skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks quite shady, especially given we're talking about China. Anything being wrong with the package - not even drugs - that'd be insanely bad - but I'm sure there are many other things which require special papers to get into China, or are prohibited, and if something is wrong, it's the courier's ass on the line. I don't see how it could be worth the risk of being imprisoned in China. I mean it's one thing to be in a "gray area" as an American in the US, with all legal protections and ACLU and so on, and another thing doing the same in China...

And I wonder what TSA thinks about people transporting things that they have little idea about in their luggage?
Hm what happens if we make those values immutable?
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Edit: I'm getting downvotes for this? It's in the posted source code: https://github.com/dddanmar/twitch-plays-doom/blob/master/tw...
Compared to?

I agree to some extent that ZFS on FreeBSD might have been more stable than ZoL, but in general? Meh.
Doesn't have to be shady. "Hey guy, please bring these South East Asian fruit to Australia for my family". Lack of knowledge of local laws could cause you some headaches.
I mean, printing money using basic income would not boost the economy until consumers spend it, right?
France is only a hexagon if you squint really hard... its shape has also been very arbitrary over the centuries

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Frontier...
I love the shading style - is this simply called 'flat shading'? There's still a subtle gradation.
Talking of puzzle 3D games, I really want Portal 3.
True, but someone who can interpret real feedback quickly will calibrate a hell of a lot faster.
It's not interesting. He lies throughout his life to feel included in conversation; he gets caught out when people talk about a fake character they invented and he joins in.
this looks amazing, how many different meals can it provide? how many different ingredients can it process and cook? will the ingredients need to be bought from you or can we supply anything we have?

thanks for working on this, i have been dreaming this for a long while.
Martin Shkreli is found guilty of three of eight securities fraud charges
Don't be so quick to think Intel is abandoning the Internet of Things
Well, yes and no. Its a thing that makes sense for analyzing entire populations, not individuals - same as BMI.

But agree there is no such thing as EQ.
Thanks :)

Think it was this that I saw (on HN, and as posted above): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14651884
Not to blame the victims, but assuming this was a free service to begin with, why did you trust it in the first place? Something bad was bound to happen as nobody will just give you their time and bandwidth for free forever.

By the way, a Exchange Online Kiosk subscription (mail only, no Office) on Office 365 is only about 2£ per month. You've also got FastMail but I think they're slightly more expensive.
Thanks. Any feedback on the API is very welcome.
Please use a better projection as default. Robinson or Eckert IV?
Hi! thanks for the comment and for flagging this, will look into it.
Pretty sure tsa requires you to know what's in your possession too. Can't really hide behind "it's not mine, I didn't know X was in there!"
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The structure of a GCC back end
I sympathise entirely. Perhaps unwarranted, but this causes /r/punchablefaces levels of infuriation in me. The author of the blog post wrote a very level headed opinion piece, was perfectly polite even on twitter, and certainly didn't call anyone "lame". By contrast, the founder comes off as an overgrown child looking to get rich quick.
Using your pragmatic language provides almost no benefit, and it opens the door to people doubting science as it has been wrong before.
Musk: That has remained constant throughout history at 100/100
On their website they state "Airmule then manually inspects and verifies each item prior to packaging for a traveler."
but I doubt this company that started last year has more experience finding contraband than law enforcement doing it their whole lives who have seen everything. Pretty asymmetric risk profile, save a couple hundred bucks for potentially your life.
It is lowering the standard for a certain kind of treatment. Whether or not that is justified or relevant to the hiring decision is a separate discussion. A standard is lowered. Full stop.
Thanks! Glad you liked it, and please feel free to use it
>> The problem is that they do it in the extreme. They want to achieve 50% of male and 50% and currently that distribution is not real, there are much more men that women in technology. So they have a positive discrimination for women to get a position even when there is a man that fits better, so they can achieve the 50/50.

Yes, but women are 50% of our society. Why would it be wrong to try and make a company represent society? The world is absolutely full of utterly brilliant women.
Chinese people are always taking 1001 gifts back and forth. They will never run out of luggage space.
I think downvoters may be unaware of the history of the term: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hexagone
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Exactly. Here's acceptance data[1]. Blacks with a GPA of 3.4+ and MCAT of 36+ have an acceptance rate near 100%. For Asians, the acceptance rate is far lower. Just open the two races' PDFs and tab between them. I'm sorta surprised they even publish this, considering how bad it looks.

But maybe there's an alternative explanation, like smaller sample size, or Asians being less likely to be well rounded candidates, or maybe it's flat-out race quotas.

1: https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/157998/...
I don't know anything about airmule's operation or China's customs/security, but the on-board courier industry is a legitimate one that has regulations and procedures that it's not clear the author of this article is aware of.

