skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So let's go to the beginning:

>"Because positive results are being published as fast as possible with little checking on them."

Why do you think this is so? It is because they think the stats are telling them the probability their theory is true, etc. A significant p-value means the result is "real", etc.
I wonder what the split on this is. I gave up on the article pretty early on specifically because of the writing style.
On the one hand: It isn't aimed at a French audience.

On the other: I, also, am hearing dirty words in my English-default brain and wondering where they got the name and what they were thinking or intending it to mean.

This might be addressable by having a pronunciation key (preferably including an audio file, not just text) and a blurb or blog post about the name origin.
Only miners and investors should care about this. Normal people should be able to use Btc without worrying about it.
Yeah, after reading through the list and the reasoning, I'm not sure what this has to do with startups at all. It looks more like a "is it worth moving here" index than anything else.
Airtel is usually very responsive in these cases, while ACT isn't. I'm on ACT and I can also access fine.
Honest question given that GMOs are awesome but patenting a GMO seed is bad.

In that scenario, how are GMO creators incentivized to create more GMO products? Sell the first seed for a billion dollars and then the person that buys that seed can give out its progeny for free?
Did you show it to Mozilla or Google? It seems that it can replace PDF.JS and whatever closed-source PDF reader chrome uses.
>I'm sorry but if your product can be easily copied by Facebook, you don't really have a product.

Most things can be easily copied if you throw enough money and developer hours at it
They are blaming the carpenter. They're saying the carpenter is using a dovetail when they sometimes only need a butt joint. Of course there are cases when a butt joint is stupid, but using a dovetail everywhere is also stupid.
So why does Wikipedia use the 'pension' terminology?
Its "Not Hotdog" all the way down.
Related: Today I learned that a group of AI researchers has released a paper called: STARDATA: A StarCraft AI Research Dataset. According to one of the authors: "We're releasing a dataset of 65k StarCraft: Brood War games, 1.5b frames, 500m actions, 400GB of data. Check it out!"

> Article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02139

> Github: https://github.com/TorchCraft/StarData
Great work guys! Keep on releasing more interesting libs for wasm!
You only have to remember one password, the strategy is the same for all passwords, replace the fifth character (for example):

google: mojko2if6bibe78

youtube: mojku2if6bibe78

yahoo: mojkh2if6bibe78

Note that I don't advocate this strategy for high-security applications, but for throwaway accounts that you might want to access when not having access to your password manager it might be useful.
The point is to do pen&paper elections instead. It's the ultimate "open source" solution since everybody who can hold a crayon in the right direction can participate in the verification of the process.
Looking at it a different way, if productivity is defined as the combination of all relevant features (education, experience, ethics, etc.) then racism/sexism imply non-zero coefficients in

wage ~ productivity + race + gender

This also assumes a competitive market where wage will asymptotically approach productivity.
it's not exactly macro.. AI can run perfect macro commands. humans right now have better priority model (in this case, protecting/killing workers) for which the AI in question wasn't trained.
"Of course, as the author notes near the end, this also means that any real world algorithm running on a real world data type which is bounded in size can also be considered "effectively constant", which does throw doubt onto the effectiveness of the term."

They're not all effectively constant though. I can say that effectively all web pages render within 100 seconds and thus web page rendering is O(1), but it's not true because "between visually instantaneous and 100 seconds" is not effectively constant.

In another example, 1 nanosecond and 1 millisecond, separated by six orders of magnitude, are both effectively instant to a human... at least, as long as it's only happening once. Start looping on that and the differences rapidly become, ah, effective.

The root problem here is that pragmatic measures don't fit in math and math doesn't fit in pragmatic measures, and you need to at least be careful not to equivocate back and forth. But there's nothing wrong with either one; you just need to know where you stand. You can't help it anyhow; we are not capable of dealing with the universe with mathematical precision everywhere, we lack the computational power to do so, assuming it is even theoretically possible.
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> For what it's worth: your thanks might be intellectually honest, but your summary of my argument is not.

I am very open to being corrected.

When you said, "Damore is smart enough not to come out and say directly that he believes all women to be less qualified", I took it to mean that you think Damore actually believes that all women are unqualified and arguing about populations is a just a smokescreen for what he is really thinking. This is helpful to understand because it means that you don't think the memo is actually about population-level differences and so exploring that argument is a waste of time.

But if you didn't actually mean that, I misunderstood and apologize.
SC1 really doesn't make sense for this, 80% of the skill is just keeping on top of the mindless but mechanically intensive stuff, which is trivial beyond trivial for an AI.

