skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for digging that up. Amazon should really not do this, it opens them up to all kinds of scams and has the potential to harm their brand in ways that will not be easy to repair.
Well, MLK did say that a riot is the language of the unheard. And he deemed the white moderate is the greatest obstacle to freedom. How does that square with your understanding of the civil rights movement? We'd like to wishfully think that social change can be achieved without any fuss. It can't. Firing someone isn't thuggery. Or the barrel end of a gun. It is just an organization walking the talk.
It appears equality checks for objects is not supported i.e.:

Immutable({a: 1}) !== Immutable({a: 1})

There is no built in equality function either [1] so that seems like that's a big advantage Immutable.js has over this. Maybe seamless-immutable-diff [2] could be a way to do it but I am not sure on the performance.

[1]: https://github.com/rtfeldman/seamless-immutable/issues/186
[2]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/seamless-immutable-diff
First it is generally a tough problem. There is more room at the bottom than there is at the top. Many people become entrepreneurs because they don't see any way up in the firms they work for.

At a big company you might feel you are not making a big impact, as for stability, all of the time I see headlines like "Intel lays off 10,000 engineers."

Feeling bitter about things won't help you get a job, at least if that attitude comes across in your communications with them.
I've accustomed myself to openocd, gdb and some small custom scripts (e.g. interpreting fault registers)

Hehe, the world really is that small :) Say hi to Mark if you meet him, I haven't seen him in ages.
The revolution will not be televised.
s/applaud/appalled Sorry I never write this word in English.
I will agree that the methodology is not as rigorous as it could be but where can you prove it is "wrong"?

My blogpost shows that stock price predictions also show a terrible track record. They are wildly off and on average higher than actual results.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555313
There is probably someone in that 'entire world watching it' who has the time and technical expertise to help make backups. If nobody else knows about it, then it wasn't going to be used for evidence of anything anyway.
And a warning that says, "we use tracking cookies and sell your browsing data to advertisers"!
Or by removing the annual cap on the number of doctors that graduate and simultaneously relaxing the regulations and paperwork, that prevent doctor from operating independently instead forcing them to join large networks like PAMF. I talked to a couple of my doctors, both of them admitted they would like to have a private practice, but would get buried by the paperwork and accounting they will have to perform in addition to their actual job.
If you are not on Facebook, how do you get the notifications?
Gender segregation in sports is certainly not without controversy.
A study group meetup (Every Tuesday evening in Austin, TX): https://www.meetup.com/cppmsg_ai/

Just Q&A - no presentations. Study from whatever books (http://amlbook.com/ and http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ are popular in our group) or courses (Andrew Ng's are also popular) you like throughout the week and then show up with any questions you have. We've been meeting for a couple of months now and new folks are always welcome no matter where you are in your studies!
Google executives are overwhelmingly US citizens. The ICC has no jurisdiction over them.
m->k and k->i looks like the right hand on the keyboard was misaligned one row too high.
Every problem is an opportunity and potential solution. The current centralization will bring with it all the problems of centralization. Individuals can't simply depend on goodwill. That never ends well. Power is arbitrary, concentrates itself and seeks its own expansion making individuals irrelevant.

The bigger problem is the potential solution. What seems to happen in the market economy is once any potential 'solution' takes off, the money and greed involved also do, and the solution becomes the exact same problem it was attempting to solve. Or it was just 2 powerful vested interests fighting all along masquerading as change.

There is plenty of wealth floating around, resources and power are increasingly centralized, the barriers to entry are getting higher exponentially, distract yourself, avoid it, accept it or vie for change, but most change-agents have been betrayers, merely replacing one set with another, hence the devil you know.

This is not to advocate helplessness but to think carefully about potential solutions and not blindly support self serving interests promoting change.
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And you seem to have this weird notion that whether or not a team has a high profile does not impact its chances of getting a grant. In the absence of a feedback loop this largely turns into a popularity contest, and dire predictions are helpful to that end.

All I'm proposing is to create a stronger feedback loop. I don't see why anyone, including the scientists, would be against that.
Not surprised at all that this was flagged of the front page in minutes. Completely proving the point...
I don't know specifics to a pro tour, but here are things I know a golf course can do (has done):

1. Move the holes on the green. It's pretty easy to do, you basically have a giant cookie cutter that cuts a hole out, you drop in a cup and then move the bit you cut out into the old hole. On a well maintained course the seam will be gone in a few days. Most courses have a map of where the possible hole positions and a difficulty measure for each configuration.

2. Watering/not watering greens. If you don't water for a few days, the greens get harder and the ball doesn't slow down very much. On a sloped green this can make a decent landing turn into a gigantic overshoot.

