skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote this earlier elsewhere, I'll throw it here for an anecdote from the northern corner of Europe.

About 109 years ago, my grandfather was a twelve-year-old boy and as all boys at that time and in his social class did, he went to work in the forest, logging trees with his father and brothers. Ours was not the poorest of families, but everyone had to work hard to make a living, and that meant also children.

A pile of logs came loose and rolled on his knee, crushing it. My folks were so well-off people in such a well-off area that they actually took the boy to a doctor - not everyone would have been able to do that - and the doctor said that his knee might never recover and he couldn't work in the forest.

"What use do I have for such a boy?" was my great-grandfather's reaction, in a tone of agitation and disbelief.

No tears for the boy, no expression of sympathy for the immense pain. It was simply the grief of losing labour, a pair of hands and feet that could work for the family, a family which had for generations made a living in subsistence farming but now could work the forests for the emerging paper and sawmill industries. He had no use for a boy that couldn't work.

That might sound totally heartless today, but those days, it was the natural reaction. A kid who couldn't contribute, e.g. in logging trees, was just a useless mouth to feed. My grandfather's knee mended eventually well enough for him to work, and he died of tuberculosis at the age of 56, a dozen years before I was born.

And our family was not at all the poorest of families; they lived in a nation that was at that time ahead in poverty reduction of where much of India, Bangladesh of Congo is now: there was even a new, universal school system! And there were those industries that were exploiting child labour.

How the world has changed. My own father still worked the forest with a horse; in between he went to a world war and then again worked the forest with a leg that was shot to pieces and did not mend well. His hands were rough with calluses. But mine are soft. Beside school I got a job at cemetery digging graves, earned money to buy a computer, became a software engineer. This is easy life.

But this is only possible because my grandfather was able to work as a child labourer.
MotorTrend on demand have the same, but is only a white overlay over the whole page. So it is enough to set the overlay to display none to get the site to work without allowing a bunch of tracking scripts
That's the argument tobacco companies used. They'd find one counterexample of someone who smoked 70 years and say "Aha! No cancer here! Tobacco is safe!"

I mean seriously, find a new strategy, that one is from the 60s.
"Please, before you throw in your lot with him, consider how ridiculous the analogy OP made here is. The Google Manifesto is manifestly not A Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems."

Aaronson doesn't mention Google or Damore.
Which is exactly what most gasoline engines do, too.
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> they thought his suggestions were offensive

Not only were they offensive, they had no grounding in reality and made it impossible for many people there to work with or trust him.
You can use Mozilla's free geolocation service based on crowd-sourced location data for hundreds of millions of Wi-Fi access points, cell towers, and Bluetooth beacons. The website has a zoomable world map of network location coverage:

https://location.services.mozilla.com/map
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Google Chrome Developers/Google Developers Youtube channel has great content on Frontend optimisations by Paul Irish and others. They teach you what to measure and how. You might want to check that if you are interested in Frontend Engineering.

When your site has a large audience, every microsecond counts. Especially when you don't have someone bankrolling for your traffic. Speed plays an important part for SEO and UX.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-college-made-histor...
Yeah, the impression I got from the manifesto is that he seemed like a poor person to work on a team with, even if you weren't a woman.
How to spin news for power and profit 101. Control the wording and you bias the people.
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Re: first paragraph - incorrect.

The problem with "specs" is that you don't know whether they solve the problem until the solution is implemented and shipped. And even then, you have no real way of knowing what's meat and what's cud. So lots of time, money and people are thrown at solutions that - at best - are wildly bloated or inefficient and - at worst - completely fail to address the actual problem at hand.

The _need_ for specs is - even in large organisations - typically down to misplaced accountability. When you decompose the problem space into small pieces and give development teams a high degree of problem-solving autonomy _and_ accountability for production, the organisational disconnects that lead to the "need" (or, rather, the ill-conceived desire) for burdensome process and specification largely go away.

This isn't witchcraft - it's progress. It works; and it works in large organisations. You haven't witnessed it, so you don't believe me. If/when you do, I'd be willing to bet you'll be converted as I was.

But I'm sure I've given you plenty of reasons to double down on your skepticism.
As an (actual, not hypothetical) Jew, I could absolutely work with someone who claims Jews are statistically better at banking; Especially if that statement is scientifically well-supported, but even if it isn't.

As long as that person isn't constantly soliciting investment advice from me or asking me to front them loans, I don't think it's unreasonable for an adult to be expected to tolerate opinions that do not affect their work.

