skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear in my comment. I'm not taking a position on what happened in with respect to Brendan Eich in particular. As I wrote, I think figuring out how to balance this is a difficult issue. Given the amount of discussion this instance in particular and similar situations, I think it's far from settled for a lot of people. At least there's not wide agreement.

You bring up good points regarding the training and the costs of replacing people. Those costs are balanced against the value brought to the company, right?

One of the reasons I think it's difficult to discuss as when people start giving examples as to what should be tolerated and what shouldn't, some people are going to think it's absurd, and take issue with the discussion as a whole.

For the sake of argument, I'll try.

Let's say one of the goals of the company is to provide honeymoon packages and the target market is gay couples. An employee makes a donation in support of something like Prop 8. Is there a conflict there? Are they a good fit for the company? If not, should they look for someone else? Perhaps the person shouldn't have been hired in the first place. Should the company be able to make that decision based on knowing the candidate made such a donation? Should the candidate look elsewhere and not consider a position at the company? Can a company's goals change over time? Can a company's goals include those broader than just the product they market?

You mention "let him do his job of managing a technical company". I think there's tension here, as well (independent of the situation at Mozilla). People are not purely rational beings. How people get along in the workplace is important to its overall effectiveness. What's acceptable in one workplace is not going to be acceptable in another, similar to how people have different circles of friends. Should companies be able to hire for fit? Fire for it?

I think there are some very real questions there. And a lot of contentious issues. Please don't assume my answers to all of these questions, either. You're guaranteed to be wrong as I haven't come to a firm conclusion on all of them :)

If toleration of political opinion is a settled issue for you, please share :) Can you think of a political position that should not be tolerated?

The whole "what's legal is not necessarily moral or ethical" is another kettle of fish, which is the point I was making initially. Your point about what's moral for some people and ethical for others points to some agreement on your part, doesn't it? Perhaps one difference is whether or not we agree that a company can or should have an ethical purpose or should reflect the ethics of the people who own the company or work of the company. Or do business for the company, for that matter.

I don't expect you to have answers to all of these questions. I'd be surprised if you did. If you don't think these are valid questions, I'd be interested to hear which ones are invalid and why.
Worryingly, every time I've checked the admin news updates threads on Reddit, users are complaining that the front page changes too slowly. It does only seem to update about once a day.

The comments are seriously addictive; I wish there was a way to hide 90% of them to make it easier to stop reading.
Not to mention the effect on the person being hired: was I hired because I was the best candidate or because some manager wanted their bonus and had to fill a quota?
If it's shallow then wouldn't that imply it has no bearing on whether the person is qualified, and the pools of candidates of a certain race or gender are all equally qualified? If so, then why are diversity quotas a problem?
Galaxy Note 7 recall did not damage Samsung brand in U.S.: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Yeah, I expected this to be about the small risk of devastating impact, should you make an off-colour joke or an offensive complaint on a public view and it goes viral.
What is the message then?

It's right there in The Party's second-favorite slogan:

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

The task of finding similarities to current events in the world (and the U.S. in particular, this past year) is left as an exercise for the reader.
Why "rather than their ability"? Are you suggesting that hiring diverse candidates makes it impossible to hire skilled workers? Why would that be so?
Elixir for Rubyists: Basics of Pattern Matching and Recursion
Indeed. Or the person who wasn't hired. "Was I rejected because I'm white?". Lawsuits aside, that's a great way to build quite a bit of bitterness toward your company.
Sleep Like The Dead also reports that 80% [1] of owners of memory foam mattresses are satisfied with it against 64% [2] of inner spring mattresses.

Still, a very tough decision.

[1] http://www.sleeplikethedead.com/mattressreview-memory-foam.h...
[2] http://www.sleeplikethedead.com/mattress-reviews-coil.html
No problem here, though I haven't submitted anything to the store, but I can't imagine its an issue.

The only thing that isn't working is handoff, but you can get a card that enables that.
> If there was an equally qualified man and woman- choosing the man over the woman because he is a man would be considered sexism.

Bzzt.

The only folks that believe this rubbish believe that all things are equal. This is false.

The cultural framework and machinations have already greatly tilted the field in favor of the male, and in particular the white male.

So if you believe this suddenly is sexism, you may want to check the current sociological landscape.
China’s Driverless Trucks Are Revving Their Engines
Nice post, but there's an awful lot of anthropomorphizing there. As far as I know, viruses don't purposely mutate. Rather, their design has evolved to encourage beneficial (to them anyway) mutations.
Yiwu: The Chinese city where Christmas is made and sold
I know which fire truck I want if my place is burning. The bigger the better. I'll take a 20-foot wide truck please, with extra water. Little trucks are not the same.
You might have an old version; browser history works fine in version 7.

