skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's "pro-diversity" hiring policies also have the unavoidable implication that some of Damore's colleagues actually shouldn't be with the company.

The broader patriarchy/privilege theory behind those "pro-diversity" policies has the unavoidable implication that many of those white male colleagues really shouldn't have their careers (and many other rewarding parts of their lives) at all, because they are based on 'oppressing' others.

There are poison grenades being thrown constantly by every side; only a severe double standard would allow someone to ignore this.

The real solution is to realize that any criticism of hiring policies (including criticism by 'diversity' advocates) means someone shouldn't have been hired. And then, to act like an adult and deal with it rationally anyways.

>unsupported biological claims

The claims are very well-supported by decades of research. Some journalistic outlets removed the links to Damore's sources from the copies of the memo they redistributed, to make the claims look unsupported. Don't fall into that trap.

If you want to see some of the research, Pinker has your back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mYeZ9by-eM

Damore was very clear, neutral, and professional. But, there is no way in any universe Damore could have delivered that message where you would not criticize it like this. No matter how careful he was, you'd simply set the bar further out, increase the emotional sensitivity even more, engage in even more aggressive mind-reading and hostile misinterpretation. His writing could never, ever, in any form, never meet your ever-shifting standard because your standard is designed to be impossible to meet.

The reality is that you want him to be silent and you'll seek any excuse for him to suffer for questioning beliefs you see as morally obligated.

Saying, "He can of course question, but he has to do it better," while actually having impossible standard, is just a way to look/feel like you're being open when you're not.

It actually resembles behaviors you see in abusive relationships - the impossible standard that shifts every time it's met.
can you be more specific? in what way do you think the HN comments are generally reductive and unmeditative?
Angela Merkel: The Body Language of Power
This isn’t a breaking news story. This story surged because there’s a smear campaign going on against electric vehicles, which need even more cobalt. [1] [2] Companies have been trying to deal with this for years. Apple and Tesla have made public statements, and have been working to not use this cobalt. Tesla claiming they are "conflict free”. [3]

[1] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1111767_propaganda-video...

[2] https://youtu.be/nM1WiGkdkVA

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/c...
Especially battery life. After removing all the Electron garbage from my MBP, I have seen a considerable increase in batter life.
Firefox & Chrome are essentially skins of Safari on iOS, Apple has purposefully kneecapped both from using their own rendering engines.
Self-Driving Cars Can Be Hacked by Just Putting Stickers on Street Signs
Third of men with poor mental health blame jobs, says Mind
I just finished reading it. I agree with some of the points, particularly: "Don't alienate conservatives." I consider myself left leaning. But if we are going to talk about tolerance and acceptance, then you have to attempt to do that across the board.

The entire manifesto seems like a first draft. I don't think presenting gender differences as biologically based was even necessary to support his main points. Even if on average genders exhibit different preferences, I'm still on the fence as to why.

And I can't tell which part was so offensive that people had to take time off and this guy needed to be fired.
I see this as a non-problem. How many people can really rewrite the jvm from scratch? Or just take over maintanance of it? Or take over go? Etc.

The number of commits and pull requests for .NET from outside MS seems to be increasing all the time.
Try selling git commit --squash or --fixup. Your colleagues can use this without actually rebasing, and you can help them out with the final step by doing the rebase. Especially when you have:

git config --global rebase.autoSquash true

These commits are generally much easier to deal with than typo123 ones. But ymmv.
> I'm talking about a particular context.

Of course you were.

That's why you said "Diversity efforts have always focused on outreach" (my emphasis) and not "Diversity efforts have sometimes focused on outreach" or even "In this particular context, diversity efforts focused on outreach"
> Where are the supposedly smartest people of the planet!

Who thinks that corporate drones working for an evil megacorp are the smartest people?
They are serving a narrow niche. I don't think you can term that discrimination.

Perhaps if You see a business opportunity you could create an app that serves the Muslim LGBTQX community?
In my case, because I know youtube and youtube-dl, and I haven't noticed the sound quality being bad, and I don't even know what a music tracker is.
Sorry for my ambiguity here! On Linux I specifically mean OpenVR support. We're currently looking more at OpenXR as a cross-device solution rather than investing more on OSVR, though certainly if more devices that can only work on OSVR appear we could resource additional investments.

