skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably needed those questions answered once, but he can't answer them in time so his account is stuck in the "needs to verify" state.
> Specifically, he says at the top of the memo "Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business." I'm not aware of any studies that backs this up.

The unfairness is implicit. If more men are temperamentally inclined to 'thing' based work, it is unfair to push them toward work that they feel less affinity for. Society should support our freedoms, not impair them.
Maybe, maybe not. Honestly, I don't put much faith these days in what Left-leaning publications report on personal dealings within the Trump administration. Particularly when it is sourced to multiple anonymous sources.
> Related problem: sites that don't let you paste into the password field

Run Firefox

Change this about:config option "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" to "false".

No more blocking of pasting into password fields by any site.
If you want people to understand you, you should avoid attacking them when they try. I will not converse further with you.
By definition, an AI has to have some form of "wants", in the form of minimizing a loss function. Otherwise, it wouldn't do anything.
True enough, the graphics cards certainly have alternate uses while a bitcoin miner becomes a very heavy paperweight once the difficulty increases and it turns unprofitable to run.

Your thought process leads to another interesting game theory puzzle: There's a benefit in creating a coin that has a unique proof of work, but as you say, there's also value in letting miners easily switch their existing rigs to mine your coin. I wonder which is actually the best choice?
wonder how the influx of "corporate wellness" plans affect this. It seems more and more that your lifestyle can be adjusted/improved via your workplace rather than personal drive.

Could that be an input into insurance? potentially...
" But the disruption that Trump has brought to Washington doesn’t appear to be the kind that Thiel was betting on." Whoops? The thing about chaos is that it doesn't have a discernible vector. When you throw chaos into a situation to shake things up, all directions it could go are equally probable. And no matter how bad you think things are currently, there is a large surface area of possible directions that makes things worse.
This is not "Cryptocurrency Game Theory", it is some game theory applied to some cryptocurrency problems.
"Once we throw out everything that makes them different, they're the same." Going 500 miles north of here is the same as going 500 miles south of here because they are both going away from here.
Redfin, Industry-Leading Venture Firms Pledge to Diversify Startup Boards
The proposed "solutions" of pre-registration and increase sample size are not going to work because they are not fixing the underlying problem of NHST use (where a researcher tests a nil null hypothesis of zero effect and then concludes their favorite explanation is correct if they reject this null hypothesis).

The solution is to go back to the old way of science (pre-1940):

1) Collect data and figure out what is repeatable and consistent (eg come up with "natural laws").

2) Come up with theories that explain the observations from #1 that also make precise predictions about some different type of data.

Reward researchers who figure out methods that lead to reliable, repeatable observations and those that make precise predictions (if your theory predicts nothing more than a positive/negative correlation between two variables it is too vague).
Go 2 considered harmful?
> cutting out bureaucracy and office politics

Not trying to demotivate you, but that's just not gonna happen. I'm a developer who works on 'consultancy' basis. I've worked in multiple organizations and all of them have bureaucracy and office politics. As a developer it might sometimes feel even worse, because you're supposed to be the technical guy and not meddle with business, but you're still impacted by all the shit that's going on.

Unless you manage to get a job at a well funded, hardly managed, early stage startup in the burn phase, it'll be like many other jobs. And even if you do get to work in a startup like that, you'll see that there are also downsides to it.

My advice; first see if you actually like programming and have at least some feeling for the analytical thinking required to be able to do it. Do this after work and during weekends. Pick any language and follow an online course start to end. Then build something you think of yourself, anything, it can be useless and stupid, but it should be yours. You'll find out whether you like it while doing it. If you don't, then don't switch jobs.
I have always felt very ambivalent about affirmative action. It is a form of discrimination and therefore furthers the message that discerning based on gender or race is acceptable. You can make a strong argument that it is harmful, which is what the memo did.

However...

In the kingdom of Belgium at some point the rule was introduced that half of all political candidates for election must be women and had to receive equally prominent placement on ballots (by alternating male and female candidates). People were still free to vote men into office, but the idea was that it would give women a fairer chance. The same criticisms were said. Before you saw a low percentage of women in politics, like most countries. This was attributed to women having less of an affinity for politics. And yet, after a few election cycles this caused a shift in mindset as well as quality of female candidates and who was elected. Women are no longer perceived to be less suited for politics, the most popular politician is a woman, and gender has gone away as a divisive issue in politics. So, it actually worked. By making people so used to women politicians the issue went away, and you could probably get rid of the quotas and still see a 50% split in the next election.

So maybe our genetic predispositions matter far less than we think, and we can change mindsets through affirmative action. But it has to be all-in 50/50 % split, so that it will change people's perception of normal.
It is terrible style for you and Googlebro to keep asserting a 50/50 quota that nobody else ever said was the goal while insisting that it's your critics who are misrepresenting what was said.

