skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Between men having spent some amount of effort and energy actively pushing women out, and marketing decisions having had some influence on creating gendered stereotypes, and those stereotypes having had some impact on diminishing appeal of the field to women, and workplace sexism, hostility and unfair treatment having had some deterring effects against women, and society-wide labor practice changes having some influence on women’s presence in the workforce overall, we have a very cumulative picture in the aggregate that explains the status quo for women in computer science.

This seems to me to be the key point in the post: there's no one reason that we can point to that would explain how we got to where we are. (I would suggest that trying to find that one reason is, in fact, counter-productive.) This being the case, I don't believe there can be any one way of "fixing" this -- the large change has to happen as a result of many smaller changes, including in hiring practices, standards of behaviour in the workplace, and in schools, colleges, and universities.

In other words, that small change that you can make that you don't think will make a big difference? It can.
ESPN viewership is dropping. As the largest asset of Disney it drags their stock down. Most other Disney assets are printing money, but not enough to compensate ESPN.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Disn...
Can't forget this one:
https://archive.org/details/78_i-dont-want-to-set-the-world-...

The surface noise works well with the song.
Act like a sheep or you'll be constantly down voted
Most people pay north of $100/mo for cable TV [1]. Depending on your bundle you may pay as high as $150 (anecdotal from friends who have Comcast). If you pay $50/mo for your internet connection you could afford 5 or so $10/mo services on the same budget.

Arguably, right now Comcast Xfinity has the most/best streamable content if you pay for HBO. This will likely change soon; this has been a long time coming. Cord-cutting is increasingly popular [2] and the studios are adapting.

Disney is gambling that they own enough content to make your top 5 list of streaming subscriptions.

[1] http://fortune.com/2016/09/23/average-cable-tv-bill/

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170531/05304937480/rate-...
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I don't know I think the original was a valuable mirror for what happens in reality. A thousand followers that don't know whats going on along for the ride and few people who look at the code trying to find an edge.
If we talk about tolerance as a peace treaty (which the article encourages us to do) then I might rephrase what you said slightly differently:

"Holding people to account for breaking the treaty is not the same as breaking the treaty"

If you accept my rephrasing, then I would like to argue that many things which people claim as "taking a stand against intolerance and bigotry" are themselves acts which break the peace.

If tolerance is not a moral precept then it cannot in any sense belong to an ideology.
30 different cryptocurrencies? How do these paper wallets work? Do you keep them in a safe deposit box or something?
It's just a font, the underlying text is still the same no matter what font you use to render it. In fact, you could set Fira Code (or Hasklig) as the font for your terminal and (as long as your terminal app can render ligatures) it would render in emacs or any terminal-based editor.
I believe he(?) was saying '100% my own products' was his end goal, he's not yet there.
Not familiar with cancelation tokens. Can you describe the approach?
Cozy? Looks more like a morgue to me.
That article offers good arguments not to pick him. Add to the fact a former starter is going to demand a greater salary, and his weaknesses will be more well known than, say, a rookie or someone who's always been a backup. At this point Colin has peaked and declined, and everyone knows it.

Edit - backups should be technically solid and be able to execute the same plays as the starter. Not flashy and unorthodox. When your starter is injured you don't want the whole team to have to change systems.
> My list would start with a tax code that does less to favor the affluent,

The problem doesn't seem to be taxes, but division of profits. Almost none of the gains seen by the 1% would have happened at all if the bottom 50% hadn't produced them.

No one person "earns" 10M or 100M per year. No one's 24/365 is that productive. It's done by keeping a larger share of the pie than the people who do the actual production.

Start with the (IMO) problem, not the side-show. I really don't care how much my CEO is taxed. I just want a fair share of gains.
Is your argument that software engineering is a religion women don't believe in?
I'm a little confused by this. Here is how I'd summarize what I think I'm hearing:

1. Tolerance isn't a moral value, but is a pragmatic value [why?]

2. Therefore, only people who abide by the terms of tolerance deserve to receive tolerance, else they're in violation of the treaty and excluded [why? where are these terms listed? who agreed to them?]