> "We have found contraband in [courier] shipments," says U.S. Customs official Bob Fischler, "but percentage-wise it is infinitisemal. And in any seizure we made, it was obvious that the on-board courier had nothing to do with it." In fact, at New York' JFK and at London's Heathrow airport, because of the sheer volume of courier shipments, all courier pouches go to a central location for clearance. The courier is typically dismissed before customs physically inspects the shipments.

- From Air Courier Bargains by Kelly Monaghan.
>The journalist

So journalists conduct their interviews in 140-character messages nowadays? I can't help but agree with the co-founder that hit-pieces should be based on actual interviews, not a Twitter conversation, ff we're going to consider this as journalism of course. If it's just amateurish blogging then I guess that would pass.
I started a similar company where the shipments were all carried inside balloons in the "courier's" gastrointestinal tracts, and for some reason that didn't work out either.
Amazing. Thank you for writing this.
What is frustrating in this one as well is that sidestepping the regulations is putting the 'gig contractor/employee/worker' in tremendous risk without giving formal training. I love the fact that their site lists them as a 9-5 place without a timezone. Of all the things that need 24hr support international travel from NA to China is one of them.
https://vimeo.com/11804927 via http://fasttrash.org/exhibition/introduction/ via atlasobscura.

As to cost https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/-/media/Files/Publications/Resear... suggests it’s 10-25% cheaper to operate, but when you factor in capital costs, it's 40-90% more expensive, if I'm reading the abstract correctly.
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I was thinking the same thing. There a lot of points he brought up that Peterson brings up, especially about neuroticism and conscientiousness.

Maybe a little of Sam Harris thrown in there too. I saw people in the comments on gizmodo freaking out about the point about avoiding empathy. It's a nuanced point that is completely lost on them that compassion can be a better trait than empathy.
Both Objective-C and Java are statically and strongly typed. What you're thinking about is probably a runtime-reflection mechanism. The JVM, java's host is capable of supporting dynamic languages through 'invokevirtual' but it doesn't make java dynamically typed.
I could do $50.
The scientific consensus is real, it's just not the one you seem to make it out to be. It's about the claim that there are "innate psychological differences" between boys and girls. I did not claim that these differences are solely responsible for 100% of observable statistical variations between genders. To try to ascribe all effects to a single set of causes, be it nature or nurture, is really a fool's errand. The blank slate is out of the window. Humans come into the world primed, and boys and girls are primed differently.

That notwithstanding, I wouldn't think of claiming that societal norms do not at all affect outcomes. Because it would be next to impossible to prove, and I'd give it a rather low a priori probability. Just what these effects really are and how big they are is a matter of ongoing debate. C.f. "The Norway Paradox".
Is 31B a reference I'm missing? It didn't come up in the article body.
Is this Reddit? Eff off.

Thanks!
So if Google was serious, they'd attempt to measure productivity or coding performance, then apply IQ (and other) tests. They can take rigorous approaches to find out the truth, rather than operating off of feelings.
Perhaps it was. But security and customs officers aren't known for their great sense of humor, so it's probably best to stick with names that don't suggest drug trafficking.
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FP? Floating Point?

I should hope you can do floating point math in just about any language.

Yeesh.

;)
This is absolutely true.
Everyone that cycles on open roads had at some point to work on that fear. Though a little challenging at first, it's pretty simple.

Hold your line, if you have to deviate from it make sure you use your hands to signal your intention. There's tech to help you with that too. Garmin makes a proximity sensor that you can install on your bike that you let you know when cars are getting close to you; and there's my favorite solution, a Bontrager Flare RT rear light. Finally, you should use your bike to explore alternate/less trafficked routes. Bonus tip sourced from anecdata: I've found out that if you can keep up with the traffic speed most drivers will leave you alone.

Keep cycling and have a nice ride! :)
Well we ARE social creatures as a species since it's been the only reason we had been able to achieve what we did, be where we are and more simply survive.
So even if some of us don't like the idea of being around others it's a fact that it served us well to be able to collaborate in such extensive ways.
"scanning for it"
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I'll admit that there are several problems with the Googler's manifesto. However, it's more embarrassing that the Medium writer chooses to attack a strawman instead of addressing the entire point of the manifesto in the first place.
When you say "gang stalking", I hear "schizophrenia".
Yeah, you are right. That's why you may mention in the answer
in what language you are the expert.
If you've never lived in NYC, you have no idea... just say the words "summer garbage strike" to any NYer and they'll have stories of 10-high bags of garbage piling up on streets in 95 degree heat and 95% humidity, while the unions wait until city hall caves...
Actually it's quite common to have cars in the same 'shaft' serving a subset of floors. The original world trade centre towers pioneered this system. Express elevators take you to transfer lobbies and then you transfer to local elevators for intermediate floors. The locals for different sets of levels occupy the same footprint within the building.
I've always thought the best way to get a bomb on a plane, was to bribe someone in the crew to smuggle drugs for you (and then give them a bomb that looked like a package of drugs).