Hell, I've worked with co-workers who consider Jews illegitimate occupiers of their country, yet we still got along just fine by avoiding talking about politics in the break room.
Interrupting other people to ask your question doesn't mean that you are engaging in collaborative coding. Collaborative coding in the sense you describe, doesn't really exist. What does exist is multiple people working on the same project, with their code communicating via interfaces, etc. Each person needs quiet focused time to do that.

The other issue you raised is that sure, your productivity may go up if you interrupt someone and get a question. It's clear that we don't want to optimize for that, because the interruption may cause someone else a loss of 30 minutes before they get back into the zone. It's not just 5 minutes. And 20 minutes into that recovery of concentration, someone else will interrupt them and ask another question. And they will also interrupt you. That creates a very frustrating experience. So it's better to ask your question asynchronously. You will get your answer when the person takes a break and relaxes their concentration. Both of you will be able to exercise control over when you can concentrate on getting your work done. Having that sense of control and ability to concentrate is critical to being productive.
Transport for London produced similar drawings for all 124 Tube stations:

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2015/07/12/3d-maps-of-every...
I don't want to advance anything (don't have time to find the source), but I think Apple have something special built in Safari/Webkit for Netflix. That relate to decoding, quality and battery combustion while streaming.
Eh, this seems like an example where Stripe did pretty well for itself by leaving this part of the market for last.
He may be a wonderful person, but if he genuinely thinks being a straight white guy in the US is harder than being gay, he's not as clever as he thinks he is.
EV should consume less brake discs because small braking recharges the battery.
Even when your webpage has over 100s of images?

Which is the case for listing pages of e-commerce sites, video sites, social networks etc.

As a frontend engineer, I find every way to achieve my goals as every ms matters :).
> But being bigoted and supporting racist social policies in and of itself isn't inherently illegal.

And, as a consequence, the US now has an immature tantrum-throwing child as President with a GOP doing nothing but enabling his worst actions.
The level of elitism in this thread is staggering. Should kids that are not at the top of their class be left to work in the salt mines? Do we just abandon the idea of educating people and make all universities a private "smart people only" club? The CSU system's mandate is to provide accessible education to all Californians. Ragging on them for working towards that goal makes no sense. The UC system is still the most prestigious, selective public university system in the world, and this will not affect that.
I wondered the same thing, there is an excellent book on this topic called "The reckless mind" that might interest you if you didn't already read it. I portrays great thinkers who got swayed by totalitarian systems and asks why.
Is there a real issue here?

First of all, isn't failing the placement test prima facie evidence that you need remedial courses?

Second, at least my school generally gave you enough rope to hang yourself if you wanted to. You want to take arguably the hardest undergraduate math class in the US? Well go ahead...
Not one mention of Horizon by RethinkDB? :D
Token sales may end up being worth a ton of money. There's going to be competition.
Sorry - HN doesn’t support standard markdown (un)ordered list style syntax, I’ve reformatted them for you without the pre block
A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki amid US-North Korea tension
Careful of this mindset.

So the thought process is:
"I want this"
"I am not allowed this"
"I should be allowed this"
"I will take it anyway"

This is seductive, easy, and the wrong way to go for most things.

I understand the frustration. I have felt the same way many, many times. I suspect that if people who illegally downloaded movies posted money to the studios who created the content directly, then this problem would disappear pretty much overnight.
Not only that, but his work was in molecular biology.
Thanks—only reason I didn’t mention it was that I didn’t feel the need to advertise. I mainly wanted to give my thoughts on how this article’s advice has been a positive thing for the project—seeking out users and taking measures to help them and make them happy directly.
> Unfortunately, you are wrong.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frederick_Oswald/public...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308926636_A_Meta-An...

I can provide more if you like.

Show me a study that measures gender bias, does an educational intervention and succeeds in improving that measure significantly. None exist. At best they do not work.

> I'll let you do the homework finding citations about how you're wrong here.

Cool, good thing I did my homework. I'm quite aware that percentage of women in STEM is increasing every year. Check out research for countries that have successfully removed gender roles.

> Nice anecdote! Is there anything else about high school that you'd like to generalize to the entire population of the world?

