skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The functions in your link are not gradient based, not sure how they are applicable to neural networks with backprop.
Perhaps, but Nigeria is a disaster waiting to happen. Their economy is dangerously dependent on crude petroleum exports[0] (second only to Saudi Arabia, I guess). This, along with them having destroyed 95% of their forests[1] in the last few decades, and having an expected population growth from 180→400+ million by 2040, is absolutely unsustainable and will be depressing to watch unfold.

[0] http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/nga/

[1] http://www.focusonforests.org/fcontent/nigeria.htm
And that's a good point too.

As much as culture fit has a really bad reputation in some places (because people seem to associate the term with 'only hires rich white kids with Harvard degrees'),you need a certain amount of it for a business to really stay cohesive and for the employees to want to work together.

I've seen companies where the hiring staff haven't bothered to think whether anyone would actually work well in that specific company and its environment, and the general result has been a heavily divided workforce with very limited communication.
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It's not that either. It could be $0 tomorrow.

For a stupid example, say someone makes electricity stop working. But there's lots of things that could make it less valuable in the future than the value implied by the recent sale.
> You're the one introducing a 50% number, I haven't seen anyone make that assertion.

"Gender gap" is a fancy way of saying "not 50%". More to the point, assumptions are often unstated, as I'm sure you know.

I agree with you insofar as the mechanisms you point out are likely contributers to this so-called gap. Rather, I'm highlighting that -- unpopular though this notion may be in certain circles -- part of this effect is likely to be driven by bottom-up biological factors.

How big is this part? I haven't got a clue.

I'm copying my "tl;dr" from the above comment because it applies here as well: if we're going to have an honest debate, we have to entertain the notion that at least part of the gender gap is the result of "nature", rather than "nurture".
It depends on the value the intern provides vs. the value the intern receives. In general, I think it's better for interns to receive some pay but money is not the only thing of value an internship can (or should) provide.
That is actually the default with the webrtc beamformer (the sample recordings point straight forwards which effectively works out to being between the two microphones).
Wasn't a biotech hub plan B originally? That never panned out.

For reference I've worked in SLU for the better part of a decade, first at Rosetta Biosoftware (ISB is in that building now) and at AWS for the last 8 years.
Yeah, I'm kinda crazy with the thing. I've been considering trying out some stuff at the BMX park in Toronto really early in the morning so I don't get laughed at.
None of that strikes me as an explanation for the obtuse jargon in particular.
I get what you're saying but, I'm thinking of a little simpler version of the why. In this article we have lawmakers who have introduced a tax, and the why is basically their opinion and reason for the introduction. You can say they are right or wrong, but the why of the bills introduction is their beliefs.
No. If you're a white male, that's bad. Anything else is diversity.

They'll come up with some bullshit like "since women aren't the majority of hiring managers, this doesn't count as discrimination" or something. Like they have with racism (where black people in America literally can't be racist).
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It would be interesting to see how the first six months worked out. Did you work on it full time? Do/Did you use the product yourself? (dogfooding). When did you get your first user. What was your marketing strategy.
I'm really happy to see this because I hear people talking about using Go to implement microservices, but fewer mentions of what tools they're using to implement them.

This looks like a good 'toolkit' to ease the development of such a service. There are also some code examples, e.g. to implement authorization with JWT or OAuth2: https://github.com/goadesign/examples/tree/master/security
Neither of the statements you quote are at the page you link to. In fact, I cannot find them anywhere on that site.

You should edit your comment to include links to where those particular quotes can be found.
Something along the lines of:

SELECT id, title
FROM [bigquery-public-data:hacker_news.full_201510]
WHERE title CONTAINS "Ask HN" AND url=""
LIMIT 1000

Output: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12HZ2DqkR_nl380bpxM0B...
Yes you're right, in the case of an adder it's pretty straightforward. It can get complicated in other circuits.
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You're welcome. Feel free to get in touch (I added an email address to my profile). I am happy to share my experience and (rather limited) knowledge.
I hesitate to pick on a post that was probably just a typo or remembering slightly wrong, but I was wondering so I looked it up: the record high for Seattle in January is 67F recorded in 1931. And the record low is zero...Fahrenheit. Yoiks, I'd have to consider moving again if it hit zero. :-)
I don't know if this is true, but intuitively it seems that something is more likely to be ingrained in a culture if there is already a biological basis for the behavior.
AU is 6c at Twilio and 10-14c at AWS. So not that great in Australia yet.
And that also means that at some point (ideally in the very near future), we're just going to have to be OK with the idea that not all women want to be STEM majors. This necessarily and explicitly means that the ratio will never be 50/50.

