skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think balance is a bigger problem than people realize. It's much harder than you'd think, and the most common way of balancing things is to simply make them more "samey".

I completely agree, but Dota is the very rare exception to that rule.

If one heroes ability is "too strong", most games would turn it down 20%, but dota instead perhaps lowers the hero's armor by 1, or lowers their sight range, or base strength, or something even less intuitive and tangentially related.

What you get is 100+ very unique heroes, that somehow manages to stay fairly balanced. It's quite an amazing game, if you can handle the timesink.
> the waiter messed up because they're a jerk

That's a subordinate clause where "jerk" is referring to the waiter, not the main subject, hence it's not circular.
I disagree. Debating this memo is like debating about crime statistics every time a black person gets shot by the cops. There are people that understand the role social forces play in inequality, and there are those that don't know and don't want to know. In the past 4 years, through Black Lives Matter and GamerGate, I've never seen anyone's opinion changed through debate. There's no bridging the two sides. I think it's genetic or something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Long time lurker here. Amazon has let a lot of shady business in lately. Abuses on all sides.

Even my local USPS abuses the system for the 2 day delivery. (They marked a packages as incorrect address, and than, not available to sign... I called them, the woman said the were too heavy, so I now get it on day 3..). Now I know about the free months of prime, but I would have to get USPS to confess to Amazon what they told me. And I'm not as dedicated as the author.

And the preditory tactics they allow sellers to implement are crazy. I paid to return a dead on arrival ipod, and I had to send multiple emails to confirm I was getting my money back. (Seller stated they needed RMA or no refund, seller never provided RMA after 3 emails. Never even sent an RMA after all that, Amazon just ended agreeing to refund after multiple calls). Seller is still active with same terrible return policy.

Good article, I feel less crazy now. Hopefully more of these stories circulate.
You're correct, alleged fraud that was settled out of court.
Some women don't even know what leftist means.

(Holds up hand.)
In many places, rail travel at rush hour can be faster because of express trains. At off-hours the trains tend to stop at every station and take longer.
They need the money. From a few days ago:

"The company burned through $1.16 billion in cash in the second quarter [...] a little more than $3 billion in cash on hand"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-02/tesla-bur...
I think "coaching" just means "curriculum learning" (which is basically as you've described).

But in the future coaching might indeed just be a human expert talking in natural language to teach it how to be better! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jGDV_5gPA&t=6
Are they hiring?
I appreciate that and hear you. If you want to continue the discussion I'd be happy to do so at hn@ycombinator.com.
> nice daddy VC writing witty blog posts

lol ... waiting for him to talk about the rampant pedophile problem on Kik
Not true. Issues, pull requests, deploy keys, access control...
Slogans don't mean anything. It's now an extortion tool. Their definition of "acceptable" is already bad (tracking of any kind is unacceptable) and subject to change on a whim. Maybe your "option" won't work one day. Why not just use a tool without a huge conflict of interest? EFF will continue to fight against legal threats against ad blocking. ABP needs to defend it because they want to continue extorting large companies.
> The developer

I was surprised to learn that he is the CTO of Open AI.

> If this is accurate, one of the things I'm most impressed with is that the bot figured out creep-blocking

Same. It is such long set of moves to get a perfect block. To have such a long move-set figured out as something advantageous is very high level of planning from the bot.
A combination of flex time and the perfect gas law. Individuals optimizing their commute move the time around until they can't optimize any more.
> The convenience of a public transportation systems is priced into the housing near its stations, meaning it mostly benefits the wealthy.

That's a very Ameri-centric view. In most European countries people of all classes live near and regularly take public transit.
It's still a giant leap to say that women are less likely to choose roles in tech and leadership, as Damore did.

