skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't discount the appeal of foreign language terminology to native English speakers.

For example:

"Urawaza", which is a Japanese word for life hacks. Or "wabi sabi," a kind of organic design aesthetic.

In Danish the concept of "Hygge" or Scandinavian coziness through small pleasures definitely got some traction.

There's probably tons of French and Parisian slang you use everyday and take for granted that would make fine brand names. I always like the way people use the word "Mec" on the streets of Paris, loosely translated as "Dude" in popular American parlance. "Zarb" is another good one. "Fric", "Gnac", "Kif", etc.

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I agree that trying to make statistical arguments to someone who isn't capable of correctly interpreting the statistics can be harmful.

However, I disagree with your original claim that `Not all subjects are amenable to "rational discussion"`, since this is not independent of with whom you are discussing a subject. I am fairly sure that for any possible subject, there is someone you can rationally discuss it with, without causing any harm.

> you're arguing that saying "this discussion is harmful" is itself a harmful discussion!

I don't interpret Sniffnoy as calling the discussion itself harmful, rather they thought you were the kind of person who'd advocate preventing harmful things; thus they argued that a policy of suppressing "harmful discussion" would be harmful. (As opposed to just discussing such a policy.)

If you are not in favor of suppressing harmful discussion, then the free-speech issue also becomes moot; if it's just you saying "I really don't like this discussion." then that's an opinion you are entitled to, but everyone else is free to ignore it.
So, to bring things full circle:

Are you saying it's necessary or desirable to lower the bar for people to fill quotas, however, when someone writes something that you obviously haven't read or understood, it's rightful that they should be terminated for those opinions that you don't even seem to have grasped. I mean, you do realize that "trying to use provable false statements to create a toxic work environment for one third of your coworkers is a PR disaster" is utterly false.
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Reminds me of when Target "knew" a girl was pregnant before she/her family did.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-story-of-how-t...
They want to lower the bar so that they can pass more low-mediocre people though the system, give them the false idea that they are intelligent and eventually give them government jobs. They need a class of useful idiots in power to achieve their goal of a complete technocratic surveillance state. These type people are already taking power positions all over and totally changing the working culture. Look at that guy who wrote the google diversity criticism memo, it wasn't even a controversial thing, yet he was brought down by this mob of new brainwashed low-intellect people pushing an insane agenda. The kind of person who can't pass a remedial English exam or do any kind of advanced mathematics is perfect for this role. Having advanced reasoning skills, language and mathematics skills actually puts them at a disadvantage here, what they need is a new class of bullies and manipulators that will go along with whatever they are told.
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> all your examples are from repressive regimes (either economically, or politically).

So socialization doesn't affect peoples' preferences, except in societies where socialization does affect peoples' preferences. Got it.

> Basically, when women have choices, they choose against hard STEM.

1) This presupposes, without evidence, that girls in the U.S., Denmark, etc., aren't socialized differently than boys, even if they are not actively discriminated against in terms of careers.

2) This uses "hard STEM" as a wiggle word. Under any rational definition, math is "harder STEM" than computer science. (And frankly, I'd argue that so is chemistry and biology.) Yet, the representation of women in math and physical sciences majors is twice as high as in CS: https://higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/nsc-bs-....
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"Silicon Valley’s politics have long skewed left, with a free-markets philosophy and a dash of libertarianism."

This is not in any modern sense "left" (please don't bother pedantically bringing up "classical liberalism").
JS is more on par with Ruby & Python these days feature-wise, but I just don't see why one would prefer it. Ruby & Python are better thought out languages from the get go. Go listen to Brendan Eich discuss how he had to rush JS out the door as compromise between Sun & Netscape, and then how he couldn't fix the language warts even before ECMA.
This is a fairly robust comment, so I'll respond where I can. The first thing I'll say is that this is a emotional, human event. When you introduce emotion and feelings of identity into a conversation, event, etc., any inclination that reference mathematical equations is probably off the mark from the outset.

> If your employer hired you and another peer, and assuming you were both put through the same hiring process for the same job, wouldn't you expect that you're of similar caliber, regardless of background?

You would assume that, until persons like the memo writer explicitly claim that the bar is lowered for you. Suddenly it starts feeling like tokenism. And what's more insidious is that when you prime people to believe their achievements were given and not earned, their performance suffers, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

> But here's the thing: no one said they're unfit for their positions.

The author explicitly claimed the bar has been lowered for diversity candidates. That is tantamount to challenging fitness for their roles for diversity incumbents. When you combine the author's belief that certain sub-groups lack aptitude in general, and then challenge the validity and fairness of hiring/selection procedures, then you've effectively challenged the legitimacy of every diversity incumbent. Every single one. Or, it could be argued. I could also argue the opposite if I had to.