It is also terrible style to be so bad at math as to claim or imply that the tiny observed differences on skills tests would produce the gigantic skew in gender ratio we observe. But hey, just piling up more evidence that he was unqualified for the job anyway, and should be replaced by someone with icky girlskills like, you know, actually being able to research something and think critically about it.
And we didn't know the result of the 2000 election until December (when Bush v Gore was decided) so the country isn't going to descend into anarchy if counting takes an orderly couple of days.
The difference is that the "on average" vs "the individual" in the memo is scientific. Which doesn't mean it's the gospel truth, by all means go and criticise the papers linked to. But at least it's science. In the case of privilege or the lack thereof, it's an opinion. As far as I know anyway, I'd be happy to be pointed in the direction of scientific studies on privilege.
It's a "wonderful example of trolling", not because of the presentation, but because the content is controversial?

To me it seems the man is trying to change the accepted political view rather than to spark controversy for the sake of it. Both approaches spark controversy, only the latter is trolling.
I worked from a small beach town in Costa Rica for 6 months a while back, and I have to agree with the parent. The novelty kind of wore off and we had to work a _lot_, it became more of a nuisance with bad/spotty internet than a WFH paradise. We took off 3 days one time the week we left to be just like regular tourists for once; that was great.
This is particularly interesting as an employee with options, because (theoretically, at least) independent board members represent the interests of common stock holders. So adding independent board members earlier, whatever the excuse, is good for those of us who hold common stock.
Film studios are constrained by labyrinthine contracts between studios, distributors, actors, and unions. In cases where contracts are missing, any of the above parties can sue.

Even more confusingly rights for IP might have been transferred and sold many times leading to questions about who actually owns a film or franchise.

Distribution rights, production rights are separate. Actors may have been promised a cut of any of the above.

So if you track down 40 years worth of contracts, you can safely add a movie to your streaming service.

Add to that 100 years of studio mergers, consolidation, etc. It is a mess.

I am sure many companies would like to stream more, but simply can't.
So if the current efforts are failing, maybe they are based on false assumptions (that are not being questioned) and one should try other things.

Nah, that's crazy talk!
Do you think Satoshi Nakamoto is a "game theory expert"?
While that approach might help you understand how to code a technique, it doesn't do much to teach you to evaluate when and why to use a technique. You can read a bunch of tips on when to use something, but simply remembering these "facts" rather than being able to relate them from first principles is not efficient.

Granted after you understand the math, you no longer need an equation, but simply a mental picture of what is going on (for example, I remember linear regression with projection of data onto a line or plane).

After you have a good foundation, I found often-times you can then ignore the details of equations and see the relevant parts (different forms of Bayes rule, projections, chain-rule, etc) and arrive at the general idea of a technique.

The interesting and hard part is understanding the technique, and I think that is probably the most bang for your bucks, as I assume you are proficient in programming already.
No, unfortunately it isn't always 'very measureable'. Read your sibling comment; sometimes the government has the necessary data but refuses to release it to anyone.

Providing proof may then become prohibitively expensive, and sometimes impossible.
Kubernetes vs Mesos, an opinionated post
http://www.golang.sucks/ is both a better and a more comprehensive critique of Go.

Rob Pike's quote about "They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language" is extremely unfortunate, and a missed opportunity to elevate the art/science of programming and the much larger understanding of information theory in general for all programmers, instead of trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator. My first question would be "why would anyone pick a language that is designed out of the box to ultimately limit the depth of their understanding?
From someone who's done both, they are not comparable, directly, but they have a complementary relation: The DN (digital nomad) life is absolutely an engine for the kind of creative and free thinking that engenders killer startup ideas. Startups are "the thing" you want to commit your life to, the world-changing vision that you're ready to sacrifice for; the DN/ lifestyle business/ remote gigs mode is the fertile ground, for when you lack strength of vision, you don't know what you want right now, so you slow down, gain experience, and grow your thinking.

Only ever doing one in your life without the other is unenviable, and makes it hard to fully enjoy and appreciate, or even excel at, whichever one you've chosen.
This was a terribly worded blog post.
The problems the author faced with go were so paper thin -- I don't think they warranted claiming "every line of go i've written is now deprecated".

