skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Battery aging is less a problem when the battery capacity is less essential. You still get hybrid mileage benefit even if the battery can only hold a single braking charge (and let's face it, it will never go that low during the lifetime of a car).

In any case, there are always going to be advantages and disadvantages, and the market will tell where people's priorities lie. After all, there already is the $100k Model S, with its abysmal range when driving at 100 mph -- and some say that it even has too big a battery for an affordable EV! A hybrid suffers none of that with its more complicated ICE. (They're not that bad, but I'm not going to start arguing about that. I don't even know if you own one to maintain.)
> What happens in minds that don't?

You get our current surreal, completely separated from reality political climate.
The maintainers instant reply was super flippant and worthy of retort.

Never really wanted to use opal before, but if this is who is behind it...
I've noticed in international teams that there can be a culture clash when it comes to communication. People from some countries favor communication that is much more flourished and gentle, while folks from other countries are much more blunt and to the point (not necessarily to be curt, but rather they just get to the point). I've seen this clash also on mailing lists for open source projects that have an active global community.

Also, in academia, there is a similar phenomenon for letters of recommendation that can actually really hurt your chances if you are not familiar with the intricacies. For example, if you are applying for an American position, letters are expected only shower praise upon the applicant. But for European positions, letters are intended to be a straightforward and honest assessment of the applicant--highlighting both the good and the bad (e.g. [0]).

I'm not trying to justify this action by any means. I can just see how it may come about.

[0]: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/53876/postdoc-r...
Thanks for your time!
" Or that twice as many women quit the high tech industry as men?"
....
I’m already here, people. So I’m not the problem you’re trying to solve."

This seems contradictory, women leaving tech is one of the biggest problems, so even if she is already in tech keeping her because she is a woman is still a concern.

Its great that she likes to play Diablo II and be one with the boys, but a lot of women don't but that doesn't make them bad tech workers. That is the crux of the problem. The insidious cultural requirements that no one has on paper, but everyone intangibly enforces.
What Is NASA Doing with Big Data?
E-2 or O-1.
> This person mentions multiple times that meritocracy is a bad idea, that promotion or reward based on merit should be done away with in order to promote diversity, e.g., racial/gender-based quotas.

She wasn't fired for that.

> This is a person who does not view competence as the primary trait to select for within a market, and is insisting here that competence be downplayed to make room for people with the correct melanin levels and/or chromosomes.

She wasn't fired for that either.

> Uh oh! The data scientist isn't up to date on the trends in gender studies and critical theory, better send her off to sensitivity training!

She was fired because GitHub alleged she was the insensitive one here. Do you agree?
Actually, I think it is more like simple RPC than SOAP. I'm personally betting big on GraphQL.
Ah. I thought "." must be printing (as it's something similar to that in Forth [guess it's ".s" though not "."]), but I was confused by the comma because I didn't understand how you'd be reading from stdin here. Actually I'm still confused. What are you reading in?
Awesome! I have a couple of questions if you don't mind:

1) Does this require the programmer to rewrite software or make annotations? Even if that's the optimal way, can a compiler do this automatically, at least to some extent?

2) how general of a workload can this accelerate? You mention speculative multithreading and HTM in both papers, both of which are fairly general purpose techniques.
As a follow-up to this question, Peter, is there a need to wait for the H1B VISA to be over or could the employer start the GC process right away?
> ummm... huh ? This is a Shannara reference

Yes, it is :D
Why Did a UCLA Instructor with a Popular Free-Speech Course Lose His Job?
This guy is a walking stereotype and must be a nightmare to be around.
I know some (maybe even most) of the affected airlines have significant government ownership. It could therefore be a way of gaining political leverage.

It could also be a leg-up to American carriers competing on those routes. Another commercial option is a tactic to require implementation of security practices that involve American-made equipment.

I'm sure there are many other possibilities that make more sense than the public explanation, which only seems to make sense if we assume the people protecting us are incredibly stupid. I don't think they are, so the public story is probably just a cover.
We detached this flamewar subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14695324 and marked it off-topic.
What do you mean? It ended a while ago.
Not easy. It's based on hardship to U.S. citizen or permanent resident spouse or child.
Sarcasm is the laziest way to present an idea.

Why not just say what you mean?
Because Thunderbird sucks, as do other email clients that claim to also support news. As an email app it's below average, but as a newsreader it's downright horrible.

A good newsreader needs to be able to thread and block and filter and preview binaries. Few apps ever did this well, and many that did have since become obsolete (Pan2, Unison, etc).

With the rise of Windows and the decline of Usenet, the demand for newsreaders faded fast, leaving few or no supported freeware newsreaders alive today. Even commercial newsreader apps are increasingly rare.
> Just think it's worth mentioning that she doesn't seem to present evidence that the data scientist was "transphobic".