It's fair to claim that as a theory, but in many places in his memo, he speaks as if it is established scientific fact.
I'm not sure what you're implying, I don't work for Admiral or Github or Eyeo GmbH... I just found the link interesting and decided to share it...
Windows 10 on MacBook Air clone? Latest Chuwi budget laptop is Apple lookalike
Looking at the stock price, people seemed to know 5 days ago.
> Thing is that he picks an organizing principle⁽¹⁾ and rides it into the ground, through the center of the earth, and back out the other side until eventually de-emphasizing it in favor of some new organizing principle more attractive to current audiences.

I don't disagree, but I think that the organizing principles he's settled upon (by whatever process) are interesting.
I don't understand why the scammer bothered to ship to an alternate address -- if Amazon is just confirming that the package was delivered and signed for, wouldn't that also occur if delivered to the buyer's address? The buyer would sign for the package before opening it and realizing the camera lens wasn't inside. (The weight difference could be made up with rocks.)
In Atlanta we have light traffic on Friday mornings but heavy traffic on Friday evening. My theory is that morning traffic is almost entirely people going to work, of whom there are slightly fewer on Fridays, but evening traffic is both people coming home from work and people going out for fun. The extra fun trips on Friday evening more than make up for the people not working on Friday.
Additionally, most international banks refuse US citizen unless you bring a lot of money, because the US taxes all citizen (not just the money made in the US, or money made by people while they were in the US).

It's less about the taxation per se, which has been true for decades but not generally dissuaded foreign banks. The big thing that makes banking Americans annoying is FATCA compliance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...

FATCA levels a highly, highly asymmetric weapon against Americans who desire to bank abroad: if the bank is unwilling to pay a $X ~ $Y0 million dollars in compliance costs and technology changes (amortized over all of its customers), they will lose access to USD clearing. That's an unacceptable outcome for most banks, even banks that one does not generally think of as being heavily exposed to America.

Thus my recommendation for Americans living abroad: if you want to get an account with the least hassle, you either want the most gigantic bank you can think of in your country (which can absorb the compliance costs over their thousands of US customers because, hey, your expat population does have to bank somewhere).
No, you can't comment like that here, and yes we've banned your account.

No reasonable idea of civility (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) would include "anecdotes" about the grossness of other races' or nations' bathroom habits. I'm flummoxed that this became necessary to state explicitly, but I guess everything happens if you moderate an internet forum long enough.
That feeling when porting from MATLAB to Python and all the "+1"s in array index expressions go away. And the obscure cornercase bug disappears as well.
Sure you can. That's the exact definition of "refinancing".
That would be neat as an experiment. Like, see how far you can go and what you can get to with a "total blocker."
> I really really really want EasyList to be in the right here

Well, they're obviously in the right :)

> and be able to re-add the block without fear

They could fix that by improving their OPSEC. So as to not be so easily threatened.
issues, pull requests, deploy keys, access control. None of those the repository. They are associated with the repository and it would be annoying to lose them But with the exception of the issues all of them are replaceable with mostly minimal effort unless you did something really wrong.

And again switching to a different platform doesn't solve that problem either. You'd still lose the issues that are in github.
"This isn’t the first case of animals fighting back against the degradation of the environment"

Anthropomorphize much?
"Tesla aims to boost production to 500,000 cars next year, about six times its 2016 output."

What is the new goal to 2020? 2 years[0] ago they were expecting delivery 500,000 cars in 2020. If they will do that this year, maybe their new goal is to finally put a foot in the top 20 group of world manufacturers[1]?

[0]http://www.businessinsider.com/everything-tesla-promises-to-...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manufacturers_by_motor...
One of the interesting things here for me is building market rate housing in the "south bay" region of the Bay Area. Current residents are up in arms about all the 'high rise apartments and condos' being built because they worry about the traffic, but don't consider that Apple alone is dropping 21,000 employees into the area, if they can live close to work you get less traffic. It's a very nimbyish dynamic.
>But however imperfect his attempt, he was fired, in short, for thinking on his own.

