skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They created this culture where people came from certain schools and certain backgrounds. That is a very, very hard culture to change.

What kind of 'background'? Economic? Social? Education? They're inter-related, yes, but for actionable initiatives to take place, the lack of diversity along these dimensions have to be isolated, acknowledged, and prioritized. Otherwise, it's just recasting the problem and expecting companies to spit out answers. If Engineering schools became more diverse, I have no doubt there will be more diversity of engineers in the workforce, too.

In the case of these particular companies having a lack of diversity, I think it is inherently the 'culture' that has been formed, but more so about the network. Network and compound effects makes it especially harder for these companies to course correct. A person's set of friend is not a random sample. Potentially, people are more likely to form friendships with people from their own race / culture. This is not to say they are discriminating or racist. An H1B worker who went to school in Asia will likely have a greater percentage of Asian friends, and by transitivity refer more Asian people. So again, if made the earlier stages in the funnel, such as education, more diverse, maybe people will have a more diverse set of friends, in the aggregate, and refer a more diverse set of friends to their employer, in the aggregate.
Even in summer in California solar peaks mid-day while demand peaks in early evening. Nevertheless, it appears that the additional costs and efficiency loss from cycling fossil plants is dwarfed by the fuel-consumption savings, at least up to modest (33%) penetration of solar/wind: https://www1.eere.energy.gov/wind/pdfs/55588.pdf

In this study, we found that up to 33% of wind and solar energy penetration increases annual cycling costs by $35–$157
million in the West. From the perspective of the average fossil-fueled plant, 33% wind and solar penetration causes cycling costs to increase by $0.47–$1.28/MWh, compared to total fuel and variable operations and maintenance (VOM) costs of $27–$28/MWh. The impact of 33% wind and solar penetration on system operations is to increase cycling costs but also to
displace annual fuel costs by approximately $7 billion.

The modeling assumptions in that study look pretty reasonable to me. The one significant change I'd make is plugging in a lower natural gas price, e.g. the $3.66/MMBtu from Henry Hub a week ago, compared to $4.60 assumed in the study. Even with that change it looks like fuel savings dwarf cycling costs.
Best thing to do is to ask an attorney that specializes in your business area.
Summary of pro death arguments re: longevity progress

Fairness
Only rich people will get it. (no tech has ever done this.)
Better to give money to the poor than science. (family,city,state,nation, has proven local investment beats foreign.)

Bad for society
Dead people make more room for new, other people. (consider going first.)
Run out of resources (live people discover/extract/renew better than dead or nonexistant)
Overpopulation (colonize the seas, solar system, or have a war.)
Stop having kids
Worse wars (nukes are more dangerous than having your first 220 year old person in 2136)
Dictators never die (they die all the time and rarely of age)

Bad for individual
You'll get bored. (your memory isn't that good, or your boredom isn't age related)
You'll have to watch your loved ones die. (so you prefer they watch you?)
You'll live forever in a terrible state. (longevity requires robustness.)
Against gods will (not if he disallows suicide, then it is required.)

More people make more progress faster. I'm glad my parents didn't decide the world would be prettier or work better without me in it. Einstein, Bell, Tesla, Da Vinci etc, still alive and productive would be nice. You're literally asking for others to die out of your fear. The burden should be higher. Have courage. If living longer sucks, we'll know 100 years from now, and decide then. First 220 year old in 2136 unless you know how to make one faster than 1 year per year? And that's if you added 120 years to a 100 year old person starting TODAY.

Man up, save your family, save yourself.

Disclaimer: I'm half way done with a book on this topic. Mail me if you're interested. Scivive on the most popular email service.

P.S. Curing aging isn't immortality. You die at 600 on average by accident, and if the parade of imaginary horribles comes true, even earlier.
To some extent, yes. The potential excitement and terrors of the unknown are what give meaning to life. Technology can inspire awe, provide astonishing comfort or yield horrific levels of destruction, but ultimately it's wielded by human beings who are a little bit more evolved than chimps - not as much as most of them would like to think.

I'm not rejecting science. I'm rejecting the reductionist paradigm that currently dominates science and reduces it to an industrial process in a tedious competition for economic advantage, even though the elevation of other paradigms will inevitably be accompanied by a rise of pseudoscience and hucksterism.

