skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think diversity is not exactly an end in and on itself, but a way to reduce general inequality.

So it's basically a shakedown.

general economic/social power of women

History and stats don't back up the image of women as some horribly oppressed group at least in western society.

And I am tired seeing this pitted as some kind of battle. The vast majority of people don't feel this way. Men and women are meant to, and do work together for their own mutual benefit and the benefit of succeeding generations.

And they work together in complementary ways, it is silly and destructive to think of the sexes as interchangeable.
That's such a great book, seems like also influenced the movie Independence Day, I don't have a source for that though.
Pretty much, the open space hype seems to have peaked in like 2010-2012, now we live in an enlightened time where even corporate leaders (gasp) are willing to admit different things work for different people.
> It is false because the science is bunk.

Well, then make that argument.
How do you handle boring unglamorous but important tasks?
A while ago I used to do business with a guy who could sell me pretty high amounts of gift cards at 30% of the value for bitcoin, after a while I got him to fess up on how he was getting them.

Turns out he was hitting up the local home depot self checkout with credit card dumps he bought online, and picking up 100 $50 iTunes cards in less than 2 hours.

I ended up referring the guy to someone with higher risk tolerance, but I hope that gives you a better understanding of the scale. That's simply not possible with conventional checkouts.
I believe this to be true, but by how much I am curious? Anyone have benchmarks to point to? Generally curious as I am a web developer who loves the idea being able to finally make desktop apps. Thanks
That is wrong. Almost all of the energy DC uses comes from its interconnect to the RFC grid. Locally, it does look like 2/3rd of the power DC generates is nat gas, and 1/3rd gas or gas-like, but it doesn't make sense in a grid structure to assume that the energy produced near you is the energy you use.

https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=DC#tabs-1
I totally agree. Every argument I've heard against cubicles were actually arguments against poor lighting and lack of windows -- a well lit, green, many-windowed office that had cubicles would be much more preferable to open office plans.
Load averages should probably get even higher and include network load - right now, a saturated ethernet card doesn't show up in the load

(network card load is one of the next metrics I check next if load average and wait%/user% etc aren't telling what's wrong)
IMHO, I think what's missing is focus. In college, people in the library were there to get stuff done and would leave when they were done or needed a break. In today's workspace it's less likely that everyone is completely focused on doing work every hour of the 8 to 5 work day, and that's what creates distractions.
Strikes, demonstrations, etc. are useful tools. Blacklists and firing people for political opinions are not, they often cause more harm than help.
I wonder how long until the big media companies start squeezing libraries for more pennies than they already lack.
We should make an audio output for our build scripts to play a really loud woodchipper sound. "Sorry, can't be helped, part of the process, the machine has to grind the source code up into small bits to fit into the CPU."
Collaboration is essentially contention, like CPU threads racing for the same memory location, needing synchronization. Synchronization kills parallelism.
"Not bad for a girl"
> But if this "ignore flags" version of hackernews were to have any moderation at all to prevent the above, it would basically mean forcing extra work on the moderators of hackernews to cater to a handful of people interested in genuine discussion and a vast army of people interested in using it to troll, harass, and generally be awful to people.

I highly doubt that. Typically a normal discussion (such as this one) is underway and the suddenly the whole thing is killed. That's rude, to put it mildly and I see absolutely no harm in letting those discussions continue with the normal 'up/down' vote mechanism taking care of the moderation. Flagging just affects the ordering of the stories and does not have anything to do with the comments within those stories.

Note that there is no reason that you would not be able to discuss this site and yet the discussion is flagged so the majority of HN will never see it. I don't like that, I think it puts too much weight to the flags in relation to the upvotes.
The "I don't like open spaces, so therefore my team doesn't" is the same failure as "I don't like an office, so my team doesn't get offices".

Developers are humans, and not all humans have the same preference. I personally prefer to work in an enclosed space that includes all my team. Open spaces suck for me. A closed office with just me in it also sucks, for me. If anyone on my team is more productive in an office, I'll do my best to get them an office.

There are two fundamental problems that always show up on this issue:

1. Believing that "I am human. My preference is X. Therefore X is the preference of all humans", and

2. "Office as a signal of seniority".

If a team can get past both of those, they should be good.
It's called fully-loaded Kodi.
Who has the US attacked with nukes?
I'd like a similar repository, for all the predictions made by electric-car proponents about when all ICE units will be phased out, and by what date. Especially when predictions are made regarding the viability of this or that gascar company who is seen as being insufficiently hitched to the electric bandwagon, as though powertrain technology was the alpha-and-omega of carmaking.
Piracy shifted power towards consumers. If content creators were going to see any money, they needed to offer consumer-friendly services that were better than piracy. The orgs that did this (Steam, Spotify, Netflix) dominated their markets.

