skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My intention was that the "best" sort would be equivalent to "least partisan". Under this ordering, posts which have strong support from all three user groups are ranked highest (specifically, it's ordered by log(left_votes) + log(right_votes) + log(other_votes)). But perhaps I should change the name from "best" to something that better conveys the lack of partisanship.

I like the idea of a bubble index. So maybe when you login, the landing page shows you the partisan distribution of the posts you've read/commented on/upvoted, and you can see for yourself how deep your bubble is.
This is not bullshit as other comments are saying.

"Profit" in this sense is a means of personal cash flow. Once the shareholders (including the founders) have their personal cash flow needs taken care of, the focus shifts to long-term value creation.

Part of that is reducing tax expense.
Those are arbitrary "principles" that only make sense in the context of a given arbitrary political ideology.

I want to live in a country where it's easy to be lean, so that as many people as possible are lean, because there are no downsides to being lean, and infinite upsides.

Paying in relation to what you use seems fair. Sending small packages costs less than big heavy packages. What's a few bucks' difference anyway?
As a Norwegian expat: I think this ignores just how big of an impact the VAT (MVA) and other taxation exemptions are. You'll get much, much better cars for your money buying electric - rather than the anaemic, underpowered standard that is the result of the heavy CO2/performance taxation, with an electric car you'll end up with something zippy and fun to drive.

Comparing e.g. Norway and Australia; the standard (petrol powered) engine models in Norway aren't even offered here, no-one would buy them. Sure the cars are loaded with every conceivable luxury option, yet ultimately even your base BMW has less power than the average Toyota Corolla in Australia. (Whilst you might say that this is bad, please don't get me started on the horrible idea Europe had to promote the use of toxic diesel cars over petrol ones; I used to ride a bicycle in Oslo, and it was foul.)

I think the move to make electric cars so affordable is great. Whilst the more prosperous buyers were the first to benefit, there's now a generation of cars moving into the 2nd hand market making the cars more affordable for everyone. Also, with their hydro power, it is truly green energy.
This reminds me of this classic StackOverflow question:

Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-it-faste...
mucus free diet - arnold ehret, his work is very enlightening regarding health. Should be more popular, considering ;) it's important that one read his work thoroughly.
Maybe...

My mother used to have the job title "comptometer operator". She, and rooms-full of her peers, spent all day driving tools like these: http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/operating_a_comptomet... (And they - presumably - had "disrupted" the abacus-operator industry...)

It seems to me a lot like the industry category change that woodworkers, or car assembly line workers, or buggy whip makers - all experienced.

It was only a handful of generations back when the majority of humanity spent most of their time working farms to create food. That's changed radically to where way under 1% of the workforce produces all the food - and "the rest of us" do other things (like desperately trying to get people to tap more often on our little square on their smartphone screen instead of some other little square... Or more optimistically, curing cancer or the common cold...)

I think in general, humanity is better off. The optimist in me _assumes_ we'll be better off still once the robots are doing all the physical work, and the AIs are doing all the (uninteresting) mental work. There'll still be fights over who owns "the means of production", and history will inevitably repeat the Luddite movement again and again, and "the people" will resolve the inevitability of the accumulation of wealth in the pockets of the rich - either democratically via functional government and taxation and regulation, or by revolution of the masses. (And that'll happen faster than anyone expects and it'll be spectacularly unpleasant to live through - and the pessimist in me says we may well be irretrievably on our way down that path already...)
Ah. Yeah, that looks impossible.
"Human beings are by nature tribalistic."

I'd love too see the empirical evidence for this.
An ode to Python
Why don't they raise taxes instead? At least if it doesn't work they'd make a hell lot of money. I mean, it seems efficient for tobacco in my country (France). I don't know why it couldn't work for junk food.
Thinking about the attrition rate of female engineers, I wonder if there's a similar rate of male engineers who leave due to how badly their female colleagues are treated in addition to the other factors listed in this thread and Fowler's piece.

If so, that would imply that the engineering culture is being distilled into an evermore toxic workplace, since those who stay are those who make the place toxic or are simply people who try to work around it.

It would take an extremely focused and persistent effort on the part of upper management to change this trajectory before the company implodes, as I suspect is inevitable in the long run should my assumptions prove accurate.
The linked post is framed as a criticism of Guice but it's actually a criticism of Dependency Injection.

DI is one of those architectural tradeoffs that makes one thing easier (swapping out an alternate implementation) while making another thing harder (following execution paths), and trades imperative, prescriptive, top-down style with declarative, "loosely coupled", componentized, bottom-up style made possible by an overarching helper and externalized decision points that kinda-sorta act like configuration.
>it means that Uber doesn't have to perform at all for the next decade or so

more like little over 1 year [0]. Originally wanted to say 2 years, didn't know loss climbed to $3B last year.

