skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's... more complicated than that. Had Edward used the proper internal channels, his bad ideas would have reached the people in charge of policies and he'd have a chance to debate them and be proven wrong. When proved wrong, he'd adjust his mental models of the world in accordance with what he learned.

It's entirely possible this happened and he just didn't change his mind.

Unfortunately, Edward decided to try to start a mutiny and share his dissent with the whole company, alienating and insulting a significant part of its workforce, hoping a majority would side with him. Some asked to be removed from all projects Edward took part in, others wanted to punch him in the face. The result, unfortunately for Edward, was that it was very hard for him to stay at the company because very few people wanted to work with him.

While I agree his firing is a rather unfortunate consequence of all this, and that it'd have been much better had Edward changed his mind in accordance to the current understanding of how height relates to anxiety about escalator operations instead of publicly attacking company policies. Unfortunately, that's not how Edward proceeded.
It was in Chrome at the time I wrote that. But it works OK now; CA seems to have changed to RapidSSL? <shrug>
I honestly don't know why this is even relevant. He told a masturbation joke as a part of a hastily written retreat skit that people called sexist and caused a shitstorm.

> Three sources allege that Damore told what they characterized as a masturbation-related joke during the course of the performance, which fell flat and offended some in the audience. However, two sources attributed the backlash to the performance not to any malice on the part of Damore, but instead to his awkward delivery.

At this point people are going to try and pick apart his past in order to attack his character. We should be better than that here.
This article is scant on details about what happened in the workshop.
I submitted that yesterday.

Whatever you think of this guy it doesn't surprise me that this other stuff is coming out. It seems like you would have seen his views in his behavior in the past... which these new things seem to show.
It depends what the opinion is about. The National Socialists boosted Germany's economy massively, so a discussion of their economic policy might be useful (this is a simplification, in actuality the economics of post-WW1 Germany was boosted by a multitude of factors and the Nazis were not the only major one, but my point stands -- they legitimately did a lot of good to Germany before WW2). A discussion of their opinions on racial purity is definitely not going to be useful to anyone involved.

If you found out that the barista at your favourite coffee shop was racist, would that change whether they make good coffee? Is the value of the coffee inextricably linked to their views? If someone has a disgusting view in one aspect of their life, their other views appear to be tainted even if they are entirely orthogonal.
>if you tell your diversity class that women aren't cut out for work at Google, you're going to cause a fight

When did he ever say that?
Wait, the US government can deny your renunciation of citizenship?
The salient excerpt:

> while they described the skits as typically a “roast,” they emphasized that “the goal is not to offend.”

Really just seems like some more character assassination by Gizmodo.
The beauty of easy to remember passwords is that you don't have to use the same one everywhere. At least not on your high value accounts.
The author of the memo framed his argument in exactly this way.

To quote the memo:

"As it became clear that the working class of the liberal democracies wasn’t going to overthrow their “capitalist oppressors,” the Marxist intellectuals transitioned from class warfare to gender and race politics. The core oppressor-oppressed dynamics remained, but now the oppressor is the “white, straight, cis-gendered patriarchy.”"

The author literally thinks 'Left' policies are part of a Communist power struggle.

If the above comment is toxic, then so is the original memo.
The two biggest problems I've seen with this discussion are: 1) A Shocking Lack of Empathy; and 2) The Stench of Self-Righteousness

1) I've seen too many people say things like "He was only talking about biology, he never actually said 'women are dumb'"

As a child you are responsible for what you say. As an adult you are responsible for what others hear. Sometimes in conversation you say stupid things that can be misunderstood, but if you take the time to write a 10 page memo, you NEED to take the time to imagine how others will hear it.

This is a problem for both sides of this conversation, and lack of empathy is probably the main reason why the guy had to be fired.

2) When you have that righteous feeling in your gut, take a minute and refer back to point one, try to look at it from the other person's point of view. Imagine where they are coming from.

Being RIGHT is never enough. People are motivated by emotions and desires, not facts. Sometimes those desires are fact-based; but often they are not.
IMO, those types of games tend to attract more of those types of people. Your comment reads as though it encourages those traits to manifest themselves in people. I play a lot of FPS and know what you're talking about, but I don't see how the games themselves are encouraging that so much as attracting people already pre-disposed to those beliefs.
From the study: http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp201715...

>For example, real time strategy games such as Rise of Nations have been shown to have positive effects on both visual attention and executive function.53 However, the impact of such real time strategy games on the hippocampus remains to be determined.