We're all ok with the idea that men don't really want to be early childhood educators (Pre-k through grade 2). It's a big deal when a guy applies for those jobs, according to teachers I know. Then, of course, come the endless jokes about the pedophile trying to get a job with kids, how he is going to need a female escort when dealing with the kids, etc.
What many don't know about the shuttering of Buell is that it happened while HD was in the process of receiving over a billion in TARP money. This information was kept secret for over a year. Harley had something like ~6000 employees at the time. Buell operated on ~100. It seemed like a ludicrous move; like it had to be political.
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Here is a simple query to get all the titles.

SELECT title FROM [bigquery-public-data:hacker_news.stories]
where title like '%Ask HN%' LIMIT 1000
Yes, Swagger is intended to be a service description in this space. But goa seems to allow you to do your design in their DSL and then generate a Swagger spec from it [1].

[1] http://goa.design/design/swagger/
Is there a transcript of this lecture?
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> and the why is basically their opinion and reason for the introduction.

You mean, their stated rationale for the introduction? Because their actual beliefs and their actual reason for the introduction may be very different, and often is a matter of controversy.
While I agree with you now, I recall being on the edge of tears when my very first internship concluded and my manager told me I'd already gotten paid in knowledge and should not expect cash on top of that. For the longest of times, I assumed the knowledge he was talking about was "managers are assholes".
Here is a working Objective-C SDK for Dropbox API v2: https://github.com/CloudRail/cloudrail-si-ios-sdk
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"Charged by the Spanish army with the task of drawing maps of the Spanish and Portuguese territories in the Río de la Plata region of what is now Paraguay and Brazil"

Río de la Plata was never what is now Paraguay or Brazil, but what is now Argentina and Uruguay. I suspect the river in question must be the Paraná, not the Río de la Plata.
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Yeah, that's a reasonable concern. We haven't yet implemented anything to avoid spam, but that has been on our todo list. We have been thinking about giving users the ability to flag an account after their conversation ends. Maybe implement some sort of penalty system.
More and more it feels that corporations have discovered that with FOSS, those that do the work get to define the standard. And thus they throw manhours upon manhours of churn at whatever market segment they hope to control.
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BUt you are so wrong! Noone does this like that! Look around!

Kidding :)
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This seems like a good place to insert a reference to Fooled by Randomness[1], which focuses on the point that you make in your second item.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Markets-Ince...
Boat (N):

1.) ...

...

5). An odd shaped hole in the water you throw money into.
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How quickly we forget the IE years...
If you're tracking the interviewer gender guess, that's a legal liability to the interviewer. I'd refuse to answer, or always put "unsure" even if I was 100% sure of the gender.
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Thanks for that lenghty reply! Interesting to hear that NOD32 is still the best.
>>"Walmartification"

Amazon is inarguably the new Wal-Mart.

1) Putting local stores and shops out of business

2) Abusing their power as a distributor and treating their suppliers/partners like crap

3) Lower than average salaries for most employees

4) Treating employees terribly

Seriously, there are more similarities than differences.
This would be contracts given in plain text, only possible with very explicit comments for the whole system (and not select functions), if it all, it seems :)
Thanks y'all for mentioning the IEEE as an example. It's a great illustration of how the "exclusive memberships" category works (and doesn't work).

Preface: The "membership in associations that require outstanding achievement" category is, interestingly, one of the hardest to satisfy. Adjudicators are trained to focus on minute details of the organization's criteria for membership, and the extent to which they're governed by "recognized experts" in the field.

This has resulted in some incredible nit-picking by USCIS about how "outstanding" you have to be, to qualify for membership, and who chooses you.

In general, organizations that require only a degree (even an advanced degree), or the payment of dues, don't meet the criterion.

However, the IEEE is an interesting case study, because it has multiple levels of membership. http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/qualifica...

The highest tier, "Fellow," "recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred only by invitation of the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of IEEE’s designated fields of interest."

THAT is exactly what USCIS is looking for, and it definitely meets the criterion.

The second tier, "Senior Member," "is the highest for which application may be made and requires experience reflecting professional maturity." This level requires that "the candidate shall have been in professional practice for at least ten years and shall have shown significant performance over a period of at least five of those years, such performance including one or more of the following: [list of major professional accomplishments]."

I'd argue that this "Senior Member" tier is also an "exclusive membership," because of all the ways it requires "outstanding achievement" of its members at this level.