[0]https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/21/uber-losses-expected-to-hi...
The virtual gpu stuff is really interesting.
Usb-killer now lets you fry lightning and usb-c devices
MD Anderson Cancer Research Abandons Collaboration with IBM Watson
The Impending Human Capital Revolution
I agree with him. They were biased before and continue to be. MSM is one of the reasons Trump was elected in the first place.
Snap just lost a key ad exec weeks before its IPO
I think this is also why we see continuous growth in the Vinyl industry. People like the internet, but they also want the option to go offline with whatever they buy and have something tangible.
A Bee Mogul Confronts the Crisis in His Field
Lyft kept operating, Uber reacted to the strike by fixing low prices ensuring good will with desperate customers.
> Taking away liberty must be very, very carefully considered

I agree, and it's possible that this move has been very carefully considered. The obesity levels are catastrophic, and the trend has been clear for years (maybe decades), so it's quite possible that this move has been considered for some time before finally being implemented. There's no reason not to give the benefit of the doubt here.

I'd also add that any move to take away liberty needs to be reviewed at some point. Otherwise the tendency is for more and more regulation. Then typically the only way things get changed is by major lobbying efforts, which can takes years or decades, or when a negative effect on society has become such a problem that it's no longer possible to ignore it. In the meantime, a lot of people have had their lives impacted.

> Banning imported food at tourist established is a much less obvious win

Yeah, though maybe that part is related to the "effort to promote local agriculture" that's also mentioned in the article. It still seems like something that would have little actual impact - it's hard to believe that tourists are coming and only eating junk food, and not any food that's locally grown. No-one goes on holiday and eats only Pringles.

Or maybe it's about perceived fairness - staff at tourist resorts have access to foods that the rest of the population can't buy, so they remove that access to put everyone on the same level.
Bananas have ~100 calories each and act as a Diuretic makeing eating large numbers of them on a regular basis unpleasant. So, I am going to call BS.

You can gain weight on a high fruit diet, but bananas are an unusual choice. Fruit juice on the other hand is much easier way to gain weight, but like most processed foods less heathy.
Yes I agree. The potential for lying about your affiliation is in my opinion the biggest problem with this concept. I'll have to see how much of a problem this is in practice, and whether there are ways I could incentivize users to be truthful.

If it does become a problem, one thing I'm considering is using voting behavior as a way to try and identify and ban "false-flaggers". So if a user has classified themselves as left-leaning, but their voting behavior and the way other users vote on their posts/comments looks a lot like a right-leaning user, they could be banned or forced to change groups.
Unfortunately it is not that simple. Sometimes pushing back on the management is an indication of misalignment of priorities. It may not happen right away, but it can definitely limit your tenure.

I have been on both sides of this.
It should cost them employment talent, which should be a factor against them versus other employers with less toxic work cultures, all else being equal.
I think it's only most criminals that get caught that are stupid.

That aside, you're assuming that because most criminals (that get caught) are stupid, that most people accused of crimes must be guilty. What if we consider an alternative theory - the police are stupid? Is that any less likely than criminals being stupid? Another possibility - the police don't care and just want to meet their numbers. And another possibility - people have underlying prejudices which they use to justify their actions.

In order to reach your conclusion you need to make a lot of assumptions, for which you provide no evidence.
Cheaper than most of the competition, easy to use, and epic customer service (Doesn't everyone say this though?).

Basically I reach out to every new user to see if LMH is working out for them, and if there's anything missing or any challenges they might have encountered. I had one user with a few employees that was looking to switch over from one of our big competitors, and he really needed timesheet tags and timesheet approval & locking. I managed to build most of the timesheet tagging while in China on holidays :) and had the locking/approval system in later that week.

I have a few more exciting things I want to do once most of the main features have been built and I'm working full time on this. Currently doing around 20 hours a week.
Alcohol increases confidence in one's abilities.

Everyone has some skill they insist they are "better at" when drunk.
If one strives to reduce emissions from their EV, it would be better to use a charger at the workplace when plenty of solar energy is available during the day.
To me Guava is still the most essential, general purpose Java library. Not just for its collection package but because of the caching stuff, graph API, and well written general purpose utilities.