You have to click far less than with asana or jira, so I don't know how you guys have it set up, but it's far from stock. Click to board (or set board as default view), filter, move tickets. That's all there is to it.

It's leagues more efficient to use than jira.
Just because race or gender has no factor in whether a candidate is qualified does not mean that qualified candidates are equally represented among races and/or genders.
I'm not really seeing the link between (I presume racial) homogeneity and clean toilets - there are plenty of developed countries with multicultural societies and progressive social programs.

For example Australia is just as multicultural as the US, has a good public health system, and public toilets are clean and ubiquitous. Maybe not quite as clean as Japanese toilets, but far cleaner than what you'd find in San Francisco.
> Focusing your company on hiring people based on their race and gender, rather than their ability, seems like a horrible idea.

What exactly do you estimate has been happening when your current field of diversity is landlocked at some 90% or more?

Fluke?
And the reverse - did that person get the job because he/she was the most qualified, or because he/she was in a certain class of people?

(And would also make the person who got that job question themself)
Yes, but the GP suggested that weighting based on race or gender is a problem, which implies that qualified candidates are unequally represented. Why would this be so? Is there evidence to support it?

They also suggested that the white percentage needs to be 'boosted', because there are too many asians? Why would that be? What are the correct numbers?
>Proof of stake: the mechanism to secure the coins, uses the coins it's trying to secure. Circular.

I think the term you're looking for is 'bootstrapping'. Once we have enough cryptocurrency via PoW, we can (and only then) implement PoS.
Yet another implementation of Trie in JavaScript
Trump Has Called Climate Change a Chinese Hoax. Beijing Says It Is Anything But
It suddenly occurred to me that the idea of enslaving a class of people under the promise of the "American Dream" is the modern rehash of when the British would put Indian soldiers in the vanguard and promise any who survived immediate promotion to officer rank.

The dream of life-changing remuneration motivated the soldiers to fight, meanwhile the British seldom, if ever, had to pay out.

NOTE: I cannot remember where I heard this and a quick check for a citation failed me. If anyone could verify (perhaps it wasn't the British and Indian...) please do!
finished electronic engineering in 98, just as all the sensible engineers f'd off to south korea and china.

2007 was the second time round.

around the time of

http://www.moddb.com/forum/thread/darpa-plagarism

and

http://www.moddb.com/forum/thread/darpa-plagiarism-2

its now valuable enough capital that i dont technically have to work anymore and can spend my time flying helicopters and enjoying luxury yachts.

Although life isnt exactly that simplistic. It does give me some pleasure to know for certain the outcome was the us and uk loosing the world leadership.

And now you got Trump and May as your top representatives.
The comment is exactly how I feel and I wouldn't change it regardless of a few downvotes. There are plenty of laptops out there far superior to the macbook pro.
It's pretty easy to spoof a non-rooted phone to these apps though, provided you can install Xposed.
Thanks, no. I'll start with "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" as it's the most controversial one (spread of reviews) and if I like it I'll keep going.
It's the largest economic research organization in the US and the #1 clearinghouse for academic work in economics.

Furthermore, just because the paper is on NBER, it doesn't mean the organization did the research. It's just the organization that hosts the paper. If you click through, you can see that the work was done by faculty at Stanford and The University of Michigan.
This is literally just a sorting problem. Diversity quotas imply using a candidate's minority status as part of the sorting key, not the only sorting key. You're still picking a highly qualified candidate, not some random dude off the street. Think about it for five seconds, please :(
You would certainly think so, but clearly you can't reason with the alt-right. The Trump election proves that somewhat handily.
> http://www.pwfg.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/open-air-pisso...

In case anyone wonders about the hose, that's for people of North African or Middle Eastern origin who in addition to or instead of toilet paper, prefer to use water and their (conventionally, left) hand to clean up after full relief--a method which in fact does a far better job than smearing it all over one's arse cheeks.
Or be a bigger bitch and find an internal mailing list that contains the top level / tech department. One email becomes a company-wide email :)
Purely focussing on race and gender does seem like a horrible idea. Do you think race and gender should have any role at all in hiring decisions? There's a difference between "focussing" and taking it into account. Can race and gender be proxies for adding additional perspective? First example that comes to mind is, say, if you're looking to expand your market into new demographics.

Edited to add: If you choose to down vote, I'd appreciate a comment as to why in the interest of communication. Given the amount of discussion that still goes on around these topics, it's far from a settled issue. Understanding how others think about them is important to figuring out some kind of agreement or acceptable solution. If the solution is obvious to you, please share, as it's not obvious to me.
Either the key can be replicated easily without signing, or there is the probability of an overlap between different keys. Either way there is the probability for forgery.
yes, their existing wealth will survive (to allow them to adapt their life to their new condition, probably).
What would be fascinating is if one's down voting were coupled with their identified gender and race.
Agreed. For myself, I find I like working with high-end plywood in my projects (I started making speakers and MAME cabinets, heh, heh).

