skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a valid argument in this case to be made about how the reason women are better than men at chess

But there isn't. There is an argument that women are, on average, better than men at chess. But that argument does not apply to an individual person. Why would you use male vs female average IQ when judging who becomes a member of the chess team? Why not assess the candidates IQ? Or, maybe have them play chess and see how well they do?

There is a persistent theory that diversity programmes exist to promote underqualified minorities over qualified white people. That's not true. The aim of the programmes is to find people who have been disadvantaged by this exact kind of (often subconscious) "well when you average group X out over the entire country ignoring educational achievement and employment history, typically they're not so good" thinking and have lost out on past opportunities.

You're right, I was using some excessive shorthand in my original post and will amend it - the assumptions are not genetic, they are social. But the point still stands, why be making these assumptions at all?
This is basically a long exercise in missing the point.

That I think one skill is good does not mean all other skills are bad.

Your basic notion seems to be that even though most historical bias has turned out to be totally unjustifiable, maybe the exact amount of bias we have today is perfectly justifiable by facts that we just don't know yet.

I can't say that's impossible, but I can say that a) it's not a smart or useful argument, and b) it totally ignores the actual harm done by today's bias in favor of worrying about what might happen if we're just too good to everybody regardless of gender.

Maybe you're the one guy in the world who spends a lot of time arguing in favor of gender bias not because he benefits from it and has soaked up society's pro-bias conditioning. Maybe you're the one pro-bias dude who comes upon it for purely intellectual reasons. But per Occam's Razor, you can guess which way I'm betting.
I'm beginning to recognise that you are a Vehicular Cyclist and probably fight against protected cycle lanes as this 'forces' you to use them. I've seen this argument a lot and only seems to be prevalent within the USA.

Most of the EU has recognised that this is a failed approach that only results in less people cycling.
This person may have not given their money to an individual home owner. It could have been a landlord that operated several houses and acted like they are renting out thier home or vacation spot. It's really impossible to tell.
Or, maybe, he just want the people living on the other side of his bedroom wall to be some stable neighbors and not seeing someone new every three days.
SMALT – IoT Salt Dispenser
Absolutely. It maddens me how few people can see this point.
Sean Parker is a huge reason too. Then Sheryl Sanberg during their crazy growth and maturity period. Many others are very important too, but I think these three have been the most important to FB's success.
I've never have the chance to use the new core TclOO, but I really think they've made mistake at that time by implementing another new object system instead of promoting an existing one like [incr tcl] (even if not perfect/incomplete).
My whole business is based on targeting older businesses. We've done some really simple CRUD apps with users for each employee for quite great margins. So much work to be done - just gotta meet enough businesses.
Tcl, is just not as nice a language as other dynamic languages

and it didn't have the ecosystem to justify it

I think Tcl fails on the basics, nothing too deep, subtle or obscure
You would be surprised that area is like what I imagine California is like people are laid back and friendly and never forget a good turn or complement and have the coolest accent it's a shame
Inappropriate Snapchat post results in softball team's disqualification
> What an absurd statement. The manifesto argues that women are genetically inferior and that most women developers shouldn't have their job.

That's not what he said at all. He said they are, on average, different, but people can't talk about it without resorting to these Trumpish generalizations and accusations. Did you actually read it?
"Professional landlords" doesn't even mean anything.

The landlords on AirBnb are a small fraction of all the landlords in the rental market.

It's entirely possible that there is a massive churn of properties. Landlord try AirBnb a few months and revert back to long term renting because it was much hassle and not as much profitable.

I for one, have noticed that.
A society where only a select few own property? I believe Europe tried that for 100's of years. I doubt you'd find many people willing to go back to serfdom.
What's the difference other than technology makes it more efficient. I'm sure the courts will weigh in eventually but this seems like a legislative issue.
We have the same issues with polygraph tests as with traditional witch tests:

* swimming test (aka trial by water): throw them chained into water. a witch would stay afloat, an innocent would sink like a stone.

* prayer test: witches cannot speak scriptures aloud, without making mistakes or omissions. but even if you can it was a devil's trick.

* touch test: victims of sorcery would have a special reaction to physical contact with their evildoer

* witch cake: In cases of mysterious illness or possession, witch-hunters would take a sample of the victim’s urine, mix it with rye-meal and ashes and bake it into a cake. This stomach-turning concoction was then fed to a dog—the “familiars,” or animal helpers, of witches, and would spell out the name. It worked with well in Salem, as knowledge of the recipe led to the conviction then.