SC2's automated away most of this (pretty much everything but production cycles), which makes it a better measure for AI vs human.
The official compiler doesn't. Then there's llgo [0] and gollvm [1].

[0] https://github.com/go-llvm/llgo
[1] https://go.googlesource.com/gollvm/
If you're using phrases like "sniveling white dudes", you're part of the problem.
As one who grew up in the suburbs of Houston, TX (Well a small commuter town NEAR Houston), I couldn't get out fast enough, though.

I think its a grass-is-always-greener thing. You want what you didn't have growing up.
The quickest solution in such a case would be a POW change that can put Russian miners at a significant disadvantage. Significant could be a factor of 10 or larger.

Also, any attempt to kill one decentralized value system would prove to be a wasteful process in the long run since the cost to create another such system is disproportionately smaller than the cost to attack/destroy them.
I don't know the legality of what they did, but it's pretty clearly a reason to favor government involvement in fringe cases like this. Sounds like what they did was fraud.
Hopefully that scrolling on mobile will get fixed soon, as I can't scroll the job descriptions. It scrolls the header bar instead. IOS 10, Safari, iPhone 6S, content blockers unloaded.

Pity, too, as I would think there'd be some interest in a previously ASE-certified mechanic with a lot of software experience.
I'm not saying don't have these conversations. Rather, have them carefully, and choose your words with the consequences in mind. There are many good and thoughtful ways to talk about potential issues with Google's gender diversity programs, but instead this memo made some especially bad choices.

For one thing, the memo focuses on needlessly contentious issues, instead of sticking to actionable arguments. It's valid to say that decreasing stress in engineering and leadership positions might attract more women, because modern women tend that value that more. But framing it as a biological issue is hard to prove, and doesn't help support his logistical point. It only has the consequence of hurting people.

The memo also presumes that Google's full-time diversity experts haven't even thought of his concerns. He asserts that seeking out women necessarily lowers the hiring bar for them, instead of asking "How are we mitigating the risk that our pro-diversity push might itself introduce bias into our ideally gender-agnostic perf evaluations?" That's a valid question, and I'm sure Google's diversity team has answers, and I'm sure that some people wouldn't be satisfied with those answers. But jumping to the conclusion that Google's women must be less qualified than the men, just because he can't think of a way to mitigate bias in the hiring pipeline, is self-centered and disrespectful.

I'm very much in favor of a world where it's equally okay to express all ideas! But that doesn't mean we should be equally okay with all modes of expression. No matter which side we're on, we need to think first, then speak. Given the meta-thesis of the memo (especially the "prioritize intent" section), I'm not convinced that the author took much time to consider needs beyond his own.
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How did we get here? Please don't post off-topic inflammation.
> So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them. I will pay for the legal fees.

Biden could say that at a state dinner and nobody would blink twice
Chrome's PDF reader is actually open-source: https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/
That's because there hasn't been too much concentrated effort on this problem yet, since you'd have to spend quite a bit of effort just integrating with the game engine.

Certainly a lot less research has been done on computer SC2 than computer go, and nobody expected a pro to be beaten there 1.5 years ago, either.
Shitty anecdote to counteract your own shitty anecdote: the most corrosive community I've ever encountered were those of MOBAs. Smite, League of Legends, DOTA 2, I've never seen such rage before in any FPSs.
Those changes have little to do with Aadhaar. Efficiency in delivery could be achieved despite Aadhaar. If you look at the savings figures and all the analysis put in by many people, you'd understand that the government is publishing bogus figures. In the case of cooking gas (LPG), even the CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General of India) disproved the claims of huge savings.
Specifically when he talks about being a "multi million dollar business" as some kind of ambitious reach goal
The two examples you provided can be understood at a lay level which is sufficient in most situations that you'd find yourself in. Now, if you were attempting to build a product or service that interacts with the Bitcoin protocol, of course you'd have to have a much wider and deeper set of knowledge of how the protocol selects the best chain and the different attack surfaces that exist.

I don't understand the systemic nuances of the SWIFT payment system but I was able to conceptually understand how it works without too much trouble.
Direct DOM manipulation. Event delegation. MVC. MVP. MVVM. Component trees. These aren't libraries, they're not unique to JS.

I've been doing frontend development since the 1990s and in many cases I could still solve the same problems very similarly to how I solved them 10 years ago (except I would probably forego jQuery and use the web APIs directly thanks to widespread browser support).

The reason I instead spent my time learning Backbone and Knockout and Angular and React is that the kind of problems I'm solving has changed over the years.