> is it unfair to expect people to not be emotionally stirred by a remark that decidedly has no bearing on them as an individual?

I think it unfair to expect topics of identity - for one's self and the groups that they culturally identify with - to not elicit emotional reactions. Further, when you're a part of a group that has historically been treated a certain way based on your association with that group (by choice or not), it is reflexively natural to view comments like the memo as having personal meaning. Finally, given the rest of the content of the memo, I think it is not unreasonable to assume that many of those remarks might indeed have bearing on an individual.
You didn't read his memo did you?
If you did you certainly didn't comprehend many of the phrases.
>Delta has variable awards so sometimes a flight will cost 50k miles and other times it will cost 100k or even 300k miles for the same flight. A real PITA :(

This is what I hate about reward miles. I live in Canada so I collect Airmiles and Aeroplan, not through any credit cards though. The reason I don't have those two reward cards is because every time I would log on, they would say "Reward flights starting at 50k point." But the only flights available were 80k+. Very frustrating.
Yes thats true, I conceded that point in another reply to Sleeep. I did look up tickets just now and they are about $6500/person on ANA. I specifically looked up ANA because I wanted to fly on one of the better airlines. The service I got was absolutely fantastic.
Provided they don't use the same password for several services
I question the results of these studies. I think it's very difficult to measure empirically how many people are cheating if it is not required to have voter ID / some sort of proof of your identity when voting.
Haha, nope.

You have the "opportunity" to contribute to a 401k, and if you use the company's (poorly run) 401k option, they may decide to match up to a percentage of your contribution.

For instance, I contribute 10% of my paycheck towards the 401k, my employer matches 4% of that. That's it. And I work in IT for a Fortune 500 company.
I've never even heard of anyone getting a pension, out of all my friends in tech & myself. They're basically extinct at this point.
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> The comparison `==` is basically something you should never use.

This doesn't feel unique to JavaScript though? It's the same with, say, PHP.
Ask HN: How do you encrypt your personal files / documents?
I keep a personal journal which I store in a hidden folder to keep it private (ie away from non-advanced linux users) but I would like to be able to actually encrypt them so I'm the only one to have access to them in future.

What do you usually use for such purpose ? As I mentioned in the paragraph above, I'm on Linux.

Thanks in advance !
Sounds like AI has already won.
It looks like tig: https://github.com/jonas/tig
Why can't the memo be both sexist and science? Arguing that there are differences between genders that make one gender unsuitable for a task can be as scientific as you want, it's still sexist.

It's no different from doing the same but replacing gender with race - it's racist no matter how carefully and scientifically you worded it.

It's almost as if the person writing this article believes that if the manifesto is factually/scientifically correct then it must somehow not be sexist. As if sexism consisted of lies? I don't get it.
Retirement plans, yes. Pension plans, no.
If anyone ends up doing any of these, I'd love to see the end product!
I know they aren't normally that much, but at the time they were like 8800 per person. I had a specific airline in mind when I flew because I wanted the full experience. ANA currently is like $6500/person for business but I felt it was well worth the cost. I know you can get cheaper tickets.
Whut? They offer a 3% 401k match. Very different from a pension.
of course not, but they're prominent examples, especially when it comes to the "identity politics" that the GP references.
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If you can't understand this logic because your impulse is to equate physical characteristics with mental ones as if they are equivalent, then I really don't feel like you're trying all that hard.
Out of curiosity, what percent of them are developers?
This issue effects the entirety of technology sector which this forum represents a large group.

Simply trying to deny the debate is not how you work things out. If anything that will just annoy the group more so.
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The best conmen are the ones who fool themselves. In a sense, his sincerity is beside the point. But if he really was sincere, why did he title his book The 4HWW unless it was to sensationalize his work, and draw more attention to himself, and make more money. Tim has other aspects of a conman, and it's not just the way he practices martial arts. Rebecca Mead wrote a great profile about him here:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/09/05/better-faster-s...
“What does it do to somebody when they feel like they literally can’t express themselves?” said Mr. Andreessen, a Facebook board member who backed Mrs. Clinton last year.

Nailed it.
As a thought experiment, imagine a company reviewed their processes to create a workplace where the average black person would like to work.

It's kind of offensive to be judged by this hypothetical "average X person" stereotype. It more or less implies it's their fault, that they are underrepresented because they want to.
Yeah, fortunately products like keepassx can auto-type into those fields, which works around the problem, but it's still absurd...
This article would be a lot more worthy of a discussion if it actually discussed the actual issues.