I agree with this sentiment. I also agree that google had a right to fire him for it. There was a time when I thought that google wasn't the kind of company to fire people for their ideas. Now I know otherwise.
I've seen plenty of opinions changed through conversation, but very few through yelling. Unfortunately it seems like the only form of debate anyone is interested is who can yell the loudest.
Staring into space can occasionally be useful: I just remembered that I nearly forgot about this. I just replied (as you may have already noticed).

Thanks for the info. I'm not quite sure how much investigation I'll need to do, but I can see alphabet-based token sizing being very useful for pure string compression, yeah. XZ seems to be a really flexible format but, unless I'm mistaken, it seems that implementations (such as the `xz` utility) seem to lean toward "one size fits all" instead of packing in+maintaining a "batteries included" basic (or maybe even extended) set of transformations/optimizations. It's kinda sad.
Talos Model 3.

Oh wait, wrong company.
We stare at each other weekly. I speak, he nods, agrees with everything and then does nothing expected of him because he didn't understand.

Have you been in a similar situation?

I did something akin to this for four years in my marriage (only substitute weekly screaming fights for staring). Then, we agreed to get divorced, at which point I was finally able to implement the plans we agreed to every week which he promptly sabotaged for four years.

/anecdata
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14980846 and marked it off-topic.
> That's your opinion. You've not made the case the memo has "no merit"

I just replied to your other comment clarifying why the memo is weak at best, and a stupid violation of the code of conduct at worst.

> No you aren't, you don't have a case.

Oh, yes I do. Males working in Silicon Valley complaining about their precious feelings have 0 of my sympathy. I'm a male and work in tech. You don't see me or any of my friends whining about "discrimination" because more women are coming into the field. It's beyond ridiculous. Only people who are not very sure about their skills would be complaining about that.

> quote it specificly.

Refer to my other comments. Essentially he tries to pass the biological argument as the One True Argument, completely ignoring that while the social arguments are still there the biological argument is unquantifiable and building a case around is bullshit.

> There are citations in the original memo

The citations don't quantify, they just quote. Nobody, ever, has put a number to the percentage of women that don't go into engineering for "lack of interest" derived from biological factors. It's literally unquantifiable.

> Just because you have none? Read the memo, that's a start.

I read the fucking memo. It reads exactly like the kind of shit I'd expect from a "disenfranchised" alt-righter. I'm surprised he didn't publish it on Breitbart.

> For me to read the memo to you?

No, for you to give me a number. What percentage of women are not interested in engineering because of genes. C'mon, can't be that hard!?
And people think singular "they" is OK in writing.

Try:

the waiter messed up because he's a jerk.
Fuel to the fire...

Here's a neuroscientist explaining to Google the congenital differences between the female and male brains:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_uGr1ZOn4
Making sure you communicate in a way other people can understand you is also part of your job. If CEO doesn't know what you do or what you're supposed to be doing, then he fails and you fail.
Well, https://ipfs.io/ will block stuff. But then you just use a different gateway.
>Seriously, the evidence is quite clear that this attitude is complete nonsense and only works for people that have certain advantages already.

Ahem... citation needed
I don't know about Risc, but you might want to check out the FSF's Respects Your Freedom certification[0]. The article doesn't mention it, but the Minifree T400 is itself RYF-certified.

You might also want to check out h-node[1] (also by the FSF). I haven't looked into it much, but it seems to be a site dedicated to finding hardware that can be used with completely free software.

[0] https://fsf.org/ryf

[1] https://h-node.org/
the problem is that players will use those bots against other players, just like they do in online chess. The burden of reporting them will be too much for online play probably. It's the ultimate cheat.
As this guy's ongoing reaction verifies (His twitter handle is "@fired4truth"), a manifesto is a "here's why I'm right" rather than a "let's talk about this." This guy has no intention of having an open dialogue.