Reductionism makes people miserable because it reduces them to mere components in an economic machine. I'm not arguing for abandoning science and technology, but I invite you to consider alternative approaches to it. Consider that recent research on how magic mushrooms and similar psychedelics show great promise in the treatment of depression...and the scientific community's response to this is to talk about the potential for manufacturing it in pill form and allowing people to experience it under professional supervision, as opposed to telling people how to identify psychedelic mushrooms and learn to enjoy them in relative safety. Science has a strong ideological component and I'm attempting to shake you into greater awareness of that.
You can really improve the GitHub issue board experience with tools like ZenHub [1] - which is further ahead than the GitLab project management experience. This extra functionality is really needed in order to get the PM's buy in to switch from Jira.

The GitHub ecosystem will be the biggest hurdle for GitLab to overcome. (Disclosure - I work at ZenHub)

[1] https://www.zenhub.com/
Maybe it was and they all died of small pox like the rest of the native americans
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Yep. I think that is the spirit of HN's "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." in the guidelines.

I love the articles about odd but interesting things, or deep dives in "foreign" worlds.
Grow a new genetically engineered body from your stem cells then transplant your head.

Maybe wait and see if that Russian head transplant experiment is a success.
I wonder how many more people I could to sign this with a d3.js with sliders.
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Thanks so much. I don't know why news headline writers are so insistent on bullshit, when they could have taken a cue from you and said 'gene therapy increases mouse lifespans by 30%,' which would have been just as short and interesting but vastly more honest.
Good thing Tesla is going to manufacture its panels in the US.
Got an error when clicking on that link:

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How many people do you think would need to sign this for it to have a material impact on recruiting and retention for big companies? Let's not be fuzzy about it. Let's see what the goal needs to be, and then talk about how reachable it is.
Look at where the monsters are and where things like huricanes are common. A big empty ocean can also be monsterous as you can get lost.
Even the UN says it can't independently verify the claims and the only source is local activists. It smells like bullshit all the way through. They're allowing the rebels to evacuate to Idlib but are massacring civilians?
There is no MOOC I know of that uses Pyret (yet).

Racket is great! If you're already deep into Racket, I wouldn't say stop to try Pyret unless you particularly have the goal of learning more languages, or there's something about Pyret that really gets you interested.

We taught a programming languages course that uses Racket back in 2012, but all the material is still online:

https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/

So if you're looking for online content that we recommend, that could be an interesting next step that makes use of the momentum you have in following Racket.

The Pyret book PAPL is free online, and it's possible to dive in and follow that if you're curious about learning Pyret, though it doesn't have the infrastructure of assignments with autograders, etc, that a MOOC would have:

http://papl.cs.brown.edu/2015/
For you Sci-Fi fans out there, I highly recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. In his fictional world, humans do discover how to extend longevity and it goes into many of the social issues that arise (who gets treatments? The rich? The poor? How do we deal with over population?).
In fact, they do. The USG was unsuccessful in compelling Apple to provide a "golden key" to decrypt the San Bernardino iPhone, and the USG went along with that.

People can refuse and the government can choose to try to send executives to jail, or issue fines, but that comes with bad PR and companies can and do fight those as well.
Seems like a damned if you do, damned if you don't type of situation. One wonders if the guy's job description basically contained, "Stop leaks of NSA overreach, while advocating for those who have concerns about NSA overreach."
If your app truly is such a money machine with guaranteed returns why aren't you using it privately to enrich yourself?
Disclaimer: I work for Fitbit, but am not involved in iOS development or policy.

Fitbit has an API. Apple has developers. If Apple's app needs another app to get Fitbit data, hate Apple. Fitbit is trying to hire more iOS devs, and the ones we have are too busy trying to make our app better for us to loan them out to Apple to make Apple's app better.
I disagree with you but I don't think I'm one of those powerful forces
They should just keep going, and other countries join them - but don't do it as a bargaining tool, actually kill the company.

Its basically a scam, and its holding back scientific progress.
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> a 5x return with no risk to them

There's something strange going on here. What software do you produce?
Because once I need to pay for something, I need to get my boss's approval, and then he's going to ask all these stupid questions.

(Not me specifically, but I've been there in past places.)
Lots of my friends work in CS and they love their jobs.
Even going by that chart, it's from 2013, and it measures solar prices from 2013. By now solar is less than half than it was in 2013. Give it a few more years, and it should halven again, likely reaching what you call the "real price" of nat gas.
China is installing an 800MW-h vanadium flow battery:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/12/13/vanadium-f...