How much is nature vs. nurture? (many of the behaviours the manifesto attributed to genetics are actually purely environmental)

Should that even matter? Shouldn't hiring processes be purely meritocratic?

The fact that the author of the memo argued for affirmative action for hiring more conservatives shows that he doesn't have anything against discrimination, as long as he profits. If he wanted a science-backed solution, he'd have supported motions to remove the topic of gender, race, political affiliation entirely from the hiring process. (Anonymous job applications can help with that).

Many of the sources were also quite misleading, or links to blogs instead of papers. The memo wouldn't pass peer review at any journal, and can, frankly said, not be called science.

As we also just had a big discussion about this topic on HN, this article is misleading and from an outlet that previously has published hit pieces on diversity policies[1], I flagged it - this discussion belongs into the recent megathread, not as its own onto the frontpage again.

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/will-trump-make-amer...
Is that a Common Lisp thing or something that predates the ANSI standard? SBCL doesn't like that syntax:

* 10_000

debugger invoked on a UNBOUND-VARIABLE: The variable |10_000| is unbound.

According to the Common Lisp HyperSpec, "_" is an alphabetic constituent character:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_ad....

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_adb...
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But even if so, can those few not sufficiently monetize things to warrant the storage and delivery costs? I mean, yeah, old movies once had their original film melted down, but for the past 80 years they've at least thrown it into a vault or similar. Physical storage is orders of magnitudes more expensive than digital; even just dropping these things into an S3 bucket and serving them as needed for .10 cents would cost less than what they used to do, -and- would allow them to actually make money from it (albeit very little).

If you don't want -any- of that, then why not release it for free and allow things like the internet archive to store it and deliver it for you? It's worth the money to store it -in case- you want to do something with it, but not worth the money to actually do something with it, even though that costs no more and has a return on investment?
According to my understanding, rimliu is proposing that

wage ~ education + experience + gender + race + additional_factors + error

where additional_factors consists of other unknown factors (e.g. charisma, intelligence, appearance?). In which case, if education, experience, gender and race are kept constant, there is still going to be a fair bit of variance in wage caused by these unknown factors.

Either way, it would be pretty hard to model when these factors are far from orthogonal. Imagine the impact race would have on work experience if race is a big factor when hiring people.
Buying 100 mil. 8TB SSDs when SSD market is even smaller than HDD market would be not possible without everyone noticing. That's entire year (2015) of total SSD units production. 8TB drives would be at the time a tiny fraction of the total.
and here we go -- it wasnt an academic paper but it was completely based on facts. biologically, men and women are different, and they think differently and so no matter how much society and culture impacts you, that biology will ever so slightly bias every decision in your life and may be part of the mismatch in representation between genders.

the idea that females and males LIKE different things and its IN PART based on biology, is completely real and valid and not offensive in the slightest.
I think there's a middle ground in there somewhere. Many people experience "pain" and "lack" in other areas of their lives, and are looking to travel/vacation as an escape from that. Tying happiness and joy to "less" is just as arbitrary as tying it to "more". It's all about where you start.
Something that somehow never ever makes it into these tutorials but is important: after you do the rebase locally, you must force push, don't pull then push. (After you rebase, the git client will suggest you pull.) This simple thing caused me a lot of unnecessary confusion about rebasing for a long time.
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What disturbs me most about this incident is how many people's first instinct, when faced with views they strongly disagree with, is to try and suppress those views and the person speaking them. Not to engage with the argument or to try and argue against it, just to shut the other person down. It's a totalitarian kind of response.
Mazda shot themselves in the foot reliability-wise with the first generation RX-8 because they:

* Underspec'd the ignition coils

* Didn't do enough on-road reliability testing

* Lowered the oil pressure and removed OMP ports

* Designed the oil filler breather in a way that allowed oil into the intake

In '04, the first wave of RX8s were coming in to the dealerships after 30k with severe misfire from the coils going bad. Mazda didn't have this failure mode in their factory service manual, so the cars got replacement engines (poorly reman'd in Mexico, not made on the Mazda Japan line). These didn't last because of poor manufacturing. Once the coil issue was figured out, the 8 became much more predictable and reliable.

As noted by Busterarm, they fully got their act together with the series 2 update.

[I own an '04 RX8 with ~130k miles)
Firing this guy and settling with him later on a lawsuit was probably cheaper than keeping him and facing the "Diversity Industry complex, which may have cost Google a whole lot more.

