skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly my point of view. I'm pretty much aligned with the left when it comes to moral values but political correctness drives me crazy.

If talking about something is considered intimidation or harassment then people will not talk about it and the 30% or so who agree with that memo will continue agreeing with it in private and maybe talk about it in echo chambers like redpill on reddit but will not talk about it publicly.

So, they will not be able to see the other side point of view, they will not be able to evolve their thinking.

The problem is that this phenomena is not limited to Google, it's also in campuses and it means that while Americans have "free speech", they need to self-censor if they do not want to compromise their careers. And I don't believe that people who are hiding their opinion can be convinced and can change their mind. This, I believe is why Trump ended up winning (which to me is a catastrophe for all of the things I care about).
Honestly? Data works. It makes companies billions of dollars. Machine learning and AI are getting increasingly good at parsing the data that already exists. It makes sense that companies, who have always made money on data, would invest in something that promises to make them even more money, and has demonstrated the ability to do just that.
EasyList is not software. It's just a fracking list. Is it a DCMA violation to state factually, as I am doing now, that functionalclam.com is a so-called "access control" domain?
Similar, and also mightily related to the OP: /r/youfuckeduptherivers [1] has a ton of resources specifically for creating realistic rivers, mountains, settlements, etc.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/youfuckeduptherivers/
It's a good example of the style. But have you attended a tradeshow there? Maybe it was just the hall we were in, but the low ceilings were oppressive and didn't allow vendors to hang their signs very high, leading to even more claustrophobia.
Heh, I didn't even have levels. In fact, the planes stopped when you shot the bullet. I hadn't learned about event loops yet.
It is amusing that you accuse me of lacking reading comprehension, but then read things into my comment that I explicitly did not include because I'm tired of listing all the ways I agree with the memo.

>>things he mentions have a large enough effect to measurably affect the gender distribution among Google's employees,

> That's not one of the points of the memo. One of (the primary) point is to potentially explain a gap

So one of the points is to potentially explain a gap, and I think his potential explanation involves mentioning some effects that might be strong enough to explain the gap. I'm not sure why you singled out that point to disagree with me.

I especially limited my statement to Google employees because for Damore's purpose of influencing Google's diversity policy, effects on software engineering in general only matter in so far as they affect Google. I have not excluded the possibility that the majority of the gap is "inherited" through the hiring pool (in fact I think it likely).

However, you should not be so quick to exclude discrimination from the possible effects that have to be taken into account. In fact, Damore himself alleges that discrimination is happening, just in favor of women instead of against them. Had he actually crunched the numbers to estimate the expected gender distribution and compare it to reality, it would have been easy to see whether discrimination is involved and in which direction. But he didn't (maybe the data isn't precise enough to allow it), and now we are left arguing about possibilities and what was said.

Lastly, while I mostly agree with the content of your comment, you would do better to exclude the name-calling. It doesn't help to convince anyone who doesn't already share your views, and it alienates others who would otherwise be willing to engage in a level-headed debate with you.
No, but he has an agenda that he's promoting with this opinion piece, which, as someone who disagrees with him, has some pretty obvious holes which I point out.
The lack of "a company" (read: censorship, speech codes, political influence, etc) can be considered to be a value. Decentralization is a Good Thing.
I've never seen any metric that can't be gamed somehow.

Choosing metrics to represent practical value, rather than let them be decided by profit-seekers, that's the real trick.
The wiki says its a take on food like hardtack, but given the description fruit cake might fit
I believe he's earnest, that makes his being wrong all the worse, he doesn't know he's wrong and he's not trying to be wrong. It's more convincing, and thus more damaging, that he sounds earnest.

I don't think it makes sense to assign blame, I don't care who's fault it is, and I believe he's free to share his thoughts. I hope you're not suggesting that being fired from a company is somehow censorship.

What I care about is that his ideas are regressive and unintentionally sexist. He is using specious scientific sounding arguments to say we should turn a blind eye to cultural sexism. By ignoring it, we perpetuate cultural sexism.
These considerations are made on the basis that some users are not explicitly aware that they are using a window manager, nor do they know what one is or that they could change it or how the could change it.

You're right though that it's odd that some users who _do_ know those things will distro hop for that reason.
...when they forced Unity down our throats.

Alternative desktop environments such as Xubuntu, Lubuntu and Kubuntu have always been available on Ubuntu. Unity was never forced down anyone's throat; it was made the default; that's all.
If anyone feels like this, I highly recommend reading the book Learned Optimism.
The idea that success or failure has much to do with the CEO is I think mistaken. For sure the CEO can do plenty to screw things up, but not so much to make things better. So for the most part the best you can aim for is to get someone who isn't going to screw up big time.
This site is really cool. Thanks for sharing though I'm afraid I'll be wasting quite some time today playing around with it :)

[edit]

It looks like the site doesn't get such a large number of people very often and the CPU load is getting too high to hear anything clearly. For clearer audio of the buzzer check here:

http://websdr.printf.cc:8901/
You can get Gb internet for $100 per month, and you think this is normal in the United States?

