skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well you see, brand-new account created to hide from those scary terrible lefties who'd obviously ruin you otherwise

I am not exactly hiding my intent here, so I am not sure what there is to gain from pointing out the obvious. And no, I do not think that there is someone out there hellbent on ruining my life. It's just a simple countermeasure against a low-probability, high-impact event.

And real life conversations are naturally ephemeral, the internet on the other hand does not forget and may randomly amplify whatever I am saying beyond the level I am comfortable with. Throwaway accounts restore some of that natural communication.

> It is simply unreasonable to expect that all consequences of it have been perfectly eliminated by now

I did not say that this is the case. Sexism and natural biases can exist at the same time. But some people might find it more difficult to be a good and tolerant citizen if the sexism hammer gets wielded against the whole group on every occasion even though only some fraction of the group is actually sexist and another part of the issue stems from natural causes.

You also have to consider that some people may agree that sexism is a problem but disagree on what exactly constitutes sexism. Are crude, offensive jokes made in private sexism? What if it is accidentally overheard by the other gender, even though it was not meant to? Like video games some people may enjoy those jokes but never act on the surface message conveyed by the joke in real life.
And thus they do not consider it sexist. Others disagree, that much is obvious, but if that disagreement can not even be discussed openly then there's a problem.

Anyway, I do agree with the googler that the current overton window is heavily slanted to the point where quite a big fraction of the population feels uncomfortable and excluded, otherwise trump would never have gotten that much support.
If these people did the same things (quote stuffing and layering in general, spoofing, etc) on the regular stock exchange, the SEC would have them arrested. It is illegal to do the things on the regular stock exchange that some of these people are doing on the cryptocurrency exchanges. As someone that's been involved in Ethereum and Bitcoin (bot) trading on various exchanges for at least a couple of years now, I am tracking several groups or individuals ("players") that do this kind of thing all day, every day. I personally don't have a problem with it, but don't think for a second that this would be legal on the regular stock exchange.
> I don't think it's a hologram if it's not created with a laser.

At university, we calculated the microscopic pattern of holograms and printed them in high resolution on transparent foil. It worked surprisingly well.

Back then, we investigated doing the calculation on GPUs (~2005). You could store the complex numbers needed in RGBA textures, and then had to combine a large number of textures, each one a Fourier transform of a point source or primitive object. We ended up doing it on the CPU for simplicity, but now with general-purpose shaders, it should be revisited.

Also, someone should really try to combine computer generated holograms with high-DPI displays!
I don't really know why I'm sharing this but I hate the letter M. When I start sentences, I tend to avoid it on a whim, to the detriment of being expressive.

I realize starting sentences with "my" or "maybe" would be much more expressive, but I irrationally refrain from it.
I don't see what's micro about losing your job for wrongthink.
I know KLM recently introduced boarding documents you can print and fold four-ways so that it was pretty much the size of your passport and if you have a two-flight connection there would be one on each side.
The overall details are pretty well laid out as well.

I'd post an example, but the only one I have is my own boarding pass, so that's not really an option.
I took it as more of an argument against intentional, institutional discrimination (e.g. affirmative action) than an endorsement of the current system or an argument that we should leave things as they are.
You have to be aware that many companies have field operations that require (in the US) very large insurance plans. A stipulation of many of these plans are that all employees must refrain from certain drugs. It is in these cases that what goes on outside of work can creep into the scope of the company. If you are getting high on the weekend and have an unrelated plane accident on Monday, the company's insurance might be able to claim breach of contract and not cover the accident.
Well you see, brand-new account created to hide from those scary terrible lefties who'd obviously ruin you otherwise

Is this supposed to be funny? Google employees (not to mention lots of other folks) are publicly calling for the author's firing. This is not a topic you're allowed to disagree about in good faith.

I am nervous even saying this much, for fear that you'll attack me as a defender of what you imagine to be the worst ideas of your opponents.
This particular call trace looks surprisingly well-formed to be a random segfault caused by a bad CPU.

My shallow guess is that this warning is caused by the btusb module trying to load a firmware file while the kernel disallows this because suspend/resume is in progress or something like that. Take a look at the referenced drivers/base/firmware_class.c:1225 in your 4.13.0-0.rc3.git1.2.fc27.x86_64 sources for more details. I think this looks like a normal software bug in the Linux kernel.

