skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you link to one that cares about the apparently highly important matter of "unrepresentative populations" of people interested in coding, and why that is an issue of greater interest than any of the other countless "unrepresentative populations"?

The one's I looked just seemed like a mish mash of meaningless postmodern babble.

What happened to the scholarly tradition of penetrating insight and clarity?
Yvo Schaap, the creator of Directlyrics.com, recently wrote a detailed article on Indie Hackers about how he's been living the 4-hour work week for the past decade: https://www.indiehackers.com/@yvo/how-ive-lived-the-4-hour-w...

He created product where the brunt of the work took place in the first few months/years, but the SEO traffic paid dividends for years to come.
"Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us."

I'm also not going to comment on this thread. But our silence will come back to damn us.
It takes a lot to get fired from Hooli, especially on such a short time line. Applying Occam's Razor here. A) he was an innocent victim who naively expressed his political views via a manifesto and was capriciously fired. B) he was already on the shitlist for being a pain in the ass and conveniently provided HR with the ammo they needed to shitcan him. With A and B being opposite ends of the continuum, I would guess he fell closer to B than A, given that Hooli is kind of hard to get straight out fired from.
Especially in software. See how much Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, Google have raised.
I call BS on that. There are nasty people with no respect for personal property on every political spectrum. It's honestly to the point where wouldn't put any political bumper sticker on my car at all, ever.

My personal experience with "far-leftists" as you would call them have been large peaceful protests.
I don't usually like to ask for citations, but he said the data was easily found which is clearly false in this case. And there are good reasons to believe google, a company which hires a "VP of Diversity" might be different from the companies previously studied in entirely different industries with entirely different hiring practices and requirements. I know in academia, female applicants are favored in the hard sciences: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/10/new-study-explores-g...
I'll note that one of the rules for proposal submission that GitHub specified before proposals were accepted was that any ties in ratings would be broken in favor of a more diverse speaker panel, so it at least appears that they were conscious of attracting women and minorities to the conference.
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Google is a for-profit, publicly traded company with millions of investors and thousands of employees. They are not obligated to engage in a public battle of ideas with an employee. They have made their values incredibly clear - if he disagrees with them strongly enough to publish a manifesto, he probably should have already left to find a place where he fit in better. Perhaps Palmer Lucky will hire him.
Haha wow. Of course the fundraiser for this piece of work is hosted on the alt-right's de-facto crowdfunding site. In case you had any doubt, please note that one of the most successful campaigns on WeSearchr is raising money to help a Neo-Nazi blog in a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center.

https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/daily-stormer-vs-splc-leg...
>Unless you have a very loose definition of"no one" that simply is not true.

What part of "to a first approximation" was unclear?

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Haskell is in 47th place, which is consistent with where it ranks in every other popularity list I've ever seen.

I'm standing behind "to a first approximation, nobody".

Note that I'm not saying that Haskell is a bad language, or that Haskell programmers are bad people or anything like it.

I'm saying that the vast majority of programmers do not use Haskell. An anecdote about a particular group that uses Haskell (or even several groups) does nothing to refute that fact.
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I'd ask you to read some of my past posts that brush up against this subject matter. I consider myself aggressively moderate, but if you look at the "results" of what I considered rather unoffensive thoughts, you'll see that they were met with almost immediate silencing.

First; it's a bit disingenuous to paint it as a white vs black; since much of the substance of the debate to my eyes is the nature of the intervention you chose, not "is there necessarily a problem", but given that, I think it's very fair to say those on the spectrum of opinion short of "full unflinching support" have felt a chilling effect as of the last few years. Granted I can only speak for myself, but to suggest that differing opinions on the greys of implementation could be perceived as "repulsive" is an excellent and apt example of how far the discourse has already fallen. It's on both sides, frankly. Extremely polarized with dogma abounding. I don't know how to fix that problem, unfortunately.
How do you intend to handle incompatibilities in the tracker protocol that are introduced by BEP52?

In particular, I note that there's nothing in there regarding which infohash should be used in the tracker updates. Should traffic with v1/v2 clients be reported separately, or should it be consolidated under the v2 infohash?
We've already lost quite a large number of democracies all over the world to all sort of oppressive dictatorships and teocracies. Where's the surprise?

It's good sometimes to remember not to take democracy for granted.
3-joint inverse kinematics doesn't have a unique solution. You need an additional metric to pick the solution you want. Closest to previous position? Best looking?