Speculum comunications charges $95/mo. for a (theoretical) 20/1Mb connection and they're the only game in town. This is normal for most of the country.
I find this offensive in many ways. The chance of winning the lottery might be minuscule, but minuscule is still infinitely larger than zero.

On top of that, you don't have to hit the jackpot to win life-changing money. Powerball odds for a 10k/250k prize are 1 in 913K, and for a 1M/2M prize, 1 in 11M - much better than the jackpot prize's odds of 1 in 292M.

Many people are totally okay with coughing up $2 every now and then for raising their chances from 0/infinity to 1 in a million or few.
i'm always confused when people confuse males in tech as fratty. It makes zero sense. And it shows a lack of understanding in males. For the most part, guys who code for fun are more often the dungeons+dragon, sci-fi, and anime lover type of guys. Not the meatheads and backwards baseball cap guys associated with fratty.

That's like comparing the type of women who like sewing and knitting with sorority girls.
Maybe. But experimenting sounds different than enforcing something on the end user. BTW, OS/2 had that Win95 taskbar look first.
And here's fiber prices for Bahnhof in Sweden:

https://www.bahnhof.se/stockholm/familjebostader-svenska-bos...

$76 for 1Gbps/1Gbps (house plan, apartment plans are usually cheaper because of scale)

The difference is that fiber is widely available in Sweden. You can usually pay ~$2000 to have it installed in your house in major cities, if it's not already, and subsidized ~$500 in rural towns. Most houses built in the last 10-15 years already has it installed. And it's installed in most apartment complexes longer than that.

And then you have a choice of 5+ ISPs.
In my former life I was a product developer.

I liked to tell as many different people about my ideas and get their feedback for if it is dumb or not. In that list of people will at least be a couple who would be in the intended audience.

If the idea is at least positively received, I might make an MVP if it is easy enough, if it isn't, I'll probably abandon it.

If the MVP is stable enough, I'll probably point Facebook or Google Ads at it to drive traffic.

If any traction is gained, I look at the numbers to see if it is worth it to finish building it, or just leave it as it is running.

I'm not sure if the Google/Facebook Ads are still a good traffic driver, but they used to be.
Interesting. How would you use it though? Since most Mturks are random people with random background which may lead to incoherent response?
Is that 186 million in ETH or fiat?
In support of your self-consistency point, the Bean World graphic novels have a well thought out and very interesting physical world that's nothing like real life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Beanworld
Depending on the cost. I would want it verified it was authentic through some kind of escrow process.
> I know I probably should let him make mistakes and learn from it, but I can't afford costly mistakes

Maybe you shouldn't have hired a green team lead then. Bigger orgs can afford to grow promising people into a role. If it's not your case you need somebody who has the experience already.
Tech Money: Betting on Immigrant Grit
s/thinking about what he's describing/thinking about what she's describing

https://huyenchip.com/
Should Social Media Sites Be Forced to Pull Pastor Calling for War with NKorea?
I shouldn't have said data corruption, I just meant time corruption:
https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/8424

I was never able to fix this.
Thanks for the links. It seems that in the first case it's mostly Amazon Affiliate links and in the 2nd they don't really mention the ways they monetize their website and newsletter.
You can add this list to get around admiral domains: https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/admiral-domains.txt
Check out these:

https://opensource.com/article/16/11/4-open-source-solutions...
Hey, check out https://www.mondido.com/en/ that support Poland 🇵🇱
Back testing with stock market data...
Funny enough, despite the deep sense of resentment in the original comment, it's actually kind of accurate.

Lower social standing is often associated with changes in cytokine expression mediated by cortisol signalling, and changes in cytokine expression and cortisol signalling are closely linked to depression (it looks more and more like at least some cases of depression are immunological in nature). There's a possible evolutionary advantage to inhibiting cortisol downregulation through glucocorticoid resistance (this is linked to depression) in situations where individuals would be in "defeated social positions." However, the theory goes that those situations and the related glucocorticoid resistance are not meant to be long term systemic changes, merely short term ones, and long term use of this feedback mechanism results in depression. I am hungover and running purely on modafinil at the moment, so I am unable to eloquently explain and I'll link a paper.

So, to the extent that anti-depressant drugs are based on observed changes to molecular signals in the brain (that's how SSRIs came about), and that those changes in the molecular signals are due to essentially a miswired social cue, the original comment is correct.