Good thing that there's research confirming the same thing. Although I was not generalizing. The 3000 students and the results of questionnaire every year are pretty consistent. I'm sure someone will do a study on the data, will link to it surely when it happens. Although, I'm sure it will not matter given that you value meta-analysis but only those that confirm your bias.
Absolutely.
I thought about creating something similar to humble bundle, where you can pay as much as you want distributed as you want. Or creating a git tracker, a tool that tells you at the end of the month which packages and repos have you used /cloned more so it can distribute your monthly donation budget accordingly. The problem with this approach is that you are not giving any chance to all those people who are developing stuff on their own and you don't even know they exist (this happens constantly if you are using a linux distro).
I have many ideas I would be very happy to share. I'm on vacation right now, but I will write you back if you send me an email to my personal email. Check my HN personal description to get my email addresss.
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You don't get to compare reality against some imagined utopia where these mine jobs don't exist and everyone is fed and happy children are attending air conditioned schools with loving parents at home. You only get to compare against what would actually happen: the boys would become child soldiers because it beats hunger, and the girls will turn to prostitution. Now it is your turn to tell me this is a better outcome.
Ehh, most photographers advertise on Facebook (for free, via postings on a page), while pushing their users to other sites to actually browse their content. Basically, they use Facebook as a glorified RSS feed for their external site.
Even if you are cycling for the exercise benefits, you could do the same exercise and just do more. My usual mtb rute include a large climb and downhill after, with the electric bike I could do 2 climbs with 2 downhills. Someone said, with the e-bike instead of having fun just going downhill, you have fun uphill and downhill.
You measure your output in lines per second?! It's clear you are more productive than me then.
"We've a better language now" -- presumably you mean Rust, which tries to break into C and C++'s market.

If you check https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html , ARM is only tier 2 support, while Kovri seems to care enough to cover ARM. That's a legitimate reason to not choose Rust.
I'm fascinated by sentences like "He created a textbook hostile work environment." and "Freedom of Speech is not Freedom from Consequences". I see them more and more, repeated verbatim, to justify why someone had to be removed from his social environment, or physically assaulted. Justifying physical violence from ideological reasons by repeating mantras.

I tought I wouldn't see that in my lifetime, that it was a thing of the past. Reading of totalitarian societies I always wondered how it could happen, and now we see it develop right before our eyes. It is fascinating & terrifying.
I've explained this elsewhere and I'll explain it again here. The author does suggest that biological reasons may contribute to fewer women preferring/being capable of (he does not mention the exact mechanism, and he does not claim to know the exact mechanism) working in tech at Google at present. The author goes on to say that Google should seek to review its work processes so that the average women will better prefer and be better able to do productive work in tech. What the author is against is positive discrimination for women which he says leads to gender tensions (which probably doesn't solve the root of the gender disparity).
> Should kids that are not at the top of their class be left to work in the salt mines?

This is the canonical definition of a strawman argument.

How about looking the issue differently: what can education do to make students better at Math and English? Focus on these two disciplines.
What I really meant was something from a different vantage point, like

> It seems a bit much to expect America not to throw it's weight around since there's no superpower in the history of humanity that has restrained itself like that. Instead it would be more productive to learn to to live with and mitigate it.
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So: subtle and qualified defence under a pseudonym; stay quiet under your own name?
> Women elect into different fields in large part because of social factors.

This article [0] presents a good argument about how and why men and women self-select in to different fields.

0: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
Perhaps if you were hoping for comments here not to mention it, now was a bad time to post it.
> Do I think this guy should have been fired?

It betrayed a spectacular lack of common sense and judgement for someone in a senior[1] role - which is exactly where you'd want those in spades. Also made his working position untenable since a senior role is going to need to get along and interact with many people. Also, also, his utter disregard for evidence and inability to make logical arguments would give me great pause as to his usefulness as a senior engineer.

I'd have fired him first for being an idiot, second for his bullshit "scientism", and third having reprehensible views.

[1] Disclaimer: I don't know if "senior" within Google is the same as "VP" in banks, ie just a defacto title you get after a while rather than a mark of actual competency.
Such a non sense post...
He didn't say "being a nerdy straight male was harder than being a woman or gay" - he said that when he was a teenager he was so ashamed of his sexuality that he wished he were gay or a woman so that he wouldn't have what he perceived to be shameful sexual desire toward women. He was the rare self-loathing straight man, and people on the internet literally wanted to ruin his career or even kill him for admitting it. Imagine a white person who has so internalized the logic of white privilege that they are utterly ashamed of their race and wish they were black - it doesn't mean that person thinks black people have it easier than whites.
Your account is 2 hours old and all of your comments consist of you complaining about C++/proselytising Rust. Please stop trolling.
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Will there be a cancelable javascript sometime? I'd like to cancel it all.
Same here. There has been no notification yet. I am as lost as you. :(
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I guess there is no perfect framework anyway. But some are better than others.
Banning people because of their beliefs and customs is the opposite of what they tell their users to do their Nondiscrimination Policy:

... to engage with each other respectfully, even when views may not reflect their beliefs or upbringings. Airbnb’s members bring to our community an incredible diversity of background experiences, beliefs, and customs.