It's pretty clear going into go from the initial HelloWorld -- that you are expected to:

1 - use gofmt
2 - won't have inheritance
3 - Drudge your way through a solution for dependency versioning

To complain about it so late into a project really speaks poorly to the author.
I guess the author meant that interfaces are defined by methods, not data members. Thus, you can't have an interface that describes you should have a member field "Foo", but instead will need to create a "getter" Foo(), for it, if you want it to be part of an interface definition.
Good. If you had wanted to engage constructively, you wouldn't have led with a strawman. The response - not attack - was no more or less than such a non-contribution deserved.
Author here. The author doesn't think that for everyone. But for himself and the people working with him :-) But I do get your point.
Sorry guys, I have had enough of third wave harpies.
We'll never be able to discuss this rationally as long as one side continues to make false claims about what the memo said.

The memo doesn't promote discrimination, and in fact, raises concerns about how the existing policy is legally murky because it does--just in the other direction.

Your analogy is ridiculous, and just because some people perceive discrimination doesn't mean any has occurred. That there's a legal issue if you presume it has simply because people were offended is immaterial.
I feel like a lot of people are getting indignant for basically nothing. It doesn't matter what the memo says.

I am reading Corporate Confidential by Cynthia Shapiro. It's highly relevant to this situation. Also, for those who have read it, this particular situation becomes an extremely interesting case study on exactly what not to do when you are working at any company.
It is indeed absurd. If you watch his interview on YouTube, how this guy acts and talks, it is very hard to imagine him picking fights. I can't see anybody who is sincere doing this.
>> The block has been implemented using a hosts based method

I'm curious what exactly you mean by hosts-based. For it affect HTTP but not HTTPS, routers would have to be inspecting TCP packets and parsing HTTP. I'd call that packet-sniffing. hosts-based sounds like the DNS-level block to me. Am I missing something?
I don't really think it is debatable. Just the fact the the memo and the firing were so controversial, in both directions, implies that a number of strong critical thinkers are on both sides of this issue. Assuming that is the case, it's not reasonable to use the memo as evidence of a lack of critical thinking.

And I think we all know Google didn't fire him because they believed him to be incompetent. In fact, Google didn't even claim as much, they fired him for "advancing harmful gender stereotypes." How can we ever have a genuine conversation about the under-representation of women in tech if people with a certain "undesirable" opinion get fired for expressing it?
> left side brain good, right side brain bad

We're programmers/engineers, not painters/artists. Hence I don't see where that statement doesn't hold absolutely true for us. (Except perhaps for management, team leads and entrepreneurs.)
I think you have a skewed idea of the American political spectrum, but everyone is free to define left/right however they wish, so we'll have to agree that we disagree about their meanings.
Yea you could probably argue there are better economies of scale doing all of your working in large chunks and then all of your traveling in large chunks.

To me 1-2 week vacations per year though is not a large enough chunk of time off. I sometimes wonder if I'd rather forgo weekends, accumulate all of that time and then take 2-3 months off all at once.
All protocols of the world were thought with "game theory" in mind. They just didn't call it by that fancy name.
It's back online again.
The problem with "remembering" multiple different "easy to remember" passwords across multiple cites is that there is a limit to how many "the password for site X is Y" associations you can hold in your head before you start forgetting which password belongs to which site.

Just use a proper password manager, then you can have proper randomly generated passwords that do not each need to be remembered (and their association to a site remembered as well).
I'm sorry, integrity was not a good choice of a word. But he didn't handle Damore's interview as well as I hoped. He's still one of the few video makers I truly appreciate. He leads you to question core beliefs people take for granted. I wish he focused more on other issues: The Truth About... history series and King Lear Revealed are among my favorite segments.
Your "let them go to school" is the equivalent of "let them eat cake": if they could go to school they probably wouldn't be working in a mine in the first place :/.

If you want to try to solve the problem through some random intervention you need to take a step back and fix whatever is preventing them from going to school, not arbitrarily taking away their jobs and then patting yourself on the back for a problem solved.
At first I just thought he was oblivious to some degree—regardless of his document's veracity, it was clearly a case of "wrong time, wrong place." Furthermore, it's one thing to "stand on principle, even if you stand alone", but there's also something to be said for "choosing which hill to die on"...

Frankly, as additional details and background have come out—and the more he speaks—it seems increasingly evident his motivations were less than virtuous.
Safety: "Each city’s Safety score reflects the reported perception of safety by residents and public data provided by police departments of each city regarding crime rates."

Maybe the residents of Tel Aviv do not perceive their city as unsafe. I guess that people become accustomed to terrorism happening rather regularly.
A city with less homicides but more reported ones in the media is maybe perceived less safe by the residents?
It is sustainable if you manage it properly and don't rob the collection plate. Insurance is predicated on the same ponzi scheme, just usually private market based. Some insurance exec couldn't be embezzling millions and still have the numbers work out.