3. Mowing height. A tall rough can suck energy out of your swing. A low green makes the ball roll fast. I'm not sure if they change the height for all areas of the course (especially if you're happy with your greens), but it seems trivial to let the rough get a little higher.

In your comment you mention moving the size/position of hazards. Moving bunkers is a bit of an ordeal and I'm not sure if they would do that for a PGA tour (but I could be wrong). Making the water level higher so the ponds get bigger seems easy enough though.
I am not defending Damore's thesis. I am defending his right to advance it without putting his livelihood at risk.

The trouble is that this was at work where Damore was earning that livelihood and the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech doesn't extend to work. Google was well within its rights in CA to fire him for having a bad haircut.

BTW, I have a new theory about the manifesto: Damore is a really bad writer. He probably got an A on every paper he ever turned in and he's still a bad writer.

One of Orwell's rules in Politics and The English Languages [1] is:

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

I don't think Damore is being sincere and says what he means. He's clearly angry about how people have misinterpreted him and says that Pichai misrepresented him. But really, he's just a bad writer who isn't saying what he means.

[1] http://www.npr.org/ombudsman/Politics_and_the_English_Langua...
It most likely just a coincidence. Or your partner searched for it.
> The studies I've seen showing positive effects of diversity have also been based on actual statistics and many assessed several sectors, not just tech. That many startups in a specific region are similar based on demographics doesn't invalidate benefits of diversity.

I was specifically talking about the startup context. I think it's simply wrong for these diversity consultants to abuse their PC power to spread false information.

And going further, my point was that these people use controlled research results to make their point when the real world demonstrates plenty of evidence showing that it doesn't work that way. Think of any successful company (not just tech but historically) and see how many of them won over their competition in their early days because they worried about creating a diverse team when they were 5 people bootstrapping. You won't see many. Most businesses succeed by building or providing products/services people want. That's the most important thing as an entrepreneur. Nowadays I see entrepreneurs and VCs bragging on social media how their firm has "achieved diversity" because they have 50% women and 50% black, etc. That's the last thing you should be worried about during your early days in startup journey.
Somehow this turned into the kind of flamewar that we're trying to avoid on HN. Would you please stop engaging in these kinds of arguments here? Their thoughtfulness/rantiness ratio is much too low.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14989642 and marked it off-topic.
I don't understand what you mean by "right."

He clearly identified with it, and then posted it, so if the question is "Is he entitled to an opinion?" I would say yes, he is.
While there is more room at the bottom, the downside to that is that there is more skills saturation at the bottom. So I'm looking for advice that is more supportive of my goals to be a more competitive programmer and in-demand by more reputable software companies. I would love to work at a company like NVidia or Intel. I'd be in a better position to find work even if I get laid off from Intel vs. getting laid off at a mom & pop web company. My resume would look better.

I'm also not interested in starting my own business. The typical "startup scene" outcome for a typical person is to be in your 30's with 5 short-term jobs and zero net worth. I don't feel like I make a big impact in small companies either.
Not just the top X%, but the top X% living within commuting distance.

There may be some interest in relocating specific highly desirable individuals, but they will already be industry insiders.

Industry outsiders will not get relocation benefits.

The problem is that jobs have been offshored to increase profits.

You really have to think about this to understand it. The Harvard Business Economy has made it impossible for most people with average skills and abilities to find work that pays a living wage that makes essentials - not luxuries, but essentials like housing, food, and transport - reliably affordable.

Developers have top X% skills and see a very skewed economy where their services are relatively in demand.

Most people see a very different economy, which has left them behind with no prospects and no safety net.

Historically, this rarely ends well.
I loved those in India when I travelled around. We would often save the cost for a hotel and just sleep in the bus.
You can go a long way to blocking a lot of these by using some alternatives:

* Using DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com/). It is really decent and has good desktop and mobile integration.

* Using a browser like Brave (https://www.brave.com/) that blocks trackers etc. Android app is superb.

* Using a Maps replacement like OSM (https://www.openstreetmap.org) on desktop and OsmAnd on mobile (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand)

* Pay in cash, or pay using pre-paid credit cards that you change every couple of months.

* For real paranoia, get a VPN app and pick a new country & server every day.

Email is harder if you are emailing people who use gmail. For what it is worth, as of June 2017 gmail no longer scans email content for ads (in both commercial and consumer/free gmail - https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-tractio...) Personally I use my inbox as my calendar - dont think you're missing much by just not using calendar at all unless you have a very, very hectic schedule.