3. Suggests due to incompatible interests, constant peace is an impossibility [?]

4. From a speech from Patrick Henry [Appeal to authority?]

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What I find confusing is, to suppose that basic tolerance is subject to a treaty that I don't even know the rules of and never agreed to, then how can I know some stranger's differing ethics (e.g. pro-life) won't say I violated their ethical code and now have am no longer tolerable?

Perhaps this was heavily excerpted? It seems like social contract theory with all of the logistic details left out.
Hey nice, this is really cool!

This reminds me of some of the stuff on http://shadertoy.com . One of my favorite websites!
I believe it is forked from i2pd.
Bitcoin has historically gone up much faster than 7% a year and can go down much faster too. Currency being what it is, it is to everyone's benefit to eventually agree on one. In most cases, it is not useful to diversify, but with crypto's make or break, your $100 could be worth $100k in the future or $0.
My grandfather was a white male police captain during the civil rights troubles in Birmingham, AL. He also gave King the notebook he would use to write Letter from the Birmingham Jail. His quiet support of King literally enabled King's actions in more ways than I can relate.

To divide a people based on skin color is wrong. King, and my grandfather, were not lovers of one skin color over another; they were lovers of respect. It is respect that will break the chains anywhere they are found.
Really? That's the business you've automated??

Care to share some more details on the process?
Welp, better dust off bitTorrent again.
The issue is that every new generation of this issue comes up with its own version of "the others" to be suppressed.

The witches, the commies, the nazis, the apostates etc. that people feel morally justified to destroy at all costs. Moral superiority thanks to the ideology du jour is one of the most insidious and hard to fight social forces that brings the worst out of humans.

The Gulag Archipelago should be mandatory reading for contemporary generations that weren't born in a totalitarian regime and want to get a taste of where blind following of ideology can get them.
How many other studios can redefine copyright law though?
400M single muslims is a lot!
Most companies don't want to pay for retention.

I'll venture to say this: Not every project knows how to produce long term value, and not every shop is a good long term steward of value. This is a big factor in retention, in part because it's correlated with meaningful work.
I'm already up to netflix, hbo, hulu, prime, amazon video, and a couple channels on amazon video (which I am fine with because it's well integrated).

oh and plex.

yeah, it's getting to be too much.
Are you married and have kids? That changes the dynamics. Streaming Disney will be great for kids.
I tried this decades back with a (then) expensive Hughes HeNe laser, a 20x microscope eyepiece for beam focusing and a phototransistor detector feeding a HeathKit audio amp.

The laser spot size covered about three grooves. But for playing three grooves at once, it sounded good enough to be interesting. Didn't follow up, however.
I think AWS is the all-purpose fallback. It has some turnkey solutions for some problems of various quality, but you can always just use EC2 with custom code. S3 is a miraculous product. Lambdas are pretty cool. You can try your hand with DynamoDB, but RDS is there for you too. There's generally much less lock-in.
Why?

I ask as a recent convert to VSCode. Had spent about 18 months on ST3, and about a decade on Sublime Text 2 before that, as my daily / primary editor. Never going back.
Only about three have an intrinsic economic basis as a currency. And much of that is for illegal goods and ransoms.
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I consider the headline slightly misleading, since compression ignition engines that run on a variety of fuels, including gasoline, were relatively popular around the turn of the century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-bulb_engine#Advantages

Another big attraction with the hot-bulb engine was its ability to run on a wide range of fuels. Even poorly combustible fuels could be used, since a combination of vaporiser- and compression ignition meant that such fuels could be made to burn. The usual fuel was fuel oil, similar to modern-day diesel fuel, but natural gas, kerosene, crude oil, vegetable oil or creosote could also be used.

