skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One possible way Google could have turned this into a win-win scenario would have been to have the VP of diversity co-opt the memos's authors and put them in charge of some diversity initiatives so that they could experience the nuances of the problems with their viewpoint and perhaps the come to a revised (and usable solution), or if his berries were more closely correct the VP could experience that.
If most of the more recent languages are anything to go by you'd target LLVM and in the future get a WASM support for free.
You're comparing radius (in Bekenstein bound) and event horizon (in black hole).

Event horizon is a pretty different beast than radius. If we define "density" of a black holes using event horizon instead of radius (black holes don't have real radius), then supermassive black holes are actually pretty "light". A black hole of the mass of our universe would have "density" of the universe, which is mostly empty.
A big question is, can WebAssembly be used to speed up e.g. Atom and VSC general operation?

Or is the way those are doing things mostly incompatible?
This wasn't an issue for Bridge either.

As soon as you can build a probability distribution over possible states, you can use Monte Carlo like methods.
sounds like someone's been on /r/bitcoin
I think I'm outside the edit window for my comment. As a coda, it looks like mortality due to measles may have been declining before the incidence of measles began to decline; this further supports a role for other societal developments in decreasing death from infectious disease.

This is purportedly related to the use of antibiotics to decrease bacterial sequelae of measles. I saw an academic reference to this effect but I can't find it again - here's a popular article. You'll note that this commentator ascribes some of the decrease in measles-related death to sanitation.

1. http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2009/09/02/measles-deaths-...
Xcode has a migration plugin that's not too bad. The biggest changes are generally for the better so I'm like meh. It's kinda annoying if you have dependencies but maintained dependencies generally migrate very quickly.
congrats! 35 lbs is no joke.

I practice IF, just works with my natural eating habits. Was never a breakfast person but giving up eating late night snacks has also been tough for me.

The hardest part is trusting the process of cutting and sticking to it even when not seeing immediate results.
To add context: Other companies, such as App Annie, offer free VPN services (under a different company name) in order to track this type of engagement data. It appears to be very valuable.
Ah, argument by false analogy. Always a good way to avoid an constructive discussion, as any inconvenient counter-argument can be dropped into the gap between the analogy and its referent at the author's sole discretion. Not going to spend more than a few minutes playing that game.

The problem is that Damore did far more than our elevator operator. He didn't stop at claiming there were innate differences. He assumed that they could justify representational differences a full degree of magnitude greater than those innate differences could possibly account for. He whined about being silenced, in a memo seen by most of the company. He poisoned the well many times, accusing anyone who might (even hypothetically) disagree with him of "generally rejecting science" and "virtue signaling" and being like Communist dictators. He rejected current approaches because their effectiveness isn't absolutely 100% proven, then proposed alternatives that are even less proven (and indeed sometimes proven not to work). It was a veritable parade of (pseudo-)intellectual dishonesty, which the OP continues from its derogatory title to its cowardly coda.

A company that fires people for dishonesty isn't dying. It's smart.
Why?

Speed is in MPH or KPH, would it be better to go by m/s?

The convention in gaming is APM, so they're just using the nomenclature that is already understood.
What about this scenario -- you decided to BUY the movie via Blu-Ray or DVD, but then they force you to go through and see the previews before letting you watch the movie you bought. And not letting you skip the previews. These companies don't have a clue.
Plenty of people understand the basics of BitCoin, that it is a currency and how to transact with an exchange that supports it.

You don't need to know the knitty-gritty of SHA256, blockchains, or the game theory associated with Proof of Work to "understand" BitCoin.

If you apply the same standards for "knowledge" of the US Dollar, you also have to require that people understand the intricacies of the US Treasury, the Mint, The Federal Reserve (and it's 12 constituent regional Central Banks), concepts of fiat currency, etc.
Dashed-off in a hurry without thinking it through, just like most of the supposed high achievers and visionaries I know.

If we make it easier to quickly travel longer distances in/out of work hubs...

...the demand for quickly traveling longer distances in/out of work hubs, increases accordingly. Which leads to the same congestion problems spreading outward. You don't want to plan your land use based on what types and kinds of transportation are possible. But if you open up a transportation corridor hoping for the best, that is exactly what you're doing. Based on the fact that there is now transportation available, you get mile after mile of hastily-constructed bland, dystopian nowhere suburbs that breed ennui, conformism and fascism. Meanwhile all those people shoulder extra "friction" in their lives in the form of traveling around pointlessly.