The cost claimed for a small installation coming online in Washington is $0.05 per kilowatt hour. That might not be cheap enough to beat out fossil fuel generation, but it is cheap enough to run the world on.
Blaze does not appear to be a tough sell on Amazon. Right now different Blaze models place 1st, 3rd, 5th, 8th, 11th and 12th in the top 12 places on https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Cell-Phones-Accessories-...

Apple Watch models in spots 2 and 10.
> Only rich people will get it. (no tech has ever done this.)

Virtually every tech starts that way, though.

The societal upheaval of rich people getting smartphones a few years earlier is probably not something you can extrapolate to the societal upheaval from "you could live forever but you don't have enough money right now".
I could put one together. Or you could read the last few years of posts at Fight Aging! and get the gist. But I'm pretty pro-SENS so it might not agree with your preferences.

The short answer to your question is that the impact of everything viable that is not SENS is probably going to be about the same as exercise or calorie restriction in your life span if you are in the middle of life now. Which is to say +10 years if you pick the right things, and the people building those things do a good job. That would be, say, the combination of a couple of successes in things building upon mTOR or stem cell or telomerase therapies or etc. Not resveratrol, not 99% of the other pharmaceuticals, not 99% of the possible gene therapies, and not 99% of what people are trying to sell you.
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That would require a high degree of speculation, since I can't think of any example in history in any industry where "employees not willing to work for a company" managed to have a material impact on that company. I think this is uncharted territory.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13160022
What huge tax incentives? $7 million over 10 years for 1,100 jobs.

Those jobs are worth half a billion dollars in income over ten years. That income generates local, state and federal taxes and supports the local economy. If the pittance of $700k per year was a clincher, it's beyond a good deal in every possible regard.
Erlang is a purpose built queue system.
They link to a heart surgery compilation by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (http://www.sts.org/quality-research-patient-safety/sts-publi...) which is fun to explore.

In metro LA, the top-tier hospitals (Cedars-Sinai, UCLA) have noticeably better outcomes than regular hospitals. The difference is like 98.7% of patients not dying versus 97.9% in a valve replacement ("AVR"). Flip it around and it's 1.3% versus 2.1% -- definitely noticeable.

OTOH, UCSF (presumably top-tier, SF residents correct me if I'm mistaken) has 2.3% chance of dying. Maybe it's not a top-tier facility for AVR?

And further, a small midwestern hospital in Hays, KS (pop. 21000) has a 3.6% chance of death. That's huge next to Cedars-Sinai at 1.3%!
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This is a bit of a straw man technique. You've framed the argument to suit your counterpoint.
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> The study did not disclose which hospitals had which results. Under the terms of the agreement to receive the data, the researchers agreed to keep the identities of the hospitals confidential.

Well that's not too useful for the patient oh I mean "consumer"
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Outcomes vary widely by doctor/surgeon as well, but the medical profession has successfully resisted meaningful measurement of results for many years now.
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Not sure exactly what you mean when you say "SAAS options for a landing page", but GitHub Pages has been great for me running a few simple static sites under custom domains.
Nice of you to assume that women and minorities are less qualified.

Especially in light of the numerous studies that show that people (men AND women) keep assuming on your technical skills solely based on genders.
Well, that's definitely one for the "suspicious until replicated" bin. They generalized all that from asking people to buy a single song off iTunes. Off the top of my head, people are better judges of music quality in their preferred genres. There's also not much to distinguish "a song bought from iTunes that I like" vs "a song bought from iTunes I think you'll like" in terms of thought invested, allowing smaller effects to dominate.

I suspect if you broadened the scope even a little, the effect would reverse. How about beverages? Alice likes coffee and hates whiskey. Bob hates coffee but loves a single malt. What should Alice and Bob get each other for Christmas?
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Max length limits can also be imposed by actual cryptographic hashes. (8-char limits are admittedly implausible.) For example, bcrypt is generally considered a good idea for storing passwords, but has a length limit of somewhere around 55 bytes (http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/39849/does-bcryp... for details).
Now if they can combine this object tagging capability with audio-track tag extraction (speech-to-text), mash the two meta-index-tracks together and expose this as another Watson API they'll be able to tap into a more media-savvy and less technical audience.
"The average monthly cost of living in the United States for a single adult with two children is $4,820. This adds up to an average annual cost of living of $57,851."