That means though that the smaller hand tools won't fly. My table saw is what I use 90% of the time.

Orbital sander, drill, the occasional router...

At the same time, I had no need for a planer, joiner, lathe — those bits of large equipment.

I've gotten by without a bandsaw as well (but that would sure be nice form time to time).

But Mathias is right, start small, see what calls you. (Hand drill and circular saw is where I began. I made what I now call "dorm furniture".)
I remember one distinct memory from when I later figured I was 1.5 years old (18 months).

My great grandmother (mom's mom's mom) was on her deathbed. I remember meeting her, with my parents one last time before she passed away. I distinctly remember the tile on the wall was robin's egg blue up to about 5 feet tall. She had such frail skin, it was like tissue paper.. I held her hand knowing that she was nearing the end.

I was later (years later) told that my parents were terrified that I was going to do something and rip her skin. I also found out she stayed alive long enough to see me off. She died by away the next morning.

By all accounts, I shouldn't remember this. But I told them details from what my own parents forgot.
Here is a link to the PDF of that paper. https://www.global-economic-symposium.org/knowledgebase/the-...
Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System [pdf]
Well, the effective altruists believe that ethical problems can be approached using a lot of the techniques outlined in "measuring intangibles in business". That is, through proper analysis and approaching it like a programming/engineering problem.

And according to Aumann's agreement theorem, if your priors are the same (such as preference utilitarianism) two people should agree.

That is to say, I think it can work like that, as long as everyone involved agrees on an ethical framework and decision theory. And that everyone probably should do that.
Can someone give me the layman summary of this. I.e. what day to day problem could this be useful to solve?

Would it be useful for creating a DSL for example?
I don't know about most people, but this works terribly for me. Motivation is huge for my happiness, so I want to do something when I'm in the mood for it.

This means I do keep a list of the things I need to get done, so whenever I've got free time, I take a look at the list and see what I'm most in the mood to do.

Of course, this is the real world -- sometimes something has a firm deadline so you have no choice (so of course you do things you aren't in the mood for).

But I want to run errands when I'm in the mood to go outside. I want to go to them gym when I'm feeling energetic. I want to wash dishes or clean my apartment when my brain is conked out anyways. I want to work on a hobby when I'm feeling creative. I want to read a book when I'm feeling relaxed.

Or at work, I might be in the mood for writing e-mails, or working on a presentation, or chatting about a project, or catching up on reading. They'll all get done eventually, but why not do the one you'll most enjoy at the moment, as long as you can?

And I know myself well enough to know I never have any idea what I'm going to feel when. Will I be feeling energetic or creative or conked out tonight after work? Tomorrow when I wake up? The day after on my lunch break? Who knows!

Scheduling time to do my things is a disaster for my happiness. I'm sure it can work for other people, but it's not for everyone.
> Why "rather than their ability"?

Because that is literally what the article is about. Unless you're under the impression that they previously hired candidates based on something other than ability, I don't see how else you could read this. Companies typically try to hire the most skilled person they can afford for a position. MS is now incentivizing leaders to favor women and certain racial groups because their previous hiring methods didn't result in the desired number of them being hired.

> Are you suggesting that hiring diverse candidates makes it impossible to hire skilled workers? Why would that be so?

You're intentionally twisting words.
There isn't a whole lot of dev. work or innovation going on in the private sector where I live. This was local Government and a couple of Software Development Consultancies (who primarily contract with local Govt.).

They did give the impression that the suspicion when finding no internet presence was generally when vetting younger graduates.. ie. Millenials, and those who they felt were more likely 'trying to hide something' by not using social media..
A professor’s response to an anonymous letter
I work for a fairly large company and they are doing this too (just for gender though). The way I see it you can either have diversity goals or you can be a meritocracy. To be honest Im not 100% sure which is better - I want to say meritocracy but then you have the Enron's that were meant to be the smartest guys in the room. But as a white male I see my career here quite limited due to me not being their preferred demographic.
Yeah, studies have in fact shown that this is the case - in certain problem spaces if your team isn't diverse you can fail to find the correct solution to the problem because you have too few different perspectives on it.

i.e. https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-diversity-can-drive-innovation

On the other hand there have definitely been studies showing negative outcomes from diversity programs, so there's an interesting conflict there.
I don't develop software (not for android, at least). The reasons I need cyanogenmod are

1. Some apps only work on root

2. Stock can have restrictions, like not allowing tethering while cm doesn't have anti features

3. Updates usually far after the manufacturer has abandoned the phone

There's a large community of people using custom roms. Some take it farther than others, but it's definitely not restricted to developers.
Boston officials ask engineers to advise city on flood prevention
Why is it that we believe employers have a duty to employees to provide benefits like health coverage?
Why does including race or gender as a factor in the evaluation of a candidate exclude ability? All hiring is based on a variety of factors, not just 'ability'.