Here are some papers:

glucocorticoid resistance, depression, cytokines (this is a great paper): http://www.europeanneuropsychopharmacology.com/article/S0924...

evolutionary perspective on cytokines and depression: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1471490605...
Insteresting.
Very well said indeed.
AFAIK neither Debian nor Ubuntu lie about version numbers. They have stable versions that they backport security patches to, but they don't change the version number. That issue you link to doesn't contradict this.
Stripe supports paying out sellers:

https://stripe.com/connect
I use a metaphor of "getting stuck on the stairs". There's a party on the second floor, but you're in a wheelchair and there's only stairs.

Our goal is to get you to the second floor, so you can party. To do that we have to deal with stairs with a wheelchair.

But we don't want to stay on the stairs; dealing with the wheelchair isn't the point; getting to the party is the point.

When you adopt victimhood as an identity, you're stuck on the stairs.

(note: it might not be your choice that it's part of your identity, but anecdotally, those people don't really get stuck on the stairs).
If Facebook paid people in exchange for the content they produce, it's not UBI, it's normal income. UBI happens when you get paid for nothing.
Looking the example from Alaska, though, it makes sense - it encourages people to move to a place they might not consider otherwise. Perhaps UBI would be a good idea if offered by cities that are facing issues with declining population, as an incentive for attracting more people.
Thanks for the play-by-play! I do disagree about winning/losing. I feel I've done a good job representing my views.

I fixed the typo in my statement, sorry for the confusion.

As I said, the fact that this memo is offensive to many people is evidenced by the huge outrage. I'm not sure how that is a controversial statement.
Where are you pulling this from? You're being just as bad as these imaginary leftists that unironically use 'alt-right' in that manner
Thankfully, as Youtube is not using DRM yet, you can simply use a different browser or client to stream or download things however you like, where ever you like and as often as you like. Embrace your freedom.
A lot of that experimentation has been like efforts in trying to reconfigure the fundamentals of bicycle.
Should pedals be pedals and should they be really at shoulder level, maybe the wheels should be side by side and one bigger than the other, steering wheel or touchscreen instead of handlebars .. Meanwhile, bicycles work.
I was referring to the sheer number of people being born. Even if the growth rate is declining, it's still a lot of ever growing number of people looking for housing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent

Looks like it expires soon, and even so it's been restricted to a shopping cart model.
To summarize the reasoning path:

1). "Results provide strong support for hormonal influences on interest in occupations characterized by working with Things versus People"[0]

2). "Boys and men prefer occupations related to objects (e.g., auto mechanic, chemist), whereas girls and women prefer occupations involving work with people (e.g., day care worker, art teacher).[0]"

3). "Our results suggest that typical women, who are exposed to low levels of prenatal androgen, participate less than do men in STEM careers partly because they are interested in working with people. This is consistent with evidence that women value communal goals, which are perceived to be at odds with STEM careers (Diekman et al., 2010) and that women who enter STEM careers often do so in people-oriented professions, such as medicine (Benbow et al., 2000)."[0]

It's the paper that is concluding women are biologically less inclined to engineering.

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166361/
US IPv6 adoption is above 50% for mobile networks.
Wouldn't call it 'low level'
This is two different things, not helped by the multiple meanings of the word budget. If the organization makes the budget (i.e. a spending plan) without confirming the funds (or knowing them through, say, a long term understanding), and don't get what they seek, of course that's not somebody else "cutting" their budget. That's just a budget you made up not being agreed to.

But this is more about having an expectation of funding at a certain level from whatever source, and knowing that that will be your "budget" (now meaning a spending _limit_), then having that amount come down. You now have a smaller limit.
>it's a matter of determining whether you have to redo the entire election, and whether you have to do that with different procedures or equipment and whether other jurisdictions have to redo their elections and whether past election are legitimate and on and on.

Are you implying that these aren't already pre-existing problems that we haven't witnessed in recent decades?
crystal balls, teleportation and time travel
> this would mean you would either have to spoof the MAC on the second router

But isn't this what CARP[1] and HSRP[2] essentially do anyway? Seems like they already found a way around that.

[1]: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/carp.html

[2]: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/hot-standby-ro...
> I hope you're not suggesting that being fired from a company is somehow censorship.

It is censorship. Read the first sentence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

The defense of the firing is that the censorship is justified, not that it isn't censorship.

> What I care about is that his ideas are regressive and unintentionally sexist.

It's not his fault, but he's fired anyway? That doesn't seem fair.
Do you have some good examples of what people would consider obstructionism coming from the Democrats? Its easy to find over Obama's 8 years, but how much consistent obstructionism have the Democrats engaged in? Every single minor thing under Obama was an absolute catastrophe, every budget every debt ceiling, pretty much no matter what. For some reason both parties get equal "credit" for the lack of progress but I can't personally see it that way though I try to have an open mind.