She doesn't say they were. She says the question as phrased was. That's a big difference.
It is STEM Education. I'm form India, which makes an EB2 route exceptionally long. Good to hear that EB1A is a possibility. Regarding the publications, do I need to wait for them to garner citations? or am I good to go as soon as I have them published?
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There is utility in being part of an in group be that people from country X, religion Y, or just credential Z. The trade off is worse global performance, but MBA's networking with other MBA's can be good for people with MBA's and eff anyone else.

On top of that their are cognitive biases like I got an CS degree so getting a CS degree must be a good idea. Therefore I will give preference to others with a CS degree.

PS: Men do face discrimination in female dominated fields, and being white can often hurt your chances for various things. But, while dead weight losses exist the incentives often favor discrimination even if it's called networking.
>Provided by... A retail seller

I used to work at best buy and our "extended warranty" was basically us floating you a new unit while we RMA'd the broken one.
Yes.
I had to have a manager fire a person because they repeatedly yelled at others on video conferences, etc.

I've seen others performance planned for being complete jerks to others on a repeated basis.

Please remember that no amount of genius should make up for being an asshole.
Some companies don't take this to heart, for sure, but those that actually want a good culture, do.

So yeah, regardless of this case (i don't have enough facts), but i've definitely seen people fired/etc for not being able to communicate empathetically.
Accessibility costs a lot of money and it's a perfectly valid observation that one can skimp on it for profit. You may call it immoral, I call it mathematics.
Enterprise is the channel it is sold to, as in, large business / enterprise.

Windows is deployed by "Servicing Branches", there's the dev branch that's internal to Microsoft, there's the Preview Fast and Preview Slow branch builds that Windows Insiders get access to, giving them new Windows builds every week or two. There's the Consumer branch that pushes new features and bug fixes to consumer PCs after they've been tested. There's the Business branch that Enterprise and Pro customers get who've elected that option, then there's the LTSB, "Long Term Servicing Branch" for businesses that insist on using a desktop OS to run things like ATMs and kiosks.

Many ATMs are still running Windows XP because banks don't like paying for software. Microsoft identified this need, and have deployed Windows 10 for this type of market. Under no circumstance has Microsoft intended for any desktop user to boot this and run Office and surf the web. You may be able to do it, but that is absolutely not their intention. They want their userbase to keep up with the latest features when their organizations don't slow that process down.
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We were bootstrapped and only sold in Israel, so there is nothing about us in English.

It started with a programming course I founded for data analysts in my army unit that taught them enough Python and sql and requests and win32com to be able to automate significant parts of their own jobs, creating a lot of value, and I wanted to figure out how to teach the same course outside.

The answer was "nobody outside the army knows how to deal with losing an employee for 3 weeks", so we cut the material again and again and even at the minimum we could reach - 80 hours - we couldn't make a single sell.

So my cofounder quit and I started playing with different models of teaching, and found out that there are huge benefits to teaching with a computer game (more fun, more engaging, more self-driven, but mostly - you get so much data and can optimize your lessons so fast... I really don't understand why e.g. Codecademy don't do a lot more data-based micro-optimization).

I partnered with some people that sold after-class activities to middle schools and we sold a lot more courses than we planned, so I had a frantic year of supervising the teaching of 14 courses while trying to amend my weekend prototype to teach the whole material. On the way I developed a bunch of other nice teaching activities.

But working alone sucked, so I put it on hold and went looking for the best team I could find for my "real" startup (this one was started with the explicit intention of failing but learning as much as I can, as I was pretty clueless in business at the time).

I strongly believe in educational technology as an efficient way to improve the world (though a bit less than I use to as a way to get rich). I fully intend to return to working in the field when I'm no longer needed at FeezBack (sorry, again we're Israel-only at the moment, so no links).
False. Squelching reviews that are "not relevant" or otherwise flagged, making them not show up unless the list of reviews is expanded to include the described-as-low-quality reviews, and IIRC not being included in the star-rating calculation, is SOP at Yelp.

It's done algorithmically by default, but there are people whose job it is to track places where the algorithms have gone wrong, and while ostensibly their latitude for independent decision is narrow it's actually pretty broad. Also that set of decisions is kept in a separate DB most programmers can't view or interact with, but which the customer support team could easily point the flaggers to.

Source: Worked there briefly.
> Surprisingly, there is code backing this crazy idea

Yes! and it works really well too :)
> I'd also consider satellutes in Earth/Mars lagrange L3, L4 and L5 (...) solar internet.