* witch marks: numb and insensitive to pain. Moles, scars, birthmarks, sores, supernumerary nipples and tattoos could all qualify.

* Pricking and Scratching Tests on these marks.

* Incantations: very similar to a polygraph test

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/7-bizarre-witch-tr...

They all worked extremely well over hundreds of years.
So why do these sick people not get some lawyers and start suing?

Obviously there must be something stopping them, what is it?
Hey, thanks for responding with such interesting information! I had a friend audition for a swe job at Google. (very very small sample size, I know) They had a wonderful audition experience, even though they didn't get the job.

I understood/agree with you about how you spoke about our audition removing bias without introducing a counter-bias. There is no way to be perfect here, but the orchestras who implement this screened protocol are some of the top 10 in the country, and are respected throughout classical music for making the best attempts to be fair. (most orchestras do a sloppier version of the screen, and small orchestras don't bother) After I got wise to it, I only took "top 10" auditions for this reason, because the process is an expensive burden on the player.

You are right-ish about the numbers of players in circulation. This is an interesting point about why we or our colleagues know who is playing behind the screen: 1. we know who's at the audition. 2. At any given point, there are around 20-30 of us in the group of around 200-250 per instrument (who might all show up to a top 10-er) who are "in it to win it" at a top-ten audition. We all play gigs together often or went to school with one another. So the group we are selecting from is very small. Still, I believe we each could do it out of 100 players. It would be instructive to test this. I only mentioned it because it is interesting and most people don't realize this. (people are surprised when a musician can identify who is playing on a Mozart Concerto recording within a few bars at parties, but it isn't a trick-- your ear gets trained to recognize people in that way.)

I only asked about recognizing someone by their code because there is a scene in Silicon Valley where Dinesh "falls in love" with the code of Guilfoyle, without knowing it's his. I thought that was hilarious, but unlikely, since the characters code together every day. Your comment taught me something about how teams work together on code. I'd say it is like the "house style" of a newspaper.

I agree that it would be unlikely for anyone to recognize someone's code in a blind coding interview due to the numbers of engineers out there.
Very interesting comment. Thank you! Cool that you are a singer and can keep it up.
> not one-off people that might not take the transaction seriously

But this is exactly what's needed to keep costs down. Consumers have the choice of professionally managed and regulated hotels, for a higher price, or to take a chance on some guy's couch in a basement, for very cheap, because hospitality isn't couch-guy's day job and it's just a way for him to make an extra quick buck. That couch-guy is a one-off is supposed to be the entire value proposition why AirBNB can be cheaper. The moment professionals start to get involved is the moment the law needs to be careful that professionals aren't using AirBNB to skirt regulations.
2 to 4 times what it ought to be or not? Maybe it's ok
Yes! I started with WebSockets, but Event Source met my needs and is much simpler.
When drives are never replaced, yes. In the case where the chassis lasts longer than the drives (which I'd imagine is often), extra cost in drives adds up.
And this is why outsourcing 100% of your stuff isn't the greatest idea. Sure, the 'managing servers is not your core business'-story holds up most of the time, but when you have no control of anything anymore, you no longer control your services.
What exactly are you implying?

Perhaps the author is simply not a libertarian. Not everyone who identifies themselves as "classically liberal" is. Some people others would describe as "conservative" use that label also.

I also don't see what using that term has to do with the author's debating ability. If anything, it's my experience that most people who use "classical liberal" have read all of those books and prefer to root themselves more in Burke's premises.
This article makes it sound like WIN 18,446 is a safe and effective male contraceptive and it was abandoned completely just because it has bad interactions with alcohol. Is this actually true? There are lots of drugs on the market that have a bad interaction with alcohol. It's possible to just not drink alcohol.
As @jonah found out, it's just a joke–only the "existentialist breakfast" is a real thing that probably started as a joke, and that I've seen on one or two menus of cafes willing to skirt the rules on selling pharmaceuticals.

But the joke is most definitely not "on you". As in: It wasn't meant to expose anybody's shocking lack of knowledge of arcane Australian trivia.
http://starmine.ai/biomimetic-cognition/cognitive_biomimicry...
I'm wondering how these shell providers deal with malicious users. In security the standard response to an untrusted person getting shell access/code execution is to reinstall the entire server due to the risks of kernel privilege-escalation exploits. How do those people manage this risk given they're allowing shell access on purpose? Or are they already pwned and just not know it?
> So yes, I think they now have a deep understanding of how humans think and articulate...