You are running bleeding edge hardware and software and that has always been a bumpy ride. I would expect the software to mature as your hardware grows old...
It seems that my receiving my SWE Lifetime Member pin about a week ago is a bit fortuitous.
Well, tilting itself involves acceleration, which will be perceived differently in different parts of the cabin... So there are still and issues.
What do you know about women in CS in Iran? How many of them end up working in CS? I wouldn't jump to conclusions just because you find such outliers. Some weird mechanisms might be driving such numbers (like people not being given a choice what to study, people being forced to study something useful because they can't afford to study literature or gender studies for fun, women studying just to meet men to marry, men having mostly died in a recent war, and so on...).

Edit: I am not allowed to comment anymore, so this Eintagsfliege (mayfly) will die now. Bye.
It's actually in tfa - both the original and chosen names show the effect.
Designer should understand that boarding pass at today, should no longer be designed, instead, software should be written to handle those things automatically.

The technology to automate boarding is already there and are very mature.
> I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. Many of these differences are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.

What are your opinions about this? Do you think biological differences leads to social differences (not only gender but race, height, etc)? Do our "intelligences" [1] differ based on our gender? [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligenc...

[2] https://www.elsevier.com/connect/can-brain-biology-explain-w...
The only thing cringe worthy IMO was that he didn't appear to cite any studies or data to back up his claims. Or did that publication of the document omit things like that? If he had done so, would it still be cringe worthy?
I think I'll take the word of experts over one person's anecdotes. The experts say that wearing a helmet helps prevent injuries.

This is also not theoretical to me. I hit a big pothole last year at speed, wrecked, and broke my ankle. I was wearing a helmet and the helmet struck the pavement. My head was completely uninjured. It may not have been uninjured had I not been wearing the helmet.

Saying "reflexes protect you" is seriously underestimating how much ragdolling is going on in the split seconds while you're going over the handlebars before smashing into the road or some object.
NB: That content might be interesting ... but it's not publicly readable.

You might consider writing for (or publishing to) a venue which makes its works generally available.
> but the fact remains that the US has done it for 225 years and Bitcoin has done it for less than 9 years.

The USD was backed by gold until Nixon, you can only count the last 40 something years against Bitcoin's 9.
Really it gets down to all drugs tests should only be carried out after a failure of an initial impairment test. That then covers both sides of the issue as fairly as possible.
Not sure I fully understand what you're concluding. If it's handled automatically, how do you get the passengers at the right gate, at the right time and in the right seat?
What I said is along the lines of 'every program is a proof' and what people like Philip Wadler say that we should treat propositions (essentially theorems) as types and programs as proofs.

Now, where the mathematicians disagree-with/dislike such an idea has something to do with the question "If a program is a proof, what is the theorem?".

Since we can have buggy programs, the norm rather than the exception, in my opinion the program is still a proof, just not for the theorem the programmer had in mind.

When I say programming is more mathematically rigorous, what I mean is that a computer is way more precise at going through the program (a sequence of statements in a formally specified language) than a human-mathematician is at going through a proof (again a sequence of a statements in a formally specified langauge). In fact a computer never makes a mistake (unless there is a bug in the hardware or the compiler, i.e., something treated as an impossibility while programming). The mistakes are still at the human end (creating a proof/program for the wrong theorem/spec).

A second, very strong, argument in favor of programming being more mathematically rigorous than mathematics: increasing reliance on computers for proof checking and assistance (not even including multi-terabyte proofs that would be impossible without a computer).
Simple, developers dislike it because it leads to very messy code, quick fixes that lead to messier code, and a stressful work environment. On the other hand, waterfall leads to missed deadlines, cost overruns and applications that don't meet needs.

I think we need something in the middle. Does anyone have any ideas?

I suspect the fix will be on the type of software app that people are writing rather than the way apps are written. Monolithic apps are hard to write and maintain so we need to think small and generalize software something similar to lego bricks.
A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle for Days
re heat dissipation - the author assumes a mostly-convex form, but if the life form as concave spaces (e.g. tentrils) then the surface-area-to-volume ratio can be arbitrary.
Yes, I really miss the old YouTube look.
Drinking at work and working while drinking are not the same thing.
Do you think the person who wrote this will survive (not being fired)?
If there's one thing decades of arguing on the Internet has taught me, it's that debate is highly overrated.

And if there's anything decades old social science research has taught me, it's the Overton Window: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Another (similar) option would be Lektor: https://www.getlektor.com/
>> There are other kind of trades that basically simulate bets. And most of these terms have different names. Both of these things mostly are created to make it look more complicated and make you feel stupid.

I had a feeling about that too :)
I quite like the idea of folding it so that you only see your next immediate step at a time. For example, first step is gate number and time to be there. When you're there, you fold it over and it shows you your seat number.
Just posted a similar story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14938204
A CMS is supposed to manage the content, not the presentation.
I have been using HN for over a year and Elixir is mentioned on a weekly basis.
NASA responds to job application from boy, 9
Are Bitcoin hardware wallets from eBay safe?
I agree with you, cannabis seems to help a lot of people, and nearly anything that reduces rates of opioid abuse is a good thing.