As the web becomes more controlled, regulated and tracked, this power shifts back to the hands of the content creators. If there's no (legal or illegal) alternative people will go back to paying $120/mo for tv+movies. Mass media is how people bond, relate to others and fit in; and that's worth a lot. The studios know how valuable the culture they generate is, but over the past few years have been unable to successfully control their consumers.

I think that we'll see more studios shifting over to their own platforms. We'll also probably start to see renewed anti-piracy enforcement.
This right here is actually the source of the problem. The current social environment tells you "here are topics that you have to discuss with utmost sensitivity, even if you are completely confident you are right, and have all the evidence."

Your (and presumably, the google employee that got fired) response?

"Nah, I am right, so fuck your rules"

It doesn't work that way.
> I would prefer that content is sold without need for a middle man.

Not everyone can afford a CDN and a lot of other things in between the source and the user, especially creators. Sure, in theory they can just sell video from their sites, but in practice infrastructure costs a lot of money.

Unless video will move to decentralized distribution (pirated one did already, so why can't legal one too), distributors will have their piece of the pie.
I dunno. I work for a company based in the UK, which seems to have much lower pay than the US. I am paid the same as other senior developers at the company, yet my salary by comparison to US standards is quite low ($70k and no benefits since I'm technically a contractor). Otherwise the company is really amazing, so I'm torn.
Maybe just add a special topic flag "politics" and let everyone have a convenient switch in the profile settings whether they want to see those topics in the feed or not?
Can anyone do it? Is the software to do that open source?
I think Google could have done things better. First, do not fire the guy the next day the article is in the public. Second, taking time and create a committee to evaluate the situation and decide the actions to take. Third, express in public they official opinion as a company and what they really do in the diversity programs (I still not sure if they have positive discrimination or/and just increase the pool of candidates from minorities). Forth, fire the guy or arrange any deal with him if that is what they have to do giving him an option to make clear any statement he did. I think the guy is intelligent enough to know the impact of the article he wrote and would leave the company by himself to avoid more internal conflicts even when a lot of people think he is right.
Check out r/NEO on reddit and learn on http://neo.org

One thing that makes NEO cool is that it generates another coin in it's ecosystem called GAS which you get for just holding it in your wallet. Make sure you move NEO from an exchange unless you're using Binance (which lets you generate GAS on the exchange)

It just hit Top 10 on http://coinmarketcap.com yesterday
Central mechanism? Yes, the weakening of labor and the rise of anti-labor business practices.

The minimum wage stagnated starting in the 1970s and fell to a lower level (adjusted for inflation) from the '80s onward. The federal minimum wage adjusted for inflation around 1970 would be around $9-10/hr now. As a share of per capita GDP, which the minimum wage used to roughly track, the minimum wage has fallen much more. If we were at the equivalent levels to the 1960s it would be near $20/hr right now. That combined with a shift in the balance of power from labor (unions, etc.) to employers has translated into depressed wages for the working and middle classes for the last 40 years or so. And from that everything else follows.
> _cite some pseudo science here_ might actually be a solid citation.

The Google code of conduct is pretty clear. It is a primary duty of every employee to actively create an environment where others don't feel harassed or intimidated. If your science fact harasses or intimidates others, then science loses in that case and the code of conduct, and a harmonious workplace, wins. Google has a set of values, and priorities, and those might not be your priorities but you have the choice of working elsewhere if you feel those values don't line up with your own.

Science and facts aren't the end all. I know plenty of folks who are super smart, know a tons of facts, and are miserable people to work with. I would never hire them, or join a company where they work.
clear silicon caulk and caulk gun.
U.S. Global Change Research Program Climate Science Special Report[pdf]
Ah, thanks. Sometimes I see mods intervene on comments and that kind of thing, so I figured flagged posts went into a queue before removal.
I'm sure Jony Ive has an office.
"Hide" as in "the calculation is done in multiple lines on each receipt with the amount of VAT clearly spelled out"? Germany has some hidden taxes in the supermarket (on alcohol, tobacco, and coffee) but VAT is absolutely visible.
I'd pay $5/movie to just own them
VSCode pulls in all sorts of precompiled dependencies during build. e.g. the search is done via RipGrep which is just a binary.

But I agree that it is mostly typescript through and through, they just have implemented basically everything as a non-blocking promise.

And most importantly, the extension system cannot block the UI. It runs in a completely different process also.
This aspect of insurance is widely misunderstood. First of all an extra 4 cents/mile just for insurance is really expensive. But wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits can result in very large judgements, especially when we get to punitive damages for a large corporation. Individual offenders regularly go bankrupt. It may be wishful thinking that this can be easily solved with "insurance". There is also the criminal negligence aspect to consider.
The problem is two-fold. First, how do you distinguish how much of those results are innate from how much are the result of how we socialize girls? Second, how do you get from "men are more thing oriented" to "men prefer programming."