Instead you should plan land use deliberatively. Build the destination. And then connect destinations. The answer is the exact opposite - have a strong urban growth boundary that keeps growth compact, and remove barriers to high-density housing construction in the city. Because this leads to less demand for travel, everyone saves on transportation costs - not only the costs of infrastructure but of using it. And they get to live in a dense, interesting city where their genitals can be located near the genitals of many others of their preferred gender for mating. Which is great for software companies that hire young people.
Because the NYC Subway "color" of the L line is gray! It's logo is a gray circle with a white "L" in the middle in a sans-serif block font.
I always thought that the problem was about changing culture. The existing culture is too elitist and male oriented.

Which isn't a problem in itself. But these are gatekeeping mechanisms that are gatekeeping what may become the ONLY good jobs in the future as everything becomes automated.

It's not about proving your worth but looking out for people trying to cram into the departing boat.

Whether there's enough space or if the boat can grow or even if the boat is as useful as it claims is another story.

Goverments used to burn books not because peasants could read them but because of the lifeline it extended. An opportunity to challenge.

Tech exponentially creates more and more knowledge requiring more and more specialization. It's not enough to throw scraps because difference can still grow if the scraps are small enough. Even though the rising tide lifts all boats, the difference in speed creates master/slave like riers.

Certain societies and cultures place more emphasis on the responsibility of the powerful to create these lifelines. Others are more individualistic.
Gitlab on-prem support coming? That would make me very likely to switch especially because I think it would make it much easier to spin up review apps for our SPA's
You're confusing intersection and union.
> even strong baseline agents, such as A3C, cannot win a single game against even the easiest built-in AI.

Then, why not release code for the built in ai, and improve on it ? Or is the built in ai cheating ?
You should definitely try rust, it's better than its counterparts, rapidly growing, memory safe language with utmost priority on efficiency. Plus its cross-platform too :)
Most people can understand it from the perspective of an end user, just as you and I can swipe a credit card without necessarily understanding all the underlying Chip & PIN and anti-fraud and bank processing technologies and processes.
I've seen some people mention it in the past, but if their experiences doesn't match up to your own I'm not sure if it would work out very well.

Most instances I think people find mentors while at work.
The Swift 3->4 migration was not bad, actually–just a couple of small changes to source here and there. With ABI stability I think we'll see the adoption of Swift for libraries and frameworks increase significantly.
Not everyone enjoys traveling, many people hate it.
There are actually 2 parts to the complexity of a modern RTS game like starcraft:

1. Memorizing certain well known strategies and counters very well and recalling them immediately.

2. Having decent speed with the mouse/keyboard to actually execute those strategies within a very short period of time.

I think what you're talking about it automating 2)... which I completely agree with. How to do it... that is more complex though...
Swift has a clear policy on this, but basically: it's worth breaking things early on rather than freeze in bad design decisions. They provide a code migrator to help with this pain.

However, this was only in the early releases. The plan is to stop breaking changes soon and freeze the ABI. They're a little behind schedule for this, but it should happen soon.
Why it’s time dark data came out of the shadows
I want to know the opinion of managers about what they think when they have to rewrite the app everytime there is a new release.

I remember all the time the iOs developer spent with every iOs release. He didn't look any happy
If you follow the metaphor, the idea of shaking a toilette to fix it is stupid as is hiring an electrician. Rationally, you'd find another plumber, maybe choosing a different selection metric.

Extending the metaphor, the electrician has a long record of saying demonstrably untrue things about both water, electricity, and plumbing.

And the idea that alternatives look worse is just more stupid denialism, the idea that literally all alternatives are worse than someone who poops on all the furniture is just non-credible nonsense and begs for ridicule because it is that ridiculous. It's not rational.
So true!

I'm freelancing now. How about yourself and what was your situation?
9 Takeaways from the National Climate Report
Got 500+ emails in few mins from Airbnb
I reset my password for an old account on Airbnb, server error-ed in HTTP 405 error. After that I could login to Airbnb. But on my email, started getting 100+ emails and currently the number is 500+. Airbnb is seriously getting hacked.
We do support GitLab on prem already, but right now it doesn't let you trigger deploy previews and branch deploys. Currently that's something we can help with on the custom plan, but we do hope to bring it to the normal tiers as well.
Swift 3 was a major backwards-incompatible change. It came with an automatic migration tool, but the tool only kind of worked.

Swift 4 is a much smaller change. There are backwards-incompatible standard library changes, but not on the scope of Swift 3. Again, it comes with an automatic migration tool. I haven't tried it myself, but I'm optimistic that it will work much better, both because they've had a year to fix what went wrong the first time, and because the changes are much much smaller.

But Xcode 9 also supports Swift 3.2, which is the same language as Swift 3.1 with some miscellaneous bugs fixed and with the iOS 11 / macOS High Sierra SDKs. Your Swift 3.1 code will likely run under Swift 3.2 with no changes, and any changes that are necessary are going to be strictly due to SDK changes rather than language changes.