But, man, am I tired of smelling it everywhere. If cannabis users are going to be so inconsiderate about stinking up common spaces, it's going to be difficult to support legalizing it for recreational use.
>It's not so hard to imagine that the rules of relativity are imposed and that outside of that imposition, they don't exist or are discontinuous to some degree.

As if some not widely accepted recent papers without empirical verification are the ultimate source of truth in physics? All kinds of bizarro ideas are a dime a dozen in papers...
Is this more advanced than just an Indiegogo pre-order?
Definitely. When I moved to Boston for my undergraduate studies many years ago, I used to be cursed at by SUV drivers all the time who would cut me off and do other dangerous things, basically disrespecting my right to life. Thankfully I never had an accident because I'm extremely defensive and try to predict the types of errors cars could make. When I left Boston a couple years ago it was way better. People recognized that bikes had a right to be on the street. Not all drivers behaved well but it was far, far better than before. At least people recognized that bikes have a right to exist on the road, and that was accomplished mainly by numbers. With numbers also came bike lanes, bike paths, and other good things.

I do a lot of long-distance biking in Asia during my vacations and I consistently feel much safer there than in the US (I've done more cycling in China, but also Japan, Myanmar, Vietnam, Taiwan, and other places). A big part of this has to do with the fact that there are just so many people on bikes, tricycles, and other low-speed vehicles that it's hard for drivers to not notice. And nobody will ever curse at you for riding a bicycle. It's an extremely normal thing to do for the masses.
All of these could quite easily be overcome by compiling your own headless chrome. It wouldn't surprise me if there is a fork to this effect soon.
> Also on the website it says it is licensed under GPL, doesn't that entitle users to source code access?

What ? Why entitled ? I have some WIP and production ready code in some git repo on my company's network and it's MIT licensed but there is absolutely zero obligation to upload it on the internet.

Of course I don't go around making website about it so there's that.

Pretty sure those guys will upload the source code when they feel like it's the time to do it.
Or you could use my https://github.com/fiatjaf/coisas
Started? I'm quite certain their entire API backend runs elixir. I've been an early user of their public APIs for many years, so I got curious and asked the developer in charge back then.
It began its descent after Andrew Breitbart died. I think it was in 2012.
That's a straw man reply. You cherry picked one of the most easily defensible claims and then implied that the OP would disagree. What gives you the right to implicate them in this way? Or did I miss another post in this thread where the OP did, in fact, express skepticism of climate change?
NASA to 9-year-old applicant for alien-protection job: Maybe
Blind interviews is a good idea that I think could/should satisfy parties on both sides. I mean it's really putting your ideas to the test. And either way you can take some comfort knowing that, if properly set up, the process will be fair. Now the correlation between a good interview and doing well on the job is another issue altogether.
If my boss told me I am expected to attend a "microaggression training" I would quit instantly. Oh wait - that wouldn't happen because I don't work at a libero-fascist place. I have no time for bullshit, I need to get stuff done.
Or a vertical segment could have a curve too. Imagine rotating by 45 degrees as you go up ten floors -- suddenly now you're in a completely different plane.
I have had good experience with Lektor (getlektor.com) for small sites where I don't really want Wordpress.

It's simple, drop it in and run, it's quite mature and you can write plugins in Python.
Why Career Sponsors for Women in Tech Is Compulsory
How can they not? It's an optimization problem, of sorts, from an evolutionary psychology prospective.
Yeah, I assume it's the gossip aspect. Tech people love to mock tabloids and celebrity magazines, but they (we) still flock to this kind of "leak" and the takedowns of whoever is the current tech messiah.

As for the document itself, you can read literally the exact same bullshit posted on HN several times a day (and then the same kind of responses that were in the motherboard piece), so I'm not sure what's worth writing home about.
From Gizmodo's summary:

> Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted.

I'm guessing the author did link to studies (or at least summaries of studies), but these were removed by Gizmodo or the leaker.
This might be a little bit premature. I'd want to see broad commercial success before celebrating it as a marvel of engineering.

Systems like this have been invented repeatedly throughout the decades, but they never succeeded for one reason or another. The problem isn't in coming up with the concept (or, now, making animated 3D renderings), it's in making it actually work well.