What would the cost of living fall to if energy costs were $0?
That's very expensive compared to small claims court. I doubt they'd use that clause.
The big difference between solar PV and microelectronics is that there's very little miniaturization achievable in PV. More power requires more area; light conversion efficiency increases only slowly over time. The sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency of common solar cells has not even doubled since 1980. There's less than a factor of 4 left between the efficiency of panels you can buy for your rooftop today and the maximum efficiency permitted by the laws of nature. That's quite a difference from the past trajectory of microelectronics, where Moore's Law doubled efficiency over and over.

That's also the short explanation for why companies with deep experience in microelectronics manufacturing, like Intel, TSMC, or Texas Instruments, did not come to dominate solar PV manufacturing. PV is a very different game. It's about producing huge quantities of doped silicon wafers with little patterning across their surfaces.

However, it is true that PV has made enormous strides in reducing manufacturing costs, though aggressive miniaturization was not how it was done. In sunny regions PV now has the lowest O&M costs of any new-build electricity source.
That seems like a generous free plan [1]. Have you noticed any gotchas?

[1]: https://www.openshift.com/pricing/plan-comparison.html
1. The altered comments were of zero value to the community
2. I've been on reddit for over ten years, and I have zero concern that reddit admins are altering r/askhistorians or other non-dumpster fire subs.
That's true. That's why there's also the umbrella term, "bigoted", when referring to bias stemming from ignorant prejudice. The watering down of "racist" to equal all forms of bigot is indeed a problem, and you have brought up a valid concern.
Interesting to read there (and nowhere else that I could find) that GitHub co-founder Scott Chacon left the company this year.
These ratings are not great because they incentivize doctors not to take more complex cases. They claim to be risk-adjusted, but in reality you cannot adjust for all possible risk factors. Lots of things in medicine are very unique. There's very little that's more complex than human disease.

As a referral center for other referral centers, additionally UCSF will be getting some of the most complicated cases in the world.
Capacity factor means "take the amount of MWh actually produced by the plant, divide by the number of MWh that theoretically could be produced if it generated its maximum output 24/7/365." 70GW of solar refers to the maximum instantaneous production (note that it is measured in GW not GWh). So while in full sun, all of that solar is generating 70GW of power per unit time but at night, it generates 0W. Average that over a year and it generated about 28% of it's maximum power over time.

Hydro plants have huge ranges of capacity factors depending on other restrictions on the dam like if it is used for flood mitigation, if it is operated as a peaker plant, and if it snowed a lot the past winter. Nuclear Plants generally have capacity factors in the 90% range to account for swapping out fuel periodically. Fossil fuel plants have capacity factors of >90% unless they are used as peaker plants.
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http://rednaga.io/2016/09/21/reversing_go_binaries_like_a_pr...
We burned our trolleys here in Seattle :c
Ugh.

Let's hope it never gets that bad.
Lifetime might be a bit strong. Quite likely these jobs will not exist in 10 years due to automation.
Microsoft already has Visual Studio Team Services, which is its Git-compatible source code and work-item-tracking system. Like GitLab, VSTS is focusing on enterprise sales first (though there is a free-tier that you can play with). Why would Microsoft want to buy Github and try to refocus it when it already has a product that caters to its enterprise clientele?
This is a joke about HN, right?

Hey. I'm getting some mileage out of this on Twitter and you're getting a little jumped on, but: if you're not joking, this is good news. It's kind of great news.

It means all you have to do is learn a bit about the labor movement to see a whole new dimension of possibilities for intervening against a system we're widely concerned about.
Most surgeons do not do enough cases over their entire careers to be meaningfully compared to their peers. There was a big paper about this recently. The ratings are a sham meant to instill false confidence.
I'm not parent poster but I do find Americans hype everything up, including their cities; probably that has a lot to do with all the media/tv/film here too, anyhow it does become annoying (and I'm American).
Tech, in general, has this broader issue, and it ends up driving high-quality candidates out of our field. I'd like tech to be a "big tent", so that we can solve a wide diversity of problems. That can only be accomplished through inclusion, positive discourse, and thoughtfulness.
The performance issue stood out to me at first too, but with no UI and Dalvik really only being optional and Google's background services stripped out, this is mostly just a weird Linux, so I'm not sure why this would perform significantly worse than any other Linux-based OS.

Sadly I don't know enough about hardware economics to say whether hosting a whole OS is crazy or not, but we've been trading off CPU time for less developer time in every other area of development, so I don't see why it would be different here. To the extent that the OS itself is not what is causing you problems, you can keep optimising your app code as you go and release on cheaper and cheaper hardware if you want.
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