I deleted my facebook account many years ago. I've not missed it.
I wonder if there's ever been a better real-world illustration of Maslow's hammer at work.
You can turn this off. You don't need to ask your friends to stop. https://www.facebook.com/help/187272841323203
Using Algolia's Hacker News Search to get an alternative view of the front page
Also new note for 2017 is that "economic anxiety" doesn't mean "economic anxiety" anymore. Need a new term for that now.
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here we are in 2017, with many many crucial things to argue about. this is your priority? good luck!
No need to invoke Godwin's law. There are different degrees of force. Even the staunchest libertarian will concede that some amount of force is warranted to protect rights. The question here is the nature and degree of the force. I'd say firing someone is warranted especially if an organization has committed to fighting gender stereotypes amongst its workforce.

People vs things is just one example. The cited science also says that men are more prone to anger and aggressiveness. So in net, leadership positions should be held by women if one were to make an 'ought to' argument based on the science.
Imagine that you aren't staying at a friend's house, but rather at a hotel or AirBnB. Avoiding paying for one extra night instantly saves you money. And if you don't expect to do much the night you arrive anyway, there's no real cost (plus you don't have to leave work early, which may be advantageous).
Deferring decisions to an algorithm doesn't absolve the owner from responsibility for its actions. If the consequences are unknown, why should it be allowed to use it?
Their site's fare calendar is a dark pattern. Normally when searching for round trip fares on, say, Google Flights, selecting the departure date from the calendar shows the (lowest) round trip fare departing that date. When you then select the return date, the (lowest) round trip fare departing on your departure date and returning on your return date is shown.

Cabin's site shows you the one-way price both times even when booking a round-trip. It's not until you click through that you see it's $115 each way.
An interesting perspective. Could you elaborate more on some similarities for someone who is only vaguely familiar with the Soviet Union ?
>I do not agree with Damore's hypothesis. The evidence for it seems thin to me, and the best data indicates that there are few discernible differences in mental capacity between men and women.

There are very large and well documented differences in personality traits between men and women. There is an enormous difference between men and women in the "interest in things vs interest in people" dimension. See here:

http://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00320.x

93% of men are more "thing oriented" than the average women. And that's assuming there is no noise in the measurement, likely the true value is even higher! Similar for big 5 personality traits.
I haven't actually made an 'It's impressive.. but' comment yet but I've wanted to so here's why I'd say that.

Firstly, much like most things a lot of the press releases have been pretty disingenuous. I'm pretty salty about Elon Musks tweet -

> OpenAI first ever to defeat world's best players in competitive eSports. Vastly more complex than traditional board games like chess & Go.

1v1 SF mid is several orders of magnitude less complex than an actual game of dota and probably a lot less complex than chess & Go as well. More than that, 1v1 showcases haven't been a thing for quite a while now for good reasons, the last time they did a 1v1 showcase was at TI4 (in 2014). When they did these the format was best of 3 with the first two games being QoP VS Puck and then the decider would be SF VS SF. This was done because QoP VS Puck is a very mind gamey, strategic, match-up whereas SF VS SF heavily emphasizes mechanical skill where you can snowball off of last hits and denies, giving the match-up more of a sudden death feel. You'd expect a bot to be very good at the SF match-up but struggle with the QoP / Puck match-up where there is a lot more decision space.

To go back to what I said about 1v1 showcases not really being a thing anymore: Back in Dendi's day mid was actually a solo lane but these days in a real game the mid has to constantly be aware of support rotations. The bots super aggressive positioning would be heavily punished even in fairly low MMR pubs so I suspect the pros have deeply ingrained positioning rules that make them hesitate rather than match the bots stance.

All that said, the bot is really impressive and I can't wait for the 5v5 bot next year. It will be super interesting to see what strats it goes for and how much it emphasizes the bots inhuman reaction times / micro skill.
CRUD web or desktop app?
Things like this is why I continue to give to the EFF.
On the one hand I understand why people feel like they need the law to protect them when discussing biological differences in the workplace. Someone who is blind might not be the best at driving cars, for instance...

But on the other hand I don't feel good about notions of genetic superiority being accepted in the workplace and I worry about the slopes that could be exposed from such discussion.
That leg is definitely the most scenic part (although going through Burlington, IA is also surprisingly neat).
No one said that what Google did was illegal. Just that it was wrong and makes the world a worse place.
This is shockingly disrespectful and I'm dismayed to see this on Hacker News. It seems you won't stop abusing the community with incivility so we've banned the account.
Personally - I'm very aware that both track people obsessively, and I don't really go in for cheerleading US megacorps. However - Facebook feels a lot more evil to me.

It's the constant cat and mouse game. I go in periodically to tighten my security settings and close off more notifications, and they find new vectors to spam me into coming back into their walled garden. Their "frictionless sharing" always feels more like "frictionless privacy betrayal", as it's totally in their interest to disseminate whatever info they can gain as widely as possible. To blur the line between private and public for their benefit.