2-joint inverse kinematics has a simple analytical solution, which can be found in robotics textbooks.
As far as I can tell this is not open source. It seems to be a toolkit/framework and is supposed to be the basis of actual applications with focus on augmented reality. I don't think it will become widely used if the developers are not able to inspect its code, especially when the code comes from Apple. They do have a track record of adding hidden "features" one would like to deactivate.
Could say the same thing about many countries, e.g. Turkey's descent into dictatorship shows democracy can be lost.
Can you provide me with a pointer to more information about this?

It seems pretty extraordinary and I'd like to see more before I believe it.
Pilot waves are not a theory. No experiment can exclude them, unless it falsifies the entire quantum theory of mechanics. One reason to dislike pilot waves is that people, speaking as scientists, take them too seriously. This is not to say that scientists shouldn't talk about them, just that we shouldn't pretend we're doing science when we do.

In particular, don't pretend that anyone can be scientifically right or wrong about the human interface to quantum mechanics. Some interfaces cause fewer errors than others do, and the rest is Vi and Emacs.

Speaking subjectively, there are two reasons that I prefer Everett's relative state interpretation. (It's the serious version of the approach that these slides send up as many worlds.)

Relative states make it blatantly obvious why I can't put a contract on my great-great-grandfather. In other approaches, you have to think about this.

In the pilot wave "theory", there are superpositions, a.k.a. "pilot waves", and a bunch of other things. In the Everett worldview, by contrast, there are superpositions, full stop.

Everett does leave some grey areas, roughly speaking the quantum version of, "Is 7 a random number?" I doubt that any interpretation of quantum mechanics can clarify that, and Everett at least acknowledged the problem and made it fairly explicit.
If you think 'establishment' means having vanilla PR, sure. But he is as establishment-minded as the rest of them. Appointing big oil CEO to sec of state, ultra neocon pro-corporation judge to the supreme court, extremely pro charter-school administrator to sec of education. All are very wealthy people who belong to a higher income bracket than the vast majority of America. Establishment has a price tag and he has been able to afford it most of his life. That isn't changing anytime soon.
Its also necessary to stop people doing a drive by job with anon accounts.
I had a couple years Stuttering. Never figured out why, suspected it was related to trying pot for about 6 months. Not really sure but it's the only thing I could put it down to at the time. But boy, was that ever unpleasant. It just slowly faded away over time. For those of you that have had to live with this I really feel for you. There is the social side that's difficult but I had not idea how frustrating it is when your speech just wont come out. Seriously if you've never experienced this long term it's really hard to express how uncomfortable this can make life.

But as for the social side, I think you'd be surprised how unfazed most of the people you know will be by it. Sure sometimes they'll be flustered and get annoyed but I don't think you need to be embarrassed by it the way most people are.
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Or to give a slightly better example, suppose you're playing russian roulette with a six-shot revolver. You empty the revolver of bullets, then put one bullet in, spin the barrel, point it at your head and fire.

What is the chance that you're shot? Is it 1/6? What about if you open it up and look in the barrel to see if there's a bullet there?
https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts
Most of the soft kite designs target this space, i.e. small generators for disaster areas and war zones. Soft kites aren't anywhere near as efficient as hard wings, but they sure pack up small.
If Pao could sue KPC&B

People in general can sue anyone if there's any possibility they might win. The only way her lawsuit would be thrown out if she had never worked for them, or something like that. Otherwise, the way to find out if her claims have merit is the lawsuit.

Which she lost, and was forced to pay $276k to KPC&B. So not exactly a good omen.
There's a lot of unsubstantiated things, but I can work with that. Here's a response with the same level of justification for the statements

> He stood up for the truth

The things he said are not true.

He did not stand up for them insofar as it was posted anonymously

> he did a good thing

It was not a good thing

> we all benefit

No one's life was improved by his actions

> He's like tank man

Except that tank man was in favour of political freedom and this guy is in favour of misogyny

> Sure they killed him

He has not been killed

> We honour people who stand up for the truth

Who is the 'we' here? For some values of 'we' this is definitely not true.

> Especially when it comes at personal cost

If he's so great, he'll find a new job.

Are you some kind of communist who doesn't believe in the free market finding optimal solutions ;)
With respect, you haven't seen ageism until you hit 40 or 50. When you've been told that you have a great rèsumè and that they're looking for someone just exactly like you but five years younger and would you be able to give them any suggestions, then you've seen ageism.

I've never been a manager, and I wouldn't want to be. Technical Team Lead is as far as I would want to go, and I haven't done that yet.

As you get older, it becomes easier to become a contractor or consultant, as opposed to working in-house. Then they expect you to be a bit older, because you've got more experience.
> The comparison to programming thus only fits for imperative languages.