The study only looked at first person shooters like CoD: Modern Warfare 2 (action training) third person platformers like Mario 64 (mario training) and first person RPG shooters like Borderlands 2 (aRPG training). It only links to another study that allegedly looked at strategy games.
This looks great. Been looking for something like this for my daughter. Thank you.
I think you might not know what a meta-analysis is: it's actually a summary of replications and duplicate studies on some topic. Generally (I have not read this particular one!) they are specifically designed to detect potential publication bias and other effects that would imply non-reproducibility.
That is a cynical view. Trying to forecast the cost of pension obligations is a real problem that has very real costs to companies, and can send companies bankrupt. The article shows that changing life expectancies mean a change of nearly $10B to estimated costs for just two companies. You can't run people's lives and companies based on hand-waving and assuming it'll be alright.

OTOH maybe that is why our vending machine is full of unhealthy snacks. :)

+ I have to add problems like these is why companies now give 401ks to employees. Whether you live long or not now is the person's problem and the risk is no longer borne by the company.
People say that hiding behind pronouns is a cardinal sin.
Until pretty recently, Bob Seger's music wasn't available on any streaming outlet. Now some of it's available on Spotify and Apple Music, but not enough. Still can't listen to "Turn the Page".
Its not hard to see why exactly Americans are dying younger. Hell, just look at the headline here.

When you have increased wealth concentration flowing upwards and more involvement of profit machines in people's lives (healthcare, correctional facilities, food, environment), people on average are working harder for less pay with increased cost of living. This means less recreational time to blow stress off, less time for doctor visits (not to mention the fun games our federal government is playing with healthcare), and less time/money/emphasis to treat yourself spiritually/psychologically. I am hardly surprised this equates to higher mortality rates.

America has a huge problem spending money on the betterment of its citizens, and it is starting to show.
Their analysis is biased. Young people predominantly use digital services to consume music, whereas older generations still use CDs and the radio.

As an anecdote, the older I get, the less music I listen to. It used to be a big part of my identity, but now I just listen to music if it sounds good or if I need something to drown out the noise around me.
There is a maximum total contribution.

https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/401k-plans-deferrals-an...

total employee and employer contributions (including forfeitures) - the lesser of 100% of an employee’s compensation or $54,000 for 2017 ($53,000 for 2015 and 2016 not including "catch-up" elective deferrals of $6,000 in 2015 - 2017 for employees age 50 or older) (IRC section 415(c))

So the max is basically 200% match of the individual's contribution, which is maxed out at $18,000 for an individual under 50.
Dan created Redux as a proof of concept experiment for a conference talk. I'm sure he did actually want people to use it, but based on comments he's made, he definitely had no idea it would became the de-facto standard state management tool for React apps. Frankly, he's spent more time telling people _not_ to use Redux if it doesn't fit their use cases than actually trying to advertise the library.
Fun Twitter thread on how Godel's theorem predicted the final outcome of this whole situation:

https://twitter.com/PhilSandifer/status/894940236672794624
Wingnut Welfare is a real thing:

Wingnut welfare is an important, underrated feature of the modern U.S. political scene. I don’t know who came up with the term, but anyone who follows right-wing careers knows whereof I speak: the lavishly-funded ecosystem of billionaire-financed think tanks, media outlets, and so on provides a comfortable cushion for politicians and pundits who tell such people what they want to hear. Lose an election, make economic forecasts that turn out laughably wrong, whatever — no matter, there’s always a fallback job available.

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/wingnut-welfare...
Voodoo Manufacturing (YC W17) Is Looking for a Robotic Automation Engineer
This looks cool. I've been using Plex for the same features but performance has gotten sluggish on the VM it runs on.
Each company has its own guidelines. A junior could be for example someone who focuses too much in the particular case of a problem rather than looking at the big picture. In interviews, for example, if they present you with a problem to solve and you don't have any follow up questions, you appear as less senior in the eyes of the interviewer.

This is just one of the criteria used, there are more.
One of the main drivers for these initiatives is to reduce the time of graduation for students, which I believe was 46% graduation rate within six years. When you add in the mix of minority students who aren't properly prepared for college level courses, you get the really low grad rates in the CSU system. The longer you have students taking classes, the more money is costs the CSU, so they have an interest in lowering that number. Of course, the way they are going about it is bad in my opinion. Professors are pressured to not fail students in key classes that tend to slow down the graduation rates. One way to do that is to have non-tenured faculty teach these courses, who can be let go for not enforcing these practices. Lecturer's are hired on a contract basis, and may not be rehired. I've seen some lecturers on one year contracts. Some of this is not completely a bad thing in my opinion. I remember losing half of an Organic Chem class by the middle of the semester, due to the sink or swim mentality in many of the sciences/engineering faculty.
That section is talking about miners, not exchanges; and it specifically notes the limitations and assumptions that even make that possible: in this case, that the Bitcoin proof of work is subject to acceleration using ASICs. Even then, that was a response to a specific attack: using >50% of the mining power to do a takeover of the blockchain, which was itself made more possible (as otherwise it would fizzle) using the takeover contract specified by Vitalik. It was an interesting analysis of a specific scenario that the model seems to provide protect against.