Your characterization is also hyperbolic. You don't learn an entirely new way to do exactly the same thing and throw all the old knowledge away. Learning Backbone informed how I used Knockout, learning Knockout helped me better understand Angular, having used Angular I know what problems to avoid in React. All of it helped me build intuitions about possible caveats when looking at new tools and libraries.

I mostly don't write Angular code anymore. I haven't touched Knockout in years now. My contact with Backbone is also fairly minimal these days. But learning each of them made it easier both to learn new things in general and to understand other libraries better.

Also, React is the odd one out here. To fully understand Angular (1.x that is), I had to learn about its internals and unique concepts and terminology that are mostly orthogonal to my application but vital to avoid certain mistakes. With Backbone and Knockout the overhead was smaller but a lot of the effort in gaining proficiency was spent learning their quirks and idioms. With React there was some of that initially but all effort beyond that went into language features that come in handy outside of React and concepts that are useful beyond React or JavaScript.
Sometimes I think court orders should be voted on. And if 5 people think your order is stupid you lose your fucking job. Get disbarred from law for life.
Full disclosure: I work for the author's company.

I agree with you! Back in March I finished a 15 month trip around the world while working full time. I travelled to 40 different cities in 15 countries and while some places where difficult to adapt to and the conditions where I worked from were challenging, I can say that my productivity didn't diminish.

Since I came back (I live in Barcelona) I've attended retreats in the Alps (Austria for skiing + Italy for hiking just last week) plus 2 weeks in a very nice countryside house 2 hours from Barcelona where we worked together with 10 people from the office and in the afternoons we did hikes, wine tastings or went to the beach.
Please read the article I linked by an employment lawyer, it definitely is a legal issue. Choosing to not fire the employee would have opened them up to serious legal liability. Now, you can believe that the law is disastrously unjust and that a manifesto calling your colleagues' abilities into question based on their gender should not qualify as creating a hostile work environment, but I am curious if you would feel the same if the arguments had all been based on race instead of on gender?

The most eye opening piece of advice I've received on these subjects has been to try and listen to and believe as many people from these disadvantaged groups as possible. Women and minorities all have rhyming stories of being discriminated against. Part of the nature of systematic discrimination is that it is mostly invisible to the majority that benefit from it. It has to be, because when we notice it, it feels wrong.

The vast majority of women I've seen speak on the issue of this manifesto have said similar things: that they recognize the type of man who would write it, that they've had to deal with that type of man their whole careers, and that giving credence to his arguments by airing them in a company sanctioned forum is demoralizing, making their jobs more difficult, and making them feel more like outsiders to the company.

I believe in the paradox of tolerance. In order to build a tolerant environment, there are some things that cannot be tolerated.
i don't understand the point you're trying to make.

i can't comment on the highlight-garble problem you mention, because i don't see it (firefox x64 for linux); however, the link "problem" has nothing to do with WASM. it's a PDF link, not an HTML link, and those have always been a completely separate concept. the same "problem" would exist however you're rendering the PDF, unless you convert it to HTML (which i don't think is the goal of pspdfkit).
As a St. Louisan, let me just say I'd rather be in Bratislava or Bucharest, too! Sounds super fun!

But, I don't think this holds up if you discount the novelty factor. In purely economic terms, you'd want to be in Pittsburgh.
The channel he voiced the memo was apparently opt-in, thus I don't see that as inappropriate.

If an opposing viewpoint backed by facts and evidence make you feel alienated, then the problem is not with the person who presented the facts. Affirmative action by definition discriminates in favor of women and underrepresented racial minorities, and this is simply a fact - the very definition of affirmative action itself.

I'm a huge proponent of diversity in the sense of embracing people with different perspectives and ideas. Deciding that you need X% of females and Y% of colored people does not make you a proponent of diversity, except in the shallow sense of wanting some set of racial representation. The strongest advocates of this form of racial diversity in my experience tend to actually be the most hostile towards diversity of opinions - like all the people deeming this memo sexist who fail to bring up any coherent argument backing up their claims (since most of them never read the document).

And one of the points of the memo was that we need to de-moralize diversity and allow people to have an honest discussion over it (which he ironically got fired over).