All the other levels of IEEE membership are non-exclusive, and I wouldn't bother including them, as they would weaken your case.
>Try changing the identity you are to Google,

Delete cache and cookies, block all analytics through a combination of hosts file, adblocker, ghostery, and noscript, and google in private mode. That should help.

>start using the Tor Browser

...and you'll probably join the NSA's ever growing list. Of course, you're probably on the list for reading anything about Tor, Tails, PGP, or other online privacy or security tools, techniques or news[1]. Remember the saying, "you only worry about privacy if you've got something to hide." I think that's how it goes?

[1] http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/interest-privacy-will-ensure-yo...
You are clearly completely incorrect... Like so obviously incorrect I'm almost shocked to see such a comment here on HN.

Making discrimination illegal sends a social signal that the behavior is bad and shouldn't be tolerated. It emboldens those who are slightly anti-discrimination (but part of the majority group) to speak out against it instead of following the herd. The few cases where actual discrimination cases are prosecuted serve to warn others that there are negative consequences to bad behavior. Over time this change in attitude transfers to younger generations that see it as normal. That leads to fewer and fewer racist/biased people in positions of power.

Often institutionalized racism and sexism are enforced by a small group of busybodies... Take Cory Booker's family story where the Real Estate agent tried to enforce a "white only" town but once they bought the house (by using a white stand-in couple) all the neighbors were totally fine with a black family moving in. It took only one bad actor to effectively segregate an entire town. I have a suspicion (but no proof) that this is generally the case - a vocal minority wants to enforce the status quo but the majority would be fine with change.

We can't stop some people from discriminating, but we can declare that we as a society think that is bad behavior and that declaration alone has positive consequences.
I am about to catch a flight, so I am unable to do anything better than skimming the post and paper. But isn't this just the good old feature embeddings coupled with learnt features that have been around for several years by now?
It was the old RAND Santa Monica headquarters, designed by John Williams: http://www.rand.org/pubs/classics/building.html

That particular building was demolished in 2005.
Given his stance, I find it ironic that you'd equate Corbyn with the nuclear option...

As I see it, it doesn't really matter if we agree that EFTA is the moderate brexit option: the primary focus of the Leave campaign was on freedom of movement, and it was clear (even before the referendum, given the situation with Norway and Switzerland) that freedom of movement is an integral part of the single market treaties -- a point reiterated by Merkel and Tusk over the past few days.

So regardless that you and I may prefer for the Leave side to explore the EFTA route, it isn't in their mandate -- they won on a campaign of curbing free movement. Had the "moderate Brexit" been a separate choice on the ballot, they might have had a mandate to go for that option. But right now, nobody really knows how many of the Leave voters voted against free movement, and how many voted "just" against the EU.
There is quite a bit of biotech in the area, isn't there? UW Medicine and Novonordisk, as well as Fred Hutch etc.
Not just culture fit. I hire for a high-end (boutique) software consulting firm. We specialize in scale problems and engineering practice at a level few other firms can claim.

Communication is an absolute, 100% must for senior roles. If you can't competently and thoroughly talk about a technical issue, to non-technical people, and do it with a smile and while making eye contact, we're not going to hire you.

So in a sense, we're filtering out neuro-atypical people for senior roles. But they fit well in engineering roles.

Dehumanizing the interview process will literally make it impossible for us to gauge this skill.
I have an aunt who's a civil engineer. When she started her business, she didn't use her first name--only her first initial--for all her professional communications. She didn't want people who didn't know her to know she was a woman.
You don't like Discovery Park, Washington Park, Volunteer Park, Golden Gardens, Carkeek Park, or Lincoln Park?
Work on larger projects and make mistakes to learn from them.
Chrome specifically runs these processes as duplicate services at the OS level so that when one fails in memory the rest don't.

http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/google-chrome-memory-usage-...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11954988
Urbit being already able to host website, I presume it's possible for me to get a web domain name that will somehow direct to urbit.org and resolve through the planet name to my Urbit?
One important thing to note is that although the far right end appears to narrow, that is not because returns become more certain over very long time ranges, but rather simply due to lack of samples over those very long periods.

What's more indicative of reality is the relatively constant vertical distribution, in a log scale, across any time range up to about 90 years, when the lack of data starts to play a significant role. So, in relative terms, uncertainty remains fairly constant over time. In absolute terms it actually increases. In a sense risk still does decrease over long time horizons, as the chance of earning over any given amount does increase with time; contrary to common belief though, the distribution of possible returns (another possible definition of risk) actually increases with time - or remains roughly constant on a log scale, as mentioned.

