skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just SV that has this phenomenon. I worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab from 1988 to 2000. I had risen to the rank of Senior Member of the Technical Staff, the second-highest rung on the technical career ladder. Beyond that there is the rank of Principal, which is very hard to attain. It's essentially the equivalent of getting tenure. It requires peer review. Most engineers never attain it, and I was not optimistic that I ever would. So in 2000 I decided my JPL career had peaked, and so I quit to go work for an obscure little Silicon Valley startup in Mountain View. ;-)

To my surprise, when I announced my departure, a bunch of people suddenly came out of the woodwork to tell me that they really didn't want me to go, including a number of very senior managers. So I used that as leverage to negotiate a deal for myself: I would come back after a year on the condition that I be promoted to Principal. Which is what happened.

The problem was that my promotion did not in any way coincide with JPL's strategic needs for my skills. One of the reasons I had left was because I had been on the losing side of huge political fight (http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html) and when I returned I couldn't find a project that was willing to take me on. But they couldn't fire me because I was a Principal. So I basically spent the next three years getting paid for doing nothing, and getting pretty depressed about it. It's actually not fun to feel like a parasite, at least it wasn't for me.
Not really related, but I continue to find it fascinating that South Africa had nuclear weapons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_ma...
Where do I sign up for that job?
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Can confirm.

But it's not a nefarious thing and the people aren't slackers: 90% of the people who end up in this position are ass-kickers who strive to have impact and get bored: most feel bad about slacking but their bodies and minds simply need a rest. They created BILLIONS in value and even providing tech support, they "pay for themselves" many times over -- that's why companies like Google keep them around.

Subtly: the kind of people who end up resting-and-vesting are precisely the kind of hyper-ambitious people who develop unique knowledge and skills.
Apparently it's for the server-side component, but even then... Polling every 15 minutes seems like such overkill.

He could register a webhook for ReleaseEvent [0]. To make the process fault-tolerant, he could also have a daily check.

[0] https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#relea...
next on the author's agenda: an article about how he went vegan and started crossfit.
> the OS should cache stuff

When I worked at Microsoft back in the 90's I inquired around building 26 as to why I couldn't create a ram disk on what was to become Windows 2000, and this was basically the answer. So yes, if caching doesn't solve this then caching hasn't been implemented correctly.
As a matter of fact, antropomorphisms are a very popular figure of speech and I've never seen much come from a remark against the preoccupation of evolution.

The funny thing is, when you talk about human procreation suddenly there is intent and the goal post could be shifted to exclude those cases where pregnancy was not expected and I could probably question the cases where it's intended too because "a child" is a very broad cincept and as after thought not all cases turn out as expected and I would keep shifting in the same way you were about evolution, just to provoke discussion about free will and where to draw the line.

Maybe frequent reminders against creationisms are necessary to provoke fundamentalists, which I don't personally have contact with, so this meme is just boring.
The commenter is quite clear that he or she is calling into question the competency of the Ghanaian space program because "its not even a new design, they literally just used the cubesat platform and launched it from United States."

Similarly, the connection between calling this article the space-race equivalent of "affirmative action" and the alleged racism of the author of the comment is unclear.

If you actually believe the author of the comment is a racist, you should make your case. The author's racism doesn't seem "blatant" to me, and presumably wouldn't to most of the hn community.
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Hey guys,

http://www.amelyn.com/csvdriller/csvdriller.htm

CSV Driller is a simple webapp for drilling through information that you need to learn.

Simply paste csv information into the textarea in the middle of the page. Each line in the csv should be in the format:
question,answer

It provides four random answers for the user to select for each question (one of which is the correct answer) and provides a running score, along with a final score at the end.

The advantage of this webapp, compared to other websites that offer quizzes on different subjects, is that the user can build a library of his/her own csv files, filled with the stuff he/she needs to learn, and use them with the webapp to learn a bunch of stuff specific to his/her current learning requirements. :D

I'm thinking of extending this and adding extra features, such as:

- saving previous scores and providing a list of the last x scores, so the user can see how his/her performance is improving/degrading over time
- a button to reverse questions and answers in the csv text before drilling
- a countdown where the user can select 5/10/20/30 seconds to answer each question
- alternative answer formats other than multiple choice (e.g. type in the answer, numeric etc.) or adjust the number of multiple answers.