I don't close my account completely, because I go in once a year to thank people for the birthday greets. They find 21st century AOL more convenient for this than email.

In contrast, I'm one of those oddballs who still uses Google+. Almost exclusively with remote family, to share photos that we've taken during the week to talk about during a hangout. The default sharing "circle" is limited to close family, and that works well.

Feels like a pretty different experience from FB to me.

Plus, I think FB's aggressive cultivation of online relationships erodes old meatspace ones. It's human nature that just casually swiping on your smartphone screen for a status refresh and dopamine hit from your sofa is going to be easier than arranging to meet groups of friends in person. I've certainly found this with some people who live in the same city as me. So I wouldn't say FB is useless - I think it's slightly worse than that.
Hadn't heard of Halt & Catch Fire and Scorpion, will check them out. Mr Robot seems to reinforce the stereotype of social outcast computer kids, definitely not glamorous. I doubt SV glamorizes the tech world, but I haven't seen it yet. Compare that to the typical doctor or lawyer series, where heroes save lives.
The article has a lot of good info in it. There is really more here than just the fact that someone died. I had never heard of her before, but the article was an interesting read due to the content of her work, basically.
> The likely scenario is that the submarine has failed, she either died before she could escape or the more likely scenario is that Madsen panicked, saved himself and left her behind to die.

They were looking for the submarine for hours before it showed up and sank in front of eyewitnesses. It was in the news already at that stage. I think he may have panicked when he learnt that everybody was looking for him and the woman and then sank the sub. One eyewitness saw him in the tower, then he went down into the sub, then back up, and then it sank. My guess would be that he went down and pushed the submerge button, went back up and got himself "rescued" by a passing boat.
That's news to me. References?
No one said anything about genetic superiority. The Google memos entire argument was that women are statistically less likely to be interested in tech for various reasons. He never said they were less capable or intelligent or anything.
What does wide circulation mean? Is there an IPCC report that makes the claim that "we're definitely all gonna die of heat, drought, and hurricanes"?
The USA is really big. I took the train from Chicago to San Francisco. I loved it, but it took the best part of three days.

Flying is always going to be more compelling for functional travel like this.
I have little doubts decades from now I will still be mashing code on a keyboard. Maybe not a physical keyboard but something out of Tony Stark's lab.
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You are the one making a controversial (I'd say fantastical) claim, so you are the one who has to prove it's "right."

Here are some basic questions for you, related to the points made above:

* WHY did you remove outliers in the 10th and 90th percentiles? What happens if you don't remove them?

* WHY did you use a 10-day window centered on dates of recommendation? What happens if you use the price on the same day?

* Why did you choose those return horizons? What happens if you choose different ones?

* WHY did you pick out only the top 10 analysts? What happens if you don't?

* WHY did you not do statistical tests relating to removing outliers, significance, etc.?

* WHY did you choose those cutoffs for price, marketcap, and minimum analyst rating?
Not to get into this again, but California also only has 1/3 of Japan's population density, there's very little between the obvious Bay Area and LA endpoints, and there's no viable route up the coast so you have to go inland, which means putting rail through quite a lot of mountains. There's also no realistic world where you get from SF to LA on rail in close to the time it takes to fly (SF to Burbank is only an hour).
The argument is not "they are spreading our trademark" but "they are circumventing our copy protection" and that would happen regardless of the way it is technologically done.

This is a huge attack on the way we all consume the web, because in the end it leads to a society where we are forced to consume ads to participate in the society.
Or rather, it would diminish the value of the article as an ad by mentioning another service.
Do some of them have dual citizenship?
As a person who wholeheartedly agrees that we shouldn't avoid considering unpleasant truths in the quest for truth, the real problem here isn't Damore's hypothesis, or the fact that he held it. And there is no problem with testing such a hypothesis in the search for truth. The real problem here is the context in which he presented his hypothesis is very prone to miscontrual of hypotheses as facts in a way that can cause unacceptable, and unwarranted discrimination that may be very hard to reverse.
> That may be one of the less legal things they do

Actually, it's in the TOS [0] - although it says you legally own content that you post, FB retains IP rights to your photos and videos. These rights end when you delete the content, unless the content has been shared with other users. This means, in practice, that they have IP rights in perpetuity to everything you post publically!

Now, the TOS does claim that deleted content is deleted "in a manner similar to emptying the recycling bin on a computer". However, "deleted content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time". Make of that what you will - I read it as a legal back door that lets them keep your deleted posts around for as long as they want.

[0] https://m.facebook.com/terms.php
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