Availability for the position, quantity of experience, leadership skill, willingness to learn, familiarity with the problem space, quality of personal references, interpersonal skills... all that along with 'how good are you at writing code'. What is the huge negative impact of adding 'diversity' to that set of evaluation factors? Are you arguing that adding diversity would actually push the most qualified candidates to the bottom of the pile somehow? If all things are truly equal, adding diversity to the sort has no impact on the ability of qualified candidates to get hired.
Programming has certainly changed my life. Some of the changes are indeed positive. However many of them are not. I wouldn't do anything else because I love it but just like being a bricklayer or truck driver or a police officer there are downsides, risks and cost associated with career.
Quarter of California Lifted Out of Drought by Autumn Rains
To me, this loss of control looks like a very classic addiction pattern. As a suggestion, try to get in touch with a Internet/computer addiction specialist.
The hiring pipeline for non-white non-asian non-male developers is significantly smaller than that "other" pipeline. All other things being equal (i.e. percentage of capable candidates to total candidates), this means that it will be demonstrably harder to fill hiring needs using otherwise identical criteria.

So, if you have a quota (or a bonus) of diverse hires needed, you will either end up lowering your standards or spend a lot more money in order to fill the hiring needs.
True, then you get unqualified people who can't meet your other goals.

The point of this bonus is to encourage executives to recruit and hire from non-traditional sources, such as HBCUs.

And this is Microsoft we're talking about here. If they come across two very qualified candidates, they will hire them both. Not one over the other.
I think it's pretty clear that qualified candidates are not equally represented. There are probably a lot of reasons for this, socioeconomic, educational, etc. But take a look at the SAT scores by race, or chosen academic majors in college. I'm on mobile with bad internet so I can't link to actual figures now.

And my (sarcastic) logic for white percentage boosting is the same as Microsoft's black percentage boosting goal. Asians are significantly over represented at Microsoft (and most of the big tech cos) vs our US population. Microsoft wants to increase the black/Hispanic employee percentage to get more in line with the US distribution. They should also want to do the same with whites, which leaves the Asians set to be decreased significantly.
Local backup using Time Machine to a USB HDD plugged into an AirPort Extreme.

Offsite backup to Backblaze.

Photos are also back up on iCloud (paid) & Google Photos (free).
Who cannot use a Python interpreter to see how the API actually works?
> blogs and rss because they were so geeky and hard to use for normal people

But isn't this fixable? What about a service with a twitter-like UX, but where following people just subscribes to their announced rss-feeds. User profiles would be, at least under the hood, a list of user's own blogs (and the service would also provide twitter-like publishing) and followed rss feeds. You'd have the advantage of supporting most pre-existing blogs, but could also provide a great user friendly experience.
It's good for programmers to be competent. But what
About those who are competent but still cut corners.
I'm all for training unless it becomes a requirement
Which you absolutely need to get a job.
You assume that programmers are asked to ship shit code. I'd argue most shit code gets shipped by programmers who don't know any better.
Sphinx's own documentation makes it vastly easier than `sphinx autogen_html_docs --output /path/to/folder --input /path/to/mymodule_folder` which reads like a really complicated command line of uncertain meaning.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy absolutely changed my life when I found it as a young boy in the local library. Possibly the most read book on my bookshelf!
Put it this way. There's always one person who gets a bit too riled up in the mob.

Maybe they'll say something like "yeah we should kill politician xyz!!!!!"

If it's in public, chances are, more normal people (who happened to also be part of the discussion) will recoil and you can hope that person will realize that they overstepped something and dial back their thoughts/ideas.

In a private space, where the discussion is framed by the founders and newcomers are joined (possibly only after being "vetted") it's probably more likely that after a suggestion like "let's kill xyz" will be escalated with something like "great idea - I know person A who sells guns on the side.

And suddenly that person who possibly could have been talked out of doing something tragic has instead been empowered to act.

I have faith that most of us are not malicious, but are still susceptible to the animal in us and all the instincts that come with that...
I see, that makes sense. If you're certain that qualified candidates are not equally represented, are you certain that lowering the asian percentage and raising the white percentage wouldn't lower the overall skill level of the Microsoft workforce? How do you suggest to counteract this effect?
The V20 is looking good so far. Best phone I have owned yet.
Isn't it illegal to make pay based on a protected class?