I am not comparing recipes directly to programming. I used recipes as an example of something that has mathy and engineery facets, but that is not engineering or math.

> So what then were you intending to convey by vague references to incomprehensible academia?

I wasn't making "vague references" to anything, nor did I say that academic languages were "incomprehensible". I did say they were bizarre, which is a different thing entirely.

I'm not sure why you find it hard to believe that someone could understand academic languages of the sort you evidently prefer, and yet somehow still choose not to use them. Your attitude seems to be that anyone who doesn't use your preferred methods is "anti-intellectual", "ignorant", or any of the various other personal insults you've used.

Why not just go off and write some awesome software using your methods? If they work as well as you claim, you'll have some hard evidence to back up your assertions

>There is a direct, elegant, simple, formal correspondence between programs and proofs."

You are defining great software as "software that can be proved to behave in accordance with some formal spec", while people who actually use software (i.e., the people who pay the bills) define great software as software that performs the task they need to have done, can be written economically, and that is easy to use.

By your definition, a great recipe would be one that came out exactly the same every time, even if it tasted like shite, or took three weeks to make, or...
As far as I have understood, his main problem with Google is exactly as you describe him. He feels like Google is actively furthering a political agenda, namely the left one, and does not allow any dissidents or diversity of viewpoints. He explictly states that he is not against diversity, and that he is open to criticism and debate of the arguments he presented.

As for the cherry picking; remember that he is trying to make a point here, namely that biological differences might play a role over aggregated statistical differences, and that this might be one of the reasons we don't see the 50/50 split, and that ignoring this might be counter productive for everyone. Is the biological studies he have presented cherry picked? I'm sure you have seen the Quillette article [1], and the scientists quoted there does not seem to think so.

[1] http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-....
That's exactly right. Thanks for taking the time to read my comment thoroughly.

I also agree with your point around phrasing. I agree that lot of people took away the wrong meaning due to the phrase "lower the bar" (which is a very loaded phrase). This piece probably could have been better received if the author sought out proof-reading with trusted co-workers and friends beforehand. In particular the author should have:

* Dropped the awkward and monolithic generalizations of "Left" and "Right" at the beginning.

* Stayed way the hell away from talking about biological differences, just say that men and women have different preferences for working hours, fields, etc. and don't touch on possible causes.

* Don't emphasize on the benefices diversity initiatives have on diverse candidates, but rather the possible negative effects for the group as a whole. The point about OKRs contingent on hitting a certain percentage of diverse team members turning hiring and transfers into a zero sum game was actually a really good point that potentially hurts diverse groups themselves by limiting cross-team mobility.

* At the end, don't try to turn this into a Conservative vs. Liberal issue. Just point out that affirmative action is not nearly as uniformly supported as people make it out to be. For reference 42% of the population opposes affirmative action for race in the workplace, and 33% for gender [1].

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/184772/higher-support-gender-affi...
Your interpretation of that statement makes no sense. With that interpretation: a) the bar isn't lowered in any sense of the word, as that would imply less qualified people getting in, b) you'd claim that for unexplained reasons, Google can give more accurate evaluations for diversity candidates, c) and/or that they are rejecting candidates they know unequivocally to be qualified and d) even if all of this was the case, there wouldn't be anything discriminatory about it. At least where I'm from, it is literally a legal requirement, that if multiple candidates compete for the same position, diversity candidates are given preference.

Even in its most generous reading (yours), this sentence makes zero sense.
My last personal laptop was a Macbook Air, however I used a 4th gen X1 Carbon in my previous role and loved it so much I bought my own after I left. Unfortunately they're a lot less pragmatic without a corporate IT help-desk to troubleshoot issues and provide replacements on demand.

I consider myself very fortunate to live 45 minutes away from a Lenovo certified repair shop.
Anything can "make others feel unwelcome" given enough determination to find so. Did you vote for Trump? You get the boot. Voted for Hillary? You get the boot too, there are Sanders supporters around! Ah, you like Sanders? You communist! Communists certainly can make people feel unwelcome, they did tons of scary stuff over 20th century. What, you don't like communism? Maybe you like capitalism then? You pig! You're making Marxists feel unwelcome! Off with your hea^H^H^Hjob!

Maybe you believe in God? Like, a Christian? That certainly will make a lot of folks feel unwelcome. But maybe you're an atheist instead? Ha, did you think you'd get out that easy? Of course you'll make somebody feel unwelcome. [1]

OK, this is all political stuff. Let's get so something nobody objects to. How about cheese? Do you like cheese? Do you, you filthy sexist[2]?!