If there isn't already a patent on space strategies, it may be a good idea to create a patent agency. The first intergalactic agency.
It's nuanced so it's hard to define but oftentimes the creation of a company that is doing something novel is enough to support an O-1 even if the company has limited funding or clients.
can you share a guide on implementing this that you have used?

including hardware and specific OS used?
I found mangnocall. Seems to be a free voice setup. You send the other person a link. They click on the link and the call connects.

Too bad today's appointment said, "We need to do a normal phone call on a phone.". I wanted to say, Sir, it's 2017.

But I digress.

Still need to find something accessible that lets me use legacy MAC OS and IOS to call phones. Feels more like regression than progression.
The problem is that Google does what customers want selectively. For example, I don't think I want my search results to be as dominated by ads as they are today.

Once the competition is beaten, they may change their priorities from giving the customer and the partners what they want, to doing what is best for Google. Compare youtube of five years ago to now. There are many more ads and many more restrictions on how partners can place ads. If youtube had started with those rules and that much advertising I think it would have been less successful.

There is a pattern for all internet companies where they say to users and partners: look how great our platform is. And then when they achieve dominance they change the rules. The best protection is competition.
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Many people have seen the Netflix document on company culture. My favorite part is where it points out that company values are not what the founders list in an email, or what gets painted on a wall or put on a plaque. It's what happens every single day, what gets done now and what gets deferred.
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Peter - thank you for doing this!

For founders that have non-citizen employees: What is the best approach for assessing the risk that Trump's travel ban and/or immigration restrictions will affect your team? How much should one worry about the team's dependents (spouse, kids, parents) either because your team member is affected, or because they are independently affected? (eg, a US citizen employee is married to a non-citizen.) What are the key risks of new policies? If we have folks on different kinds of visas, are some "safer" than others? Any guidelines that founders should put in place in order to avoid risks created by new policies?

Thanks for help, there is a lot of FUD on this topic.
Not 3 years, it's 2 years, and it's not exactly same as "warranty".

Directive 1999/44/EC says all EU countries have to ensure a retailer could be held liable for all "non-conformities" which manifest within two years from delivery.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/feb/05/how-long-elect...
Hi Peter, thank you for taking your time to do it.

What is the difference between O-1 and green card in terms of requirements? If one got O-1 does it mean (s)he can get green card next?
I'm surprised she lasted as long as she did and wasn't fired earlier. We even have a diagnosis that she has mental health issues. I'm glad Github fired her. Now the question is, why was this article posted? Why are we giving her her 2 minutes of fame?
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The question of "is this person terse, or are they an asshole?" can be very difficult to answer. I think it's interesting how in this thread alone, we can see that people with different views on the core issue are answering it differently. I tend to fall on the author's side on social justice stuff, and I lean "no." Others, who don't (or seem not to), clearly lean "yes." I wonder, if the circumstances were reversed, what I and they would think.
Or, alternatively, last night my (untampered) phone got bricked by an ota update.
Hi Peter,

Can an individual on H1B

- Volunteer for a non profit organization
- Mentor an individual assigned by non profit organization in studies like maths, computer science etc,. or extra curricular activities like drawing, coding hackathons, tennis etc,.
- Help in fundraising for a non profit.

Kindly advice.

Thanks.
I strongly disagree with your assessment that this person doesn't value competency, at least based off of her dislike of meritocracy.

Meritocracy is not a replacement for proper management, and without proper management the idea of "meritocracy" reverts back to just being a popularity contest. If you don't have a good management system in place then identifying who "merits" promotion is extremely difficult and is often based not on how someone performs but how much they are liked by the decision makers of the company.
Citations are helpful - more in support of the original contribution criterion - but not required.
Building workplaces using IoT
Yes, when you visit Google on business, don't sign their visitor NDA. They still let you in; they just give you a badge that identifies you as not having signed the NDA. If someone at Google is insistent, meet off-site. There are good restaurants on Castro St. in Mountain View.
It's amazing that people still design languages without algebraic data types.
The performance culture isn't just C. Far from it.

Rust was susceptible to Stack Clash because they ripped out their existing stack probing to gain a few percent increase in performance.

The article for this thread literally says, "For many use cases ASan is the better choice because it has much less overhead." IME Valgrind does a _much_ better job of detecting memory issues, partly because ASan only detects issues directly triggered in the code that you compile, whereas Valgrind can detect memory issues directly triggered by external code, but indirectly caused by your code.
Not good. The codebase is a terrible monolith using frameworks long-dead everywhere else, there's poor coordination.
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She sounds like a really toxic person to work with. I would say she sounds "problematic" to work with.
> Pattern matching without support for algebraic datatypes really misses the point.

