skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a theory that most people in the US are overpaid. However the overpayment is a strategy by management so that they themselves can be even more overpaid. This can be afforded because the overpaid people are locked into middle class life scripts driving up cost of living (houses) so that they are still reliant on the jobs. It's potential "fuck u" money but isn't because of the attractive force of a domain and resistance to change. (ironically the same arguments some techies deride locals for for not moving some place cheaper)

There is excessive profit taking at all levels including the IC level, however market dynamics actually create greater and greater differences in wealth despite the trickle down.
Here's the book, it's an interesting premise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Accomplishment

Murray ranks the leading 4,000 innovators in several fields of human accomplishment from 800 BC to 1950. In each field Murray identifies a number of sources (leading encyclopedias, histories and surveys) providing information about the leading figures in the field. The rankings are made from information in these sources. A raw score is determined based on how many sources mention and on how much space in each source is devoted to a person. Then these raw scores are normalized so that the lowest score is 1 and the highest score is 100. The resulting scores are called "Index Scores".

The book obviously wasn't written with the express purpose of saying "black people have never contributed anything of any worth to music." That's such a ridiculous mischaracterization, as if that was purpose of writing the book, geez...

It's interesting that you and many others trotting out obvious falsehoods these past few days think this is a wise strategy...

It's far more interesting to write about people that have done interesting, impactful, world-changing things. And that's what he wrote about, he didn't set out to write nor did he write the most boring book he could write, he wrote an interesting book about interesting people, actions, and ideas.

If the book doesn't have enough "diversity" for your taste,

No written language was ever devised in sub-Saharan Africa prior to outside influences.

There is no indigenous tonal music tradition in sub-Saharan Africa, apart from maybe singing. The only instruments native to the continent are unpitched percussion.

The wheel was never invented in Africa.

Sometimes reality is just reality.
their unwillingness to work with the person that believes in science

Actually I found his piece to be distinctly unscientific.

It parades as scientific, for sure. But when you break it down, and consider the whole of the message it imparts... at it's core, it was very unscientific.

And I bet that those at Google who decided to terminate his employment felt pretty much the same way.
> Just give every a sound cancellation headphone if they complain. To me cubical farms are depressing.

Just give everyone some anti-depressants if they complain?
> How would that work? For the company to make a profit, employees by definition have to produce more value than they consume.

Most people aren't primarily motivated by money once they are making a full salary as a developer.

PTO, Work/Life Balance, and Geography are more relevant to my life choices than how much I'm paid (to a point, certain areas I've noticed don't pay enough).

https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/profit_margin

Alphabet was running a 13.55% margin for its latest quarter.

https://ycharts.com/companies/WMT/profit_margin

Walmart was at a 2.59% profit margin for its latest quarter.

Which of these companies do you think are providing better PTO, Work/Life Balance, etc.?

The reality is intangibles mean more to developers than another 10% salary bump once they are making $150k.
It's a version of vi distributed with many BSDs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvi
Though it's not in the facets you can indeed search by label (here categorized as Publisher) easily enough:

https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?and[]=publisher%3A%2...
Indeed. I agree with the OP's definition of tolerance, and provisionally with the idea that uncivil behavior should be punished, but people definitely need to get some perspective when it comes to deciding what constitutes a violation of the peace.

Something I said about that previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10571404
>10$ a month is nothing. It's literally two coffee.

This is, has been, and always will be a ridiculous argument. $10/mo is nothing, it's the price of two coffees. But I need four services, so it's $40/mo, which is eight coffees. So now to afford the same content that was 1/4 of the price last month, I need to give up drinking coffee on Monday and Tuesday, every week.

"It's the price of a cup of coffee" is a terrible argument because I don't want to give up drinking coffee just to watch Disney movies. I want to drink my coffee and watch my movies like I did last month before Disney decided they needed to make more money.
I guess there will be two classes of people at Apple. Those with their own office, and those without. Although it has its rough edges, I am becoming a big fan of Swift. I hope Chris Lattner has his own office.
That is a blatant lie. Gizmodo explicitly stated that they stripped references and diagrams:

"Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted." [1]

[1] https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/08/exclusive-heres-the-full-...
> Why would I contest that?

Good, you do not contest that, which, frankly, would have been a silly thing to do.

> After I just said, "there are fewer Asians playing professional basketball because Asians tend to be shorter."

So, "there are fewer women in IT because women tend to be [biological argument]"

Now what here is the [biological argument]?

We've already established that there is at least one woman who is just as capable a programmer or software engineer as
any man could be.

That means this woman is exceptional because either:

A) She has a specific biologically determined male trait

or

B) She is not exceptionally different in any biological way but somehow has a unique environment that allows her to be an exceptional programmer.