When having a discussion with someone about obstructionism I like to point to instances on both sides, and if it seems one side has twice as many that make a difference to me and I refuse do acknowledge that they are truly the same, numbers matter.
Must have been before my first covfefe or it got edited :) thanks
>If you insist on receiving every attack on your argument as a personal slight

Compared to this overt oversimplification, I don't. I addressed the attacks on my argument as such. I made no mention of a personal attack until it was presented, and if you scan the rest of my comments on the thread you can see I didn't "receive every attack" that way; your generalization is easily and instantly proved false.

I identified a single personal attack, "PEOPLE like YOU" as such, and the owner of the attack agreed with me ("thoroughly corrected", in your words).

I suspect you know this of course, but tried to misrepresent my objections anyway. Please, leave the rest of us out of your nonsense.
How Molecular Clocks Are Refining Human Evolution's Timeline
Underrepresentation in CS isn’t about lack of interest, but lack of access
Is it? If you imagine a fixed point in space, a short wave would mean more waves pass through it every second, not less. Short waves have more energy (they have bounce up and down more quickly) which allows them to travel further.
Onavo uses a VPN, unlike the techniques you linked to (which are Android only as well). They intercept all web traffic and know every site you visit.
I thought it was quite interesting after a bit of introspection.

I expected to pick holes in it and make critical comments here. Then as I read it, I realized that while I am not too addicted to posting shit on Facebook, I get the same dopamine release when I post responses here. Sure I feel a bit smarter because its usually involves a bit more reasoning than a selfie on Faceboook, but the end effect is the same. The reading of the article was the first step in chasing that dopamine hit.
So there is a Chrome extensions called Domain Blocker, useful to add your own custom domains.

Question is, what else is missing from Ad Blockers that I should add (apart from these *)?
just stay away from stuff you do not understand and you'll do just great...
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and cofounder Bobby Murphy won't sell any shares this year
I've always been amused by Americans' hate relationship with fruitcake, all I can assume is that they've never ever had good fruitcake
I think you misunderstood me. I was not making a biological correlation, but a statistical one; namely that group averages doesn't say anything about an individual. The nature/nurture debate of overweight people is besides the point.
Or you can read the changelog on the filesystem at...

/usr/share/doc/git/changelog.Debian.gz
> Not having to do all that...

I maintain a script that configures a pristine installation of Xubuntu to my exact preferences.

Migrating to Mint wouldn't save me the trouble of writing / updating the script. While I'm sure Mint works out of the box (IMHO, so does Ubuntu), it won't bundle the exact shortcuts and settings tailored to my workflow.

I don't even need to switch desktop, I just use Xubuntu that runs XFCE out of the box (and kindly discards the Canonical commercial / user-intelligence "features"). Not sure why a programmer would need anything more than XFCE as their DE, but you can also get an Ubuntu "flavour" (i.e. edition) for any of the popular DEs, including Mate.

> Migrate to it when you would have migrated anyway.

Indeed, I suppose Mint would be at the top of my alternative list if I absolutely had to get off Ubuntu for any reason (which seems implausible). Otherwise, seems like it's a more newbie-friendly (and somewhat bloated) rendition of Ubuntu.
Are they really though? Is it obstructionism to vote no on something that you wouldn't have voted yes on even if it had come from your own party? Voting no on a healthcare bill that has been given a terrible score by the CBO and most healthcare groups and is going to increase the number of uninsured by millions [1] is not obstructionism.

The ACA was debated and discussed for over a year, it was very moderate compared to what most liberals would have wanted and the democrats had to make concessions [0] just to get 1 or 2 votes and those who voted against it hadn't bothered really to propose anything to the contrary. The repeal plans were rushed, were going to hurt tons of people [1]

Obstructionism is taking something that would usually be a no-brainer or that were your party to have suggested it would have sailed through and turning into a crusade and I haven't seen any of that, unless you can point it out for me.

[0] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/health-care-concessions-irking-l...

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/19/cbo-...
What's the DMCA rational here? Admiral wants to run code in my browser to offer their service, and thus instructing my browser not to run their code is circumventing them in a way that violates DMCA?

Screw that.
If you have a few witnesses of your interactions who can confirm that she tried to play the sexism card while you were behaving perfectly appropriately then yes you should mention it to HR to be proactive.

HR doesn't care about you or Sarah, they care about helping the company. If you already have a "case" (ie witnesses) and approach them first, then they will see you as the "safer" party to side with.

If you don't have anything solid to back your story, then it's a bit more risky and it may be a better move to not do anything and hope that she won't take any action.

In the future, you should definitely be very careful to properly document your interactions with her though.
I don't feel guilty about it, just like I don't feel guilty about not reading ads in magazines or newspapers.

If you put something on the web, and you want me to pay for it, put up a paywall. If you want to instead serve ads, don't expect me to read them (or load them, even). My bandwidth, my decision.
I could be wrong --- I'm not looking very hard --- but that DOCSIS rate looks higher than the Xfinity equivalent in Chicago.
The entire Internet