True. But what I think the grandparent was getting at is that some people see Google as having a bad track record understanding how humans interact. See also: messenger fragmentations - Allo vs Duo vs Hangouts...
Who would think that publishing a manifesto might have consequences?
ARC? The GIS language? Age Restricted Content? Advance Reading Copy? Activity-Regulated Cytoskeleton-associated protein?
How do you get individualism if individuals can't own anything, including themselves?
How do you know it's really a Macbook, and not a Macbook box that has been emptied and refilled with heroin and re-shrink-wrapped?
A tool for estimating the Truck Factor of GitHub projects
A Quest to Make a Toaster from Scratch (2011)
Automatic Reference Counting, i.e. garbage collection. That's why the timer wouldn't attribute the CPU time to the line you mention; the GC cleans the structure up when the "x" goes out of scope, so after the timing has ended.
That wouldn't be possible any-way, Indian roads are quite different, In-order to make self-driving cars work in India they need to do lot of development.
Each of the 50 states also has a government, constitution and elections.
Cuz no BDFL?
> why do we see 50/50 male/female in tech as some kind of gold standard

This isn't even a hard question. The short version is, "duh, history". The slightly longer version is that many, many other fields have shifted from "no women" to "50/50" over the last century because patriarchy is finally starting to fall apart. Tech is a weird exception:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...

Maybe you could read a book or take a class before opining much more on this?

> what if the problem had a lot more to do with how ingrained the drive for status is

You mean what if our organizational cultures are so fucked up as to reward status-seeking behaviors rather than more healthy ones? Organizational cultures that derive from patriarchal dominance hierarchies? The answer is to shift to more healthy and inclusive models of working, which is why modern diversity/inclusion programs do much more than fix hiring. Which fits nicely in with a lot of organizational improvement efforts that have nothing to do with bias reduction, because it turns out that raw primate dominance behaviors are a pretty terrible way to organize knowledge work.
People do different work and different things. Some people probably also get reinvogorated after watching HD video streams as a break.

Personally, I prefer fast internet and blocking sites via hosts file, extension, or an app. But I lack a certain amount of self discipline. I doubt being without fast internet for long periods of times and not wasting because of that outweighs having slow internet after the initial change of pace.
Mildly amusing observation: You're defending the original article, yet at the same time you're perpetuating sexist assumptions (to be clear, I mean the assumption that men are inherently worse than women at certain tasks). This isn't meant to attack you, just thought I should point it out in case you haven't noticed.
When building and comparing feature attributes from natural language and comparing vectors for similarity. And Tcl eggdrop IRC bots of course...
One of how many? "One of the three most talented" would be a bold statement, "one of the 300 most talented" would be an understatement. (Edit: now it occurs to me that you might find that opening sentence an understatement?)
Luckily only very few people are true psychopaths, less than 1% actually - which doesn't mean they cannot learn to be empathic in some way. Unfortunately many people lack social intelligence which can make it difficult to interact with them, let it be in the workplace or in the private life.

I mean it's somehow a big topic in the IT world. People don't talk too often about it, but sometimes make jokes about it. However, I think that it's a thing also outside of the IT world and there people get away with it much more easily. In the normal world people with low "EQ" (or whatever name people prefer) are considered annoying or as*, within IT they are considered incompetent.
I don't need backups of my (S3) backup, because it's more likely my personal backup process has a flaw such that it will backfire and destroy my data, than that it will one day save it from the inadequacy of Dynamo's ~RAID17.

Consider: each time you introduce a new device that has local, physical access to the place your data lives, that's one more thing that could Halt and Catch Fire at just the wrong time, or be replaced with a USB Killer or a DMA cryptolocker device by social engineering. If it involves data center operators you don't know, that's more people you have to trust not to break whatever they touch or have been paid off to steal your corporate secrets. Etc.

Sure, the probabilities are small—but so is the probability of the great data fortresses crumbling to ash and you being the Last Best Hope for your data. Hypothetical ameliorations of sub-lightning-strike probabilities often have failure modes more likely than their use.
Seems like he manages the whole reservation process and guest back and forth for a large number of properties. That's a large part of what established property managers do.
> The risk of cancer in Reserve, a community founded by freed slaves, is 800 times the national average

I stopped reading there because I could think of no interpretation of that statement where the claim was even remotely plausible. The overall risk of developing some kind of cancer at some point in your life in the U.S. is about 40% [1]. Life expectancy is just shy of 80 years, so the annual risk of cancer is 0.5%. For the risk in Reserve to be 800 times that, the entire population would have to come down with cancer every three months. If that happened, it would be a bigger story.