Occam's razor suggests B here, in the absence of extra-ordinary evidence to suggest A.

Therefore it would be prudent for any employer to offer a benefit for women to shortcut the much complicated and convoluted environmental and social factors that are involved in the B scenario.

Any interlocutor who claims to have found evidence of the [biological component], and as such support A, but does not back this up rigorously, can be assumed to be working against the interests of the employer. Whether this is for ego, political, or religious reasons is irrelevant.
I've worked with .Net devs for most of the past 17-18 years... I've done my fair share of C# development beyond that. And I've seen a lot of shops move away from .Net. Several to Node.js, others to Java or Ruby. It's not just a Hacker News bubble.

I'm working in a place now, where most new development is .Net core to be deployed in Linux. There are also a few node projects, and go is also approved for new projects. Being able to target and deploy cross platform is huge.
Not just WebVR. Hardware video decoding was dropped for Linux years ago, never added back. Hardware compositing is only provided in edge cases.

The performance results are ridiculous, you're maxing out an entire processor core just for a 1440p H264 video on Firefox.
In general, this is usually solved by pricing things differently in different markets.
I did, in fact, read the link, and I'm reacting to the condescending language used throughout. The unspoken attitude in the article is that the employee is a dirty traitor and a fool for wanting to move on. 'Shields down' is a telling choice of words because the manager feels that the employee is protected by being his. It's a patronizing, parental sort of attitude towards employees that irks me to no end.

To pull another quote:

"If I’m sitting here talking with you it means two things: I don’t want you to leave and, to the best of my knowledge, you didn’t want to leave either but here you are leaving."

Here he's either assuming he can read the minds of his employees, or that his employees should share every dissatisfaction and stray thought with him. Hyperbole, perhaps, but not by much. I don't want a nosy dad for a boss.
So the obvious win here besides archiving art is that this is out of copyright sample fodder*

*IANAL and this may not be the case for all the material but I'm sure that there is mountains of inspiration to be mined.
With the recent bust of AlphaBay we know bitcoin mixers are vulnerable. It looks like Monero will take over as the favorite cryptocurrency of new markets especially with I2P integration.
Noise cancelling headphones really don't seem to be tuned to 85-250 Hz (human voice) in my experience, so you don't have to actually talk louder.
Does it really deserve a reaction of "You can't do that here"?

Google's decision was most definitely not in response to that graphic you linked to.
In the immortal words of former French president Jacques Chirac :

"Promises only bind those who believe them."
> Results. Delivery of requested work products on schedule with quality.

Because we all know that software estimation is a solved problem. Particularly with non-technical managers.
Kind of ironic, given that the whole article is about the divergence of system load from being a queue length metric.
Love it! but you should mention that you are using `three.js`
I've been using it for the past 3 months as my primary browser. The mobile experience is superior to Chrome, in my opinion. (Particularly, the reader mode on mobile makes certain sites usable due to lack of JS, and proper font sizes.)
The issue without "Direct Mode" is latency, as your link says. You need to bypass both the browser compositor and the system compositor. On Linux, most compositors will implement something like Direct Mode (compositor bypass) when you go fullscreen, but it's a bit hit and miss with multimonitor setups. It might fly as a stopgap, though. Here's the tracking bug for WebVR on Linux, if you want to follow progress: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1310655

Something more directly analogous to "Direct Mode" on Windows are DRM leases, which give direct control over the scanout, rather than simply bypassing the compositor. This isn't possible on Linux at all yet, but Valve is working on it: https://keithp.com/blogs/DRM-lease/
Typo detected :)

"An approach for runtime dection inside a constexpr function"

https://github.com/SaadAhmad/in_constexpr
Define "children". Do 10 year olds like Pirate of the Caribbean? Yes. Do 12 year olds like Hook? Also yes.
Stop comparing your salary to the US and start comparing it to India. You can be certain that's what your employer is comparing it to. And as soon as they can get the the same quality of work out of India you'll get the boot.
A perfectly reasonable question to ask.

Proving once again that on HN, sometimes downvotes are really upvotes.
Is there a good summary of his arguments you can recommend?
Did you just try to say that MLK and his jailer did the same amount of good for Civil Rights????
Not going into the merits of any particular point of view, but it's amazing to me how few people talking about identity or diversity work to ensure that their arguments aren't perceived as naked self-interest.

In most areas of political life factions work to recruit seemingly nonpartisan entities to advance their agendas. They go to great lengths to compellingly demonstrate how what they want is really good for everyone. Saying "I was elected by X so I'm doing Y" is only used as an argument of last resort.

But on diversity issues people get up on soap boxes and unabashedly advocate for their side. Arguments for diversity as a broader virtue are seldom advanced forcefully, and when they are there's usually not much of an effort made to reconcile that virtue with specific policy prescriptions. It's bizarre.