That particular work is fairly well-separated from the rest of the core of Firefox and doesn't require somebody like Kip or Daosheng with years of experience hacking on VR hardware.
Just gave it a try in budweis, CZ. Only big chains in the supermarkets had these readers.
No, there is no reason why one-time payment should entitle anybody to more than a limited support period (one year is more or less standard).
Say we work together. Why would you want to see my 5 solutions to a problem in `master`, of which 4 actually never really ran in production? I do commit often, things that I try and later throw away are in the history. Once rebased and squashed, only final solution is in `master` history.
I fail to see how when C is part of the tooling.
Uber Gets Run Over by Its Own Subprime Auto Leases
Like Capone went to jail for tax evasion.
If you really want to do this thoroughly, you'd probably have to sample the same recording from different records several times. Then you can use a "consensus" algorithm, that reconstructs the original audio in some optimal way. (But better yet to publish the original recordings, so others can still try different algorithms).
The assumption of the right to decide what idea should be permitted to spread is an idea that's abhorrent to me. How can I combat it?
Yep! http://learngitbranching.js.org/
if you have a norm where people don't discuss certain things because it will cause offence to a group then having a discussion about things that will cause offence to that group is massive slight against that group. not only will it offend that group but it also shows that no-one cares about offending that group. i know this is a tautological argument. but i feel we do have a norm of not discussing things that will cause an offence to a group and even if you think this norm is wrong it is very difficult to change because the initial breaks in the norm are going to be resisted very heavily by those who feel they are being unfairly targeted.
Honest question:
Why is archive.org using 24-bit FLAC when >51% of the internet tells you HD Audio is useless and can even worsen the listening experience?

"A consumer will never need 24-bit. Ever."[1]

"24 bit audio is as useless as 192kHz sampling"[2]

I would love to hear a good explanation so I can decide about the future of my audio library.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/5768446/why-24-bit-audio-will-be-bad-for-...

[2] https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
Well he can keep peddling beyond 25, the motor just doesn't assist past that speed. If road is flat, this would be easy enough.

I'm guessing by "conventional bicycle" you don't mean a mountain bike. Try riding a mountain bike at 30+, it feels wrong. Your whole posture is too upright, it's not designed for speed. Not easy to reach 30 on a mountain bike without going downhill.
“About as nice” = Not nice at all. Can you say why you'd use Code over BBEdit or Sublime? Is it just the price?

Slack works just as “well” on the browser, so why should I take a considerable performance and battery life hit for a webview, when the dedicated webview already provides all the functionality I need?
email in my profile.
I'll be honest - I think your example is contrived and/or a strawman, because you chose a "topic" that already seems to have assumed its conclusion e.g Can we have a "rational discussion" on "The benefit that 2 + 2 = 5"?

> Why should I have a rational discussions..

I think the question here is whether you can censor other people who want to have that discussion, not whether they can force you to participate.

> I'm unsure what possible benefits there are

But you want to veto the topic anyway? It sounds like you want to win the game without playing. To be considered "right" you must bear the burden of the argument.
"[...] 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."

This is a dubious claim to say the least. There was little to no pro gay rights or gender equality activism in the traditionally very conservative little corner of the Earth where I live (ex communist, eastern European country). However, coinciding with the recent rise of the alt-right, we've had a sudden surge of anti-gay rhetoric packaged along with strong anti-establishment speech - this seems conspicuously similar to the ultra-conservative speech (both Russian and American) attacking liberals. To the point where the governing, majority, LEFT party initiated a referendum for changing the constitution to define the "Family" as the result of the marriage between a man and a woman. Interestingly, the referendum is supported by most (I think all) political parties and a vast majority of people. The "Marxist warfare against the white, straight, cis-gendered patriarchy" doesn't and didn't exist here, yet we have the same alt-right crap being used by the governing party to "feed" the masses, distract from their image of a deeply corrupt party and thus grab more power. Similar things are probably going on in other places, the "Marxist threat" is mostly a boogie man used for a plain old power grab.
Show HN: Inject build-time variables with Golang (commits ID etc)
Tezos - Participate in the governance of your cryptocurrency. Read the source code of any smart-contract on the blockchain.

As I understand it, the source code of tezos itself is stored on its own blockchain. Any modifications to the source are proposed by and voted on by owners of the tezos currency (weighted by how much they own). Also, unlike Ethereum, smart contracts are stored as source code on the blockchain, rather than as compiled bytecode.
Maybe most managers see themselves as Company Representatives to their staff, rather than Staff or Team Representatives to the company management.

They do not fight for their people, they get work and outcome from them to achieve the company objectives.

Most probably they are right if they consider who will give them their next career opportunity.
I think maybe this is a cultural thing. In Europe it seems people associate "credit" with "being in debt" which of course isn't (necessarily) true. It just means someone else is on the line until you reconcile, and this is the beauty of credit cards – they make it tremendously easy to safeguard your own money. Just make sure to pay off the bill at the end of the month and everything is solid.