Xcode 9 also supports mixing Swift 3.2 and Swift 4 modules. You can have your application written in Swift 3.2 and use a library written in Swift 4, or vice versa. This means you have a full year to migrate to Swift 4 (since I assume Xcode 10 will drop Swift 3.2 support, though this is pure speculation).
I'll say what others are likely thinking...

The Coen brothers hold a special place in my heart. So, so glad to see them headed to Netflix!
How many companies do you know that issue new shares every hour?
You can bet that industry-friendly stealth-subsidized projects will come in to displace genuinely truth-seeking projects in a crowdfunding model.

It would be more straightforward to condition public funding on publishing all results.
3 dollars per payment seems extremely expensive - that's how much an inefficient international bank wire transfer costs, with the more reasonable bank-to-bank systems (including international e.g. in EU) costing a few cents.
>> Even the miners are unlikely to make money from mining only from holding their mining gains as investments.

And that's why I've been calling it a Ponzi scheme lately. Once mining become unprofitable, or even impossible (asymptotically) people will stop mining, but the blockchain only works if people keep mining. At some point it's got to fail doesn't it?
Is there some kind of guide about this?

How can you beat a linguistic analysis? If you publish elsewhere and someone guesses to compare your work, are you screwed? Are there any programs that scan writing to determine if the writer's english is Canadian or American or British etc? Or maybe your gender? Could you use that to weed out any regional phrases, or use regional phrases from other places to confuse the text? How do you make sure you don't sound the same in your real life, using similar phrases (For example, if Scott Alexander from Slate Star Codex had another blog that was not anonymous, would it be nessecary to not use expressions like 'Steelman' or refer to effective altruism?

Should you look in the academic literature about language, and try to make it so your style can't be detected by theoretical methods of linguistic analysis that haven't yet been implimented computationally?

How do you deal with private communication? Does it make sense to simply have no possible way of privately emailing you, making all communication public (thus giving you plausible deniability if you click any links phishing for your identity). Should you not even interact with public comments?

What about any information you might giveaway even when you are being a VPN or something (browser info? Some kind of computer associated seriel number? internet cookies?). Is it overkill to simply have one device dedicated to researching/blogging, and restricting yourself from doing normal day to day work on that computer? What about a virtual machine?

Can you buy and pay for a domain anonymously?

Should you make a list of things you are willing to reveal about yourself, and stick to it? For example, A/S/L and then make sure never to reveal other details (former locations, trips with dates, schooling, etc) Should you change details of anecdotes if you share them?

If you trust someone, perhaps a girlfriend, or wife, or really good friend, is it too risky to share with them your identity, even if you agree to never discuss any of it digitally? Assuming they also keep a wall between themselves and that identity (not sharing posts, not telling friends, etc) is that safe? If you do break up, should you create a new blog, and if so, is it worth it to make the writing style clearly different from the old blog? Are there any high profile, clearly psuedonymous people who have remained so for long periods of time?

By making this post, should I now do none of these things?
Admins need to unflag this.

Damore deserves his own words in the face of everyone spinning his words.
Healthcare has already been successfully synthesized in dozens of countries around the world. There is nothing unique about America that precludes universal healthcare.
Can someone with Swift experience comment on the status of Swift on non-Apple platforms? Is it being used outside of the Apple ecosystem? How is the tooling, deployment, availability/support, etc.
can you elaborate more about Nadella being Gates strawman? Never heard that but would be interested in learning more.
You are correct many would not, but you get to choose what group you emulate. Personally I'd prefer to be respectful where possible.

And no being disrespectful doesn't invalidate your argument. But it does cause division, something you didn't seem to want.
Science lessons from the Gulag
Forming a union is a big step. You can fight for these things through concerted collective action, and still enjoy most of the protections of labor law (especially against retaliation). The point is to organize so that a large group of employees is speaking with a single voice about the workplace issues that matter most.

I urge anyone interested in learning more to contact me or coworker.org, who have experience running successful employee campaigns, and understand the tech world well.
These are more like transpiling, right? That is, there is a direct translation from <language> into JS?

I was thinking more along the lines of how a compiler works, translating into some kind of AST and then converting into JS from the AST.
Postman-lite.
You don't have to "rewrite the app". You run the migrator, then fix up what it didn't migrate.

Swift 3 was notorious for having migrator issues, largely due to the fact that it was a pretty radical change and a huge number of method names were changed.

Personally, on our hybrid app, the migrator did about 1/3rd of the work, and I did the rest, without any other engineers' involvement. Overall it took maybe 3 days to migrate the whole app.
As I already explained diversity of thought isn't appropriate in a workplace. If it were, that would mean bullying and teasing would be appropriate. The problem is where to draw that line.