If you try hard enough, you can see "feel unwelcome" in literally anything, and simple google search proves it's not even a bit of exaggeration.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/us/richard-dawkins-speech...

[2] https://www.peta.org/living/food/why-cheese-is-the-most-sexi...
I'm not sure it counts as satire when you're openly being the thing you're satirizing, and that's the entirety of the joke.

It normally wouldn't be a question of import, but this is a scam satirizing a scam, and according to the "Stretch Goals" if it raises enough to not be a joke it will stop being a joke.

So this rubs me the wrong way: it feels like just another unnecessary ICO that uses the satire tag as a shield from criticism. I don't think the already cynical ICO scene needs more of that.
I think what you're missing here as that unions often limit the ability to respond to market conditions in much the same way government does. Responding to specific minutiae is not terribly hard if they personally harm you. Accounting for them in an impersonal regulatory framework being made at arms-length is a much harder problem even if that framework solves other problems.
I am >50 with grown up kids: this is how we spend our holidays and we get not much more then the "American 2 weeks".
Planned is just the timeframe & means of transportation, the rest is pure accidental. We run in to the most boring places and move on, we hit the most surprising gatherings, fall in love and stay. Whatever happens we decide on an hourly basis what to (not) do next, exactly that what we cannot do in our daily lives.
We find that it takes on average 3 days to completely reset from city slickers to travelers: hygiene rules change, food preferences, clothing & make up, luxury requirements, sleep rhythms & most of all the perception of time.
Not trying to be a smartass, I'm only commenting because I was genuinely confused for a moment -- the word is _bloc_ in this context. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloc
This is happening so often these days and I've struggled to confront it. I'm taken aback when people equate conservatism with violence or hate; it's an instant conversation-ender for me and it's irrational enough that I'm almost never interested in picking the argument apart.

It's not just a feature of social media comments. This line of thinking is heavily promoted by once-respectable newspapers like the Washington Post in their opinion sections. I raised my eyebrows the first time I ever heard Trump refer to WaPo as "fake news" but two years of daily reading later, I tend to agree with him.
This blew up because
1) English is an imprecise language subject to multiple interpretations;
2) Viral effects develop when there are feedback loops/network effects (virtue signaling is one; conservative vs liberal politics is another)

I would hope that a more narrowly focused document written in more formal language (math) with clearly-stated assumptions and a faq that addresses common misinterpretations will have fared better but these days even expecting this might be too much (which is sad!).

The one thing I feel that lost out on all this brouhaha was the author's point that companies should value "diversity of thoughts" rather than diversity of <the current hot topic class>!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952787
You need a NOP instruction, for many reasons (padding loops to cache line boundaries, jump tables, ...). This gets you free NOPs without allocating an instruction encoding for it.

The processor needs to optimize it, because otherwise the NOP-equivalents

ADD zero, zero, zero
ADD zero, zero, zero

would take 2-3 cycles to complete, because it looks like the first is writing to a register that the second is reading from, creating a scheduling hazard. The AXP should be able to issue those side-by-side, knowing that they don't actually do anything.
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While I have a lot of problems with the memo, I was pissed to see CNN's subtitle on this topic: "Boss condemns manifesto sent by a male engineer that claims women aren't suited for work in tech." To say that the manifesto claimed "women aren't suited for work in tech" is more than a gross mischaracterization, it's outright false.
Ah I see. Thanks for expanding.
>Tolerance is not a moral precept.

Yes it is. You mean it's not a moral precept that you value.

> I do not falsely equate attempts to deny people fair civil rights (as the modern GOP does routinely, in terms of race, gender, gender identity, and so many other ways) as “opinion” so much as institutionalized violence.

Welcome to the logic of the left wing extremist: speech that he or she disagrees with isn't actually speech, it's violence. After all his politics are self-evidently synonymous with justice, therefore any criticism is synonymous with hatred and bigotry. There will never be any criticism of his politics, no matter how measured, no matter how tame, that he will not consider hate speech.
Memory compression was also added in Mavericks.
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There is no way around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
You would find a 4 bedroom property in Las Vegas for $25 a night? Sign me up.

Where are you getting that from? The price seems totally in line with what’s actually advertised for properties on Airbnb. I don’t know anything about Las Vegas rentals though.
Given the facts of this incident, the only reasonable explanation of banning throwaways on this discussion is to suppress those who are sympathetic to the fired point of view. Using your real name in this discussion, even with substantive comment (like the offending 3,300 word post), is a career limiting move.
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Bingo. Learned about this in my mandatory California-required anti-discrimination training.