Because of this, credit cards in Europe tend to not have the same great benefits you can find on cards in the US. AMEX is pretty good still, but there isn't exactly tons of competition in the credit card space here.
You might spark some ideas using this:

http://www.thesaurus.com/
git rebase --exec <test command> runs your test suite on each commit during the rebase. It is super useful
It's surprising because the per capita expenditure on education is higher in the US than pretty much everywhere else[1]. Assuming everything else is approximately equal (there are enough teachers, teachers havw proper access to materials, the intelligence of children is the same, etc) it implies that either spending more on education has a negative impact or that the US is using the wrong teaching methods.

[1] http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/apr/21/jeb...
Just a note on your nr1: I don't think rebase back-dates the CommitDate, does it? There are two dates on any commit: AuthorDate and CommitDate. Try git log --format=fuller. E.g.:

Author: ...
AuthorDate: Wed Aug 2 11:02:03 2017 +0100
Commit: ...
CommitDate: Wed Aug 9 12:08:52 2017 +0100

This is a commit I originally created last week, but rebased onto my current branch just now. To change the CommitDate, you have to go filter-branch, afaik. But maybe I'm ignorant of a germane rebase feature?
I wouldn't really characterize the headline as an error in the inadvertent sense. The "error", propagated across so many leading news portals appears deliberate, wilful, and tailored to suit a narrative.
Ebola isn't going to kill everybody, apparently ~25% of people show pretty much no symptoms at all:
http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal...

It is pretty usual for viral infections to have a range of effects with only a small percent (~15% in the case of measles I believe) of people getting sick enough to report it. I don't know what that number is for ebola but it always seemed to me the initial estimates of its virulance were going to be high. I mean, nobody was going to go reporting flu like symptoms in an african village to the CDC.
https://www.article19.org/resources.php/resource/38692/en/be...

I wrote it's "less agressive", but it's still a dictatorship.
Electronic voting is a bad idea and I'd be suspicious on anyone trying to promote it.

How can you know that even if the source code for the voting machine is open, the voting machine is running the exact same source code? How can you know nobody has tampered the code the instance is running?

I'm glad my country is still running on paper ballots and glad we require voter ID.
You make a good point, but it would have more impact if it wasn't so verbose.
First of all, this has nothing to do with free speech. Rational discussion is a very specific form of speech. It's a great cultural achievement that needs to be defended, it is not a natural or even inevitable outcome of free speech.

Habermas for example studied in depth the conditions for speech to produce reason:

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicative_rationality

Secondly, yes, drawing the line is difficult, there are grey areas, and we should be careful, but refusing to draw a line is the opposite of being careful or rational.

And it's not like free speech is the only value humanity ever came up by which to judge things. Taking for example the human rights declaration, freedom of expression is one of the basic rights. But sometimes rights are in conflict with each other. Then we have to make a choice how to weight the various rights.

That's why we have libel and defamation laws everywhere.
>This is seductive, easy, and the wrong way to go for most things.

Perhaps that's why people don't think that for other things, but constrain that argument to digital distribution.

Note that the other way (accept whatever meagre or exorbitant distribution deals the content owner wants or stay without content) also has big issues, especially if one believes movies, music, books, etc are essential to culture.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode... , feature-equivalent except for localstorage cleaning, pending an addition to a WebExtensions API: https://github.com/mrdokenny/Cookie-AutoDelete/issues/44 / https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1388428
+1

fast.ai is probably the best MOOC I've ever followed. As its name says, it is "for coders" and 100% applied. It is perfect for getting started, quickly.

Please read this blog post, in particular regarding the comment on "Hacker News contributors regularly give such awful advice on machine learning".

http://www.fast.ai/2017/03/17/not-commoditized-no-phd/

and:

http://www.fast.ai/2017/03/23/focus-on-coding/
Professor Nicholas Matte states it in this interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kasiov0ytEc

Not a really exotic belief in the core social justice circles.

Though advocates tend to avoid stating it outright, since it's so easy to attack and so ridiculous. So it's generally left implicit. E.g. They'll just say, "X field is only 30% women, we must fight the sexism that causes this", leaving it as an unstated assumption.
That's true, but I would argue that commercial frameworks offer professional support, have a nice documentation and offer many examples which may save you a lot of time in the long run.
Much of the angst in this thread are the first-world confused sort: "Why don't they just eat cake?" Its a hard world. You don't solve child-labor by simply firing the children. There has to be a whole social net to catch unemployed children, feed them and give them schooling.

I worked all my young life, in Iowa, on a farm. One of the most dangerous jobs in America according to the actuarials. No lasting damage to me, though not all my cohort actually survived unscathed into adulthood. Heck, half my fathers' generation had nicknames like 'lefty' and 'stub'.

Should working children on farms in Iowa be banned? Had it happened when I was young, half the family farms would have gone under.

Its not some academic third-world issue. You ate that food we produced. And at the time, it wasn't going to be produced any other way.
fyi splice returns the slice you remove, and ES6 allows array deconstruction so you could just use `var [res] = a.splice(4, 1);`.
> Oh come on, it was a startup.