Words like that sound hostile and hateful to me nowadays. They're so often used to ostracize people who are already widely hated.
yeah, sure but how many linux lovers do suffer from that lack of love ? For example, I use FF on Linux every day and my kids too. I mainly browse news sites; the kids browse youtube and a few other video services. It's not like I need to play 3D games in the browser. So for me, FF level of love for linux is perfectly fine.
Pirating != stealing.
Is this situation really odd? I personally believe it is the norm.

The conditions to have a rebellion are two:
1/ Sufficient people around the place dreaming/hoping/yearning for change;
2/ An unusual event that cannot be managed by "just following orders"

As soon as the two are reunited, it's like throwing a lit match in a black powder keg. The larger the keg or the more powerful the match, the more spectacular the resulting rebellion will be.

In the case of the Soviet Union, the match was Chernobyl.
This mirrors one of the things that I 'feel' about using Vim, that I commented about a few months ago [0]. It just feels faster than using something like Atom / Visual Code, it's hard to explain in other terms, but this at least shows the actual latency values that cause the feeling.

The great thing from these graphs is that it shows the consistency of performance with Vim across pretty much all platforms. So once you're using Vim it's fast everywhere, there isn't cases where you get unexplained slowdowns. You do get slowdowns with plugins, but they are usually quite easily explainable and they don't impact typing.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13934999
As you're compiling I'd look at the threadripper, the extra cores should pay dividends
Search for #depression on Instagram and see what happens.
Who's "we"? Everyone can want what they want, and do what they can to realize it.
> The sad thing about these situations is that for the people working for pennies a day, it's better than nothing.

You're assuming they are paid to begin with, there is plenty of child-slavery in Africa. Some of these kids are sold by relatives. They aren't paid at all since the relative has already been paid.
> but since this is place a bastion of liberal Democrat support (as you put it)

Actually I was implying that it may be seen that way, and even if you see it that way that doesn't fully explain what was going on.

> but since this is place a bastion of liberal Democrat support (as you put it)

Not true. There are some vocal Trump supporters here (out at least they were, they've been quiet of late). Unsupported statements are often called out on both sides. It may happen more for one side than the other, but that just means it's up to people like you to ask. If you can do it in a respectful way, you're part of the solution (and I suspect you'll get upvotes for it).

That's also a very vocal set of libertarians that are happy to explain or argue the finer points of their reasoning.

> but since this is place a bastion of liberal Democrat support (as you put it)

I don't think that really has any place in this discussion, but I'll humor you. No, I don't think they would. There are many Republicans working at Google. This is about a specific aspect of the company policy which happens to align with professed democratic principles. An employee publicly called that policy into question in a way that was easy for some to see as bigotry. That's a PR nightmare, and puts a spotlight on the company in a way they don't like, all because of one person. The PR nightmare alone is enough to cause the firing. Everything else just made the decision easier.
I don't notice the anomalies myself (well, I live in a west coast suburb...) However I stumbled upon a pretty cool visualization on temperature anomalies on Twitter a few days ago: https://www.flickr.com/photos/150411108@N06/35471910724/in/p...
But in either case, the comparison to the Soviet Union is so ridiculous as to undermine any ability to use it a resonable springboard for discussion.
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Oh, hmm, I hadn't considered the parallels of the various manifestos. Looks good, ta.
Impulsive Waves and Elliott Wave Theory
> People will soon learn to leave you alone when you have your headphones on.

Or there will be enough complaints about Hnrobert42's reluctance to engage with co-workers that all headphones and earphone will be banned.

That's what happened in an office in which I worked.

After all, you're not there to work for yourself; you're there to benefit for the company. If the company determines that assisting co-workers is more important than your personal solace then so be it.
I think what he's saying that if Kolmogorov was cautious enough to keep his unpopular opinions to himself, so can you.
Any thoughts on what you'd like to see in particular? Likely to be more of the same interactivity
> The UC system is still the most prestigious, selective public university system in the world, and this will not affect that.

Is the UC system more prestigious than Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Imperial, or top prepas/grandes ecoles? Even the most jingoistic American wouldn't argue that the UC system is more prestigious than Oxford or Cambridge for undergraduate studies.
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I tell my friends abroad that US Citizenship should be worth at least $500,000 for a child.