I'd say it comes down to good management (as with anything) and priorities. A bad government is going to mismanage it and spend more on the military or other priorities, borrow money to make up the deficits and then of course everyone loses faith.
With kotlin I seldom need a framework, because the standard-library is so rich.

In general, when I tend to follow a data-flow ("redux" for JS people) architecture, but have a different approach when it comes to side-effects:
My state is always a serialisable description including running side-effects.
So even network-requests can be reconstructed from a state-file.

Also I decouple View/React from the actual state via interfaces.

Meaning my state doesn't necessarily contain the data in the format my Views need, but it's able to supply the data via delegation.

If I need background-threads I use actors / CSP.
> I love Google Play Music for exactly this reason: I have 20k songs uploaded and counting. No other service is offering anything close.

Actually Apple Music offers exactly this. There might be other reasons you'd prefer not to use it, which is fine, but in terms of offering they're actually quite similar.

Except Apple will actually allow you to upload more songs than Google Music, up to 100,000.
> We're talking about companies that barely need more than for-loops and if-statements and some CRUD.

This is 99.9% of all companies, including startups.

How many companies need developers to write a new sorting algorithm that is 15ms faster?
Where can I get that list of companies?
"you and your peers would have had more time to spend on education and the net personal and economic benefits would have been positive."

I think you drastically underestimate the value of work as it related to self actualization, determination and long term success as an adult.

Fortunately, we have a bit of an A/B test going on in America right now - rural youth in many parts of the country have no meaningful work and no home-economic structure into which to pour their energy and time. News headlines lead me to believe this is going poorly:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/us/opioid-crisis-epidemic...
Did you read the article? The concern is about Monsanto heavily editing what should've been unbiased independent research around the safety of roundup, yet releasing it as such. knowingly giving the general population carcinogens and fighting hard for it. Deplorable.
This is almost a year after the other major trust stores.

Message: Do not wait for Microsoft to make decisions if you care about the trustworthiness of CAs, their list of "acceptable" CAs is enormous, their criteria for accepting new CA roots are opaque, and they are slow to remove obviously problematic CAs like WoSign.

This is probably fine for your day-to-day web browsing habits, but if you have software that needs to trust e.g. API endpoints you should look to stop relying on Microsoft's trust store to decide if things are OK. And let them know - this makes no difference if just a few people do it, but if the message that end users care gets to Microsoft they just might become a bit more proactive and stop prioritising commercial interests over trustworthiness.
> most people who act like that lack the intelligence

That's not true. _Everyone_ acts like this, including me and you (except we don't notice it when we do). The key factor is whether or not there's emotion involved in the beliefs that are challenged when presented with facts to the contrary, which then provokes cognitive dissosance. Look up "the backfire effect".
> Attempts to break down aptitude by gender tend to imagine computer science in terms of compiler theory and algorithm design, when in reality 90% of all software development is repeated iterations of "wire this database column into this UI table".

I think computer scientists tend to apply the same skills and techniques to social issues that they do to compiler theory and algorithm design. And that's how you end up with these 'manifestos'. I don't think that many people are offended by the science. They are offended that he has turned women in tech into a technical problem that he can solve with his logical reasoning.

It appears that he thinks he's the only one who's read the studies. It's arrogant. Everyone interested in the issue has already read those studies. They also have enough interpersonal skills to know that you can't just apply studies to your coworkers.
CRE life lessons: What is a dark launch, and what does it do for me?
> Think of mangoes. It is easy for anyone to get into the market, all that anyone has to do is to grow mangoes.

Really? I would have assumed one has to successfully grow mangoes. And that there be demand for mangoes.

If that's all there is to it, why aren't we all mango growers?

Just because we CAN apply certain game theories to trade, doesn't mean we're obliged to.

I'm rather tired of the religion of economics. "Because some financial analyst found math that looks similar, it's now the rule of human society."

And why does everyone on the planet need to get into the market trading away their time/creative work? What law of reality dictates that? Oh, right. None of them. It's just more humans thinking other humans should do things their way.

Still clinging to these embedded notions that the universe has inherent meaning not simply inherent structure. Meaning is in the eye of the beholder.

This sort of stuff replaces a persons ability to consider and create conscious ideas for themselves and is instead more "regurgitate what I tell you, peon!"
How is any of this easier than using a password manager??
Why Millennials Are Still Snapping Up Shares of Snap
I think it's dangerous to be led by your assumptions
"Choose your battles" does make sense, and I think the Kolmogorov option is an honorable one. But I'm not sure it should apply here:

First, Kolmogorov lived in a dictatorship. Most people talking here live in a democracy. We have many more options for fighting incorrect but widely-accepted beliefs.

Second, Kolmogorov lived before the internet. Internet anonymity helps minorities speak up and get organized (as we can see across the political spectrum).