But I would also mention Spring 5 which I assume will be released soon, even though many people probably consider it too heavy or opaque at this point. But their major adoption and push towards reactive programming is interesting. And it will be interesting to see if java programmers embrace it. I'm a little skeptical that it provides enough tangible value to justify a more complex mental model, but maybe I'm wrong.
References from the Wikipedia article on tribalism would likely be a good starting point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism

Group selection would be another area that might provide some more information on related arguments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection
You aren't. 'lightweight' and 'dependency injection' reads like an oxymoron to me. The whole 'implicit dependency injection' seems as terrible an idea as getting an injection sounds. But it's out there so it's always interesting to hear more about it one way or the other.
According to the article, the New Yorker (and several other papers) talked about the story as if it was true.

Also

>most of the other New York papers began reprinting the narrative, in response to their readers' intense interest in it.
There are certain types of code which I can unequivocally write better after a few drinks. It's honestly mostly low-complexity drudge work which needs to get done but when sober I can't power through it as fast due to (a) boredom and (b) overanalysis of simple tasks.

This certainly isn't all the code I write (far from it) and it's not for everyone, but it's definitely true for me. That's why I don't think saying alcohol and code can never mix is right, but I agree that it shouldn't be a daily occurrence or the central aspect of company culture. I don't think an optional, after-work happy hour on occasion is such a bad thing though.
A blog post like this gets so much attention where is the fucking evidence? I am a male from Iran having spent more than half of my life here and worked in Silicon Valley long enough to be considered an easy target for labels like terrorist and misogynist simultaneously (finally I'm beginning to believe it, how slow of me.) I have to say there is more and more similarities between the two with each passing day, with very little substance and meaning behind those concepts, just a vague feeling of unfairness, a thread to our identity and a powerful tool to control and manipulate and not on behalf of the proclaimed victims of course.

Why should YC or VCs give more money to females founders, blacks and hispanics? [1] [2] Are we not pawns in an ugly game of moral superiority and virtue played out by those looking to profit from our moral outrage and fear?

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/2017-yc-annual-letter (much high acceptance rate for those demographics)

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/26/winnie-grabs-2-5-million-f... (a publication about babies raises 2.5MM, female founders, having worked at places like Google and Twitter gets you a free pass with VCs if you're a woman? Homebrew Capital: Well her, she must be special not her male-counter-parts. What is special and investment-worthy about this publication and those founders, and not just adding an uptick in their portfolio's founder ratio? Hey look we got two female founders in one round!)
I mean this in the nicest way possible, so please don't take this as anything personally directed at you, but: any employee of Uber that feels strongly about this should find another company to work at. If you're working in tech, in the current employment market in the Bay Area, finding another job is not hard. Not easy, both in the sense that leaving a job can be scary, and that interviews can be draining - but doable.

There are other companies out there that solve interesting, challenging problems and don't have this toxic culture. There are other companies with talented people. And if enough of your coworkers disagree with Uber's culture, policies, etc., then the talented, moral people that you work with at Uber may even come with you.

The only way Uber will ever pay attention is if it affects their bottom line. Employees leaving, or people turning down offers is, person-for-person, one of the most impactful ways to do this.
It is very up-to-date advice.

Just because you were lucky to not experience massive issues doesn't mean they aren't present.
Facts Are Real
And this is in a climate where developers can often pick and choose their jobs. Imagine if code was more commodified?
Look at Netty. You need to know a good bit about the protocol to use it but there's nothing faster save compiled C for network access
The story got picked up by the Verge, and there's a response from Uber's CEO...

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/19/14664474/uber-sexism-alleg...
Ambitious in this context seems to mean materialistic.
The French haven't banned soda. Consenting adults can still buy as much as they want (or can afford).
A company with 50,000 employees in its corporate office(s) is huge. Saying another huge company is a bit larger and therefore this company is no longer huge is nonsense. Also, that a common range for defining "mid-sized" companies is under 1,000 employees should hint that Apple is beyond large. Here's a nice summary on how SBA and some companies classify other organizations:

http://smbresearch.net/sizing-up-smb/

Businesses with thousand or more employees are so rare as percent of the whole that they deserve their own category anyway. As in, what you say about them wouldn't apply to businesses in general and vice versa.
I don't know about you guys, but I've been to sexual harassment training. What Susan documented could be translated to tens of millions in fines and damages.

If it's this egregious, it's could be much, much, higher.
Looks like our native representation in Datastore is java.util.Date, so we should be in the clear. Relevant code here: https://github.com/google/nomulus/blob/master/java/google/re...
So does alcohol, which is generally considered a "soft" drug.
I'd be curious if someone could share some examples. My poor understanding of Kevin's claim is that, essentially, python is too dynamic, particularly in the core library. It seems like the approach to that is devirtualization, perhaps something along the lines of Julia. But Kevin also points out that using llvm was a failure for the pyston project.