Any feedback or thoughts about what features people would be interested in seeing added to it is much appreciated. Please post feedback to this thread or post it to bigbadmick2000@hotmail.com.

Cheers!

Miktor
how would one go about running code/operations on ram as opposed to the hd?
It says the stock was from a recent acquisition and the article context is about vesting. One can surmise her stock is tied up in a vesting schedule and thus illiquid for now.
It can be if it's part of the compensation in an acquisition deal.
> Therefore he believes women can't work as hard.

But that's not the author's conclusion, that's your conclusion. You are imagining what the author's thought process is and claiming your resulting conclusion is his resulting conclusion. How do you know how that's actually how he thinks? You don't have the ability to say that.

What the author does say, is that statistical evidence shows men and women have differing goals and life outcomes. Researchers have found that Men have a higher drive for status, which in the author's words "leads men into high pay/high stress jobs in tech and leadership". The author argues this could explain why we don’t see women in top leadership positions.

Nowhere does the author believe "women can't work as hard." He suggests that men are more willing than women to take stressful positions, which may explain sex differences in top leadership positions.

> how do you interpret what he said?

Honestly, I feel like you are focusing on minor nitpicks and ignoring the core points of the treatise. I view core goal of the treatise is to improve diversity of opinions at google. It's covered in the tl;dr section, which I did copy below.

* Google’s political bias has equated the freedom from offense with psychological safety, but shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety.

* This silencing has created an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be honestly discussed.

* The lack of discussion fosters the most extreme and authoritarian elements of this ideology.

* Extreme: all disparities in representation are due to oppression

* Authoritarian: we should discriminate to correct for this oppression

* Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership. Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business.

I do think it is easier for a critic to nitpick rather than address the author's core argument.
I tend to find typical instances of sarcasm(especially in written form) so unfunny that I don't even recognize them.

That being said I had no problem seeing sarcasm in this example, chiefly because the language was obviously different(how often does one use the word "worthless" to describe people?). I guess it makes for a useful rule of thumb regarding what could be reasonably considered sarcasm.
I've wondered this about CEOs. For the price of one Jamie Diamond you could hire the entire graduating class of Harvard Business School. Surely, between them, they could perform his duties, no?
There are no verbal or visual elements in written form. We are strangers across continents and cultures. Usually English is not our first language. People reading may be in a different mood or mindset. Etc etc. The Elders of the Internet were right to give us smilies :)
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https://sexetc.org/info-center/post/do-condoms-work-whats-th...
Condoms—when used correctly and consistently—prevent pregnancy about 98 percent of the time. The typical effectiveness rate—where mistakes are made or condoms break—is about 82 percent.

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Clarification: "Senior SWE", the formal rank, at Google is indeed a plausible terminal level. If you get there, they'll let you stay indefinitely. But it isn't particularly senior. If you start at Google straight out of college, it's two promotions up, and you may not have supervised anyone higher than an intern.
Does LVM usage facilitates bitrot self-healing on btrfs part?
> so you are not open to discuss with him about the topic?

Am I personally interested in discussing this guy's bad ideas with him? No, I have better things to do than try to get him to examine the prejudices that he's so energetically hiding under a mountain of justification. History suggests that most bigots will literally die before they'll change their opinion. And from what I've seen, those who do change don't do it because of reasoned discussion; they instead have an emotional epiphany of the impact of bigotry.

> I am not going to shut up if I think I am right and it is the best for everybody even if my opinion hurts some people. I shouldn't do it indeed.

How brave! If you look at the US's historical record, you can find a great number of (white) people arguing that the institution of slavery is the best for everybody even if it hurts some people. Try the Conerstone Speech, for example, or the Texas Declaration of Secession.

Of course, you aren't that brave. Like most pro-discrimination people you comment from the shadows.
I believe the poster is saying that "if we are letting people own land/factories/capital on Earth, then the space race must continue.

This will ensure that the technologies will be democratized, and people can go claim land elsewhere to begin building their destiny."

This is perhaps a critique of potential lack of opportunity and growth here on Earth.
Quite honestly, the most concerning thing to me about this whole manifesto is the outright dismissive reaction it is getting from everyone.