In the very different case of Bitcoin Cash, what you saw were miners perceiving segwit as a protocol fork which would devalue the future potential of their investment in specialized mining equipment, as it changes the proof-of-work parts of Bitcoin into a form of contract verification for payment channels rather than as the one true way a transaction can be performed, so we would have expected them to revolt to maintain the rules they had invested assuming (and in fact once they were already dealing with a fork, they went ahead and made their own rule changes to benefit them: larger blocks).
It depends on where in the system the maintenance is needed. On the Blue Line they just have the trains share a single track for a while while work is being done on the second track. On the red line, they do the same thing outside of downtown. If the work is being done downtown, the Red Line trains can use the Pink/Green/Orange/Brown/Purple tracks and go elevated instead of underground.
Amazon and Tencent Back Smartphone Maker Essential
Why did you link that, can you provide more context?

It doesn't seem like a massive deal according to what they state: he made a joke and it wasn't well received. They never say what the joke is or what about it was sexist.
> more ... assassination

You can't kill something that's dead.
Whilst they obviously try and refute the minor details Direct Defense gets wrong, their product should be warning their end users just a little more strongly for such a devastating "feature".

This is data protection officers nightmare. If any UK company has this turned on the ICO could rake them over the coals and charge them millions in fines (if they had the teeth).
Then that truism should make it self evident why the far left and far right have the same goals.
> I don't need your corporate propaganda and hustle.

- I've never worked in a company with 100+ people so far
- All the teams I've been in were fairly small (6 people or less), with flat hierarchies and little formality
Thanks for being curious. I scraped around to find some numbers to back up my wild claim--I think I did a fairly decent job of it. I do warn you--my numbers are pretty rough.

Blockchain.info claims to be the most popular web wallet with 10M users and users have control of their own keys without needing to run a node. Their android app has 1-5M downloads.

The Mycelium wallet for android has 100k-500k downloads.This is an SPV wallet like electrum, where users have control of their keys without needing to run a node.

Bitpay's wallet for android also has 100k-500k downloads, which is an SPV wallet.

The generic bitcoin wallet for android (also SPV) has 1-5M installs.

Multibit (also SPV) is the only desktop client that posts statistics but it claimed 1.5 million downloads in 2014. Now that multibit is discontinued (and bitcoin has gotten more popular since 2014) it's fairly safe to assume that electrum has numbers quite a bit higher than that. I suspect (although I can't prove) that electrum is more popular than all of the android wallets--It's even packaged in TAILS by default.

For comparison, the only popular wallet where users DON'T have control of their keys is the coinbase wallet with 9 million accounts. Other exchanges exist, and may have higher volume, but they don't market themselves as wallets to users.

There are less than 10,000 full nodes running at any given time--and a large amount of that is running 24/7. Its safe to say full-chainers are in the minority if you do some guesstimation.

I got most of these figures from the google play store.
You are correct. But that doesn't negate the point.
I agree that the entire enterprise might be a bad deal for buyers, BUT:

- for those who returned the car after months, this is an option that just isn't available in an ordinary lease - in some cases, death is not enough to cancel a lease. These folks would have been left making all of the payments on the car for the rest of the term. Plus, ordinary leases have very low mileage caps. They may not have made much money, but they would have lost thousands if they had a conventional lease.

- for those who keep the car say 3 years and put on 200k miles: they would pay a total of $18k and return the car with a couple thousand dollars of value. If the purchase price was say $22k, then they got a completely fair deal.

That's the thing - I don't think the terms were sub-prime at all, they were simply priced to only appeal to serious professional drivers working 50-60 hours and 1500 miles per week, which is not atypical for cabbies and limo drivers (mileage might even be low).
Again: you are free to leave.
Didn't read TFA but I assume that points to mostly single player experiences or procedurally generated content.

I.e. In the COD4 campaign you don't need to know the map, you can just blindly run through the level killing what's in front of you until you hit a progress trigger.
He thinks he's in a John Wayne film, where a guy with a bright T-shirt that says 'TERRORIST' across it will announce his intentions, before opening fire with an AK-47 in a public place. He will then draw his Smith & Wesson, and put the criminal down with one well-placed shot.

In the real world, this is, of course, laughable. Even people with guns don't fight back against armed gunmen, for two reasons.

1. Most of the time, you have no idea who the armed gunman is.

2. You are very likely to be mistaken for the gunman, and shot and killed by the police.
I am a music composer and audio engineer. My music is pretty niche. If someone were to ask me if I'd rather that they buy my music or 'steal' it from a torrent site that offers a 100% pure FLAC rip, I'd tell them the latter. Because the torrent site is the only one which has respect for my hard work, and has the users who are passionate and thankful for my work being available to them.