To give an example: In the U.S., teaching is consider a woman's profession, because it involves "nurturing." But in India, teaching is a man's profession, because it involves training the next generation workforce to participate in the economy. Even if you suppose women are more "nurturing" innately, that doesn't explain any particular demographic distribution among, say, teachers.

Another example is the fact that 60% of accountants are women. Accounting is not only about "things" rather than people, but it's often about completely abstract "things" (e.g. accrued tax credits). Women also are more "agreeable." But within, for example, the legal profession, the cooperative practice of transactional law has a lower representation of women than the conflict-oriented area of litigation.

Within STEM: over 40% of math majors are women, but only about 20% of CS majors. In other words, "social" and "people-oriented" women evidently prefer a field where people work almost completely alone on completely abstract concepts. Meanwhile, Pinterest's engineering team is almost all men.

The point isn't whether biological differences exist. The point is whether the evidence for biological differences explains what we observe in reality. And it really doesn't (not without egregious handwaving, anyway).
IKVM development has been halted: http://weblog.ikvm.net/
Like Erlang's links, sort of.
Security is actually one of the most important pieces of this puzzle and the team is one of the team's top priorities. Agreed it would be good to talk more about that on the homepage and everything that is being done in that respect. Mongoose is actually one of the first embedded platforms that support AWS IOT and X509 across multiple architectures
When you say "this" will all come crashing down and "this" is not sustainable, what exactly are you referring to?
That's just abuse of the flagging system. I don't get why people want to hide something that they don't agree with from everyone's eyes. Why not just ignore the post if you don't want to participate in the discussion. If someone wants an echochamber where only things that you agree with are visible, reddit is much better place for that, regardless of which side of the debate you are on, you'll find a subreddit that fits you.
Surely firing him and dealing with the lawsuit is far less expensive than having to deal with the fall-out from SJWs? This seems like it's primarily a business decision rather than one based on keeping within the law or not doing evil.
Special Circumstances is a reference to the "totally not a military but we happen have found this incredible amount of fire power just lying around" non-military section of the Culture culture.

It's Bank's wink towards that while you might have an enlightened view of universal peace other parts of the universe would quite like you in pieces.

Essentially the Culture's attitude to violence is that it should be used as a last resort, so named because once resorted to it lasts as an example.
The amazing 1969 prophecy over racial preferences
Is it possible to use it with async/await?
That topic flag is called reddit.com/r/politics. We are already choosing to come here instead of there.
I believe we need a hierarchy of primitives:

Level 0: one-value operations (promises = futures).

Level 1: multi-value operations (streams = observables), implemented in terms of one-value operations. Tokio did it well for Rust (https://tokio.rs).

Starting at level 1 doesn't feel right to me.
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According to scientists in the field, his theories are correct.

http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...

If you read the memo, he is completely against discrimination, including positive discrimination.
... for loose interpretations of the word summary ;-)
The most productive days I've ever had at my current employer -- by a significant margin --- were when most of the company was not present (off-site or holiday). Being able to come in those days and work in a distraction-free environment was amazing.

Open office floor plans are the worst.
> I'm already annoyed when I have to go from Netflix to Amazon to find a movie/show I want to see but can't remember where it is.

This problem was solved for me by Roku search on my roku device. It still is something I'd rather not need to do, but the search interface is just as good as the dedicated ones for amazon or netflix and shows you the results across all services.
I don't get the complaints, that looks very cozy even if you have to share with what looks like a total of 4 engineers per room which is a reasonable number for collaboration. The second picture makes it look greater than 4, however.

Assuming the cubicles are walled off, it'll just feel like a college library meeting room.
OT, but is there a good book on the history of offices, at least in American workplaces? What existed before cubicles?
In library you are not supposed to make noise. Go outside to have a chat. Proably that helped.
I figured we'd get a to point where Netflix[1] is the home of small studio and indie content while the mega-studios would have their own service. Disney has a current and back catalog that would make $20 a month golden.

As an exercise, let's say BBC America started a service with the entire BBC / BBC American catalog. I get the feeling a lot of people would be fine with subscribing. WB would probably do ok, but I'm iffy on CBS / Paramount.

1) I don't think Hulu quite has the chance but it still might
Inflation doesn't necessarily impact wage earners all that much. If the economy is doing well, their wages get inflated along with everything else.