Diversity of thought > Diversity of appearance
The guy who wrote the memo apparently received glowing reviews and was promoted twice at Google. Doesn't seem like your typical slacker.
I think you're reading into it wrong. 0xffff2 isn't correcting the parent, rather trying to clarify that by saying 10.000, that would be equivalent to 10000, since in America we use commas instead of periods for thousands denotation. We can't automatically know where people live and what standards they use, so we ask to clarify.
Huh? I grew up and live in the SE of the UK. There's plenty of people doing just that.
I agree that SC2 is much easier for a human player. However, top players still have to do quite a bit of micromanagement.
It's also a lazy way to avoid counting the exact depth level and adjusting the word "GP" accordingly.
plain old javascript is perfectly fine. es6 is better. if you can't write good apps with js it is because you aren't a good programmer and you wouldn't be able to write good apps in any language.
Yet again, American style Capitalism giving regular ole Capitalism a bad rep.
> Oh, and make voting day a holiday, or just put it on Sundays.
> I used to wonder how US could not even get that last part right, but then I understood that a whole party thinks it is in its interest to have less voters.

Historical reasons: http://www.whytuesday.org/answer/
AIUI, this doesn't use key servers; it's a different protocol.

https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD
Please dispute points with explanations or counterpoints instead of condescending dismissals. It looks like you are the one who does not have enough information to counter GPs stated points.
Thank you for pointing out flaws of ambiguity in my comment.

> If they are mentally unwell, it doesn't make their suffering any less real does it? I admit I am biased as someone with a mental illness, I wouldn't want someone to disregard my opinion based on knowledge of my illness.

I meant only to reference the variations in tendency towards certain mental behaviors (such as accurately assessing reality, or taking responsibility for emotional responses) that exist among people. I gave an example of the "mentally unwell" to illustrate that this spectrum exist, but all parts of the spectrum are worth considering.

As an aside, and to hopefully show I'm not brushing with too wide a brush here: people with mental disorders are, sometimes, actually far better (at, say, having an accurate view of events) than people who don't have disorders, because they have [in the course of learning to cope with their issues, have also] learned to understand and correct for flaws that we all have.

I did not mean to suggest that people with mental disorders should automatically have their opinion/experience/claims discounted!

We should evaluate each situation individually. But there are clearly cases where a person's claim of "being hurt" should not be allowed to influence certain decisions, or policy, regardless of their overall mental/emotional functioning.
How do you verify the entities that are registered on the chain are who they are supposed to be? It may show a commit log of Citizen X voted in a certain way, but how do you verify it was Citizen X that actually voted or that they even exist?
Just because the dumbest people participating in university courses have gotten a lot dumber doesn't mean that anyone else is affected by this change. Lowering the bar for acceptance is not the same thing as lowering the quality of education.

Hell if anything, universities are making up for the massive shortcoming of public schooling by offering courses to people who would not have otherwise received anything resembling an education.

As for the degree mill statement, who cares? Since when do degrees matter anyway? If destroying the integrity of the accreditation system results in more people getting an education, then so be it. Accreditation is almost never anything more than a racket anyway.
I can totally share the sentiment around complexity. We're working hard towards reducing it though and .NET Standard is one piece of the puzzle. Let me try to explain:

If you're a typical .NET customer, then you're used to the .NET Framework, which also means you're probably only used to doing development on Windows. That was no longer a viable strategy for .NET, so we're now pursing a cross-platform strategy. A good chunk of the complexity you see today is a result of the changed dynamics of software engineering: the PC is no longer the only relevant form factor, server applications have to be rethought as scalable cloud services, and the UI paradigm is no longer a sequence of dialogs but has to be tailored to multiple clients, and on top of that you now also have to deal with multiple different operating systems.

.NET has a long standing history of embracing the underlying platform (hello COM, hello P/Invokes) while also providing a ton of conveniences on top that make it approachable (hello WinForms). We can't really shield you from all the complexities that result from the changed dynamics. But what we can do is making it more consistent and productive.

Over the last years, various different .NET stacks were created, several of them outside of the Microsoft bubble (Mono, Xamarin, Unity). So in order to build modern experiences, you often have to use various different stacks to get the job done. We understand that this isn't free of challenges, which is why we try very hard to reconcile the differences. For instance, we acquired Xamarin to fully embrace the mobile support they offer and make it a fully integrated part of the .NET development platform. We changed the license on Mono to enable Unity to use the latest version and pick up innovation instantaneously. And we've created the

.NET Standard is a way to achieve API consistency between different .NET stacks. This makes it much easier for application and library authors to share code between different .NET implementations.

Our goal is to empower .NET developers to build any kind of app, for any kind of operating system. That's the world we live in now and we're fully committed to make this experience as productive as possible.
Excellent comment.

> suppose you're right; and suppose you're given the power to suppress all such harmful discussions.

I would suggest an additional thought experiment:

imagine that 200 years ago people had suppressed what they considered harmful discussions.

Why are so many people who are interested in progressive causes so against the things that have and do help progress such causes?