The end result is that you have a game of tribes and quislings, where facts don't matter and nobody agrees on what appropriate steps are to deal with diversity issues because the only thing people agree on is that everybody else is acting selfishly.

So here you have a guy who wrote a thing advocating for guys. The rest of the world views him as a sexist. Sundar fires him. The guys who agreed with the author of the manifesto view Sundar as a quisling. The rest of the world still views Sundar with suspicion as a member of Tribe Guy. Nothing improved, but lots of anger was generated. Eventually there will be something from Tribe X, and more or less the same thing will occur with roles reversed.

Is it so hard to consensus build on these issues that even bothering to frame the discussion better is a waste? Or is it just easier and more cathartic to be angry and build support that way?
The issue is that it's still a damn bundle. Except now it's several.

What I want is to pay for access to the things that I want, which happen to be spread across more and more bundles the way things are going.

What they want is for me to only consume things from their bundle, to ensure that I'm a permanent customer.
Indeed. But I wholly expect that sometime in the next few decades machine learning will be able to identify real people and their online personas based on text patterns and such and not the current method that's based on leakage, or having a handle like "johnasmith" or something.

What you think is discrete today, may not be tomorrow.

Even today I'm sure Google and Facebook could identify you just based on traffic patterns (e.g., "chii" has lots of traffic on hacker news and then from the same location "john a smith" has traffic on facebook). They don't sell that info today, but perhaps in the future.
a more mature implementation of I2P with the primary focus of further hardening Monero transactions
Yup! In the exact same way that not many EU countries would realistically operate within 1 single country if they are VC funded. Just like EU VC funded companies, The african based companies inherently have to think on a global scale on the onset. Unlike in the US/China where it's okay to be US/China only
> The only competition with the streaming service would be piracy.

Piracy is the only thing that will lead to a consumer friendly streaming option. If it weren't for music piracy, a service like Spotify might not exist. For video, Bit Torrent was popular for years.

Now people are flocking to things like Kodi, which can be installed on a Firestick [3] and, with add-ons, can stream anything for free [1]. In order to fight piracy, the studios will need to make it more convenient for consumers to pay [2].

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/liz-bales/online-piracy-netf...

[3] https://kodifiretvstick.com/best-kodi-addons/
2047 is 30 years away, not 20. Thirty years is a long time for a massively corrupt African country to go without a protracted and bloody civil war.
The SEC's point is that it is already illegal today, and only the most egregious ones (e.g. Trendon Shavers, Charlie Shrem, Alexander Vinnik) will be criminally prosecuted.
I'm starting to think that Kim Jong-Un has a death wish, and it involves taking a foreign city and his whole country down with him.
The recently launched Sony MDR1000X does the job for me (and also has a voice-passthrough option that is handy at times). It's around the same price as the Bose.
> The 40% risk of getting cancer doesn't mean 40% of the population will get cancer.

Actually, that's exactly what it means. 42% will develop cancer at some point in their lives, and 22% will die of it. Follow the link I provided to see the details.
> declares people expressing ideas that they don't like to be violence, worthy of punching someone in the face

While we're considering that, it's worthing noting that the author did exactly that, writing about James Damore:

> a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face

Should we accept lessons in tolerance from someone who appears to think violence is justified if someone holds a different opinion?
No, just some light reading where we have reason to believe it has been observed and may be able to devise further methods to observe it.
Facebook and Google have been pretty high-priority targets for improvement as part of the Quantum Flow project, so don't be surprised to see them get better in 56/57. As a Firefox nightly user, Google Docs/Sheets is night and day better than it used to be.
It's a la carte because for decades you had to buy bundles of schlock from your cable company to get the one thing you wanted (typically ESPN).

Presumably you want finer-grained a la carte, like individual shows and movies. You can get that today via iTunes but it is insanely expensive, and it doesn't really make economic sense because not enough consumers watch little enough TV for that to make sense, therefore the price remains high and companies offering it are not doing well.

Right now the market forces are pushing everyone to try to be either Netflix (streaming service become producer) or HBO (producer becoming streaming service). As the technologies commoditize this trend will continue, and consumers will just have to deal with the abominable UX that this balkanization of services creates. It'd be nice if someone could wrap a nice UX around this, whether it be a la carte or whatever, but I don't see that market forces would allow that, and least not until the balkanization gets a lot worse and rights holders get an incentive to play nice with aggregators.
You have a very valid point, but it's not exactly the issue at hand.

- The memo was posted in an opt-in group for these types of discussions.