Also known as "semidiesels".
I don't check HN every day, so I totally missed this. I enjoyed reading it today.
If everyone cherrypicks what they're going to be tolerant of, and declares people expressing ideas that they don't like to be violence, worthy of punching someone in the face, we're in for a bad time. Now is the time to amp up the tolerance, and be willing to give before you get. Almost everyone is capable of putting their various differences aside in a professional environment and get shit done. Honestly it seems like Google is going to have to add a violence component to their training: "It is never OK to punch someone in the face because of something they said."
> Employment isn't a protected right.

Nice - you just proved that diversity programs are unnecessary with far fewer words than James Damore.
It's like the idea of being mercenary is inconceivable. I'm loyal to whoever has the best deal. If my friend invites me to coffee to talk over a better deal than the one I have, I'll take it.
>> meaning there's a set limit that can be minted

Except the fact that anybody can start his own cryptocurrency and therefore there is no upper limit.
Is 10$ a lot?

First, consider the experience then and the experience now. Before, only a single person could watch pre-scheduled content (unless you have an extra device to record). Now, multiple people can watch any show they want in parallel.

And your way of splitting the money is silly. At the end of the day, you were paying 80$ but were only interested in a very small portion of the content. Now you're getting that same content you cared about, but for a far smaller cost.
No it's the BSD clone from the nineties. Ascii only.
What was your decision for REST over GraphQL?
Wow, this is great! I've been a serious record collector for 20 years, but never got into 78s.

My eventual life goal is to do something similar with my Brazilian record collection... have the skeleton of such catalog at: https://www.novedos.com/collection.
> StackOverflow already took an "open-borders, anti-Trump, or get out mentality", so its not a stretch to say that any right leaning belief, or more acurately any non-extreme left belief will be under fire from more and more companies.

This approach is burning bridges and giving up on any attempt to convince the other side. They'll still hold their views and they'll be forced into a bubble where their views are reinforced and are likely to become more extreme. Next election cycle could very well have people asking "how on earth did Trump get re-elected?" and the answer will be this style of attempted thought control.

Even worse, it's burning bridges with people in the middle and in many cases even the ones that are on your side.
Because that's what the streaming ecosystem needs; more fragmentation.

I understand production companies wanting to have control over the distribution of their content, but consumers are not going to want to signup and pay for multiple streaming services.

Are there any companies out there working on a solution where they can 'buy' subscriptions in bulk from all the various streaming services, package them all under a single streaming product, and sell that to the consumer?
I've thought about Cloud Functions but Lambda may be better.
> At the time Emacs was often too slow on my computer (circa 1995 maybe even as early as 93).

Recalls to mind that old joke, "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping."
By definition, science can test and prove natural phenomena by identifying laws of physic etc.

Science is useless in testing or proving supernatural phenomena but that doesn't necessarily mean it can't exist.
How do you know the process is biased towards women?
Still in my hall of shame: CockroachDB, which decided Closure and Rust were more important than .NET - I love Cockroach but based on this I wonder if they want to make any money.
> Could it be that our traditional models of motion and light propagation in extremely distant, never visited places are extrapolations in error?

Or whoever programmed our reality couldn't build a consistent macro-physics engine so they hacked something together while hoping biological evolution wouldn't lead to anything that would notice it. Everything was going smoothly with the natural-selection add-on until the platypus and hominids showed up.
Then don't go to the event. No one's forced anyone to attend it, just like no one's forced anyone to read this document or agree with it. There are millions of shitty discussions being conducted on the web at any given second. If you tried to stop every single one, you'd probably waste far more time.
His lawyers will have a hard time convincing anyone insulting thousands of colleagues is protected speech or political activity. What social movement is he participating in?
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Exactly, a DVD of a new movie doesn't cost $12.99 because that's the price of the disk
My argument is that one's religious beliefs dictate what sort of organizations one will be a part of, just the same a person's physiological makeup will dictate his profession of choice.
The "success" is not Spotify. I don't care if Spotify makes a loss or not. The "success" is that most people do not pirate music any longer but pay for it, be it via Apple Music and friends or via Spotify (even if the real bill is footed by investors).
Hi,