This takes things to a whole new level - you could get people to smuggle anything for next to nothing, if you packed in something else. Or, get them to blow up a plane they're on.
Never. "I" am a pattern of self awareness. The constituent parts are irrelevant. So long as the parts support the self awareness, "I" am.
More efficient (in both CPU and memory) immutable/persistent collections, which have the advantage that they're intrinsically thread-safe. They can also be used to implement lock-free concurrent maps (Ctrie)

> Tree based associative arrays (like c++'s std::map) tend to have poor real world performance

That's something HAMT significantly improve upon. You're not going to get linear performances out of them but basic operations are generally O(ln N) where N is usually 32.
You're forgetting important Google products where design or user experience played a crucial role in winning.

Gmail - the dominant webmail platform that made pioneering use of AJAX; before it you had to refresh the page to check if you had new email. And whose inbuilt chat client crushed Yahoo Messenger/MSN/AOL. People came for the 1GB of free storage, stayed for the friends they made on chat.

YouTube - Video juggernaut that has a pretty good community and mobile app. Sure it was an acquisition but it's been a Google property far longer than it was independent. If they weren't good at design or community-building they might have easily screwed it up; it's happened with Yahoo's Flicker acquisition.

Google Productivity Suite - The UX on these is hit-or-miss actually; the Google Drive web UI is a massive fail for me. But you can't deny the success of these very consumer-focused applications. They've been executed very well and clearly enough people like them that the opinion of someone like me is irrelevant.

Orkut - You might laugh but it absolutely ruled social in India and Brazil till Facebook caught on.

Chromecast - it's done all right; 30 million sold so far

Not to mention this one

> Search driven by algorithms

also misses the mark. Google Search's user experience was also revolutionary. Their homepage was (and still is) sparse and uncluttered; laser-focused on providing the user with the best search results and absolutely nothing else. They didn't try to become a "portal" like Yahoo even though everyone told them they were crazy to not capitalize on the popularity of their homepage.
From the Gizmodo article[1], "The text of the post is reproduced in full below, with some minor formatting modifications. Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted." The several hyperlinks are probably his sources.

[1] https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/08/exclusive-heres-the-full-...
Very broadly speaking, I would say yes. Again this is just my take, but I argue that different sets of behaviours are indicative of different identities.

For example, at work I may keep to myself and be very quiet - in that setting my actions would define me as an introvert. With my friends I may be more outgoing and talkative, which is more characteristic of an extrovert. So I have two identities depending on my behaviour. I am not my introverted self when with friends, and not my extroverted self when at work.
We recently moved to central-ish London (Zone 1), in a generally safe business area. A few weeks ago my wife & sister were walking home and a man started spraying them with a bottle, screaming "It's raining". Luckily it appeared to be just water.

They we're annoyed that they were wet, but now I look at this statistic, and it scares me to think that my family could have been painfully maimed.
> Plus, you really have to love the founders of this company. I mean, as a startup founder myself, I’m rooting for them. One is a hardcore gamer, the other is a former backup dancer for Gucci Mane, and the third loves beer more than you do. I’m not making this up–this is what they say about themselves on their Web page

This guy clearly doesn't get it. Your startup page is where you post a phip relatable quirky attribute, whereas your actual qualifications go in single-phrase sentences on your twitter bio and after your name on quora answers

/s, hopefully obviously
> Having a single static type system that captures all differences across all versions of all browsers is not realistic.

Why? Standards and abstractions are useful.

> But even if it were, there's a bigger problem: static type checking happens too early. The browser can rev and change its APIs after your static type checking is performed.

At that case your program's behaviour may become inconsistent

> You want to type check with the actual runtime environment, not just a static guess at it.

That's not typechecking and there's no guarantee that your program will work with dynamic typing if the API changes.

> I guess by "graceful," not segfaulting would be a good start.

Is runtime type error better? If the type of your value changes and your assumption was false about the type then it can fail anyway with an incorrect function call.
What Yonatan and the parent are saying is that what Google "looks for in an engineer" applies to what is possible to screen for during hiring, which is only the very start of your career at Google.

In your actual career at Google pure technical ability it is very little of what Google "looks for"; that's necessary but not sufficient at all. Very few engineers are promoted for pure technical prowess; more often it's a combination of technical ability and EQ, or even just EQ.

Mostly it's a function of impact, which requires getting shit done, which requires working well with others. The top engineers at Google (Jeff Dean, Sanjay, Yonatan, etc.) are known for being phenomenal mentors, managers, and leaders--not just phenomenal engineers.

