could have done it in private. I agree with the other users who replied.
Here it is: [1]

For now it has to be installed manually. I'll submit it to Package Control and create an Atom version soon.

[1] https://github.com/MagicStack/Chromodynamics
My latest find: if you right-click a variable that was output in the developer console, you can choose "Create Global Variable" to access it. It's super-useful combined with lodash to inspect large arrays of elements, for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean

Authors often do get noticeably worse after becoming famous, though. Take the reasonably well-known example of Robert Jordan, who wrote a series of 5 great books followed by 5 lackluster books. It's hard to say he just got lucky five times in a row.

And you can look at the same question another way by reading self-published (therefore, unedited) books -- I used to be quite open to reading those; bitter experience has taught me not to bother.
Here's the founder's website if anyone else was curious like me: http://khalsall.com/
Much thanks!
Is the UI theme Soda-Reloaded?
I recently interviewed at Facebook and they seem to want the shoot from the hip type person who is extremely confident (borderline arrogant) about their answers. Theh drill and drill amd expect rapid fire responses.
Just love that Bezos quote: "that's not the amazon that i know" ... hmm gee uthink? billionaire founder has a different experience, wow who'd a thought?

glassdoor has spelled this out for a long time but its amusing that amazon doesn't admit they'll change.

my thinking is: a company that relishes in frugality = your machine your monitors and your coffee will suck, you will never get promoted, stack rank Plus all this bs about suing via nda and indebtedness around relo assistance etc sounds like the suck .. amazon is downright hostile
Psssht, it's not even half a Jovian year. What's the big deal.
I suspect there are a lot more people buying lower than recommended octane than there are buying higher.
Same here. I'm going to expand on this quickly. Ethanol combines easily with water, unlike gasoline; this is true of even your standard run of the mill 90/10 mix of gas/ethanol not just the E85.

So you end up putting fuel into your engine that contains higher volumes of water that is released into the engine internals. This causes rust and gums up carburetors. This is especially hard on small engines; lawn mowers, weed trimmers, and motorcycles. It's not good for your cars either and this has zero relation to octane.
> Higher octane is for high compression engines

Generally yes: but it's not a requirement. For example, Mazda's Skyactiv engines run at 13:1 (unusually high compression) and consume regular gas.
One can have a consistent set of ethics in which imaginary property does not exist.

For example, my personal opinion is that it is unethical to directly support companies working to put the Internet genie back in the bottle, especially for mere convenience.
You're one flaky knock sensor away from a very expensive repair if your car has a knock sensor. Knocking, aka uncontrolled (usually premature) detonation can be detected but by then it has already happened and with aluminum pistons it doesn't take much to blow a hole in them depending on when in the cycle the fuel detonates. The higher the compression ratio of the engine the earlier in the cycle this would happen the bigger the chance of a very expensive repair (if not a write-off...).

Don't use a lower octane than what your manufacturer recommends, that compensation is there as a safety precaution, not as a means to allow you to shift the standard octane your engine really needs.

Note that running your engine on fuel with lower octane number than what your manufacturer recommends is also a way to void your warranty (and since the damage is quite specific and the evidence is right in your tank there is a very good chance that will kick in).
Actually would be a lot quieter, since the turbine wouldn't have a high velocity exhaust output. And the fans are fairly quiet.

One real advantage would be quick throttle response. Gas turbines are slow to ramp up output power which is a real problem when dealing with wind shear on takeoff and landing. A 30 knot wind shear turns your 140 knots air speed turns into 110 knots airspeed. An electric fan's response would be very fast, probably faster than a prop plane.
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A negative view of PhD holders seems to be confined to the Valley. I am far removed from the Valley and all the PhDs I work with are some of the more brilliant people you'd ever meet. Great at their job. Extremely innovative.

And yes I call them Dr. So-and-so and no they didn't insist I call them that or anything. I just automatically address them with their title as a sign of respect. If they say "oh call me John" or whatever then I'd adjust accordingly.
Some people just can't learn the programming part.

I studied (and helped with labs a few times) two of these. Mathematics and theory was fine, but the rest not. Weird, I wouldn't have believed it was possible after years of university, if I hadn't seen it.

One became a teacher, I don't know about the other. He might have become a quite good entrepreneur. Seriously.

The point is, it is possible one of these are the next person with a theory heavy background you interview... (But ok, we all know that too well even with little experience of hiring. :-( )
Not to mention the wiring. How much wire and shielding do you need to keep that sort of current safely contained? Especially since the gas tanks are in the wings too?
The db is covered and I was calling crypt with blowfish but this is cleaner. It shall be switched :)

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'Blending' is used to get you something between two octane values, not as a way to only have a single tank, in order to blend you still need two tanks (and a pump suitable to do the mixing).

Source: I'm a former gas station owner.
I too have never heard of a broker in North America for rentals, but having lived in Chile and Australia, brokers run the markets there, and are universally hated for being lazy and not worth the money they take.
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Generalizations regarding the theoretical role of ethics in society are easy to offer. What is far more difficult is forging one's way in a world that systematically shifts the definition of ethics in a manner that privileges a few at one's own expense.

I sincerely hope that your pronouncements regarding the ethics of those less fortunate are met in vigor with your efforts to right their systematic disenfranchisement.
> I understand that I'm not the target audience,

Yes, that's it in a nutshell. People who work in the same field/sub-field will use jargon to enhance/shorten communication. This has been the case for at least several thousand years.

If you're out to rid the world of jargon, you've got quite a battle ahead of you.
"The fundamental element of magic is the ability to manifest or sublimate things, whether they’re emotions, states of being, people, or the Statue of Liberty. Magic is the art of making things appear or disappear, out of nowhere or into the void.

This magic, the lady-in-a-box, rabbit-in-a-hat form of magic, is predicated on two questions: where did she go? And how did we get here? When you’re a baby, things are constantly appearing out of fucking nowhere and vanishing with no hope of return, until at some point you learn pattern recognition. But let’s not forget that on some level believing that the sun
will rise again is rooted in magical thinking."
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