(You can find a great many opinions surrounding this by googling "time diversification".)
Well, maybe, though round-the-world sailors and daysailors are kinda apples & oranges. The hours-spent-having-a-blast to hours-of-maintenance ratio on something like a Hobie 16 beach catamaran is ridiculously high
Yeah, we definitely need the full backtraces as we've significantly customized rails so seeing the full call stack is important.

It's not seeing a long backtrace that bothers me, it's the callstack being that deep to begin with. In my experience, it makes debugging slower and more difficult. If you're 30 calls deep, figuring out where you ended up in the wrong branch of a conditional is much easier than when you're 300 calls deep.
Solely because of the time value of money. It might seem great to have profit now, but you really want to maximize your net present value[0]. Focusing on growth early is often the way to do it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_present_value
I don't think there's a need to be sardonic; the full paragraph that I believe you're referencing goes on to talk about other common sights and elements of various Seattle districts; the complaint that some Seattlelites are putting forward isn't "we want a decrepit city" it's they want their decrepit city.

The complaint about the changes Amazon and other companies are making is not about keeping the city in a state of disarray and filthiness, it's about control over the tone and feel of the city, preferring that a single corporate entity not be able to set or dictate the tone/feel to accommodate their interests. Even if there is a net positive as a result, the local residents have no choice in the matter - as was written in the article, those parts of the city are no longer Seattle in some people's minds, it's Amazon's territory.

I'm not condemning or condoning this position - I did live in the Seattle area for about 5 years, and while I loved it, didn't really have the same historical attachment most Seattle folk have, and they love their city, what it was, is, and what it can be.

It's not too difficult to empathize with the position either; suppose, in a rather silly example, that a wealthy business whose owners had a love for early 1900's german expressionism moved to your city (which you feel a connection to); over the course of a few years, a large part of your city begins to take the form of stills from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or from Metropolis. The owners clean up the area very well and bring in new trendy restaurants that meet their aesthetic vision. Even if you agree that the area has been changed for the better in terms of infrastructure and economics, are you really satisfied with having expressionism forced on you?

Again, this isn't to say that feelings should override progress with civil infrastructure improvement, but there's a bit more to the gentrification effect, specifically from the tech world, than just a bunch of grumpy people angry about losing their run down and decrepit land. People have seen what happened with San Francisco and they're scared, and rightfully so; while the standard of living in Seattle is decent, the average wages are no match for SV style tech money.
My mom suffered from CFS for years, so this got my attention. My current best explanation for my mom's illness is, unfortunately, that it was in her head, given her many other mental and emotional problems. But could it be the other way around---that the CFS had a biophysiological origin and was a cause (or at least exacerbater) of the mental problems? Somehow I'd like to believe that as it would make her illness comprehensible and more easily treatable. But maybe this current find won't pan out as an explanation.
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It was from the article, guess you consider quoting the primary source of the article that was posted to be 'gossip'
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Interesting - how can I go about this?
I'm struggling to think of a CPU in the Venn intersection of "fast enough to run SwiftShader without giving the impression of a locked up system" and "does not come with a form of integrated GPU".
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I think this is a great effort and I applaud their efforts. There are also a lot of very good points made in all the comments below, summary:

1. Simply changing the frequency of the voice does not necessarily mask gender, other intonations are still present or make the person sound perhaps gay or otherwise still feminine sounding.

2. There are other socialization issues as well as biological/chemical that make men more aggressive than women.

One of the key things I have learned over the years is an appreciation for the different way that women approach problem solving than men, both technical problem solving as well as organizational. Both have merits, but a blend can be very powerful, a diverse work group has intangible value.

I think rather than attempting to create a male avatar for women this lesson needs to be embraced more widely.
There is an issue wth the images' size: they are very big, which makes the home page hard to read.

https://i.imgur.com/wYLfxXI.png
Accurately and consistently measuring performance of professionals has been all but impossible for the better part of the last century.

I don't know why we keep trying. This is what peer reviews are for.
How would you contrast the culture at Facebook vs. Twitter?
We're using this logstash output plugin at the moment https://github.com/awslabs/logstash-output-amazon_es together with the instance profile based permission it works as it should.

We are considering switching to the normal logstash-output-es plugin together with a AWS v4 auth signing proxy to make the setup more portable/less tied to AWS.
I have a basic signing proxy setup working based on nginx/openresty. If you're interested just let me know.
Clearly a labor of love, I find this a pretty awesome display. I hope the museum of science or a similar organization considers picking this up for permanent exhibition. The thing I like most about it is how it demystifies computers by breaking them down into easy to understand pieces that you can watch.