Where Google drew this line was firing someone for implying some people were undeserving of their jobs due to the biological argument. This declaration breeds hostility and is an outright attack on the qualifications of his coworkers.

As far as I know, affirmative action is practiced in colleges while companies practice seeking diversity out of the same pool of qualified applicants. I agree with this and think it's great companies can make their own decisions.

I've applied to jobs for startups where I would have been the only woman on the small team and bro culture was strong. I don't fault them but I declined those positions. I've gravitated toward companies like Google and their diversity policies have attracted talent like me. Companies do this in their own self interest.

I just want to clarify I'm not at all offended that the memo writer wrote what he did. I would feel offended if someone I worked with felt like there were too many woman in their office while there were only 5% and I felt that they were all qualified.

Even measuring qualification is tricky as unless you are someone's manager. More often than not, I've witnessed men make poor assumptions unaware of their own prejudices. For example, I got accepted to a very good college. I was surprised as to how many men thought it was only because I was a woman. However I knew for a fact I got better grades than them. I simply didn't advertise mine.
Maybe what usaphp is getting at is that the AI could still gain an advantage by doing a set of actions much faster than humanly possible in just a fraction of a second as long as it kept its total number of actions that minute below the cap.
I haven't lived in Finland for 20 years, so I can't say for sure. Following the developments through the lense of the media, I would say it's gotten worse. Finland, for the longest time, was pretty insular and people's attitudes towards people of color were mostly just being curious.

The neo nazis have certainly become more visible, and more active for various reasons. It's the usual stuff...downtrodden people trying to find things to blame for their situation ("them" is always a good scapegoat), unemployment is high, there are more refugees coming to Finland like every other European country.

And then there's the one political party that is pretty brazenly taking advantage of the situation and advancing more or less pure racism as a policy. They scored big in the last parliamentary election cycle and actually manage to finagle themselves into the coalition that formed the Government. Their popularity has sunk lately to very low numbers, so they won't be anywhere near as vocal or influential after the next parliamentary elections.

There's also a definitely new development where "entrepreneurial" racists have figured out how to organize and profit from the situation. There are a few "for-profit" agitators that mask themselves as "Voices for the Silent Majority" and "Free Speech Advocates of the Highest Order" while spewing hate speech, encouraging violence against everyone disagreeing with them (incl. journalists and critics, or people appearing in viral videos on the "opposing" side) on their own blogs, online magazines or Facebook. These are the people who in the past would've been stapling their manifestos on light poles and other "billboards", but with the Internet they suddenly have a national/global audience. The most visible of them was operating from Spain and was arrested in Andorra for inciting violence against muslim immigrants last week. His trial will be a circus.

That being said, this is obviously not how the majority of people feel or act. It's just that it takes just one person in a bus full of people to ruin it...
Yeah, I loved them too really great service that is forward thinking. They work great for large apps or corporate sites, but for small/personal sites their pricing model doesn't work so well, which I can understand.

For instance I needed simple http auth on some directories in a site, and to get that it's $45/month. I ended up with caddy on a $5 digital ocean droplet which automatically sets up and renews the lets encrypt SSL for you. Caddy really is pretty damn nice.
It's not just about a framework. Some marketing/evangelism is needed. Those factors were major contributors to the rise of Go.

And the Swift community itself needs to work on making it officially available on more platforms. Officially, the only non-Apple platform that is supported is Ubuntu -- not Linux, Ubuntu. It runs on other distributions, but having “official” support for more platforms would be a big step towards acceptability. Most people I've talked to still consider Swift on Linux an experiment. Even C#/.Net Core seem to be more popular on Linux.

Having Windows support would make the language more acceptable by cross platform developers -- leading to more high quality libraries being written.
He's not talking about a hard fork, where blocks from the new fork are invalid on the old fork. He's just talking about two miners finding a new block at approximately the same time. They're both valid, but only one can become part of the 'main' chain, the other will eventually be lost as nobody continues to mine on top of it.
With a name like 'vapor', I thought this was some sort of joke. But this looks like fun! https://vapor.codes. An example from that page:

import Vapor

let drop = try Droplet()

drop.get("hello") { req in
return "Hello, world."
}

try drop.run()
Alternate proposal that would not destroy more of the earth, make a big impact on lessening climate change, and improve people's health: ban personal vehicles from urban and suburban areas. Then reallocate the resources from maintaining roads and sprawling infrastructure to mass transit, biking, walking, and new housing. Roads and suburban infrastructure take up an absurd amount of space that could be reallocated to housing or even more open space. It would also help tremendously if property owners were not allowed to have any vacancy. A ridiculous number of housing units are sitting empty that could be used.