I applied on the website. I have a solid background in embedded systems and C++ but I immediately received a rejection email. I wish I could have chatted with an engineer first :-(
I've also been testing out the volatility with automated trading scripts, trading on the dimes and nickles. Unlimited amounts of trades with no transaction fees and this much volatility is a dream land. I started trading 4 months ago and turned 10k into a little under 75k. I was a bit late to the game, but I can't imagine how much some of the other automated traders are making.
Look up the Sennheiser Bluetooth ones.
This looks great! Cancellable promises are still pending after 6+ years of discussion.

I'm curious about the naming choices though, since user friendliness seems to be one of the goals: why 'deinit' over 'cancel' and 'arrive' over 'resolve'?
According to the article some of the things that will "and will get you socially lambasted"

"Any statement that perpetuates female stereotypes is sexist, even an innocuous joke (or even a misconstrued joke in someone else’s private conversation)"

"Prostitution is sexist against women" etc

Um wtf? No these are not appropriate in a work environment. If you want to have a place with meaningful controversial discussion that's not the work environment.

I'm a lady and I honestly would feel uncomfortable if people were discussing these things at work. I really could not care less what other people's opinions are on these issues but I know I'm there to do my job as best as I can no get siderailed into lengthy controversial and highly likely uncomfortable discussions.

Suggesting that Google needs to be a place to comfortably voice off your random ideas is pretty irrational. It really doesn't.

Anyway, what does that even look like tangibly? Unprofessional... uncomfortable. It would not result in people agreeing with each other more just becoming less likely to like one another.
Perhaps exhaustion of rights (after first sale) will allow 3rd parties to buy a stream from Disney through a Disney user?

Maybe I can sell my streaming account on to someone whilst I'm not using it, by it/one back when i need it?

That might actually force open syndication and put paid to monopolistic practices.
Java virtual machines generate very efficient machine code nowadays, especially for an older codebase like jEdit's that is not particularly "object oriented".
> I'm going to have to wait

Especially with WebVR, you can use Windows as a troublesome device driver. Running the browser under Windows, either on a separate machine, or if the stars align with your hardware, in a VM. I sometimes run a Vive off a Windows VM - setting up the VM to perform well was a bit fiddly, but it works. And Windows is a lot easier to manage when you can accumulate VM snapshots of it.

For non-WebVR Vive or Rift use, there's http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/Vrui/ https://www.youtube.com/user/okreylos/videos .

For WebVR-ish development, there's my https://github.com/mncharity/node-webvr-alt-stack . Insecure, with no a-frame or lens correction - it was MVP for me. But I use it comfortably on laptop integrated graphics, at 30 fps, in coffeehouses and conference rooms, so that's fun.

I have to wonder if the WebVR spec might be less bad, if it had drawn from a larger community. My favorite bit was WebVR 1.1's getFrameData() - it was spec'ed to take an immutable object, which it would then modify with new data. Sigh.
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Sorry it wasn't clear, I'm actually in the US.
We need Aereo for streaming services....
Thank you... I read through most of it, and while some may disagree with parts, I can't see why he should have been condemned and fired over it.
More Silicon Valley startups need to get on board with .NET. Yeah, I know it's strongly typed and doesn't abuse white space, but you're missing A LOT of potential customers when you skip out on .NET. Seems like a really poor business decision to ignore it simply because there isn't someone on your team who has built a compiler for it in their spare time.
Let me see if I can help:

Tolerance is not an end in and of itself. It's sort of a game-theoretic equilibrium, equivalent to an iterated prisoner's dilemma where cooperation is enforced by punishing defectors.