That's really not true, Erlang has neither static types nor sum types (which I expect is what you mean by ADT rather than including product types) yet several of its construct (not least of which "assignment") make great use of pattern matching. Pattern matching is one of the most important tools in Erlang's toolbox.

> What you want is to be able to declare all the shapes of your data, with descriptive names, and then be able to say definitely "these are the only such shapes."

> Pattern matching without exhaustiveness checking and algebraic datatypes is really just a disguise

Also not necessarily true, closed sum types are probably the best default but OCaml's polymorphic and extensible variants are genuinely great tools.
In modern day Atlanta there is widespread stoning of gays? I find this a bit hard to believe.
One of the biggest (possibly THE biggest) economic issue facing China in the near future is a demographic crisis resulting from the One Child Policy. A large part of China's economic growth has been the result of the growth of its workforce. Historically, Mao believed "people are power" and encouraged high birth rates--leading to China's gigantic present-day population. This has worked out great in making China an attractive place to manufacture.

As a reaction to the population explosion though, the CCP imposed the One Child Policy in 1980 (1979?). Consequently, China will now start to face the aging and shrinking workforce problem that has slowed Western economies in recent years--except China's version of the problem will be MUCH worse due to the extreme nature of its fertility swings. In fact, I believe the size of China's labor force hit its peak a few years ago.

In addition to the shrinking workforce, a historically rapidly aging society will have to face an explosion in healthcare costs... which tend to be a drag on the economy (though are obviously necessary). Furthermore, China doesn't have the retirement home infrastructure that the West has, which will absolutely need to expand as China has a huge retiring population who have few children compared to the rest of the world.
‘Cybersecuring’ the Internet of Things
I fear this blog post was more revealing than its author intended.
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How many times have you selflessly made your product accessible? It's easy to point fingers and judge people, but it is genuinely difficult to serve people with every conceivable disability.

Do you optimize the prose on your websites for people with IQs under 75? How exhaustive is exhaustive enough?

I've spent considerable effort on making things accessible in my life, and I'm sure it can cost you your entire product when you're just starting out.

Edit: I think the limitations apply to products which are marketed to the general public. If you know your existing users are struggling with an accessibility bug, then you know what you have to do.
You are correct, thank you for pointing that out. However, she is still assuming that the question was phrased in a "Transphobic" way. Perhaps she reads it like that, but I doubt that was the authors (or questions) intention. Perhaps i'm wrong
I don't know, I'd rather have that functionality in the build system. The editor should just parse the build system's output and keep the stuff it does to a minimum.
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The claim that France/Italy/Spain had obesity rates of 5-10% was a misread of the charts, where I should have said 10-15%. But the OECD reports pretty wide discrepancies among developed nations.
http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/49716427.pdf
http://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/46044572.pdf

Here's the 2017 update; France and Spain have topped 15%, but Italy dropped below 10%.
http://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/Obesity-Update-201...
> Uh oh! The data scientist isn't up to date on the trends in gender studies and critical theory, better send her off to sensitivity training!

The problem here wasn't that the data scientist was asking the wrong questions, it's that they were upset by someone stepping and offering an improved set of questions, and felt the need to complain to a manager instead of responding.

The Github management's decision of asking the author _never to communicate with this person again_ is even more bewildering.
You can register with a fake email, there is nothing you need confirm.
> That's only true in the modern era where banks get unlimited dollars for free from the central bank.

That has always been true. Look, you can't save grain to eat in your old age unless you build a freaking grain silo, and even then the grain rots. Money is just little pieces of paper with value attached, they don't actually have value in itself (the same is true for gold). Whatever happened in the past, e.g. savings account with higher interest rates, was more related to the demand for capital rather than in the intrinsic property of the money itself.
There are plugins, but having to find and install one is an extra step that I think a lot of people don't take.

It's far different than being able to link to a PDF file and having it instantly display in the browser. As far as I'm aware, Firefox, Chrome and Safari (and possibly other browsers) can all display PDFs natively, so I think it would be convenient if they could also display EPUBs without the need for additional plugins.

As you say, EPUBs use HTML under the bonnet, so rendering should be pretty straightforward.
iOS, Android, Facebook, Snapchat, Whatsapp, etc are all software...
> Better get offended and make her apologize. Oh wait, that's exactly what the author does, like the bully she is.

I suspect the GP agrees, yes.
Yes, if it were me, I'd have someone look at this to make sure that there are no issues, just delays.
How is it sexism when the one who reported her and the manager herself is a female employee?
Except that makes things easier for everyone else too. For example I often can't watch videos at work. If that's the only way to get information about your product or fix to an issues you might as well be speaking Martian in that video I can't use it.
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