It's easy to be cynical and focus on instances where this is not true, but in my experience I agree with the parent that on the whole Google is quite good at managing its engineering org. In a XX,XXX person engineering org you're going to have some anomalies. And those are the ones that make these sorts of manifestos that are picked up by the media. Remember that Michael O. Church also worked at Google for a while and had a similarly controversial impact during his time there (look it up if you're unfamiliar).

Source: I'm a xoogler.
If you accept there's no EQ then why not apply the same logic to IQ? They're both based on the same false assumption that you can describe mental capacity with a number.

It's not the same with BMI, which is about setting out guidelines for a healthy weight. That is something that's more appropriate to describe numerically.
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At the risk of sounding sexist, I will say that conflating race and sex as being roughly the same level of difference is a little bit intellectually dishonest. I'm not going to sit here and argue about what those differences are, but sex hormones most certainly affect behavior and emotions far more than skin pigments.

I also appreciate you sharing your story, but I personally find it a bit uncomfortable that these sorts of posts need to be qualified ("As a gay man..."). While I understand you were trying to support the point you were making, this sort of thing feeds into the notion that some opinions occupy a privileged position within our society, which feeds such "screeds" as this. It's almost hypocritical in a way, because I imagine that the anger and "otherness" that oppressed or minority groups feel is not unlike what the author of such a rant is feeling. Basically when it comes to cultural discourse, you're wrong, evil, the enemy, or ignored.
Is there any research on the tradeoff between this kind of thread safety and the penalties incurred on the memory management side (specifically the fact that now you have far more heap allocations with immutable data and they have to synchronize too)?
I can't emphasise enough that this is not discrimination.

Discrimination is the "unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people."

Google only has finite resources. Diverting them to assist the oppressed class (women) is not discrimination against the dominant class (men). It is simply a way to correct for existing discrimination against women.
There was no correlation between the phosphor dots on a typical color CRT and "pixels" as we think of them. It wasn't like the way we use an LCD or OLED display at all. A color CRT had no native resolution: display pixels were not locked onto specific phosphor dots.

Consider all the analog adjustments a CRT offered: you could tweak the overall height and width of the displayed image and nudge it up or down and left or right. A high end CRT would have additional controls to adjust the shape of the image to correct for pincushion or barrel distortion. You could also drive the CRT with different display resolutions. Obviously the phosphor dots didn't move around when you did this.

Even on a Trinitron display there was no connection between logical pixels and the aperture grill spacing.

A good analogy for today's displays would be an LCD/OLED display that you can't run in native resolution, and can't even discover what its native resolution might be: the pixels you generate in software are not directed to specific physical points of light on the screen.

A monochrome CRT came much closer to having something that today we would recognize as "pixels", because there was no shadow mask or phosphor dots.

Whatever problems might have stood in the way of using a hexagonal pixel layout on a color CRT, the phosphor dot or stripe layout wasn't among them.

Edit/meta: I really wish people would not downvote comments like lightedman's parent comment, which may have been wrong on the facts but provided an opportunity for me to jump in with some hopefully interesting information that not everyone may have known about CRT technology.

Some of the best conversations I've had have been where I've had a misconception about something and someone was kind enough to set me straight on it.

Yes, yes, I know, we're not supposed to complain about downvotes. So if my complaint bothers you, here's my offer: downvote this comment and upvote lightedman's parent comment, which received some downvotes that I think were undeserved. Fair deal?
IQ and BMI are strong predictors of income and disease.

As the linked post describes, EQ is ill-defined, and lacks predictive power over any particular outcome.
HAMT are not intrinsically ordered or sorted.
A proper reply might be to request an email or physical address to send the actual answer to, or to link to a webpage with the results.
So, to make it clear: you are arguing that discrimination would be ok if you can prove it is effective?

(I'm sure I don't need to point out on this forum how difficult it is to measure productivity or coding performance. AFAIK there are no measures of this which are effective outside controlled conditions, and controlled conditions are close to irrelevant for actually being effective at a job)
You are changing the argument.

The original use of the phrase "lowering standards" implied that Google would forgo hiring someone of high skill to hire a lower skilled but more diverse candidate. This is not happening.

Diverse candidates are given more opportunities to have their skill tested, but they must meet the same requirements as anyone else.
how hard is it for the founder to answer a yes or no question over twitter? Dodging it by saying they are like other OBC is basically an admission that they aren't legally protecting their carriers. If they had made known that they don't claim legal liability _at all_, then i would be fine with their service.
It's the name of the blog
Sentinel and cluster both exist in production environment of my company. My leader prefer sentinel than cluster just like he prefer python2 than python3.
I think the main reason is that some commands are not supported well as sentinel(just can be thought as a single server under management with replication) and, as he explained before, sentinel may be more stable.