There's a whole set of NGOs out there that mint money milking such issues, in the name of "diversity" while doing little to address the real issue.
and a dash of libertarianism

Just a dash? Just a smidge? LOL. That's not the Silicon Valley I moved to in 1999.

No disintermediation and bitcoin here. No way.
It probably has more to do with the simple name of the university opening doors.

Investors and employers will give more to a Harvard grad than to an equally accomplished state-school grad.
this is just backpacking taken to one extreme. for most of us, like for everything else, some middle path is the best option (like your described diet options are really bad choice - some serious health issue might arise from them for some people).

I did similar thing in india+nepal for 6 months, great times those were. I came back recently for few weeks, with much higher budget and more ambitious goals, and I had a blast on a different scale. travelling properly is an art, but rewards are numerous and lasting
Check out the court ruling in the labour vs Google case:

https://www.oalj.dol.gov/Decisions/ALJ/OFC/2017/OFCCP_-_SAN_...

Page 10 has the information:

A “compensation team” sets the salary for each hire. Tr. 165-69. The team has no direct contact with the applicant and does not have the applicant’s name, gender, race, or ethnicity. Id. For industry hires, the committee might be given the applicant’s current compensation but no earlier compensation data. Tr. 175-77.

For the employees included in the September 2015 “snapshot,” about 20 percent were campus hires. Tr. 197-98. The only circumstance under which Google might increase the starting compensation for a campus hire is when the applicant has a competing offer greater Google’s. Google will not offer a larger salary or annual bonus plan, but it might offer a larger sign-on bonus or one-time stock grant. Tr. 207, 210-16, 223. There are no starting pay negotiations, and Google considers no other factors. Tr. 197-98.
Remember 20 years ago when we were all focused on studying computer science, building cool products and starting successful businesses around them? What happened?

Valley Values are completely destroying the tech industry. We have Google, one of the most successful companies to ever exist, being brought to it's breaking point over identity politics and diversity initiatives.

With the recent events, lawsuits and hoopla, I'm starting to view women as a liability in the workplace. As a business owner / Investor it seems like a liability to hire women.

I find my self asking, if I hire this woman, how long before she starts to demand equality of outcome regardless of skill level? How long before she starts to threaten to destroy my company, my brand, my livelihood if I don't succumb to their requests?
The only reason it spread was because people were shocked by his lack of tact.
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> My father still works and he is very healthy for an 88 year old.

This is usually related to the kind of job you are doing.

My mother was cleaning schools and that is a killer for the back. Being retired, she takes long walks and keeps herself active and healthy.

But when I was studying I saw quite old teachers still active, and happy. But that's a different kind of job with different effects on your health.

> I think part of the point is to find a [a]vocation that is not stressful, you enjoy, and can do a long time.

I agree. If you are lucky enough to get a job that fulfills you, then continuing working can be a good thing. That's why we can't just delay retirement age, but we need to take into account personal circumstances.

A not stressful and enjoyable work also helps you to keep your good health for longer, so you get in better shape to old age.
This does not ensure the data itself isn't wrong.
Yeah, I don't think you can. Protip: if you toggle "transit" on Google or Apple maps, then it shows outlines of the stations.

However, there is this:

https://www.6sqft.com/video-go-inside-the-citys-longest-unde...
This could be overcome by and large with a modicum of research and critical thinking.
You might be on to something...

https://www.ft.com/content/78146114-15f5-11e7-80f4-13e067d50...

> Updated projections from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, based on death statistics from the Office for National Statistics, suggest that men aged 65 will now live another 22.2 years, down from 22.8 years in 2013. Women aged 65 will now live for a further 24.1 years, down from 25.1 years in 2013.

(Same reported also cited here http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pensioners-uk... )

The analysis seems to focus on first order changes, not longer term second order changes so if there was an effect like you describe e.g. those born 80 years ago being much healthier than those born 60 years ago, their positive contribution might mask deeper problems.

The UK's ONA publishes various mortality related data sets here - https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde... - might be an interesting side project for someone with time to spare...
This is actually a great scientific read.
> Now I'm imagining our economy like some cruel volcano god

Similar to how the Aztec Gods demanded blood sacrifices, from the best & the brightest of the population.
You are reading things that are not written there, take a breath and read it without bias. It talks about predisposition and how when you look into a collective you observe differences.
The maternal deaths statistic is not that straightforward. The Economist just had an article about this [1]. It appears that differences in measurements can explain that higher risk.

[1] https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21725832-questi...
Out of curiosity, can you name some of those celebrities? I know Gerard Depardieu moved to Russia, but haven't heard about others. Thanks.