If anyone fills in some of the blanks, thank you in advance.
>> If they pass the stock on to their heirs, those gains are never taxed at all.

Is this true? If one inherits stock, does the "purchase price" of that stock get reset to the price at the time of inheritance? Is that how it works or something different?
Actually, more than just no incentive to tell the truth, people have a strong incentive to create false accounts that "identify" and largely vote (on the site) in opposition to their true identity, but selectively upvote high-value propaganda from their actual side. If the site becomes popular, I guarantee this will become a popular abuse.
Yeah, it's convenient that Xen won't be required for this any more.
I just recently had to use a bloom filter to speed up a caching issue. It was so easy to do with Guava that it took all the fun out of it.
I really doubt this. A lot of men are totally unaware of how women are treated, which fellow men on their team are harassers, or don't believe women when they report harassment. My evidence for this is every man in tech reacting with shock to this story, and every woman I know saying "yep, I have a story like this," or "I know many women with stories like this"
See also oauth2_proxy from bitly: https://github.com/bitly/oauth2_proxy
>There might not be any substantive reason for this other than random bias

Vinyls do have a characteristic compressed warmth that subjectively a lot of people enjoy. The pops and crackles that come with vinyl are pleasing to many also.
Everyone is talking about why she didn't sue. Given the way the courts have ruled recently on binding arbitration, is it possible that she has no recourse to actual courts, just to arbiters? (She never says if such a clause was included in her employment contract, but I know that it has been included in the last two contracts that I signed.) Wouldn't that foreclose her opportunity to sue, and just to go into the much less favorable (for her) arbitration process?
Yes, the basis (the tax concept meaning "what you are credited with having paid") on most items is "stepped up" to the fair market value upon inheritance.

This step up is subject to estate tax (if the estate is over a certain size), but not capital gains tax.

https://www.irs.gov/help-resources/tools-faqs/faqs-for-indiv...
How does one protect oneself in cases of sexual impropriety then? This seems like a pretty dangerous flaw. To be completely honest I've always felt that HR has been the "police" of the workplace, there to keep issues like this from getting out of control (as it most certainly did in the case of OP). Now I feel much more exposed...
Headline is completely inaccurate. This piece says nothing about "accounting". All it seems to say is that Bezos is rich due to capital gains and then claims (with absolutely no evidence) that Bezos' motivation is reducing his taxes and, therefore, he is doing something (piece does not say what) to transform taxable profit to untaxable capital gains.

Piece also seems to equate being a big business with having a big market cap, which makes no sense as plenty of big corps with big revenues have small market caps.
Some, but not most, of Guava functionality has been added to the standard libraries in Java 8. We'll still be extensively using it even after switching over to Java 8 specific features for Optional, Function, Date, and all the other goodies.
presumably those people have never driven a car.
I don't understand how anyone could be unsure about that being harassment. It's about as clear-cut as you can get.

He should have been fired the day that surfaced. If someone who worked for me ever did something like that, they'd be out the door pronto. It speaks volumes that he wasn't, to the point which I am irrationally tempted to doubt the veracity of her claims.

Don't proposition anyone in your reporting chain. Don't flirt with them. Don't do anything with them. It's really not that complicated. If you are attracted to someone who works for you (it happens), do the adult thing and ignore it.
I would classify you as "neither". However, I acknowledge that this category is likely to be a lot less ideologically homogeneous than the other categories (though as you point out, the right has become less cohesive lately as well).

I think part of the issue here is that "neither" is not a very appealing group name. People like yourself have devoted a lot of thought to each of their various political stances, and I imagine its not very exciting to have all of that nuance summed up by the label "neither". I'm going to try to rethink the best way to name the categories and present them at signup.

However, I don't know that allowing more options would solve the problem. The intention of the three groups is not to put each person in a group with ideologically identical people, but to create a broad partition of the users to try and get a little more signal out of their votes.
Right, there is an equation of some kind that dictates the energy balance we can sustain. I'm suggesting that there are more terms to that equation that we can adjust, and that the term of "what people want" is the most difficult. We can find ways to increase the planet's energy budget, we can find ways to increase efficiency, we can even find ways to make people desire more efficient behaviors.

My main concern, and maybe I misread your first comment, is that forcing or guilt-tripping or shaming people into less fulfilling lifestyles is not going to be very productive, IMO.
The difference is that on Windows, most developers expect Unix applications to just not work. (The fine print: I can't comment on WSL.) But macOS was always sold (by other developers) as "the intuitive UI plus the power of Unix", so I'd expect to get Unix applications going with a negligible amount of yak-shaving, esp. something like Rails that is used by latte-sipping Mac hipsters across the world.