Services like Spotify are not designed to facilitate 30 minute long experimental electroacoustic violin compositions. I am much more likely to gain a dedicated fan (someone who will pay to see my concerts in their city) from a torrent site which is content-agnostic and facilitates true fandom for the less conventional music offerings out there.
And they charge you $2350 for the privilege.
So with part of all that is something you'd fire someone over?

Before you say "hostile work environment", keep in mind that lots of people find firing someone for this to be hostile as well.
This is true in the general sense, but I think he might be talking about sugar babies.
If GPM had a Linux client, I would consider switching to it.
Replying to comments.... does something can't remember..
After you make $100k, there is also the foreign tax credit. In most countries, you don't need to bother with the foreign earned income exclusion unless you are not paying tax at all.
> we find leaked documents showing that companies know of damage

Do you have any specific examples of damage from GMOs?
Most of my friends who voted for Trump did so for one reason.

They were sick of Republicans getting battered by the media and their opponents. Every time the Republicans put up a "nice guy" the media skewered them along with their Democratic opponent. Think Bob Dole, John McCain, Mitt Romney. All decent guys, completely dismantled by their opponents and the media and turned into evil men during their campaigns.

My friends voted for Trump because he was a straight up brawler. The guy didn't back down, he didn't apologize, and was a flame thrower.

Clinton tried and tried to go after him and everything fell flat. He went after her, labeled her "crooked Hilary" which his base ate up. He talked about her husband being a rapist and how she allowed it and they went nuts about that. Nothing was off the table and it kept her completely off balance, she had no comebacks for most of his attacks.

The media went after him and what happened? He punched back - repeatedly and they were unprepared for him. Called him a joke, derided him, tried to bring him down. He just kept coming back and countered with something they weren't reporting on, or the polls being way off, or any other number of issues. The media were so unprepared to deal with him, even more so now that he's been elected. In one election, he completely dismantled the MSM and convinced half the country they couldn't be trusted. How many times a day do you hear the term "fake news" now? Trump started that. Now the media can't get away from it and now it's a part of our political lexicon. CNN is no longer a reputable news organization because Trump called them out repeatedly, their reputation is in tatters because of him.

The Republican base ate him up and loved the fact they finally had a candidate who played in the mud and never tried to be the "nice guy" and fought the media and Democrats with everything he had. It's not that they knew what they were getting, it was more about pushing back the Liberal ideology, and feeling like they had someone who would fight for them.
I didn't attack her at all, nevermind on her work in Neurosexuality. Frankly, it's a subject I know nothing about and have no position to do so.

I did imply that it's no more her position to conclude the subject of the original essay than anybody else's, and cautioned against taking words of any number of scientists as canon on the understanding of both the original essay and any social implications it may or should have.

edit: Rereading my original statement, I could have certainly made my implication more clear. I'll concede that point.
A martyr is born. I wonder if he will be crowned "based Googler" or something.
My guess is if you start spending your time writing 10 page political memos and distributing them inside companies, your career won't advance very far, regardless of content. But, in this case, literally most women at google were upset and that's incredibly disruptive and stupid - hence he was fired and should have been
Jordan Peterson: James Damore and His Google Memo on Diversity
I'm surprised people don't just mute you for making so much noise in voice chat. That's what I do whenever someone plays music or other irrelevant stuff on their mic.
Thank you. It's something that I think needs to be said.

One thing, about your point on 'gender deniers', I would try to avoid using the term 'gender'. It's a term perpetuated by the left to avoid direct conversation about biological sex. There has been a concerted effort to separate the concept of gender and sex through justification by the social sciences. This phenomena is not new, historically the social sciences have always been used to justify the predominant ideology of the time.

Gender is considered a 'social construct' under the theory of social constructionism, a philosophical theory not based on statistical evidence. Once you start debating about what is 'Gender', you've already fallen into their trap. I would use the term 'biology deniers' because it avoids people from making roundabout arguments on what is gender.
If the administration of Harvard felt they needed to formally apologize it seems unlikely Gizmodo just gined this up out of nothing.
A lot of it has to to with the increasingly unhealthy diet people are eating now, at least in the US. I imagine Europe is similar.
I have clients with apps that are pushing the boundaries of Firebase. I have strongly suggested the move to Azure or Amazon "serverless" - Azure Functions or Amazon Lambda. I get strong pushback due to "cost and complexity" concerns. I respond that of course "real" development and operations is going to be more complex and expensive than the "toy" proof-of-concept they build with Firebase. But this has been an issue in my career for decades - users get hooked on on RAD tools (Rapid Application Development) and are then shocked that adding "10% more features" will add 1000% to the cost.