I know that some people agree with the author and I want to see his point of view studied, analyzed and critiqued in the most objective and thorough manner possible. For instance, do we have evidence on gender biases among different engineering roles? If the answer is yes, is this bias due to organic inclinations attributable to inherent gender differences? Is any part of such inclinations - if any - historically/socially constructed? If it is something that has historical roots, is imposing diversity rules and regulations a temporary/transient measure necessary to counter an existing imbalance until unfair advantage is extenuated? Or is it something we need to maintain indefinitely?

Without rigorous examination of the claims in this manifesto, we are running the risk of having a growing base of believers of an under-scrutinized opinion, individuals who do not speak their minds solely due to social pressure.
The problem is that there are already regulations, but AirBnBs are skirting them.
Main purpose is to render the page, crawl the dom for the data, and then load the next page as fast as possible... so it's equivalent of having a thousand bookmarks and opening them all at the same time, and as soon each loads running the scraper script and reloading them with the new link. Try it for yourself, it's easy to script, and check the load...
>that can be recharged hundreds of times

In the world of rechargeable batteries, "hundreds" of charges isn't very many. You could use that up in six months if you're a heavy user. In cars you want thousands of cycles, so the battery outlives the car (charging every day for 15 years = 5478 cycles), which prevents very costly replacements.

So, it's cool, but by itself, not the breakthrough we're looking for.
> Also note that the program counter starts at address #x200, because that’s where the ROM data eventually gets loaded into the CHIP-8 memory.

If I understand correctly, that's because 0-1FF was ROM (including the interpreter itself) on the original machine, and you typed CHIP-8 programs into RAM.
Wow, I thought what the author said was hyperbolic until I read this response. Come on now. How many SF Bay Area tech workers would actually assault another employee over comments posted on the Internet? How many software engineers at Google have ever even been in a fight?

This "punch you in the face" thing seems to be a sticking point for most of the comments here and I think people are misrepresenting what the author is trying to say. He's not advocating for violence, he's considering a possibility in which he would have to make managerial decisions based on animosity between employees over this "manifesto". That's reasonable. I'm not sure what kind of culture they have at Google, but from my time working as a software developer I've rarely discussed politics at the office. I avoid it. It has the potential to bring down the morale of the team. Just don't see the point in throwing a wrench into the gears of the company you work for to make a political point.

Don't you dare interact with him, or else you'll be ostracized as well.

Oh please. There's a reason why the writer of this "manifesto" felt the need to grovel and apologize in every opening paragraph. He knew how his peers would take it. You can't just raise into question the fundamental capability of every woman you work with and then expect them to want to work with you. People lose friends over Facebook posts. He deserves to be ostracized for bringing this crap into the office. There are no "thoughtcrimes" here, just someone with a persecution complex fomenting strife amongst his own colleagues. Would you want to work with someone like that?
7 people got knifed? Actually 8 people died. 48 were injured.

Your point is still a point but try to be real.
Because Apple poured a 1 billion dollars into it and turned it into basically the main programming language for 2 OSes.
It's just Poe's Law coming into play. It can't be avoided really.

Hell, people can't decide if The Prince is a satire or not.
Proudhon picked up on this point at the start of the 19th century; there isn't enough property (private property) for everyone, ignoring of course critical depletion of all the earth's resources such that even personal property becomes infeasible.

The solution proposed is to abandon the idea of property, not merely make it common to all, but rather to abolish it as a right.
> This occurs through expanded regulation that favors incumbent firms

> such as a cursory reading of Marxist literature.

I never knew Marx was so anti-regulation
Yeah, but usually there's at least one that's not using iMessage, which makes it a pain ;-)
chemistry set, microscope, bicycles, roller skates, balls, play doh, legos, books, magnifying glass, compass, etc.

Pretty much anything you throw at them will teach them something.

The question is, what do you want them to learn?
Travel from Glasgow to London on a Typical Day as a Wheelchair User
"They have no water rights sufficient to create a farm in the middle of the desert."

They may have no water sufficient to create a farm in the middle of the desert, but I don't think it's a problem of water rights.

As a Colorado native I have a good sense of water rights, but as a farmer in California I have been (pleasantly ?) surprised by how little restriction or ownership there is attached to water here ... it is very unlikely that the water rights are not attached to their parcels and its possible that they were never detached at any point.