I wonder about the long period of low inflation we have being the problem. The Fed puts the brakes on the economy all the time, to prevent inflation.
oh shit I am going to be fired for this? I said people and I mean people, not girls or boys.
I might be in the minority but I HATE cubicle farms and love open office design. Just give every a sound cancellation headphone if they complain. To me cubical farms are depressing.
DG is a heck of a leader, and we're lucky to have her dedication to outcomes at Google Cloud.
What is rule breaking about it?
Futures automatically coerce to promises, so yes.

Even better, they come with generator-based coroutines that work with futures, and are automatically cancelable: https://github.com/Mitranim/posterus#routine

You can even run it with Koa 2 instead of async/await: https://github.com/Mitranim/koa-ring
Mysteriously, many thread, including this thread itself, has been revived from dead (but could possibly still be flagged):

For example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14962366

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14961857

And it seems this thread itself is excluded in HN top
It's definitely not a cash grab as the project is open source. There are many problems in this space that cannot be served using current solution, especially in environments that are super resource constrained. For example, this is made to run on a very small footprint of RAM, even smaller than what an embedded Linux distro would use.
'Considering' isn't the same as 'exercising', though. Of course, you might reasonably ask what he has to gain by bluffing like that. Nothing comes to mind straight away.
I suspect it's much simpler than that. Open floor plans give less square footage per person so you get more people per building. It's just cheaper to build open floor plans.
This has been coming a long time.

Netflix's original business model was to ship DVDs in the mail which was great because they did not need any special deal with Hollywood to do it. In the meantime they built a strong brand.

After the first pivot, they streamed online, which required writing deals with the studios. Back then they were happy enough that somebody was paying them more money that they gave Netflix easy terms, in particular letting Netflix keep usage analytics so as to keep the studios in as much of the dark as possible as to what value Netflix got from it.

Pivot 2 was producing their own content. Any contract they are likely to get for studios is going to be on a per subscription basis, but if they produce their own content, the cost is constant but the value goes up as you add subs.

Owning their own IP scales better as they get bigger, and also as they've gotten bigger, studios are striking harder bargains. Thus the Netflix catalog has been shrinking. The real "Netflix optimization problem" is about buying a catalog of economical content then presenting it to users in a way that they feel they get enough value to pay for the subscription.

Disney is completely right to go direct to consumer because of the strength of the Disney and ESPN brands. The cable business will be eroded, but many sports fans are fanatics and will spend a lot for content if they want it. (Think of the market for AAA video games.)

Similarly, cable is not that enteraining to children, so many parents get Netflix for their kids, a package of Disney content without the crap you find on cable could be a hit.
If you live outside of the US, consider investing in an index fund that tracks multiple cryptos:
https://www.iconomi.net/dashboard/#/INDEX
If your direct goal is to consume more and more of your user's attention so that you can sell it to your customers and you don't place any limits on how much you will "harvest" you are on a path to destroy people's lives. Your points are also valid as to second and third order effects but I think you need to distinguish between the deleterious impact of primary goals and side effects. I would suggest the goal of developing an addictive app is similar to developing digital heroin: likely to be highly profitable but ethically and morally bankrupt. I think McNamee is offering a direct and specific ethical test for anyone developing applications.
> Now what do you think about it, now you know the real references of the article?

I think that a quick dismissal is not appropriate, that it is the right basis for a discussion and would definitely like to take some time and look at the citations and how they tie up and support the arguments.
Long term, we'll probably wind up with a couple of major marketplaces that provide a UI that ties together content bundles that you've purchased from different distributors (who will actually serve up their catalogs).

It's a bit depressing how similar that sounds to how cable networks work. Or platform specific app stores.
I should point out that I'm in the UK, if that makes a difference.
You didn't read it.
Come off it, you've been here long enough to know that it's an editorialised title.
Enthusiastic(and authentic) recognition. Everyone knows those tasks suck but you can still use it as an opportunity to re-enforce how critical they can be and give a big kudos for whoever rolled up their sleeves and dived in.

Another nice upside of this approach is it helps re-enforce a culture of doing the right thing because we ship and don't just write code.
What does “able to finally make” even mean? Who stopped you in the past? If you want to make desktop apps, learn desktop technologies. Or do you mean “I’m lazy and/or inconfident to learn anything other than JS”?

There are many articles on the subject. For instance:
http://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/
I'm in the UK, but what makes this better outside vs. inside the US?
I find it disturbing that they still link to the censored Gizmodo version. They should know better and use the original, either the PDF or https://diversitymemo.com/
As an aside, I do find it interesting that this submission is nowhere to be found from the main page itself (or at least 5 pages back, despite 50 points and 17 comments. I guess it was flagged/vouched back, but having showdead on in your hacker news profile does nothing to help if the algorithm drops the submission into nowhereland.

That is reason enough for the existence of hckrnews.com, imo.