This, incidentally, is why so many of us are so ecstatic about SpaceX -- because they've made something amazing that actually works.
There was an article a bit ago on HN where the Free Software Conservancy (?) wrote that legally, shipping a precompiled binary kernel module is the same as having it in the kernel.
This guy is saying he would hire the best candidate regardless of gender or other byas. He wont promote women over men just because they are women, he will look at the individual skills and select the fittest for the position.

Note: He is also saying that leadership and tech skills are more frequent in men than in women and that the biology could be the reason.

I once heard a scientist (female) in this area that it is stupid to think that the brains of males and females are the same when clearly the evolution make males and females so biological differents that the brain cannot be the only exception when it is the more complex organ in our bodies.
Sorry but this sounds incredibly hypocritical to me. Are we also going to send everyone to prison who decides to buy a SUV instead of a car that's more fuel efficient? As long as people in the US are driving insanely oversized trucks, I can't take the outrage about dieselgate serious at all. If people in France, a country where most people drive tiny cars like Renault's Twingo, are upset, that's a different matter.
Can you please expand on the moving to Singapore part?
Helmets also discourage cycling by sending the message (however faint) that cycling is a dangerous activity. Which reduces the number of cyclists, which, by this study, makes cycling a more dangerous activity.
I fail to understand the outrage but attribute that to the fact that few bothered to read

Rather than assuming those who disagree with you are shallow and hysterical (a contentious word choice, given the subject), perhaps consider why others might be outraged, you could try some empathy (though I know the article warns us against empathy).

The doc presents a point-of-view, grounded in reality. Furthermore it's not "anti-diversity", but rather anti-discrimination

I think it is explicitly anti-diversity in that it sees nothing wrong with the current order of things, if that order can be justified by failings in the weaker vessels that surround the author like empathy and neuroticism (as the author clearly thinks it can).

It does seem a remarkable coincidence that the natural order of things so neatly reflects the author's place at the top of the pyramid though, almost as if the rules had been written by people just like the author.

Since when is dialectics grounds for ostracism?

I doubt the author has faced ostracism, he certainly seems confident enough in expressing his disdain for a large number of the people he works with, without apparent fear of consequences. Since dialectics is usually taken as a search for truth, here are some things that the author believes which are not true:

Women are not more neurotic than men

Women are not less scientific than men

Women are not more interested in feelings and aesthetics than ideas (a curious dichotomy)

Women do not innately prefer jobs in social or artistic areas over say engineering
> Very few companies that use technology are technology companies.

No, all companies that use technology are technology companies, they just fail to realize this and do not act accordingly.
>Microaggression training incorrectly and dangerously equates speech with violence and isn’t backed by evidence.

This is something that's part of "training" at Google?
Why do you not think it is reasonable to assume a language with fewer requirements to utilize is easier for a human to learn in general?

If a language avoids relying on tonal information for word definition, for instance, it is very counterintuitive to say that a toddler learning would pick it up exactly as fast as a toddler that only needs to handle syllable identification.

Way more languages, including Asian ones like Japanese and Korean, do not have words which completely change definition based on pitch. I don't have any reason to think a Korean adult would find it any easier than me to detect tones in Mandarin.

I don't know how to search for a reliable source in the field of linguistics, sorry. The idea is really counterintuitive for me though. It's not like Chinese and Japanese are very similar, even if they're more likely to broadly share word roots. Assuming we aren't using pictograph writing anyway, they do share a lot of those.

But if you're going to argue that learning pictograph writing is exactly as easy as learning character writing, I'll direct you to how Japanese kids only can read 1000 characters by the time they're 12. With syllabic writing you can read anything way sooner. So clearly for written language some are easier than others too.
> 70% of science/engineering students in Iran are women:

The Forbes site you reference cites a Quora post, which quotes a Wikipedia article. What the Wikipedia article actually says is that 373,415 out of 1.5 million engineering students in Iran are women, which is 24.9%, not 70%.

This is not that different from the 19-20% of engineering degrees awarded to women in the U.S.
> I wouldn't jump to conclusions just because you find such outliers. Some weird mechanisms might be driving such numbers
> Indeed, in many parts of the world that are not known for being "liberal" with regard to gender equality, women make up a significantly higher percentage of the scientific workforce than in the U.S

Because, unsurprisingly, they're also not very liberal with regard to women choosing their field of studies. Frequently, their parents decide for them.
"Status is the primary metric that men are judged on[4], pushing many men into these higher paying, less satisfying jobs for the status that they entail."

Wow. I see it now. Thanks for opening my eyes! I really feel for the hard pressed CEOs of the world, forced to take those high status jobs with nothing but high pay to compensate them for the lack of satisfaction.
Don't forget that screen resolutions were lower on average back then, which means that the side-by-side comparison doesn't really account for relative scale.