[1] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-basics/lifetime-probabi...
I used tkinter, after years seeing it in d2 nuke. It was very very straightforward.
>You're simply demonstrating NIMBYism.

I signed a 12 month rental agreement for an apartment in Reykjavik in 2015. About a month after I moved in, the apartment above me was sold to an ABnBer, and for the rest of the year I had a rotating troop of loud holidayers cycling through. I took to sleeping with earplugs every night, and still often was kept up until 1 or 2 on a weeknight. Needless to say, I moved the second the contract expired.

You can't persuade AirBnB users to give a shit about the noise they are causing, because they're going to be gone in 2 weeks. They don't care if the rest of the apartment hates them. It was toxic behavior that lowered the value of all the other apartments, and it harmed my quality of life quite severely.

But here's the important bit. This problem is not like someone buying a house near an airport and then complaining about the noise. Apartments become AirBnB rentals very suddenly, with no warning. There's nothing you can do to plan or defend against it, and it can happen to anyone. It's life ruining stuff, it harms your sleep, it harms your property investments, it increases your building maintenance costs and it increases your rental costs[1], and it happens randomly out of the blue.

It's an approach used by a lot of companies that I've started to think of as "societal strip mining". AirBnB is making it's money by offloading costs of business that it should rightfully pay itself to random other people around it, and pocketing the difference.

A newly created hotel in the middle of an otherwise quiet suburb would be required to soundproof it's premises and build parking under the site for it's customers. AirBnB apartments ignore soundproofing and create a system that encourages their customers to fight the locals for street parking (AirBnB customers usually win, because they're not on a 9-5 work schedule). It's no different to Uber saying "local regulations are not our problem, so we're not going to pay for cameras in Uber vehicles, and we're not going to safety check the vehicles every 3 months either. Whether our drivers do these things or not is between them and the government". BAM, fleet maintenance costs drop to zero, giving them a competitive edge against local taxi companies. Every now and again someone gets brutally raped or a car goes off a bridge as a result of pressuring their drivers to bypass regulations, but Uber isn't the one that has to pay.

I'm not impressed by this NIMBYism argument. AirBnB is taking the piss. They've had every opportunity to be a responsible business and work to support the tourism boom in Iceland in a positive manner, and instead they've made the lives of locals a lot harder and more expensive than it need be in the name of a quick buck. I for one will embrace with open arms any legislation which will shut them out of my city.

[1] 44% of Reykjaviks rental market is now listen on AirBnB, up from 23.5% 12 months ago, the average cost of rent has increase ~$1000USD per month in two years.
A language implementation in WebAssembly would do the trick.
Who says it's only about rent? People who live in a place for only a few nights in general behave very different than where they live for a longer time.

I live in a > 100 year old building with bad acoustic insulation with 10 small apartments in it. For some time, the tenant above rented his apartment via AirBnB which was totally annoying and I'm really happy it stopped.

I'm mostly talking about loud noise in the middle of the night, disturbing all the other tenants. Be it coming home drunk at 4am and puking in the stair case, having lots of parties, shouting, door slamming, etc.
If you own seven apartments with an average rent of $1k, your yearly revenue (not profit!) is $84,000. That's microscopic by any reasonable standard of company size.
Yeah exactly. For more accurate data you want to have a CTA like "get the product" and then a page where you explain that you are still working on it to put it out there ASAP. This way the conversion rate can be directly used to your future calculations. If you use words like "beta" or "waiting list" it can corrupt your data.

And to answer the previous comment : if a user/consumer have the reaction "Thank god someone have resolved my issue", then finding that you'll have to wait is not really a big of a deal.
For example a few years back I found this device to scan your food and have sorted the ingredients. As a coeliac it had huge value for me. When I clicked on the CTA I found that they were still "in development", well, can't blame them to work on it, let me know when it's available. I was a bit disapointed but still exited someone was working to resolve my problem !
It's better to do the big commit and then refactor it. Otherwise you won't have tested whether the hunks depend on each other, which means history littered with broken commits.
New Music Curation Challenge: One 10 Song Playlist a Day for the Next Year
Thank you for the pointer to Gregor Kiczales's EdX course. I am a few modules into this course and find it valuable.
Damn Interesting is, as far as I know, the original "collection of historical anecdotes" Web site in the vein of Atlas Obscura or Mental Floss. They've always favoured long-form, well-sourced articles, and they started doing it before it was cool and/or profitable -- the site was at one point left unmaintained for well over a year if I remember correctly. So yes, hats off to them for playing the long game, sticking to their formula, and not devolving into yet another ads-plagued list-icles Web site.