Society is full of unspoken rules that govern how we interact civilly with one another. It's sometimes frustrating that the rules are tacit, but it couldn't really work any other way.

To your point though, there will always be those who use the tacit, emotional nature of the social rules to manipulate others. The "place their nose in the way of other people's fists" as it were.
I understand that, but it still hurts.
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> If all major studios pull their content from Netflix, then it will not have the large library size anymore.

Exactly! It is obvious that Netflix and Amazon are pivoting to be more like HBO and Showtime. Apparently, as they reach out to a global audience they need to rely on original content to avoid costly licensing disputes [1].

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/12/amazon-netflix-look-shows-key-...
Sorry, I'm actually in the US. I'm surprised to hear that that's a low salary for the UK, as well.
Anecdotally I see them driving like snails on Valencia Street and elsewhere in the Mission day and night. It's very well mapped, but one of the more challenging areas to navigate in America.

I've never seen them pulled over in the bike lane on Valencia like very other Uber/Lyft, which is a good thing, but picking up and dropping off is far from autonomous friendly in that neighborhood.

Of course sometime it's obvious a person is in control and presumably they're generating training data.
I highly doubt that any judge (or sufficiently informed jury) would find that Google acted in response to any political activity on his part, per se.
Glad to see you leave.
>and then present the conclusions that asians in professional basketball perform worse than others (exactly what this individual attempted to do with women)

Could you quote exactly the line where he "attempted to do the same with women who work at Google"?

That would be pure gold. I read the memo, but I don't recall that part.

I'm thinking, one of us may have our blinders one. I just want you to do the work since it is your claim, and it's a 10 page memo.
Think carefully about what you just posted. Java has to load the JVM. Atom and VS Code have to load Chromium.
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It's the version of vi that ships with the BSDs.
Grow up, it's a workplace. People go there to make a living, not to be subjected to your half-baked political opinions. It's unprofessional.
thanks dddanmar, very cool!
It is worth noting though that those figures are American, but Netflix and the Disney decision are global. The US is a bit of an outlier in terms of both the cost and popularity of cable TV. For example in Australia, a country very similar to the US in terms of pop culture and entertainment, only around 25% of homes have cable TV and the most popular package is US$39. In the US the cost can be looked at as '5 services to replace cable TV' but in most countries it does instead look like broadcast-TV content being moved behind new paywalls, with increasing costs to watch the same shows.
What are some reasons you like VSCode over Sublime?
The FAQ answers this:
https://github.com/monero-project/kovri-docs/blob/master/i18...
You're referring to the Green Freedom concept:

http://bioage.typepad.com/greencarcongress/docs/greenfreedom...

Its authors badly underestimated how much new American nuclear reactors would cost.

We performed economic analyses on a partially optimized baseline concept based on a single Gen III PWR to provide power for the process. The analyses estimated a capital cost of $5.0 billion for an 18,400 bbl/day synthetic-gasoline plant and $4.6 billion for a 5,000 tonne/day methanol plant. Nuclear power accounts for more than 50% of the total plant capital investment.

If just over 50% of that cost is supposed to be nuclear plant, it would be $2.5 billion for a Gen III pressurized water reactor. ($2.9 billion now, accounting for a decade of inflation.) The just-abandoned VC Summer project was supposed to build two new Gen III PWRs in South Carolina. They pulled the plug because estimated cost of completion had spiraled up to $25 billion ($12.5 billion per reactor).

https://neutronbytes.com/2017/07/31/utilities-pull-the-plug-...
Linux (and macOS) should work on Firefox Nightly. For both, the Valve services are currently in beta and we can't really ship something that relies on beta drivers past our own beta releases.

If you encounter any bugs on Linux or macOS in Nightly, please do report them! The team is awesome about testing and fixing them. That said, the VR & driver/OS stack for support on those two platforms is still seeing a lot of flux and is not yet at the same level of performance and stability as Windows, depending on which particular version you grab.