And then people are surprised when I advise them to avoid startup products.

It's the classic tragedy of the commons; lying your way into an acquihire is a win for the successful founders, and a loss for the everyone else in the ecosystem, as more and more people grow sick of being played that way.
and why is that?
High-tech vending machine for HIV test kits hits UK
Most (all?) savings claims by govt are at best projected numbers. For those interested in an analysis of the savings claim and some of the other myths propagated by govt, see the 3 part analysis by Anand (https://twitter.com/iam_anandv) linked below

Part 1 - https://www.medianama.com/2017/04/223-nandan-nilekani-aadhaa...

Part 2 - http://www.medianama.com/2017/04/223-aadhaar-nandan-nilekani...

Part 3 - https://www.medianama.com/2017/06/223-aadhaar-lpg-scheme/
> ...refusing any job that requires me to use JavaScript...

I'm getting jealous. Most job offers I see conflate software development with web development and even jobs earmarked “backend” come with JavaScript baggage.
Two real numbers are different: is one necessarily less than the other?

Yes. This is a consequence of the law of trichotomy.
To protect voting, use paper ballots.
Is that where Ruby took it from?
So DRM, geofiltering, and differential pricing are all requested by publishers and distributors. If you want something more equitable then try GoG, but as you'll notice that not all new or big games are on that platform.

As for third party indexing tools, I read that to mean scraping the site for various reasons. Which I can understand they might not want due to the extra load it generates.
The default number of content processes is already 4 in Nightly (57), they're just rolling it progressively in case things break :)
"As far as I can tell, the answer is simply: because Kolmogorov knew better than to pick fights he couldn’t win."

This is documented in some place and represent Kolmogorov views, or the author is just projecing it's own views and opinions? Because kolmogorov could just have being neutral about the politics in its country (like the majority of people) or perhaps even had some degree of support at the time. This opinion "its obvious that the soviets were E-V-I-L" are opinions coming from the other side of the cold war.
But how can I (a voter), audit it in the voting booth? How can I verify that the extensively audited software is actually running on the machine in front of me?
I lost control over my work. How about that? Even if I haven't lost the original, who exactly gave you the permission to watch my work?

Do you also sneak into live shows without paying the cover charge? After all a live band doesn't lose money when you sneak into the theater either. And you can argue that you might have never opted to pay the ticket in the first place if you couldn't sneak. So, as long as there's enough room for other people and you're not causing them lost tickets, it's ok too?
Elearning voice overs
> Nowhere does the article say they are lowering standards. They are just changing how they handle students who need extra preparation in English or math.

Just re-read the sentence dispassionately.

You do realize that these are people who would flunk TOEFL if the TOEFL was a requirement the way it is for foreign student? Why are we accepting people who fail basic English into a university that has English as a primary teaching language? What are going to be the classes that these students would be taking concurrently with "Expressing yourself in paragraphs 49"? All of the soft sciences require papers that are graded. So they are out. Hard sciences? Nope, they are require algebra and our students cannot do basic algebra ( let us not pretend that universities have math proficiency requirements for admissions - it is just basic algebra and some geometry plus ability to reason ) or do basic problem solving. So I guess those classes would be yoga and basket weaving.

And in just 6-7 years ( these people won't graduate in 4 ) we would be wondering why is that we are having so few people getting jobs in STEM fields.
Setup Google Wifi router in your home, solution for your wifi problems
daily stdout, stdout daily, stdout times, stdout post, ... yeah i know. i'm suck at naming things.
Why developers choose Hidora?
> Plus having electric cars that don't pollute in cities where there are lots of people and generating the electricity with coal fired powerstations outside of cities where there are less people has immediate benefits.

While this is true, much as the rest of your comment, this sentence has made me think that pushing pollution away from the eyes of people is a really negative effect of electric cars. If pollution is not in my backyard, I'll certainly be less aware of it, and hence I'll certainly pressure less for reduction.
e.g. remove console.log

what do you need that in the git history for?
Then please go read it. I personally was surprised at how careful and level-headed it was. But due to space constraints his message is often dumbed down by the media to "google employee has said that due to biological differences women can't become decent engineers" which then gets the response it gets.
I agree with you entirely. There is no absolute way that we know of to truly know the code running is the exact code on GitHub. You can fake that it is in many ways, I don't see people running shell commands on the software before and after they vote to make sure it's the correct software. Even IF that software remains uncompromised, who owns the database? Who stops them from-

Way too many factors...
It's not impossible. You can do it pretty simply using https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ijson
funny how you're right. i just got an api shutdown notice from stormpath (yet another product that supposed to save us developers): https://stormpath.com/