All they have to do is dig a well. Maybe nothing will come out, but nobody will stop them ...
The real problem is those concerns are orthogonal. One should not think of the market as the best answer to every human endeavour - but it's also important to recognize just how powerful a force it is. Managing the market is hard - most of the time too hard for even most wealthy and powerful people.
In your answer you mix a space elevator with rockets, a space elevator is not a rocket.
But people have invented many other designs that are not rockets, there is a huge page on Wikipedia about them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch
I grew up in the town he lived in and he would participate in the yearly school book fairs. I loved his books as a child - but as a child would. As an adult introducing my children to them, I find them even more refreshing and meaningful.
Okay I don't want to derail too much, but a couple things to note:

1. IQ is itself a combination of multiple cognitive functions: verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory and processing speed, etc, and people might be better or worse on in individual topics.

2. Conscientiousness and Agreeableness are part of the Big 5 model, which is itself just a model of personality that has its own share of flaws.
What I want from a logging API
Reminds me of WTFJS: https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs/blob/master/README.md
Your segment of the market is almost certainly a small one. In many cities where I've stayed in AirBnBs, whole-unit rentals dominated the listings, and these were always in touristy parts of town. As you'd expect, the "professionals" optimize by putting their listings in the parts of town with the heaviest tourist traffic.

AirBnB is one of those ideas that works fine at a small scale, but becomes pathological as it grows. There's no inconsistency in this observation. The backpacker tail of the market is small, and by definition, broke. As the idea pushes into the middle of the bell curve to reach scale, the offerings will become more like hotels.
Sweden also had a fairly advanced nuclear weapons program in the 1950s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_nuclear_weapons_progra...
It's kind of an open secret, I think, that (at least in the US) there's not anywhere near an average of 8 hours of work a day per "full-time" employee. Probably closer to 3 by the time you average out the overloaded and the ones who are doing almost nothing.
Without going as far in the unknown there is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive#Spac...
yes-at-google had some really ugly stuff when they started out, but then everyone run out of stashed stories, and it's been almost exclusively petty issues for the past few weeks, and most of which look like people acting in good faith, just genuinely unaware of the impact having on the reporting person. Looks like the really bad stuff doesn't actually happen all that often.

Thing is, life in general is filled with stuff that makes people uneasy, but you always have to judge the intent before you can condemn the behavior. The y-a-g format is completely opposite of this.
How do you make PHPMyAdmin not public aside from say using one of those directory passwords.

Also it is somewhat of a similar question as to how Git is public but private.(Not GitHub your own setup)
If you fear that: "The engineer's words reflect the unspoken thoughts of many others in an industry dominated by white men.", would it be wise to dismiss those words with: "it advanced incorrect assumptions about gender. I'm not going to link to it here"?

The tech world is supposed to be a meritocracy where views are discussed using arguments, facts etcetera.

Most engineers have not been exposed to the body of research into gender differences, and without at least an informed discussion they will not change position.

Just giving out plain dismissals will not solve this issue.
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Alas, the employee would have to act ultimately.
> "Most of my friends at Google work four hours a day. They are senior engineers and don't work hard. They know the Google system, know when to kick into gear. They are engineers, so they optimized the performance cycles of their own jobs," one engineer described.

Is this really prevalent at Google?

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You should read "Marx's Inferno" then.
My pay increased when I transitioned from web dev at one company to product support at another - but to be fair, the first company was in Dallas and the second was in Palo Alto.

I haven't done a lot of comparison or asking my coworkers how much they make, but the information I do have suggests that while developers are commonly paid more on average, if you're at a company that actually values product support (often because it's recognized as an important contributor to customer retention) this difference can easily be dominated by other differences such as willingness to negotiate. Support teams are also usually smaller so it can be easier to demonstrate how much value you, personally, are adding.

But again, this assumes the company actually cares about support. There are definitely places that treat it as a revolving door position and won't pay much.

It's also worth noting that from what I've seen, companies are much more willing to have distributed support teams than dev teams, due to the value of having support availability in multiple timezones. I actually telecommute four days a week in my current role.
> [...] raise into question the fundamental capability of every woman you work with [...]

Can you please substantiate? Link to the "manifesto", https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-di...
Right and Obama's DOJ doesn't prosecute racketeers, they promote them.

WHITE HOUSE APPOINTS BRIAN CHESKY AS PRESIDENTIAL AMBASSADOR FOR GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

http://blog.atairbnb.com/white-house-appoints-ceo-brian-ches...
You don't want to know how many of your taxpayer dollars went to pay me for helping to shepherd purchase orders through the JPL bureaucracy.

:-(