Trying to circulate a 10-page manifesto explaining how management doesn't understand what they're doing is going to get you fired just about anywhere.
Would you please not post this kind of flamebait and/or blatantly violate the HN guidelines as you've done here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I notice the mouse, I really hope Apple do acknowledge they make crappy mouse.

Another thing I am wondering, what makes a company not hiring programmer at old age when their brain are still functioning properly?
New England looks pretty bad in this article but I beg to differ albeit I am biased.

I live around Boston and while I agree I will say that Boston like the rest of New England is extremely seasonal and even then it's week by week and based on weather. I'm typing this while on my iPhone after just traveling to Cape Cod this Friday evening and it only took 1.25 hours and left at 4pm.

I hope to make two points:

1. you can see hell of lot more interesting things in 5 hours or less from Boston than almost any other city in the Midwest or even California.

2. Boston is extremely high variance particularly because it is a college town and has "4 seasons". If you know what you are doing you can use this to your advantage.
James Gleick's Isaac Newton is an excellent account of the time. It focuses on Newton's life and is quite brief, but still prepares you to recognize many of the cast in the Baroque cycle.
The best essay I've seen on the subject is here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger... it's a lot better than the original memo.
Botnet operators seem to manage it well enough. I'm guessing that something on HostSailor would be hard to take down. Or maybe China.
The one that says one shouldn’t expect employees in all professions to reflect the demographics of the whole population?

That doesn't outrage me but then that isn't what the memo said.
I commute by car from Sunnyvale, CA to SF (Harrison/8th) almost every day, and I'm flexible with when I can drive there, so I started to track google maps time to find the better time.

the pattern repeats almost every day:
https://monosnap.com/file/jHAuLrr1JqOxM6lSNN8H0DGFSoCcJb

1st wave starts at 5am and at the top of it at 8am then it's getting better.
there's a spot between 10:30 and noon when you can drive within 40 to 50 minutes, then it's getting worse (2nd wave).
if you would decide to drive at 5pm it would take almost 1.5 hours to drive to Sunnyvale

the best time to drive from SF to the Valley is after 8pm, there is a small increase in between 10pm and midnight - roadworks while traffic is still present.

it's interesting that the pattern is accurate up to the minute, it's 10:30, not 10:15 or 10:45 when there's a spot to drive, almost every day
Who hasn't met Vinod?! I was just Vinodding myself the other day, and I thought "why not call Vinod, do some Vinod together?" Of course he's out in Vinod, doing some Vinod with friends. That Vinod...intense is a good word for Vinod!
The last time this was posted we got a top comment by the magazine's creator's grandson:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11185490
That's not the case in all Australian buildings. Usually we call the ground floor "ground floor" (which you could argue is 0-indexed), and the floor above it is "the first floor". But there are a lot of buildings that follow the American style of "the ground floor is the first floor".

We also don't use negative numbers, basements are prefixed with a B, so B1 is like -1.
The USSR fell in 1991, the guy who went to prison in 1990s likely went there for a regular crime. Most political prisoners were released in late 80s (ones who left in 90s were people who participated in various wars of 1980s-1990s or were politicians charged with regular crimes). The whole arrest at night, the family arrested too, a trial by three ("Troika") and 10 years of camps/execution is from the Collectivization and the various Purges of 1930s.

In the USSR after the War, if you merely criticized the Party line (e.g. say "We are a Communist country but the Proletariat is rarely consulted by the Party, I think the Party has to pay more attention what the working class people think.") you'd get the treatment ardit33 described. You would not get arrested, you would not be thrown in prison, you'd just get, what they called "wolf's ticket" - a record of "anti-soviet agitation" and then you would not be able to get any decent job, ever. People worked as janitors or threw coal in the communal central heating. Usually a single case of doubting was not enough, you'd get a talking first (quite unlike Google, it seems). Only people who directly opposed the Party were repressed with prison/mental institution.
Tesla, just like any other successful company games the system well. The system is neutral at its wildest.
Overnight success is a misnomer because it's impossible to demonstrate true success overnight (or in a few years) as it relates to a business. Just the headline of this article should make a good argument to be wary of startups that appear to be doing too much in too little time.