- The issue is very lopsided. I have personally never heard of someone being fired over saying much more offensive statements in the other direction (ie: men are dense / white people ruin everthing / etc). I would have no problem with a zero tolerance policy as long as it were evenly enforced.
Ice cream research: So hot right now.
That only holds if the content providers decide to continue providing Netflix with an attractive catalog. Netflix is the streaming equivalent of Comcast, it's not an attractive model to me. I would much rather I subscribed to the content separately from the display of that content. My Fire TV or Apple TV or whatever device should just show any content that I subscribe to (with all the benefits of a unified library) and I will pay the creators directly for access.
The author of the OP (Yonatan Zunger) also recently published rather harsh critique of the Google employee at the center of the scandal. I rather felt that the Google employee was well within Zunger's notion of tolerance, and that it was Zunger who was out of line (excusing potential violence against the ousted employee, calling for his dismissal, etc.)
My problem is where to buy them to ensure 1) that I can access them for a long time, and 2) that I can access them on any device I need to. If the iPhone starts sucking and I switch to Android, can I watch my iTunes purchases there or did I just lose all that money? Can I shop the Google Play video store and stream on my iPad? Will Microsoft pull another PlaysForSure and invalidate all of my purchases at some random point?

Right now I'm buying from Amazon because even though they have the worst UI, they're the most vendor-neutral.
I think this is inertia from the housing bubble in 2008. After that, companies didn't have a retention problem with employees because everyone was terrified of not having a job for even a brief time. But since then, the economy has recovered (at least for this fairly high class) and also the ACA means that (at least for now...) you aren't as dependent on your job as you used to be. So you can afford to look around, and all the employers have the money to pay you what you are worth. They just don't remember that they have to do it to their existing employees too. They have forgotten to pay for retention, and I suspect that barring a new crisis (which I admit is more likely now) employers will start to realize again that retention is cheaper than searching for and training new employees
I was providing context for why the decision (good or bad) was what it was.
That would be the "user friendly" part.
In 2017, I paid for 100/40 VDSL 30€/month and for all TV channels I could ever need 5€/month (Satellite dish and HD+ decoder card).

I'm currently paying 2€/month for Amazon Prime for Students, and I'm not willing to pay more than 10€/month overall for access to streaming platforms (as long as I'm a student, after that maybe 20-30€ overall). That simple. In my family we have Amazon Prime and Netflix, if stuff isn't on there it gets pirated, no discussion.
thats why Netflix is going insane on original spending, they have no long term plans to keep other content
Apathy is the greatest and most feared weapon.
I just want to point out how funny it is that people are afraid of mass-hysteria.

Where are the adults in the room? Or anywhere, for that matter. Where are the people who make decisions without first considering the Satanic Panic? They certainly are not publicly visible in our global society at the moment. The handling of this issue is an indictment of calm and concerted leadership on the International stage. We are clearly missing our Leaders.
$30/month? Even with Disney's entire lineup, no way it's worth that much.

Given that online movie rentals are ~$2, that's watching a full length movie every other day. There's a limit to how much TV you can watch.

(And if your goal is to binge watch, it's competing with Netflix at $10/month -- which even with it's limited library is a great value.)
If we move fully into that model, how long do you think it will be before they realize merging with smaller networks to start hiking prices is more lucrative than letting people pick and choose?
Upvote. I have done this on Coinbase. I have recurring daily transactions created for Bitcoin and Ethereum, putting in $5 each. Coinbase charges me $0.15 in fees (3%) for each transaction. I realize that the fees have increased since I set this up, but I guess I'm grandfathered in.

FWIW, I've been lately thinking of adding an extra $2.50 each per day for Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash.

As another poster has pointed out, dollar-cost averaging is your friend.
You pay your employees enough that they stay and do it. Ultimately, this is the only recognition that matters.
I mean, there's not much difference between NumPy and MATLAB/Octave.
The trouble with discussing this issue is that so many people have a "with us or against us" attitude, and will attack (verbally, professionally, socially, and sometimes violently) anyone who questions any aspect of their agenda.
I notice no stories about how Damore lied about having a PhD from Harvard have made it to the top.
This is enabled by the fact that, despite how hard we try, we don't actually know how to track productivity, say nothing about changes in it that can be traced back to organizational decisions, or have anything approaching a model of productivity so that we might start to have predictive capability for how decisions impact it. So lacking a real metric that means anything, we cling to the ones that don't and as long as the lines move in the right direction nobody cares.
As above, but also the out of the box HTTP client in C# is quite limited.
> remote work

It doesn't help if you're in the Bay. Home, road, sewer, curb, sidewalk construction, 3 neighbors with leaf blowers regimens nearly ever day...

And that's just this year.
That's not how cable works, they bundle content you don't want with the tiny amount you do. What you are describing allows me to make much finer grained choices about my content.