If you invest a startup that claims to have been founded only 2 years ago and says to have already acquired so and so number of users, you might assume a certain velocity of growth for that company. If it turns out that the founders had unofficially invested 5 years of labor rather than 2, you just lost 60% value in your investment assuming the company valuation was somewhat proportional to their "traction."

The biggest question in a startups lifetime is "will they be profitable?" not "have they spent enough on Google AdWords to make it look like usership is going up?"
What about the hypothetical scenario where the procedure is free, and the volunteer also receives, say, $2,000?
Since Malcolm Gladwell's book about 10,000 hours of practice, there must be dozens of stories that of people trying to reach that milestone in various pursuits (music, programming, arts). Would love to read a series of those (or maybe that's Gladwell's next book deal).
> I did something akin to this for four years in my marriage (only substitute weekly screaming fights for staring).

Ah, the honeymoon phase. So wonderful.
I don't see anything hilarious about this guy getting fired for a well sourced memo due to pressure from virtue signaling zealots who didn't even read it.

To those tempted to respond: do please make sure _you_ have read the original memo, not the deliberate click bait bastardization that Gizmodo has published.
I agree. We replaced the title above with (hopefully) representative language from the subtitle.
Has there ever been an independent study of how well ASVAB results correlate to later professional success in tech?

I took the ASVAB as a teen, and I was relentlessly pursued by military recruiters for years afterward.
I'm curious. How is what was flippantly suggested related to securities fraud?
I pay 80 for 300. But caps exist.
Positive externalities like 8-year-olds mining cobalt to make the batteries?
Nah. I was married more than two decades. Actually, the first few years were quite good, which is why we gritted our teeth and put up with each other for so long: We kept holding out hope we could get that back.
Most of the arguments concern the side-effects of splitting a given unit of work into a lot of functions, which is an inevitable consequence of the strategy being deprecated.
Two points:

Free sampling for the purposes of cultural remixing is explicitly built into (US) copyright (across media) as a mitigation to some of the harmful effects of artificial monopolies on culture. It's a compromise between those who think artificial monopolies are the only way to encourage the creation of culture and those who view such contrived monopolies as a net negative. There's a fundamental difference between copying and stealing. You seem to be intentionally conflating them by using phrases like "stuff other people made". It's not really "stuff" that they're "taking" and the copy is made by the copier, not the original composer. Nothing has been taken besides the right to artificially restrict the behavior of other people for the purpose of rent extraction.

Secondly, they give me a copy free when I request it. It just has ads included. But there's no reason I'm obligated to read the ads. It's exactly the case where they give me a free paper with an ad insert and I have the secretary throw away the ad insert before I read it.

Do you think I'm a monster because I throw out the ads in my weekly periodocal unread?

(For the record, I'm taking about ad blockers, not bypassing paywalls -- I generally just don't go to those sites. Your arguments hold more weight when discussing bypassing paywalls.)
If enough people do it and hold them accountable it will change their behavior. They have to answer your claims and that costs them a lot of money to deal with small claims in whatever place in IL the blog author lives. Speeding tickets also work on the principle of everyone's ignorance of defending themselves in court if enough people fought them lawd and society would respond to this.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14993370 and marked it off-topic.
You may be paying off the note and it shows up as a different line item on the balance sheet, but it's not paying the debt.
Thanks for the insult.

Matt Taibbi has an unabashed, heavily liberal bias. He sells by appealing to readers like you.

I would argue that Michael Lewis is a superior popular finance writer.
RCN Chicago is $50 for 330 mbps, compared to $45 for Virginia media 100 mbps (both 12-month prices). RCN has no data cap, while Virgin has an extremely complicated traffic management policy (for uploads only): https://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traffic-manage....